Arthur Gies (he/him)

@aegies.bsky.social

Painter (instagram.com/pragmagic), Supervising Editor at Wirecutter for tech, founder of Polygon dot com and someone who's consulted on lots of games you liked and more you probably didn't. Tech-fixated, compulsively acquiring 4k physical media.

Heads up folks! My Seattle mystery about a psychic travel agent slash karaoke queen is a special price for August! For just $1.99 you can grab the ebook from all the usual suspects - just click here and check the right-hand column here for links: 👇 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...

Grave Reservations

A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective try to solve a murder in this “ebullient tap dance of a mystery” (Christopher Moore, New York Tim...

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tom holland got paid about 25 million for brand new day, which, hey, huge payday, congrats to him, but i'm seeing some not super well sourced reporting that he has a backend deal of 5-8 percent of first dollar gross (as in, straight from ticket sales), which probs means he'll clear 9 figures on it.

#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward

because this is going to drive me insane seeing it over and over again today: halo campaign evolved wasn't "rebuilt in unreal engine 5." it was rebuilt systemically and structurally in the halo reach version of BLAM (the halo engine) using UE5 as a renderer, like oblivion/ninja gaiden 2 black.

now that the fallout 3/nv remasters have finally been announced (after being essentially known about for like four years) if we could get an official announcement of the long-rumored dark souls 3 remaster, that would also be great.