Joar breaks down 2025 playtime stats (TempusGameIt-style): WoW dominates, with GW2/Diablo 4/ESO trailing; he hit max on a Gnome Hunter and is now wrestling an over-tuned ESO boss.
Ellie revisits LEGO Batman 2 and maps why it’s a turning point for LEGO games: full voice acting plus an open-world structure that ditched the old hub format.
Ghastly runs through Steam Replay 2025—Slay the Spire, Bugaboo Pocket, LOTRO—plus lots of retro play, and laments how Webfishing fizzled out amid abandonment, harassment, and server chaos.
CrazyKinux gives Avatar: Fire and Ash a 3/5—gorgeous visuals, a compelling Fire-and-Ash tribe tease, but rushed character arcs and familiar beats left him (and his teens) shrugging.
Bhagpuss swaps Baldur’s Gate time for MTV REWIND, a YouTube-API-powered nostalgia machine with decade channels, period ads, and an absurd pile of music videos.
Jamie Zawinski points to Mission Local’s comic on San Francisco’s ridiculous sewer system, filing it neatly under “things that are both horrifying and extremely on-brand for this blog.”
Belghast reflects on a fledgling chat-based relationship ending abruptly, and why online intimacy can feel turbocharged (hello, IRC nostalgia) while still being fragile without real-world grounding.
Blockade85 wants more whimsy in the post-holiday gray stretch—Christmas lights down, football ending, work dull—so he’s considering year-round wall lights to keep his space feeling fun.
Scopique ditches a flaky Huion K40 and rolls the dice on a Temu-tier “Stream Dock,” then finds its VSD Craft software is basically Stream Deck’s UI in a trenchcoat.
Dave Winer shows how ChatGPT can spit out Font-Awesome-quality SVG icons on demand, then pivots to OG metadata weirdness where the “wrong” image shows up in Bluesky/WordPress flows.
Tofutush raves about John le Carré’s A Perfect Spy, digging into its semi-autobiographical angle and the book’s twisty letter chapters that juggle third-person “he” and first-person “I.”
Tipa finally rereads Attanasio’s In Other Worlds and loves the relentless weird: a bartender converted to light wakes 130 billion years ahead inside a black-hole bubble with eld skyles and gravity-isd