Ellie revisits Alice: Madness Returns as a very 2011 slice of grimdark Wonderland, shaped by edgy aesthetics and a long, messy road to release.
Wilhelm tracks Fantasy Critic week 22 as 007 First Light scores big, Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II lands, and Ghost of Yotei: Legends still needs reviews.
Tipa says the Nexus Infinity Dice Cube creators seem to have rebranded and rolled straight into another dubious Kickstarter, this time a foldable chess set.
Anarchae’s weekly digest hits brutal early shifts, TCAF plans, Tears of the Kingdom, new music, TV, hockey misery, and John Dickson Carr.
Roger recommends Riverhill Himalayan Gardens for sculptures, roses, a maze, hillside walks, kid-friendly spots, and an especially good orange drizzle cake.
Jamie Zawinski spots a wooden influencer playset—tripod, ring light, phone, tablet, microphone—and lets the bleak joke mostly tell itself.
Warner argues AI and U.S. politics are both leaning toward collapse, with the system already damaged badly enough to feel barely playable.
Brennan spins up fanfiction.lol, an AO3 fork on Rails, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Docker, as both a self-hosting challenge and creativity statement.
Pete walks through how AI image prompting evolved from plain descriptions and tags to giant structured character-sheet prompts for Astrid One-Eye.
Tofutush reflects on identity, preferring interests over labels, while tying coding, drawing, and worldbuilding to certainty, creation, and control.