Syp plays WoW Classic Anniversary at his own pace—still level 34 while everyone hits Outland—embracing a chill Shaman journey, lively Stormwind, and a love/hate trudge through Stranglethorn.
Tipa digs into why miniatures gaming (Frosthaven, Malifaux, even WH40K vibes) feels so niche: social anxiety, opacity, and that hefty up-front minis investment.
Azuriel is 30 hours deep into Mewgenics, praising its crude McMillen charm and busted combos while warning the tactical roguelite cat-breeding loop is brutal, punishes mistakes, and even hates save-sc
Magi reviews Cash Cleaner Simulator, a cozy-satirical job sim where you’re kidnapped into literally laundering cash—sorting denominations, spotting counterfeits, cleaning gunk, and upgrading gear as a
Kimimi revisits Super Mario Land on Game Boy and argues its oddball vibes are intentional—superballs, weird enemies and worlds, surprisingly lush details, and a challenge ramp that gets real fast.
Wilhelm breaks down EVE Online’s WinterCo pausing its offensive versus INIT, shifting to defense as Goons poke Geminate, and calls out the bloc-math spin with DOTLAN numbers.
Michael celebrates Gobliiins 6 by tracing the weird French point-and-click series back to 1991, its switch-between-goblins puzzle format, and the Pierre Gilhodes/Muriel Tramis legacy.
Jamie Zawinski highlights an SF jury pool getting slashed as potential jurors aired intense anti–Elon Musk feelings, including “existence of billionaires” objections and Twitter-moderation beef.
Warner reminisces about learning slide rules and old-school drafting for theatre design, appreciates software’s speed, and wonders how the next wave of AI might replace even more hands-on fundamentals
Tim Bray wrestles with using GenAI on his open-source Quamina project—after some happy Claude-assisted PRs—while still arguing the broader LLM industry’s incentives are grim.
Dave Winer drops a new podcast about losing his Twitter account, then riffs on vibe coding codebase rewrites, how to run polls without Twitter, and being deeply over the snow.
Shintar reflects on blogging about World of Warcraft from Wrath to WoW Classic, missing the old link-and-response community, and digging into Google indexing and which posts still pull clicks.