Stargrace’s Warcraft gold-making week: 23 sales for just under 3 million gold, mostly recipes (some transmog), plus some TSM stats wrangling and year-end recap thoughts.
CrazyKinux lays out a Foundation first-hour playbook: prioritize fish starts, embrace organic villager-made roads, keep walking distances tight, and stabilize early gold via a Manor House Tax Office +
Bhagpuss’s Advent Calendar rolls on with a music-flavored Day 15, pairing a retro Christmas tree snap with shout-outs to Swansea Sound and The Very Most.
Krista rounds up Heartopia’s cozy life-sim pitch—free-to-play multiplayer, no stamina or checklists, deep home/outfit customization, seamless town exploration, and 2026 plans for Steam plus mobile.
Emily reviews Spilled!, a short, cute cleanup game where you boat around scooping oil and trash, recycling for upgrades, rescuing animals, and even taking on a surprise boss ship.
Wilhelm checks in on the Fantasy Critic League stretch run: Skate Story lands an 84.8 and shuffles the top race, while Ultimate Sheep Raccoon releases but still lacks enough reviews.
Michael takes the Bluesky “name 50 indie games” dare and delivers a readable mega-list that goes beyond Steam, spotlighting itch.io picks, jams, and a bunch of personal favorites.
Anarchae’s week-two digest mixes noisy-neighbor struggles and website tinkering with Lovecraft reading, lots of The Traitors (Canada and USA), a bit of Raidou, and Raptors disappointment.
Bruce Schneier posts his latest speaking schedule, with stops from Chicago (library and Capricon) to Munich, NYC, Cambridge (Ross Anderson Lecture), and RSAC 2026 in San Francisco.
Dave Winer argues the social web already runs on RSS, and calls for a 2026 push to make social apps support two-way RSS—plus he’s offering to help.
Jamie Zawinski mourns sci-fi writer John Varley, shares how his “Eight Worlds” and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank blew his mind, and laments how much of Varley’s work is out of print.
Tofutush reflects on a lifelong reading habit, from childhood read-alouds to library binges, and weighs why paper books feel better—right up until ebooks win on convenience.