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freelance writer // bylines @TheMicNotts / @GamesRadar / @Dicebreaker / @Wargamercom / Polygon

[hal @HalHewlett]

So happy to get this opportunity to cover CAIN - my tabletop game of the year - for Polygon! I talked to @Orbitaldropkick about the game, its aesthetic inspirations, and the kinds of stories that it’s trying to bring to the medium. Check it out here!

https://t.co/ef88Eg5jjW

[hal @HalHewlett]

This is actually known as “commodity fetishism” and divesting yourself of it is, quite literally, a foundational Marxist principle. Read a book

[Ken Smith @smithkl42]

It's an iron law of the universe that as soon as you realize this, you become a conservative.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

baudrillard’s work on disneyland says: disneyland exists as an “obvious fake” in order to imply that the world outside it is real. that’s what the idea below is, in reverse: there’s a real world out there if you “log off” (not possible), so, dont worry, the internet is all fake.

[Raven Rots @RavenRots]

This is beautiful. This is what capital G Gamers deserve, perfectly smooth and thoughtless UE5 slop with ur favourite character printed on the box. Games playable by slime mold. Use your amoeba sense to find the oats at the end of the maze you fucking dog

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

Won my first RCQ of the season with UW Control 🙌

R1 🏆🏆 vs landfall
R2 🏆🏆 vs Jeskai lessons
R3 💀💀 vs BW Lifegain
R4 💀 🏆🏆 vs Omniscience
R5 🏆💀💀 vs Spellementals

QF 🏆🏆 vs UB mid
SF 💀🏆🏆 vs Jeskai Lessons
F 🏆💀🏆 vs Spellementals

Off to Bilbao in February!

[matt ༼ ◕_◕ ༽🇵🇸 @GhostStoriesEnd]

Ran some numbers and this entire scheme is designed to save Sainsbury’s about £2 million p/w in wages, if we say every “work experience” kid is doing 16 hours a week. That’s £127 million a year. Lord Sainsbury bought £127 million off Burnham’s Labour for £165000.

[Taiga creative studios @taigaminiatures]

🚨 MALEGHAST IS GETTING OFFICIAL MINIATURES

We’re making the official miniatures for @Orbitaldropkick’s MAGNAGOTHICA: MALEGHAST

💀 10 factions
💀 150+ miniatures
💀 STL + physical
💀 heavy metal necromancer filth

AUGUST 18
👉https://t.co/nnsmVOH0ph

#maleghast #MiniatureMonday

[Amanda Killian @eroscestlavie_x]

As someone who owns multiple vintage Playboys, I would caution people from the framing that “back then, even the porn was intellectual!” It’s actually more that in midcentury patriarchy, it was fine if the magazines had porn in them because the idea was only men would read them.

[jolene of arc @okaypompeii]

the first thing I think of when I see people debating whether a poem is good or bad

[Tommaso Loss @ciurlo22]

Got 10th place yesterday at Super IPT Summer Is Magic (136 players) with Jeskai Bender, card that I've really undervaluated.
Also it's the first time a deck that I and @LorenzoMontana_ with LPPisa built from scratch got outright banned, kinda cool (1/2)

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

remember when question time did a whole episode about young people and the only young person on the panel was a minecraft youtuber

[Blight Yoakam @BlightYoakam]

Delay GTAVI one more time and increase the price

#DelayGTAVIOneMoreTimeAndIncreaseThePrice

[Henry, emo mode @henry_clayton00]

Undefeated at locals with the best version of Tron! Mono blue!!!

@fireshoes just because the deck is cool

[🥺😭😹 @__EQSS__]

Just landed in the UK. We just found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy.

[Frank? @sunk__costs]

How it feels to envision any kind of future for myself

[Giliann @imissblackmidi]

Every day feels like this

[Henry, emo mode @henry_clayton00]

Anotha one! @Ratboysband

[MAMA @mamathemagazine]

Turns out 31 isn’t too old to get a circumcision.

In this landmark gonzo piece, author Matthew Pegas puts real skin in the game.

“Since beginning conversion classes, my girlfriend encouraged a hope that I’d somehow be able to sidestep the most ancient requirement of Judaism. But as soon as I read in the Book of Genesis that Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised of the flesh of his foreskin, I knew I was cooked. If Abraham had to do it at 99, then surely, I would have to at 31.”

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

i treat the novel as a device to harm and control people

[david ehrlich @davidehrlich]

Paper Tiger: Adam Driver gives the best performance of his career in James Gray’s devastating tragedy in a teapot about two brothers who get mixed up with the mob. An incredible, thrilling film, and a big gift for We Own the Night heads

My #cannes review: https://t.co/vH11Jj9j0f