experimentego.bsky.social
Anglophonic Tsinoy | He/They | Twitch @ experimentego
Just a cat in a human suit. 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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I wish more people understood what an incredibly stupid idea "games payola" is. Bought coverage is an inefficient way to get a videogame to sell. This holds true for any entertainment product.
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i dunno, man. sometimes catharsis is lying to you. sometimes it's just chemicals making you feel like making a point and having it land is accomplishing anything. we're lizards sunning ourselves on a rock. what distinction ought there be between the righteous and the damned?
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Look I get that the Bay/Valley is full of people who consider a jacket over a graphic tee as event wear but even by those standards, @geoffkeighley.bsky.social 's fit is atrocious. Is there no one to help him in front of the mirror?
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Nice
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I get it. Five plus years is a long time to be locked in professionally. There's only gonna be 45 hours of Stranger Things, but David Harbour is already over being Hopper because it's been a decade. It's a problem when artists get fewer stories out per series and I don't the artists are the problem.
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The thing is? We could rethink policing as a public service rather than a public force. We could re-imagine the work of policing as a practice that restores broken trust and amends the consequences of harm. Hands that nurture rather than boots that stomp. But we didn't.
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If Keighley were to consider the structural and cultural problems of the industry, and explore the little acts of rebellion that power the most unexpected successes... It would surface a cognitive dissonance he is actively trying to repress.
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And I get it: nobody expects deeper insights from Keighley about the state of gaming. But it's hard to square his position as full-time hype man with the lip service he gives to indies when his energy is, "yeah we recognize the trailblazers, but they're not actually welcome to the party."
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Keighley's goal in doing this, whether he realizes it or not, is to deflect scrutiny from the games industry itself. His language is designed to have these successes be absorbed back into the industry. "Nothing is broken or dysfunctional, you see? These games are a credit to us all!"
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Rather than highlight the risk-averse inclinations of 'publeechers' (as @ramiismail.com calls them), spotlight the lack of opportunities for leadership or advancement among juniors or contemplate the poor management endemic in big studios, Keighley asks you to see these games as exceptions.
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Sure, Keighley will devote a few sentences to the units sold, the size of the teams. But always the framing is about how these plucky endeavors have risen up alongside big releases and without support from trad publishers like Bandai Namco or 2K, emphasizing the moxie and resolve it takes.
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We actually see this get translated somewhat in the MCU, as he debuts in Captain America: The Winter Soldier as a trauma counselor. It's one of the few times the film series actually identifies more grounded aspects of the comics characters to poach.
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I don't expect licensed games to be overtly 'political' enough to single out fascists, but I expect there to be at least a good amount of elite mocking and savaging of the one percent. I mean, every target in HITMAN was always a stuck up bastard who literally and mechanically saw everyone as 'NPCs.'
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I cackled out loud. My cat is displeased.
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It's nice to see that the guy who made the Dead Island trailer is still getting work
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Nuh uh you are
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You can just ignore the OP and get on with your day. Find better things to do with your time, like enjoying Ghibli films the way you choose to.
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That's incredible coming from someone with several skeets about the awfulness of Wizarding World.
Don't get me wrong, I agree people should dump Hogwarts shit, but you're out here telling people how dogshit JK is while being defensive about how one enjoys Ghibli. Let people enjoy their transphobes!
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I mean the first sentence is an incomplete thought so I don't know what I'd be abiding. If you're going to mime a skeet with sarcasm at least do it correctly.
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Why are there always people who are like, "I want to enjoy things but your critique makes me unhappy so I'm mad at you." You can ignore the critique and continue to enjoy the thing the way you always did. If you simply cannot abide by a differing opinion existing then that's a you problem.
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A panel/cover conceived by Warren Ellis, known pest and abuser of women. God why do they all suck
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Would you elaborate on it if Paste Magazine paid you a couple hojillion dollars? :D
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I just keep a Pilgrim strapped to the side of my desktop PC. Why make a computer perform billions of calculations when you can have someone navigate space-time itself?!
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This Silent Hill content warning hits hard
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It's like watching my childhood play out in half-speed