Brennan argues today’s games industry is too expensive, unfinished, and exploitative, making the backlog you already own look smarter by the day.
CrazyKinux digs into EVE Online’s bedrock rules—equal consequences, spaceships first, and nowhere truly safe—as the sandbox’s load-bearing philosophy.
Bhagpuss breaks down Neverness To Everness’s cat-run scratchcard event, where cheap tickets feel predictable and the 50k cards bring the real gamble.
Shintar finally maxed every primary Midnight profession to 100, mostly in-house with alts, spreadsheets, purple tools, and a lot of Abundance runs.
Scopique likes Tempus Gameit as an easier way to auto-track playtime across Steam, GOG, Epic, Battle.net, Heroic, and screenshots too.
Wilhelm says REPO shines as chaotic co-op slapstick, where fumbling gravity-gun loot runs and hilariously broken valuables matter more than actually succeeding.
Andrew Plotkin rounds up Mysterium side news: the Myst documentary inches along, fan Age Jalargura is out, and Myst Online’s Descent keeps evolving.
UltrViolet shares stable PET scan news, worries over a worsening right-hand issue, Blaugust prep, and a small helping of Final Fantasy XIV.
Tim Bray makes a warm pitch for amateur music camp: lots of live unamplified playing, older attendees, and real brain-health benefits.
Mike turns a weirdly pricey 1985 BBC Bridge Companion into Bridgetris, a delightfully nerdy Z80-and-VRAM hardware hacking project.
Dave Winer sees a new WordPress-to-RSS.chat bridge as a big open-web moment, with RSS acting more like a social web protocol again.
Jeromai uses a GPT-4o prompt as a springboard into blogging motives, process, and what even counts as a post heading into Blaugust.