Stargrace eases off the auction grind in WoW, leans on transmog and recipes for income, and notes that player housing furniture is the hot gold-maker before Midnight lands.
Shintar looks back on SWTOR’s subscriber login event, happily converting tokens into Rakata gear, ship droid customisations, and a menagerie of Cartel Market pets before it vanishes.
Kimimi revisits Sonic 2’s half-pipe special stages, celebrating their 16-bit wow factor, careful design, and how they turned simple ring-chasing into thrilling pseudo-3D spectacle.
Belghast juggles recovery, Guild Wars Reforged, hardcore Path of Exile grinding to 100, and 3D-printing shenanigans while min-maxing Kingsmarch shipments for juicy Mirror Shards.
Wilhelm speedruns No Man’s Sky’s Relics expedition using Reddit tips, front-loading milestones on the starter planet to dodge holiday burnout from the nonstop expedition reruns.
Michael recommends Landlord Quest, a short anti-capitalist comedy point-and-click with multiple endings, sharp jokes, and retro SCUMM vibes that lets you watch a landlord eat dirt.
Bhagpuss’s advent calendar doors open today on “Santa’s Rap” by The Treacherous Three, mixing festive vibes with a musical deep cut instead of MMO loot.
Warner wrestles with our fact-optional culture, critiques AI hype as bubble territory, and points readers to Cory Doctorow’s “Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” speech.
Tobold argues pension crises stem from pay-as-you-go systems and political mismanagement, contrasting them with individually funded, compound-interest-driven capitalist pension models.
CrazyKinux unpacks Erik Wernquist and Sonny White’s “Go Incredibly Fast,” a quiet manifesto for nuclear locomotives and warp-bubble dreams carrying Carl Sagan’s exploratory spirit forward.
Tim Bray sketches why the GenAI bubble will hurt when it pops, highlighting fragile, power-hungry GPUs and tricky depreciation that may leave less enduring infrastructure than past tech manias.
Dave Winer shares his OPML blogroll, shows off a websockets-powered ‘best blogroll ever,’ and then riffs on why Pluribus can’t quite match Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul.