Tipa digs into Guild Wars 2’s Visions of Eternity, where Asura chaos, Vloxx’s reality reboot, and the Commander role all rub her the wrong way.
Bhagpuss wrestles with gaming overload versus drought, using Xbox cloud limits and GeForce Now to poke at the hobby’s endless contradictions.
Oya has a blast with Astro Bot’s giant sponge power-up, gleefully smashing through a hot-bath maze with haptics making the chaos even sweeter.
Wilhelm starts No Man’s Sky Expedition 23, flips multiplayer off, and enjoys Cosmos as a nostalgia-heavy tour through the game’s past updates.
Tobold says Avalon: The Riven Veil looks great, but long setup, dense iconography, and a three-hour-plus runtime make it a rough fit for game night.
Anarchae’s weekly links bounce from bioblitzes and solo TTRPGs to Ace Combat, disability discourse, nostalgic music, and fish-versus-nuclear-plant climate weirdness.
Jamie Zawinski previews DNA Lounge’s Folsom weekend lineup, from Brüt and Bare Chest to Brooke Candy and Violet Chachki.
Joel’s weeknotes mix Mexican Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Final Fantasy IV, Gunstar Heroes, and a pleasantly busy blogging week.
Emily finds Hyacinth a refreshing Bridgerton lead, with Italian diary translation, jewel hunting, and thankfully less forced-marriage melodrama.
Jeff argues Raspberry Pi 5’s firmware RAM lock makes technical sense but still undercuts the Pi’s hardware-hacking ethos.
Bruce Schneier spotlights GPT-6 Astra cracking an old Enigma message by building its own simulator and Bombe around a ROSENOW crib.
Dave Winer has Claude catalog Atlantis verbs, wants Frontier to get websockets, and keeps chipping away at old Mac-era breakage.