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Caravan SandWitch is a new open-world exploration game in the style of titles like Sable and Jusant (the latter being more of an aesthetic similarity than a mechanical one) from French developer Studio Plane Toast. This looks like it’s their first game, and it’s pretty captivating. I’ve only cracked the surface (played through the second chapter and associated side quests) and there’s a pretty startling amount of meat on its …

Ridgeline subscribers — A little over a hundred-and-one years ago, on September 1, 1923, Tokyo shook. Well, all of Kantō shook. Especially Yokohama, which shook something extra terrible. Since the start of the Meiji Restoration (1868) Tokyo has been reconfigured a few times. Ideologically / existentially by Perry’s forced opening of the country’s ports, the ending of the 265 years of (pretty peaceful) isolation. Later, during WWII, in the 1940s, …

I am very sceptical about the current trend of “generative AI” and pretending that they represent anything like intelligence. (Previous posts: one, two, three, four, five, six.) But recently I stumbled across a mistake so lovely that I wanted to immortalize it here. It’s on Quora, a Q&A website where people ask questions and other people answer them. In this case, someone asked: What does “Indeed much more rational, but …

This month’s Inspirational Spark is The Power of Place, one of the five themes AASLH has identified in its Making History at 250: The Field Guide for the Semiquincentennial. The concept of “place” can work for any organization, whether your site has a distinct tie to the Revolutionary War era or not.… Continue reading 250th Spark: The Power of Place →

(1924) Directed by Paul Leni; Written by Henrik Galeen; Starring: Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, William Dieterle and Olga Belajoff; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: ***½ “Ivan was a blood-crazed monster on a throne, who turned cities into cemeteries. His crown was a tiara of mouldering bones, his sceptre an axe. His council-room was a torture chamber, with the Devil and Death as chief ministers.” – Intertitle for …

If I really want to make a Werewolf Metroidvania, a Game Design Document seems a good first step

The distribution of a \(n\times n\) quadratic form in Gaussian variables, \(X^TAX\) is a linear combination of \(\chi_1^2\) variables: \[Q\sim\sum_{i=1}^n\lambda_iZ^2_i\] where \(\lambda_i\) are the eigenvalues of \(A\Xi\) and \(\Xi\) is the covariance matrix of \(X\). This is not in the tables at the back of the book. For reasonable values of \(n\) and reasonable tail probabilities, the Satterthwaite approximation is perfectly reasonable. It is of the form \[\tilde Q_0\sim a\chi^2_d\] …

TL;DR: A creative writing exercise inspired by getting up too many times last night.

”Understand me…I do not have time for things that have no soul.” – Charles Bukowski

We're thrilled to announce the next big step for Laravel Herd, making the best development environment for macOS and Windows users even better. This update ships an integration with Laravel Forge, a profiler, a way to store your project configuration in your repository, and massive improvements for the dump debugger.

The less interesting part of the story is that my big home stereo has new amplification: Tiny Class-D Monoblocks! (Terminology explained below.) More interesting, another audiophile tenet has been holed below the waterline by Moore’s Law. This is a good thing, both for people who just want good sound to be cheaper, and for deranged audiophiles like me. Tl;dr This was going to be a short piece, but it got …

Long term readers (or any Instagram followers) may recall that I am prone to several kinds of dermatitis: mainly the allergic and irritant contact variety, about which I have done a few posts, most notably - and graphically! - this one.I did also have a six month spell of seborrheic dermatitis, which came out of nowhere after the first Covid booster vaccine - I will of course never know if …

And thus, we arrive at the end. With the final two issues of Stormbringer now out in the wild, the The post Warhammer Age of Sigmar Stormbringer Delivery 21: Issues 79-80 Review appeared first on FauxHammer.

John Brayton: Similarly there is a new optional Next Article menu item for the swipe left menu of the article view on iPhone and iPad. To enable it, open the Settings screen, select Articles under Basic Options, and turn on Next Article under Basic Actions. I tend to do a continuous scroll through my unread article list each day on my phone and often want to skip over long articles …

I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some reasons. This came up today because I was trying to figure out why my terminal doesn’t break anymore when I cat …