Arthur Gies (he/him)
@aegies.bsky.social
Painter (instagram.com/pragmagic), Supervising Editor at Wirecutter for tech, founder of Polygon dot com and someone who's consulted on lots of games you liked and more you probably didn't. Tech-fixated, compulsively acquiring 4k physical media.
post a banger that's not in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBa1...
February 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
post a banger that's not in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBa1...
Just a couple of quick observations about the discord stuff:
1) if you have an account older than six years/your usage fits a certain pattern, they’ll flag you as an adult without any documents (or so they’re suggesting)
2) this kind of age ID seems to be coming for every platform.
1) if you have an account older than six years/your usage fits a certain pattern, they’ll flag you as an adult without any documents (or so they’re suggesting)
2) this kind of age ID seems to be coming for every platform.
February 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Just a couple of quick observations about the discord stuff:
1) if you have an account older than six years/your usage fits a certain pattern, they’ll flag you as an adult without any documents (or so they’re suggesting)
2) this kind of age ID seems to be coming for every platform.
1) if you have an account older than six years/your usage fits a certain pattern, they’ll flag you as an adult without any documents (or so they’re suggesting)
2) this kind of age ID seems to be coming for every platform.
i firmly believe apple forcing tumblr to remove porn and adult content (and tumblr management caving and ruining its cultural relevance) is one of the horsemen of the apocalypse for our current cultural moment. a massively maladjusted and combative cohort metastasized into every other network.
February 9, 2026 at 5:44 PM
i firmly believe apple forcing tumblr to remove porn and adult content (and tumblr management caving and ruining its cultural relevance) is one of the horsemen of the apocalypse for our current cultural moment. a massively maladjusted and combative cohort metastasized into every other network.
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Hey friends, I was really hoping to avoid this but I need some help. I'm trying not to over draft before I get paid at the end of next week. If I can raise $150, everything will be "cool". Any little bit helps. Below is my paypal. My venmo is @ pat-baer
www.paypal.com/paypalme/its...
www.paypal.com/paypalme/its...
February 8, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Hey friends, I was really hoping to avoid this but I need some help. I'm trying not to over draft before I get paid at the end of next week. If I can raise $150, everything will be "cool". Any little bit helps. Below is my paypal. My venmo is @ pat-baer
www.paypal.com/paypalme/its...
www.paypal.com/paypalme/its...
i just closed a chrome tab taking up 5.1 GB of RAM and i'm wondering why we're not outside of their offices with goddamned pitchforks.
February 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
i just closed a chrome tab taking up 5.1 GB of RAM and i'm wondering why we're not outside of their offices with goddamned pitchforks.
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sorry folks for still posting this, I had two slots fall through so I am still looking for some help 😓
hey folks, I have the unfortunate news that I am opening up some commissions slots. I was ghosted by two freelance clients after sending work and now I can't pay rent. DM or email me if you are interested!
get a cute little guy for 50-100$ USD
examples here, please share!
#Blender3d #indiedev
get a cute little guy for 50-100$ USD
examples here, please share!
#Blender3d #indiedev
February 7, 2026 at 8:33 PM
sorry folks for still posting this, I had two slots fall through so I am still looking for some help 😓
it speaks to the news environment that mitch mcconnell was hospitalized on monday and i'm only now hearing about it.
February 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
it speaks to the news environment that mitch mcconnell was hospitalized on monday and i'm only now hearing about it.
This was not the episode of the Pitt to watch while eating Jesus Christ.
February 7, 2026 at 10:16 PM
This was not the episode of the Pitt to watch while eating Jesus Christ.
i'm going to stream some more nioh 3, where my swears aren't acutely boss-related at the moment, but i'm sure will be at some point. twitch.tv/aegies
February 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
i'm going to stream some more nioh 3, where my swears aren't acutely boss-related at the moment, but i'm sure will be at some point. twitch.tv/aegies
i am playing more nioh 3, where the first real boss is making me do swears. twitch.tv/aegies
Aegies - Twitch
A writer, podcast host, and video game consultant who streams games (about fifty percent dota, fifty percent other things).
twitch.tv
February 7, 2026 at 2:02 AM
i am playing more nioh 3, where the first real boss is making me do swears. twitch.tv/aegies
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I need a crypto bro to walk me through this insanity for a story!! I'm working on a piece about Creator Capital Markets--basically, people are now trading based on how viral someone is.
Any experts or those knowledgeable in this space? Hit me up!
Any experts or those knowledgeable in this space? Hit me up!
February 6, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I need a crypto bro to walk me through this insanity for a story!! I'm working on a piece about Creator Capital Markets--basically, people are now trading based on how viral someone is.
Any experts or those knowledgeable in this space? Hit me up!
Any experts or those knowledgeable in this space? Hit me up!
no bullshit, i have email in my inbox about mewgenics from *2013*.
February 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
no bullshit, i have email in my inbox about mewgenics from *2013*.
I’ve decided to go to GDC in part because at least it won’t be fucking snowing in the Bay Area in March.
February 6, 2026 at 12:13 AM
I’ve decided to go to GDC in part because at least it won’t be fucking snowing in the Bay Area in March.
tapping the sign.
see also: valve probably doesn't quite know how much the steam machine has to cost not to lose money on it when it launches (almost like we just saw multiple companies including lenovo and asus delay and stutter-launch gaming handhelds because of component pricing/tariffs, weird).
if you need RAM or are planning on building a PC in the next few months, if you see a decent deal in the next 10 days, you should buy it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hLi...
February 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
tapping the sign.
formally requesting that nobody show fallout 4 footage so i don't end up playing fallout 4 again.
February 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
formally requesting that nobody show fallout 4 footage so i don't end up playing fallout 4 again.
i'm going to stream some more nioh 3 and probably talk about steam hardware and how everything is going to be delayed and more expensive than anybody wants it to be: twitch.tv/aegies
February 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
i'm going to stream some more nioh 3 and probably talk about steam hardware and how everything is going to be delayed and more expensive than anybody wants it to be: twitch.tv/aegies
i'm going to be honest, i think there were conversations happening inside valve that this wasn't going to make Q1 *while press was there for the reveal event.* and if there weren't people at valve saying "guys i think we've got a problem" then they're not serious about hardware.
The tech world's obsession with AI just delayed Valve's Steam Machine https://kotaku.com/steam-machine-price-release-date-preorder-ai-valve-2000665802
Valve's Steam Machine Just Got Delayed Because Of The AI Race
The console-like gaming PCs won't be coming in early 2026 as originally planned
kotaku.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:05 AM
i'm going to be honest, i think there were conversations happening inside valve that this wasn't going to make Q1 *while press was there for the reveal event.* and if there weren't people at valve saying "guys i think we've got a problem" then they're not serious about hardware.
Ahem.
Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...
Still planned for shipping in first half of the year. No dates/pricing announced yet
Still planned for shipping in first half of the year. No dates/pricing announced yet
February 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Ahem.
the last time i installed windows it was for the 9950x3D launch, and used i devhome to batch install apps, which was amazing (if a little finicky), but MS killed winhome, so now I'm diving straight into winget for a fresh install (i figure after 40+ GPU installs, it's probably time).
February 4, 2026 at 9:49 PM
the last time i installed windows it was for the 9950x3D launch, and used i devhome to batch install apps, which was amazing (if a little finicky), but MS killed winhome, so now I'm diving straight into winget for a fresh install (i figure after 40+ GPU installs, it's probably time).
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Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
February 4, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
my switch 2 concerns aren't around hardware numbers, which are honestly great, even if they're only just hitting their targets. i'm unsure how the company is feeling about the attach rate, which is sitting around 2.2 games per console sold. coming out of the holiday, that seems soft to me.
February 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM
my switch 2 concerns aren't around hardware numbers, which are honestly great, even if they're only just hitting their targets. i'm unsure how the company is feeling about the attach rate, which is sitting around 2.2 games per console sold. coming out of the holiday, that seems soft to me.
good drive, good warranty, closest to a reasonable price you're likely to see for a long time (and it supports hardware encryption, which is absent from a lot of the competition).
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February 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
good drive, good warranty, closest to a reasonable price you're likely to see for a long time (and it supports hardware encryption, which is absent from a lot of the competition).
I don’t know that normal or even very online people have fully internalized that modern oligarchs and billionaires will never have “enough” money in large part because they think there’s a chance they’ll never have to die, or will at least live for another hundred years.
February 4, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I don’t know that normal or even very online people have fully internalized that modern oligarchs and billionaires will never have “enough” money in large part because they think there’s a chance they’ll never have to die, or will at least live for another hundred years.
watching people lionize occupy as a huge success is weird to me as someone who lived one block from snow park and three blocks from ogawa plaza in the fall of 2011.
February 3, 2026 at 11:48 PM
watching people lionize occupy as a huge success is weird to me as someone who lived one block from snow park and three blocks from ogawa plaza in the fall of 2011.