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Painter (instagram.com/pragmagic), Supervising Editor at Wirecutter for tech, founder of Polygon dot com and someone who's consulted on lots of games you liked and more you probably didn't. Tech-fixated, compulsively acquiring 4k physical media.
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I haven’t been drawing regularly the last couple of weeks (SGF plus switch launch stuff) and I can feel how rusty I am doing figure drawing tonight. Shit is a struggle.

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Subway lighting making me look more vampire-like than usual.

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Weird one: anyone who attended the Nintendo influencer/media event in New York on April 2nd, I know there were some photos of the weird poster that had been partially covered up at the check in table that showed a new render of Mario in his Mario Galaxy flight pose. I cannot find it! Anyone save it?

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i am legit dragging myself through this week trying to make it to seeing Banks in brooklyn on friday night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iey...

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the things i have deleted without posting today are LEGION.

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i don't know what it is about certain moments in history that rob broad swaths of people of their capacity to imagine how, both in general and very specifically, things could get substantively worse.

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whoops typed out "each" twice and now my brain looks at that word like a sticky floor, cool, cool, luv 2 think

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Who are these people who have been saying Donkey Kong Bananza was bad back in April? I need to know opinions I can safely ignore.

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hello i am slowly digging my way deeper into the lies of p expansion: twitch.tv/aegies

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i've now lived in nyc long enough to be annoyed by all the tours that only stop in new jersey.

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If you’re following me for politics you’re going to be disappointed, it’s pretty much video game industry analysis, physical media, painting and cats around here 🤷

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Oh god my menchies

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oh geez i give it less than an hour before i delete that post, i don't have the energy to be on resistsky.

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Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.

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if hochul is jumping on this story people in the democratic machine see the narrative here very clearly going in a specific direction.

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i suspect there's some kind of visual overhaul at least being discussed, going by the language in this delay notification. www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Ar...

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yeah this makes it sound like they're still working on their own bespoke handheld hardware.

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if you can't seem to muster any excitement for a new video game console, allow me to suggest buying one for a child and watching their reaction, even when they don't know much about it. Because my 12 year old niece was fucking *stoked* for the switch 2 i bought for her birthday/6th grade graduation.

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*looks at the news* ... well i guess i'm playing some video games. twitch.tv/aegies

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there are bluesky days where i have no idea what everyone is annoyed by and bluesky days where i know exactly what everyone is mad about and can't say anything, and today is both of those.

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not to sound like a crazy person but i am broadly of the opinion that this conversation wouldn't have happened in public unless there was a "spirited" internal debate about pricing for this game.

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it takes bouncing back to other soulslikes to remember exactly how different lies of p is systemically/design wise compared to other games it gets compared to, in large part because you are absolutely going to need to block and parry (i-frames are lower on dodges, and enemy attack boxes are huge).

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going to try again to play the lies of P expansion, and fingers crossed nvidia drivers don't crash OBS i guess? twitch.tv/aegies

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law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

submitted 5 days ago • 1171 comments

according to law enforcement speaker at the presser, they have the shooter's vehicle. they know it's politically motivated because the shooter had a "manifesto" with a list of elected officials - the two who were shot, Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman - were on that list, along with others

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anyway i'm going to try to access the lies of p DLC and play it for a few hours: twitch.tv/aegies

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every time i see someone on social media wistfully approve of some event from the french revolution that seems romantic and cool but actually resulted in a lot of horrifying public murders and then the rise of EMPEROR NAPOLEON i get a slight case of hives.

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Before you post about your plans for tomorrow, remember that it's Shut the Fuck Up Friday.

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Well that was fucking great.

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So killer of killers, the Predator anthology, is 1080p on Hulu. But it’s also on Disney+ in fucking Dolby vision if you have a Hulu sub. wtf?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

it's a real tough guy thing to say "if they want me out of here they're going to have to bring more than a couple of guys" but it literally took several dudes to get him out of there.

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also i would bet a small sum of money that as of today the switch 2 has probably outsold the steam deck, which i have been told for the last three and a half years is the best thing ever and the future, relentlessly.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

every new console hardware launch demonstrates that techtubers generally don't know shit about game consoles, game development, or the video game industry (with some very, very specific exceptions).

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