Syp enjoys LOTRO’s bright Umbar palette, grabs an elk mount, and finds Octopath Traveler exactly the comfy JRPG mood he needed.
Tipa says EverQuest’s real endgame is epic quests, faction juggling, and race unlocks—not just Plane of Sky best-in-slot farming.
David’s Gunderholfen crew escapes Level 5 the hard way, fighting griffons and worgs just to limp back toward town.
Wilhelm wraps up Blaugust with 35 posts, a brief event history, and a very funny spam invite to join the Illuminati.
Tobold loves Star Wars Zero Company’s tactical combat and wildly flexible companion respecs, even if mission maps sound pretty fixed.
Andrew Plotkin releases The Witness source and scans, while weighing its 1938 atmosphere against its shallower mystery and dated Orientalism.
Anarchae posts a week 36 link roundup spanning anarchism, a Xerox bug, affordability, and Blaugust amid job-hunting exhaustion.
Magi vents through day one of quitting nicotine, swapping smoking rituals for patches, a zero-nicotine vape, and hopefully more writing.
JJM points to kernel.org’s AI crawler mess as a bleak internet arms race that burns CPU and makes hosting git repos feel pointless.
UltrViolet finishes 31-for-31 in Blaugust, then wonders whether shorter posts and helper tools fit better than forced daily writing.
Ghastly ends Blaugust on a high note, reflecting on 15 posts, community link-sharing, and a likely September blogging break.
Wakupan says Blaugust proved consistency boosts visibility and habits, while picking a clear topic makes blogging a lot more fun.