Syp starts a brutal new RimWorld Naked Brutality run with Dismus, then celebrates a LOTRO carry-all making task-item clutter way less annoying.
Tipa dunks on Atari’s pricey Atari 2600 Activision rereleases, arguing River Raid nostalgia and some snazzy pins aren’t enough to justify the markup.
CrazyKinux expected Coriolis: The Great Dark exploration, but his group instead gets pulled into a murder mystery full of suspicious clues and funeral intrigue.
Azuriel turns a Sega Genesis memory lane trip into a love letter to Sonic 2, Blockbuster rentals, and Dune II blowing his mind.
Kimimi finds Dirge of Cerberus a weird but confident Final Fantasy VII shooter experiment, with Vincent Valentine fitting better than the stiff gunplay does.
Wilhelm uses EVE Online’s Exordium and its fully voiced tutorial to ask how long an MMORPG onboarding should be before it loses new players.
Anarchae rounds up privacy, security, and platform-power reads, with sharp notes on Google data ingestion, Steam’s dominance, and ID-scanning bars.
Ghastly revisits Summer Wars as a surprisingly current AI cautionary tale, with OZ’s internet dependency feeling uncomfortably close to today.
Tobold pushes back on Idiocracy doomposting, arguing the real story is widening educational inequality rather than one neat culprit like social media or AI.
Brennan turns blowing past Netlify’s free bandwidth into a candid post about self-hosting with Docker and Caddy, plus the personal cost of all that focus.
Owls has a rough time indiewebbing with microformats2, arguing its class-based semantics clash badly with Tailwind and feel less clean than HTML tags.
Tan checks in on a 2026 reading plan, balancing philosophy books, Greek classics, a buddy-read of Aristotle, and retro games stealing attention.