Tipa gets hypnotized by The Exit 8’s anomaly-spotting subway loop, where tiny tells and creepy surprises make quick runs weirdly relaxing and maddening.
Magi comes away impressed by Warding Witches at DoKomi, praising its bullet-hell scoring loop and defensive spells that reward planning over panic bombs.
Bhagpuss uses Neverness to Everness and Genshin Impact to unpack how gacha games share progression grinds even when their genres look wildly different.
Belghast says goodbye to Destiny as Bungie sunsets it, worrying Marathon won’t fill the gap and the looter-shooter space may be fading to Warframe alone.
Wilhelm sizes up EverQuest’s new Frostreaver TLP as another Daybreak nostalgia run, faster and easier by design, but maybe one trip too many to the well.
The Chronicler uses Seljuk to reenact Manzikert, walking through Levy & Campaign battle mechanics and landing on a satisfyingly historical result.
Tobold recommends Dice Gambit, a clever tactical RPG mixing hex combat, dice abilities, family-building, and replayable class combos despite its tiny audience.
Juhis spends a week watching Saoirse Ronan films, sharing spoiler-light reactions and the joy of talking movies without pretending to be a film scholar.
Warner unloads on Trump-era American politics, framing the whole mess as a decaying Emperor’s New Clothes spectacle heading for an ugly cleanup.
Jimmy points readers to The Analog Antiquarian for “A Portrait of the Bard as a Young Man,” a quick cross-site nudge rather than a full essay.
Bruce Schneier’s squid post veers into OS security, with Clive Robinson arguing CIFswitch exposes deep legacy architecture problems, not just sloppy kernel coding.
Dave Winer argues Bluesky should embrace the web, then pokes at standard.site with ChatGPT, comparing it to RSS, FeedLand, and AT Proto.