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It's the #DailyBlogroll with @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scopique.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @tofutush.bsky.social, @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social, @eblong.com, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @sypster.bsky.social, @axxuy.xyz and more!

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#WoWClassic #BaldursGate3 #ARCRaiders #IndieWeb
Syp’s WoW Classic grind crawls through the 30s/40s, debates sticking with Druid vs waiting for Shaman, enjoys Greatfather Winter tradition, and finds new appreciation for vanilla’s cross-world travel. Bhagpuss checks in from Baldur’s Gate 3: 45 hours deep, lots of trap-disarming and save-scumming, a surprisingly manageable Auntie Ethel hag fight, and some grumbling about awful pathing. Kimimi gushes over Zwei as pure comfort-RPG magic—sparkly scenery, gentle acoustic tunes, whimsical villages, and kid-heroes Pipiro and Pockle—like getting that “first enchanted RPG” feeling back. Scopique digs into ARC Raiders’ extraction-shooter pain: aggression-based matchmaking sounds promising, but the real lesson is you’re the weakest thing out there and death means losing your kit. Tobold tries Sengoku Dynasty post-1.1 as a cozy survival-crafting village builder—fast travel, Japanese theme, villagers for automation—and happily turns off raids (or toggles infinite health) to skip Andrew Plotkin scans the 2026 IGF nominees, cheers the love for “weird little games,” name-checks favorites like Type Help and Roottrees, and adds a loud “okay fine” to the Titanium Court hype. Axxuy recaps 2025: 100 blog posts and too much traffic-stat staring, plus the media roundup—finally playing Stardew Valley, returning to Runescape, and blasting through ~30 library-supplied books. Warner Crocker balances grandkids’ laughter with a heavy news week, arguing that feeling angry can sharpen resolve—and asking what sacrifices the comfortable are willing to make for others closer to Dave Winer shares a bleak drive-time thought about ICE expanding into a nationwide secret-police vibe, then pitches a social-web tweak: make replies private unless the recipient chooses to repost. Anarchae ships Anarchaeopteryx Theme CSS v17 with a new callout/infobox (HTML+CSS included), cleans up dead links, and drops the guestbook after Azure took the hosting down. Joar reflects on what 35 years in accounting/fi…
January 10, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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quest64official.bsky.social
All Quests Go To 64 You know Like the dog movie About Quests
January 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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massivelyop.bsky.social
MassivelyOP's 2025 awards continue today with our pick for MMORPG of the year...
MassivelyOP’s 2025 Awards: MMORPG of the Year
massivelyop.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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boltsmag.org
American Samoans occupy a strange in-between as U.S. nationals but not citizens. They pay taxes, have Social Security numbers, and can join the military—but they can’t vote. A voter fraud case in Alaska highlights their unusual predicament.
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public officials—and has made them a new target for policing voter fraud.
boltsmag.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Endlich Freitag! Enjoy your #DailyBlogroll with stories from @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @tofutush.bsky.social, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social, @monsterlady.bsky.social, @stargrace.bsky.social and more!

westkarana.xyz

#EVEOnline #AmericanTruckSimulator
Bhagpuss digs into Sony’s patented AI “Ghost” gameplay helper—trained on Twitch/YouTube to offer in-game guidance—and wonders if it’s a genuinely less annoying alternative to tabbing out for spoilers. Wilhelm hits 290M skill points in EVE Online (over 409M across characters), crediting events, accelerators, and implants—because The Imperium’s new carrier doctrine has him finally training with a Naithin does his 2025 gaming recap with charts and top-10 lists, plus a slightly conflicted milestone: 12 straight months of Wuthering Waves, and a cooling-off from Honkai Star Rail over ‘must pull’ Roger shares good news: Sidcup’s cinema is back as Castle Sidcup, with a cosy refurb, competitive prices, and plans for everything from new releases to cult classics plus accessible community-friendly Nimgimli finally wraps the chaotic two-apartment move, says bittersweet goodbyes (and a lot of cardboard), and looks ahead to unpacking hell and a rough 2025. Emily reflects on drifting into a “neutral zone” politically—still pro inclusion and democracy, but increasingly wary of censorship and privacy-invasive policies like the UK’s Online Safety Act age Dave Winer watches coverage of Renee Nicole Good’s killing and asks whether the ICE violence was planned—or a stress test of the rule-based order, depending on whether the shooter is identified andpro Jamie Zawinski discovers the *Brazil* “eyeball” sequence was actually filmed and immediately considers updating the Peepers xscreensaver—plus a fun aside about Terry Gilliam and *1984*. Bruce Schneier notes Palo Alto’s crosswalk signals got hacked, and the post-mortem is painfully mundane: the city never changed the devices’ default passwords. Tofutush explains how her site’s character relationships graph works, leaning on D3.js force-directed examples and practical tweaks (like ditching invalidation and wrangling data) to make it usable. Stargrace kicks off an American Truck Simulator roleplay series with a Reno-to-Elko haul …
January 9, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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riendonut.bsky.social
idk why "Quest 64 in modern small-town-ish setting" has been a recent fixation of mine. maybe all the wide open spaces of nothing where I grew up make it seem like a natural fit
January 9, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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otr-trash.bsky.social
I'm tired of being jump scared by @quest64official.bsky.social's reposts on my feed. It's my turn to jump scare all of you. Suffer.
January 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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The pre-Friday #DailyBlogroll has stories by @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scopique.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @tofutush.bsky.social, @blockade85.bsky.social, @ellie.wubrgsky.org, @belghast.com, @crazykinux.bsky.social and more!

westkarana.xyz

#WorldOfWarcraft #SteamReplay #BaldursGate3 #Avatar
Joar breaks down 2025 playtime stats (TempusGameIt-style): WoW dominates, with GW2/Diablo 4/ESO trailing; he hit max on a Gnome Hunter and is now wrestling an over-tuned ESO boss. Ellie revisits LEGO Batman 2 and maps why it’s a turning point for LEGO games: full voice acting plus an open-world structure that ditched the old hub format. Ghastly runs through Steam Replay 2025—Slay the Spire, Bugaboo Pocket, LOTRO—plus lots of retro play, and laments how Webfishing fizzled out amid abandonment, harassment, and server chaos. CrazyKinux gives Avatar: Fire and Ash a 3/5—gorgeous visuals, a compelling Fire-and-Ash tribe tease, but rushed character arcs and familiar beats left him (and his teens) shrugging. Bhagpuss swaps Baldur’s Gate time for MTV REWIND, a YouTube-API-powered nostalgia machine with decade channels, period ads, and an absurd pile of music videos. Jamie Zawinski points to Mission Local’s comic on San Francisco’s ridiculous sewer system, filing it neatly under “things that are both horrifying and extremely on-brand for this blog.” Belghast reflects on a fledgling chat-based relationship ending abruptly, and why online intimacy can feel turbocharged (hello, IRC nostalgia) while still being fragile without real-world grounding. Blockade85 wants more whimsy in the post-holiday gray stretch—Christmas lights down, football ending, work dull—so he’s considering year-round wall lights to keep his space feeling fun. Scopique ditches a flaky Huion K40 and rolls the dice on a Temu-tier “Stream Dock,” then finds its VSD Craft software is basically Stream Deck’s UI in a trenchcoat. Dave Winer shows how ChatGPT can spit out Font-Awesome-quality SVG icons on demand, then pivots to OG metadata weirdness where the “wrong” image shows up in Bluesky/WordPress flows. Tofutush raves about John le Carré’s A Perfect Spy, digging into its semi-autobiographical angle and the book’s twisty letter chapters that juggle third-person “he” and first-person “I.” Tipa finally r…
January 8, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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elastiskalinjen.bsky.social
SEBI 16 - Sixteen games in one ✨

-Out 16 January -
It would help me a lot if you want to wishlist ❤️

store.steampowered.com/app/3946490/...

#sebi16 #pico8 #ufo50
January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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lazydevs.bsky.social
What is a pokeman doing in my #picotron ?
January 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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dave.linkblog.org
The Moment We Lost The Plot.
The Moment We Lost The Plot
It has never been easy for me to write about January 6. ...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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belghast.com
Catching my readers up on recent events... and the fact that One Soft Kinky Nerd Girl did in fact emerge from the shadows and confess a long-term crush on me... no way that egotistical post should have worked but apparently it did.

aggronaut.com/2026/01/07/h...
Hearts Filthy Lesson - Tales of the Aggronaut
Catching readers up on the events of yesterday, the implosion of thing with Ren, and one Soft Kinky Nerd Girl coming out of the shadows.
aggronaut.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:08 PM
chasingdings.com
In Other Worlds, by A. A. Attanasio

Yet another review of an old book by an author people might dimly remember.
In Other Worlds, by A. A. Attanasio
Yet another review of an old book by an author people might dimly remember.
westkarana.blog
January 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
chasingdings.com
Today's #DailyBlogroll has stories from @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scopique.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @belghast.com, @heartlessgamer.com, Tim Bray, @monsterlady.bsky.social, @eblong.com, @warnercrocker.bsky.social and more!

westkarana.xyz

#BaldursGate3 #APlagueTaleInnocence #StarCitizen #Zork
Bhagpuss admits Baldur’s Gate 3 is eating his life—25 hours since Saturday—and vents about quest journals that send you NPC-hunting unless you peek at guides. Emily reviews A Plague Tale: Innocence, digging its grim 1300s France plague-and-rats horror and stealth gameplay as Amicia protects Hugo while crafting tools to outsmart soldiers and swarms. Scopique wants Star Citizen to make Imperator elections matter in-game, pitching something Powerplay-ish from Elite Dangerous as a way to add systems beyond “shoot and loot.” Andrew Plotkin releases Visible Zorker 2, letting you play Zork II while watching ZIL calls, variables, maps, and timers live—plus source code and commentary (spoilers, obviously). Heartless calls Packers–Vikings the worst football game he’s seen, thanks to resting players and piling injuries, but shrugs it off since Green Bay still limps into the playoffs. Jamie Zawinski flags the DOI’s 2026 rule update that can void national park passes altered with stickers—seemingly aimed at people covering Trump’s face on the pass image. Nik ditches grand goal-setting and makes a simple pact with 2026: he’ll try to be better than 2025, and hopes the year will meet him halfway. Belghast recaps 2025 movies he mostly just enjoyed, highlights Happy Gilmore 2 as a surprise win, dings Tron: Ares as the letdown, and experiments with an alternate narration track. Juhis sets up the open-source BookLore in his homelab to corral ebooks from Kindle/iPad/NAS, run an OPDS server, and maybe nudge himself toward a Kobo next year. Warner Crocker points to Nikita Prokopov’s thorough teardown of macOS Tahoe’s menu icons, arguing Apple’s “icon for everything” idea creates inconsistent metaphors and a distracting mess. Tim Bray ships a hefty Quamina PR adding `+` and `*` regex support, then shares hard-won automata lessons: collect real testcases and break features into small, shippable deliverables. Dave Winer explains why he picked David Frum as 2025 Blogger of the Year…
January 7, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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It's the Tuesday #DailyBlogroll. Stories by @scopique.bsky.social, @friendlynecro.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social, @ellie.wubrgsky.org, @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social, @sypster.bsky.social and more!

westkarana.xyz

#WorldOfWarcraft #DuneAwakening #SWTOR #BaldursGate3
Syp feels a bit aimless in World of Warcraft, so he’s leveling a Death Knight toward prepatch, trophy-hunting (hello, Onyxia head), decor-scavenging in Northrend, and buying the Iron Chainkini. Tipa wrangles Dune: Awakening base relocation drama—private servers, Solari scrambling, missing thopters, and rebuilding foundations—while worrying the whole server cluster’s going quiet. Roger shares early thoughts on Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon—use-based skill leveling, generous skill points, crafting through persistence, and tough combat that rewards movement, timing, and mana Shintar wraps SWTOR Galactic Season 9 after finishing all meta achievements, praising the flashpoint-heavy theme and mostly chill groups, while noting veteran-only weeklies made guild nights harder to Ellie celebrates eight years of reviews with a comfy “games of 2025” list—12 monthly picks and why they stuck, plus a nod to how writing helps keep her gaming habits (and head) healthier. Wilhelm closes out Steam’s Winter Sale with the Steam Awards (none of his votes won), grumbles about “popularity contest” vibes, and digs into Best of Steam 2025 seller/player stats tiers. The Friendly Necromancer journals a rough reset—bereavement, flu, ongoing immunotherapy—then talks Dune feeling like chores and a Baldur’s Gate 3 clown-cleric run deep into Act 3. Scopique vents about the headache of planning a June UK-to-Ireland trip—rental car rules kill England/Scotland, and his wife goes full spreadsheet mode to lock down Ireland lodging. Anarchae shares sanitized YAML configs for the Homepage dashboard, comparing it to Homarr and explaining how it tames too many self-hosted tabs (Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr) without making Firefox chaos. Ron Gilbert declares 2026 his “year of Linux,” fed up with Apple lock-down vibes, then lists practical dev worries like C++ IDEs, Mac code signing, drivers, distro choice, and backups. Dave Winer posts a WordLand video demo (cranky audio caveats), cheers apps building…
January 6, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
I have never seen this!! The kicker is great too!!
thegurglingcod.bsky.social The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 5d
House of Buggin' had a sketch where a West Side Story gang with coordinated outfits and dance moves encounters a real ca. 1995 gang. I would love to see the Guys and Dolls gamblers w/ their suits and moves encounter a bunch of kids gambling on their phones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpVY...
House of Buggin' - West Side Story spoof
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January 5, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Holiday Grab Bag: Dune, Palworld, Quest 64

We moved servers in Dune, killed a God pal in Palworld, and escaped the Blue Cave in Quest 64. Read on...

chasingdings.com/2026/01/05/h...

#DuneAwakening #MMOs #Palworld #Analogue3d #Quest64
A dune buggy in front of a Dune: Awakening base. In the distance can be seen other bases.
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
chasingdings.com
It's Monday's #DailyBlogroll, with stories by @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @belghast.com, @anarchaeopteryx.bsky.social, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @leekscosycorner.com, @monsterlady.bsky.social, @stargrace.bsky.social and more!

westkarana.xyz

#WorldOfWarcraft #BaldursGate3
Stargrace’s WoW gold-making week nets nearly 5M, led by an 800k+ Rich Purple Silk Shirt pattern, and she doubles down on server-arbitrage while keeping posting time manageable. Bhagpuss finds Baldur’s Gate 3 more Larian than classic Baldur’s Gate—addictive and intense, but episodic, slow to progress, and packed with talky quest sprawl. Kimimi reviews Power Dolls 6’s shift to streamlined 3D mech action, but the foggy, sterile presentation and janky details (floating parts, limited dodging) sap the big-explosions fun. Krista spotlights seven 2026 games she’s excited to try—mixing cozy-leaning indies with bigger names like Mario Tennis Fever and Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection. Wilhelm recaps TAGN’s Fantasy Critic League 2026 draft day—date and pick-count mixups, new rules, auto-picks galore, one manual rescue pick, and lessons learned for next time. Tipa ports Sword for Hire from Python to Lua for Picotron, gets inspired by what others are building, and experiments with dithered scene transitions while wrestling cartridge-size limits. Anarchae’s week-one digest hits a new Panasonic hot water dispenser, returning to weekly qigong, and reading Otto Penzler’s female-detectives anthology (including a surprisingly light Christie). Warner’s Sunday link roundup riffs on a wild Venezuela news weekend, propaganda and MAGA infighting, plus pieces on Grok/X abuse, enshittification-resistant internet ideas, and blogging’s comeback. Belghast shares a deeply personal resolution: after losing his spouse and drifting in numbness, he wants 2026 to be about genuinely living life again, not just passing time. Dave Winer argues for owning your own online distribution as a co-op (no VC, billionaires, or government), plugs FeedLand politics and the nightly Scripting News email. Tobold tracks down a too-loud water-cooled PC: radiator fans stuck at 100% for years, new Corsair fans plus dust cleanup, then BIOS fan curves for quiet temps—even in BG3. Emily reviews Bridg…
January 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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dave.linkblog.org
Facebook used Mastodon to mislead journalists. Now that Threads is established, they no longer need Mastodon.
Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse
In a wide-ranging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why ActivityPub and ATProto will likely never merge, and what it will take to grow the fediverse.
coywolf.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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belghast.com
Since we did not have a podcast, I talk through a decision I have arrived at. It was triggered in part by a friend asking me a simple question... if I had a New Years Resolution, and the floodgates opened.

aggronaut.com/2026/01/04/i...
I Resolve to Live - Tales of the Aggronaut
A pretty heavy topic but I've reached the decision that I am not going to wait quietly until my battery runs out... but going to live again.
aggronaut.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
chasingdings.com
New #DailyBlogroll with stories by @scripting.com, @sypster.bsky.social, @warnercrocker.bsky.social, @leekscosycorner.com, TAGN, Azuriel, @lunasgaminglog.com, @eblong.com and more!

westkarana.xyz

#WorldOfWarcraft #PillarsOfEternity2 #RingFitAdventure #IndieWeb
Syp reviews a busy December (finishing Pillars of Eternity II, grabbing Rogue Trader and more) and maps January plans across LOTRO zones, WoW retail/classic prepatches, and finally starting Rogue|_end Krista rounds up fitness games as a low-pressure New Year’s move-more plan, from Wii Fit classics to Ring Fit Adventure, with a quick history lesson and a big “moderation” disclaimer. Luna kicks off 2026 with a reader poll on favorite console/handheld playstyles, shares last month’s “seasons in games” results (Autumn wins), and notes the blog’s on break until Jan 13. Shintar tours WoW’s original Vale of Eternal Blossoms in Mists of Pandaria Classic before it gets wrecked again, contrasting it with the later “ravaged” version she first experienced. Andrew Plotkin announces NarraScope 2026 (Albany, June 12–14) is taking submissions for talks, games, and a new “Experience” track for embodied/physical-digital narrative—deadline Jan 31. Warner reacts to news of the U.S. invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president and wife, calling the press conference shaky improv and warning the fallout will get even wilder. Wilhelm double-features Pluribus (a Vince Gilligan hive-mind sci-fi he reads as an AI metaphor) and The Beast in Me, with some “it’s fine, not THAT good” binge-watching realism. Tobold unpacks how international law works by consent, arguing the U.S. grabbing Maduro risks “open season” on leaders and triggers the Pottery Barn rule—now you own Venezuela’s mess. Ron Gilbert is polishing a Hugo comments script (flat files or SQLite, Discord notifications) and admits the real trick is public promises—same motivation hack he uses for game dev. Azuriel watches workplace AI go from “don’t paste sensitive notes into ChatGPT” to a walled-off setup where one programmer uses Copilot to build a massive form in 100 hours—and worries about junior岗位. Jamie Zawinski adds a self-test mode to the Snarkatron and celebrates that most of its 27-year-old pixels are still kickin…
January 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM
chasingdings.com
It's the hundredth #DailyBlogroll! Stories from @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @scripting.com, @cliffharris.bsky.social, @aywren.bsky.social, @rogertayloredwards.bsky.social, @belghast.com, @crazykinux.bsky.social, @virtualmoose.bsky.social, @ellie.wubrgsky.org and more!

westkarana.xyz
Aywren lays out 2026 creative-and-gaming goals: push the Steam backlog to 80% played (with help from a Steam Deck), finish at least five Switch games, and tackle VR too. Shintar unexpectedly dings Legacy Level 50 on SWTOR’s Satele Shan on New Year’s Day, checks progress on other servers, and starts eyeing the long game of going legendary everywhere. Ron Gilbert says he’s done making other people rich off his IP, explains why Thimbleweed Park 2 funding doesn’t add up, and doubles down on small games like Death By Scrolling. Ellie, not usually a match-3 fan, is won over by Spirit Swap’s cozy lofi vibes, neon look, and gentle queer narrative, framing its competitive puzzling as a small bright win. Cliffski shares the unglamorous math of owning a solar farm—charts, outages, storm repairs, depreciation, and realistic set-asides—turning big revenue into much smaller long-term profit. Roger finds Zootropolis 2 instantly charming thanks to its central duo, rapid-fire jokes, and pop-culture homages, even if the story runs long—and notes its huge box-office haul. Bhagpuss rolls in late to Stranger Things, then happily eats crow—he loved Season 5, especially the two-hour finale that “just flew by,” even if a few bits nagged. Bruce Schneier kicks off Friday Squid Blogging 2026 with a squid found in a light fixture—probably a college prank—and opens the thread for whatever security news he didn’t cover. Dave Winer riffs on “the web after AI,” liking Google’s AI blurbs but worrying about the web getting turned into slurry—and argues AI answers need permalinks for fairness. Michael argues it’s time to purge X/Twitter links from Itch pages (and maybe Discord), calling the platform toxic and algorithm-hostile—and suggests deleting dead accounts instead of leaving them. CrazyKinux reflects on a slow-but-real blogging comeback in 2025—35/36 posts with momentum late in the year—plus big pageview numbers and a reminder that writing accumulates over time. Belghast looks back o…
January 3, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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moranstephen1000.bsky.social
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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www.zoeblade.com
Someone remade Lemmings for the Picotron. 😄

www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=lem...
Picotron Lemmings
www.lexaloffle.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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achiegamedev.bsky.social
Do you like #pico8? Of course you do! 🕹️

@nerdyteachers.bsky.social published this years PICO-View full of amazing articles! Reviews, dev articles, showcases, everything your heart might desire!

Cover Art by OK_Letterhead1848

nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/pico-...
#indiedev #retrogaming
Covert art for the magazine by OK_Letterhead1848! Imitating a playroom with shelves full of games, the artists showcases cool games from this year, such as snekburd and absolute classics in the middle in the shape of the PICO-8 logo, such as yelpi, buns bunny survivor and celeste! Various other toys and game references scattered around the shelves
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM