@aegies
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.
when it comes down to it, epic is run by one guy, and despite the legions of extremely savvy, smart people there, he gets to make the calls on this stuff and how it's communicated if he wants to.
also idk epic might be trying to put together enough capital to buy out tencent's stake in the company, since that equity is now getting scrutiny at the federal level.
i had the epic convo with a few people yesterday and i think all of us agreed that 1) yes, costs have almost certainly gone up - electricity, web services, hardware prices, and assorted burn are all skyrocketing but 2) this "i'm just a wittle guy trying to make ends meet" shit from epic looks awful.
I am wearing a suit. I look like I’m off to Execute a Contract. This always happens.
ok but BART is weird as hell now, i'm having a hard time getting used to touch to pay and functional station restrooms.
i haven't really done any panel stuff yet but my GDC press room vibe check is that attendance seems very sparse compared to even last year (which was before the real crackdowns on immigration started).
The best advice I have for writers is: the harder you try to impress people with your prose, the worse your prose will be. Sit down and try to communicate honestly, you will find the places for your flourishes and metaphors that actually serve greater meaning rather than your own ego.
I truly love that ride.
Esoteric ebb!
man the fucking 2020 vibes this year are *strong*.
i think unfortunately we're watching the ABK'ing of EA at the moment (and this, to me, looks like a preemptive response to the earnings call where they have to admit that player numbers are down and MTX revenue isn't where they want it to be).
more pokopia, because the world is too much for other things: twitch.tv/aegies
the world is nuts and i'm trying to decide travel stuff so let's ignore that and play pokopia for a couple of hours: twitch.tv/aegies
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i anticipate a measured and considerate response toward this test by the gaming public at large.
It’s still likely to be locked down in some way. It has to be for security purposes.
If you have flights you’re expecting to take this year and you can book them now, it would probably be good to do that before the impending jet fuel price shock hits (oil isn’t just gas prices).
I could make a dozen of these with entirely different genres and still feel as strongly.
Varied but taste-indicative pile of 4k pickups tonight.
I have now moved on to pokopia.
hello i'm going to chat about the next-gen xbox announcement and how consoles get announced and also playstation's strategy shifts while i play the hot new extraction shooter *checks notes* the division 2? (there's a hardcore mode now!) twitch.tv/aegies
Every Xbox since the Xbox One has run multiple operating systems simultaneously more or less. A console is bespoke hardware with a collection of specific hardware configurations.
bart is tap to pay with apple/google pay now too, right?
hard same (even though it wasn't actually a good game). right place right time.
This is generally how they announce things (and Sony announced the new PlayStation project in a YouTube video last year).
uh holy shit he fired kristi noem. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
i'd like to know where this is appearing, because i'm certainly not getting it.
i regaled @patrickklepek.bsky.social with this comparison at the event we were at for it. it very much feels that way.