Azuriel’s Black Friday mostly turns into a wishlist of big-name PC games, a couple of Switch controllers, and plans to clear backlog giants like Outer Worlds 2 and FF7 Rebirth.
Belghast talks about using mechanically chill games as audiobook time, then reviews a recent fantasy reading streak centered on Brigands & Breadknives and other cozy-adjacent novels.
Wilhelm covers LOTRO’s Kingdoms of Harad launch, legendary item traceries breaking things again, a DECTRACERY fix code, and the new level 160 trek into the sun-scorched South.
Ghastly’s belated Halloween roundup dives into older games like the surprisingly eerie Piglet’s Big Game, praising its dreamlike Pooh-world level design and kid-friendly psychological spooks.
Andrew Plotkin celebrates Mike Austin’s massive open-source dump of Level 9’s A-Code compiler, docs, and assembly-heavy game sources, even if the floppy-era toolchain is delightfully gnarly.
Heartless revels in the Packers turning the Vikings upside down in a dominant win, complete with a cheeky “9 was really 6 all along” scoreboard gag.
Bhagpuss’s advent calendar door opens on Nancy Sinatra’s “It’s Such A Lonely Time Of Year,” keeping the seasonal vibe firmly in cozy, slightly melancholic music territory.
jwz riffs on a gloriously cursed Thomas the Tank Engine image, pondering sentient Ship of Theseus vibes, Toy Story sex-doll canon, and his long-running train-based nightmare fuel series.
The Friendly Necromancer shares a raw life update on his mom’s health, KRAS mutation results, ongoing immunotherapy, music therapy jams, family time, and rocking ninja pigs at the infusion center.
Michael skips Spotify Wrapped to drag Spotify itself and instead fires off quick-hit recs from goth-leaning Bandcamp finds, game soundtracks like Promise Mascot Agency, and assorted rock favorites.
Warner unpacks Apple design chief Alan Dye’s jump to lead Meta’s new AI-infused hardware/software design studio, reading it as another sign of big shifts coming to Cupertino’s product philosophy.
Dave Winer wrangles a cascading Node upgrade fiasco, migrates a “virtual-virtual” server, muses about bash with ChatGPT commands, then quietly nudges you toward Scripting News’ nightly email.