Hey ,

I went to Corsica for the first time a few weeks ago, part work, part holidays - though fortunately the kind of work I can do from my laptop at a nice location, even though the weather was a little chilly the first few days there. The highlight was a beautiful hike up waterfalls on the last day, I took a quick dip in the gorgeous yet pretty icy water.

I'm catching up with a few things this weekend; I published a new podcast episode and a new episode of Teaching Tangents with James D'Souza:

• Colleen Berg, Director Strategic Insights at The Palmerston Group in Canada joined me on the podcast for the first part of playing Cthulhu Confidential, an investigative tabletop roleplaying game designed to feel like a film noir meets Cthulhu cosmic horror (as the title indicates).

• And another excellent conversation for Teaching Tangents with James D'Souza this week, the sort of Pride month related question (that I didn't feel particularly ready to answer) was: "What do teachers think about sex education, specially for LGBTQIA+ teens?"

That's about it for now, enjoy the rest of the weekend!Cheers,Willem

 Weekly Combo Typically a mix of playful and strategy flavours. 

The Outer Worlds 2 official announcement trailer / ad 

(Youtube, 2 min watch)

There are a bunch of online video game announcement events going on to replace the E3 Conference these days, and this one caught my attention, partly because I recently finished playing first The Outer Worlds game (on the Nintendo Switch, and it is a horribly ugly port, but that's a whole other topic), which was good fun. This is the ad for the new game, and it is as fun and self-deprecating as the game is - the kind of ad and humour I tend to enjoy, particularly in advertising. It's not reinventing the wheel but it's well executed. I hadn't seen this in video games so far, and it fits the theme of the game. In short you play in a space colony overtaken and entirely managed by corporate brands, and regularly have tricky moral choices to make (e.g. will you divert power away from the evil corporate plant but by the same token doom all the people working there who are just trying to make ends meet?)

It's always interesting to see the new and various ways people are getting into playing tabletop roleplaying games. Dungeons and Dragons is bigger than ever, so it kind of makes sense for some people to make it a side hustle, or even their main source of revenue as the people in this particular article.