Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary

@experimentego.bsky.social

Anglophonic Tsinoy | He/They | Twitch @ experimentego Just a cat in a human suit. The death of print magazines put me on retirement. Sometimes I still get to write words. "Aren't you, *the* Matthew Arcilla?" "I used to be."

A thing that is weird and frustrating about these “a famous person said something about Palestine and then got in trouble” moments is that none of them ever lead to actually talking about Palestine - they just lead to us talking about the famous person and who’s mad at them.

If your statement is to equate a single-day event 1,000+ days ago to literally 1,000+ continuous days of irrefutable genocide only named as a "catastrophic" "humanitarian situation" - you are saying something about who you feel is human and who is subhuman, even if you're not trying to.

Every potential answer I have to this question can really come off as flaunting (or faking) for cred, but the truth is that I was really lucky to have come of age during a time of seminal works and foundational classics. Sid Meier's Civilization, The Secret of Monkey Island and Wing Commander, c'mon

Screenshot of Wing Commander (1990). The interior of a Rapier starfighter in the 256 colors of VGA.The opening shot of Melee Island from The Secret of Monkey Island, from the 1990 EGA version for PC.A screenshot of the original release of Sid Meier's Civilization for MS-DOS PCs. It depicts a map of grasslands and mountains in crude tile format, dotted with Militia units and various cities.
Retro Blast 💫@retroblastpod.com · 5d ago

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

A lot of work is a process. That process allows you to exercise your ideas, see flaws in your plans, and refine, and make a better work product. If you click a button and the work, based on your original plan, magically comes out, it never went through that process.

The Institution is dead, man. It's been dead. Now's the time for the punks, the fuckers that wanna punch above their weight class, that wanna write experimental, personal, weirdo, sick shit. They will stumble along the way but we will all be better for it: not financially, but in spirit.

this is not a satisfying answer or solution, but: now is the time to do shit for the love of the game, not the money (because there isn't any). I could give you a million reasons as to why you should just Do The Thing but can't offer any career advice.

The world still exists. It just happens that the forces that think "we could monetize people having this problem" are winning vs the forces that think "we could help people having this problem." And the forces that thought "we could prevent this problem in the first place" are long dead.

It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time

And what if we let everyone participate? The action splash concluding this introductory scene underscores this message: “Being a superhero is awesome. Everyone should try it.” While some texts critique exclusion by magnifying it, Gillen & McKelvie instead imagine inclusion. 10/11

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