Weeknotes 2025W33

This week started off with me running a game of Paranoia. Paranoia is an RPG that is much different than Dungeons and Dragons and seems like a ton of fun to play. It’s more slapstick and silly, and instead of working as a team the players usually have to stab each other in the back to gain favor with the Computer that runs the place. I don’t have much GM experience so I modified one of the provided missions. Still, I learned being a GM is really difficult. Coming up with fun things on the spot is tough. It wasn’t too bad, though, and I think everyone had lots of fun with it.

I finished onboarding paperwork for a new job and I will be starting on Monday. We also got approved for an apartment—a small one near downtown that will be perfect for us. I’ll be picking up the keys on Friday and I’ll be living at a friend’s house until we actually move in. I took this weekend to pack up some non-essentials and do meal-prepping so I don’t have to think about it during the week.

Battlefield 6 had an open beta this weekend and one of my friends was kind enough to let me borrow his Xbox since I’m still on my PlayStation 4. Large scale first-person shooter isn’t my favorite genre and while the mechanics and environment are great, it still felt like more of the same. Spawn in, shoot, die in about 30 seconds, and repeat. It’s fun to play with my friends but I doubt I’d play this by myself.

Links

• Artificial Coding Friends by Matt Stein. On the human impacts of coding agents.

  My first experience working with coding agents has been like working with really smart interns…But what about the intern starting out in the field gaining experience?

• This website is for humans by Sophie Koonin. Optimize websites for human beings rather than computers that just compress it and gut out all of its personality.