I lost one of my heroes

In an earlier blog post about opening up a trunk of old games, I extolled the virtues of The Empire of the Petal Throne, a world setting devised by M. A. R. Barker. Less than a half-hour ago as I write this, I was reading the introduction to Playing at the World, 2E, Volume 1: The Invention…

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Four years of Klingon

wejvatlh javmaH vagh vI' cha' vagh'logh boq'egh loS; chen wa'San loSvatlh javmaH wa' = 365.25 times 4 equals 1461. qaStaHvIS tlhIngan Hol vIHaDtaH loS DIS. = I have studied Klingon for four years. To be specific, I have a streak on Duolingo that's four years long. I forced my way through it solely so I could make…

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Now you too can have fun with BG3 face recognition!

Yes, you! And you don't even need a copy of Baldur's Gate 3 to do it. It starts with this article that was published in Ars Technica. The article describes how a software engineer set up a public test of Google's AI photo interpretation. I strongly suggest you read the article, then head over to They See…

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An idle thought about ads

Today I watched the series finale of Superman & Lois. As a life-long Superman fan, I thought the series was decent enough and wrapped up well. I was mostly watching it because it was the last gasp of the Arrowverse, a set of TV series on the CW network that harked back to my aforementioned DC-comic fan…

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