Bhagpuss reminisces about old-school MMO beta excitement (hello, Anarchy Online) while answering Ashes of Creation and Stars Reach questionnaires with the honest verdict: “fine game, just not for me.”
Wes spotlights Quest 64 Recompiled’s slick high-res PC glow-up, plus holiday tinkering with ShaderBeam and thoughts on pricey Nvidia Pulsar monitors for CRT-like motion clarity in retro games.
Tobold dives into Emberheart, a medium-weight worker-placement board game where stacked bids decide who drafts dragons, heroes, and more—balancing grunts vs specialists and running out of workers fast
CrazyKinux revisits René Laloux’s Time Masters, praising its Métal Hurlant-era ambition and Moebius vibes as a “simple” stranded-kid rescue turns into bendy time and blurred cause-and-effect.
Jamie Zawinski admits Scott Adams permanently embedded a couple outrageous Dilbert-era phrases in his vocabulary, then sends you tumbling through a long chain of “previously” callbacks.
Scopique falls into Star Trek fan-production rabbit holes and comes away impressed by Star Trek Continues’ pitch-perfect TOS look, iffy mimicry acting, and a surprisingly stacked roster of guest names
Tim Bray explains how adding Unicode character-property regex to Quamina nearly meant generating 1.5M lines of Go, so he parses the Unicode Character Database instead of Go’s outdated Unicode tables.
Dave Winer demos rssCloud speeding up feeds, argues the web needs collective sacrifice to stay platform-free, and plugs a polite nightly email roundup (no exit-popups, promise).
Ghastly’s Linux Mint experiment hits a corrupted-boot-file wall with a black GNU GRUB screen, as boot-repair and manual chroot/GRUB fixes spiral into an all-afternoon troubleshooting saga.
JJM open-sources UseboxWiki after shelving a private-by-necessity “wiki revival” project (thanks, AI crawlers), reflecting on git-backed pages, wiki principles, and maybe just using Gollum instead.
Stargrace spins an American Truck Simulator-style night-haul vignette: soybeans to Logan, radio banter with Melanie Q hauling clamshell buckets, then back on the road to “disappoint another state.”
Tofutush bounces off Notion and happily returns to Obsidian + Quartz, arguing good “cyber vibe,” Markdown, and strict content/style separation (plus satisfying save feedback) are what make writing 가능.