Has nobody talked about Skopje '83 yet? Because I didn't know I needed a Macedonian post-apocalyptic cel-shaded fully- coop survival-shooter-roguelike until I saw it. And maybe you do too. (Yeah, I'll be streaming that. You know it.)

I'm pretty staunchly a fan of indie games. But I did have room for GTA, and I think my time in GTA Online speaks for itself (perhaps shamefully). That said, I was looking forward to GTA VI, and the missus and I were going to do such hijinx. Not anymore. This shop is pro-union, you dinks.

Now, I don't normally go back to LinkedIn, let alone at nearly 4 AM. And I don't normally post memes, let alone memes I found off LinkedIn. And yet.

Hey, more of that "the Night Lands" coming up this Sunday. Our timezone flip is sorted out so we're back at the same time again. 2 PM EST. Same link as always. And one day, good lord, I'll have something that isn't that creepy hero clicks fella to show you.

I switched over to "Bounty Star" recently, and many, many hours passed before I realized what happened. (It being a down term for me is helpful for these shenanigans!) But listen, it wasn't because of the gameplay. That's fine. It's simply because the characters actually seem human.

Well, it's 2025 and my first go at splitscreen in yeaa... decades... was so bad we went and got a second copy to try it less, ah, splitty-screeny. First Dwarf, this week, at your favourite twitch show. IT IS YOUR FAVOURITE. (7 PM EST, with timezone weirdness this week.) www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner

Sunday, more "The Night Land", live. 2 PM EST. I am not an AI. I am a middle-aged sonnofabitch tired of the world and too stubborn to go without a cuss barrage. Up yours. Hope you like the reading though. I'm reading it for whoever shows up... and maybe myself too. www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner

I am a grown-ass man, a person of some degree of accomplishment (supposing you squint hard enough) and I should really know better than to try to engage any numpty on the Steam fora. And yet I keep slapping myself in the face with that specific fish.

Sunday's coming up, and with it a new book and, ideally, a much more serious approach in reading it. "The Night Lands," by William Hope Hodgson. (I will say the first chapter or two are really starchy, but stick with it. The payoff comes swiftly enough.) Sunday, 2 PM EST www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner

François, can you describe Alberta in one word? Yes. I'll do one better, I'll describe it with no words.

This little group of Voyageurs is off... haha, travelling. I'm off to prove to a disparate group of Albertans that Quebec is real and dead sexy. Or, at a minimum, this specific Quebecois fellow is. Don't steal my stuff while I'm gone, okay? Thanks!

I can say I've played and streamed a bit, and I'm equal parts being hugged by EYE Divine Cybermancy references, bewildered by the game world, and being thrashed by it. And I'll get back to it later over the next day or two, too. www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner

Well, ho-lee-cow, it has been almost exactly a year and we're finishing up "Journey to the West" this Sunday. That has been a very figurative journey. I've got something short-ish queued up to follow, "The Nightlands," and then what? I don't know! Maybe you do?

I've managed to bludgeon some buddies into "Jumping Jazz Cats" this eve (7 PM, EST) which promises to be both absolutely macho and absolutely... uhh... I don't even know now, I'm not supposed to know this many words. www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner

Sunday: Storytime again (we're so close to the end!) Tuesday - However long it takes: Little Kitty Big City. Sleep on warm laundry, become a budding icthyologist. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... (Since I can't alt-text this, below is screen cap of a kitten sleeping on a hamper of warm laundry.)

Well, you're still here, because you're reading this. I'm still here, because I'm writing this. Yes, I'm smug. It's like the fourth time I can personally remember. I'll be just as smug when the next "prophet" tells us all in SimulBrainCast that it's coming real soon, for realsies this time.

Do you like being atop a several storey tower made only of open gratings? But the view of the one little tiny snippet of Canada at sub-42 latitude was nice. Bit of a climb though. (Map image "borrowed" from Wikipedia.)

7 days, 2,000 km, a trunkload of cheese, the last 800 km in one go. Relatively few old couple squabbles. That woman got so much endurance for my shit. And not ten minutes after dropping off the rented car some guy comes looking for a fight. WELCOME BACK TO OTTAWA, FRANÇOIS.

Very likely the missus has covered it in greater detail, but we'll be away from these keyboards for a week, starting tomorrow. I will miss you terribly during that time.

This guy was just telling you a few weeks ago how he's not a fan of the horror genre. But, he must admit, he loves a jumpscare. Loves it. Only could tolerate the windup in a videogame, though. Enough third person. I guess it's more of a "startlement" than actually being scared, whatever.

Please don't plagiarize your code. I just spent four hours this morning writing an elaborate document detailing the precise nature of a student's cheating, complete with appendices and annotations. Four *unpaid* hours. Appendices. I'll do it again if I must, too.

The Expedition is on pause, and apologies for that. The Kerensky DLC drops tomorrow for Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries. I'm going to organically have a team as ready for it as possible, and that started today. Demon Core LLC, est. 3035, FRR loyalists all, have 15 years of game time to get ready.

So, by the way, by the by, just kinda sayin', I've been trying to do Expedition 33 on the stream thing. I'm playing it in French because the characters are lipsynched to French and it bugs me like whoah to see an English overdub. (Plus I speak French, so, y'know...) But okay, English subtitles.

I am not a fan of the horror genre, broadly speaking, but I know a few folk who are. And to you say there's this thing which is made locally, and maybe it's your jam. www.cartoonbrew.com/series/mercu...

Has some E.Y.E. in it, I'm in.

I'm reading a lot of people anxious for the corporate demise of LLMs. Me? I just want the ChatGPT emails to stop. That's all. Please stop filling my inbox with eight-paragraphs of lying-lies drivel "excited" to be "on a journey" to "discover Java" when the prompt was "bruh y u dis me wif dis D?"

I was browsing LinkedIn (it's either that or work, so...) and I saw a thing that so startled me I closed my browser. Now I can't find it. But it was, "Hey, AI for coding got a $10B valuation, so... what if AI... but for OSes!" So, like, the AI would create the OS for you. I still can't even.

Went on a total tirade in Discord, where I was suggesting I'd use a burner account and QAnon-style suggest LLMs were the antichrist. "JUST DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!" If this provokes the endtimes apocalypse nonsense, at least it'll also be a scifi movie. That's half a win.

Just a li'l something to lighten the mood: After today's exams were proctored, a student wrote on the back of his, thanking me for teaching the course. Since I was stacking exams face-down, I saw it immediately and answered him, "You're welcome!" pretty promptly. Smiles all around. Nice.

For all you backyard slumberers, frontyard gadabouts and porch-sitters out there who've been watching my streaming (and everybody else besides that), I'm off today. It's work. Exam season is upon us. Regularily scheduled service resumes tomorrow.

I deeply regret being bored at work, because that made me start experimenting on the possibilities of using AR in our upcoming trade fair presentation next year. ...if anyone knows a good source for basic glb or gltf models please let me know.

What she said, except double.

The missus and I were out doing groceries, she wanted to stop for a drink, I pulled into an African restaurant on a whim. Never had Jollof rice before. Mind blown. The chef came out to lay eyes on the guy who was nearly moaning. Tipped them like 25% or something, I don't know.

I was this many years old today when I discovered Eläkeläiset made a Dead Kennedys cover. This will make sense to virtually nobody. Why am I listening to humppa? None yer business! Made my day though, I tell you what.

Meant to post this yesterday. This man has himself a coffee in hand on some lectures; adequately doctored, it soothes the throat and makes it easier to fill large lecture halls with my unassisted voice for hours on end. These are paper coffee cups, the cheap kind, with a flimsy plastic lid. Thus:

I started a live reading of more "Journey to the West" - yes, we're still at it, it's loooong, but went off on a discussion of the Italian Husky. A dog that barked with an Italian accent. Yes, it's true. Anyway. Still on. Drop on by, because I dig having people around. www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner

Just so we're clear, they did not even slightly inconvenience the federal government, which I might have supported (a trifle). They instead orchestrated the harrassment of a lot of relatively poor people. And painted themselves up as heroes while doing so.

Well, it pains me to cancel today's streaming but there's Korean BBQ with good friends in scarce minutes. (And an expression of gratitude to @alexandergrover.bsky.social for putting the missus and I up during our oppressive heatwave.)

Give people clear, simple instructions, helpfully numbered. "Sir, I'm on step 3, and it doesn't work." "Did you do steps 1 and 2?" "No, I usually don't read preambles." I have developed my own thousand-meter stare today.

How about double-dosing on your stream action? The missus and I have got HARDEST* level missions to do in EDF 6. Are we hardest-core? We are. And then you can watch Squint pat foxes. www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner * (I hate the randocaps style but I wanted italics, but noooo.)

I rarely remember dreams and, of late, sleep is scarce. But I had a very vivid five minute naplet with dream imagery so vivid that I woke up from excitement. (It involved driving along the top of, and trying to avoid, a kilometers-long shiny black snake, and I used it to scale a 2 km-tall cliff.)

I saw a picture of a dog doing bipedal tippy-tap dances of joy. But instead of smiling, I'm cursing AI because it's made the commentariat really uncertain about what they saw, so what might have been a pure and happy thing is now just making people suspicious. Boo, I say.

Meet the Blacksmith. Bring her the proper resources, gathered throughout your expeditions, and she will run the daimon forge. Crafting weapons and artifacts of unimaginable power. This is the way... to survive long enough and delve deeper into the daimon realm. #TeaserTuesday #gamedev #indiedev

Today is the livereading day, and I'd normally be doing that except - just to add spice to this week's curry - my throat's ridiculously sore. I won't rule out doing something else, but I'm not likely to narrate for two hours. Apologies.

Dear Playboy: I never thought it would happen to me! But yet, it did. Yeah, I've been functionally laid off as of the end of this term. Now, that's a kick in the pants, but due to the nature of this union shop, classes are filled by seniority, not skill. Eight years was not adequate seniority.

Microsoft Teams has now put their AI thing right in the chat section. This is seriously fishing for use-cases. Like, what am I to use it for in a chat, "help" with my cornball dad jokes? Good lord I feel like an old man yelling at the clouds.

RIGHT NOW, the first student cohorts who've gone through significant school using LLMs are in my classes. Want to see if you have one? Make them write simple code on paper. 49% of a third-level C programming course could not find a substring in a string. 12% could not properly write a for loop.

Every day has a lesson to offer, if only you look.

My urge for Strange Architecture has not been whetted. So I'm off to see what's up with Blackshard this evenig. 90 minutes from now! COME ON! twitch.tv/fdejeuner