Syp finds new motivation in WoW’s Midnight prepatch, tries dual-maining Death Knight and Druid, wrestles with talent/build resets, and vows to redo his house interior after some serious home envy.
Frostilyte rounds up site housekeeping: a Steam Curator page rollout, a clear no–gen-AI note, a new Indie Spotlight for upcoming releases, and a spot judging Thinky Games’ 2025 Thinky Awards.
Kimimi makes the case for dropping games the moment they stop being fun—whether it’s bad pacing or you’ve simply had your fill—because entertainment isn’t an obligation to “finish.”
Krista jumps back into Forza Horizon 5 after the Forza Horizon 6 trailer, embraces the chaos, splurges on the Hot Wheels add-on, and starts the rookie grind toward Hot Wheels Legend.
RPG Codex spotlights ATOM RPG 2: a story-heavy tactical CRPG in a Cold War-gone-hot world, promising an open world with vertical levels, a world map, and side activities like fishing and racing.
Wilhelm dives back into Project: Gorgon post-1.0, running into launch-crowd chaos, spawn-rate whiplash, hard-to-spot NPCs, and plenty of getting murdered while relearning the ropes.
Tobold isn’t sold on Menace (from Battle Brothers’ Overhype), knocking the tiny units, UI, missing exploration, and steep learning curve—so he’ll wait for Game Pass and patches instead.
Anarchae juggles Nobara/Fedora frustrations, a blogroll refresh, health stress, reading more Mrs Bradley, a bit of FFXIV and Raidou—and caps it off with a huge job offer win.
Emily reminisces about her first computer—a Windows Vista Acer laptop at 16—used for games, MS Word stories, MSN chat, and late-night movies, before viruses, heat, and a dead motherboard ended it.
Jamie Zawinski argues browsers have had only two real innovations in 16 years—auto Reader mode and “Hide Distracting Items”—and says everything else has been pointless or outright malicious.
Bruce Schneier flags a report alleging two AI coding assistants used by 1.5 million developers secretly send everything they ingest to China, with the obvious advice: maybe don’t use them.
Dave Winer shares his handy snarkySlogans test-text array (free to steal) and then gently pitches the nightly Scripting News email—no naggy exit popups, and a clean unsub link.