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February 14, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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It's Saturday and time for the weekend #DailyBlogroll, with stories from Tipa, Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Jamie Zawinski, Syp, Bhagpuss, Kimimi, Anarchae, JJM, Warner, Michael, Mailvaltar and more!

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#WorldOfWarcraft #RetroGaming #IndieGames #Privacy
Syp remodels his World of Warcraft house room-by-room, juggles prepatch world-boss grind and transmog tinkering, and recruits his daughter to help build a cozy ’90s coffeehouse/bookstore alt-café. Tipa checks out Othello Trigger, a Chrono Trigger riff that’s mostly Othello, and nerds out over cramming characters, screens, and discs into tiny Game Boy Color memory via GB Studio. Kimimi dives into the 2000 PC Legend of the Sacred Stone tie-in, praising its action-RPG simplicity, mouse-driven combat rhythm, and gnarly payoffs like decapitations and fiery magic explosions. Mailvaltar can’t believe Diablo II: Resurrected actually got an expansion—new class, items/runewords, endgame, loot filter, and currency stash tabs—then curses being too sick to play yet. Wilhelm runs Friday-the-13th bullet points on gamers hating gen-AI “slop” (survey stats and all) and Discord’s looming age verification pitch—government IDs, backlash, and “we’ll use AI” reassurance. Michael’s indie roundup plugs the No ICE in Minnesota Itch bundle, gushes over Africanfuturist heist game Relooted, celebrates doodle-racer Gradient.horse, and notes new/renewed adventure games and B Bhagpuss dusts off the listening diary with 13 Friday-the-13th picks, shouting out videos like A$AP Rocky’s “Punk Rocky” and digging into synth/glam-punk-ish vibes with plenty of side commentary. Jamie Zawinski drops a Valentine’s-adjacent “previously” link chain—a greatest-hits trail of past oddities and Xscreensaver-adjacent posts to click around and lose an afternoon to. Anarchae shares a no-frills desk setup and a rant about “best of” gamer gear elitism, spotlighting practical picks like an 8BitDo Lite 2 controller and a thrifted 27" 1080p monitor. Warner Crocker tears into a NYT-reported Meta memo about facial recognition in smart glasses, warning about privacy harms, “dynamic political environment” timing, and creepy real-world misuse already. Dave Winer argues news should become a distributed, unownable, rep…
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Othello Trigger for the Gameboy Color

"Othello Trigger" smashes a Chrono Trigger de-make into Othello using GB Studio. Can drag-and-drop game engines really make worthwhile games?

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#GameDevelopment #dissimilar #gamemaker #GbStudio #othello
Two screens from Othello Trigger -- the title screen, which is a variant of the Chrono Trigger title screen, and the end of game screen showing an Othello board behind a popup window with a portrait of Marle reading: "Game Over. Marle: 45, Robo: 19. Marle Wins."
February 13, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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It's always Friday on the #DailyBlogroll! Today's adventures begin with Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Pixel One, RPG Codex, Bruce Schneier, Roger, Ghastly, CrazyKinux, Aywren, @leekscosycorner.com, Syp, Jamie Zawinski and more!

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#NoMansSky #LiveServiceGames #CozyGames #TechPolicy
Aywren reviews Flufftopia: Fluffmazing Edition—cute piggy-bank clicker town-building that runs fine on Steam Deck (tiny UI caveats), then quietly hints at a clever, darker twist and multiple endings. Syp talks about hitting an “ebb” in LOTRO—logging in more from duty than excitement—so he’s keeping play light until the spark returns, while enjoying touches like adorable elephants and the Grey CrazyKinux gets parachuted into a Fallout TTRPG set in a brutal Boston winter and rolls up a Mister Handy with a sketchy “security update,” joining a Vault pedicurist, scavenger, and lucid ghoul. Krista celebrates Starsand Island hitting Steam Early Access/Xbox Preview, pitching its cozy life-sim mix of farming, fishing, animal care, exploration, romance, and island mysteries—with community-sh Pixel One vents about a live-service edge case: a paid character transfer token fails, support follows the script, then closes the ticket as “resolved” anyway—KPI theater over fixing the block. RPG Codex flags that Sector Unknown is out, slotting it into their rapid-fire headline stream of RPG releases and announcements for anyone tracking what’s newly shipping. Wilhelm digs into No Man’s Sky Update 6.2 “Remnant,” where the Colossus exocraft gets serious customization plus scrap-world industrial waste collecting and Waste Processing Plants to toot at. Ghastly’s fed up with GOG’s generative-AI promo stance and points to DRM-free alternatives like zoom-platform and Fire Flower Games, plus preservation-minded exoDOS for old DOS titles. Roger lays out a UK household’s monthly budget reality—council tax, utilities, travel, groceries, housing—and why inflation and annual April price hikes make cutting costs feel like a grim puzzle. Jamie Zawinski marvels that you can effectively DoS a Waymo by leaving its door open, and dunks on the fix: paying DoorDash drivers about $10 to go close it. Bruce Schneier breaks down a New York proposal to add “blocking technology” to 3D printers that sca…
February 13, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Not every issue in our politics needs to be shirts and skins. Republicans don’t need to automatically be against everything Democrats stand for. We could decide together that no president should ever arrest a political opponent for free speech.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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The DHS Nazi problem in a nutshell: youtube.com/shorts/3SMz1...
Who comes up with the Trump administration's heilarious slogans? #dailyshow
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January 28, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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Good morning! Your #DailyBlogroll is ready with stories by Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Joar, @heartlessgamer.com, Michael, Scopique, Aywren, Warner, Bhagpuss, Belghast, RPG Codex, Magi and more!

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#SteamDeck #PathOfExile #ProjectGorgon #GamingCommunity
Aywren checks in with Steam Deck-friendly backlog nibbling—Toy Tinker Simulator’s charm despite jank, Castle Flipper’s cheap-but-mixed vibes, and a promising Arcanium roguelite card-battler party hook Heartless argues ARC Raiders’ stash-value “departure” meta pushes players to sell the fun stuff; make trinkets worth more and guns/materials worth less so people actually bring gear topside. Magi spotlights “Shinies for Good,” a week-long Twitch Pokémon shiny-hunting fundraiser (Feb 10–16) backing the American Immigration Council, with donations supporting litigation, research, and pro-b RPG Codex notes THQ Nordic and Alkimia Interactive set Gothic 1 Remake for June 5, 2026 on PC/PS5/Xbox, aiming to modernize without losing the original’s gritty “Colony” vibe Belghast is still deep in Path of Exile’s Legacy of Phrecia, hyped for a tanky, high-damage minion build (Spectres/Animate Guardian) while pushing Delve and eyeing voidstones before 3.28 lands Wilhelm meant to just peek at Project: Gorgon, then lost a weekend to it—tweaked graphics from “poor” to “good,” and vibed hard with its do-stuff-to-level-skills progression. Bhagpuss chews on Discord’s age verification backlash—if everyone’s been breached anyway, is this about security, principle, or old-internet nostalgia, especially when we also demand platforms protect Joar’s advice for new accountants: master the basics, but prioritize judgment, read incentives, protect integrity strategically, and build transferable skills like clear writing and communication. Michael shares a grab-bag of links—music, TTRPG map-writing prompts, self-hosting a music library, and a bunch of new indie/video game sites worth tossing in your RSS reader. Warner revisits iOS 26 Phone app changes, finding Hold Assist and call screening awkward in real life (even for medical offices), and still wants spam reporting and delete options made way more direct Scopique’s cooler-headed Discord take: “teen by default” age verification (ID or …
February 12, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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It's a midweek kind of #DailyBlogroll with stories by Tipa, Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Luna, Stargrace, Bhagpuss, Shintar, Warner, Joar, Andrew Plotkin, Syp, Krista and more!

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#WorldOfWarcraft #BaldursGate3 #CozyGames #GameDesign
Stargrace explains why she bailed on the EverQuest 2 and Wurm Online creator programs: weekly content obligations for a sub fee wasn’t worth it, and she’d rather play and create on her own terms. Syp hits level 30 on a WoW Classic Shaman, celebrates new abilities like Windfury and Astral Recall, and enjoys steady progress thanks to a zone-hopping guide that keeps the journey feeling fresh. Tipa recounts a rough Frosthaven return in “Glowing Catacombs,” tanking as Banner Spear while undead and endlessly-splitting oozes nearly overwhelm the team—until the switches finally flip. Bhagpuss digs into Baldur’s Gate 3 Act III momentum, admits to “cheating” with saves and guides, and shares the satisfying discovery that Orin’s scary “invulnerability” is really just seven attacks. Krista checks in on Floatopia, the cosy life sim teased at Gamescom 2024 for 2025, and wonders what’s going on now that it’s February 2026 with near-total radio silence from the team. Luna reviews Dogpile after 9 hours, calling it a chaotic roguelike deckbuilder where you merge dog cards into bigger dogs, chase bone goals, and stack absurd tags that make the yard go wild. Joar reflects on waking early to game out of habit, tracing how World of Warcraft once connected him to his son, and wrestling with sunk cost versus what that daily routine is really trading away now. Shintar tours WoW’s revamped Exile’s Reach, spotting Thrall, Kalecgos, and Wrathion folded into a cleaner Dragon Isles handoff, plus tutorial tweaks like forced gear damage and a new finale rescue. Wilhelm heads back to Guild Wars Reforged, tweaks the party for more healing, and learns the hard way that Garfazz Bloodfang plus roaming Charr can turn “how hard could it be?” into a wipe. Andrew Plotkin dives into Zork/Mini-Zork combat code, showing how an off-by-one loop means the cyclops (or thief) never attacks—making the point that “bug” depends on what the designers intended. Warner Crocker argues for reading people you dis…
February 11, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Frosthaven #9: Glowing Catacombs

Everything would have been fine... if it weren't for the oozes. The slimy, mitosis inflicting oozes.

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#Frosthaven #GameNight #Gloomhaven #TabletopGames
A Frosthaven battle in progress, showing various skelly boys alongside the Banner Spear, Doomshaper and Blink Blade fighting purple oozes.
February 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Oooh! New Mahjong article by @nicole.express on the #DailyBlogroll! And so much more, including stories by Wilhelm, Dave Winer, WCRobinson, Heartless, Tofutush, Belghast, Shintar, Pete, Tobold, Bruce Schneier, Roger, Nicole and more!

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#GameDev #EVEOnline #AI #RetroGaming
Shintar’s MoP Classic honeymoon fades after Golden Lotus and Vale defense, with Skyshard and Wrathion cloak grinds feeling slow—though fishing up the Sea Turtle mount helps a bit. Wilhelm looks back at EVE Online’s skill extractors/injectors debut (remember Aurum?) and how “helping new players” quickly turned into a rich-get-richer SP market. Tobold’s 18-hour Menace take: lots of juicy squad-leader builds, gear choices, and faction unlocks, but the game’s depth comes with an accessibility hurdle that makes onboarding rough. WCRobinson digs into Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment as a Tears of the Kingdom tie-in, weighing the 1v100 hack-and-slash grind against a bigger spotlight for Zelda. Heartless shrugs at the Super Bowl with a “who cares” drive-by post, basically letting a meme do the talking. Belghast drops a new Mixtape Mondays playlist anchored by Twenty One Pilots’ “Heathens,” with Suicide Squad/Joker vibes and a tracklist built to keep that uncanny mood flowing. Nicole breaks down 1989’s strip mahjong Mahjong Daireikai on Jaleco Mega System 1, showing how hardware choices (tilemaps over sprites) and an undumped security microcontroller shaped the game. Bruce Schneier lays out how generative AI floods magazines, journals, courts, lawmakers, and social media with submissions—and why it’s pushing everyone into a messy AI-vs-AI detection arms race. Dave Winer flags an https gotcha breaking Drummer/oldschool.scripting.com templates (mixed http assets), then gently nudges loyal readers toward the nightly Scripting News email roundup. Pete returns from a moving/unpacking hiatus, talks using AI constantly but experimenting less, shares progress on a vibe-coded game-picker app, and says a custom ChatGPT tutor is teaching him TypeS​c​ Roger reviews Danny Robins’ Into the Uncanny, praising its even-handed believer/skeptic tone, strong research, and empathetic interviews that make the paranormal cases feel grounded and human. Tofutush kicks off monthly reca…
February 10, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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The post-superb owl #DailyBlogroll features all new stories from Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Emily, Shintar, Belghast, Tim Bray, Andrew Plotkin, Tofutush, Anarchae, Axxuy, Kimimi, Naithin and more!

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#RetroGaming #MMO #GamingCommunity #OpenSource
Shintar revisits SWTOR’s Knights of the Fallen Empire and, gripes aside, gives it credit—especially for upgraded cutscenes that make your character look consistently screenshot-worthy and badass. Kimimi pokes at Zanac’s “AI” ALC difficulty control, then tests runs with no shooting to see how the 1986 Famicom Disk System shmup adapts enemies, bullets, and patterns on the fly. Belghast and crew talk Infinity terrain-building, Rabbit and Steel’s expansion, the games they never got around to (hello, Ys), Ashes of Creation’s implosion, and learning Star Trek Online. Wilhelm’s Fantasy Critic League hits week six with Dragon Quest VII Reimagined and Nioh 3 finally posting strong review scores, reshuffling the top spots as more updates roll in. Naithin’s January journal covers a growing Steam backlog, finally hitting Blue Prince’s Antechamber/Room 46 milestone, and a quick note on wrapping up Wuthering Waves 3.1’s main story quest. Tofutush finishes Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (nearly 96%!) and loves its randomized puzzle solutions over Blue Prince’s approach, even while dunking on clunky one-hand keyboard controls. Andrew Plotkin digs into Zork I’s combat math—villain tables, nine-sided dice, and knockout nastiness—and adds a new Combat tab to Visible Zork 1 to visualize the whole messy system. Axxuy celebrates the web’s niche-enthusiasm side by “getting into popcorn,” finding recipes and the r/popcorn community, and ordering genuinely better kernels from Amish Country. Emily weighs gambling’s addictiveness against “moderation with limits,” vents about Ontario’s nonstop online-casino ads, and points to fake-currency casino apps as a safer dopamine hit. Tim Bray’s “Long Links” round-up bounces from Piketty and misinformation to open-source clothing, weird JWST discoveries, Willie Nelson, listening parties, and the emptying-out of tiny studio flats. Dave Winer riffs on always-on campaigning in the Twitter era, a Bluesky dialog-box art/joke that actually lands, and a…
February 9, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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Lazy Sunday #DailyBlogroll, with stories by Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Cliffski, CrazyKinux, Tipa, Andrew Plotkin, Juhis, Roger, Michael, Wes, Jamie Zawinski, Aywren and more!

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#IndieGames #GameDev #EVEOnline #AI
Aywren tries the free Steam demo for Grandpa’s Bee Haven, a cozy idle beekeeping game inspired by Rusty’s Retirement, praising Mihkel’s responsiveness while noting WIP quirks like monitor-locking and Cliffski shows off Ridiculous Space Battles’ evolving deployment UI, especially color-coded weapon range/fire-arc overlays and tooltip tweaks that (mostly) keep big multi-ship selections from turning CrazyKinux says Owlcat’s The Expanse: Osiris Reborn trailer nails the show’s weighty “camera language,” and highlights dev-diary RPG choices like flexible playstyles, eventual commitment, and c Wes drops a travel-sickened but tasty follow-up: more from his chat with Taki Udon on the SuperStation’s disc-playing dock and real-time CD performance on MiSTer, plus a quick interview with Rain on Q Michael rounds up indie goodness: the “Gaming Like It’s 1930” jam results, Indiepocalypse issue 73, LITHOBREAKERS’ space batch (including a new MUD!), Amiga/Mega65/Game Boy Color Roguecraft DX, and t Wilhelm digs into Apple TV’s The Last Frontier, calling out the goofy Alaska plane-diversion setup while it settles into a mystery-prisoner arc plus “fugitive of the week” survival beats. Roger chronicles a classic toolchain domino effect: swapping from Corel VideoStudio to Movavi (and fighting freezes from an Action! conflict), then dialing in a Yeti X in Audacity—only to discover the Jamie Zawinski quotes Baldur Bjarnason on why arguing with LLM “copilot/agent” true believers is pointless, framing “AI” as unethical, harm-enabling, and fundamentally an attack on labor and education Dave Winer tours his WordPress-powered Scripting News refresh, shares a favorite snarky slogan, grumbles about fake Facebook videos, and nods to the NBA tanking/lottery debate and programming “next-h Tipa weighs adding every Blaugust signup to the Daily Blogroll, noting RSS/branding gaps and a 12-blog display limit, then nerds out on a rewrite that refactors folders and complicates CSS/templates. Andre…
February 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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New blog post! On designing the fleet deployment screen range UI and UX: www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2... #RidiculousSpaceBattles
February 7, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Snowy #DailyBlogroll today. Stuck inside reading Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Tofutush, Warner, Tobold, Joar, CrazyKinux, Syp, Bruce Schneier, Ellie, John and more!

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#WorldOfWarcraft #EVEOnline #IndieGames #AI
Syp’s WoW Classic shaman cruises through the 20s with ghost wolf speed, enjoys underrated zones like Stonetalon, and finds a chatty, friendly Christian guild while inching toward level 30. John says Perfect Tides: Station to Station is even better-written than the original, and shares a painfully honest uni unrequited-love story to explain how hard this college-relationship game hits. Tipa digs into Funcom’s bumpy Dune: Awakening update (Landsraad specs and a zappy Research Station 152), then chills with Erenshor achievements and eyes Recettear-like Goblin Vyke. CrazyKinux pauses the EVE Online Enforcer grind to try Exploration, gets a Heron from the cosmic signatures chain, and happily faceplants into fittings, probes, cloaks, and “what does this do?” energy Ellie reviews Super Lesbian Animal RPG, praising its loud-and-proud queer heart and SNES-era JRPG/EarthBound inspirations, plus a note that there’s a podcast version if you’d rather listen. Wilhelm catches up on Project: Gorgon’s rapid-fire post-1.0 updates and the surprising player-pop bump, while admitting it’s hitting that perfect nostalgia-meets-newness vibe. Tobold reverses course and buys Menace on Steam, arguing the launch discount beats the new PC Game Pass math and lets him dip in and out as patches and content roll in. Joar reflects on leaving measurable corporate validation for the untracked labor of moves, appointments, and home logistics—useful work with no title, no praise, and a harsher feedback loop. Bruce Schneier drops his classic Friday Squid Blogging with a Puget Sound squid-fishing tips video, and leaves the comments open for whatever security news folks want to chew on. Warner watches the OpenClaw/Clawdbot/Moltbot AI-agent hype cycle—powerful, risky, and maybe guardrail-free—plus the weird idea of bots chatting on their own network, Moltbook. Dave Winer compares Jake’s AI-assisted Frontier kernel spelunking (ChatGPT/Claude) with his own WordLand UI grind, and notes ChatGPT nailed…
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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-Vous êtes gentil avec vos vélos, mais comment on fait après une grosse chute de neige?

-Copenhague: #holdmyCarlsberg
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February 7, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up
But Liam was scared and frequently asked what they had done wrong, where they were and what happened to the little blue knit hat he wore the day he was detained, Conejo said. There wasn’t much he could say to his son, “except hug him and tell him everything would be OK,” Conejo said. Worried about further upsetting his son, Conejo said, he was forced to bite back his own tears. Liam has since been reunited with his hat and continues to wear it, even inside the house, his dad said Thursday. Asked how he might one day explain to Liam everything that has happened, Conejo said he would tell his son that he had become the face of hope and change. "He was the global figure who did all this so that the voices of the people demanding freedom would be heard, especially those of the children who are still locked up," Conejo said. “I would tell him he was very brave and that I am very proud of him.”
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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I Know What I Did Last Weekend

Another in the long series of quick bites of games I've played recently.

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#DuneAwakening #Erenshor #Bubsy4d #DarkQuest4 #DominusAutoma #GoblinVyke #seafarer
The PC in Dune Awakening being operated upon in a futuristic setting while Thufir Hawat and some technicians look on.
February 6, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Today's #DailyBlogroll brings news from Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Kimimi, Bhagpuss, Azuriel, Anarchae, CrazyKinux, Joar, Belghast, Tofutush, Jeff Atwood, Roger and more!

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#EVEOnline #GamingIndustry #Linux #GameDev
CrazyKinux breaks down CCP’s EVE Online 2026 “war saga” pitch—Factional Warfare and Military Campaigns to onboard new players—while side-eyeing the many “we want” promises missing hard specs. Azuriel reacts to reports that Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 missed expectations, pointing at punishing upgrades and half-baked skills—and wondering what six-plus years of dev time actually bought. Kimimi digs into Sword and Fairy 4’s obsession with immortality, calling out how “enlightened” sect cultivation looks a lot like smug isolation—especially when simple help could prevent real tragedies Joar’s January gaming roundup is a rare balanced month: loads of WoW alt leveling and housing, back to FFXIV to catch up (and clear Cruiserweight), plus ESO pursuits and more GW2 story progress. Belghast keeps grinding Path of Exile (Phrecia/Gauntlet vibes) with a Poison SRS minion build, sharing handy automation tech, a freshly six-linked Covenant, and a “good enough” life-on-block shield. Wilhelm shrugs at Valve getting sued over Steam’s 30% cut, arguing it’s not a monopoly and devs bought into a cargo-cult belief that Steam equals success. Jeff Atwood reflects on “when is enough?” and lays out big-dollar follow-through on “Share the American Dream,” pointing to ~$21M in immediate donations and a longer-term $50M pledge behind a new RGMI Bhagpuss wants to spread the word about Netflix’s Haunted Hotel, then riffs on how fractured the zeitgeist is now—if even Bad Bunny can slip by you, who’s really “out of touch”? Anarchae documents wrestling an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 on CachyOS: BIOS quirks, NVIDIA power management, overheating, and battery drain—plus lots of “do this at your own risk” Linux troubleshooting. Roger tries to ditch Office 365 and other daily tools for cost, privacy, and ethics—switching from Chrome to Vivaldi, grumbling about Google search spam, and testing “Unsponsored” to hide sponsored 결과 Dave Winer praises his Keurig as a “technology marvel,” then makes a pol…
February 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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Blaugust All Year Long

Just another update on the Daily Blogroll, especially about the recent rewrite.
Blaugust All Year Long
Just another update on the Daily Blogroll, especially about the recent rewrite.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Today's #DailyBlogroll comes from Tipa, Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Blockade85, Aywren, Belghast, Krista, Heartless, Warner, Bhagpuss, Tofutush, Syp and more!

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#MMORPG #VRGaming #GamingUpdates #Blogosphere
Aywren tries Coffee Quest VR on a Meta 3S, praises the teleport vs walking options and the chill sandbox mode, and enjoys the streamlined barista loop of orders, trays, and dishwashing. Syp tours LOTRO’s Kingdoms of Harad zone An Sheru, likes the thoughtfully creepy undead designs but finds the area ugly and theme-less—so he swaps to his Mariner for some spider-slicing therapy. Tipa dives into Erenshor’s “Rising Shadows” update, loving the healer QoL tweaks and new guild system—then immediately starts a rival-suffocating recruitment campaign and rolls a risky Reaver. Heartless reacts to Ashes of Creation blowing up on Reddit, reflecting on the long-running “scam” accusations around Steven Sharif, community drama like Narc’s flip, and what a smaller future might be Bhagpuss is 121 hours deep into Baldur’s Gate 3 and admits Act 3 has turned from RPG into a replayable battle-toy—save-scumming fights for better outcomes while the plot fades into noise. Krista’s handy primer on cosy life-sim Starsand Island ahead of Early Access covers the island-homecoming premise, farming/fishing/DIY customization, tons of crops, and hybridization for unique blooms Wilhelm breaks down EVE Online’s tiny 2026 roadmap image, highlighting CCP’s big push on Faction Warfare/Military Campaigns plus extras like EVE Evolved graphics updates and the Gallente Election. Warner Crocker vents at Senate Democrats for not “showing up” in the DHS funding fight, especially dropping a demand to ban ICE agents from polling sites despite escalating election-control rhetoric. Belghast shares a tough surgeon visit about staging and treating rectal cancer—MRI next, with hope for surgery-only but bracing for chemo/radiation, ports, and a long recovery that derails travel. Dave Winer’s midweek grab-bag: WordCamp Europe plans, Feedland’s Hacker News “most-quoted blogs” river, an Inbound RSS-for-WordPress app hiccup, and a neat WordPress markdown-in-RSS plugin. Tofutush posts an OC Creator Questionnaire…
February 5, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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Not sure about the “two old farts” @rixxjavix.bsky.social mentions over on EVEOGANDA, but this does sound like a good idea, or smells like one! 🤪 #eveonline #thesafespot #evepodcast
New Podcast Coming!
The Eve Online Magazine, EVEoganda is your destination for Community, Projects, Opinions, Pirates, and Art created by Rixx Javix.
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February 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Erenshor “Rising Shadows” launched!

And I can finally join a guild! With a guild hall!, even! Take that, World of Warcraft.

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#erenshor #mmos #exilesofnorrath #risingshadows
A player character stands in a brightly lit game environment featuring a chandelier, colorful crystals, and a blue portal. Various virtual items and chat text are displayed on the screen, indicating interactions with game elements and other players. The character's name is "Moon Unit”.
February 4, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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New #DailyBlogroll alert! Stories by Tipa, Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Emily, Luna, Tofutush, Pixel One, Scopique, CrazyKinux, Stargrace, Warner, Bruce Schneier and more!

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#EVEOnline #WorldOfWarcraft #GamingCommunity #TechNews
Tipa tweaks an Othello World AI on a Raspberry Pi—genetic-tuned evals plus MCTS—then stumbles into a timed showdown that somehow ends with “GOD” conceding. CrazyKinux and Rixx Javix announce The Safe Spot, a biweekly EVE Online podcast (first episode Feb 10) focused on practical stories and clarity for new or returning pilots—not drama. Luna shares a slower January roundup—moving chaos, a wholesome Stardew Valley: Symphony of Seasons concert, and cozy game time with picks like Kabuto Park and PancitoMerge. Emily pushes back on “gameplay-only” gatekeeping, arguing games are interactive storytelling too—and that loving narrative (like the Ori games) doesn’t make you any less of a gamer. Pixel One talks World of Warcraft charter neighborhoods: building a low-pressure 55-plot community, recruiting via Discord/Facebook, blazing through endeavors fast, and still wrestling a few housing/​ Wilhelm looks at Ashes of Creation’s early access “launch” ambiguity amid resignation-and-layoff rumors, and wonders if the MMO’s big Kickstarter refund promise is about to get stress-tested. Tofutush kills boredom with Burypink’s questionnaire, bouncing from musicals and chocolate to Calculus, Homestuck music rabbit holes, sewing/cross-stitch, and a favorite HTML tag: <legend>. Warner argues subscriptions are a power-user lever: try a month, set a reminder, cancel if it’s not worth it—and treat unsubscribing as a clear vote companies and creators actually track. Bruce Schneier flags that Microsoft can provide FBI access to decrypt BitLocker under court orders—especially when users store recovery keys on Microsoft’s servers for convenience. Scopique’s Razer/Loupdeck Live follow-up: compared to Stream Deck+, basic audio tasks like mic mute take extra page-hops, and the plugin ecosystem feels clunkier than it should for streamers. Dave Winer riffs on Andrej Karpathy praising RSS, connecting it to scriptable apps (Frontier roots), WordPress-as-OS ideas, and a lament about great tec…
February 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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We’re launching a new #EVEpodcast: The Safe Spot with @rixxjavix.bsky.social and myself as cohosts. Not a news show, not drama. Just two long-time pilots making #EVEOnline make more sense. First ep drops Tue Feb 10, then every other week.

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Announcing The Safe Spot: a new EVE podcast (first episode Feb 10!)
Exploring EVE Online, gaming, sci-fi, RPGs, and the stories that shape our imagination.
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February 3, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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I humiliated the world's greatest Othello player -- Tamenori. And I feel pretty good about it.

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A screen from Othello World showing a completed game with only white disks visible. The black player is Tamenori and shows a godlike portrait. White player is Tipa. Tamenori has 37 minutes remaining, Tipa has 32. The player is asked to Push the A Button.
February 3, 2026 at 1:05 PM