Aywren clears all Arcadion raids in FFXIV with friends, nabs the Groovy Glasses and a Black Kitten minion, and celebrates a big jump in Amon’s achievement rank.
Mailvaltar’s new PS5 fuels a “Winter of Horrors” marathon with Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill f, and a stack of Resident Evil, with SHf’s dark 1960s Japan really knocking him flat.
Ellie finally digs into Super Hydorah, using its retro shmup charms to muse on why certain games—Gradius, R-Type, Turrican and their arcade kin—lodge in our brains for years.
Tobold reports 180+ hours sunk into Europa Universalis V, a near-finished Tidal Blades 2 campaign, and a looming choice among several crowdfunded board game epics.
Axxuy skips #SpotifyWrapped stats and instead vibes through 2025 listening: Stan Rogers on CD, Earthsea-themed dungeon synth, and random library jazz rips.
Bhagpuss’s advent calendar hits day 11 with a couple of retro Christmas tracks and a festive dance-photo vibe instead of the usual MMO chatter.
jwz highlights an Amazon “adjustable anus clamp” listing with deadpan delight, filing it alongside his long-running archive of goatse-adjacent internet weirdness.
Tofutush charts her shift from dog person to cat lover, crediting Warrior Cats, soft fur, and her mom’s cat Sandstorm over an over-enthusiastic poodle.
Juhis reflects on what “IndieWeb” should mean by 2030, arguing for broad, welcoming definitions of indie presence beyond strict self-hosting purity tests.
Bruce Schneier flags an FBI alert about AI-powered fake kidnapping scams using bogus photos and videos, predicting crooks will automate the whole thing.
Dave Winer revisits RSS feed discovery 23 years on, asks feed-reader devs for input, and pivots into inflation fears, Trump economics, and a quiet plug for his nightly email.
Tipa tackles Advent of Code Day 10 with BFS over Dijkstra for XOR button puzzles, then breaks out Python’s Z3 solver when the part 2 math gets serious.