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Stenberg: No strcpy either - LWN.net

2025-12-30T22:01:17.000Z

Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post about the decision to ban the use strcpy() in curl:

The main challenge with strcpy is that when using it we do not specify the length of the target buffer nor of the source string. [...]

To make sure that the size checks cannot be separated from the copy itself we introduced a string copy replacement function the other day that takes the target buffer, target size, source buffer and source string length as arguments and only if the copy can be made and the null terminator also fits there, the operation is done.

Unsung Heroes of Motherhood - McSweeney’s

2025-12-30T17:59:59.000Z

Our 3rd most-read article of 2025.

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Julie Owens, who bravely tugged on a tankini in mid-January in order to chaperone her twins to an indoor water park. After nearly swallowing a wet Band-Aid in the wave pool, Owens—in a show of tremendous valor—merely dry heaved thrice.

Hannah Robertson, who not only took her eleven-year-old to Sephora but also bought the pubescent child a sixty-five-dollar jade roller and a twenty-five-dollar toner, all without once rolling her eyes or mentioning the patriarchy.

Elizabeth McGrackle, who prepared for a dinner party by buying groceries, planning the menu, cleaning the house, and then setting the table after retrieving ten plates, two bowls, four drinking glasses, and a moldy piece of her wedding china from under her teenage son’s bed.

Carrie Roberts, who stoically drank lukewarm Barefoot Moscato at a trampoline park that was blasting the Trolls 2 soundtrack, so that her daughter might attend Rayleigh from cheer camp’s birthday party.

April Peterson, who went through twenty hours of labor and an emergency C-section while her husband sat in a recliner and loudly sighed about the vending machine’s lack of Funyuns.

Nicole Williams, who, after seeing LET’S CELEBRATE MOM’S and A SPECIAL DAY FOR MOM’S! and GIFTS FOR MOTHER’S DAY on local signage, calmly bought a giant red Sharpie and circled the punctuation errors with admirably restrained hostility.

Amanda Hill, who took her rage at trying to reenter the workplace as an older mom and being told they “just aren’t hiring women in your stage of life right now,” and funneled it into a brightly colored, expletive-laden cross-stitch project.

Melanie Zooker, who, after texting her husband to make their nine-year-old a dental appointment, had her husband reply with: “What’s the dentist’s name again?” The heroic Zooker did not put her fist through some nearby drywall or drive to her husband’s place of business and forcibly push him out a third-story window; she just told him the name.

Alice Chamber, who, after three vaginal births, can no longer hiccup without wetting her pants, and who will be honored for her sacrifice with eggs benedict and a necklace made from rigatoni.

Jasmine Jackson, who silently suffered a frozen shoulder from menopause, yet still took her son on multiple and terrifying driver’s permit practice trips around the block without a single Advil or THC gummy.

Hilary Bueller, who valiantly spent her son’s entire soccer practice listening to another mother praise the “common-sense policies” of RFK Jr., and who did not once karate chop her right in her spray-tanned throat, and instead chose to stealthily move the woman’s Stanley cup near a fire ant mound.

Maria Garcia, who bought Christmas gifts for everyone in her extended family, including her mother-in-law, who collects clown figurines that are only available at certain Alabama TJ Maxxes on Black Friday.

Alison Tompkins, who, while suffering both a UTI and menstrual cramps, still drove the children to volleyball practice and piano, all while her husband took a nap in the middle of the living room floor because he felt “a bug coming on.”

Erin Hortenson, who, when her child pointed to a photo of Prince and sincerely asked if he was a famous lesbian figure skater, did not shout: “What the fuck is wrong with you?!?” but calmly cued up “Raspberry Beret” on Spotify.

Lis Rodriguez, who spent a solid thirty minutes on a PTA Zoom listening to a woman wearing a BUT FIRST COFFEE sweatshirt ask long-winded questions about school carnival volunteers that had already been answered multiple times by multiple people.

Julia Slotkin, who read an article wherein the United States government seriously pondered, after essentially stripping women of all rights, what they could maybe “do” to encourage them to have more children, including giving women medals if they have more than six. Slotkin, to her immense credit, did not fall into an open grave while laughing maniacally and clawing dirt onto her own face. Rather, she simply put down her phone and continued making a sheet-pan dinner.

Never Try Emacs - Irreal

2025-12-30T17:27:05.000Z

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Tsoding’s video on the annoying usefulness of Emacs. His conclusion was that you should stay away from Emacs because once you try it, you will never be able to break free.

Now Valigo has his own video up that reaches the same conclusion. For him, the main attraction of Emacs is it’s extensibility and customizability. The reason for that, of course, is that the Emacs executable is basically a Lisp image with the source code available from within that image. That means that you can, if needed, reach into the guts of Emacs and change just about any aspect of Emacs on the fly. The only exception is the small C core and even that has the source code available from within Emacs but you’d have to recompile Emacs to change it.

One telling example that Valigo gives is to ask Emacs for the definition of the j key. Because he has evil mode enabled, Emacs reports that j runs the command evil-next-line. Then he disables evil mode and repeats the experiment. This time Emacs reports that j runs the self-insert-command to add a j to the buffer. The point is that the help command adapts itself on the fly to reflect the current state of the system.

Because of all this customizability, Emacs use is addictive. Once you start, you can’t stop. Like Tsoding, Valigo says that Emacs is old and crufty but he can’t escape because nothing else is as useful.

I get that Tsoding an Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.

The tenth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-12-30T16:00:00.000Z

We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft.

O, reader of wonder, loved the most, Why not subscribe to Supporters posts? January leading, still proceeding, See you once we’ve munched our roasts.

But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke!

Yuletide - Take on Rules

2025-12-30T15:30:07.000Z

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Summary: I can think of no better time than that between Winter Solstice and New Year’s Day.

Myth is a tear in the fabric of reality, and immense energies pour through these holy fissures. Our stories, our poems, are rips in this fabric as well, however slight.

―Jay Parini, Borges and Me

Yule-tide, the twelve days between Winter Solstice and New Year’s Day. This year those days coincide with my (paid) time off of work.

I stumbled a bit, thinking what the common weekday name I would give today. It felt very much like Sunday. Much as yesterday did. Perhaps there’s that sense of holiness that burns through these yule-lit days.

Not holy as we might conflate with communion and sermons, but in those fissures. In which a true light shines through, that of communal memory and myths constructed around firelight.

I think to those gatherings at Grandma and Grandpa Friesen’s house. We’d be there together for what felt like several days. Time made little sense, as the 15 of us stuffed into that small ranch house in Nebraska. Laughter tumbling amidst Low German and English.

The younger cousins and I would play at grandpa’s pool table. Endless hours in those pre-electronic entertainment console days. Later I’d learn that it was a shoddy thing, warped and uneven. But in those days, the green felt felt enchantingly rich.

In later years, there were those days in which we’d pack up after Christmas and drive to Vermont. Late nights of laughter as we’d play fishbowl around the hearth. Yule-tide, is for gathering. For catching glimpses of the sun’s return. Sharing in that joy of togetherness, when the world outside, at this latitude at least, is grinding ice and howling wind.

Now, I gather with Jenny and our dogs Lacey and Ollie. Me writing (poetry and Lisp, as though there were a difference) and Jenny reading. Lacey curled up beside Jenny and Ollie wedged into his lounging chair. We’ll go outside for a bit, and stomp through the fresh powder of yesterday.

But Yule-tide is now a fragile thing, at least in these States of America. Each year, I claim some of my employer benefits: paid time off. Yet not all of my children have benefits that provide paid time off. Others must budget time off for visiting their fractured families.

Where is the sacred?

I want to write “sacrificed to the maw of capitalism”, but that is an indirection. Capitalists, lets name them not their system, demand our time and talent to extract and enrich themselves. The sacred, cultural memories and echoes, is something to be shattered, rended, and in their flattening-mind, forgotten and/or perverted. Replaced with consumption.

Yule-tide, yule-tide, a wave of night
passing through mists of time
waxing toward growing light.

This yule-tide let pop the cork
and decant drought of warding warmth,
and celebrate family and friends
and home and hearth.

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Security updates for Tuesday - LWN.net

2025-12-30T14:00:02.000Z

Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjpeg2, osslsigncode, php-dompdf, and python-django), Fedora (fluidsynth, golang-github-alecthomas-chroma-2, golang-github-evanw-esbuild, golang-github-jwt-5, and opentofu), Mageia (ceph and ruby-rack), and SUSE (anubis, apache2-mod_auth_openidc, dpdk22, kernel, libpng16, and python311-openapi-core).

Julian's most anticipated games for 2026 - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-12-30T14:00:00.000Z

While the old saying goes 'A game in the basket is worth two in Steam Wishlist', as we teeter into a new year it's good to highlight a couple of the games shuffling our way. Especially when there are quite so many of them that include big stompy mechs. Some of them as big as cities. My engine oil-starved heart beats and thumps in anticipation.

I've tried to keep the list to games confirmed for release next year – tragically cutting The Free Shepherd, which is planned to release in 2027 – but there is one exception.

So let's begin with the outlier that's likely to wander tardily into 2027.

The RPS Selection Box: Jeremy's bonus games of the year 2025 - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-12-30T10:00:00.000Z

In the grand spirit of Christmas, I want everyone to know that for this year's RPS Advent Calendar, I nominated a bunch of games about Japanese assassins and at least one point and click thriller featuring a netherworld of torture devices. Some of those assassins appeared on the final calendar, but not all, and the point and click didn't make the cut.

J'apprécie les gens d'Emacs / I appreciate the people of Emacs - Sacha Chua

2025-12-30T01:04:48.000Z

En français

J'aime bien l'éditeur Emacs. C'est si personnalisable. Comme il est tellement personnalisable, quand on lit les fonctions, on peut avoir un aperçu de la vie des autres, de leurs objectifs, et des défis dont ils sont venus à bout avec les fonctions. En lisant le code, on découvre une petite partie de leur univers. Parfois on peut rencontrer des gens sur les blogs (l'agrégateur Planet Emacslife est très utile), les vidéos, les réunions virtuelles ou la conférence annuelle EmacsConf. J'aime particulièrement la série Prot Asks où il converse avec quelques personnes de tout et de rien. Les gens qui sont intéressés par Emacs sont toujours également intéressés par d'autres choses passionnantes. Même s'ils sont dispersés physiquement et sont occupés, ce qui fait que la coopération est très rare, j'apprécie qu'ils existent, ils créent, ils partagent…

Qui m'a le plus influencé ? C'est probablement John Wiegley. Son Planner Mode m'a aidée à organiser mes notes à l'université et m'a inspirée à l'utiliser et à faire du bénévolat. Son Ledger CLI m'a aidée à budgétiser, ce qui m'a permis cette expérience de la vie indépendante. Son idée pour Emacs News continue de me connecter à la communauté Emacs. J'ai pu le rencontrer en 2003 à l'EmacsConf à Londres. Quelle chance !

Beaucoup d'autres personnes me réchauffent le cœur. J'apprécie aussi Jon Snader pour toujours écrire beaucoup de commentaires sur son blog Irreal, et j'apprécie beaucoup de blogueurs, créateurs de vidéos, et ceux qui partagent des liens. J'apprécie kensanata qui entretient EmacsWiki, les modérateurs du salon #emacs et d'autres canaux d'IRC, et les bénévoles qui font de la modération sur les listes de diffusion. Ils font énormément de travail en coulisses pour rendre l'expérience plus plaisante pour nous. J'apprécie Eli Zaretskii et les autres mainteneurs d'Emacs, yantar92 qui entretient Org Mode, et les mainteneurs d'autres packages. Je suis toujours étonnée de voir que les gens partagent leur temps avec nous.

Bien sûr, il y a des difficultés. L'intelligence artificielle peut aider les gens à comprendre et à créer beaucoup de choses, mais ça peut aussi nous inonder de contenu insipide. Étrangement, certaines personnes ont du mal à être polies. Mais je ne dois pas leur laisser gâcher ma reconnaissance pour le reste. J'aime bien lire les billets de blog sur Emacs et les autres sujets, donc je dois ajouter plus de blogs à mon agrégateur.

Ensuite ? Je travaille lentement à copier les discussions d'EmacsConf. Je continue de publier le bulletin Emacs News. Un jour je veux enregistrer des vidéos et écrire des billets. Cette année semble plus difficile pour les gens : plus occupés, plus stressés… Peut-être qu'EmacsConf devrait aussi s'adapter aux temps changeants. Je me demande ce qui pourrait me faciliter la tâche. Cela me stresse surtout à cause de l'administration système, la conversion des vidéos et la gestion de plusieurs choses à la fois pendant la conférence, particulièrement en direct sur scène. Si je limite ça à une piste, elle sera peut-être plus gérable. Nous nous organisons ensemble.

Hourra pour les gens d'Emacs!

In English

I really like the Emacs editor. It's so customizable. Because it's so customizable, when you read functions, you can get a glimpse into other people's lives, their goals, and the challenges they've overcome with those functions. By reading the code, you discover a small part of their world. Sometimes you can meet people on blogs (the Planet Emacslife aggregator is very useful), videos, virtual meetings, or at the annual EmacsConf conference. I particularly like the Prot Asks series where he chats with various people about everything. People who are interested in Emacs are always also interested in other interesting things. Even if they're spread far apart and pretty busy, which makes collaboration very rare, I appreciate that they exist, they create, they share…

Who has influenced me the most? Probably John Wiegley. His Planner Mode helped me organize my notes in university, and it inspired me to use Emacs and volunteer. His Ledger CLI helped me budget, which allowed me to experiment with this independent life. His idea for Emacs News continues to connect me to the Emacs community. I got to meet him in 2003 at EmacsConf in London - how lucky!

Many other people warm the cockles of my heart. I appreciate Jon Snader for writing lots of comments on his Irreal blog. I'm grateful for bloggers, video creators, and people who share links. I appreciate kensanata for maintaining EmacsWiki, the moderators of the #emacs channel and other IRC channels, and the volunteers who moderate the mailing lists. They do a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes to make the experience more enjoyable for us. I appreciate Eli Zaretskii and other Emacs maintainers, yantar92 who maintains Org Mode, and the maintainers of other packages. I'm always amazed that people share their time with us.

Of course, there are challenges. Artificial intelligence can help people understand and create many things, but it can also flood us with slop. Some people struggle with politeness. But I shouldn´t let that spoil my appreciation for everyone else. I enjoy reading blog posts about Emacs and other topics, so I should probably add more blogs to my aggregator.

What's next? I'm slowly working on copying the EmacsConf discussions. I'll continue putting together Emacs News. Someday, I'd like to record more videos and write more blog posts. This year seems harder for people: busier, more stressed… Perhaps EmacsConf should also adapt to the changing times. I'm wondering what could make things easier for me. I get particularly stressed because of system administration, video conversion, and managing multiple things at once during the conference, particularly on stream. If I limit it to one track, it might be more manageable. We'll work it out together.

Hooray for the people of Emacs!

This was inspired by the Emacs Carnival theme for December, The People of Emacs. Thanks to George Jones for hosting!

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Lake Effect Snow - Take on Rules

2025-12-29T21:40:38.000Z

2025-12-29 Emacs news - Sacha Chua

2025-12-29T20:17:03.000Z

Help wanted:
- Help wanted: comment on proposed process for reviewing packages before upgrade
  - Updated patch for reviewing packages before upgrade (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
- Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 31 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 1 0130 Asia/Singapore
- M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jan 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Jan 3 0000 Asia/Singapore
- EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/312313428/ Thu Jan 8 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Jan 9 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
- Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jan 9 1800 Europe/Paris
Beginner:
- Little Emacs cheatsheet (@notimetoplay@elekk.xyz)
Emacs configuration:
- Tip on rebinding exit shortcuts
- package-isolate Re: [FR] Temporarily install package.el packages (@pkal@social.sdfeu.org)
Emacs Lisp:
- Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs Lisp Elements: EPUB and PDF versions now available (Irreal)
- Jeremy Friesen: Serializing Somewhat Large Emacs Alists - set print-level and print-length to nil
- Using a temporary file to improve performance of zooming into PPM files (@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz)
Appearance:
- Emacs Redux: Hide Minor Modes in the Modeline in Emacs 31 (Irreal)
Navigation:
- Tip: use view-mode to avoid making changes by accident
- The Built-in Emacs Subword-mode for Navigating CamelCaseWords (02:26)
Writing:
- EmacsWiki: Unwrap Line (@doctorwhom@mastodon.social)
Org Mode:
Completion:
- consult-snapfile: instant file search for Consult (Rust server, <1ms cached queries) (Reddit)
Coding:
- The Evil-nerd-commenter Package for Emacs (02:33) - comment and uncomment lines; does not require evil-mode
- IDEmacs - Emacs qui se prend pour VSCode pour convertir les débutants | Posts | Le site de Korben
- How to calculate fields in tab-separated data using awk via the hawk package
- Fixing Eglot's Hover Signatures (Reddit)
- Badly-behaved targets, or: eev, Slime, Sly, and Maxima (2025) (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
Mail, news, and chat:
Fun:
- jlamothe/soroban: Soroban practice package for Emacs - Codeberg.org - traditional Japanese abacus
AI:
Community:
Other:
- bommbo/yazi.el: Yazi file manager integration for Emacs using term.el (Reddit)
- New package: eldoc-mouse-nov – Preview epub link content on hover (Reddit)
- I created Grease.el - an Oil.nvim for Emacs (Reddit) - treat your filesystem as a text buffer; create/cut/copy/move/delete
- M-x apropos Emacs: Vim is composable (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
- Emacs on WSLg: Copying to the Windows Clipboard | Lukas Barth
- OS clipboard integration in Emacs in Foot (@dnkl@social.treehouse.systems)
- community: add patch to improve async process read performance by aport · Pull Request #867 · d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus · GitHub (@kommen@hachyderm.io)
- MELPA downloads shields for your README - download count images
Emacs development:
- New Emacs (Co-)Maintainer: Sean Whitton (Reddit)
- emacs-devel: Re: create-image fails with multibyte image data - Eli Zaretskii - complications with multibyte strings
- * lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el (vc-prefix-map): Move 'B' to 'o' (bug#80037). vc-diff-outgoing-base
- New commands vc-print-change-log & vc-print-root-change-log
- track-changes.el (track-changes-undo-only): New var
- New command 'C-x v b L': vc-print-root-branch-log
- lisp-indent-local-overrides: New variable
- * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-merge-tabs): New command.
New packages:
- amaranth-dark-theme: Amaranth Dark theme (MELPA)
- jade-schema-mode: A major-mode for navigating Jade Platform schema files (MELPA)
- javelin: Implementation of harpoon: bookmarks on steroids (MELPA)
- koishi-theme: A sweet theme inspired by Koishi's color tone (MELPA)
- macher: LLM implementation toolset (MELPA)
- nael-lsp: Nael and lsp-mode (MELPA)
- oai: AI-LLM blocks for org-mode (MELPA)
- once: Add-hook and eval-after-load, but only once (MELPA)
- turepo: Open git repository in browser (MELPA)
- vm: VM mail reader (NonGNU ELPA)
- vui: Declarative, component-based UI library (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

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Elisp: Pipe Function (Function Chain, Composition) 📜 - Xah Emacs Blog

2025-12-29T19:21:42.000Z

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Elisp: Pipe Function (Function Chain, Composition) 📜

CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-12-29T16:44:23.000Z

GOG is breaking off from CD PROJEKT with 100% of it now owned by one of the original co-founders, Michał Kiciński.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

The ninth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-12-29T16:00:00.000Z

But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke!

Graham: [KDE] Highlights from 2025 - LWN.net

2025-12-29T15:48:18.000Z

Nate Graham looks back at how 2025 went for the KDE project.

Today Plasma is the default desktop environment in a bunch of the hottest new gaming-focused distros, including Bazzite, CachyOS, Garuda, Nobara, and of course SteamOS on Valve's gaming devices. Fedora's Plasma edition was also promoted to co-equal status with the GNOME edition, and Asahi Linux — the single practical option for Linux on newer Macs — only supports KDE Plasma. Parrot Linux recently switched to Plasma by default, too. And Plasma remains the default on old standbys like EndeavourOS, Manjaro, NixOS, OpenMandriva, Slackware and TuxedoOS — which ships on all devices sold by Tuxedo Computers!

Emacs Lisp Elements - Irreal

2025-12-29T15:45:48.000Z

Some time ago, Protesilaos Stavrou published a nice book on Emacs Lisp. The idea is to bring a “big picture approach” to Elisp so that every Emacs user can experience the joy of fine tuning Emacs to meet their exact needs.

Just recently, Stavrou has added EPUB and PDF versions. In a way, it doesn’t matter since he provides the Org mode source and you can export that to almost any format you want. Now, though, he has nice PDF and EPUB versions that you can simply download and read in your preferred format.

It’s nice having the book available as, for example, an Info file but apparently I’m old fashioned and prefer to read it as a PDF. Others may like EPUB or Info. Whatever your preferred format, Stavrou has you covered.

There aren’t that many books addressing Elisp and how to use it. Marcin Borkowski’s Hacking your way around in Emacs is one good example and there are some short tutorials but Stavrou’s and Borkowski’s books are the only ones I can think of off hand that address Elisp exclusively.

I’ve skimmed through the book and it seems like a good introduction. If you’re an Emacs user and want to advance, you really should learn a bit of Elisp. It’s not as daunting as it might seem since even adjusting the Emacs configuration is an exercise in using Elisp.

Security updates for Monday - LWN.net

2025-12-29T14:11:33.000Z

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kodi, pgbouncer, and rails), Fedora (duc, fluidsynth, gdu, singularity-ce, and tkimg), Slackware (vim), and SUSE (buildah, duc, gnutls, python39, qemu, and webkit2gtk3).

James' most anticipated PC games for 2026 - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-12-29T14:00:00.000Z

A recap: of the seven hopefuls I slipped into our bulk 2025 list of "Oh, that looks alright" games, only three actually released in 2025, and one of them wasn’t very good. If it’s the hope that kills you, I am therefore dead four, arguably five times over. Real Necron shit, honestly.

That Time In Between - Take on Rules

2025-12-29T13:29:13.000Z

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Summary: On that sacred time during winter dark.

Folly is to name the days between Christmas and New Years.
There’s hardly enough daytime to warrant such.
Instead, let us embrace these long winter’s night.
Where story presses against the glass,
breath hot, frozen fog forming crystalline lace.
No logs split nor tallow lit, that once lit dance.
Instead, light sits steady and flat,
And the only flicker that of picture panes.
This is a moment when little sense does our time make.

I embrace Romjul, that period between Christmas/Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve. For most of my life, the time between Christmas and New Years has been one of holiday. That is: not working for my employer, but instead spending time with friends (both present and tome-bound).

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The RPS Selection Box: Julian's bonus games of the year - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-12-29T10:00:00.000Z

While I would go so far as to say that I have an affection for the team here at RPS, they certainly tried my patience when it came to the Advent Calendar voting. How dare they not have played and loved the same games as me through the year? Here I was, new head honcho, and I couldn't find a single one in the bunch who had put the necessary hours into Chip 'n Clawz vs. The Brainoids. Shameful.

Thank goodness I can put that right with my Selection Box.