Syp burgles a powerful mage in Pillars of Eternity II, shuffles party members, and savors big dungeons over Deadfire’s interminable loading screens and so-so main story.
Tipa unboxes the Analogue 3D, weighs $250 N64 nostalgia against blurry S-Video captures, and grumbles about missing FPGA cores and screenshot support.
Kimimi revels in Battlemarked’s virtual tabletop Demeo x D&D mashup, praising its tactile miniatures, single-table focus, and delightfully hazardous diorama battlefields.
Belghast and Ace bash their heads against brutal Destiny Rising Grandmaster content, then unwind with Morgran’s Hunt farming and disappointingly useless exotics.
Ellie digs into Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade on GBA, contrasting its tougher, classic SRPG roots with the series’ later, friendlier entries like Awakening and Fates.
Wilhelm uses Coca-Cola Classic, EverQuest progression servers, and WoW Classic to ask how long MMOs can live off recycled nostalgia before it just becomes the new normal.
Warner finishes Ken Burns’ The American Revolution and lauds its myth-busting, letter-driven storytelling while lamenting how many will dodge its uncomfortable echoes in today’s politics.
Joar reflects on decluttering before a house sale, finding letters, gadgets, and mementos that turn cleaning into a quiet reckoning with past selves.
Bhagpuss muses on AI hype, bubbles, and business disillusionment, wondering which flavor of disappointment will actually land first.
jwz links an Ars Technica report on OpenAI blaming a dead teen’s TOS violation, filing it under his ongoing chronicle of AI corporate ghoulishness.
Dave Winer wants TV companion podcasts where the *characters* from Succession and Severance debrief the chaos, then pivots into building an "uncentralized" writer’s web atop WordPress.
Aywren gushes about Tipa’s Daily Blogroll as both a cozy RSS-style discovery tool and a sneaky motivator to hit publish more often.