Linked List: November 2025
Sunday, 30 November 2025
Saturday, 29 November 2025
- Music video for E44 Stream End Piano Synth Improvisation ✶
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Improvised music during an Elite play session, with thanks to Cmdr Yootsvik.
Friday, 28 November 2025
- Roguelike or roguelite video game characteristics ✶
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Responding to video game, literature, and music enthusiast Evans-Thirlwell over at Rock Paper Shotgun:
Here are Rogue-like video game characteristics from someone who played the original Rogue in the 1990s and some recent ones like Noita and Dead Cells:
- Random places and things in a set or “biome.”
- When your avatar dies you start over from the beginning.
- Progressively higher difficulty, with only a few managing to reach the end and transcend.
Roguelites let you keep skills you learned during your prior play.
I suspect VVilliam the Spearshaker would agree that they are attractive to many because they are similar to life in the sense that you die and are reborn continuously with the passing of time, the cells in your body, and more mystical things like Groundhog Day.
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
- Atmospheric landings in Elite Dangerous soon? ✶
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I hope so. The Radicoida Unica community goal at HIP 87621 seems to be the beginning of something big in Elite. Here’s the full stream, in 1440p, and in behind-the-stream news, YouTube livestream tests are on the horizon, too.
Thursday, 20 November 2025
- A cartoonist’s advice ✶
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To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
—Bill Watterson
Monday, 17 November 2025
- Synth-assisted takeoff from Radicoida Unica site at HIP 87621 ✶
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From Episode 43 of my Elite Dangerous stream series, where I’m currently participating in the exobiology initiative community goal.
Sunday, 16 November 2025
- Solar-powered coffee brewing ✶
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The latest lovely project from Low-tech magazine.
Friday, 14 November 2025
- Experimenting with sound in the 19th century ✶
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Lucas Thompson, writing at The Public Domain Review:
While, in our own time, scientific understanding is usually thought of in terms of detachment and objectivity, here beauty and knowledge were often intertwined. Finally, and perhaps most unexpectedly, these books prompted readers to reflect on questions of spirituality and transcendence, since they positioned the science of acoustics as a fresh avenue for moving beyond the material plane.
Reminds me of Jane English’s Fingers Pointing to the Moon, that I had the pleasure of reading this year.
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
- Steam Machine ✶
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Yes, Steam Machine is optimized for gaming, but it’s still your PC. Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?
Here’s RPS’ first look. I like the wood panel in front.
Monday, 10 November 2025
- New calligraphic logotype ✶
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The new Hypertexthero logotype that mysteriously appeared below the sun here is now available for purchase on a variety of merchandise including hats, t-shirts, and hoodies. Get it now, in the beginning of a musical journey.
Sunday, 2 November 2025
- Better living through Beowulf ✶
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A blog by an English teacher about how great literature can change your life, or save a society from tearing itself apart.