Rus McLaughlin
@rusmclaughlin.bsky.social
Marketing/Content Strategist and Raconteur. Was the voice of PlayStation. Also Niantic, Oculus, EA, IGN, GamesBeat, others. My opinions represent everyone (except my employer). Video Games, Science Fiction, Geek Stuff, and that Writer's Life. (He/Him)
Yeah, it’s bad in the PDX right now. We just decamped for the coast, which is the only breathable region left in the entire state.
Tim@timpranillo.bsky.social · 8h agoNo filters. What the sun looked like in Portland this AM with all the smoke from the wildfires in the PNW
Hey. I liked Ted Lasso S3. I make no apologies for it. I mean, Ted would’ve absolutely attended Beard’s wedding, but the Amsterdam episode is peek and Roy doing press conferences is not to be missed. Rupert’s denouncement is excellent. Mom City Goes There.
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God damn it. I knew Halo Studios wasn’t safe. They have 5-year cycles, huge burn rates, 10 million unit sales, and the new Xbox CEO is only looking at raw numbers. Prestige brands are not in her philosophy. She has zero nostalgia associated with games. It’s just not her world. Land safe, everyone.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day good. Destin Daniel Cretton is now the MCU MVP. McKenna and Sommers’s script rocks. And Tom Holland is having a moment, delivering maybe the truest Peter Parker I’ve ever seen on-screen… all the reasons Ol’ Webhead is my favorite superhero.
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I kinda feel bad for Oregon cops, because I don’t think they’ve ever gotten to write a speeding ticket in their lives. I’m not sure they even know how. Then I show up, a thing beyond their comprehension, monstering across their fair state with lead foot and malicious glee.
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Picked a fun time to go vacationing in Oregon. (That’s air quality, not temperature.)
Hm, how would I ever survive absolutely no change in my routine at all?
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · yesterdayI have one answer.
We’ve been a lawless country ever since a criminal was elected President, but now we’re going to stop even pretending otherwise.
I’m hearing a rumor that Dave Bautista is in talks to step in and play Kratos in the God of War adaptation, and… I’d be okay with that?
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Hey, @toni.bsky.team… in order to attract more right-leaning social media users, you must give them access to people they can victimize and algorithms that spread that abuse exponentially. That’s why they’re not here already. They tried it. They got mass-blocked. We choose what’s acceptable here.
The Verge@theverge.com · 3d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Honestly, I’ve always held that physical media will eventually vanish, and most gamers likely won’t care. But ignoring a segment of your customer base is an excellent way to get them to ignore you.
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 3d agoSony vows to press on with discless plans, saying "digitalization is progressing" across all media despite heavy protest from players. https://bit.ly/4fKwquj
I’m looking at a Norwegian restaurant menu, and everything sounds either like a Viking curse involving your mother or something you have to assemble with an L-wrench.
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Yes, because domestic violence is often intended to enforce subservient behavior in the abused.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Knives insisted, so we went to Alpacas of Oregon and I ended up talking about all the rock concerts we’d seen with Doug, the co-owner. (Doug won with Bon Scott AC/DC.)
Beaverton, OR Population: Zero Beavers Two Stars
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Ima teach these Oregonians how to drive like California. There may be casualties. But it’s a risk I’m willing to take.
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No chance Hearn doesn’t have a case for defamation, false arrest, and a half dozen other things. He can probably extract a public apology from Trump and others, too.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
I love this roughly 10 billion times more than any Cybertruck.
Hands-down the freakiest thing about The Odyssey is that Agamemnon is actually played by a scrawny New Yorker who also wrote Uncut Gems.
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We take misinformation seriously by allowing you to create it at scale. This helps us move the arrow up and to the right.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6d agoGoogle’s response to the outcry about this very dangerous new AI function is to claim “We take misinformation seriously”:
The Odyssey good. For me, what really elevates it is the pacing and editing, which is precision-tuned, and a sneaky but potent theme of devastating consequences that explores the true meaning behind “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” But my sons liked how Nolan basically made Absolute Odysseus. :)
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I hear there’s an Odyssey mid-credits scene that sets up The Iliad.
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