Bhagpuss admits Baldur’s Gate 3 is eating his life—25 hours since Saturday—and vents about quest journals that send you NPC-hunting unless you peek at guides.
Emily reviews A Plague Tale: Innocence, digging its grim 1300s France plague-and-rats horror and stealth gameplay as Amicia protects Hugo while crafting tools to outsmart soldiers and swarms.
Scopique wants Star Citizen to make Imperator elections matter in-game, pitching something Powerplay-ish from Elite Dangerous as a way to add systems beyond “shoot and loot.”
Andrew Plotkin releases Visible Zorker 2, letting you play Zork II while watching ZIL calls, variables, maps, and timers live—plus source code and commentary (spoilers, obviously).
Heartless calls Packers–Vikings the worst football game he’s seen, thanks to resting players and piling injuries, but shrugs it off since Green Bay still limps into the playoffs.
Jamie Zawinski flags the DOI’s 2026 rule update that can void national park passes altered with stickers—seemingly aimed at people covering Trump’s face on the pass image.
Nik ditches grand goal-setting and makes a simple pact with 2026: he’ll try to be better than 2025, and hopes the year will meet him halfway.
Belghast recaps 2025 movies he mostly just enjoyed, highlights Happy Gilmore 2 as a surprise win, dings Tron: Ares as the letdown, and experiments with an alternate narration track.
Juhis sets up the open-source BookLore in his homelab to corral ebooks from Kindle/iPad/NAS, run an OPDS server, and maybe nudge himself toward a Kobo next year.
Warner Crocker points to Nikita Prokopov’s thorough teardown of macOS Tahoe’s menu icons, arguing Apple’s “icon for everything” idea creates inconsistent metaphors and a distracting mess.
Tim Bray ships a hefty Quamina PR adding `+` and `*` regex support, then shares hard-won automata lessons: collect real testcases and break features into small, shippable deliverables.
Dave Winer explains why he picked David Frum as 2025 Blogger of the Year, praising the “don’t conform” podcasting ethos and urging writers to avoid new Substack-shaped traps.