Azuriel taps out on Metaphor: ReFantazio, put off by its looming Game Pass exit, punishing weakness system, and dreaded time limits.
Bhagpuss picks apart Jack Emmert’s MMO revival thesis, arguing New World-sized curiosity doesn’t necessarily mean lasting demand or better design.
Belghast mixes Path of Exile build tinkering and Path of Exile II plans with a sweet update about meeting someone unexpectedly compatible.
Wilhelm keeps test-driving Forza Horizon 6’s huge garage, but for laid-back exploring he’s unexpectedly fallen for the clunky 1970 GMC Jimmy.
Jamie Zawinski does his trademark linkstorm, riffing on another absurdly on-brand Catholic Church headline with maximal exasperation.
Emily unloads on Katy Perry’s Blue Origin joyride, calling the 11-minute celebrity space stunt gaudy, shallow, and painfully out of touch.
Brennan tours finger, gopher, and gemini as terminal-friendly alternatives to https, framing them as antidotes to browser monoculture.
Juhis shares a neat system for wrangling shell scripts with command prefixes and shebangs, making mixed-language tools easier to find and run.
Mike digs into reviving a Fujitsu FM Towns II, a multimedia-minded Japanese 486 oddball with CD-ROM, sprites, and YM2612 game cred.
Bruce Schneier flags Wi-Fi sensing as a surveillance risk, where ordinary router signals can be used to infer people and surroundings.
Dave Winer bounces from Claude weirdness to mini-podcasts and modular social tech, with the usual push for user-driven tools over lock-in.
Scopique ditches a brittle Astro, GitHub Pages, and Cloudflare setup for WordPress, choosing easy publishing over static-site busywork.