Azuriel reviews the Nex Playground motion console (kinda Kinect/Wii Sports but controller-free), breaks down the subscription costs, and says it’s probably worth it if your kids aren’t Fortnite-brain-
Bhagpuss’s Advent Calendar Day 13 is basically a quick music pick: “Christmas In Riverdale” by The Archies, like a tiny holiday vibe break mid-scroll.
Scopique speed-runs the 2025 VGAs (mostly for trailers), calling out stuff like The Free Shepherd, Exodus, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, and Solasta II.
Belghast watches The Game Awards for a Path of Exile II Twitch drop, then rage-loves Diablo IV shadow-dropping Paladin (preorder required) and starts rambling trailers like Control Resonant.
Wilhelm wrangles the very-2005 vibes of Guild Wars Reforged with friends—Steam installs, Prophecies confusion, chaotic character names, and finally grouping up in Ascalon anyway.
Axxuy speed-dumps a day-in-the-life: baking pumpkin stuff, messing with car tires, buying a Christmas tree, getting a date cancelled, and setting up music scrobbling—busy but kinda normal.
Roger does a one-year check-in on juggling Twitter/X, Mastodon, and Bluesky, and basically decides the politics overload is wrecking the vibe so he’s stepping back (probably ditching X).
Emily talks about Microsoft killing its movies/TV app, then finding surprisingly solid “hidden gem” streaming on CTV and CBC Gem—ads and all—while rewatching stuff like Schitt’s Creek.
Anarchae drops a huge Bearblog CSS v16 update—link labels (like Youtube/Amazon), pagination, post lists by month/year, and site search—plus some nerdy CSS tricks with selectors and unicode.
Jamie Zawinski is super not impressed with the idea of baking an AI/LLM straight into WordPress core, like a permanent “spicy autocomplete slop firehose” you can’t uninstall.
Dave Winer muses about an alternate-history Twitter (WordPress-style), jokes about “Your Own Twitter” with AI actors, then nerds out on making custom APIs in WordLand/FeedLand.
Pixel One writes an in-world letter from Dornogal, with Windrunner-family drama (Alleria, Sylvanas, Vereesa) and weird “radiant song” visions pulling everyone toward Silvermoon.