Fred Tippett

Journalist | Video game nerd, recent F1 convert | he/they

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Can’t believe the 🌽midwesterners🌽 got me to start saying ope 😔

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You know when I got a cat I was led to believe he might occasionally attack bugs that appeared in the apartment rather than stare at me while I swat at them like a king watching his guards hunt an intruder

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Watching over the herd

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Berkeley this, Burlington that, then there’s me in Madison

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this is about totk but it's part of why Im still mixed on botw bc I love the world (and the actual shrine puzzles) and want to explore it but hit walls bc I don't have enough hearts or stamina, so i feel like every new game needs to be hours of shrine hunting before I can explore

[Polygon @Polygon]

I wish Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom would let me collect hearts in other ways  https://t.co/zniTUBsu05

[Polygon @Polygon]

I wish Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom would let me collect hearts in other ways  https://t.co/zniTUBsu05

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Finally vanquished my ultimate souls-fan shame of being unable to beat the first genichiro fight in sekiro after literal years of attempts on a random Monday in May

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Good to see nothing has really changed since last year

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Giving Steelrising a try and as a Souls fan on Xbox who’d otherwise been desperately waiting for elden ring, I’m thoroughly enjoying it. Interesting world and lots of fun ideas

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Just another reason why High School is truly one of the best shows I’ve seen this year/ever

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crazy how much easier a game becomes when I stop ignoring a mechanic

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Rewatching The Bear then Ferris Bueller a couple days later has reminded me that all I want is Beat City by the Flowerpot Men on Spotify

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I can’t escape my white guy gamer roots (wanting to start a video games podcast)

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I'm convinced AP Style purposefully makes rules to be irritating and different

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TikTok can’t keep showing me the Doctor Who scene of Van Gogh in the museum late at night I’m too vulnerable

[North by Northwestern @nbn_tweets]

“Somebody needed to warn
Northwestern … We can’t let them go
into this blind.”

Meet UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, Northwestern’s next
president. https://t.co/nG5Oz5bPeF

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It’s possible I found my new favorite band this year

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I'm counting getting to interview @spiritedla for this @sunset piece as my first celebrity interview in my journalism career
https://t.co/iUKLXFXNUr

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CW: Drugging. In Opinion, Isabel Podolsky's account of what happened after she was drugged at AEPi last week. https://t.co/2dMUZWh1Jc

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