Stargrace keeps WoW gold-making deliberately chill—letting auctions lapse to avoid burnout—while this week’s surprise winners are mounts, toys, and a few pricey battle pets (max 190k).
Aywren digs into Steam Replay 2025 stats—53 games played, achievements higher than expected—and calls out how Chonkers’ idle design skews the “most played” list versus No Man’s Sky.
Syp settles into WoW housing by chasing decor quests and achievements, experimenting with free plot moves, building a clever “inside outside” window illusion, and winding down Legion Remix for the coz
Shintar looks back on a quieter SWTOR blogging year—still playing a ton, but “mostly okay” vibes plus the voice actors’ strike and fewer story updates made it harder to find writing fuel.
Bhagpuss raves that Arcane’s animation and writing are “magnificent,” then pivots to the grind reality: pushing a Sage toward EverQuest II’s level 135 cap amid time-gates and thin quest quantity.
Wilhelm’s EVE Online MER writeup hits a wall when CCP reformats killdump.csv—new ZKillboard valuations are nice, but losing human-readable labels breaks his PowerBI reports and may end the series.
Tobold’s taking an EU5 breather: the sim’s 28,570 locations make fine-tuning feel impossible at big-nation scale, and patch 1.0.10’s aggressive AI is eating small states alive.
Nimgimli’s move is a box-filled slog, but the new apartment’s at least “functional” with work and gaming PCs set up—and they’re calling Two Guys & a Truck back to finish.
Tipa’s done fighting the “3D printing is just a button” crowd—so she’s hiding gift cards inside Bambu P1S puzzle cylinders and exploding boxes to force some appreciation.
Warner revisits the Paris Buttfield-Addison Apple Gift Card hack mess and argues Apple’s “Executive Relations” saves are a symptom: if issues need online pressure or Craig Federighi to fix, support’s
Dave Winer vents about ChatGPT’s limitations (no easy public file hosting, can’t run page JavaScript) and worries AT Proto is siphoning web-dev creativity into a platform that’ll control the flow.
Tofutush shares a practical walkthrough for deploying an 11ty static site to Neocities via Git/GitHub, plus why SSGs beat copy-paste headers (and why iframes make her cringe).