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Part 8 of my (Josh Bycer’s) coverage of Steam NextFest, October 2025 edition. 00:00 Intro00:20 The Doppel1:27 Terror Type Alchemy3:09 The Spirit Lift4:45 The People of Sea, Sun, and Salt6:17 Terraformental8:28 Heaven Does Not Respond
There's nothing quite like being on a train and looking out at the cars that you're passing. Conversely, there's little more annoying than looking out and noticing the cars are passing you. So here are some thoughts about that.1....
"Well, he won't do that again."We've all said, or at least thought it. And more often than not (but not always) we're right. Like when a child goofs around on the edge of a fountain on a cold day and falls in. We expect that unpleasant...
Unlike previous clippings, this one is organized Robin Sloan newsletter-style: instead of neatly partitioned sections of what I’ve written and what I’ve read, it’s a stream of discrete vignettes from the past couple months. I read the...
Step 1 of the dismantling was to cut off the back of the cover. I had my doubts about whether I wanted to slice through that nice leather, but it was the only way to ensure that the new binding would be done properly. All of the loose...
I have a bunch of hobbies, and I am particularly pleased when they intersect or overlap. This weekend’s project started with a visit to a good friend who has a large collection of magazines and books about radio and audio dating back...
I’ve never exactly made it a secret that one of my favorite consoles of all time was the Nintendo 3DS, but I also had never owned or even held an original sized version. I’ve personally owned an original 3DS XL as well as a New 2DS XL...
Reeva Steenkamp may not have been so excited had she known what her boyfriend had in store for her 24 hours later, shooting her three times through a bathroom door on 14th February 2013. In what was argued to be a misunderstanding, her...
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to try eating and cooking like a Spaniard, happy, fatty, and sodden in olive oil. Hi there! I spent 48+ hours in Madrid, Spain. Two days that started with a fried squid sandwich and ended with...
I was really hoping for a promotion but I am not getting it. Not this year, at least. I kind of knew already but I was still devastated. It made me questions all the effort, time away from my family, and stress I've sacrified only to not...
An excellent new piece "The Art of Longing" by Rachel Elam in Mother Tongue
The Frock Flicks team is a taking a little summer break, so we’re repeating some
June is over and so is Junited 2026. Thank you so much for the fantastic response. I'll put together some numbers over the weekend. As some of you know, July means JulyReply. It's time for the third edition of this blog connecting event....
Sometimes a NOOB just slips right by me. That was the case with the word at the top of his post. I had definitely encountered it as an adjective meaning characterized by shouting, but didn’t think of it as notably British, rather one of...
Eric wasn’t wrong. After abducting and raping a woman at gunpoint, attempting to set fire to a house, and ramming three police cars in a flatbed truck, his rampage was finally brought to an end. Eric Ramsey started his night of terror at...