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Host of @Friends_Table , Producer @More_Civilized | Formerly @Waypoint , @GiantBomb , @PasteGames | He/Him
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What was Bill Russell's life like while he was racking up 11 rings? His daughter writes:
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OH HOLY SHIT. I figured out what we should do with the new 140 characters.
´•._.•´¯`•._.•´Forum Signatures Are Back Baby`•._.•´¯`•.¸¸.•´
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We’re on levels of LinkedIn posting beyond your wildest imagination
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yeah it's called a strike and you should talk to the people you work with about it
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I’ll be honest, this is making me rethink the matchup.
the best thing about the hydrogen bomb vs. coughing baby meme is that baby is the same one from this indonesian hoax video of a newborn baby immediately speaking and telling his mother that boiled eggs cure covid 19
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As clear an illustration as any as to why we need to reject empty symbols of unity.
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my man was way past plot relevancy but came off the bench HOT
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Every death is a loss, but the thing that keeps hitting me with Chadwick is how obvious it seemed that he was going to become one of the absolute great actors of his generation. Just unbelievable screen presence, so much talent that he was constantly working on, sharpening.
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The footage of Adam Toledo--thirteen years old!--being killed by the police is more than heartbreaking, more than devastating. "Stop right fucking now!" He stops. "Show me your fucking hands!" He raises them, and is killed. And they have the nerve to ask "why run from the cops?"
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We are So divided as a country .. only a cataclysmic Event , that makes us depend on one another again , can bring us back together
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If I were a factory worker I would simply sell the conveyor belt for rent money.
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White liberals on the timeline, this is me in advance saying to please give space to black and brown leftists, prison abolitionists, and survivors of police inflicted trauma to vent their frustrations at the Harris pick. This is not the time to play act as a pragmatic party whip.
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Peace and love to Floyd's family, and to everyone who is feeling it right now. Let's keep working for a world where this doesn't happen in the first place.
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y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?
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It's extremely hard to conceptualize just how rich people like Bloomberg are. I recently saw a thing going around that said "If you made $7,000/hour nonstop since 1AD, you'd still be worth less than Jeff Bezos," and I was like "No, that can't be right," but it totally is.
Mike Bloomberg is WAY richer than people realize.
Bloomberg's so rich that it’s nearly impossible to conceptualize just how much money he has. So we made an animation to help.
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I get why we're reminding people how cruel Rush Limbaugh was to particular people, but dude wasn't just like, mean. His reach was vast, his effect structural. He spent his career spreading an ideology that normalized his cruelty and served as basis for modern cultural chauvinism.
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everyone is seeing the big header image on that actiblizz article, but it was looking at this bigger breakdown is what sent me into space
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Wow, good on Ubisoft for letting JT take a break from being a mid-game Far Cry 5 boss for this
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i'm genuinely fucking stoked for this level of total disconnect, this absolute, blatant action figure ideology. it's not "which of these heroes are you?" but "are you the space fascists or nah?"
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Something not clear in this already incredible self-own of a chart is that "Target" isn't even "the goal we need to hit to prevent climate catastrophe." Target is just "What Biden pledged to hit back in 2021." It's less aggressive than what the EU or the UK say they're targeting.
What's at stake for our climate in this November's elections?
Absolutely everything.
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When confronted with the idea that no one should be allowed to be as rich as Bezos is, I often see a sort of shrugging "well, you can't just TAKE that money from him" response.
Which is confusing, since he was allowed to take it from his underpaid workers.
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uncle with a new job lookin, kings of comedy lookin ass
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"I don't give a fuck ... Put a fuckin' saddle on it."
the explanation for why he-man has a tiger is one of the funniest things i've ever seen in my life and i have to share the whole clip
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Would really love to know who the "we" is that's speaking here, because my bet is that it isn't the people who fought to make the post in the first place.
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I keep seeing people say, with really good intentions, that if you want to support artists or own original art, commission artists.
But the people buying and pushing NFT art do not want to support artists or enjoy art. They only want to get in early on a new speculative market.
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If it wasn’t already damning that “the biggest game of the year” shipped with unavoidable epilepsy triggers (somehow sneaking past console certification), fans of the company are now sending more seizure triggering videos to the reporter who brought this to light. This is gaming.
Warning: I’ve been sent hundreds of videos disguised as support that are deliberate flashing to induce photosensitive triggers. If you’re sharing this saying you’re epileptic and receive a video, don’t press play. I’m back to being on my ass.
Be better, please.
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The further we get from its release, the more I appreciate Blade.
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Roughly 800 people losing their jobs today despite bringing in record revenue for their employer. Unionize this industry now.
Activision Blizzard says that -- despite its "record year" -- it's laying off 8% of staff. Last year it had roughly 9,600 employees, which means that 800 people are losing their jobs. Updating here as we learn more:
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This is an event that comes from decades of feeding a reactionary fire, and yet it will absolutely be used by some as an excuse to restrict civil rights and target protestors on the left. Get ready for that fight now.
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Been giving it some thought and, you know, if you're someone who feels very particular about making sure the phrase "concentration camps" isn't applied 'inaccurately,' my advice is is to make sure your country isn't running anything even somewhat comprable to concentration camps.
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I already QT'd this but it's just wormed its way all the way into my brain. The worst tweet I've ever seen. Just the vain, evil worldview of a rotten imperial core on full display. No sense of history orsemblance of proportionality. Sent from stolen land in a city built by slaves
It’s impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin.
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with full respect to the actual trailer soundtrack, which whipped, please enjoy this snapshot into what my brain sounded like while the armored core 6 trailer played
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In case anyone was wondering how Wrestlemania was going, John Cena is currently fighting his way through a supernatural projection of his own unconscious anxieties about his own history as a performer.
This is not a bit.
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I don't think about you at all.
VICE is shutting down games media division, Waypoint, and laying off the entire staff.
I wish I could be magnanimous, but no, good riddance. Those assholes spread nasty lies about me for years in official and non-official capacities. "Fuck Capitalism and Go Home" has been…
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This is technically a story about Keanu, but it hits so hard today anyway bc it pulls into focus that despite being a celebrity, Reddick was not some abstract being, but a particular person, who like us wants validation and friendship, and who was in this moment lucky to be loved
I often think about this story Lance Reddick told about working with Keanu on the newest Wick movie
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this might be the best nintendo direct yet for people who love maligned japanese role playing games from the late 90s
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"Is Genghis Khan a ‘Chad’" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
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A response I see a lot is "When did things get so bad," and I'm so tired of saying "It's always been this bad, we just didn't have video."
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Telling that after saying "what a fucking nigger," Pewdiepie 'corrects' himself with "what a fucking asshole." There is no ambiguity here.
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Pay your team severance.
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Please let the fact that this is going to end up being close disabuse us of the notion that Trump was a fluke or that he doesn't represent a real, deep seated throughline in America and American ideology. That requires real work to address, work way beyond voting.
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And right on time, people are coming out the woodwork to say that this isn't how you protest.
You can't take a knee. You can't boycott. You can't speak frankly at a press conference. No disruptions from the norm. Nothing that would, even for a moment, draw attention to crisis.
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So looks like the word is out! I'll be leaving Waypoint three weeks from today to join the world of game dev. With neither studio nor project public yet, I can't say much except that it is so entirely up my alley of interest that it's honestly sort of funny.
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Get ready for this to become a common practice. Please, I'm begging you, organize your workplace or get your unions talking about this shit ASAP. You make the company the same amount of money no matter where you do it, and should be paid appropriately.
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Conflating "being murdered" for "sacrificing your life" is the sort of statement you make when you have no skin in the game and eager to return to peaceable status quo ASAP
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@SpeakerPelosi
speaking at presser with CBC: Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice...Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous for justice.
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Just to be clear, the politicians, commentators, and bankers arguing that capitalism ("the economy") is more important than some % of human lives have ALWAYS held that belief. That isn't crisis-thinking. It's always been built in to their logic and calculus. They're fine with it.
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Let me say that the 2 types of tweets from game dudes I least want to see, but keep seeing, right now are:
1. “This sucks. Now I’ll feel bad when I play X.”
2. “Oh, X is an abuser? Not surprised. I hated his work anyway.”
Lift the voices of survivors right now. Quiet your own.
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If you hold the sorts of transphobic beliefs that Rowling does, I don’t want you as part of any movement I’m in, I don’t want you as a fan, I don’t want you in my life. You cannot be a transphobe and be part of the fight for justice. I don’t care what books you wrote.
‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?
Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate
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250k people just watched a gay black furry be the most dominant player in one of the most exciting fighting games out right now. what a time to be alive. live your very best life SonicFox.
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Bloomberg isn’t an “oligarch.” Oligarchs are entwined with the gov’t. Today the word makes people think of Russia (where the oligarchs are entwined with Putin).
If you want a word with negative connotations for influential very rich person that fits Bloomberg, go with “plutocrat”
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You know how I've argued "We need to stop debating if games are art and just do the job of treating them like art?" It's also time to move past "Can games be apolitical?" and just focus on continuing critical cultural analysis. Do the work, make it unavoidable, shift the frame.
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'communism took away my grandfather's egg monopoly' remains my favorite thread on this site
"you think being left wing is so great, but actually my family's ill-gotten gains were redistributed under socialism, " is the absolute best genre of post on here
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Deep breaths, next steps.
If you got involved during Bernie's campaign, if you got excited about someone who was going to fight with us to create a better world, then I need you keep that same energy in your town, city, or state.
Stay radical, stay involved.
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RIP my favorite twitter joke: the one where you write a really absurd line and stretch it out as long as you possibly can so it hits the cha
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I know I shared it yesterday but fuck it, one more time.
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Trump is a special sort of scum. He's also an extension of centuries-old ideology. It may look like our cities were suddenly occupied by the police, but the US has always been a racist occupation. Don't let your passion for justice be quieted by electoralism or proceduralism.
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Y'all joke, but from June 2009 til June 2010, the G key on my laptop was totally broken, so I kept a txt file open at all times, where I would copy g or G as necessary. Wrote columns, freelance articles, and grad school applications like that.
Tech tip for people who aren't as tech-savvy as me:
When you press the h button on your keyboard, you get a lower-case h. But what if you want an upper-case h? Easy! Just go to the wikipedia page on horses, copy the upper-case h and paste it into your document. Problem solved 👍
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I think it got cut from today's pocast, but Patrick caught wind of this early and when he told me, I just sort of said something like "Yeah, we're always the 'Freedom Cry' and never the numbered sequel."
Update: Sony executive says Spider-Man Miles Morales is "an expansion and an enhancement to the previous game"
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This is the real shit.
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The final two lines of Andor this week sent me spiral-pacing around my apartment, unhinged and laughing
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This is a work for sure. There’s gonna be a Super Bowl ad where we see all the M&Ms out of work and desperate to be rehired and/or protesting their firing. This is a Planters Baby Nut situation.
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I'd heard a lot about the "Chimera Ant Arc" in Hunter X Hunter but wow this scene really took me by surprise.
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I don't have anything productive or positive or hopeful to say about the shooting in Jacksonville. I don't have anything pithy or calming to add. The grief and terror of living in a country that will not address its problem with guns is overwhelming.
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Nothing exhausts me more as a critic and a fan than seeing art treated like a puzzle to be solved, each reference a key to some locked gate behind which final, true meaning resides.
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When you refuse to tell part of a story because "it distracts people," what you might mean is "it undercuts the message we intend to send." And in this case, the message in question seems to be a whitewashing of American war crimes.
Six Days in Fallujah is “not trying to make a political commentary,” according to the game’s creator
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Sonic the Hedgehog desperately wanting to go to Olive Garden doesn't seem like such a fucking joke now, does it?
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Well that seems rude, I'm doing my fucking best out here
Announcing FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker, our new expansion pack set to arrive in fall 2021!
#FFXIV
#Endwalker
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Incredible. Cinematic. This is like what the Purge movies would do to immediately indicate that a politician is as sloppy as he is corrupt
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Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh, cruel. Says he feels alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is uncertain. Doc says "Treatment is simple. Defund the police. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor. I'M police."
The clowns are here and they're angry 🤡👮🏻♂️🤡👮🏻♂️🤡👮🏻♂️🤡
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Wrote a little blog post about the clips going around from Forspoken (and the marketing that preceeded them), and unpack a little bit why my /instinct/ is to pull away from the sort of smirking humor that's deployed in them
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my 👏🏾 sonic 👏🏾 is 👏🏾 black 👏🏾 and 👏🏾 he 👏🏾 loves 👏🏾 ska 👏🏾
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we ain’t gotta dream no more, man. we got real shit.
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Repungant, disgraceful, hypocritical, and absolutely expected from this Congress.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House censures Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her rhetoric about Israel, rebuking the only Palestinian American in Congress.
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Loss is felt many times. First for what is now gone, second for what was before, and then endlessly for everything that might’ve been.
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LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Trebek’s laugh here as he realizes how the system has been gamed is so choice
The Jeopardy rules used to be that in case of a tie, the tied contestants would win their cash and get to come back. In 2007, Scott Weiss recognized the possibility of a three-way tie, so instead of bidding $2601, he bid $2600 so they could tie and all win their cash. It ruled.
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Solidarity with the people who keep this city running.
The NYPD is using a bus to transfer arrested protesters at the Barclays Center.
However the bus driver refused to drive it.
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Apologies for not including a link on this. Was rushing to a podcast when I hit tweet, meant to include in a follow up. Here it is!
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me: i can't afford dinner
hillary clinton: we need more restaurants
Millions of people have lost their employer-tied health care over the last two weeks because of the pandemic.
It's an easy call: Re-open the health care exchanges.
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I don't have any of that naive pretention that the WSB crew is some selfless, proletariat uprising, but by god if these CNBC hedge fund motherfuckers aren't the easiest people in the world to hate. Fuck em
Listening to irate New York hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman on CNBC right now lamenting people "sitting at home getting their checks from the government, trading their stocks."
“This fair share is a bullshit concept," he shouts. "It’s a way of attacking wealthy people."
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you better watch out
you better watch out
you better watch out
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damn I guess Sony received many messages from gamers,
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The case is, I've heard, that you need a big tent to beat Donald Trump. But once your tent is big enough to fit one of the architects of an unjust war that killed 100k+ civilians, is it still really your tent?
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Deeply moved by the footage of people in Glasgow stopping an immigration raid in its tracks and getting the folks being detained released.
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Since entering my no-more-takes lifestyle, it's felt like every day is in competition with the day preceeding to come up with a scenario outlandish and/or ghoulish enough to draw a take out of me. And I refuse.
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