Unofficial gaming theme this week.

• HyperRogue, the non-Euclidean roguelike, is a mind-melting masterpiece.
• A crapload of animation links.
• LANCER, a new mech RPG.  Wait, here’s an update.
• Quondam: Finished!   “The most difficult adventure game ever made.
• Unlocking Braden’s Potential.  (PDF, via)
• Parallel processing with unix tools.  (via)
• A 1979 War-Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete.  (via)
• The History of Email.  (via)
• PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer.  (via)
• Building the plasma.  (via)
• Gravitational Teleport, fancy ssh.  (via)
• Email: a lost relic of the before-before times.
• Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it.
• The Beauty of Unix.  (via)

Unrelated images for the week:  this and this.