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Just a cat in a human suit. (he/they). The death of print magazines put me on retirement. Sometimes I still get to write words. "Aren't you, *the* Matthew Arcilla?" "I used to be."
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We’ve become a nation of people just saying every day “how did this schmuck Musk become our king” when the fact is that the root cause of this—the thing that made it possible—is his insane wealth. Billionaires shouldn’t be celebrated as the fruit of capitalism. They should be condemned as its rot.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

The fact that Avatar keeps getting tapped as a cash cow instead of more fantasy series by Asian heritage creators should be a warning sign on entertainment

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Can't believe I ever stupidly thought "What a win for these guys" when they signed to the Big Red N, thinking any kind of security for a small studio is a good thing, as if I didn't already know that it comes with the possibility of being torn into pieces on a bad day. This fucking sucks.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Our guy walks into a totally unfamiliar environment with the craziest possible shit happening all around him and still somehow manages to make the correct moral choice like 85 times in a row.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Captain America: Brave New World walks back the single deftest piece of writing in the MCU so we can spend the entire movie worrying about what might happen if the president gets mad.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is either the best game ever or an unforgivable failure. No room for curiosity, for exploration or for just... enjoying something. Wrote about how internet cynicism flattened how we experience games. #blog #gaming #internet

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

A woman literally died as a result of the harassment and bullying she faced at Activision Blizzard under Kotick. What about her? Was she fake as well? Did the unions have her killed? You fucking dipshit.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Captain America: Brave New World is not good enough to be worth recommending, and it’s not terrible enough to make for a laugh watch. That's unfortunate for a movie with two armored birdmen and an angry red guy who tears up some of Washington D.C.'s most treasured scenery.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

i got permission from friend to share here so BEHOLD (twt is @/Makiveliyus, they dont have bsky yet)

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

chris rufo: is harvard doing an antisemitism? new york times: WE WILL TALK ABOUT NOTHING OTHER THAN THIS FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT elon musk: sieg heil! also, all my tween nazis run your government agencies now new york times: boring tussles about bureaucracy are underway

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

every inch of progress in the US is like this. BLM, defund the police, trans rights, etc — all marginal, sometimes nonexistent gains followed by massive rightward pendulum swings born of the (false) assertion that by gently prodding an issue, we’ve gone “too far”

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

Writing is a very devious pursuit because starting is very easy and ending is quite easy and writing the middle is like being killed and attacked and tormented and clawed by beasts

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If there is anything we learned about 'big franchise IP' -- the stuff Krafton just announced interest in securing -- is that they aren't sure bets. The number of venerable series and highly recognized properties that have flopped as games over the past decade is honestly kind of astonishing.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

20+ years ago I drew a B&W minicomic about news media -- it's not a good comic -- but one of the jokes I tucked in there was people looking for nudes of journos. That don't make me a prophet, but Lorenz probably isn't the first and won't be the last time a journo gets fake nudes. And that sucks!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The global spread of Japanese pop culture in the 80s & 90s is so interesting. With no Internet or centralized distribution, it was mostly based on deals made by local TV & VHS publishers, so countries had widly different hits. Timings too! The Saint Seiya anime is from 86, but aired in Brazil in 94

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

"[Apocalypse Keys is] ...very much Hellboy as the core influence, but has a lot of X-Men in the DNA too — but really interesting stuff." 👇

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment