Syp in Pillars of Eternity II is living pirate life: wipes slavers at Crookspur, steamrolls Fort Deadlight at level 15, then stumbles into Beast of Winter DLC with undead dragons and tougher fights.
Shintar is loving SWTOR patch 7.8 chaos: flashpoint skips in Legacy of the Rakata, waiting out early bugs, then finally digging into Galactic Threads and wondering how class/faction differences change
Krista speed-runs Starsand Island’s extended demo to day 10, recapping cozy farming/fishing vibes, plus the early-2026 release plans and that Switch 2 launch + ruins combat/bosses news.
Wilhelm clicks Discord’s year recap and gets stats like 4,097 messages and 27,190 emojis, then spirals into “wait, what dates is this even counting?” (honestly fair).
Tobold basically bought the board game Lightning Train on vibes (and Paul Dennen’s resume), and after unboxing and solo-testing, he’s super hyped for its bag-building plus 19th-century US railbuilding
Bruce Schneier posts a Reddit video of a giant squid munching a diamondback squid, with a squid biologist explaining why more surface sightings happen now (aka everyone has cameras).
Jamie Zawinski shares PRANIC LIFT 777, basically another one of his “look at this weird/cool retro tech design” link posts, with a big preview image and a pile of related throwbacks.
Dave Winer is kinda freaking out (same) about cloning Scripting News in WordPress/Daveverse, plus a wild drone+Peloton-by-satellite idea and a “comments are blog posts” rant.
Tipa sees Advent of Code 2025 Day 12 yelling “NP-hard bin packing,” panics, sleeps on it, then wakes up and the simple checks actually work anyway—so it’s Merry Christmas, problem solved.
Anarchae tries Lovecraft for the first time and kinda hates how the annotated edition won’t shut up, plus “The Rats in the Walls” hits way too hard and now rats-in-the-city news is ruining life.
Aywren bought a 2026 yearly planner on Black Friday and is nerding out over the sturdy cover, month tabs, daily pages, ribbons, note sections, and using gel pens to avoid fountain-pen smears.
Crimson’s talking exhaustion and friendship stuff, using Wind Breaker’s Sakura (and even an MHA comparison) to explain wanting anime-style “perceptive friends” while feeling too tired to open up.