Kimimi celebrates Battle Squadron on Amiga for bullet clarity, fair deaths, and weapon choices that make this shmup feel meticulously tuned.
Wilhelm tracks Fantasy Critic shakeups as Life is Strange: Reunion swings the standings and Super Meat Boy 3D opens with a solid score.
Michael shares snapshots from Egghead Software’s 1993 annual report, a neat little retro detour through old computer-store vibes and boxed software.
CrazyKinux digs into why Backrooms works so well, from Kane Pixels’ found-footage dread to A24’s trailer trusting empty space to terrify.
Warner rounds up a thoughtful Sunday basket of links on Iran, social media, AI, education, and a few especially strong essays.
Tobold frames current US politics and the Iran conflict as grimly watchable White House drama, with real-world stakes far beyond TV satire.
Jamie Zawinski is back antagonizing robots, continuing his long-running war with glitchy automated copyright and platform nonsense.
Bruce Schneier likes Google’s 2029 post-quantum cryptography plan less for quantum urgency than for the evergreen value of crypto-agility.
Dave Winer argues WordPress should anchor a better web for writers, with interoperable editors between tiny social text boxes and Gutenberg.
Andrew Plotkin spotlights Linchpin, a new Cornerstone mu-machine interpreter, plus fresh ZILF work that can compile ZIL to Infocom’s oddball VM.
Brennan turns Artemis II and Apollo 13 into a lyrical meditation on the Moon, history, and humanity’s long, unfinished return.