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Further down the pile Page 2 of the backlog

Older dispatches, same weather. Nothing back here has been tidied up for the occasion.
My neighborhood shipped a version number

Living In The Patch Notes My neighborhood shipped a version number

Phú Mỹ Hưng 2.0 is rebuilding a Taiwanese-planned, Korean-populated district into an ultra-luxury enclave - a resident report from inside the fence.
EN· ·Concrete & Steel
A lone figure with a rucksack and coiled rope stands on a stone ledge looking across a wide valley holding three landscapes at once: fog-covered slate rooftops and a clock tower on the left, a forest basin with one enormous ancient tree in the center, and a sun-bleached desert plateau with a half-buried stepped pyramid on the right

Doomed Backlog Season Garrett, Link and Lara are all coming back at once

Thief, Ocarina of Time and Tomb Raider are all being rebuilt - dates, engines, what is actually new, and one very inconvenient release calendar.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
View from the back seat of a taxi stuck in morning traffic in District 4, Sài Gòn, motorbike riders packed shoulder to shoulder ahead, one balancing a stack of egg trays

One Letter Apart We made boredom boring

Boredom didn't vanish - it got optimized, monetized and stripped of the one thing it was good for. The media flood, counted in human lifetimes.
EN· ·Digital Life
Hume on the rooftops of The City, year 833 - one bump away from being noticed

Back In The City Hume, not Garrett: The Black Parade is the Thief game Looking Glass never made

Thief: The Black Parade review - the free 10-mission fan campaign for Thief Gold that plays like the Thief game Looking Glass never made.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
A desk at dusk with three computers lined up on it - a bare single-board computer, a small silver cube, and an open tower with a glowing graphics card - cables running down to a wall socket shared with a rice cooker, a seated figure seen from behind, a hazy Southeast Asian city through the window

Borrowed Silicon The model does not need to know anything

Local LLMs now score within a point of models that need a rack - and the interesting part is what those benchmarks quietly stopped measuring.
EN· ·AI
A dense delta city at dusk drawn in fixed isometric projection, with tin-roofed shophouses and a canal in the foreground, a river crossed by a cable-stayed bridge and an elevated highway, and a cluster of lit office towers and construction cranes fading into haze

Press Play, Mayor SimCity 4 shipped with two soundtracks – and a Grammy winner on oboe

SimCity 4's soundtrack is two albums in one - god mode and mayor mode - made by a jazz department, a Czech orchestra and a Monkey Island composer.
EN· ·Music
A narrow Sài Gòn residential alley at night, seen down its length, with a lone figure walking away between pools of orange lamplight, tangled power cables overhead and roller gates closed on both sides

Six Years Of Alleys Somebody always opened the gate

Safety in Sài Gòn is not ambient - it is made of people. Six years of hẻm life across four districts, and what Phú Mỹ Hưng costs.
EN· ·Life & Leisure
A wooden serving board held out toward the viewer with a round golden carrot cake on it, one wedge cut out showing the orange-flecked crumb, an open-plan office with concrete ceiling and ducts behind

Public Alpha, Edible The carrot cake I shipped to production untested

Carrot cake with no butter and no oil, baked at 11pm from memory alone and served to an entire office before anyone had tasted it.
EN· ·Life & Leisure
A small tethered hot air balloon drifting in layers of mist above a hilly jungle canopy, with the outlines of an overgrown stepped pyramid and broken ruins visible through the gaps below

On Repeat, Regrettably A stranger in Hamburg rebuilt the Tomb Raider theme, twice

Tomb Raider theme, covered twice by German producer Ambyion - a 2021 remix, a 2025 rework, and one loop I cannot get out of.
EN· ·Music
Illustration of a teenage protest march passing along a city boulevard in cold spring light, one marcher holding up a piece of brown cardboard painted with three eggs

Eggs, Beats And Paragraph 188 Merz leck Eier, or how a confiscated sign became a banger

Merz leck Eier went from a confiscated demo sign to a viral rap single, a Google Maps prank and an open prosecutor file - here is the story.
EN· ·Music