John loves Kaz’s frantic tile-based arcade scoring, where upgrades, curses, and cursor-combo spells turn simple movement into dense tactics.
UltrViolet finds Rise of the Ronin mostly average, with the real boss fight being PS5 button memory and that triangle parry.
Sey rounds up Secret Sauce Showcase standouts, from fakeOS horror in SPRKLS.exe to Dreadmoor and Mirage Miracle Quest.
Bhagpuss revisits Palworld for 1.0 and remembers a survival hit that started fun, then drifted into sameness, fiddliness, and chores.
Wilhelm revisits Steam Early Access, weighing playable launches like Valheim, Enshrouded, and Palworld against the usual pay-now, maybe-later gamble.
The Chronicler says March of the Ants: Evolved Edition packs a proper 4X strategy game into 90 minutes, with ants instead of armies.
Jimmy digs into Maxis chasing business simulations after SimCity 2000, including the gloriously uncommercial SimHealth bureaucracy sim.
Anarchae checks back in after family travel with sci-fi reads, Project Hail Mary and old movies, plus Zelda TotK and Fate/GO progress.
Warner is gearing up for a smoke-cleared, grandkid-filled weekend and sounds happily braced for a big day.
Roger finally snaps at Windows 11, arguing its bloat, bugs, and flaky MTP tablet transfers make a new OS feel overdue.
Jamie Zawinski blasts YouTube’s DMCA counter-claim gauntlet after a fair-use Bonnie Tyler parody restoration got rejected and ID verification failed.
Dave Winer says rss.chat now supports feed discovery and argues the social web should embrace full-text posts instead of ActivityPub-style complexity.