Frostilyte, fresh off a rough illness streak, digs into the Reptilian Rising demo: vaporwave tactics with action-figure heroes vs talking dinosaurs, where turn timers push you to play aggressive.
Sey rounds up indie goodness: wishlist-worthy Demon Tides, a wildly overfunded Gun Nose Kickstarter, a surprise Neva DLC + Berlinist soundtrack, and Super Rare Games’ big art book.
Scopique cheers Star Trek Voyager – Across the Unknown for actually ‘getting’ Trek, blending show-driven narrative with tense resource-scanning, turn-by-turn travel where deuterium and food tick down.
Belghast says farewell to his Path of Exile Phrecia 2.0 Arakaali minion build, speculates on the next league’s opaque teasers, and keeps tinkering in Dune Awakening toward buggies and cobalt.
Wilhelm wraps No Man’s Sky Expedition 21 (Remnant) with hard-earned Colossus trucking lessons—pack smart, avoid slopes, and pray the cargo doesn’t yeet itself into a ravine.
The Friendly Necromancer finally tries Mewgenics and comes away sold on its turn-based roguelike cat-breeding chaos, smart synergies, and ‘how is this so good?’ polish.
Tobold argues Civilization VII’s unpopular three-era reset is getting quietly reversed in Spring 2026’s ‘Test of Time’ update—basically turning Civ 7 into a more Civ 6-like “7.5.”
Bhagpuss vents about streaming rights roulette (hello, Lucifer and Roswell New Mexico) and wonders if buying DVDs again makes more sense—especially with Gen Z fuelling a physical-media comeback.
Emily answers the big question—favorite candy—by staking out Team Chocolate, with Lindt Lindor, Nestle Crunch, and Cadbury Mini Eggs leading the pack (plus occasional dark chocolate compromises).
Blockade85 feels winter finally cracking—longer days, Spring Training hope, and that annual pull back toward big Final Fantasy XI goals after surviving an Ohio freeze.
Bruce Schneier drops a Friday Squid Blogging cartoon link and opens the floor for whatever security stories the community wants to hash out in the comments.
Dave Winer points to an updated FeedLand Docker Compose for running locally, crowdsources OPML/feed-product news lists, and shares how he trained ChatGPT/Claude to indent code for his outliner.