CrazyKinux is smitten with Zlín City: Arch Moderna’s trailer, praising Polyperfect’s hand-built models and photogrammetry for that tabletop-miniature vibe, and says he’s signed up for the playtest.
Nimgimli tried Relic Hunters Legends via Game Pass for Microsoft Rewards, and after 5 hours found the kid-coded twin-stick looter-shooter fine-but-forgettable, especially solo.
Shintar digs into SWTOR’s rare 2026 roadmap, flags ongoing DirectX 12 progress without a date, and runs through 7.8.1 highlights like Torian/Kira date nights and “Master’s Enigma.”
Wilhelm and Potshot push alts ahead in Guild Wars Reforged, carefully navigating The Breach into Diessa Lowlands with henchmen, quests, and hard-learned lessons about not facepulling everything.
Tobold tackles board-game shelf overload, arguing collecting isn’t playing, and describes giving away big-box titles like Malhya, Tainted Grail, and Artisans of Splendent Vale via a forum.
Bhagpuss recaps the 2025 Inventory Full Advent Calendar, thanking Redbeard and Tipa, then nerds out on the behind-the-scenes process—especially the images that took the most work.
Ron Gilbert explains replacing Hugo comment flat-files with a PHP+SQLite setup after spam/maintenance pain, spinning up a new server and happily dodging a return to MySQL.
Bruce Schneier argues AI is already reshaping democratic governance quietly, spotlighting Medicare/insurance algorithm decisions and policy shifts that expand AI’s role in approving—or denying—care.
Scopique skips the 2025 retrospective and instead lays out 2026 goals: daily Obsidian notes, app-use tracking across games and tools like Blender/Resolve, and setting achievable targets.
Dave Winer says WordLand II is getting genuinely useful, with Instant Outlines in Drummer helping a small group coordinate work—plus a low-key nudge to subscribe to the nightly email.
Tofutush documents her 11ty image gallery setup: a huge JSON metadata file sorted via a JS data module, plus Liquid filters to slice art by author and date.
Anarchae crunches six months of Bearblog stats—sites/themes made, 130 posts, visitors/reads—then lists top posts and referrers, noting the meta stuff about Bearblog draws the most attention.