A lot of knee-jerk reaction to the Steam Machine pricing, and while it certainly isn't *cheap*, it's not as unreasonable as it seems at first glance. Horrible market, but still in line with entry-level gaming desktop pricing. The experience of plugging in a standard tower into your TV is bad!

Rewound my parade stream to capture Clyde in a Mario Sunshine hoodie?? Lmao

Delayed post cus celebrating NBA CHAMPION NY KNICKS

Biggest sign of Knicks fever in the city is two of my favorite local bars that have never had TVs adding them in the last few weeks

OG IS A SUPER HERO I'm still shaking

I mean why watch or play if these are the foul calls, infuriating. To review and overturn that is absurd

I CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING, KNIIIIICKS

If you're a journalist, odds are that Google has turned your job upside down over the past 6 months. It's only gonna get worse, @drewmagary.bsky.social's latest www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

This rumor was so out of left field when it started, but increasingly felt more real and here we are. What a gift. Wind really is howling

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

Jalen Brunson, goodnight

As more people are vocally anti-AI, new spin/trend has developed where company leaders or community managers will state that 'they don't like AI slop either', which sounds disarming, but carries the implication that their stuff *isn't* slop, and they're the ones who will do it the *right* way

Last year or so has been a journey of me remembering/accepting that The Strokes are, in fact, one of my favorite artists www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4qs...

Morrowind in the hearts and minds of gamers lately 😤 But you don't have to care about TES to enjoy this. Really excellent article on game lore and worldbuilding from @duncanfyfe.net. (Glad as ever @remapradio.bsky.social is providing space for pieces like this) remapradio.com/articles/who...

Sinnematography

9 games that made me 🌱 my9games.com

Me and @himynameiszack.bsky.social played plenty of Marathon during the server slam and wrote about it for @pcmag.com. We had our hesitations around extraction shooters heading in, but dare I say...we enjoyed ourselves? www.pcmag.com/opinions/we-...

Had my head down with the holidays, a busy (but fun) CES, the obligatory CES flu, and then an NDA rush...a whirlwind! At least I came out the other side with this nice video on our first Intel 'Panther Lake' testing, with an eye on graphics & gaming @pcmag.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-50...

Replaying The Witcher 3 (NG+) with the next-gen update on PC for the first time and can't stop taking screenshots as I travel It was already in my top 3 all time, even more stunning now [1440p, RT Ultra, RTX 5070 Ti]

I love @lostincult.co.uk

LaFleur on LinkedIn right now

Kingdom Come: Homework II

I wrote about Rob Reiner: www.vulture.com/article/rob-...

it really feels like a lot of the anger over that game is based around like 6 different posts from nobodies around launch that were "finally turn-based games are good unlike that JP SLOP" and it has somehow warped into hatred of the devs themselves (and the game ofc) and its really depressing

Deserved Clair Obscur sweep I'm afraid

A beautiful sunset on MAMDANI'S NEW YORK tonight 😌

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

it's obviously important that zohran won. but it's equally important that cuomo and the despicable, racist, contemptuous, arrogant, loathesome forces arrayed behind him were brutally defeated. they banked on new yorkers hating and fearing each other. and they lost. what a town.

Relief! Optimism!

Socialist NYC mayor is such a tremendously good vibe shift and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise

Back levels 📈

🗣️ Zohran szn

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

Folks, it's now Gaming Sunday

Making more of an effort to shift my work posting over here too! Yesterday's Nvidia x Intel news was a big surprise, and there's a lot to digest. My 5 biggest questions and takeaways for PCMag: www.pcmag.com/opinions/int...

One of the more fun and unusual products I've reviewed lately for PCMag, @frame.work's first desktop: www.pcmag.com/reviews/fram...

Finally getting 'round to Red Dead 2 and, surprise, it's real good 🐎🚬

Been much more active with my movie watching and Letterboxd lately 😌 Follow along if you're on there~ letterboxd.com/Pyrrhus/

Chelsea, world champions! What an outing

We're simply so back

DARE WE DREAM NEW YORK?

Tough task but gave it a shot~

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

Everything else about the race aside, I still can't believe Zohran, who I've already voted for twice before as my local assemblyman, has this much name recognition and discourse now (good!)

Had a super busy week covering Computex. Taiwan showed me a great time in my few free hours, which is a testament to what an interesting place it is

KNIIIICKS

Behold! @pcmag.com's tariff tracker, where we will be answering this question: "Is the cost to build a PC going up?" Most components are made in China, but so far the tariffs haven't hit yet—except on GPUs, and prices are going wild already. Follow along: www.pcmag.com/news/tariff-...