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After six hours of tweaker gunslinging and trench warfare, I'm sold on Darktide's imminent Hive Scum update - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T18:00:04.000Z

I was precisely whelmed when Fatshark revealed the mohawked, chem-huffing Hive Scum as Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s next class; most of the existing player characters being unwashed crims as it is. Turns out, however, they make good company when it counts. Having played about six hours of Hive Scum, ahead of launch on December 2nd, I’m convinced the class offers something new – and even those who don’t drop the requisite $12 on it will still, on the same day, get a rollicking new mission type that delves into properly muddy 40K ground warfare.

With Black Friday discounts, the top-spec Lenovo Legion Go S is faster than the equivalent Steam Deck OLED and almost as cheap - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T17:20:08.000Z

I never bought a Lenovo Legion Go S, or even slotted it into our best handheld PCs list, though it’s funny how much a fat Black Friday price cut can massage the desirability gland. And it helps that these savings cover not just the budget Ryzen Z2 Go model I originally reviewed, but the top-of-the-line Z1 Extreme version with an upgraded 32GB of RAM – and the same SteamOS, instead of fiddly Windows. That extra memory’s probably worth about four billion quid by itself, though while it lasts, the primo Legion Go S is going for £599 in the UK (a £100 saving) and $650 in the US (a $250 saving).

Command a massive walking gun in Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T17:15:41.000Z

Of steel is my spirit, of thunder my bones. I am the hawk's justice, the quadrapedal crucible of oil and atrocity in which the future is forged. BEHOLD, ye strategy simulation enthusiasts. Behold my unabashed phallic symbolism menacing the gates of heaven, while my hissing hydraulics uncipher the coordinates of my prey.

Many are my supplicants, strangers from near and far who seek to beguile me and aim my blessed ordnance, but mine is the judgement, and mine the tactile gratifications of levers and gears and dials. You were getting bored of turrets in war games? Fools! You have never experienced one from the inside. Come, surrender yourself to the dieselpunk folds and surprisingly jaunty background music of my ironclad majesty. (Here's a trailer.)

Hytale arrives in Early Access in January 2026 after being revived - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-28T16:52:47.000Z

After being cancelled by Riot Games and revived as an indie game again, Hytale is now set for an Early Access launch in January 2026.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault has another patch for Steam Deck and to improve performance for all - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-28T16:32:59.000Z

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault from Digital Sun and 11 bit studios should run a whole lot smoother for everyone now, and feel better on Valve's Steam Deck.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Hytale's early access release date set in stone for January 2026, but its devs admit "the first impression will be rough" - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T16:26:25.000Z

Still fresh off of being bought from Riot and revived by a team lead by Hypixel co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme, Hytale now has an early access release date. The Minecrafty sandbox emerges from the cave it's spent years exploring early next year, with pre-orders kicking off next month.

Seduce serial killers on the dark web in dating sim Killer Chat, which is free on Steam - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T16:01:17.000Z

If you've been struggling lately with the thought that everybody you interact with online is a closet serial killer, why not fire up Killer Chat, which will remove all uncertainty from your brain and flood it with delicious, sexy fear. Hitherto available on Itch.io, and just released on Steam, it casts you as a reporter researching a book on serial killers.

The PS5 DualSense controller is a surprisingly good PC pad that’s dropped to £43/$55 in the Black Friday sales - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T15:55:31.000Z

Convention tells us that to be a PC gamepad, the gamepad in question must follow the layout – or, at least, match the button glyphs – of the Xbox controller’s ABXY design. Even the new Steam Controller is doing it. To convention, though, I say: appreciate you’re an important component of usability design but also get lost. One of the best PC controllers right now is the PS5-pattern DualSense, which today's Black Friday deals have brought down to its lowest price in months.

Fallout season 2 still sounds like it won't commit to a New Vegas ending, but for the love of all that's Housely, I hope it will - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T15:40:29.000Z

Prime Video's Fallout TV series has been followed around by a buzzing swarm of canon chatter hornets since the moment its first series emerged from the vault. Such a thing's natural and healthy - people care enough about the games to have thoughts about how this adaptation portrays the world in which they take place. It goes double when when you head to locations which have played host to entries especially beloved for how much say they let the player have in how their stories play out.

Enter Fallout season two, debuting next month and set in (clears throat) NEW VEGAS. Will it set one of Fallout: NEW VEGAS's endings in stone as the canon option?

Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish? - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T15:13:31.000Z

Some days, I think I'd rather gouge my eyes out than read another email about a new roguelike or roguelite. This confuses me, because many of favourite games are roguelikes or roguelites, including Dead Cells, Balatro, FTL: Faster Than Light, and the recent Morsels, a reeking procedural dumpsite that speaks to the overproduction of Rogue/rogue derivatives at large.

Roguish games are everywhere right now. According to SteamDB, 1602 games tagged "roguelike" were published in 2024 out of 18567 total, versus 312 out of 9655 in 2020. Stir in roguelites and the countless games that advertise themselves as having "roguelike mechanics", and I sincerely worry that you're describing the majority of PC releases from the past couple of years.

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-28T15:10:02.000Z

The excellent and incredibly useful Linux performance overlay MangoHud has released version 0.8.2 after being in testing for a few weeks with new features.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Some Nice Examples Of Org Babel Use - Irreal

2025-11-28T15:05:21.000Z

Donald Hunter over at donaldh.wtf has an interesting post about Org Babel’s many powers and uses. Hunter thinks of it as a “polyglot Jupyter Notebook ” and uses it extensively for both professional and personal projects. His post consists of several examples of how he uses it.

One trick he shows is using the dir command to specify a remote machine. That allows him to capture output from the remote host.

Another trick he uses is isolating the boilerplate for several similar source blocks into a separate block and including it in the blocks that need it with the noweb syntax. See his post for a fully worked example.

Finally he demonstrates the real power of Babel by using two different languages. The way that works is that you use a convenient language in one block to produce an intermediate result and finish the computation in a second block with another language that calls the first block to get the intermediate result.

In his example, he uses an SQL block to read data from an SQL database and processes that data in the second block using Gnuplot. Of course, you can chain more than two blocks together or have more than one block feeding the final block.

Org Babel really is a powerful system and is part of what sets Org apart from Markdown and other markup languages. You might also want to take a look at Mike Hamrick’s video on using Org and Babel for writing.

Convert copied jira kanban to org (jira-to-org) - Emacs@ Dyerdwelling

2025-11-28T14:56:00.000Z

I have been fiddling around with some very rudimentary Jira integration to org, basically something very simple, just a regular copy from the kanban and then convert into org headlines!

This package is designed for simpler workflows where you copy data from Jira rather than maintaining API integration.

Here is a link to the package:

https://github.com/captainflasmr/jira-to-org

Overview

jira-to-org is an Emacs package that converts Jira sprint board data into org-mode task entries. It parses text copied directly from Jira sprint boards and transforms it into properly formatted org-mode headings with TODO keywords, priorities, tags, and metadata.

Features

Parse Jira sprint data from buffers, regions, or clipboard
Convert Jira statuses to org-mode TODO keywords
Map Jira priorities to org-mode priorities (A/B/C)
Generate tags from assignees, sprint identifiers, and years
Update existing org entries based on fresh Jira data
Customizable mappings for assignees, priorities, and statuses
Configurable heading levels and default values

Installation

Manual Installation

Download jira-to-org.el to your Emacs configuration directory
Add to your init.el:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/jira-to-org/")
(require 'jira-to-org)

Using `use-package`

(use-package jira-to-org
  :load-path "/path/to/jira-to-org/"
  :custom
  (jira-to-org-default-sprint "s7")
  (jira-to-org-default-year "2025")
  (jira-to-org-heading-level 4))

Usage

Basic Workflow

Open your Jira sprint board in a web browser
Select and copy the sprint data (the entire board or specific columns)
In Emacs, use one of the parsing commands

Commands

`jira-to-org-parse-buffer`

Parse the entire current buffer as Jira data. The result is copied to the kill ring.

M-x jira-to-org-parse-buffer

With prefix argument (C-u), prompts for a sprint tag:

C-u M-x jira-to-org-parse-buffer
Sprint tag (e.g., s7): s8

`jira-to-org-parse-region`

Parse Jira data in the selected region. The result is copied to the kill ring.

1. Select region containing Jira data
2. M-x jira-to-org-parse-region

`jira-to-org-parse-and-insert`

Parse Jira data from the clipboard and insert the org headings at point.

1. Copy Jira data to clipboard
2. Position cursor where you want entries inserted
3. M-x jira-to-org-parse-and-insert

`jira-to-org-update-from-jira`

Update existing org entries based on fresh Jira data. This command:

Updates TODO statuses for entries that already exist in your buffer
Reports how many entries were updated
Copies new items (not found in buffer) to the kill ring

M-x jira-to-org-update-from-jira

Example Input Format

The package expects text copied from Jira sprint boards in this format:

To Do
MM-78
Implement IG connection management APIs
Assignee: James Dyer
Priority: Medium
Issue Type: Story
2

In Progress
MM-79
Create gRPC service definition
Assignee: Freddy
Priority: High
3

Done
MM-75
Setup project structure
Assignee: N Cropper
Priority: Low
Issue Type: Task
1

Example Output

The above input would be converted to:

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE

TODO MM-78 Implement IG connection management APIs

DOING MM-79 Create gRPC service definition

DONE MM-75 Setup project structure

#+END_EXAMPLE

Configuration

Customization Variables

`jira-to-org-default-sprint`

Default sprint tag to add to all entries (e.g., "s7"). If nil, no sprint tag is added.

(setq jira-to-org-default-sprint "s7")

`jira-to-org-default-year`

Default year to add as a tag to all entries.

(setq jira-to-org-default-year "2025")

`jira-to-org-assignee-map`

Alist mapping full names (as they appear in Jira) to short tag names.

(setq jira-to-org-assignee-map
      '(("James Dyer" . "jdyer")
        ("Freddy" . "freddy")
        ("N Cropper" . "ncropper")))

`jira-to-org-priority-map`

Alist mapping Jira priority levels to org-mode priority letters.

(setq jira-to-org-priority-map
      '(("Highest" . "A")
        ("High" . "A")
        ("Medium" . "B")
        ("Low" . "C")
        ("Lowest" . "C")))

`jira-to-org-status-map`

Alist mapping Jira status names to org-mode TODO keywords.

(setq jira-to-org-status-map
      '(("To Do" . "TODO")
        ("In Progress" . "DOING")
        ("Done" . "DONE")))

`jira-to-org-heading-level`

Number of asterisks for generated org headings (default: 4).

(setq jira-to-org-heading-level 3)  ; Use *** instead of ****

Complete Configuration Example

(use-package jira-to-org
  :custom
  (jira-to-org-default-sprint "s8")
  (jira-to-org-default-year "2025")
  (jira-to-org-heading-level 4)
  (jira-to-org-assignee-map
   '(("James Dyer" . "jdyer")
     ("Freddy Johnson" . "freddy")
     ("Sarah Chen" . "schen")
     ("Mike Wilson" . "mwilson")))
  (jira-to-org-priority-map
   '(("Highest" . "A")
     ("High" . "A")
     ("Medium" . "B")
     ("Low" . "C")
     ("Lowest" . "C")))
  (jira-to-org-status-map
   '(("To Do" . "TODO")
     ("In Progress" . "DOING")
     ("In Review" . "REVIEW")
     ("Done" . "DONE")))
  :bind
  (:map org-mode-map
        ("C-c j p" . jira-to-org-parse-and-insert)
        ("C-c j u" . jira-to-org-update-from-jira)))

Workflow Integration

Sprint Planning Workflow

Open your sprint planning org file
Navigate to the sprint section
Copy the Jira sprint board data
Run M-x jira-to-org-parse-and-insert
Adjust any entries as needed

Daily Standup Updates

Copy current sprint board state from Jira
Run M-x jira-to-org-update-from-jira
Review updated TODO states
Any new items are copied to kill ring for manual placement

Custom Key Bindings

;; Add to your org-mode configuration
(with-eval-after-load 'org
  (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c j p") #'jira-to-org-parse-and-insert)
  (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c j r") #'jira-to-org-parse-region)
  (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c j b") #'jira-to-org-parse-buffer)
  (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c j u") #'jira-to-org-update-from-jira))

Parsed Fields

The package extracts and uses the following fields from Jira data:

Jira Field	Usage	Example
Issue Key	Included in heading	MM-78
Title	Included in heading	Fix bug in API
Status	Converted to TODO keyword	In Progress
Assignee	Converted to tag	James Dyer
Priority	Converted to org priority	Medium
Story Points	Extracted (not currently used in output)	3

Customizing for Your Organization

Adjusting Issue Key Pattern

If your Jira instance uses a different project key pattern, modify the regex in jira-to-org--parse-buffer-to-items:

;; Current pattern matches MM-123
((string-match "^\\(MM-[0-9]+\\)$" line)

;; Example: Match PROJECT-123
((string-match "^\\(PROJECT-[0-9]+\\)$" line)

;; Example: Match multiple projects (PROJ1-123 or PROJ2-123)
((string-match "^\\(\\(?:PROJ1\\|PROJ2\\)-[0-9]+\\)$" line)

Adding Custom Status Mappings

If your Jira workflow has additional statuses:

(setq jira-to-org-status-map
      '(("To Do" . "TODO")
        ("In Progress" . "DOING")
        ("Code Review" . "REVIEW")
        ("QA Testing" . "TESTING")
        ("Blocked" . "BLOCKED")
        ("Done" . "DONE")))

Make sure your org-mode TODO keywords match:

(setq org-todo-keywords
      '((sequence "TODO" "DOING" "REVIEW" "TESTING" "BLOCKED" "|" "DONE")))

Troubleshooting

No Items Parsed

Verify the Jira data format matches the expected structure
Check that issue keys match the pattern (e.g., MM-123)
Ensure status headers (To Do, In Progress, Done) are present

Wrong Assignee Tags

Check jira-to-org-assignee-map contains mappings for all team members
Verify exact spelling of names in Jira matches the mapping

Incorrect TODO Keywords

Verify jira-to-org-status-map maps all statuses used in your Jira
Check that target TODO keywords exist in org-todo-keywords

Entries Not Found During Update

Ensure issue keys in org file exactly match Jira format
Verify the heading contains the issue key followed by a space

API Functions

For programmatic use:

`jira-to-org-parse-string`

(jira-to-org-parse-string STRING &optional SPRINT)

Parse STRING containing Jira data and return org-mode headings as a string.

`jira-to-org--parse-buffer-to-items`

(jira-to-org--parse-buffer-to-items BUFFER-OR-STRING)

Parse Jira data into a list of jira-to-org-item structs for further processing.

`jira-to-org--item-to-org-heading`

(jira-to-org--item-to-org-heading ITEM &optional SPRINT)

Convert a jira-to-org-item struct to an org-mode heading string.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please submit issues or pull requests on the project repository.

Development Setup

Clone the repository
Load jira-to-org.el in Emacs
Make changes and test with sample Jira data
Run byte-compilation: M-x byte-compile-file

Testing

Create a test file with sample Jira data and verify parsing:

(with-temp-buffer
  (insert "To Do\nMM-1\nTest Issue\nAssignee: Test User\nPriority: High\n")
  (jira-to-org-parse-buffer))

License

This package is provided as-is for personal and professional use.

Changelog

Version 1.0

Initial release
Basic parsing of Jira sprint data
Configurable mappings for assignees, priorities, and statuses
Buffer, region, and clipboard parsing commands
Update existing entries from fresh Jira data

org-jira - Full bidirectional sync with Jira (requires API access)
jiralib2 - Jira REST API library for Emacs
org-jira (baohaojun) - Alternative Jira integration

Security updates for Friday - LWN.net

2025-11-28T14:55:04.000Z

Security updates have been issued by Debian (krita and tryton-server), Oracle (bind9.18, ipa, kernel, libssh, redis, redis:7, sqlite, sssd, and vim), Slackware (cups), SUSE (containerd, cups, curl, dovecot24, git-bug, gitea-tea, glib2, grub2, himmelblau, java-25-openjdk, kernel, libmicrohttpd, libvirt, pnpm, powerpc-utils, python311, python313, redis, rnp, runc, sssd, tomcat11, unbound, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (cups, libxml2, openvpn, and webkit2gtk).

Ugreen’s 9-in-1 Steam Deck stand is perfect for resting weary handhelds, and it’s going cheap on Black Friday - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T14:43:40.000Z

I, erm, write about the Steam Deck a lot, and keen eyed readers may have spotted a recurring theme among the accompanying photographs: a lurking Ugreen logo. That’s the Ugreen 9-in-1 Steam Deck Dock, aND what it lacks in sexy naming, it makes up for by being just the nicest little stand/port extender combo that a handheld PC could ask for. It’s also a mere £36/$40 on Black Friday, up to a third off its usual price.

The best-ever lightweight gaming mouse, in my opinion, is £46/$50 off for Black Friday - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T13:59:28.000Z

Rejoice, those with nimble wrists or heightened gravity anomalies localised on top of their desks. Logitech’s G Pro X Superlight 2 gaming mouse, which for my money is the finest ultra-lightweight mouse in existence, is getting cut down in the Black Friday sales – so for your money, it’s down from an admittedly ambitious £149/$180 to a far more reasonable £104/$130.

Recently unearthed Fallout: New Vegas builds could be "incredibly useful" for modders, preservationists claim - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T12:47:12.000Z

Pre-release builds of Fallout: New Vegas recently unearthed at a shop in Utah contain rare files which could be "incredibly useful" to expanding what modders can do with the RPG. Well, at least they doe in the estimation of the folks who claim to have found them, a group of preservationists whose current online presence only looks to have popped up last month.

Black Friday’s microSD sales cut prices on our top Steam Deck cards – and they’ll work on the Steam Machine too - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T12:15:21.000Z

I will begrudgingly accept that Black Friday, bleak as it is to anyone who didn’t grow up with framed spreadsheets above their beds, is at least a good opportunity to pick up dirt-cheap PC storage. Case in point, today’s sales include some nice, sharp slashings on some of the best Steam Deck microSD cards.

Save on 2K games like XCOM, Risk of Rain Returns and Rollerdrome in a new Green Man Gaming bundle - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-28T11:32:19.000Z

Another interesting bundle of games here for you that you may want to pick up with some really nice stuff from Green Man Gaming.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Oh hey, it's Black Friday, so here are the best Black Friday best graphics cards deals - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T11:28:20.000Z

I’m trying something new for this year’s Black Friday coverage: drastically overestimating how long it would take to put together a guide to its best graphics card deals. How is it past 11 already. Still, I do hope this helps any potential upgrader or from-scratch DIY builder out there – GPUs haven’t been 'cheap' in years, and while RAM is currently doing its best to replace them as the most overpriced component type in PCdom, graphics cards are usually in drastic need of discounts. Just as, like, their default state of being.

Just my blogroll - BlogFlock

After six hours of tweaker gunslinging and trench warfare, I'm sold on Darktide's imminent Hive Scum update - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

With Black Friday discounts, the top-spec Lenovo Legion Go S is faster than the equivalent Steam Deck OLED and almost as cheap - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

Command a massive walking gun in Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

Hytale arrives in Early Access in January 2026 after being revived - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault has another patch for Steam Deck and to improve performance for all - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

Hytale's early access release date set in stone for January 2026, but its devs admit "the first impression will be rough" - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

Seduce serial killers on the dark web in dating sim Killer Chat, which is free on Steam - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

The PS5 DualSense controller is a surprisingly good PC pad that’s dropped to £43/$55 in the Black Friday sales - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

Fallout season 2 still sounds like it won't commit to a New Vegas ending, but for the love of all that's Housely, I hope it will - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish? - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

Some Nice Examples Of Org Babel Use - Irreal

Convert copied jira kanban to org (jira-to-org) - Emacs@ Dyerdwelling

Overview

Features

Installation

Manual Installation

Using use-package

Usage

Basic Workflow

Commands

jira-to-org-parse-buffer

jira-to-org-parse-region

jira-to-org-parse-and-insert

jira-to-org-update-from-jira

Example Input Format

Example Output

Configuration

Customization Variables

jira-to-org-default-sprint

jira-to-org-default-year

jira-to-org-assignee-map

jira-to-org-priority-map

jira-to-org-status-map

jira-to-org-heading-level

Complete Configuration Example

Workflow Integration

Sprint Planning Workflow

Daily Standup Updates

Custom Key Bindings

Parsed Fields

Customizing for Your Organization

Adjusting Issue Key Pattern

Adding Custom Status Mappings

Troubleshooting

No Items Parsed

Wrong Assignee Tags

Incorrect TODO Keywords

Entries Not Found During Update

API Functions

jira-to-org-parse-string

jira-to-org--parse-buffer-to-items

jira-to-org--item-to-org-heading

Contributing

Development Setup

Testing

License

Changelog

Version 1.0

Related Packages

Security updates for Friday - LWN.net

Ugreen’s 9-in-1 Steam Deck stand is perfect for resting weary handhelds, and it’s going cheap on Black Friday - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

The best-ever lightweight gaming mouse, in my opinion, is £46/$50 off for Black Friday - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

Recently unearthed Fallout: New Vegas builds could be "incredibly useful" for modders, preservationists claim - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

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Using `use-package`

`jira-to-org-parse-buffer`

`jira-to-org-parse-region`

`jira-to-org-parse-and-insert`

`jira-to-org-update-from-jira`

`jira-to-org-default-sprint`

`jira-to-org-default-year`

`jira-to-org-assignee-map`

`jira-to-org-priority-map`

`jira-to-org-status-map`

`jira-to-org-heading-level`

`jira-to-org-parse-string`

`jira-to-org--parse-buffer-to-items`

`jira-to-org--item-to-org-heading`