Tom Pickering

Partnerships/Sales & ex-Esports Commentator/Analyst. GM for @TeaPKadventures

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

I’ve finally added “ex” to my bio.

Long Covid, chronic lung pain, and asthma mean I can’t reliably deliver the level of quality a top broadcast deserves right now.

Esports has been a huge part of my life for 10+ years. From JGL to ESL, the people I’ve met and the friendships I’ve made are genuinely second to none.

There were negatives too, but I never went in thinking it was all roses. You don’t get the good without the ugly.

If you’re trying to build a career in esports: be multi-skilled, and network like your life depends on it.

Maybe I’ll be back one day. For now, you’ll find me running D&D and other TTRPG content on my channel. That’s the new addiction, passion, and love.

If you want to chat, hang out, or you need support, drop me a message.

And before I forget, thank you to so many people I’ve worked with over the years. I'm not going to tag you, too many people for that and I'd end up forgetting someone!

Peace out.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Palantir has signed a multimillion-pound deal with all police forces in England and Wales to run the national firearms database

[@billcurtis0]

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

It's crazy that 10 years on, @virginmedia are still throttelling people's internet for no reason.

Or, I guess this time it's because we're leaving them so they've said a nice fuck you to us :)

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

I bet £100 it will be some kind of sham to get people to move towards not owning their own hardware.

Or, some other sham.

[Windows @Windows]

A new era of PC.

25.0528, 121.5990

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

Apparently downloading one of the 100 dating apps and spending at least £1,000 will get you a gf, either that for 25gp at the GE

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

Anyone want to buy my (non-OLED) Steamdeck for $800? 🤡🥳

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US

• 1TB OLED $649 -> $949
• 512GB OLED $549 -> $789

still out of stock

https://t.co/k3U9h1geJ0

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

@JoeBGrech Still made solid gains on it, but between that and Tesla, I wish I had held out another couple of years 😂

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

@TatlFail The amount of idiots in your replies is brilliant

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

The ending of The Boys was as good as it was going to be.

The show wasnt some high brow content, it was bloody, it was gory and it originates from an absoloute loon, Garth Ennis.

All of the villains are worthless shits who are nothing without their powers, some even with.

[Eren | Caboose @CabooseEK]

I'm starting to understand that the reason the finale for this show is getting review bombed so hard, is because there are so many people out there that fundamentally do not understand these characters.

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

Create a family account

Purchase Premium

Split the cost or take turns in paying it

????

Profit

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Also, run an ad blocker at your router level.

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

@edeninhooo I'm ready to go

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

@YouM3tv That is so incredibly predatory, Ew.

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

@DimitriVallette @kartosiewicz You have angered the French Canadians, run

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

Despite my latest tweet of using "let me Google that for you"

Don't use Googles search engine, use something else.

Also, look into Proton drive over Google drive

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles

• Search will be centered around a reimagined ‘intelligent search box’

• Starts next Tuesday

(via @TechCrunch)

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

@ApplesCS2 The hacker is posting their clips now?!

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

Let me give you a better alternative: Jellyfin

Lazy? Here is a link:
https://t.co/reZnWgDlmk

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Plex has announced a price increase for new Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions.

Starting July 1, 2026, the one-time cost will rise from $249.99 to $749.99.

Existing lifetime subscribers will be grandfathered in with no changes to their accounts or benefits.

Monthly and annual Plex Pass subscriptions remain unchanged.
The company states the adjustment supports the platform's ongoing value and long-term development. Current users can still buy at the old price until the effective date.

[Onepeg @Onepeg]

Friendly reminder that the creators of disco Elysium cannot utilize their own IP because an investor gained 51% ownership of the company using a backend deal that the creators weren’t made aware of by selling himself a scrap of paper with a doodle on it for $1 and then selling that back to the company for 5 million euro and then systematically firing the people that created the world disco is in from 10+ years before as a modified D&D campaign. ALL of them.

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

Kevin has no idea what he is talking about, at all.

[Mikli @CryptoMikli]

Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

@EccentricEnter1 @Sacriel This your friend?

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

@BenikageCasts Uh, yeah Streamlabs is pretty trash, hopefully people don't just settle there 😅

[Tom Pickering @TomPickering]

I met so many amazing people through this game back in it's hay day

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Exactly 17 years ago today, Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time, was released.