Syp sticks with comfy WoW Classic, leveling a Druid through Stranglethorn Vale, daydreaming about Classic+ housing, snapping a pirate-and-ninja guild event, and saluting murloc tenacity.
Frostilyte celebrates a huge indie-heavy 2025 and starts spotlighting under-the-radar favorites, kicking off with why Monster Train 2’s deckbuilding flexibility still shines even at top difficulty.
Ellie finally goes into Pokémon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon mostly blind, excited for Necrozma, Rainbow Rocket, and the multiverse weirdness—while chasing that old-school thrill of discovery in Alola.
Wilhelm and Potshot form a Guild Wars guild (naming is the real endgame), dream of a boar-themed cloak, then promptly learn what level-6 travel to Lion’s Arch looks like: repeated wipes.
Tobold weighs what makes a great campaign board game—narrative adventure versus learning/setup workload—using Malhya’s hundreds-of-icons “hieroglyphics” problem as a cautionary tale.
Michael gets grumpy about Steam-only recs and posts Itch.io Winter Sale picks instead, boosting Indiepocalypse plus games like Liberation, Minerva’s Labyrinth, Inspector Waffles, and Cyclopean.
Roger digs into how digital jukeboxes survive in pubs via revenue-splitting “free machine” deals, then lands on the real point: it’s nice when the landlord doesn’t control all the music.
Bhagpuss’s Advent Calendar Day 21 is a quick music-forward holiday drop, pairing “Sometimes You Have to Work On Christmas” with picks from Harvey Danger, Crowder, and “The Elf Song.”
Warner says Sunday Morning Reading is still on hiatus mid travel-day, wrapping up a 10-day grandparent stint as the family migrates from old house to “Special Christmas House.”
Tim Bray tells a dripping-faucet story about routing around “late-stage capital” by asking neighbors for a plumber, only to hit the reality of back-ordered warranty parts until May.
Dave Winer circles around why we’re wired to judge, why “view from nowhere” is a myth, and how a Bronx 4 train ride made other people’s hidden lives click into focus.
Tipa riffs on the generative-AI backlash (hello, Larian/Baldur’s Gate 3), then explains how she built a Daily Blogroll-style RSS summarizer with the OpenAI API and GPT models.