Solo dev and content engineer based in Montreal.

Building Dead Reckoning — a generation ship sim where you make system-level decisions for a crew that’s been asleep for decades. In development in Godot, available in public beta on itch.io.

Day job is knowledge architecture and documentation systems. Nights are spaceships.

Sci-fi reader. Linux user. Interested in the overlap between how systems store knowledge and how games tell stories. garanlorn.itch.io/dead-reckoning

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  • What a bone-headed move. I guess we’re in the “Benevolent dictator” portion of the AI Boom - Gaming relationship. I feel like we’re at such a disconnect now that gamers are looking elsewhere.

    Hot take: I think these decisions will drive gamers back to simplicity, community, and y’know…gameplay rather than flash and boom.

    It’s no surprise that smaller studios are profiting while the big ones are languishing.

    Then again people keep buying NHL, NFL, and FIFA 26, so what do I know.


  • I agree with this comment on unions AND contractors (though not all). I think the problem is when service becomes a game or grift and not actually being efficient.

    City of Toronto was one of the worst performing unions in most sectors and stank of corruption and over employment, and then on the other side you have MetroLinx which has been one of the biggest wastes of money a government has ever seen.

    Then on the flip side you have Parks Canada and the National Archives doing amazing work with limited budgets.

    I know with Toronto the culture came from the top, but these days I think contract farming and middle management bloat is what is really killing efficiency.

    Also let the damn people work from home.



  • Pourquoi qu’une personne bien nantie irait payer plus cher pour un apart ou un condo de luxe quand un apart ou un condo régulier ou pour premiers acheteurs beaucoup moins cher sont disponibles?

    Surtout quand tu peux en acheter deux au prix d’un de luxe et en louer un…

    Construire plus n’est pas toujours la solution. Ça prend des règles et des limites. Justement y’a des limites à laisser des barons de l’immobilier tout acheter en ville et continuer d’utiliser leurs actifs pour effectuer plus d’achats. Il faudrait limiter les propriétés résidentielle à deux par personne ou par ménage. (Tsé si tu veux avoir ta résidence principale plus une résidence de vacances mettons)

    Oui, je suis d’accord. J’aime bien Carney, car c’était la meilleure option pour cette élection, mais c’est n’importe quoi qu’il se concentre sur le « parc locatif » plutôt que sur d’autres types de logements. Les duplex, en particulier, ne devraient pas faire partie du parc locatif. Ils devraient plutôt faire l’objet d’une transition vers la copropriété, avec des allégements fiscaux pour l’entretien.











  • After years of the NDP playing weak and rather performative politics, I’m glad to see aggressive and blunt political messaging.

    The NDP catered to some leftist bourgeoise and left the working class in the dust. It always needed to be a party of ushers, not gatekeepers, and the kind of righteous individualism needs to make way for collectivism. People have forgotten that banding together powerless people with discrete experiences against power and subjugation is the only answer right now. Its what the Carney speech got completely right.