Really excited to share this one - thanks so much to @robzacny.bsky.social for the commission and the edit
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Really excited to share this one - thanks so much to @robzacny.bsky.social for the commission and the edit
Flattered that they'd think to portray me in a movie though. I have been known to hit the gym sometimes!
Article by The Hollywood Reporter, stating Ana de Armas will play a fitness influencer called Emma Kent in a new movie
RIP my personal SEO, about to be ruined forever
Sympathies to the IR students trying to make sense of the current mess
Trump has got to be the biggest argument against Realist IR theoryβs assertion that individual interests donβt affect state behaviour lol
Catch up on this week's Archetypes article, which muses on GTA V's radio stations, nostalgia, and the messy realities of US urban infrastructure.
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#internationalwomensday
Only occasionally - and normally with people who havenβt really commissioned before so havenβt considered all these things
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
NATURE/MTS1.GIF
Prompted by a recent discussion with a (non-games industry) friend who didn't quite understand this lol
Remember kids, if you think a freelancer is charging a lot of money, that their fee also goes towards...
-Taxes
-Sick days
-Holidays/annual leave
-Pensions
-Fallow periods of little work
-Emergency savings for when clients pay late (or not at all)
...and probably even more things beyond that!
Throw on FlyLo FM and dig into our latest piece, from our newest Archetype - Radios. Boen Wang's nostalgia tinged dissection of Radio in GTA V
Love this personal essay by Boen linking GTA V's radio stations to nostalgia, driving, and the messy realities of US urban infrastructure. A great start to this month's theme of Radios!
Also going through this right now with the Canadian tax system. It is SO convoluted in comparison to the British one. Had to listen to Enya for an hour last night to calm down
Big thanks to @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social and @edwinet.bsky.social for the shoutout in today's Sunday Papers post! If you enjoyed my work at Eurogamer, please do check out youtube.com/platform32 as I'll be hitting the ground running with that from tomorrow! www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...
Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and the COOP Banking app being unavailable
Hello everyone. I come with the sad news that as you are no doubt already aware, we're saying goodbye to several of our friends and colleagues here at Eurogamer. Leaving us are Tom Orry, our editorial director; our video team of Ian Higton, Zoe Delahunty-Light, and Alix Attenborough; Alex Donaldson, our editor-at-large; and Will Judd, who worked across Digital Foundry, hardware and deals. I'll start with Tom, who over the past year-plus had made himself a hugely valuable source of advice, expertise, desert-dry humour and world class poker faces (I think we just about made him laugh once, for a moment, on his final day). Tom initially began the role when Tom Phillips was our editor-in-chief here, mostly working away diligently in the background in a two-Tom-tandem doing editorial director things, before taking on a more prominent role on the site itself over the past 11 or 12 months, gracing us with some signature console nostalgia and unjustifiably intense Project Gotham Racing enthusiasm. Tom, Dom, Alex and I, along with the rest of the team, worked together closely on what a 'new Eurogamer' might look like last year, and his experience in running multiple games media sites was consistently our rock to lean on. While he may have initially seemed an outsider of sorts compared to Eurogamer chiefs of old - at least to some on the surface, coming from his 20-plus years across our sister sites VG247 and USGamer, and before that the cult-favourite site he founded in our once-rival VideoGamer - I can't stress enough how much Tom 'got' Eurogamer. His goal was for us to be at the heart of the big stories that mattered most to our readers with original, diligent reporting and on-the-button commentary, and that will absolutely continue. In immaculately on-brand, limelight-dodging Orry style, Tom opted to sneak his farewell into this past weekend's What We've Been Playing column, but I'll be damned if he gets away with it that easily. Sorry Tom. Here's what he had to sayβ¦
From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).π
Interesting how the reduced number of web3/crypto emails I receive nowadays has synchronised perfectly with an increase in AI emails. Almost like it's the same people sending them
This is so true. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of it all, and insignificant in the face of massive systemic problems. Keep loudly voicing opposition, but start with the small things. If everyone did something to help within their communities, the world would be so much kinder
Scene from Andor where a politician says "They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation."
Relevant once again
I'm so sorry Alex, this sucks. Good luck with what's next - glad to hear you'll be spending more time on RPG Site!
So sorry Ian π you all deserve better
I thought this was a funny joke then did a little google. I can't believe it
Idk I just can't see a way this plot point wouldn't annoy me. It undermines the struggle in the previous films, and it's just a bit boring to only have one villain who is perpetually brought back. Lucas said the emperor should never return and I'm inclined to agree with him. Let him die!
new gorillaz day mostly an excuse to revisit the greatest tweet ever made
Omg is that where the emperor cloning idea came from? Truly one of the worst plot decisions of all time
Interrupting the doom and gloom to announce that I skied a whole run backwards for the first time today. It's a little win but I'll take it
love media consolidation