Ludovic Chabant
@ludovic
Gamedev, ex Epic/UE5 & EA/Frostbite (cinematics, cameras). TTRPG nerd and occasional writer/illustrator. Even more occasional open source dev. Lives near Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 ludovic.chabant.com on the web @ludovic@chabant.social on Mastodon
It’s that time of the year again! Private gig with a pig roast and an ocean view!
Played a game of Gloom with the younger kid, and some of the characters had so many life events on them that you could barely see the portrait anymore… anyway, Gloom is fun! Play some Gloom!
The good fluffy boy is still doing good. He’s got big sticks, and lots of balls.
Surprisingly, sometime in the last few months Marvel Comics seems to have joined the list of publishers who do allow downloading (DRM-free?) PDFs of your purchases on Neon Ichiban… huh. I might buy a few digital Marvel comics after all.
I recently complained about how difficult it is to get a digital copy of “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” (and digital comics in general), and… well, there’s a Supergirl Humble Bundle right now with that book! Frankly, bundles have been the only good way to buy digital comics in the last 10 years.
This talk about Supergirl’s box office failings, and the competing cuts with different songs and so on, reminds me that I dislike “unchecked James Gunn” movies that look like a loose series of partial music videos edited for viral potential and badly cut into a 5-bullet-point story.
Yesterday’s mail call was the Deluxe Edition of the Classic Traveller boxed set. The main 3 little black books, plus some introduction adventure, and a cool-looking map of the Spinward Marches! Yay, maps!
I’ve been doing a lot of research on Rasputin lately and wow, apparently his eyes were a flaming glow, and he was very nice to Muscovite poultry. He preached the bible like a preacher, was a lover of the Russian Queen, plus something about a cat. So interesting. Still lots more to learn about him.
Anthropic: “Making tons of requests to a server in order to extract all its information should be illegal!” What a bunch of deeply dishonest and selfish people. And now also, shockingly, untrustworthy.
I’m torn on the Foundation TV series. They expanded on the books with some good ideas and great production design. But also, why the fuck are Hari and Gaal still around a century later? Do the writers understand psycho-history at all? Why is there so much fantasy/destiny bullshit in my sci-fi?
GURPS turned 40 years old a couple days ago! I don’t have a complete GURPS collection, because that would be crazy, but I definitely have way more than anybody should reasonably have. Which sounds great if you ask me.
VanCAF haul! Great little comicbook convention once again. Thank you to all the artists who came.
In addition to being a rhubarb addict and chocolate zealot, I’m also a honey snob. It’s hard to find anything else than shitty liquid or creamed honey that just tastes like sugar. If I can’t taste what flower the honey was made from, I’m sorry but it’s crap.
While throwing away old CDs, I found a couple of very old cassettes from when I was a kid and didn’t have a CD burner to copy stuff! Here’s my copy of the soundtrack to the cult 1994 movie “The Crow”! Can’t do this shit with MP3 files.
After throwing out old programming books, I sadly started also throwing away all my old CDs and DVDs. Remember when music came with a beautiful, little artsy booklet with very hard to read lyrics? Good times!
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And third edition added ridiculous melee-fighter classes. We all know second edition is always the best, in any RPG!
More old programming books to be thrown away! “Why Scrum Works” 🤣😅 But hey, at least I read that book. Unlike half of the managers I worked with who *thought* they were doing Scrum but were really just doing performative bullshit.
I recently sorted and threw away a bunch of old programming books… it was a blast from the past, looking at some of those. Like, do you remember when you first learned about C++ RAII or template meta-programming?
Oh hey here are some pictures from a couple months ago when I spent a day in Deep Cove with the fluffy good boy. He is *not* afraid of cliffs, somehow.
I continue the "Reading Classic RuneQuest" series with the Basic Role-Playing introductory guide, and a blog post that's way too long for such a short booklet! Anyway, drop by and see how my character Glawyn fared against a chicken-stealing bear! ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2026/07...
Most of the time, the good fluffy boy is one colour. But sometimes he’s two colours.
I wanted to grab a digital copy of “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow”, the book on which the new Supergirl movie is mostly based, but apparently my choices are (1) Amazon Kindle DRM or (2) DC digital monthly subscription. Digital comics are fucked and I’m tired.