Joshua Wolens
@joshuawolens.bsky.social
i have a high reading level for my age
I invite you to notice that the Times is yet again targeting individual, named members of the public, a thing they’ve been doing at least since they were naming and “exposing” individual black students who wanted to move a statue or change the English lit reading list ten years ago.
In which I pitch exciting Deadlock characters like Professional Baseball Minotaur, Three Gnomes in a Trench Coat, and North Pole Elf Labor Rights Activist:
Don't worry, Valve: I've got your next Deadlock character concepts sorted
The Cursed Apple is ready for Humpty Dumpty and the Loch Ness Monster's Precocious Preteen Child.
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today's 'modding GTA 5 every day till it becomes GTA 6 or breaks' feature has produced my favourite screenshot i've ever taken
i am temporarily back on win11 for Witcher 3/Nvidia reasons and the sheer amount of time i've had to spend pruning the OS of bullshit is mind-boggling. Linux can be a faff but at least i feel like i'm building it into the thing i want instead of actively fighting against it being something i don't
Meowdelyn🏳️⚧️@meowdelyn.bsky.social · 4d agoPeople will endlessly say that linux is "just too hard for the average person to use" while defending having to do 20 steps in 8 separate programs just to get the windows desktop not to be actively hostile. My Bröder in Computation, what has Bill Gates done to you to make you so pathetic?
"Given current circumstances, you might think I'm just primed to notice nightmarish aristocrats bleeding us alive to sustain themselves. But after too many hours of spreadsheet data entry, I'm convinced devs really have been dabbling more heavily in Draculas as the economy feels increasingly dire."
Vampire games on Steam are a recession indicator and I have the charts to prove it
Nothing is scarier during Halloween season than amateur statistics.
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I'm sorry, Release the Epstein files, but I don't think I'll be needing any more of your, ah, 'help'. Excuse me.
This month @pcgamer.com magazine gets world-exclusive access to @blizzard.com's incredible @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com: Forever. A new golden age of MMOs begins! Plus, Total War: Warhammer 40K, Rainbow Six Tactics, Bodycam, Afterworld, Max Payne 2, and much more, too. tinyurl.com/2cerxhyf
PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: World of Warcraft: Forever
Plus, Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Stronghold 4, Rainbow Six Tactics, Bodycam, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, and much more, too
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Finally got to the bottom of the 27-year-old mystery that's been HAUNTING the videogame industry since its discovery
The PC Gamer Mysteries, Case #1: "A Slice of Death": Why is there a dead golfer hidden in Golden Tee '99?
This murder's gone decades without being solved... until now.
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Well. That's me gone from TheGamer too. Six years of service, and I was at least given the dignity of it ending in a phone call. Right after dealing with weeks of institutionalized misogyny too! Thought things might be getting better So. Uh. Looking for work now I guess!
I catalogued over 500 hours of Youtube footage for a website that lets you stare out the window of a train, and also control the weather somehow train.samismith.com
if i am polite enough the enemies who want me dead will surely treat me fairly
bit in Rabinowitch where he remarks that Russian traders sent stock prices rocketing in 1917 when they were convinced Kornilov was days away from kicking in the door to Petrograd and hanging everyone left of Milyukov. capital simply loves a fascist to come in and Set Things Right
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last wk.Brazil’s markets jump as investors bet on Bolsonaro win ft.trib.al/1DF2EaZ
Hello! Would really appreciate some eyes on this to support our reporting <3 www.thegamer.com/inside-rocks...
Inside Rockstar's Union Busting Trial
We speak with one of the 34 Rockstar workers who lost their job last year, in the midst of a high-profile employment tribunal.
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We’re excited to launch No Games for Genocide’s blog, with our first post by yours truly, exploring Call of Duty’s role in the imperialist war machine. Read below - and remember to join us for our political education & action session on Saturday 10 October! 👇🏽 nogamesforgenocide.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty's Propaganda Machine
The role of militarism and propaganda in the video game industry
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What is the greatest FPS mode of all time, and why is it [INSERT DEMOCRACY HERE]? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ma...
Making our favorite FPS modes 1v1 to decide the greatest of them all
Vote on the greatest FPS mode of all time. There can only be one.
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Why do so many video games have silly names? I wrote about it for PC Gamer. www.pcgamer.com/games/why-so...
Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names
"Suddenly everything's called Rise of the Bonelord: Origins of Dust."
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is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com
Anybody can do games journalism, but only PC Gamer can do THIS:
I have broken GTA 5 by installing so many mods that the game only launches in windowed mode now
Which I'm taking as a… win?
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did a 2-hour interview. spent over an hour of it talking exclusively about the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia. would do it again
For Warhorse's 15th birthday, we chatted with its co-founder about the demand for 'grown-up' RPGs, AI, why games are too cheap, and his role in the collapse of communism
Just a regular convo, then.
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The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 3w agoBoasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:
the media and events conspire to bait me into having an opinion on 'hasan piker' but i refuse. i refuse
I realise this is a terrible time to look, but if amyone has/knows of any guide freelance work, it would be much appreciated. Some regular work I have had for almost 3 years is coming to an end from Oct 1, so am looking to fill that hole. RTs appreciated and feel free to DM me
