Syp remodels his World of Warcraft house room-by-room, juggles prepatch world-boss grind and transmog tinkering, and recruits his daughter to help build a cozy ’90s coffeehouse/bookstore alt-café.
Tipa checks out Othello Trigger, a Chrono Trigger riff that’s mostly Othello, and nerds out over cramming characters, screens, and discs into tiny Game Boy Color memory via GB Studio.
Kimimi dives into the 2000 PC Legend of the Sacred Stone tie-in, praising its action-RPG simplicity, mouse-driven combat rhythm, and gnarly payoffs like decapitations and fiery magic explosions.
Mailvaltar can’t believe Diablo II: Resurrected actually got an expansion—new class, items/runewords, endgame, loot filter, and currency stash tabs—then curses being too sick to play yet.
Wilhelm runs Friday-the-13th bullet points on gamers hating gen-AI “slop” (survey stats and all) and Discord’s looming age verification pitch—government IDs, backlash, and “we’ll use AI” reassurance.
Michael’s indie roundup plugs the No ICE in Minnesota Itch bundle, gushes over Africanfuturist heist game Relooted, celebrates doodle-racer Gradient.horse, and notes new/renewed adventure games and B
Bhagpuss dusts off the listening diary with 13 Friday-the-13th picks, shouting out videos like A$AP Rocky’s “Punk Rocky” and digging into synth/glam-punk-ish vibes with plenty of side commentary.
Jamie Zawinski drops a Valentine’s-adjacent “previously” link chain—a greatest-hits trail of past oddities and Xscreensaver-adjacent posts to click around and lose an afternoon to.
Anarchae shares a no-frills desk setup and a rant about “best of” gamer gear elitism, spotlighting practical picks like an 8BitDo Lite 2 controller and a thrifted 27" 1080p monitor.
Warner Crocker tears into a NYT-reported Meta memo about facial recognition in smart glasses, warning about privacy harms, “dynamic political environment” timing, and creepy real-world misuse already.
Dave Winer argues news should become a distributed, unownable, replaceable system (with AI QA overseen by a nonprofit of retired journalists), then raves about Anker open-ear earbuds being weirdly, aw
JJM wires up a day-friendly light theme toggle across Neovim, tmux, and wezterm via a custom :ToggleLights command, some Lua, and a marker-file hack because wezterm won’t cooperate remotely.