one thing they don't tell you about being a professional writer is how much of the writing is fucking emails

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I haven't played Apex Legends in a looong time (sorry, My Employer™), but this... I mean... this is tempting.

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Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

oh.

BROWT GANG

This trip will save their marriage

I have never not picked a grass starter in a Pokémon game, and I'm not about to start now, but I'll damned if Pombon isn't everything to me. (but also I love you very much, angry little Browt)

We're allowed a snifter of happiness today. Even hope. Just as a treat.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Layoffs are unfortunate for everyone involved. Full stop. This mealy-mouthed thing where it'll help a company "move faster, listen more closely, and deliver consistently" - like they're metamorphosing into a higher state of being - who are they fooling, exactly? www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...

WHAT

In the cinema to watch "Wuthering Heights" and the white wine levels are off the scale.

Well I'm sure this is all fine.

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale!

Hard to overstate the impact on my brain wiring that Muppet Treasure Island had. Arguably (ARGUABLY) more than Muppet Christmas Carol. 30 years later (to the DAY) and I still find myself daily quoting it. An absolute gift of a movie. And Tim Curry at his singular best.

Robin Williams on Trump in 2012: And he owns all these beauty pageants. Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn't that a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It's a f-cking catch and release program for him. This is a man who said, 'My daughter is hot.'

Sometimes the Pacific Rim theme starts playing on a random playlist and then the day becomes the Pacific Rim theme on repeat. I don't make the rules. Apparently, Ramin Djawadi does.

You're gonna want to get a copy of this book, which contains some real gold advice from an innumerable* amount of unbelievably talented and diverse game devs (and also me). *quite numerable

Gave a talk yesterday on how Dragon Age: Origins is one of my favourite games of all time, only for today to grace me with the DRORIGINS TRUCK??? There are cathedrals everywhere.

I don't want to own Dragon Age: Origins truck. Dragon Age: Origins truck should roam free across Central Europe. But I want to see Dragon Age: Origins truck. To experience it. To know such beauty still exists in our world, crafted by hands not so different than mine, to know it is able to endure.

Bradford, of the Astral Clocktower.

Gang, I haven't given an industry talk in a WHILE and I am just a tiny bit* nervous. *very

Bradford, I have arrived. Woe be upon ye.

You all need to stop posting about Wes Streeting because you are continually reminding me that Wes Streeting exists and I do not want that.

So here's some fun -- next week I'll be giving a talk at the Yorkshire Game Festival! It's all about what I believe underpins the fundamentals of game writing: trust. www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/yor...

I am the bulwark, the sword and shield, the light in the dark that pushes back the grim tide of 'Pok Mon', that the Video Game Industry Professionals may sleep peaceably at night.

Might starting calling this Boonta Eve to see if it catches on.

the worst human art is still better than any AI art

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

I cannot accurately quantify how often I think about or watch this music video. The so-called "fact" that this is now ten years old makes me want to shrivel into a ball. But instead, I'll just watch the video again.

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

[takes a long, long drag of his cigarette and sighs] okay. sure.

So here's some fun -- next week I'll be giving a talk at the Yorkshire Game Festival! It's all about what I believe underpins the fundamentals of game writing: trust. www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/yor...

It's important to assume this is a crock of shit.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

As if you need any more reason to know this and to disavow everything she's involved with, but it's very very clear and very very obvious that JKR is an actual ontological evil.

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

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one of the reasons I think it's hard to believe Catherine O'Hara died is because she was this super rare combination of both poise and chaotic energy and so she didn't seem to have a physical age; she was just oscillating between 40 and 17 and 60 at all times.