Shintar marks SWTOR’s 14th birthday, tracing how the voice actor strike stretched story updates into a 558-day drought and turned 2025 into a dynamic-encounters-and-Bessi-customizations kind of year.
Juhis shares a human-curated favorites list from games played this year, from hundreds of hours in NHL 21 to the forever-comfort of Stardew Valley and its still-coming updates.
Azuriel digs into the Larian generative-AI kerfuffle—Schreier’s interview, Vincke’s clarifications, and the “you can’t afford not to try stuff” mindset—before zooming out to what people actually care.
Belghast recaps Destiny Rising reset runs—Grandmaster Blitz chills, a rough Calamity Ops, then a clutch title unlock—plus pure Dawning chaos thanks to the inexplicable guild-hall “Dawning Chinchilla.”
Wilhelm does holiday bullet points, led by EverQuest’s 2026 TLP plans—Frostreaver’s player-polled rules and Lethar starting at The Serpent’s Spine with “personal loot.”
Michael recommends Many Nights a Whisper, a ~60-minute archery-and-wishes adventure that mixes light and heavy prompts, gives choices weight, and ends with one tense make-or-break long shot.
Bhagpuss keeps the Advent Calendar rolling with a snowy “White Christmas” double-feature—Lou Reed and Iggy Pop versions queued up for a moody holiday listen.
Warner Crocker spots a lonely little holiday castoff in a grocery aisle, snaps a photo, feels a moment of sadness, and moves on—small scene, big seasonal vibe.
Bruce Schneier’s Friday Squid Blogging shares a Reddit “petting a squid” video (Humboldt, maybe) and opens the comments for whatever security news you’ve been chewing on.
Anarchae finally sets up Sonarr on a NAS to clean up TV files for Jellyfin (plus hardlinks via qbittorrent), then hits a wall with jellyfin-mpv-shim’s rough docs and crash loop.
Jamie Zawinski built a Shadertoy-compatible XScreenSaver module and asks for great shader links, while laying out the messy blockers: CC BY-NC-SA defaults, no license filtering, and Cloudflare hassles
Dave Winer riffs on “feed sharing” via dynamic OPML, pokes at Inoreader’s HTML clips, and caps it off with a Keurig-fueled hot-coffee epiphany.