Tipa heads to CaptainCon in Warwick to test her Malifaux crews—swapping between December and Colette du Bois’s Performer misdirection—against a stacked field of top players.
CrazyKinux joins Quantshure in EVE Online, traces the “automated” invite back to CCP’s Freelance Jobs funnel, and reflects on how the right corp turns New Eden’s learning cliff into stick-with-it fun.
Luna kicks off a newly numbered monthly poll (with a different vibe this time) and shares last month’s results, where “PC + desk” beat out handheld and console couch gaming.
Shintar looks back on WoW’s The War Within ahead of Midnight, admitting it improved a lot and kept her playing, yet still feels “lesser” than the homey high of Dragonflight.
Belghast and crew autopsy Anthem’s end, debate what makes an MMO (player interaction required), coin “PSOLikes” for lobby games, then bounce through Shape of Dreams, Path of Exile, and Guild Wars 2.
Wilhelm checks in on Fantasy Critic League week five: Highguard limps in at 62, Woolhaven’s score wobbles as reviews roll in, and Code Vein II jitters around the mid-70s.
Michael’s indie roundup tours itch.io oddities and gems—FMV travel, minimalist TTRPG jams, interactive fiction horror, and Early Access FPS MeowGun—plus a nudge to donate to folks in Minnesota.
Jamie Zawinski recaps DNA Pizza’s delivery rollercoaster: from in-house drivers to Uber Eats/Postmates/Grubhub, with app fees gutting margins and the whole delivery-app ecosystem making everything we
The Friendly Necromancer rounds up recent streaming comfort-food: binging Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men, getting cozy D&D vibes from Frieren, and tearing through Disney+’s Wonder Man (plus some My Hero
Dave Winer riffs on why we needed so many programming languages, imagines modular building blocks for social web apps and bots, and notes nirvana.userland.com is somehow still running since 1998.
JJM explains ditching cgit for hackable gitweb on git.usebox.net and details the increasingly grim anti-bot toolbox—robots.txt, UA blocks, and a JS cookie redirect—just to keep crawlers out.
Roger starts a years-long blog “spring clean,” fixing typos and images while tackling embeds and search—and wonders aloud if he should delete off-topic posts to sharpen the site’s focus.