Lyndon Hood

obvious pitfalls aside, the devs who built this demo are vastly overestimating how much players like to read even immediately relevant dialogue. narrative designers minimize text to just the necessary parts so that the players don’t just skip all of the story.

Ovid kind of works in terms of a nested story structure that never resolves properly

The old covid enquiry is dying, and the new enquiry (the Reserve Bank one announced to fill the void of covid enquires) struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

Thanks for doing the reading, Marc.

[reposted to correct void back from Ovid]

NZTA picks cheaper but less effective option to fix SH2 through Waioweka Gorge A newly released business case shows the recommended option would cut closures by 53 percent while a full fix would cut them by 70 percent.

So the government has spent well over a billion dollars on planning and land acquisition for fantasy RONS we can never afford, but there's no money to properly secure SH2 through Waioweka Gorge, which is regularly closed by washouts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If they wanted crypto people it was a mistake to distribute invites through friend networks

Lockdown, vaccine decisions 'considered and appropriate' – Royal Commission The Covid-19 Royal Commission has broadly backed the decisions taken during the pandemic, while identifying areas for improvement.

The Covid-19 Royal Commission's second report has been published, I've read (almost) all of it and here are the key takeaways:
newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/10/l...

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Christopher Lloyd as uncle Fester holding a knife with the subtitle “you fought well, Atreides”

I think I downloaded the wrong Dune 2

As a PM, he is certainly optional

I guess that just means the scenario is choiceful

Luxon: "What we're saying is, look, we're going to be closely monitoring the situation. We haven't yet had the legislation passed, and so that gives us optionality. It's unlikely at this point, but having said all of that, we don't want to, we want to preserve optionality about where we go with that.

Optionality. I didn’t know a word could actually make my skin crawl.

Apparently the UK can actually reject a panic about teens?

MPs have rejected a proposed ban on social media for under-16s despite earlier backing from peers and campaigners including actor Hugh Grant.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Pretty sure it's fake though

I read the memoir of a French actor who was at a dinner party with a shipping magnate who was all
"That doesn't pay very well, does it?"
Replied something like "Put it this way: if shipping didn't pay, would you keep doing it?"
After that they understood each other.
But also, yes the economics there

As with most things, Pratchett had the explanation for the lack of money in the arts

I guess a reminder that, it's not necessarily that they don't understand that <all these protections at every level of society> are lessons paid for with blood; sometimes they're just horrific people

I worked with him when I was seven. He’s as delightful as you’d expect.

YouTube video by The Academy Tim Curry Breaks Down His Most Iconic Roles

This is delightful which of course it is because it’s Tim Curry dammit but it contains two earth shattering revelations for the Curryverse and they are

1) he was considered for Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

2) he read the screenplay for Silence of the Lambs and wanted to be cast as Hannibal Lector

The judge wondered what he was supposed to tell the jury, and bemoaned the government’s “absolute disrespect for the court, the jury, and the entire process.”

And Live Nation stock went up 5%, which tells you who won here.

The same principle applies to media trustworthiness. "All media is a bunch of liars and propagandists, you can't trust anyone" is a parallel belief, and you can see how active measures for disinformation try to advance this very belief

Just been looking at the “evidence” used for the Streeting Reviews to ban hormones. It is unbelievably thin.

Non-existent for non-binary kids, almost non-existent for trans girls, and only gets into double figures for trans guys.

These are not “reviews” they are fictions.

Like the Cass Review.

That and the fascist sense of permanently cheated entitlement.

No wonder they're angry all the time

Coffee syrup is a proxy for blue hair

Ah yes the current, manifest threat to conservatism and society, the urgent disease of the body politic,

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

Map snapshot depicting the predicted relative anomalousness of surface temperatures from the ECMWF ensemble over the Western U.S. in about a week from now. A a huge region of bright orange and red colors (depicting extremely high warm temperature anomalies) is centered right in the middle of the map, and covers essentially the entire region.

Lots of buzz online about an upcoming major March heatwave for the American SW & California. And in this case, it does indeed appear increasingly likely than an extremely anomalous and even record-breaking heatwave may envelop much of the SW about a week from now.

it would be the work of minutes for one of these guys to just reorder the same shoes in the right size without telling the Big Guy, but that would be defeating the purpose, which is to demonstrate a willingness to humiliate yourself the second he tells you to.