Tipa speed-runs impressions: Windrose feels like familiar co-op survival with pirates, while Tides of Blazefall mashes Disco Elysium vibes with Sunless Sea and cards.
Roger argues games lean on videos, YouTube, and Discord instead of real tutorials—watching his grandkids struggle on PC, even basics like Fall Guys and Chivalry 2 passes.
Emily dives into A Plague Tale: Requiem right after the first game, praising its bleak cinematic sequel energy, expanded combat options, and deeper Macula-and-rats lore.
Sweetie mourns gaming’s drift to digital-only, arguing good physical editions—art books, props, steelbooks, even clever boxes—are memory anchors a virtual library can’t match.
Wilhelm and Potshot take Outbound’s Steam Next Fest demo for a co-op spin, wrangling friend codes, shared saves, and a not-so-speedy VW-style van.
Anarchae looks back on moving into an apartment in March 2020—COVID, mutual aid, scraping by—and how nonstop news/Twitter habits shifted as life stabilized (sort of).
Axxuy makes the case for physical mail over chat apps: letters are slower, longer, and tangible, and they’ve made a Discord-born friendship feel genuinely deeper.
Brennan digs into Font Awesome’s Build Awesome Kickstarter and why 11ty/Eleventy being “rebranded” feels less like celebration and more like a worrying inflection point.
Cliffski contrasts Claude’s calm, deep-dive financial Q&A with the meme-noise of Discord and wallstbets, arguing AI finally serves readers with actual attention spans.
Warner reacts to a WSJ-reported lawsuit alleging Google’s Gemini fueled delusions and suicide, calling for real guardrails on the people deploying companionship AI.
Dave Winer marvels at Claude.ai as a rapid-fire software teammate for his outliner ideas, then riffs on DigitalOcean server weirdness and being kinder to friends.
Andrew Plotkin plugs The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope, a crosslinked grab-bag of narrative-design mini-essays (including his), and suggests flipping to a random page and wandering.