Tipa gets Valheim’s Elder kill and achievement, then builds a dojo to grind mace and blocking skills before braving a fresh swamp.
Sey’s roundup spotlights TOEM 2, Songs of Glimmerwick, Okko The Exiled, and Christopher Larkin’s Moonlighter 2 soundtrack with plenty of wishlist energy.
Bhagpuss sizes up Neverness To Everness’s next update and wonders if its breakneck, wildly varied content drops have left the game with an identity problem.
Kimimi makes the case that Deadalus, aka Robotica, works better as a roguelite than an FPS, with randomized floors and run-managing tension.
Mailvaltar restarts Dune: Awakening again, sold on singleplayer’s permanent Deep Desert bases, no housing sprawl, and less multiplayer lag.
Joar is happily catching up in Guild Wars 2, finding it more compelling than WoW lately while still only considering a Dawntrail return in FFXIV.
Emily vents about the gamer instinct to brute-force mountains in Skyrim, The Witcher 3, and Death Stranding instead of finding the obvious easier path.
Wilhelm hits Stardew Valley year three after finally cracking Skull Cavern, cashing Qi’s reward, and turning farm automation into more Calico Desert time.
Aneesh shares a quick linkpost pointing to Substack’s ‘cool new way to post’ and his own blyg site.
Tim Bray argues POSIWID is a lousy shortcut, saying systems have multiple purposes and we need sharper language for talking about GenAI, capitalism, and power.
Dave Winer shares a new Frontier example script for building an RSS feed from a single Mastodon account, a small peek at the project’s progress.
Andrew Plotkin reflects on John M. Ford twenty years on, revisiting Aspects and the comfort, questions, and rereads his work still inspires.