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We Roll Again in Guild Wars as Reforged Characters
#GuildWars
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We Roll Again in Guild Wars as Reforged Characters
As I mentioned last week, ArenaNet popped up on Thursday with some new stuff, including the ability to declare yourself as a “reforged” character. This sudden rule change gives you some…
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December 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Good morning #podcast family! I released a new episode last weekend. But, if you’d like to hear the origin story of the Saturday Morning Podcast, give a listen to THE CARY PODCAST! @rollerdognc.bsky.social had me on as a guest to discuss #cartoons!

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Episode 42 - Christmas 2025 & Saturday Morning Cartoons
Podcast Episode · The Cary Podcast · 12/23/2025 · 38m
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December 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Rudolph's on strike, but #DailyBlogroll is still working with @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @tofutush.bsky.social, @aywren.bsky.social, @sypster.bsky.social, @stargrace.bsky.social, @warnercrocker.bsky.social and more!

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#WorldOfWarcraft #EVEOnline #EverQuestII #SWTOR
Stargrace keeps WoW gold-making deliberately chill—letting auctions lapse to avoid burnout—while this week’s surprise winners are mounts, toys, and a few pricey battle pets (max 190k). Aywren digs into Steam Replay 2025 stats—53 games played, achievements higher than expected—and calls out how Chonkers’ idle design skews the “most played” list versus No Man’s Sky. Syp settles into WoW housing by chasing decor quests and achievements, experimenting with free plot moves, building a clever “inside outside” window illusion, and winding down Legion Remix for the coz Shintar looks back on a quieter SWTOR blogging year—still playing a ton, but “mostly okay” vibes plus the voice actors’ strike and fewer story updates made it harder to find writing fuel. Bhagpuss raves that Arcane’s animation and writing are “magnificent,” then pivots to the grind reality: pushing a Sage toward EverQuest II’s level 135 cap amid time-gates and thin quest quantity. Wilhelm’s EVE Online MER writeup hits a wall when CCP reformats killdump.csv—new ZKillboard valuations are nice, but losing human-readable labels breaks his PowerBI reports and may end the series. Tobold’s taking an EU5 breather: the sim’s 28,570 locations make fine-tuning feel impossible at big-nation scale, and patch 1.0.10’s aggressive AI is eating small states alive. Nimgimli’s move is a box-filled slog, but the new apartment’s at least “functional” with work and gaming PCs set up—and they’re calling Two Guys & a Truck back to finish. Tipa’s done fighting the “3D printing is just a button” crowd—so she’s hiding gift cards inside Bambu P1S puzzle cylinders and exploding boxes to force some appreciation. Warner revisits the Paris Buttfield-Addison Apple Gift Card hack mess and argues Apple’s “Executive Relations” saves are a symptom: if issues need online pressure or Craig Federighi to fix, support’s
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Not much exploring in EVE Online lately, I've been working my way through the Winter Nexus event:

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December 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Just started to get into the groove with Expedition 33 again and now there's a bug where certain battles just stop... not just me, Reddit is talking about it. Hope for a patch soon!
December 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Wow, just heard about Vince Zampella dying in a car crash. 55 years old. What a shame...
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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It's a light #DailyBlogroll, but @scripting.com, TAGN, WCRobinson, @leekscosycorner.com, @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social, and @belghast.com are stepping up!

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#PathOfExile2 #GuildWars2 #ClairObscurExpedition33 #YuGiOh #OctopathTraveler0
Kimimi dives into Sword World 2.0 on DS and loves the gamebook vibe, but calls out thin roleplay options, zero explanations, and super basic “tap attack and roll dice” battles. Krista wraps 2025 with a cosy gaming recap—standout favorites, demos, comfort “on repeat” picks, and a wishlist of 2026 releases she’s already eyeing. Belghast and crew hit everything from Guild Wars 2 world completion grinds to Path of Exile II’s demon bear, plus Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Diablo IV Paladin silliness, Warframe, and more. Wilhelm’s Fantasy Critic League podium drama comes down to Octopath Traveler 0 review-score wobble, briefly swapping Shintar and Cyanbane for third before bouncing back again. Tobold argues the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 AI-art “scandal” is overblown, defending AI-generated placeholder art in game dev (and even tabletop DM prep) as long as it’s not final-release work. WCRobinson gets back into Yu-Gi-Oh! by dueling in-person at Athena Games with a friend, tinkering with Fire Kings, and tracking Konami’s player-friendly updates across the TCG and Master Duel. Anarchae’s week-3 digest mixes a tough personal update with a quick media round-up—female-detective mysteries, The Traitors Canada, plus some FFXIV and Fate/GO time and useful links. Jamie Zawinski dunks on Waymo for letting robotaxis snarl traffic during a big San Francisco blackout, noting it took nearly six hours before they finally halted service. Dave Winer riffs on why “official” show podcasts (like Pluribus and Severance) feel like smug self-promo, and argues audio-only podcasts won’t be replaced by video. Tipa revisits Jack L. Chalker’s Well World-era charm while side-eyeing his recurring transformation-and-nudity tropes, introducing a brutally practical “Time to Ick” way to rate his books.
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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A comfy #DailyBlogroll with @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social, @ellie.wubrgsky.org, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @virtualmoose.bsky.social, @sypster.bsky.social and more!

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#WoWClassic #MonsterTrain2 #PokemonUltraSunMoon #GuildWars #Itchio
Syp sticks with comfy WoW Classic, leveling a Druid through Stranglethorn Vale, daydreaming about Classic+ housing, snapping a pirate-and-ninja guild event, and saluting murloc tenacity. Frostilyte celebrates a huge indie-heavy 2025 and starts spotlighting under-the-radar favorites, kicking off with why Monster Train 2’s deckbuilding flexibility still shines even at top difficulty. Ellie finally goes into Pokémon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon mostly blind, excited for Necrozma, Rainbow Rocket, and the multiverse weirdness—while chasing that old-school thrill of discovery in Alola. Wilhelm and Potshot form a Guild Wars guild (naming is the real endgame), dream of a boar-themed cloak, then promptly learn what level-6 travel to Lion’s Arch looks like: repeated wipes. Tobold weighs what makes a great campaign board game—narrative adventure versus learning/setup workload—using Malhya’s hundreds-of-icons “hieroglyphics” problem as a cautionary tale. Michael gets grumpy about Steam-only recs and posts Itch.io Winter Sale picks instead, boosting Indiepocalypse plus games like Liberation, Minerva’s Labyrinth, Inspector Waffles, and Cyclopean. Roger digs into how digital jukeboxes survive in pubs via revenue-splitting “free machine” deals, then lands on the real point: it’s nice when the landlord doesn’t control all the music. Bhagpuss’s Advent Calendar Day 21 is a quick music-forward holiday drop, pairing “Sometimes You Have to Work On Christmas” with picks from Harvey Danger, Crowder, and “The Elf Song.” Warner says Sunday Morning Reading is still on hiatus mid travel-day, wrapping up a 10-day grandparent stint as the family migrates from old house to “Special Christmas House.” Tim Bray tells a dripping-faucet story about routing around “late-stage capital” by asking neighbors for a plumber, only to hit the reality of back-ordered warranty parts until May.
December 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I never finished Expedition 33 but have now gone back to it. Learned a GREAT tip. Turn on Vsync, lock the framerate to 60, turn off all the DLSS stuff.

It makes parrying and blocking much easier.

Obviously not needed if you weren't struggling with that aspect, but I was. Now if I just had a map..
December 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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It's #DailyBlogroll time, with stories by me, @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scopique.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @tofutush.bsky.social, Frostilyte, Joar, @crazykinux.bsky.social, @stargrace.bsky.social and more!

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#Quest64 #PokemonTCGPocket #WorldOfWarcraft #NineSols
Tipa does a multi-game weekend roundup: grinding (and loving) Quest 64 on Analogue 3D—with a crucial save warning—plus Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Mega Rising packs and trading upgrades. Frostilyte revisits Nine Sols and explains how a second look reframed its punishing, rhythm-like boss fights—from pure frustration to something he could finally appreciate (and even guide-write). joargarrosh levels more WoW alts (Vulpera warlock, Mecha-gnome hunter), dabbles in housing, and shares proud swim-meet results—plus plans for Elder Scrolls content, Diablo 4 season, and GW2. Scopique’s weekly grab bag hits holiday social-stress, bounces off WoW’s Legion Remix (Suramar included), and muses on MMO housing motivation plus ongoing WordPress theme tinkering. Tobold unboxes Tend’s wildly overproduced deluxe flip-and-write—scratch-off cards, stamp-pens, neoprene mat, the works—and hopes the gameplay lives up to that $99 Kickstarter extravagance. Stargrace tries Serializd to track TV shows she’s watched (MS brain-fog and background viewing make it tough), likes the minimalist stats, and wonders if anyone else uses similar trackers. CrazyKinux says that after wrapping Arcane Season 2, he and his daughter are finally starting Stranger Things’ fifth (and final) season, with thoughts promised early next year. Bhagpuss’s Advent Calendar Day 16 is a quick musical pick: “Kitto Santa Ga / Surely Santa” by Hirakawachi Itchome, paired with a cozy Christmas-tree vibe. Dave Winer reflects on Rob Reiner’s legacy via the Mr. Scorsese doc, urges people not to amplify Trump’s ugliness, and laments how hard “simple” UI work still is in CSS/SVG. Juhis argues the IndieWeb is (and should be) a community of tool-builders, then spirals into designing software to help score Pokémon Red randomizer blind bingo races more reliably. Jamie Zawinski hits another Python ecosystem wall while building Mesa via meson—getting a mako-module error despite py-mako being installed—and vents accordingly.
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Back to work tomorrow after a week off for the move. Over the course of the week we've been constantly on the go, 3 trips back and forth, packing/unpacking/passing out from exhaustion.

I feel like I've been in another world or something. WAY behind of socials, RSS feeds and such. Miss my routine!
December 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Okay, that's enough of the Sirius Cybernetics #DailyBlogroll. @scripting.com, @sypster.bsky.social, @leekscosycorner.com, @aywren.bsky.social, and @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social will thank me.

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#PillarsOfEternity2 #SWTOR #StarsandIsland #AdventOfCode
Syp in Pillars of Eternity II is living pirate life: wipes slavers at Crookspur, steamrolls Fort Deadlight at level 15, then stumbles into Beast of Winter DLC with undead dragons and tougher fights. Shintar is loving SWTOR patch 7.8 chaos: flashpoint skips in Legacy of the Rakata, waiting out early bugs, then finally digging into Galactic Threads and wondering how class/faction differences change Krista speed-runs Starsand Island’s extended demo to day 10, recapping cozy farming/fishing vibes, plus the early-2026 release plans and that Switch 2 launch + ruins combat/bosses news. Wilhelm clicks Discord’s year recap and gets stats like 4,097 messages and 27,190 emojis, then spirals into “wait, what dates is this even counting?” (honestly fair). Tobold basically bought the board game Lightning Train on vibes (and Paul Dennen’s resume), and after unboxing and solo-testing, he’s super hyped for its bag-building plus 19th-century US railbuilding Bruce Schneier posts a Reddit video of a giant squid munching a diamondback squid, with a squid biologist explaining why more surface sightings happen now (aka everyone has cameras). Jamie Zawinski shares PRANIC LIFT 777, basically another one of his “look at this weird/cool retro tech design” link posts, with a big preview image and a pile of related throwbacks. Dave Winer is kinda freaking out (same) about cloning Scripting News in WordPress/Daveverse, plus a wild drone+Peloton-by-satellite idea and a “comments are blog posts” rant. Tipa sees Advent of Code 2025 Day 12 yelling “NP-hard bin packing,” panics, sleeps on it, then wakes up and the simple checks actually work anyway—so it’s Merry Christmas, problem solved. Anarchae tries Lovecraft for the first time and kinda hates how the annotated edition won’t shut up, plus “The Rats in the Walls” hits way too hard and now rats-in-the-city news is ruining life.
December 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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60F this morning when we woke up. Expected low tonight: 19F

That's one heck of a cold front!
December 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Got the TV setup in the new apt just in time to watch The Game Awards. Woohoo!

Not by any grand plan, in fact I thought they were on tomorrow.

Happy coincidence at the end of a LONG moving day.
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Wednesday is for #DailyBlogroll and @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @tofutush.bsky.social, @sypster.bsky.social, @blockade85.bsky.social, @lunasgaminglog.com, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social, @monsterlady.bsky.social and more!

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#WorldOfWarcraft #GuildWarsReforged
Syp juggles Legion achievement grinds and WoW’s chaotic housing launch, settling into a moody Duskwood cottage while nursing decor envy and a very provisional front yard. Tipa takes Fighting Hedgehog’s DragonStrike, a mathy board-game riff on SSI’s old dragon-flight sim, for a spin with kitchen-table dogfights and very exhausted dragons. Azuriel muses on GOAT discourse, space-opera RPGs like Mass Effect and The Outer Worlds, and how “all time” often really means “the last few years I remember.” Luna revisits Lake and its Season’s Greetings DLC, praising Providence Oaks’ cozy mail-delivery vibes and snowy holiday chill as a perfect December pick for the Cozy Gaming Club. Shintar finds WoW’s long‑awaited housing oddly empty, especially with guild neighborhoods gated behind ten “active” players and none of SWTOR’s cozy sense of place. Wilhelm digs into Guild Wars Reforged, a thoughtful refresh of the 2005 classic that updates textures and UI without turning it into a full remaster. Roger reviews No One Lives, digging into Luke Evans’s unsettling turn in Ryuhei Kitamura’s gory, philosophizing horror-thriller. Bhagpuss’s advent calendar door opens on some delightfully offbeat Christmas music picks, with a dash of K‑Mart nostalgia. Dave Winer riffs on why RSS still matters, shows off his inbound RSS code for WordPress, and wonders why the Twitter-likes feel so quiet lately. Emily unpacks how perfectionism and chasing 3D realism smothered her joy in drawing, and how she’s found comfort leaning into writing and low-pressure visual art instead. Tofutush recalls a third‑grade silkworm project that turns from gleeful worm shenanigans to a grim lesson in rats, cocoons, and childhood curiosity. Blockade85 writes about climbing out of a long mental-health fog, getting back on meds, and slowly rekindling plans for writing, drawing, and more polished game streams.
December 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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It's the Tuesday #DailyBlogroll, with stories by @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @belghast.com, @stargrace.bsky.social, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @virtualmoose.bsky.social, @crazykinux.bsky.social, TAGN, Tim Bray and more!

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#WorldOfWarcraft #SWTOR #Sonic2 #PathOfExile
Stargrace eases off the auction grind in WoW, leans on transmog and recipes for income, and notes that player housing furniture is the hot gold-maker before Midnight lands. Shintar looks back on SWTOR’s subscriber login event, happily converting tokens into Rakata gear, ship droid customisations, and a menagerie of Cartel Market pets before it vanishes. Kimimi revisits Sonic 2’s half-pipe special stages, celebrating their 16-bit wow factor, careful design, and how they turned simple ring-chasing into thrilling pseudo-3D spectacle. Belghast juggles recovery, Guild Wars Reforged, hardcore Path of Exile grinding to 100, and 3D-printing shenanigans while min-maxing Kingsmarch shipments for juicy Mirror Shards. Wilhelm speedruns No Man’s Sky’s Relics expedition using Reddit tips, front-loading milestones on the starter planet to dodge holiday burnout from the nonstop expedition reruns. Michael recommends Landlord Quest, a short anti-capitalist comedy point-and-click with multiple endings, sharp jokes, and retro SCUMM vibes that lets you watch a landlord eat dirt. Bhagpuss’s advent calendar doors open today on “Santa’s Rap” by The Treacherous Three, mixing festive vibes with a musical deep cut instead of MMO loot. Warner wrestles with our fact-optional culture, critiques AI hype as bubble territory, and points readers to Cory Doctorow’s “Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” speech. Tobold argues pension crises stem from pay-as-you-go systems and political mismanagement, contrasting them with individually funded, compound-interest-driven capitalist pension models. CrazyKinux unpacks Erik Wernquist and Sonny White’s “Go Incredibly Fast,” a quiet manifesto for nuclear locomotives and warp-bubble dreams carrying Carl Sagan’s exploratory spirit forward. Tim Bray sketches why the GenAI bubble will hurt when it pops, highlighting fragile, power-hungry GPUs and tricky depreciation that may leave less enduring infrastructure than past tech manias.
December 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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New #DailyBlogrol! Stories by @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @ellie.wubrgsky.org, @leekscosycorner.com, @crazykinux.bsky.social, @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social, @virtualmoose.bsky.social, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social and more!

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Tipa’s HeroQuest group nabs the Ring of Return from under Qwindrak and Kessandria’s noses, plays a stint as Dread Warriors, and preps nervously for the Tomb of the Fire King. CrazyKinux breaks down EVE Online’s 2025 jump clone system: no clone grades, no SP loss, just clean deaths, lost implants, and flexible loadouts with a 24‑hour cooldown. The Rambler crew logs a Traveller session that’s all roleplay, split‑party plate‑spinning, and a new NPC inspired by Alan Dean Foster, with nary a PC shot fired. Bhagpuss pokes at EverQuest II housing, defends his legion of crafters, and reflects on why his Weaponsmith was a charmingly useless roleplay choice. Krista celebrates a year in Infinity Nikki, from magical Miraland story beats to endless outfit experiments, seasonal updates, and fresh excitement for the new Itzaland storyline. Ellie dives into Detective Grimoire: Secrets of the Swamp, embracing her newfound love of quirky, Layton‑style mystery adventures starring oddballs and an allegedly murderous cryptid. Wilhelm checks back in on the 2025 Fantasy Critic League as Routine and Marvel Cosmic Invasion scores shake up the mid‑table and budgets finally hit zero. Anarchae recaps a brain‑foggy week of Traitors marathons, Raptors malaise, FLi and FFXIV, endless earbuds testing, job applications, and missing the grounding presence of a cat. Roger spotlights the Origin Story podcast, praising its witty, research‑heavy dives into politics, ideology, and pop culture without the usual hectoring partisanship. Warner shovels snow, starts a new play out of nowhere, and curates links on Christmas essays, Frank Gehry, Beckett’s hands, Hamnet, Noah Baumbach, and ominous contemporary politics. Michael remodels his Cool Site Zone, turning an overwhelming 88×31 button wall into a more readable blogroll and invites folks to send in their own tiny web buttons.
December 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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No idea if this is real or just snake oil click bait but as an introvert with very few friends it made me feel better about myself! 🤣

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If You Have Few or No Friends, You Probably Have These 5 Rare Traits
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December 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Today's #DailyBlogroll comes from @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scopique.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @tofutush.bsky.social, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social, @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social, @eblong.com and more!

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#LOTRO #WoWMidnight #LightNoFire #AdventOfCode
Roger surveys LOTRO’s new Kingdoms of Harad expansion, praising its stable, Tolkien-nerd niche while side‑eyeing Middle-eastern stereotypes and another round of gear and virtue grind. Bhagpuss riffs off Wilhelm’s Palia cash shop post to talk hoarding premium currency, GW2’s storage bloat, and how EverQuest II’s pay-to-play-ish shop still can’t beat his choice paralysis. Wilhelm reacts to WoW Midnight’s surprisingly early March 2026 launch, Blizzard’s apparent apathy toward TBC Classic, and Hello Games’ dateless Light No Fire tease testing player patience. Tobold reviews Railroad Tiles, a tile-based spin on Railroad Ink that’s prettier, puzzly, and firmly in “fun filler” territory for his board game nights. Tipa breaks down Advent of Code’s “Cafeteria” range-merging puzzle and the grim realization that Picotron Lua doesn’t even have a sort to help. Andrew Plotkin samples late‑fall puzzle fare, from org‑chart sleuthing in A Case of Fraud to fungus‑blasting mystery Ambrosia Sky, digging the deduction but wishing some endings landed harder. Anarchae continues the tiny-ears saga, comparing JLab Go Pop+, JBuds Mini, and Soundcore P20i while cursing touch controls, gloves, and the eternal hunt for earbuds with real buttons. Warner responds to Phillip Bump’s Hitler–Trump piece, arguing that even imperfect Nazi comparisons should be warning enough to stop today’s xenophobic politics in their tracks. Tofutush explains how learning chemistry in Chinese—element radicals, intuitive naming, even new characters—makes the periodic table and inorganic compounds click way better than the Latin-flavored 영어 Bruce Schneier notes that the so‑called vampire squid sports the largest cephalopod genome sequenced so far and opens the floor for this week’s stray security stories. Scopique weighs self-hosting PeerTube versus using Fedihost, wrestling with Linux friction, AI-meddling YouTube, and how much hassle “owning your videos” is really worth.
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Not sure how new this is or if I'm LTTP but I'm loving Chrome's split tab option. Particularly good for wide screen monitors. I have my gmail and my to-do web app open in the same tab. Very handy!
December 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Home alone. I hear the back door rattle. I go to investigate. A bell hanging from the doorknob is swinging. No one around. The door lets out onto a screened-in porch that only latches from the inside. No one on the porch.

If you never hear from me again, know that the poltergeist got me!

*shiver*
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I upgraded our Echo devices to Alexa+ or whatever the "AI Powered" version of the digital assistant is called.

Now it is more or less useless. For example it confidently told me that there is zero chance of rain today:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Pro movers arrive in 6 days and we are so not ready, in spite of all our planning. Turns out planning to do a bunch of stuff is way easier than actually DOING that stuff, particularly when you are old & out of shape & everything is physical labor stuff! LOL
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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-12C outside, but #DailyBlogroll inside! Stories by @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scopique.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @aywren.bsky.social, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, Frostilyte, @belghast.com, TAGN and more!

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#StarCitizen #GuildWarsReforged #EuropaUniversalisV #BaselessGame
Frostilyte reviews Baseless, a shoot-’em-up where firing your gun is also how you move, creating a frustrating-but-addictive solo passion project from Andrew Armstrong. Kimimi dives into Power Dolls on PC-98, where a dense 96-page manual, intricate stats, and punishing deployment choices make its mech tactics as intimidating as they are fascinating. Scopique vents about Star Citizen’s 4.5 engineering rework, a buggy Nyx and Levski, the IAE free-fly chaos, and whether new ships like the Salvation and Golem OX are worth the credits. Belghast checks out Guild Wars Reforged’s visual facelift and bustling starter zones, shares a download tip, and celebrates snagging new hand-cannon hero Jaren in Destiny Rising. Wilhelm’s Twitch recap shows 559 “watched” hours mostly spent AFK farming drops in EVE Online, No Man’s Sky, World of Tanks, World of Warcraft, and Palia. Tobold’s 160 hours in Europa Universalis V boil down to this: a deep, very slow grand strategy that’s great if you accept long runs and disruptive balance patches. Aywren reflects on being laid off from a long-time tech writing job, financial stability, and what comes next in a very human, AI-skeptical post. Bhagpuss’s advent calendar opens to a melting snowman and Kaela Kimura, serving up a cozy little slice of winter music blogging. Warner uses Apple Music Replay to realize he’s been soundtracking today’s turmoil with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan-heavy Girl From the North Country. Bruce Schneier flags a new anonymous phone carrier that lets you sign up with nothing more than a zip code. Dave Winer reminisces about MORE, LBBS, and Manila to argue that great software lets you instantly flip views on the same data with zero friction. Juhis argues you should write online for yourself first, not a niche persona, and let whatever audience shows up enjoy the honest, whole-life blogging—especially as a developer.
December 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Every trip to the dumpster, recycling bin or good will is feeling like a win these days.

I think I have crossed over from materialist to minimalist or something. Well, 'minamalist' is going a bit far cuz I still have way too much stuff, but I'm at least trending in that direction.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM