Frostilyte argues Hades 2’s Scylla boss fight is peak Supergiant because the music’s the point—bandmates drop out and the track changes mid-fight, with Darren Korb-style audio flourish front and
Kimimi celebrates Falcom’s Popful Mail as a ’90s fantasy RPG that’s joyfully silly (pirates, penguins, tanuki) but smart enough to punctuate the gags with betrayals, sacrifices, and real stakes.
RPG Codex spotlights Deep Fringe hitting Steam Early Access, pitching a tactical strategy core rebuilt from 2D to full 3D, with weekly patches and player-led iteration.
Ellie digs into Crypt Custodian, an adorable metroidvania where Pluto the cat dies, gets sentenced by a spectral frog, and recruits fellow spirits for a palace break-in—grim setup, light writing.
Wilhelm notes Amazon finally put a date on New World: Aeternum’s finale—delisted Jan 15, 2026, servers offline Jan 31, 2027, with Nighthaven stretched to the end.
Tobold preps his group’s next campaign game, Arydia, weighing “fiddly and boring” critiques against a low-fantasy, open-world feel, generous 88-day timer, and a big NPC card roleplaying system.
Scopique breaks down Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s first two episodes, framing it as post-Burn Discovery-era “high school drama” Trek with familiar tropes, a special-case lead, and day-saving prodigy
Bruce Schneier links Aaron Swartz’s fight over paywalled research to today’s AI scraping and copyright debates, arguing Big Tech profits off captured knowledge while enforcement lags and “innovation”-
Dave Winer riffs on a delayed Scripting News email, the empty vibe of “sorry for the inconvenience,” a Keurig evangelism moment, and more WordLand/WordPress.org API wrangling.
Tofutush walks you through publishing an Obsidian vault as a Quartz site on GitHub Pages—what features you get (backlinks, graph, search), what you don’t (Dataview), and the setup basics.
Tipa chronicles a Daily Blogroll outage caused by an expired GitHub Pages certificate + Cloudflare proxying, celebrates ~400 daily visitors, and shares tweaks plus new additions (including a forum).
Warner Crocker uses grandkid hide-and-seek as a metaphor for people dodging reality by shifting rules and lowering bars, calling out “ostriches among us” and urging facing what needs doing.