Stargrace dives back into EverQuest II’s Frostfell, scooping shinies, crafting holiday décor, debating a Maj’Dul coercer boost, and eyeing the incoming Rage of Cthurath expansion.
Belghast parses Path of Exile II’s 0.4.0 reveal, feeling lukewarm on Druids, charge-based Spell Totems, and missing endgame fixes while grinding Calamity Ops and strongholds.
Wilhelm revisits EVE Online’s fraught history with asset safety, wormhole loot pinatas, Forsaken Fortress betrayals, and CCP Swift’s PanFam-era smash-and-grab windfalls.
WCRobinson dives into Pokémon Legends: Z-A on Switch 2, praising Kalos’ makeover, Lumiose City’s glow, and long-awaited X/Y follow-up vibes despite some rough edges.
CrazyKinux reflects on family rewatches of Arcane, marveling at Fortiche’s painterly animation, Vi and Jinx’s emotional core, and Season 2’s denser League of Legends mysticism.
Bhagpuss’ advent calendar hits Day 7 with a wintry image and a Roberta Flack pick to keep the seasonal vibes mellow and musical.
Warner muses on Chicago’s snow-covered lead-up to Bears–Packers, where winter whites finally mute Mother Nature’s usual green-and-gold betrayal of the home team.
Tim Bray weaves Afro-Cuban bell patterns, West African drumming, and hospice memories of Tracy into a meditation on rhythm, mortality, and the math underlying music.
Jamie Zawinski hunts for a Mac alternative to Hitpaw Watermark Remover to drive ffmpeg delogo filters manually, with zero AI and minimal grifter-laced search results.
Dave Winer reminisces about BYTE-era product reviews, tweaks FeedLand’s change detection, and notes AI-powered helpers like Telex and Google Forms quietly reshaping everyday software.
JJM pivots from hard-to-cross-compile Haskell games to experimenting with OCaml, dune, and tsdl, comparing result-based IO to familiar monadic Haskell patterns.
Tipa tackles Advent of Code’s Trash Compactor in Lua, hand-rolling reduce-style logic for commutative math before part two flips the script with cephalopod-flavored notation.