It’s the first day of December and the year is almost over. How are you? I hope you had a lovely weekend. I’m tired and writing this too early in the morning. If you enjoy these roundups, tell a friend, subscribe to my RSS feed (I use and enjoy Inoreader), and consider doing your own roundup (like this one by Mike Egan) if you have a website. It’s hard to find stuff on the internet these days so being vocal about what we like is probably the best we can do right now. I also always like comments. What have you enjoyed reading lately?

Books

Classics of Science Fiction revisits the out of print book A Mirror for Observers and finds that it maybe doesn’t hold up.

Transfer Orbit talks about a Wired article and Murderbot’s origins.

Tabletop RPGs

It was an incredibly busy week for people to post about ttrpgs on their blogs and sites. That’s wonderful! It sounds like in the Prismatic Wasteland discord they’re doing a thing called Blog Fridays, which sounds fun.

Thomas reviews an adventure module for Traveller from 1983 called Murder on Arcturus Station.

Tot’s Character Compendium reviews the character creation process for fantasy ttrpg BEACON.

Clayton has an intro to typography in ttrpgs.

Mindstorm talks about bartering.

Kaden plays one of my games for Solovember.

Alexander King talks about advantage vs. modifier bonuses and does some math.

Tech

Turgon writes about replacing your search engine and the SearXNG search engine.

Leaded Soldier is a blog about repairing old technology. This week it’s a PC-6001mkII keyboard replacement.

Video Games

Katherine Morayati talks about the interactive movie I’m Your Man. I guess this is maybe not really a “video game” but I’m putting it here anyway.

swanchime has thoughts on making autobiographical games.

Nicole Express goes into the history of the Super Cassette Vision

Rojo Aventuras made a nice thread on bluesky of adventure game sites in Spanish

Wraithkal does great ScreenshotSaturday roundups of Mastodon posts on their blog.

robotspacer helps us get into the Murder Club series.

Nathalie posts the transcript for a talk titled Creating for a Better Industry, which features lots of links to cool little tools for making games and personal websites.

Things That Aren’t Blogs

John Walker did two big lists on Kotaku recommending indie games. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2.

SpindleyQ has a NES emulator that replaces everything with cat noises.