Stargrace captures quiet EVE Online wormhole life: coffee in a freeport, trusty Helios vs tempting Odysseus, and the J-space truth that flying something flashy can be an invitation to die.
Nimgimli’s January recap mixes storm prep with SSD-cleanup gaming: lots of My Time at Sandrock and Ball X Pit, bounced off Wasteland 3’s tone, finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and eyes Eternal
Bhagpuss pokes holes in Google’s Project Genie hype: it’s not making real games, just fuzzy 60‑second interactive snippets, while the messy copyright/IP implications loom large.
Belghast’s Path of Exile Legacy of Phrecia 2.0 start is pure gauntlet chaos—dentist delays, Witch-mule gem shenanigans, brutal modifiers—and the facepalm reveal he ran level 1 gems to level 34
Wilhelm kicks off 2026 grumbling about WordPress themes (Nook’s a maybe, Twenty Twelve’s ancient), retires “Search Terms of the Month,” and rolls through last year’s EVE Online and Steam-sale memories
Naithin celebrates (a bit late) Time to Loot turning seven, digs into posts/comments/traffic stats, and looks ahead to 2026 hype—especially hoping Crimson Desert delivers after mixed Monster Hunter
Tobold is 85 hours deep in Enshrouded and loves how its voxel building, crafting, housing, and RPG adventuring feels like the MMO dream (UO/SWG-style) that WoW’s quest treadmill never delivered.
Warner Crocker shares The Marsh Family’s haunting “Minnesota,” a “San Francisco” adaptation responding to Minneapolis occupation and murders, and argues we need more musicians meeting this moment head
Bruce Schneier’s Friday Squid Blogging spotlights a newly filmed deep-sea squid that buries itself upside-down and pretends to be a plant—equal parts novel, puzzling, and wonderfully weird.
Anarchae tries Nobara (Fedora 43) on a ROG Zephyrus G14 hoping for easy NVIDIA/asusctl wins, but ends up stuck in BIOS weirdness and “why won’t the GPU turn off” driver-manual purgatory.
Jamie Zawinski wants someone else to craft a maximally malicious “zipbomb JSON,” after his ~182‑million nesting-depth attempt hits parser limits—now it’s about balancing depth and array size for RAM
Tofutush riffs on the “self-insert Mary Sue” trope, admitting her self-inserts were mostly punching bags—tracking the evolution from a middle-school paracosm to Qibli in TIR, trauma and all.