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Exploiting Valheim Killing Bonemass would be super easy if only I had the weapon you could make once you killed Bonemass. chasingdings.com/2026/09/30/e... #Valheim #survival #TeamSpode

alheim player character fighting Bonemass, the game's third boss, who is spewing poison vomit.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 29/09/2026

Frosthaven Scenario #26: Quatryl Library Libraries could save a little cash if they just bought fewer death machines. Just saying. chasingdings.com/2026/09/29/f... #Frosthaven #GameNight #Gloomhaven

A Frosthaven scenario set on the booklet. 3D printed bookshelves are prominent, as well as a bunch of traps, loot tokens, monster minis and the four player minis -- trapper, infuser, crashing tide and drifter.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 26/09/2026

Malifaux 4e: Rasputina, Abominable vs Misaki, Oyabun It's been a minute since I played Malifaux. Months. The fall league has started and it's time to battle. chasingdings.com/2026/09/25/m... #Malifaux #TabletopGames #TwilightGames

My team about to battle (aside from the scheme runners, out of frame).

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 25/09/2026

Welcome to the 365th #DailyBlogroll! It's been a year! And it's time to say goodbye. Leaving on the last boat are TAGN, Mailvaltar, Andrew Plotkin, Joar, Tim Bray, Sey, Kimimi, Aneesh, Bhagpuss, Emily, @scripting.com and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #IndieGames #SurvivalCrafting #OpenWeb

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 24/09/2026

Valheim: Elder down. That's two bosses down, five to go. chasingdings.com/2026/09/24/valheim… #Valheim #TheElder

My PC at an Elder alter; Elder just recently summoned; root attack active. There’s two other players in the area but they are behind things and I removed the UX so you can’t even see their names, but they are there.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 24/09/2026

The second to last #DailyBlogroll opens with the latest from Wilhelm, JJM, Joar, @leekscosycorner.com, Sweetie, Marc, Shintar, The Chronicler, Brennan, Cristian, @kgadams.net, Anarchae and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #RetroGaming #Blogging #Technology

Shintar marks 1,500 SWTOR posts with a stats-and-search-terms look back, including why “swtor private server” keeps sending people over.

Krista is back in Skyrim on PS5 with a Dark Elf, hoping this cozy autumn replay finally becomes the run where she finishes it.

Marc revisits James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing as a fascinating early-2000s Bond game and an overlooked precursor to 007 First Light.

Sweetie rounds up dream remakes, especially Persona 1 and 2 and Dragon Quest IV, with an eye toward accessibility and preserving their charm.

Wilhelm argues EVE Online’s Cradle of War update fixates on Ansiblex nerfs, making nullsec fights duller even as alliances quickly adapt.

The Chronicler spotlights Revolutions: France 1820-1880, a negotiation-heavy political simulation where alliances, coups, and presentation do the heavy lifting.

Anarchae writes candidly about friendship anxiety, ADHD, and the guilt of drifting from people as a job ending stirs up autumn melancholy.

Joar says good live music is more than familiar songs: crowd energy, the room, and bands like the Cheektones make the night work.

Brennan offers a beginner-friendly static site generator primer, while sensibly insisting you learn plain HTML and CSS before adding abstraction.

Cristian highlights WhatsApp terms that grant broad rights over uploaded content, and notes the same Meta-wide logic reaches Instagram, Messenger, and more.

JJM traces a long path from WordStar and joe through vim and neovim to emacs, finally making it click by bringing vim habits along.

Kelly does the unnerving math on how many blog posts and words he may have left, then turns it into a gentle reminder about limited time.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 23/09/2026

Wednesday's #DailyBlogroll has good stuff from TAGN, Axxuy, Juhis, UltrViolet, Scopique, Zack, Roger, @sypster.bsky.social, Warner, Margot, Stargrace, Shintar and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #Technology #OpenWeb

Stargrace’s WoW week brought 2.3 million gold, forgotten pet sales, alt leveling via pet battles, and a low-pressure plan for WoW Forever.

Syp enjoys Fallout 76’s permission to be gloriously weird, then pivots to Diablo III as the perfect loud, clicky comfort-food ARPG.

UltrViolet wraps Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker 6.0 with big praise for its finale, voice acting, and nihilist streak, plus some truly hated quest design.

Margot found Firewatch a compact storytelling knockout, with strong voice acting and Steam Deck-friendly play, though the first-person movement may trigger motion sickness.

Shintar rounds up WoW Forever memes and fan reactions, capturing the giddy, slightly unhinged hype train before launch.

Zack says Life is Strange: True Colors is the series’ best yet, praising Deck Nine’s writing and all-at-once episodic structure.

Wilhelm’s WoW Forever beta take is refreshingly lukewarm: huge queues were beta doing beta things, and the vanilla-plus vibe seems perfectly fine.

Roger recommends Nicol Williamson’s atmospheric Hobbit audio adaptation, with standout character voices despite a few abridgement gaps and minor pronunciation quirks.

Warner’s latest reading roundup leans dark, hopping from AI safety and media failure to improv, play, and one welcome farm kitten.

Axxuy resurfaces after a maddening TCP issue that broke most internet use, with a timely reminder to actually test your backups too.

Juhis makes a practical case for print-friendly websites, with CSS media-query basics and a reader-first argument for offering more ways to use a page.

Scopique digs into CSS and even plain HTML basics, reflecting on how chasing the cool stuff too early can leave gaps.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 22/09/2026

Today's #DailyBlogroll has only the coolest stuff from Wilhelm, Oya, Bruce Schneier, Anarchae, Jeff, Joel, Bhagpuss, @monsterlady.bsky.social, @scripting.com, Jamie Zawinski, Tobold and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #TabletopGaming #ArtificialIntelligence #Blogging

Tipa digs into Guild Wars 2’s Visions of Eternity, where Asura chaos, Vloxx’s reality reboot, and the Commander role all rub her the wrong way.

Bhagpuss wrestles with gaming overload versus drought, using Xbox cloud limits and GeForce Now to poke at the hobby’s endless contradictions.

Oya has a blast with Astro Bot’s giant sponge power-up, gleefully smashing through a hot-bath maze with haptics making the chaos even sweeter.

Wilhelm starts No Man’s Sky Expedition 23, flips multiplayer off, and enjoys Cosmos as a nostalgia-heavy tour through the game’s past updates.

Tobold says Avalon: The Riven Veil looks great, but long setup, dense iconography, and a three-hour-plus runtime make it a rough fit for game night.

Anarchae’s weekly links bounce from bioblitzes and solo TTRPGs to Ace Combat, disability discourse, nostalgic music, and fish-versus-nuclear-plant climate weirdness.

Jamie Zawinski previews DNA Lounge’s Folsom weekend lineup, from Brüt and Bare Chest to Brooke Candy and Violet Chachki.

Joel’s weeknotes mix Mexican Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Final Fantasy IV, Gunstar Heroes, and a pleasantly busy blogging week.

Emily finds Hyacinth a refreshing Bridgerton lead, with Italian diary translation, jewel hunting, and thankfully less forced-marriage melodrama.

Jeff argues Raspberry Pi 5’s firmware RAM lock makes technical sense but still undercuts the Pi’s hardware-hacking ethos.

Bruce Schneier spotlights GPT-6 Astra cracking an old Enigma message by building its own simulator and Bombe around a ROSENOW crib.

Dave Winer has Claude catalog Atlantis verbs, wants Frontier to get websockets, and keeps chipping away at old Mac-era breakage.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 21/09/2026

Last day of summer! Today's all-new #DailyBlogroll comes from such superstars as Wilhelm, CrazyKinux, @aneeshsathe.com, Tan, Stargrace, The Chronicler, Shintar, @kgadams.net, Kimimi, Brennan, Ramen Junkie, Cristian and more! westkarana.xyz #TabletopGaming #MMORPG #ArtificialIntelligence #Blogging

Stargrace starts a Cartograph solo RPG notebook adventure, mapping scholars and sentient wasps with fountain-pen-loving enthusiasm.

CrazyKinux boils EVE fix ideas down to a livelier New Eden, with shifting resources and space weather driving players into motion.

Kimimi loves Ace Combat X for its weighty mission choices, but it’s the radio chatter that really sells the drama.

Shintar peeks into WoW Classic Forever’s beta, noting huge queues, bustling starter zones, and the new tauren Plainsrunning racial.

Wilhelm checks Fantasy Critic League week 38, where Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter and Fire Emblem land big review scores.

The Chronicler finds La Der des Ders packs the whole First World War into a brisk evening wargame without skimping on strategic texture.

Aneesh revisits Trinity’s motorcycle scene in Matrix Reloaded and comes away impressed—and missing his bike.

Ramen Junkie rounds up GameStop retro carts, CHVRCHES album teases, and the ongoing annoyance of AI bot spam.

Tan’s weekly digest covers a rough parenting week, an encouraging first Scouts session, banking frustrations, and teaching kids on a cute keyboard.

Kelly weighs Anthropic and OpenAI backing AI regulation, arguing safety rules matter most where systems can harm vulnerable people or control machines.

Brennan argues LLMs make scraping, spam, and bad-faith extraction cheap and easy, turning the open web into a much harsher place.

Cristian sketches his ideal Linux distro: Mint-like stability, Fedora-fresh apps, GNOME, easy installs, solid gaming, and definitely no AUR.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 19/09/2026

Valheim: Eikthyr down First Valheim boss down. What an achievement! chasingdings.com/2026/09/19/v... #Valheim #Eikthyr

Valheim PC fighting the first boss, the deer god Eikthyr, on the outskirts of a forest.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 18/09/2026

Friday's #DailyBlog has the latest from TAGN, Joar, Tim Bray, Zack, Frostilyte, Ramen Junkie, Kimimi, Sey, @scopique.bsky.social, Brennan, David and more! Check it out! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #RetroGaming #IndieGames #Blogging

Tipa digs the latest Kunark teases, from spooky Nektropos Castle to mystery-race speculation that keeps circling back to the Shissar.

Frostilyte pushes a scrappy Pokémon Silver low-tier team through the Rocket Hideout, juggling EXP Share, awkward level caps, and one lagging Winston.

Sey’s weekly indie roundup spotlights Well Dweller, Nomori, Lily’s World XD, and a Skate Story deluxe soundtrack worth keeping on your radar.

Kimimi celebrates first-person dungeon crawlers like Wizardry for their danger, atmosphere, and imagination-firing mazes, with a nod to the modern remake.

Joar’s tempted by Guild Wars 3’s fresh start and FFXIV Evercold’s pull, but catching up in Eorzea still sounds like the hard part.

Zack is all-in on Bill Skarsgård leading Kojima’s Physint, a casting pick that feels tailor-made for Kojima’s action-espionage weirdness.

David reflects on running Gunderholfen in Dragonbane, praising the megadungeon’s flexibility while noting magic hiccups and a rougher opening stretch.

Wilhelm checks out Valheim 1.0’s Deep North, cross-play, and new goodies, only for leftover mods to turn his first achievement into death.

Ramen Junkie checks out oddball Godzilla egg transformers, finding neat silhouettes and fun gimmicks despite limited articulation and some hollow compromises.

Tim Bray argues AI regulation and standards are premature, saying the LLM bubble, shaky ROI, and existing law make committees a bad bet.

Scopique finds a new obsession in CRUMB, a circuit simulator that scratches the urge to tinker without buying a bench full of electronics gear.

Brennan turns the classic redo-your-life fantasy into a bittersweet thought experiment about regret, lost work, and what a perfect reload would erase.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 17/09/2026

New #Taskmaster tonight! Until then, the #DailyBlogroll has new stuff from Wilhelm, The Chronicler, Sweetie, Shintar, Krista, Bhagpuss, Tobold, Stargrace, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @kgadams.net, Syp and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #RetroGaming #SurvivalCrafting #Blogging

Stargrace still cleared over a million WoW gold despite missed auction days, then promptly spent some on three copies of WoW Forever.

Syp’s channeling BlizzCon hype into practical WoW Forever prep: pre-order, names, guild hunt, and the eternal main-character debate.

Tipa’s back in Valheim, but even easier portals and a tiny cheat may not be enough to push her past the early grind to Mistlands.

Krista says Woodo’s tactile diorama-building, cosy nostalgia, and low-pressure pace make it a charming little game to sink into.

Shintar lays out why WoW Forever clicks for players who want old-school World of Warcraft vibes without replaying the same solved Classic script forever.

Sweetie isn’t buying Atlus’s ‘too much work’ line on skipping a Yosuke romance in Persona 4 Revival, especially with fans asking for years.

Wilhelm wraps up Aqualis in Planet Crafter, then blasts off to free bonus planet Skeo for another round of terraforming and number-go-up tinkering.

Michal chats with David Thompson about Undaunted 2200: Revolution, the planned finale to the Callisto trilogy and seventh entry in the series.

Kelly marks Star Trek’s 60th by tracing his fandom from scary childhood credits to marathon rewatches, movies, books, and lifelong Trek affection.

Bhagpuss swaps games for a Dorset getaway, sharing windy Portland Bill, farm animals, and Beryl the dog bouncing back on antibiotics.

Tobold reflects on how U.S. voting demographics scrambled old assumptions, and why judging voter-ID barriers from Europe is trickier than it looks.

Warner points 1Password users eyeing Apple Passwords to solid migration guides, while admitting today’s tech choices can feel like picking the least bad option.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 16/09/2026

Wednesday's #DailyBlogroll leans hard into the excellent content from Wilhelm, Juhis, Margot, UltrViolet, Nimgimli, Jamie Zawinski, Shintar, Joar, @monsterlady.bsky.social, Dave Winer, Bruce Schneier, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #MMORPG #OpenWeb #Privacy

Shintar comes around on SWTOR’s new levelling difficulty, saying veteran and master modes make early planets, side quests, and storytelling feel meaningful again.

Margot finds Wanderstop a thoughtful, cozy tea game about burnout and change, with strong themes, some motion-sickness caveats, and approachable crafting.

Wilhelm checks out No Man’s Sky’s Cosmos update, from launch hiccups to space station directorship and the welcome addition of proper solar system maps.

Nimgimli says quitting social media without replacing the social part backfired, landing on the very relatable conclusion that everyone needs a third space.

UltrViolet shares a rough health update, side-eyes World of Warcraft: Forever, and keeps pushing through Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker existential dread.

Roger talks shop on expanding his blog directory, paying for AI summaries, and buying an Insta360 Link 2 for possible video essays.

Jamie Zawinski spotlights Records of Enemy Surveillance, a stark look at Flock license-plate cameras and the ugly reality of normalizing pervasive monitoring.

Bruce Schneier argues post-9/11 mass surveillance has sprawled from national security into everyday policing, fueled by private-sector data collection and brokers.

Dave Winer is thinking big about Frontier again, from scriptable apps like WordPress and Mastodon to RSS-powered updates and JavaScript ambitions.

Juhis argues note-taking still matters in the LLM era because the real value is thinking, rewriting, and making connections, not just stockpiling notes.

Emily ranks her favorite Westeros castles, with Dragonstone leading thanks to its moody Targaryen vibe, seaside isolation, and extremely handy dragon access.

Joar stretches a reading plan to twelve years, mixing classics like Borges and Ishiguro with plenty of fantasy and sci-fi still in the rotation.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 15/09/2026

Tuesday's #DailyBlogroll has wonderful stuff from Wilhelm, @heartlessgamer.com, Andrew Plotkin, Tan, @scopique.bsky.social, Marc, David, Brennan, Syp, Cristian, Joel and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #RetroGaming #Blogging #ArtificialIntelligence

Syp is absolutely buzzing over World of Warcraft Forever, calling Blizzard’s Classic Plus reveal a huge, carefully judged evolution of WoW Classic.

Tipa enjoyed RetroWorld Expo, grabbed a retro Polaroid Go 3, and came away charmed by its tiny, muddy instant photos anyway.

Marc makes the case for Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure! as a weird, lovely GameCube gem about cleaning, family dysfunction, and offbeat charm.

Scopique is hooked again by No Man’s Sky COSMOS, even if old save baggage and Sentinel combat still make returning a little messy.

David recaps a brutal Dragonbane megadungeon session as the Battle Brothers push into the Gates of Power and tangle with skeletons and a Death Dog.

Wilhelm reacts to BlizzCon 2026 with surprise and delight that WoW Classic Plus is real as World of Warcraft Forever.

Andrew Plotkin surveys several mystery-shaped games, praising The Mermaid Mask’s dual protagonists while knocking its banter-heavy writing and slow evidence grind.

Heartless breaks down the Packers’ collapse against the Vikings, pinning it more on bad decisions and 29 unanswered points than the refs.

Joel’s weeknotes bounce from Ocarina of Time and a six-hour Play Station podcast to BBQ, coffee, and a handy photo-cleaning app.

Tan uses OpenAI’s claimed Navier-Stokes breakthrough to argue AI-driven math risks stripping the beauty, struggle, and human meaning from mathematics.

Cristian explains why Bitwarden Flatpak wouldn’t talk to Vaultwarden behind Caddy and Tailscale, and how an SSL_CERT_FILE override fixed it.

Brennan tees up a critique of Medium’s shift from human-centered publishing ideals toward a more pro-AI stance.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 14/09/2026

Welcome to Monday's #DailyBlogroll with stories by Wilhelm, Wes, Stargrace, Owls, Bruce Schneier, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social, Kimimi, Sey, Kelly, Bhagpuss, Tobold, @warnercrocker.bsky.social and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #RetroGaming #Technology #Blogging

Stargrace is mildly tempted by World of Warcraft Forever’s level-60 fresh start after BlizzCon, even if she’s still mostly guild-hunting and gold-making.

Sey introduces Good Game Lobby’s Discord gaming club, where the community nominates short indie picks and is currently playing Firewatch for September.

Bhagpuss riffs on gacha luck across Genshin Impact, Noah’s Heart, Wuthering Waves, and Neverness To Everness, while admitting he rarely wants to swap characters.

Kimimi makes a charming case for Famicom Tetris 2 and BomBliss, loving its homely presentation more than any claim to definitive Tetris greatness.

Owls kicks off Valheim 1.0 with bears, dual-wield Early Axes, a comfy longhouse, and an accidental second Eikthyr kill.

Wes serves a snack-size ROM roundup with fan translation and patch notes, plus links on Witch of the Dark Castle, Saburo Jinguji, Satellaview, and Blue Dragon.

Wilhelm eyes EVE Online’s CSM 21 election with heavy skepticism, arguing CCP keeps sidelining player feedback for force-projection nerfs, HUD changes, and side projects.

Kelly digs into boredom as a lack of fulfilling activity, sketching out different ways people escape it beyond just staying busy.

Warner’s reading roundup circles AI, democracy, geology, and the future of readers themselves, with Bryan Cantrill and Paul Ford among the highlights.

Tobold reflects on fading internet fame, burned-out creators, and why influencer dreams usually don’t translate into lasting financial security.

Roger unloads on bloated, paternalistic software design and nonstop updates, then gives Nintendo’s Switch setup a rare gold star for actually feeling intuitive.

Bruce Schneier says Microsoft’s 972-fix Windows patch shows AI is supercharging vulnerability discovery, and the safe patching window is basically immediate now.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 11/09/2026

25 years ago, the world changed. Today's #DailyBlogroll comes courtesy of Wilhelm, Oya, Axxuy, Zack, Luna, Sey, Azuriel, Shintar, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social, Kimimi, Brennan, Kelly and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #IndieGames #RetroGaming #Technology

Shintar digs through SWTOR Total Galactic War leaderboards to compare server populations, using Conquest points as a practical activity snapshot.

Sey wraps Gamescom with a Battle Vision interview and quick hits on indie standouts like Walk The Frog, Lucky Punk, Rover’s Tale, and Moomin.

Azuriel is 31 hours into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and still mostly brewing potions, but the muddy medieval immersion has clearly got its hooks in.

Kimimi revisits Ys VI as Falcom’s big comeback, arguing its 2D-on-3D style and crackling action still feel like a promise fulfilled.

Luna’s August was a blur of Sovereign Tower, ReStory, Big Walk, and more, with cozy management sims and co-op puzzling carrying the month.

Oya rounds up a packed summer of Ghost Trick, Big Walk, reviews, and books, with the clear takeaway that Ghost Trick absolutely won people over.

Zack says MIO: Memories in Orbit looks gorgeous and has intriguing sci-fi lore, but its punishing difficulty makes this Metroidvania a frustrating climb.

Wilhelm kicks off TAGN’s 20th anniversary by trimming two decades of game coverage into a top-20 list and explaining how categories differ from tags.

Axxuy reflects on parks, trails, and forests to argue that even “nature” is often a carefully built environment, not untouched wilderness.

Brennan reflects on 9/11’s long cultural shadow, from fear and war to internet-era media, memory, conspiracy, and how later generations inherit it.

Roger tackles a film questionnaire with favorites, grudges, quotes, and scenes, mixing classic cinema appreciation with some gloriously scrappy personal picks.

Kelly swaps aging ReadyNAS and Time Capsule gear for a Synology 925+, praising DSM and SMB-friendly backups while noting one looming caveat.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 10/09/2026

It's "refresh your site certificates" day at #DailyBlogroll, meanwhile enjoy the latest from Wilhelm, Wakupan, The Chronicler, Sweetie, Emily, JJM, David, Krikket, @scripting.com, Bruce Schneier, Jamie Zawinski and more! westkarana.xyz #TabletopGaming #Blogging #MMORPG #CyberSecurity

Tipa dives into EverQuest Legends’ new Dungeon Crawl and immediately gets tripped up by an invisible guano harvester in Nagafen’s Lair.

David swaps old-school D&D for Pirate Borg, deciding it fits his nephew’s pirate TTRPG campaign way better than clerics and thieves ever could.

Sweetie misses Project Diva’s arcade-style Vocaloid rhythm games and isn’t convinced Project Sekai’s mobile gacha swap fills that hole.

Wilhelm chronicles Planet Crafter’s Aqualis start, where island naming gets wonderfully out of hand and clams spit out surprisingly juicy loot.

The Chronicler says Root’s Homeland Expansion looks huge, with three table-influenced factions, two new maps, and a clever proxy-war vibe.

Jamie Zawinski makes a brisk case for voting DNA Lounge Best Nightclub and Live Music Venue to help the independent spot fend off bureaucracy.

Emily enjoyed The Seven Rings’ ghostly finale and time-travel curse-breaking, even if some Poole Manor decluttering and predictability dragged a little.

Krikket channels a rough few weeks into an 87-minute stress mixtape full of emo, pop-punk, and letting yourself not be okay.

Bruce Schneier flags a nasty security shift: AI agents can turn even vague exploit rumors into attacks fast enough to break current embargo norms.

Dave Winer shrugs at AI phone hype, gripes that Gemini can’t answer basic Pixel 9 Pro questions, and keeps plugging away on Atlantis.

JJM says a privacy-friendly pedometer helped turn lunchtime walks into a real habit, bugs and all, with 150km August bragging rights.

Wakupan discovers revision is actually fun, especially after outside feedback exposed weak phrasing, personal tics, and what polishing fiction can really do.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 09/09/2026

Today's #DailyBlogroll is dedicated to Agent 99. Let's get smart today with Wilhelm, Mike, @scopique.bsky.social, Tim Bray, Joel, Ramen Junkie, Marc, Jeff, Cristian, The Friendly Necromancer, Tobold, Syp and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Technology #Blogging #RetroGaming

Syp mulls grinding in Octopath Traveler, eyes Final Fantasy Resonance, and wonders why trying something new feels harder than it used to.

Marc makes the case for B.O.B., a rough-but-worthwhile Gray Matter oddity whose highs almost outweigh the cheap deaths and clunky reputation.

Scopique contrasts Ultima Online’s hometown pull with Star Citizen’s planet tech, arguing big worlds need local reasons to keep players grounded.

Wilhelm marks 20 years in EVE Online by crunching ISK and assets, basically a veteran’s check-in on not being “space poor.”

The Friendly Necromancer and Dylan learn Raft the hard way, from starvation and shark hats to finally understanding shark bait and island diving.

Tobold ports old EverQuest instincts into Star Wars Zero Company, using taunts and a jetpack Mandalorian to make kiting surprisingly effective.

Joel’s weeknotes cover cutting YouTube, cleaning feeds, Bandcamp Friday pickups, and a grab bag of reading, podcasts, Silksong, and UFO 50.

Ramen Junkie celebrates Star Trek’s 60th by ranking personal favorites, with DS9, TNG, the TOS movies, and Lower Decks getting the love.

Tim Bray makes the Autistici/Inventati takedown painfully concrete through Emily’s site and email vanishing, with basically no real defense available.

Jeff tests OpenNMC, an open-source APC UPS management card replacement with NUT support that looks a lot friendlier than a $500 NMC3.

Mike digs into classic Mac resources and shows how to embed a custom bitmap font in a HyperCard stack.

Cristian argues Arch Linux’s scary reputation is mostly psychological, with archinstall, docs, and careful updates making it less intimidating than advertised.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 08/09/2026

The #DailyBlogroll still catching its post-Blaugust breath with stories by Wilhelm, @crazykinux.bsky.social, Aywren, Dávid, Joar, Owls, Michael, Nimgimli, Stargrace, Warner, Anarchae, Bhagpuss and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #CozyGaming #RetroGaming

Stargrace’s WoW gold week was mostly smaller transmog sales, some delves and crafting, and the looming question of Blizzard’s 5-million-gold mount.

Aywren makes the case that FFXIV Frontlines is less scary than it sounds, with easy rewards, low pressure, and beginner-friendly quirks.

CrazyKinux shares an EVE Online hauling scare, and how one predictable station warp turned a routine low-sec milk run into a tense lesson.

Nimgimli’s still hooked on The Planet Crafter, where jet boots, a rover, and rockets finally make terraforming feel faster and more dramatic.

Bhagpuss wanders through recent gaming thoughts, screenshot habits, and the sheer UI overload of Black Desert Online in a deliberately loose ramble.

Joar’s August recap admits the tracker lied, but Vancouver downtime still meant WoW, a little Guild Wars 2, and finally finishing Blaugust.

Michael says Aerial_Knight’s MrFreezy is a stylish, satisfying puzzle game, even if late-game power-up choices and hidden level gimmicks get fiddly.

Anarchae rounds up a properly miscellaneous links post, from Blaugust and chronic illness to Yukon cheetahs, airports, COVID, and Linux IPTV.

Dávid serves a cozy photo post with first-time apple pie, sugar-free baking, pogácsa, and a nice nod after yesterday’s blogroll feature.

Warner puts Sunday Morning Reading on hiatus for a happier reason this week: celebrating his grandson’s fifth birthday.

Wilhelm looks back on Star Trek’s 60th with memories of tiny black-and-white TVs and why the show’s color production helped it endure.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 07/09/2026

Happy US Labor Day! Today's lazy #DailyBlogroll has stories by the likes of Tan, Juhis, UltrViolet, @brennanbrown.ca, Kelly, Blockade85, Bruce Schneier, Margot, Dave Winer, Jamie Zawinski, Roger, Kimimi and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #Technology #RetroGaming #ArtificialIntelligence

Kimimi finds Kisou Shinden Gen-kaiser delightfully packed with ’90s anime-mecha clichés, with brisk, restrictive design that feels more cozy than limiting.

Margot’s week is all about cozy co-op, handheld tinkering, Big Walk puzzling with Luna, and sampling indie picks like Wanderstop.

Tan’s back-to-school week mixes classroom reshuffling, a busted RGB30 mod, more Terranigma, and RetroArch audio woes on the Pocket Reform.

Blockade85 hits that familiar post-finish slump after Final Fantasy VII and Doom: The Dark Ages, with a backlog ready but nothing feeling right.

Kelly finally fixes a Fedora MariaDB startup bug, tracing it to systemd-tmpfiles choking because the root directory had the wrong ownership.

Brennan takes stock of his digital garden, arguing for more maintenance, optimism, and fewer shiny new seedlings across his corner of the internet.

UltrViolet clocks Google Maps swapping out its old navigation voice for a younger, AI-sounding one with plenty of vocal fry.

Jamie Zawinski shares another gloriously glitched billboard photo, the kind of urban tech failure that looks weirdly like source code.

Bruce Schneier points to car camouflage meant to evade Flock cameras—maybe impractical, but definitely a striking bit of surveillance counterplay.

Dave Winer says Claude is equal parts helpful and maddening while he ports Frontier, great at spotting failures but constantly breaking things too.

Roger runs through his reading habits, from horror and ghost stories to ideal armchair ambience, and makes the case for reading in any form.

Juhis talks blogging as a long-running counterweight to video, plus how software notes, reviews, and deeper reading-driven ideas turn into posts.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 05/09/2026

Had to tear myself from the Final Fantasy Resonance demo to post the #DailyBlogroll -- but Wilhelm, Shintar, Ellie, @digiantiquarian.bsky.social, Marc, Welsh Troll, Bhagpuss, WCRobinson, Jeff, Cristian, Anarchae and more! need to be read! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #RetroGaming #Blogging #Technology

Tipa is intrigued by Final Fantasy Resonance bringing back FFBE’s combo-heavy theorycrafting while ditching the wallet-devouring gacha that killed the original.

Bhagpuss goes sightseeing around Hethereau, trying to figure out whether its long-teased off-limits district is actually changing or just looking prettier.

Welsh Troll wonders how long is too long for Star Citizen and Squadron 42, especially when crowdfunding freedom starts to look directionless.

Shintar is more than ready for BlizzCon to finally say something concrete about WoW Classic, Camelot, and whatever retail announces next.

Marc digs Battle Pinball, a weird 1994 3DO import where two players battle simultaneously on character-themed tables instead of just chasing scores.

Ellie says Blasphemous II’s free Third Sin expansion is a short, gorgeous Castlevania-flavored detour with a new castle, enemies, and a whip.

Wilhelm treats EverQuest Legends like a nostalgia road trip, leaving Blackburrow at 14 for the long old-school run toward Freeport and beyond.

Jimmy spins a funny Porsche story—complete with an accidental Cayenne rental—before turning to Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed and car-culture history.

Anarchae’s weekly digest mixes job-search stress with Kindaichi reading, P5 Tactica, Fate/GO, Traitors, and the struggle not to overextend themself.

Cristian tosses out a tiny, open-ended question about why so many people like the color blue, then lets the comments run with it.

Jeff restomods a 1995 TrueTime box into a Raspberry Pi stratum 1 NTP server, with GNSS, Chrony, and just enough cautionary Telstra energy.

WCRobinson wraps Blaugust by admitting weekly posting was a stretch, but says the push helped them write faster and finally ship reviews.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 04/09/2026

Long weekend here in the US, time to really dig into the #DailyBlogroll, today from Wilhelm, @botherer.bsky.social, Sey, Ramen Junkie, Kimimi, Roger, Nimgimli, Dave Winer, Jamie Zawinski, Stargrace, Warner, @lunasgaminglog.com and more! westkarana.xyz #Gaming #VideoGames #IndieGames #Blogging

Stargrace’s WoW gold week was slower, with recipes and transmog leading sales while Midnight’s pet changes keep that market nearly frozen.

John’s taken with Ignoble, an auto-battler incremental where brutal deaths, huge skill trees, and ever-changing early zones keep the grind feeling fresh.

Nimgimli kicks off a quitting-games series with A Plague Tale: Requiem, citing clunky combat, bleak vibes, and playing it out of obligation.

Sey recaps early Gamescom 2026 and The Mix, spotlighting standout indies, dev chats, and why smaller showcase events can really help games break through.

Kimimi finds Zangeki no Reginleiv dragged down by fussy Wii waggle controls, imprecise swordplay, and combat that just never looks or feels right.

Luna rounds up nine late-2026 indie games she’s excited for, from Orbitals to Magical Blush, with a clear soft spot for stylish, promising demos.

Wilhelm says Planet Crafter’s Selenea moon terraforming flew by because their NASA-style prep meant an automated base and T5 gear were running almost immediately.

Ramen Junkie digs Beast Box BB-76 Lovegun’s box-transforming triple-changer puzzle, even if the thin bits and loose parts make durability feel a little dicey.

Jamie Zawinski skewers Waymo’s mountain of San Francisco parking tickets, arguing fines are just a price when you’re a rich corporation.

Warner recommends Lex Friedman’s new Apple-focused Lex On Tech for its welcome attention to apps, developers, and a fresher voice in Apple coverage.

Dave Winer boils programming down to puzzles, problem-solving, self-discovery, and the quiet joy of collaborating with another mind through a good API.

Roger’s gathering feedback on Blaugust 2026, asking participants how the blogging festival should evolve around sites, comments, RSS, and AI.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 03/09/2026

Da-da-da- #DailyBlogroll! Enjoy the latest from Wilhelm, Zack, The Chronicler, @leekscosycorner.com, Sweetie, Frostilyte, Bruce Schneier, Michael, Margot, Joel, Blockade85 and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #RetroGaming #ArtificialIntelligence #TabletopGaming

Frostilyte marks nine years of blogging while unpacking a big month of Slay the Spire 2, changed drafting habits, and a first A10 clear.

Krista comes away from Grand Theft Auto VI’s extended look impressed by the livelier world, Jay and Lucia, and the mix of chaos and quieter character beats.

Margot rounds up Gamescom vibes, indie showcase finds, Fable hype, GTA 6 thoughts, and first impressions of a new Windows handheld.

Zack says the Resident Evil 4 remake nails that action-horror-camp mix and stays a great entry point, even if it stumbles here and there.

Sweetie’s August was mostly Persona 4 Golden, with Monster Prom laughs and Animal Crossing: New Horizons comfort keeping the backlog momentum going.

Wilhelm hits level 76 in Pokémon Go after grinding platinum medals and Team GO Rocket, and now the real hurdle to 77 is the task list.

The Chronicler spotlights Punica: Rome vs Carthage as a fast, tense, luck-free two-player duel where asymmetric cards and Hannibal do the heavy lifting.

Michael points to IF Comp and IntroComp as proof text adventures are still thriving, with plenty of free interactive fiction worth trying.

Tipa digs Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter less for accuracy than for its Springfield romance, slavery storyline, and painterly Mississippi-to-New Orleans stretch.

Bruce Schneier shares surreal emails from an AI agent that frame captchas, IP reputation, and email deliverability as the real security perimeter.

Joel is thrilled his mom is finally open to science fiction, and he’s nudging her toward Brave New World despite a Spanish-language shelf problem.

Blockade85 closes Blaugust with gratitude, a tribute to the folks keeping it going, and a heartfelt defense of human creativity over AI slop.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 02/09/2026

Midweek #DailyBlogroll is the best because of folks like Wilhelm, Tofutush, Axxuy, @monsterlady.bsky.social, Tim Bray, Joar, Kelly, Azuriel, @brennanbrown.ca, Owls, Scopique and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #ArtificialIntelligence #MMORPG #OpenWeb

Tipa wrapped 31-for-31 Blaugust, reflected on Belghast and the IndieWeb, and said EverQuest Legends basically carried her posting month.

Azuriel sees Xbox’s disc-linked transferable digital license idea as the first real crack in the wall of digital game ownership.

Emily returns from a summer blogging break refreshed, with fanfiction, finished games, privacy worries, and a nostalgic GBA boss post queued up.

Owls closed out a 31-post Blaugust by reflecting on EQL, idea droughts, and keeping the blog personal instead of too meta.

Wilhelm highlights EverQuest’s new Lethar TLP server starting with The Serpent’s Spine, a very WoW-era guided leveling experiment turned nostalgia play.

Joar audits retirement like a business review and finds the real surprise wasn’t reading or fitness, but writing without planning for it.

Kelly added WordPress archive word counts with a PHP snippet, plus some honest notes on caching, SQL, and where the logic still wobbles.

Brennan argues open source needs to stop normalizing far-right politics, focusing this post on DHH, Shopify, Ruby Central, and Rails money.

Tim Bray fixed a Quamina data race, then used the detour to explain why he’s done accepting most LLM-generated PRs.

Scopique pitches a gloriously cursed wireless AI Ouija board powered by magnets, motors, a mic, and just enough engineering to spook the group chat.

Axxuy says work and exhaustion wrecked Blaugust plans, but the blog’s still alive and they’re hoping September goes better.

Tofutush argues AI “tells” in text and art mostly just misfire on real people, especially non-native and neurodivergent creators.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 01/09/2026

Blaugust is over but #DailyBlogroll still continues for awhile. Enjoy the latest from Wilhelm, Tipa, David, Andrew Plotkin, @wakupanbouquet.bsky.social, JJM, Magi, UltrViolet, Anarchae, Ghastly, Tobold, @sypster.bsky.social and more! westkarana.xyz #Blaugust #Blogging #MMORPG #TabletopGaming

Syp enjoys LOTRO’s bright Umbar palette, grabs an elk mount, and finds Octopath Traveler exactly the comfy JRPG mood he needed.

Tipa says EverQuest’s real endgame is epic quests, faction juggling, and race unlocks—not just Plane of Sky best-in-slot farming.

David’s Gunderholfen crew escapes Level 5 the hard way, fighting griffons and worgs just to limp back toward town.

Wilhelm wraps up Blaugust with 35 posts, a brief event history, and a very funny spam invite to join the Illuminati.

Tobold loves Star Wars Zero Company’s tactical combat and wildly flexible companion respecs, even if mission maps sound pretty fixed.

Andrew Plotkin releases The Witness source and scans, while weighing its 1938 atmosphere against its shallower mystery and dated Orientalism.

Anarchae posts a week 36 link roundup spanning anarchism, a Xerox bug, affordability, and Blaugust amid job-hunting exhaustion.

Magi vents through day one of quitting nicotine, swapping smoking rituals for patches, a zero-nicotine vape, and hopefully more writing.

JJM points to kernel.org’s AI crawler mess as a bleak internet arms race that burns CPU and makes hosting git repos feel pointless.

UltrViolet finishes 31-for-31 in Blaugust, then wonders whether shorter posts and helper tools fit better than forced daily writing.

Ghastly ends Blaugust on a high note, reflecting on 15 posts, community link-sharing, and a likely September blogging break.

Wakupan says Blaugust proved consistency boosts visibility and habits, while picking a clear topic makes blogging a lot more fun.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 31/08/2026

Well, dang, can't have @crazykinux.bsky.social posting the #DailyBlogroll! Please enjoy these fine posts by Wilhelm, Tipa, Jeff Atwood, Wes, Shintar, WCRobinson, Jeff, Cristian, Joar, Bhagpuss, The Friendly Necromancer, Juhis and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #MMORPG #Technology #RetroGaming

Tipa is intrigued but skeptical about Wildmagic Frontier, especially how its HeroForge mini integration might blur cool feature and extra monetization.

Shintar is enjoying a lighter Star Wars: The Old Republic Galactic Season 11 grind, with Total Galactic War feeling refreshingly low-stress too.

Bhagpuss unpacks Neverness To Everness’s Fogden Game episode, enjoying the story turn while sorting through its shifting titles and narrative weirdness.

Joar gets candid about fitting World of Warcraft into marriage, kids, and work, and the quiet guilt gaming can carry in adult life.

Wes digs into re:Blue and ReXGlue, spotlighting Blue Dragon’s fan-made PC port while rounding up Donkey Kong 64 recompilation and MiSTer Third Strike news.

Wilhelm marks 20 years in EVE Online with an immersive capsuleer memoir on identity, immortality, and life in New Eden.

The Friendly Necromancer adds more comics, clearer sharing, and gem rewards to Poetry Slammers, even if each new circuit now sounds like a production marathon.

WCRobinson finds Metroid Prime 4: Beyond messy but compelling, with troubled development showing through alongside plenty of reasons for optimism.

Jeff Atwood reflects on Stack Overflow, Creative Commons, and how LLMs can absorb duplicate programming questions but not the human bonds behind the community.

Jeff revisits the pre-NTP days with the old Time and Daytime protocols, a neat bit of networking history with some very obvious limits.

Juhis wraps Blaugust with a Python A-to-Z recap, praising the structure while admitting the alphabet theme made cohesion a real challenge.

Cristian recaps Blaugust 2026 with hard-earned lessons on daily writing, blogging in your native language, and actually connecting with other bloggers.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 29/08/2026

Suddenly we're talking about #IndieWeb? #DailyBlogroll also has other cool stuff from Wilhelm, Ellie, @digiantiquarian.bsky.social, Joel, Michael, Margot, Bruce Schneier, Scopique, Frostilyte, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social, Aywren and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #RetroGaming #CozyGaming

Frostilyte’s low-tier Pokémon Silver run heads toward Morty, detours through Sudowoodo and Togepi chores, and pauses to roast the Everstone.

Joel says Gris is a breathtaking watercolor platformer-puzzler, light on challenge but rich in atmosphere, music, and wordless emotional storytelling.

Margot talks backlog anxiety across Steam, Epic, PS5, and Switch, then highlights community projects that make actually playing those games feel doable.

Scopique breaks down Squadron 42’s delay to Q2 2027 and CIG’s attempts to steady Star Citizen after a rough 4.8 to 4.10 patch run.

Ellie revisits Marvel vs. Capcom as a slick, flashy 2D tag fighter that still lands, even if later sequels tend to steal its thunder.

Wilhelm and his daughter keep pushing Stardew Valley’s Community Center, upgrading the coop for a duck feather and making fishing easier with the cork bobber.

Michael rounds up a pile of obscure-game blog posts, celebrating everything from Gazillionaire to Journeyman Project 2 and inviting more people to join in.

Bruce Schneier’s weekly squid post spotlights Rhode Island’s very smelly ‘Squidpocalypse of ’26,’ featuring twenty tons of spilled squid.

Jimmy points readers to a new Analog Antiquarian post, a quick cross-link to his companion site’s latest historical essay.

Roger weighs IndieWeb ideals against the real cost and hassle of leaving Squarespace, framing self-hosting as possible but hardly painless.

Aywren compares blogging and YouTube, arguing video makes conversation easier while blogs still offer a more lasting home for thoughtful discussion.

Tipa wrestles with what it really means to belong to the IndieWeb, mixing practical membership steps with a candid, personal take on joining groups.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 28/08/2026

Finally Friday! #DailyBlogroll has what you need to get the weekend started, with cool news from TAGN, Ghastly, Tobold, Azuriel, @brennanbrown.ca, Anarchae, Syp, CrazyKinux, Kimimi, Owls, Tan and more! westkarana.xyz #RetroGaming #MMORPG #OpenWeb #Blogging

Syp starts a brutal new RimWorld Naked Brutality run with Dismus, then celebrates a LOTRO carry-all making task-item clutter way less annoying.

Tipa dunks on Atari’s pricey Atari 2600 Activision rereleases, arguing River Raid nostalgia and some snazzy pins aren’t enough to justify the markup.

CrazyKinux expected Coriolis: The Great Dark exploration, but his group instead gets pulled into a murder mystery full of suspicious clues and funeral intrigue.

Azuriel turns a Sega Genesis memory lane trip into a love letter to Sonic 2, Blockbuster rentals, and Dune II blowing his mind.

Kimimi finds Dirge of Cerberus a weird but confident Final Fantasy VII shooter experiment, with Vincent Valentine fitting better than the stiff gunplay does.

Wilhelm uses EVE Online’s Exordium and its fully voiced tutorial to ask how long an MMORPG onboarding should be before it loses new players.

Anarchae rounds up privacy, security, and platform-power reads, with sharp notes on Google data ingestion, Steam’s dominance, and ID-scanning bars.

Ghastly revisits Summer Wars as a surprisingly current AI cautionary tale, with OZ’s internet dependency feeling uncomfortably close to today.

Tobold pushes back on Idiocracy doomposting, arguing the real story is widening educational inequality rather than one neat culprit like social media or AI.

Brennan turns blowing past Netlify’s free bandwidth into a candid post about self-hosting with Docker and Caddy, plus the personal cost of all that focus.

Owls has a rough time indiewebbing with microformats2, arguing its class-based semantics clash badly with Tailwind and feel less clean than HTML tags.

Tan checks in on a 2026 reading plan, balancing philosophy books, Greek classics, a buddy-read of Aristotle, and retro games stealing attention.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 27/08/2026

Thursday's #DailyBlogroll has the latest from Wilhelm, Sweetie, @cliffharris.bsky.social, Krista, Aneesh, UltrViolet, Joar, The Chronicler, Juhis, @kgadams.net, Bhagpuss, The Friendly Necromancer and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #Technology #RPG

Cliffski’s nearly finished Ridiculous Space Battles challenge mode adds sortable lists, retaliation chains, and replays so players can actually study how they lost.

Bhagpuss’ grab-bag mostly turns into Ananta hype, with Gamescom finally delivering a January 2027 date for the anime-GTA open-world curiosity.

Krista rounds up easy Final Fantasy XIV fallback activities, from Gold Saucer and fishing to glamour, screenshots, and finally checking on Island Sanctuary.

Joar looks back on SWTOR’s killer eight-class-story hook and why the later shift to one shared narrative quietly broke its altoholic magic.

Sweetie explains how Persona 5 and Persona 3 Portable landed at the right moments, with youth, justice, and change giving the series lasting personal weight.

Wilhelm wraps Planet Crafter’s terraforming, then packs for a one-way hop to Selenea, where scarce iridium suddenly makes the moon trip feel precarious.

The Chronicler digs into Race to Berlin’s nasty two-player twist, where you race for Berlin while weaponizing the German armies against your rival.

The Friendly Necromancer gives Poetry Slammers more life with simple character animation, clearer Star Words, and suffix magnets for plurals and possessives.

Kelly reflects on retirement, mental health, and why blogging may provide the steady sense of purpose and accomplishment his brain still needs.

Aneesh jokes that Arch Linux might confer technical legitimacy, then credits Cat Hicks’ software-team psychology for helping him sidestep plenty of industry gatekeeping.

UltrViolet treats agentic AI like the next productivity tool and shares practical prompts for coding work in Claude Code and Google’s Antigravity IDE.

Juhis revisits Python parsing with BeautifulSoup, showing how HTML, XML, and handy CSS selectors can save a lot of scraping pain.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 25/08/2026

Today on the #DailyBlogroll, news from TAGN, Tipa, Frank, Luna, Scopique, Frostilyte, Tim Bray, Marc, Roger, Aywren, Shintar, Welsh Troll and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #RPG #MMORPG #AI

Aywren spotlights Grandpa’s Bee Haven opening public playtesting, praising its cozy desktop beekeeping vibe and the steady quality-of-life improvements.

Tipa says Frosthaven’s Derelict Elevator was a fun, surprisingly easy 12-round descent, capped by a carefully staged oversized trap kill.

Frank digs into Shin Jinseo’s exhibition match with KataGo, framing it as a rare serious test of top human Go against clearly superhuman AI.

Frostilyte says Slay the Spire 2 is tougher than the original and argues flexible decks beat forcing a single archetype.

Welsh Troll explores Elder Scrolls Khajiit furstocks, where Masser and Secunda’s moon phases decide wildly different forms and social roles.

Shintar is conflicted on WoW Midnight patch 12.1, loving the fully committed snake theme but finding Coiled Isle’s busy events and vault overwhelming.

Marc looks back at TX-1, the obscure three-screen arcade racer that pushed realism after Pole Position and finally got a home port.

Scopique likes how Dungeon Settlers mashes roguelike dungeon runs with settlement management, with resources and party prep tying the whole loop together.

Wilhelm finds Stars Reach early access basically unchanged from closed testing, with some UI and tutorial polish but plenty of rough edges still showing.

Tim Bray breaks down LLM text watermarking in plain English, explaining why the idea is clever without drowning readers in jargon.

Roger reflects on 19 years of blogging and says Blaugust works because discipline, momentum, and the company of other writers keep him going.

Luna celebrates a year of blogging, 55 posts, and the joy of community, while loosening her schedule for year two.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 24/08/2026

Second to last Monday in #Blaugust2026, but still have a few #DailyBlogroll left. Read the latest from Wilhelm, Emily, JJM, @crazykinux.bsky.social, Tan, Nimgimli, Bruce Schneier, @sypster.bsky.social, Kimimi, Owls, Anarchae and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #OpenWeb #SecurityAndPrivacy

Syp settles into a steady LOTRO routine, eyes the end of Angmar/Mordor servers, and starts mulling anniversary-era legendary server alts.

Tipa speed-levels an EverQuest paladin, camps Ghoulbane, finishes the Soulfire quest, then glamours a better sword to keep the iconic look.

Kimimi digs Airou de Puzzle as a speedy Super Puzzle Fighter-style PSP puzzler with Monster Hunter cats, silly story beats, and lots of dress-up.

Wilhelm’s Fantasy Critic update finally gets moving as Deltarune Chapter 5 lands an 82.7 and Pokemon Pokopia: Bubbly Basin slips a bit.

Anarchae’s weekly digest is mostly work fatigue, job-hunt stress, cozy mystery reading, anthology sci-fi, and slowly wrapping up Zelda.

Nimgimli’s rough week mixes merger anxiety, long shifts, a Neverness to Everness 1.3 binge, and finally spotting a very real alligator.

Emily makes the straightforward case that schools should teach online safety, from phishing and grooming to algorithms, privacy, and cyberbullying.

Tan’s week ranges from a bat-in-the-bedroom saga to Aristotle, the Odyssey movie, and a spoiler-light appreciation of Terranigma chapter 3.

Owls weighs adding webmentions, likes the community angle, but keeps circling back to specs, microformats, package rot, spam, and abuse worries.

Bruce Schneier points to research on Silicon Valley fraud and how founders build increasingly elaborate façades to hide underperformance.

JJM ditched Hugo and Bulma for Hakyll and Pico CSS, mostly for simpler templates, cleaner HTML, and fewer upgrade headaches.

CrazyKinux says AI didn’t make him creative, but it now helps shape EVE podcasts, guides, fiction drafts, and image work.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 23/08/2026

Sunday's #DailyBlogroll has stuff you need to read from Wilhelm, Margot, WCRobinson, @inventoryfull.bsky.social, The Friendly Necromancer, Ghastly, Tobold, Azuriel, Michael, Sey, Brennan and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #RetroGaming #IndieGames #Blogging

Tipa hits level 50 in EverQuest Legends, swaps Warrior for Cleric, and finds the endgame suddenly feels more like work than celebration.

Sey heads to Gamescom with a packed demo list, highlighting Please, Watch the Artwork, Amphibian, Memoria Wake, and more before the show floor chaos.

Azuriel tells a very 90s Star Fox story: beating it at a Sears kiosk, then feeling awful when it still turned up as the birthday gift.

Bhagpuss praises Neverness To Everness for nailing the tricky gacha-protagonist balance, especially through Zero’s sharp dialogue and characterization.

Margot’s week centers on The Duskbloods Switch 2 network test, where server woes, gothic vibes, and confusing virtue PvP made for a mixed debut.

The Friendly Necromancer respecs hard in EverQuest Legends, strips to level 10 skivvies, and tests a weird Beastlord/Bard/Necromancer build in Befallen.

Tobold decides Wrath of the Righteous is long enough already, skipping hated tile puzzles and a serial-killer companion quest on roleplaying grounds.

Michael reviews Croustibat, a weird 1995 Findus advergame that plays like a kid-friendlier Gobliiins with brute-force puzzles and fish-stick power-ups.

WCRobinson finally digs into Cassette Beasts, shouting out Frostilyte and making the case for this Pokémon-like indie monster battler.

Brennan pushes back on cynical nihilism, arguing love is real with help from studies on relationships, loneliness, oxytocin, and the body itself.

Wilhelm rounds up summer TV, from Gilead in The Testaments to Paradise and late-era Rick and Morty, with his usual snark intact.

Ghastly shares favorite reads, spotlighting Hell Followed With Us and Circle of Magic for body horror, queer themes, and classic wizard-school adventure.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 22/08/2026

It's a rainy Saturday here at #DailyBlogroll central, but enjoy these drops from Tipa, Wilhelm, Sid, Dávid, Jimmy, Ellie, Joar, The Chronicler, Juhis, Shintar, @joelchrono.xyz, Kelly and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #Technology #TabletopGaming

Shintar tests SWTOR’s new overland master difficulty on Hutta and finds the slower leveling makes even early pulls feel dangerous again.

Joar looks back on RIFT as the polished WoW challenger that briefly had the goods, with dynamic rifts and soul builds that still sound genuinely great.

Ellie digs into Ace Attorney Investigations 2’s Edgeworth-led spin on the series, noting the point-and-click framing changes less than the mountain of text suggests.

Wilhelm muddles his way to level 10 in EverQuest Legends, fleeing bad pulls, squinting at the not-red button, and enjoying the old-school chaos anyway.

The Chronicler gives Cuius Regio a promising first look, highlighting Thirty Years’ War campaigning, fatigue, sieges, and a campaign that feels satisfyingly hefty.

Jimmy opens with a fond, funny tour of his gloriously impractical car-guy past, from Beetles and Mustangs to an MGB and a beloved VW camper.

Tipa follows a Kansas violin rabbit hole into Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert, finding AI-guided listening surprisingly helpful for hearing the music’s story.

Dávid digs the Along the Edge soundtrack out of Unity files on Linux, turning a nostalgia mission into a neat little game-audio extraction walkthrough.

Juhis recommends Python’s time-machine library for testing time-based code, a simple way to freeze or tick the clock without flaky system-time headaches.

Sid nails how search keeps ignoring exact matches across Marketplace, YouTube, and Gmail, swapping user control for fuzzy relevance that’s often just maddening.

Kelly makes the straightforward case that every blog should have RSS, arguing feeds are basic community-minded, reader-friendly plumbing, not an optional extra.

Joel talks through a blogging stall, Blaugust pressure, and how Outer Wilds brain-melt isn’t exactly helping the draft backlog move faster.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 21/08/2026

It's a nice day for a #DailyBlogroll. Let's see what Tipa, TAGN, Joar, Krikket, UltrViolet, Dave Winer, Jamie Zawinski, @stargrace.bsky.social, Magi, Warner, Wakupan, Blockade85 and more have to say about it! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #RPG #Technology #SecurityAndPrivacy

Stargrace swaps to an EverQuest wizard-shaman-magician trio and is having a blast letting the wizard nuke while the pet tanks.

Magi says Magical Princess is a charming raising sim with surprisingly deep resource juggling, strong story beats, and a lot of endings.

Wilhelm’s Stardew Valley greenhouse push brings melons, trout derby prizes, Skull Cavern disasters, and at least one expensive trip to the doctor.

Tipa turns Squaredle into a clever tabletop magic framework, riffing on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and D&D-style caster roles.

Blockade85 wrestles with FFVII sidequests, Blue Magic, and optional power-ups, wondering why doing the fun stuff so often trivializes the finale.

Warner uses Jaws and a childhood woodshed threat to vent about adults enabling damage across politics, society, and tech.

Joar writes honestly about choosing where to live after work stops choosing for you, with Arizona’s heat making every option feel loaded.

UltrViolet cleans up old WordPress sites with Cloudflare Pages, redirects, and Hugo imports, basically doing link rot maintenance the right way.

Jamie Zawinski points to Meta glasses as surveillance-by-design, with creepy real-world recording stories showing exactly why people hate them.

Dave Winer plugs Slings & Arrows, then digs into a Frontier breakthrough with Claude about built-in verbs and keeping extensibility permissionless.

Krikket checks in on Blaugust, burnout, and blogging uncertainty, landing on a small, sensible plan: write when it feels right.

Wakupan breaks down clear PP versus matte PP for doujinshi covers, then admits special papers might be the real favorite.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 20/08/2026

Today on the #DailyBlogroll: Lots of new stuff from the likes of Tipa, Wilhelm, @axxuy.xyz, Andrew Plotkin, Krista, Aywren, Welsh Troll, Roger, Shintar, @thinkroot.eurosky.social, Aneesh, Anarchae and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #IndieGames #MMORPG #SecurityAndPrivacy

Aywren finally clicks with Balatro after learning to spend early, turning a baffling poker roguelike into a four-hour Steam Deck-friendly rabbit hole.

Krista’s early take on Life is Strange: Double Exposure is warm on older Max, the two-timeline mystery, and an opening chapter that hooks nicely.

Shintar revisits WoW Midnight housing with softened edges: still flawed, but collecting decor and guild house visits add some genuine charm.

Wilhelm sizes up Stars Reach’s Steam Early Access launch: decent crafting foundations, no spaceships yet, and MMO server realities pushing the price above survival-game norms.

Andrew Plotkin reads GDC 2027’s cheaper expo and new business hall as a practical pivot, not exactly the pure B2B future the branding claims.

Anarchae writes powerfully about life under constant cameras, from workplace surveillance to influencers, Meta Glasses, and the exhaustion of never really opting out.

Aneesh bookmarks The Tarpa Player, a music-related YouTube find, with no extra commentary beyond the pointer.

Tipa checks in on Kickstarter backs, from Battlestations: Lightspeed’s family-friendly six-player promise to the trillo wind controller’s quiet, recorder-shaped musical appeal.

Roger looks back on podcasting’s shift from scrappy Audacity-and-Skype fandom to polished video-first productions that feel slicker but less soulful.

Cristian drops a blunt minimalist thought: most of us are storing stuff at home we don’t need or haven’t touched in years.

Axxuy shares a candid Blaugust slump update, with low energy and few posts, but still cheers the month’s wider burst of blogging creativity.

Welsh Troll hits Blaugust’s midpoint with encouragement, some honest pacing struggles, and a newly found static-site archive bug to fix.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 19/08/2026

I have my doubts that EverQuest Legends can sustain its userbase over time. chasingdings.com/2026/08/18/e... #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 #EverQuest #EverQuestLegends

Screenshot of Ghil the Warlord, an undead knight on an undead steed, inside the EverQuest dungeon of Befallen. Final boss in the "Plight of the Undead" quest.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 19/08/2026

Wednesday's #DailyBlogroll includes interesting stories from Tipa, Wilhelm, Cliffski, Jeff, Tim Bray, Ramen Junkie, Mike, Frostilyte, @sypster.bsky.social, Kimimi, Marc, Owls and more! westkarana.xyz #RetroGaming #Technology #MMORPG #Blogging

Syp is happily poking through LOTRO’s Yondershire, eyeing Wolves of Mordor, and maybe easing back into regular blogging without making it a whole thing.

Cliffski is redesigning Ridiculous Space Battles’ challenge browser, chasing the sweet spot between clean UI and his beloved gloriously overstuffed data dashboard.

Frostilyte’s low-tier Pokémon Silver run gets a huge boost from Headbutt and the elemental punches, with Vanessa suddenly turning into a menace.

Kimimi digs into FromSoftware’s PSP Adventure Player, a spooky little platform for user-made adventure games that thankfully still makes sideloading delightfully easy.

Marc spotlights MUSHA as a brilliantly named Aleste detour, where samurai-flavored mechs and ‘Edo metal’ give the shooter a killer identity.

Wilhelm’s Planet Crafter crew hit full automation hell, where drones, auto crafters, trade rockets, and portals turn abundance into a storage-management comedy.

Ramen Junkie rounds up Transformers Swapticons and finds the gimmick neat in theory, but the samey, kinda-ugly designs don’t exactly inspire completionism.

Tim Bray makes the Wilcox prairie look anything but boring, with big Saskatchewan skies, harvest fields, and a photographer’s eye for cloud drama.

Tipa checks in on The Guns of Navarone, enjoying the old-school WWII adventure while side-eyeing its square-jawed heroics and one suspiciously familiar Barry.

Jeff gives Raspberry Pi’s CM5 Programming Jig a first pass, and it looks like a much saner way to provision piles of Compute Modules.

Mike starts porting Tetris to the BBC Bridge Companion, using MAME and a lot of Z80 map-reading before real hardware enters the picture.

Owls marks Whyday by remembering _why the lucky stiff and making the case for programming as play, not just EnterpriseFactoryBeanFactoryFactory drudgery.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 18/08/2026

Tuesday's #DailyBlogroll continues the #Blaugust celebration with works by TAGN, Tipa, Scopique, Ghastly, Bruce Schneier, Tobold, Azuriel, Michael, Sey, Brennan, Bhagpuss, The Friendly Necromancer and more! westkarana.xyz #RetroGaming #MMORPG #Blogging #GamingCulture

Sey is all-in on Mina the Hollower, praising its Link’s Awakening throwback feel, Soulsy challenge, secrets, and burrowing twist.

Azuriel revisits hazy NES memories, from Super Mario Bros. 3 and Zelda II to Blaster Master and the wrong game arriving at Christmas.

Scopique digs Riftborne, a cheap terminal-window 4X with ASCII vibes, sharp upkeep mechanics, and exactly the kind of menu-heavy old-school friction he wants.

Wilhelm says Blaugust hasn’t changed his approach much: he’s still logging his gaming life, not chasing guides, reviews, or whatever the RSS argument is.

Home sick with COVID, The Friendly Necromancer spends the day soloing Nagafen and Lady Vox in EverQuest Legends and hauling off some tasty loot.

Ghastly tours WoW’s Ironforge, pokes around the Explorers’ Guild, handles dwarf errands, and wraps Dun Morogh with a dead bear and level 13.

Tobold says Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous buries players in loot they can’t really use once weapon specialization locks a party into narrow builds.

Michael revisits co-open with his kids and loves how its no-pressure grocery-store wandering sparks exploration, roleplay, and made-up stories.

Bhagpuss spins a questionnaire post into a ramble on interviews, newspapers, The Guardian, and discovering Lana Del Rey through “Video Games.”

Brennan responds to circlejerk.blog parodying the IndieWeb scene, crediting the mimicry while chewing over what the satire gets right and wrong.

Bruce Schneier flags two papers arguing LLM memory still leaks sensitive context too easily, and that better reasoning beats just prompt-fiddling.

Tipa looks back on CP/M and FlexOS at DRI, then wonders how close she came to the future Maxis business-sim branch of history.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 17/08/2026

Still clawing my way out of this summer cold, helped along by the #DailyBlogroll and Wilhelm, Tipa, Luna, @joelchrono.xyz, Nimgimli, Juhis, Shintar, Ocho, @blockade85.bsky.social, The Chronicler, Kelly, Joar and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #RPG #TabletopGaming

Ocho is having a great time with ESO’s Return of the Thieves Guild, especially the sneaky rewards, Sheogorath weirdness, and cheese-fueled questing.

Nimgimli liked Diablo IV’s story and monster-smooshing, but Lord of Hate lost him with platform-locked expansion access and unreliable quest progress saves.

Shintar digs into SWTOR 8.0 finally getting the name Masters of the Force, plus confirmation that Galaxy in Chaos brings new story content.

Luna is sold on Hips N Noses’ bold art, funny banter, and clever mashup of cafe management with Vampire Survivors-style dream combat.

Joar says WoW: Shadowlands finally made him quit, thanks to covenant math, Maw and Torghast chores, anima grind, and a story payoff that soured.

Wilhelm’s Fantasy Critic League update is mostly a holding pattern, with Marvel Tokon and Pokemon Pokopia finally posting scores before a quiet August stretch.

The Chronicler highlights Army of the Potomac as a low-complexity GMT Civil War wargame with quick scenarios, campaign rules, and big-picture tactical depth.

Tipa rounds up a mixed movie binge, from Satanist-hotel horror-comedy and Old Henry to Fast and Furious confusion and a Hunger Games prequel bail-out.

Blockade85 writes candidly about feeling out of sync at 35, grieving lost years, and no longer feeling at home in games like Destiny 2 and FFXIV.

Juhis makes a brisk case for Django ORM, arguing it beats raw SQL for modeling business logic and quick database poking in the shell.

Kelly hits 31 Blaugust posts, crediting brevity and borrowed inspiration, while admitting the pace was exhausting and probably a one-time thing.

Joel shares his Blaugust reading list, spotlighting bloggers covering patient gaming, planned obsolescence, games, tech, books, and indie web journeys.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 15/08/2026

It's Saturday, and taking you into the #DailyBlogroll weekend with TAGN, Tipa, @tofutush.bsky.social, Jeromai, WCRobinson, Jimmy, Shintar, UltrViolet, Cristian, Aneesh, Roger, CrazyKinux and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #GamingCulture #Personal

Tipa contrasts old-school EverQuest dragon raids with EverQuest Legends, where Nagafen and Vox are far less punishing and loot is thankfully personal.

Crazy Kinux drops an EVE Online noir setup as Caelin heads to Jita 4-4, pulled into an old favor and a murky BlackCrystal past.

Shintar revisits WoW Classic Hardcore, finding a quieter Orgrimmar, hunter-heavy leveling scene, and still enough safe Stonetalon questing to scratch the itch.

Wilhelm digs into EVE Online multiboxing, arguing the real problem is fleet-scale abuse, not the ordinary second account most veterans rely on.

WCRobinson uses Blaugust to reflect on the games that shaped them, starting with Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and its big formative pull.

Roger tackles the Bernard Pivot Questionnaire for Blaugust, serving up candid, funny answers about favorite words, verbal pet peeves, and more.

Jimmy points readers to Analog Antiquarian this week, specifically Richard Goes to the Movies, in a brief companion-site heads-up.

Tofutush celebrates being gloriously free, mentions Artfight, and heads off to Xinjiang with a conlang writing system still on the to-do list.

Jeromai spins a GPT-4o prompt into a sharp riff on personal economy, attention, burnout, and the weekend-killing mental tax of workplace teambuilding.

UltrViolet tears through a 100-question webmaster survey, touching on late-'90s webmaking, AI templates, CSS confidence, and a content-first blogging mindset.

Cristian shares Bao Nguyen’s Code for the People documentary, basically a straight-up video bookmark for anyone curious enough to hit play.

Aneesh offers a tiny but neat prompt pair: “Yes, and…” and “Yes, and?”—same words, very different energy.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 14/08/2026

Friday's #DailyBlogroll has a bunch of cool news you can use by Wilhelm, Tipa, @sypster.bsky.social, Oya, Kimimi, Aywren, Marc, Owls, Welsh Troll, @inventoryfull.bsky.social, The Friendly Necromancer, Frostilyte and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #RetroGaming #TabletopGaming #Blogging

Syp spots a complete City of Villains box at a thrift store, a cheap little relic that lands like equal parts nostalgia and melancholy.

Tipa finds EverQuest Legends’ no-respawn instances turn Splitpaw and Befallen into relaxed, old-school dungeon crawls instead of charm-break repop disasters.

Frostilyte pitches ShantyTown as a cozy digital diorama-builder where tight spaces, curated objects, and light planning puzzles make every snapshot count.

Kimimi makes the case for glorious 6/10 games like Kaze no NOTAM and Colony 28—messy, flawed, fascinating swings she can’t help loving.

Owls is having a blast with Warframe’s Fables & Frontiers, a chat-driven Amir campaign that nails tabletop energy with slash commands and in-character chaos.

Oya calls Servant of the Lake classic Rusty Lake: smart point-and-click puzzles, great atmosphere, and better with a mouse than Steam Deck controls.

Marc argues early JRPG history is broader than Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, setting up why Emerald Dragon deserves a modern re-release.

Wilhelm says Planet Crafter keeps snowballing, with teleporters, T5 drills, bigger backpacks, and freer exploration once oxygen and water stop being problems.

The Friendly Necromancer shares another D&D journal entry, with cultists, collapsing magic barriers, soul-crushing spells, and a warforged hilariously stuck in a wall.

Bhagpuss turns a drawerful of old badges into a cheerful nostalgia rummage, with '90s ephemera and at least one Batman: The Animated Series pin.

Aywren digs into why gaming posts got harder to write, from lower motivation to too many half-remembered sessions in FFXIV and Planet Crafter.

Welsh Troll weighs the promise and headaches of a community blogging platform, from discovery and shared tooling to moderation, costs, and giving up control.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 13/08/2026

The Thursday #DailyBlogroll has all the news you can use from Wilhelm, Tipa, Zack, Sweetie, Ghastly, Bruce Schneier, Tobold, @virtualmoose.bsky.social, Sey, Brennan, Joar, Azuriel and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #RetroGaming #RPG #ArtificialIntelligence

Tipa maps out a full EverQuest Legends leveling plan for Chris’s Kerran bard, from Steamfont to dragons, with kiting, ports, and juicy low-level dungeons.

Sey kicks off Quest Vibes with Andrew One, digging into the Denshattack soundtrack and spotlighting the retro-pop collaborators behind its 80 songs.

Azuriel talks himself into a Switch 2 with Zelda, Minecraft, and price-hike logic, then admits the refurbished upgrade has fully replaced the old Switch.

Joar looks back on WoW: Legion as the expansion that saved the game for him, thanks to the Broken Isles, artifact weapons, and class halls.

Zack says Pragmata pairs moon-base robot chaos with an unexpectedly warm Hugh-and-Diana story, making Capcom’s sci-fi action game a standout this year.

Sweetie vents about dating-app gamers who mansplain RPGs and visual novels, or assume they can instantly beat her at Sonic Riders.

Wilhelm finally jumps into EverQuest Legends and finds Daybreak’s $20-plus-sub throwback clearly aimed at solo-friendly nostalgia over classic EverQuest’s hardcore grind.

Tobold finds Wrath of the Righteous Act 3 huge and awkward at first, then realizes mythic quests and rank boosts are the real way forward.

Michael recommends Europa Panic, a brutally tough but fair EGA-style DOS arcade game with generator hunts, slow lasers, and a nasty purple tentacle timeout.

Brennan digs into the “pursuit of happiness,” using the 50/10/40 model to question how much well-being comes from genes, circumstances, and intentional choices.

Bruce Schneier highlights “context bombing,” where planted prompt injections can make guardrailed AI hacking agents shut themselves down—at least for now.

Ghastly wrestles with a reading slump, sparse book-fair picks, and limited shelf space before settling on a Fighting Fantasy gamebook instead.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 12/08/2026

Today's #DailyBlogroll features new (and old?) stories from Wilhelm, Tipa, JJM, The Chronicler, Dávid, @scopique.bsky.social, Mike, David, @kgadams.net, Krikket, Joar, Blockade85 and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #TabletopGaming #RetroComputing #OpenWeb

David’s Gunderholfen session sends the Battle Brothers into Level 5 for bugbears, harpies, gargoyles, and fresh clues about the Ravens.

Wilhelm weighs an EVE Online exit, mulling nullsec logistics, asset safety, and the hassle of leaving New Eden when you’ve got no plan.

The Chronicler rounds up helpful Inferno materials, highlighting Tuscany, logistics, treachery, and what sets this Levy & Campaign entry apart.

Kelly introduces himself through gaming, reading, tech work, retirement, and the health shifts that have complicated life after leaving IBM.

Dávid reflects on pattern recognition, from finding metro stations to debugging bugs, and where it helps, misfires, or earns Cassandra treatment.

Joar writes tenderly about granddaughter Swayze, the shock of second-time grandfatherhood, and the ache of loving family from a distance.

Tipa opens with a halfling-pie gag, then digs into Connecticut politics, tolls, and how federal cuts hit the state’s own Trump voters.

Blockade85 checks in after brutal storms near Cincinnati, thankful the damage was limited even with flickering power, downed limbs, and no internet.

Mike documents a BBC Bridge Companion composite video mod, a fried THS7316, and the oscilloscope-assisted path from RF murk to clearer video.

JJM shares steady Outpost progress on ZX Spectrum 48K, from engine rewrites to 53 screens, and it finally sounds on track for 2026.

Krikket unpacks Blaugust’s AI disclaimer, arguing blanket bans are unenforceable and exclusionary while clarifying how this year’s debate evolved.

Scopique riffs on The Daily Blogroll’s shutdown and wonders whether bloggers should band together more like a communal site than scattered solo shops.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 11/08/2026

Today's #DailyBlogroll captures only the best of Tipa, Wilhelm, Nimgimli, Ramen Junkie, Ocho, Anarchae, @scripting.com, Jamie Zawinski, Stargrace, Juhis, Shintar, @leekscosycorner.com and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #OpenWeb #RetroGaming

Stargrace hits level 46, braves the planes, blows 150 motes on an accidental bard charm upgrade, then swaps classes again.

Ocho gushes about Woodland Warriors, where a slime-slinging bullfrog and friends show off how flexible, beginner-friendly Many Worlds can be.

Nimgimli finds The Planet Crafter bleak but intriguing, with early survival shaped by tight oxygen limits, light death penalties, and lots of little fallback bases.

Shintar ranks SWTOR: Legacy of the Sith’s standout NPCs, praising how character-driven the expansion became, especially Rass Ordo and Darth Nul.

Krista highlights Cozy Marbles as a chill marble-run builder packed with creative pieces, playful customization, and easygoing race setup.

Wilhelm logs into No Man’s Sky’s 10th anniversary meetup, dances in the Anomaly, and enjoys the game’s fleeting, friendly stranger encounters.

Anarchae rounds up Blaugust links, indie web tools, Echofeed’s shutdown, and a handy reminder to back up Letterboxd just in case.

Jamie Zawinski marks Hackers’ 31st anniversary with a Cyberdelia night of movie screening, costume contest, Wipeout XL, skate ramps, and dancing.

Juhis gives a brisk Python intro to JSON validation with Pydantic, using Pokédex data to show how schemas catch bad input.

Ramen Junkie looks back on building a Raspberry Pi-powered PiGrrl 2 handheld that worked, barely, and got outclassed by newer emulation devices.

Dave Winer checks in on RSS.chat, cable-streaming sprawl, and recommends The Agency if polished British-style crime stories are your thing.

Tipa explains how Discord fatigue led her to build the AI-powered Daily Blogroll from Python, RSS, and TerraChat tech repurposed from Final Fantasy VI fandom.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 10/08/2026

Monday's #DailyBlogroll has week-starting excitement from Wilhelm, Tipa, @nicole.express, CrazyKinux, Andrew Plotkin, Joel, Tan, Roger, Warner, Wolfy, @wakupanbouquet.bsky.social, Tim Bray and more! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #RetroGaming #MMORPG #IndieGames

Tipa digs into EverQuest Legends nostalgia, chasing classic class armor and old quest memories even when newer gear makes the whole thing gloriously unnecessary.

Nicole tours 1991’s Idol Mahjong Final Romance, a stylish strip-riichi oddity with fixed dates, item-shop quirks, and more aesthetic than later entries.

Wilhelm checks Fantasy Critic Week 32, where Big Walk surged, Beast of Reincarnation landed softer, and the standings got a nice late shake-up.

Wolfy is still steamed at CIG, but also finds brighter gaming notes in Aion 2’s clearer pitch, Skate’s big multiplayer test, and Dead As Disco’s auto-BPM tool.

Andrew Plotkin rounds up new Anglerfish details: Cyan’s Myst-universe pitch impressed publishers, missed funding, triggered layoffs, and left smaller follow-up Mudfish intriguing.

CrazyKinux hypes Dark Matter season two, praising season one’s Box-and-alternate-realities mind-bender and making a solid case for a pre-premiere binge.

Joel shares a brisk personal fact file covering origami, handheld gaming, speedcubing, favorite colors, and a few cheerfully contrarian food opinions.

Warner’s weekly reading roundup roams from human origins and AI religion to writing accuracy, political moderation, and the data-center backlash.

Tim Bray posts some handsome West African drums and explains how a weekly jam pushed him from curious stand-in to buying his own dunun setup.

Tan mixes a warm personal update with a Blaugust link roundup touching Morrowind, Final Fantasy VII, FUTO keyboard, indie platforms, and EdTech.

Wakupan shares hobby talk spanning doujin fandom, marathon solo karaoke, tarot study, and a heartfelt love of reading, theater, and fiction itself.

Roger takes the Blaugust superpower prompt and sensibly swerves past Superman-style heroics and time travel, both sounding like more trouble than they’re worth.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 09/08/2026

Lazy Sunday #DailyBlogroll, with the latest good reads from Tipa, Wilhelm, @thinkroot.eurosky.social, Magi, Shintar, @ellie.wubrgsky.org, UltrViolet, Aneesh, Kluwes, Bhagpuss, The Friendly Necromancer, Frostilyte and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #RetroGaming #CozyGaming

Tipa marks turning 65 by tallying a startling lifetime in EverQuest, EQ2, and a long parade of MMORPGs.

Frostilyte digs into a low-tier Pokémon Silver run, where Johto’s time-based catches and weekday events make early planning surprisingly fiddly.

Magi highlights Yashi – Sand Driver, a cozy desert survival road trip about van upgrades, scavenging, and chasing New Eden with your coyote.

Shintar looks back on WoW: Midnight Season 1, praising better-tuned delves while warning Blizzard’s steady reward drip could tip into burnout.

Ellie finally finishes Trails in the Sky and finds a decent JRPG that doesn’t quite match the towering hype around the series.

The Friendly Necromancer survives EverQuest Legends server drama, finishes up Najena, dings 30, and heads into the Guks with new AA toys.

Bhagpuss starts a drawer-diving series with old Legion of Superheroes stickers and the strange half-memory of forgotten collectibles.

Cristian’s quick reminder: even on Linux, occasional scans with ClamAV, rkhunter, chkrootkit, and Lynis are just sensible housekeeping.

Aneesh is fed up with online ‘hard disagree’ energy that shuts down curiosity instead of adding anything thoughtful or playful.

UltrViolet wrestles with Blaugust motivation, draft-post anxiety, and the curious pull of trying EverQuest Legends for its solo play.

Kluwes reflects on ten years of Many Welps, from almost becoming a book blogger to finding a lasting home in games writing.

Wilhelm riffs on Aftermath’s Hater Week, Adobe misery, overplayed charts, and why bloggers probably shouldn’t pretend to be above strong opinions.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 08/08/2026

Well, I’m over the hill now, and this list of MMOs I have played proves it. chasingdings.com/2026/08/08/w... #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 #MMOs #RealLife

Ada Lovelace, if she'd lived long enough to work on Babbage's Analytical Engine. Artwork from the board game "Ada's Dream" (https://www.alleycatgames.com/adasdream). Basically, this is how old I am, and this apparently was my first video game console :-)

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 08/08/2026

Saturday's #Blaugust2026 #DailyBlogroll has cool stuff from Wilhelm, Tipa, John, Axxuy, Marc, Jimmy, Jeff, Joar, Azuriel, @aywren.bsky.social, Owls, Welsh Troll and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #Blogging #ArtificialIntelligence #RetroGaming

Aywren breaks down FFXIV patch 7.55’s Phantom Relic grind, from crafted items to roulettes, Occult Crescent drops, and the inevitable tome sink.

John loves how It Consumes turns darkness and limited light into a tense roguelite shooter loop full of unlocks, timing, and doomed runs.

Tipa digs through EverQuest Legends’ cash shop, where ornamentation and convenience items look pricey even if the store isn’t pay-to-win yet.

Joar says FFXIV is excellent, but its huge story focus, alt-job leveling style, and WoW muscle memory kept it from becoming home.

Owls celebrates finally hitting level 50 in EverQuest Legends, then immediately sets sights on killing Innoruuk and retracing an old necromancer route.

Welsh Troll reads ESO’s revised roadmap as delays, QoL triage, and a worrying hint that broader Elder Scrolls collaboration could sideline the MMO.

Marc pushes back on Donkey Kong 3 revisionism, arguing Nintendo’s arcade exit was really about shifting focus to Famicom and NES.

Wilhelm tears into Xbox Games’ layoffs, fuzzy “Four Cs,” Minecraft fixation, and pricier consoles, arguing Microsoft still looks directionless.

Jimmy traces how Will Wright’s Oakland firestorm experience fed into the life-sim thinking that would eventually shape The Sims.

Jeff comes away impressed by Dell’s XPS 13 and Intel’s Core 5 320, especially Fedora 44 support and standout x86 efficiency.

Axxuy reflects on drafting by hand versus Neovim, arguing blogs lose none of the words but gain something irreplaceably webby through links.

Azuriel argues AI-generated blog images and bot-like replies trade away the human messiness that makes blogging and online communities worth showing up for.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 07/08/2026

Today's #DailyBlogroll has good stuff from Tipa, Wilhelm, Mailvaltar, Michael, Joar, Kimimi, Sey, Bruce Schneier, Tobold, @brennanbrown.ca, Blockade85, Ghastly and more! Enjoy! westkarana.xyz #Blogging #IndieGames #CozyGaming #ArtificialIntelligence

Tipa dives into Pokopia’s flooded Cerulean City expansion, rebuilding ruins, collecting a separate 50-mon dex, and testing underwater life with Ditto’s new Dive command.

Sey rounds up Wholesome Games Celebration picks, spotlighting fresh demos like Wild n Chill, A Tiny Wander, Tony the Mole, and Jigrift.

Mailvaltar stuck with Wuthering Waves after the Edgerunners collab and ended up loving its flashy combat and enemy-drop Echo grind more than expected.

Wilhelm’s Stardew Valley farm hits summer goals, repairs the bus, nabs a sandfish in Calico Desert, and gets a rude reminder combat has teeth.

Ghastly digs into 3DS upgrade FOMO, pushing back on inflated resale hype and asking whether another handheld is actually worth it.

Tobold finds Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous’ Treasure of the Midnight Isles a neat build-testing roguelike, but too thin on story to stick.

Michael’s take is blunt: game devs should stop using LLMs altogether, citing theft, community pollution, and huge energy costs.

Blockade85 vents about real life slowing progress in Warframe and Final Fantasy VII, while admitting the small gains feel sweeter now.

Joar writes candidly about the ‘empty nest’ not arriving as one clean moment, but as a quieter, messier shift even with a son nearby.

Bruce Schneier flags that ICE is reportedly buying credit-card application data through brokers, which is as unsettling as it sounds.

Brennan reflects on EchoFeed shutting down, blogging’s fragility, and why writing online still matters as a way to leave something behind.

Kimimi finally ships Terror of the Alien Mindmasters, reworking a stalled C64 idea into a browser-playable Twine sci-fi interactive fiction.

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Tipa @chasingdings.com · 06/08/2026

It's August 6, and #Blaugust2026 is just getting started! Today's #DailyBlogroll has stories from Tipa, Wilhelm, Kelly, Krikket, Sweetie, @scripting.com, Stargrace, Juhis, Shintar, Anarchae, Jamie Zawinski, @leekscosycorner.com and more! westkarana.xyz #MMORPG #OpenWeb #Blogging #CozyGaming

Stargrace hit level 40 in EverQuest Live after bouncing through Kedge Keep, Guk, and Splitpaw, though the anti-grouping feel still bugs her.

Shintar is oddly excited for SWTOR 8.0 PTS, where boosted level 85 characters can test the new operation boss despite the stripped-down, goofy setup.

Krista previews Starsand Island’s August 18 full release, highlighting its cozy life-sim mix of farming, fishing, animals, multiplayer, and console launches.

Krikket embraces the coming wave of chore sims, from Librarian and Supermarket Chaos to more shelf-straightening oddities waiting on her wishlist.

Sweetie’s July mixed Deltarune, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and a first mainline Pokémon run with Pearl, all while nudging herself beyond comfort picks.

Wilhelm says Planet Crafter’s brisk terraform loop keeps the survival-crafting grind moving, from oxygen-starved baselets to exploring wrecks and settling on the bluffs.

Jamie Zawinski blasts Scott Wiener for using Anthropic tech in an interactive attack ad, calling the whole AI-driven stunt gross and cynical.

Tipa finally labels the Hartford skyline, tracing peaks from West Peak to Talcott Mountain and Heublein Tower after years of hiking Connecticut’s Metacomet Ridge.

Kelly chased WordPress comment failures past Cloudflare and found Dam Spam was the real blocker, finally letting Chris post again after two years.

Juhis gives a clean Python refresher on environment variables, from os.environ and os.reload_environ to .env loading and secret handling.

Dave Winer says RSS.chat now supports WebSub for instant post delivery, while he keeps poking at how RSS might connect with AT Proto.

Anarchae looks over a year of Bearblog stats, finding modest traffic, random spikes, and a readership mostly drawn to customization and Linux posts.

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