Stargrace joins a Wurm Online green dragon slaying, scores a welcome scale piece, then heads back to the long grind of bricks, mining, and skills.
Wilhelm looks back at Pokémon Go’s wild 2016 breakout, from battery-draining family play to PokéStop-fueled business promos and a decade of staying power.
The Chronicler says Danger Forward makes Battalion Combat Series more approachable, offering a lighter on-ramp to grand tactical WWII wargaming at Gela.
Tobold returns to Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous for its agency, arguing you can dodge Pathfinder theorycrafting by just tuning the difficulty.
Brennan questions Conor McGregor’s comeback narrative, stressing the upheld civil verdict, failed appeals, long UFC absence, and reporting around PED use.
Roger revisits Hammer’s The Abominable Snowman as less pure horror than a smart mix of psychological thriller, science fiction, and Yeti-chasing ambition.
Bhagpuss beats the heat with a quick listening post, bouncing from Micky Dolenz covering Paul Westerberg to a horsegiirl remix of Wet Leg.
Jamie Zawinski wants the plain-English AWS fix for blocking all Hong Kong traffic on a single server as scraper and bot attacks keep piling up.
Dave Winer says rss.chat isn’t a ready-for-everyone product yet; it’s a slow-build social web ecosystem, with a waitlist coming as more instances open.
Warner serves a reading roundup on attention spans, book hoarding, etymology, AI skepticism, politics, and why reading outside your bubble still matters.