Moulik Mathur

Freelance Journalist.
@howtogeek

Previously at @destructoid | @IGN_IN | @IndiaToday_Game | @newzeraapp

Otherwise, I'm a real-life NPC.

[rishi @RishiAlwani]

physical media and true game ownership dies because you want to play gta 6 and you’re too weak to push back

gamers are truly a spineless, lazy bunch

[Borussia Dortmund @BlackYellow]

Spiderman: Brand New Day ENTIRE movie 🚨🎥

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

🎥#WATCH | Ajay Chaudhary, Special Commissioner of Police, says, "The people who are protesting and the volunteers involved have worked very hard today to keep this entire protest peaceful and it is only with their cooperation that people have remained under control. There has been no violence so far and they are talking to each other, explaining things to each other and the volunteers are also making the same appeal to everyone. Their leadership is also doing it and we are also doing it. Peace should be maintained in this protest at any cost..."

(via ANI)

[Cyberpunk 2077 @CyberpunkGame]

“A single merc can't possibly take down Arasaka Tower on their own"

V:

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

Uma vitória de milhões!

[How-To Geek @howtogeek]

I asked Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to build my portfolio, but only one nailed it
https://t.co/OlCNMXrDnj

[Moulik Mathur @MoulikMathur]

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[How-To Geek @howtogeek]

Walmart's new Onn 4K Pro adds Google Gemini support
https://t.co/oTriKnkhLy

[Domino's Pizza UK @Dominos_UK]

we've delivered 91,326,817 pizzas since Spurs last won a game

[Moulik Mathur @MoulikMathur]

@jarrodjones_ @TheAVClub This was such a nice read.

[How-To Geek @howtogeek]

Plex Media Server just ended support for old Windows systems
https://t.co/rzqUc3T6oe

[How-To Geek @howtogeek]

Razer's first split ergonomic keyboard is here
https://t.co/ekukSbafU2

[CHIMAOBI 🐅 @chimaobi_saint]

🚨🎙️Ian Wright on premier league clubs:

"I’m telling you, man, Premier League clubs are being dragged on the biggest stage. We keep hearing it’s the 'best league in the world,' the 'best product,' but you look at these results—Chelsea getting schooled 8-2 by PSG, Newcastle being torn apart at the Camp Nou—and it is a massive reality check.

There is so much work to do. We’ve become arrogant, thinking the money and the pace of our league is enough, but these European giants are showing us what real technical discipline looks like. It’s embarrassing, man. It’s a total schooling."

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[FC Bayern München @FCBayern]

When you face Real Madrid in the UCL and it's only the quarter-finals...

[Devolver Digital @devolverdigital]

Our Game of the Year is once again Red Dead Redemption 2.

See you next year.

[DevOps @love_dev0]

@MoSalah Ladies and gentlemen, Mo Salah.

[Dr Nimo Yadav 2.0 @DrNimoYadav]

He is Aryan Neekhra aka Cringistaan, YT STREAMER.

His friend D0perman was beaten by Gau Raksha dal members 4 days ago for feeding chicken momo to an Ox.

Same evening Aryan raised his voice against this mob justice and said Gau rakshak dal is taking law in their hands.

Hearing this Criminal Daksh chaudhary went with 100 people to beat a 25 year old aryan who was alone.

He was beaten in front of @DelhiPolice and Delhi police was just watching young boy getting beaten.

Daksh Chaudhary has got many FIRs on him, yet he is roaming freely and lynching young boys.

I am not supporting Cringistaan, if he has done something wrong, he should be treated by the rule of law.

India has been taken over by fringe element anarchists.

Shame on delhi police.

In short, India is cooked 😢

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

FIFA 14 cover star Lionel Messi has signed a 3 year extension with Inter Miami