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
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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.