Cliffski shares fresh Ridiculous Space Battles footage and makes the case that fixed formation lanes beat chaotic scrums for cleaner, more cinematic fleet battles.
Shintar’s enjoying WoW lately, but Blizzard’s fake cash-shop blue dot notification is the kind of attention-grabbing UI nonsense she can’t stand.
David’s Slug House session sees secret doors, cursed ringbells, electric runes, and a goblin knight crashing through a ladder in the mansion’s curiosity room.
Andrew Plotkin finds The Red Pearls of Borneo’s deduction and search ideas intriguing, even if too much of the actual play feels like mechanical grid-clicking.
Warner rounds up pieces on language, the Constitution, patriotism, and founding myths for a very Fourth-of-July-coded Sunday reading list.
Wilhelm looks back at America’s 1976 bicentennial as an inescapable wave of TV, stamps, logos, schools, and patriotic theme-park energy.
Thomas runs down his favorite zombie movies, favoring dread, survival, and realism over comedy, with Day of the Dead leading the horde.
Wes digs into PS1 recompilation via RecompOne, spotlighting a human-coded approach and pointedly skipping the Claude-heavy alternative.
Dave Winer ties July 4 memories to a warning that Twitter-like systems shrank the web, taking RSS and HTML’s richer features with them.
Tobold argues AI vendors like OpenAI and Anthropic could become the ultimate labor monopoly, making token-dependent companies more vulnerable than old-school employers.
Aywren honors Belghast’s long MMO blogging legacy, Blaugust community-building, and openness through grief and cancer as others carry his spaces forward.
Joar remembers Belghast as a generous MMO blogging mainstay whose encouragement, Blaugust work, and game writing kept mattering through chemo and grief.