It’s currently snowing for the first time this season and I’m very happy about that. I love snow, as long as it’s not happening in March – October, and never complain about getting more.

Here are some blogs posts I’m recently enjoyed reading. Consider subscribing to them or adding them to your RSS feed reader. If you’ve never used a feed reader before, then I think Inoreader is an easy one to start using and is free until you start adding tons of feeds. I also think you should consider making a blog, newsletter, or website if you don’t have one already.

If you enjoy this post, my daughter’s Girl Scout troop is gathering donations for local food banks and any money is appreciated. As you can see if you scroll down, money donations can go a long way for food banks.

Video Games

If you’re new to interactive fiction then you may like this guide explaining the different types that exist.

Speaking of IF, Wraithkal talks about the upcoming competition Spring Thing.

The Imaginary Engine Review discusses Interactive Fiction’s Retrofuturist Roots. They’ve been writing a lot about IF lately and I recommend going through their archives to read more of their writing.

schledorn gives a shoutout to various Game of the Month clubs, including my Adventure Game Club which is doing a salami(?) theme this month.

Aura talks about various indie games entered into the IGF this year.

I’ve mentioned Myst Online billions of times here but I think it’s neat that this MMO that was never commercially successful is still alive and doing tons of community events every month.

I also liked GlitchOut‘s Hot Pig Jump! and How to Run a Successful Games Website Business (or How to Don’t)

Michigan

Yep, here’s some local stuff that might not seem relevant to 99.9% of the people that are going to look at this but I think is still worth a look.

The Ann Arbor District Library has a website reporting on fun local events, music, theatre, etc. and does a nice regular post on recent music releases from local musicians.

I can’t recommend the creating.care newsletter enough. The latest one talks about building housing, social justice issues, and Halloween being extra cool when there’s no copaganda costumes this year.

If you’re a local Linux or Open Source nerd, maybe you’ll like the Michigan!/usr/group virtual meetups. This Tuesday they are having a meetup titled Keeping Your Android Secure and Snappy: Exploring GrapheneOS and LineageOS.

TTRPGs

Prismatic Wasteland has announced a new blogging topic for everyone to participate in. This time it’s everyone writing their own Hex.

Clayton Notestine does far better ttrpg link roundups than I do in The Explorateur: Issue #13.

Music

No Escape has a ton of music recommendations if you like punk and hardcore.

Dev Logs

Eniko, the developer of Kitune Tails and Midboss, explains the block game they’re working on.

Writing

I’m so excited for Grayson’s new blog I Might As Well Explain the Joke, which goes into tons of detail explaining jokes. The first post is about all the Elvis is Alive jokes we saw everywhere in the late 80s and early 90s.

My friend Shea Socrates wrote a poem. Check out Waspmobile.

Tech

The Works of Egan has a very fun mockup of what Neocities would look like on floppy disk.