If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

this exists it is called thinking

Game devs: your office is maybe the most boring place on Earth to speak to someone.

agent 47, welcome to england

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

Stunning piece. A horror movie of sorts. Will be familiar to anyone on the left trying to navigate the centrist American legacy media, albeit made all the more difficult when your bosses and colleagues all assume your people are by default murderous barbarians. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Hey, are you games PR with some Switch 1 codes to burn? My neighbor's kid turns 12 this month and long story short, has had a rough year! Grandma (helped raise him since mom is single) passed away, he's helping mom with disabilities, etc. But he's a great kid. Looking to surprise him with some games

The greatest minds in history are on the case

Can someone just come and play Silksong for me. I’ll watch. I’ll just watch.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

The amazing thing about video games is that they can really let you express a different side of yourself, something that perhaps you couldn't or wouldn't reveal in the real world

Excellent response from Hasan Piker, who was scheduled to debate Charlie Kirk in two weeks. On his stream he said: “The reverberation of people seeking out vengeance in the aftermath of this violent, abhorrent incident is going to be genuinely worrisome.” Also talked about his own vulnerability

nobody should die like that and guns are still the fucking problem

The shooting of Charlie Kirk will have almost exclusively extremely negative consequences for American society in general, the stability of society in specific, and the safety of everyone living in it.

Thinkin bout Warhammer

Shout out to the 60-something on my flight reading book 8 of the Horus Heresy. Told me his son got him into them and Warhammer books reignited his love of reading.

I spoke to Pete Hines about his 24 years at Bethesda — the highs and the lows, his biggest regrets (canvas bags), the state of the industry, and more. www.dbltap.com/features/24-...

I have a version of this conversation about three times a month.

Many months ago I bought a BIG fleece. It has laid rest in my wardrobe unworn throughout summer. I wondered if I would ever wear it. Today in financial services, I am IKEA monkey:

My book, Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, is out next February! It is a lively cultural history of the world's most beloved video game company, drawing from 20 years' worth of reporting and interviews. Pre-order here: linktr.ee/super_nintendo

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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Six today!

Got to the station this morning and saw two old cabbies, sat on the bonnet, arms around each others shoulders just chatting. Lovely lads.

34 this week. My last and final birthday.

A problem with going to bed early is you wake up at 04:55 and can’t get back to sleep. That’s a problem they don’t talk about!

Asking these types of questions of corporate executives at Microsoft is totally understandable. I’m not sure if putting a creative developer on the spot about their employer, expecting them to put theirs and their team’s livelihoods at risk, is a huge win.

Too many games.

Had a worsened period of chronic pain recently so went to see my acupuncturist. Turns out a worse pain than being punctured by needles is being told how the house they bought for £500k is now worth £1.2m.

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right

lads. this is embarrassing.

Not at Gamescom. Definitely not furious about it.

It was a Saturday miracle.

the eulogy at my funeral:

The greatest thing anyone's ever done in a video game trailer is when Kojima put olive wreaths around preorder bonuses to make them look like prestigious awards

I’m 14-hours into a 28-hour fast before a medical procedure. Went into the fridge, briefly forgetting I couldn’t eat. Breakdown incoming.

Replaying Eidos’ Guardians of the Galaxy and turns out it was brilliant.

Listen pal if you’re going to be a 30 year old baby you’re going to need to have a Bluesky account

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

Insane to me that even with a picture like this sitting on national newsstands, there will be people who stick by the (disingenuous) position that “hamas started it.” How are we here?

Every day, the same story, the same moral pit. The fall of this murderous government can't come soon enough. The only suitable place for Netenyahu is in court for war crimes.

Have loved this profile for a long time.

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Donkey Kong Bananza takes a moment to find its feet, but once it does it's every bit as glorious as you'd hope from the brains behind Odyssey, Galaxy and the like. Few better feeling games.