Scopique feels the Steam Sale slump—too many lobby shooters/PvPvE and not enough fresh hooks—then digs into Lovecrafty picks like Shadows of the Forbidden Gods and Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.
Belghast breaks down Destiny Rising’s new season/act starring an alt-universe Kabr, with new modes and a Crota’s End-style raid, but he’s unimpressed by Kabr’s kit and is mostly in it for the event
Wilhelm’s 2025 gaming industry look-back tries to ignore the layoffs/greed/AI nonsense and cling to the highs, from WoW finally getting housing and Classic variants galore to EVE Online expansions and
Anarchae’s annual media log tallies a mystery-heavy year—38 fiction books, lots of podcasts, reality TV via Drag Race and The Traitors, and under-10 games played but with huge time sinks like Baldur’s
Axxuy’s been buying CDs to rip (and even dabbling in vinyl) and hits the classic physical-media dilemma—what do you do with the discs afterward?—while praising libraries for the underrated joy of just
Syp checks in on his renewed CD-collecting hobby: a quieter 2025 but still ~2,500 discs, a $6 Goodwill boombox surprise hit, a big re-sort with duplicates purged, and dreams of a modded iPod Mini and
Emily revives a year-end listening roundup (Spotify Wrapped and memory), gushing over Transformers-infused metal from The Cybertronic Spree, Bionicle-inspired concept albums by the Le-Koro Band, and a
Warner’s 2025 Apple recap is equal parts weary and practical: doubts about Tim Cook-era corporate vibes, disgust at AI “slop,” and a mostly-incremental hardware year (iPhone 17 Pro, AirPods Pro 3, and
Bruce Schneier flags a Wired report on scammers using AI-generated “broken item” photos to claim refunds, with comments noting the same trick showing up in Airbnb-style fake damage charges.
Dave Winer nods to Manton Reece on why Micro.blog uses Markdown for interop, then riff-blogs from stormy power-outage logistics to artsy movies and a quiet plug for his nightly email.
Juhis does an end-of-year reflection with hopes like “become a better writer,” notes pride and positive feedback as readership grows, and frames 2025 as a return of some much-needed optimism.
Tofutush compares herself to her character Sparky, then spirals into a blunt self-check on not relating to fictional people, “getting personalities,” and what that might mean for real relationships.