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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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A homeowners association group chat is just a vizier battle royale... ... with roguelike elements.

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My senior cat is in the stage of his life where he is strong, healthy, alert but he must step on my dick or balls seven times on the way up to getting into my lap or on my chest.

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I think when Geoff Keighley claims to love videogames, he believes it like absolutely genuinely believes it. The problem is that how he understands that passion and expresses it is the problem. It's always in favor of the corporations that pay his show and not for the people that make the games.

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I bristle when I see well-meaning people on the left use words like "degenerate" and "savages" to describe the architects of the genocide in Palestine. These words are intimately & inextricably tied to authoritarian and fascist conceptualizations of the world

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What irritates me most about Geoff Keighley invoking the indie game space is that it feels like a begrudging acknowledgment that he cannot paper over with his feigned enthusiasm. Not when there's a refusal to engage with why these titles are capturing so much interest.

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"gen z doesn’t get to have nostalgia; gen a won’t have anything to hold onto that isnt a Statement about What Came Before. we’re past signposts and in the territory of front pages: reality is going to come down to what a handful of papers left have to say about the world. keep moving. get in line."

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Ghibli films are bright and sunny in direct contrast to the dark and dismal things they depict. Not just as a function of aesthetic dichotomies, but as art that is curious and questioning about all the corners of life. Reducing it to inoffensive wholesomeness is missing the art for the vibes.

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Imagine having a billion dollars lying around. You could donate it to a charity, you could use it to finance a massive creative endeavor or bankroll businesses of friends and family, start a massive art collection. Or you could be JK Rowling and fund legal harassment of a minority group. #girlboss

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stoner guy in dorm room, 1990: "haha it's like .. the year numbers just keep going up, right? And we're almost at 100.. so it's like.. what then! Is that it?! Ha ha. Hey man you don't look so good, did you take too big a hit there" Francis Fukuyama: (silently holding stock-still while freaking out)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Also more reporting on the damage Elon Musk has done and the accounts of people who have worked with him, for him and hurt by him, rather than his post-DOGE plans and feelings. Stop doing PR for him!

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it's pretty wild how throughout all of history nobody who has ever decided to argue that "actually a little bigotry is okay" ends up looking like one of the good guys and yet people are still lining up left and right for the opportunity to do so in the paper of record

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Many shout out David Suchet for his work in Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-2013), I shout him out for his work in 1999's Wing Commander. I am a man of culture.

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my 'I'm Not in the Persona 4 Remake' shirt has people asking a lotta questions already answered by my shirt

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

There's a decent paycheck waiting for any cis writer who wants to write chin-stroking articles about trans 'issues,' but a couple of quarters and a cigarette butt for the trans writers standing on the media corner with the sign reading "Will write about my people for food."

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

When you're at a point where there's just no way your action game based on a world-famous billion-dollar box office super hero character can realistically be financially viable you have to ask what the games industry is doing, man.

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i better see lots of wrath during pride month this year. no more "respectable" queers. they want us all dead regardless.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

"We’re going to need a new kind of solidarity. One that stands for more than platitudes and posts." @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social‬ stresses the importance of solidarity in the current era of videogame and pop culture criticism:

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Quicker wits than mine already opined on EA shutting down Cliffhanger and canceling its first game. It's "resizing as usual" in this age of industry despair. So if EA is not doing the premier Black superhero, are they still doing the white weapons dealer turned tech disruptor? They are?

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What's going on with business and tech journalism is the same as political journalism: quoting in good faith the people who shouldn't be quoted in good faith. It's why I can't stand quoting Sam Bankman on AI or Greg Peters on entertainment media, because money not merit is why we're made to listen.

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