Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary
@experimentego.bsky.social
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Just a cat in a human suit. The death of print magazines put me on retirement. Sometimes I still get to write words.
"Aren't you, *the* Matthew Arcilla?" "I used to be."
Just a cat in a human suit. The death of print magazines put me on retirement. Sometimes I still get to write words.
"Aren't you, *the* Matthew Arcilla?" "I used to be."
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The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
Yay, finally have time to stream more Battle Suit Aces! Stream starts at 15:00 UTC twitch.tv/experimentego/
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Yay, finally have time to stream more Battle Suit Aces! Stream starts at 15:00 UTC twitch.tv/experimentego/
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Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
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Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
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they were called "MMOs" once and you found success through lots of single-player content, deep systems appealing to both singletons and groups, support for guild drama, and customer service that wasn't akin to getting a root canal, none of which seems to have made the transition to "live service"
How on earth do you find lasting, meaningful success with a live-service game? Developers answer the "billion dollar question". https://bit.ly/47xnpSv
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
they were called "MMOs" once and you found success through lots of single-player content, deep systems appealing to both singletons and groups, support for guild drama, and customer service that wasn't akin to getting a root canal, none of which seems to have made the transition to "live service"
Good to know!
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Good to know!
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
This was one of the all-time bangers of deep dive journalism from Waypoint. I was a part of Sierra fandom and closely followed these developments as they happened, and it's unreal to see it retold but with all of the wild, crazy financial business shit laid bare.
Rediscovered this electric article from 2020 by the great @duncanfyfe.net about the death of Sierra, a studio that was so so important to my childhood.
How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud
Sierra was one of the biggest game publishers of the 90s. Then they got an offer that was way too good to be true, but too good to decline.
www.vice.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This was one of the all-time bangers of deep dive journalism from Waypoint. I was a part of Sierra fandom and closely followed these developments as they happened, and it's unreal to see it retold but with all of the wild, crazy financial business shit laid bare.
Okay, let's try this again! I've got my Twitch account back after an issue with 2FA. Looking forward to streaming: Battle Suit Aces! From @team.trinketstudios.com, the folks behind one of my favorites, Battle Chef Brigade. Stream starts at 14:30 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Okay, let's try this again! I've got my Twitch account back after an issue with 2FA. Looking forward to streaming: Battle Suit Aces! From @team.trinketstudios.com, the folks behind one of my favorites, Battle Chef Brigade. Stream starts at 14:30 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
Nothing much going on tonight, so why not get started on a game I've had installed for a while: Battle Suit Aces! It's a mecha card battler with visual novel elements by
@team.trinketstudios.com , makers of one of my favorites, Battle Chef Brigade! Starts at 14:30 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
@team.trinketstudios.com , makers of one of my favorites, Battle Chef Brigade! Starts at 14:30 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Nothing much going on tonight, so why not get started on a game I've had installed for a while: Battle Suit Aces! It's a mecha card battler with visual novel elements by
@team.trinketstudios.com , makers of one of my favorites, Battle Chef Brigade! Starts at 14:30 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
@team.trinketstudios.com , makers of one of my favorites, Battle Chef Brigade! Starts at 14:30 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
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I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
naomialderman.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
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We wanted to understand what a Zohran Mamdani administration would mean for New York. So we talked to a Kentucky woman who once tied for 5th place in a swim race with a transgender woman and got really mad that she didn't get to hold the trophy.
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
We wanted to understand what a Zohran Mamdani administration would mean for New York. So we talked to a Kentucky woman who once tied for 5th place in a swim race with a transgender woman and got really mad that she didn't get to hold the trophy.
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Shout out to the Fortnite leaks server for not being evil about this like I suspect many other leakers and people who believe the game can do no wrong will be
November 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Shout out to the Fortnite leaks server for not being evil about this like I suspect many other leakers and people who believe the game can do no wrong will be
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Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.
When people hear that I'm returning to part time work they often ask "are things not going well with your art?"
The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.
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[stares]
god i hate computers
god i hate computers
![ulauncher for "mesen", showing "welcome screen" (welco[me s]cre[en]) ranked above "mesen"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gwfx4qjjq2yhjzrgr5xqcnyz/bafkreihgl6ba46uls4txp7xa5m7xv4rd2a3ft6yamijm2a3q5ommy53cvm@jpeg)
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
[stares]
god i hate computers
god i hate computers
Genuinely tired of people describing some Asians as "deadpan," on account of the subtlety of facial expressions. Sometimes we're not "deadpan," we just have Asian resting face. Joy or irritation is just a mild tension in the cheek or in the corners of our eyes, sorry for not being Western loud face.
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Genuinely tired of people describing some Asians as "deadpan," on account of the subtlety of facial expressions. Sometimes we're not "deadpan," we just have Asian resting face. Joy or irritation is just a mild tension in the cheek or in the corners of our eyes, sorry for not being Western loud face.
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POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale
CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor
CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor
"Torment Nexus" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe the kind of negative experiences you can have with social networks, like getting dogpiled or harassed or being pushed into conflict
November 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale
CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor
CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor
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What awful news. M. Karyo was an incredible talent who brought class to every project he touched. It’s easy to see why Chris Roberts fought to have him in Wing Commander. Thank you for giving us Paladin.
Tchéky Karyo, acteur français connu pour ses rôles dans « L’Ours » et « Nikita », est mort
Tchéky Karyo, acteur français connu pour ses rôles dans « L’Ours » et « Nikita », est mort
Après ses rôles de chasseur dans L’Ours de Jean-Jacques Annaud et de mentor d’Anne Parillaud dans Nikita de Luc Besson, le comédien français s’était spécialisé dans les rôles sombres et violents.
www.lemonde.fr
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
What awful news. M. Karyo was an incredible talent who brought class to every project he touched. It’s easy to see why Chris Roberts fought to have him in Wing Commander. Thank you for giving us Paladin.
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
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Y’all can keep your Lo-Fi Hip Hop Beats channel, I got MY chillout playlist ready to go…
October 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Y’all can keep your Lo-Fi Hip Hop Beats channel, I got MY chillout playlist ready to go…
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If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here.
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here.
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
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I think if you're this deep into 2025 and trying to pretend you don't know what right wings buzzwords are when caught for saying stupid shit, you do not deserve any amount of good faith grace. I do not have the faith left to give for someone who is either stupid or thinks his audience is that stupid
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I think if you're this deep into 2025 and trying to pretend you don't know what right wings buzzwords are when caught for saying stupid shit, you do not deserve any amount of good faith grace. I do not have the faith left to give for someone who is either stupid or thinks his audience is that stupid
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"Didn't the technofascists learn anything from Star Wars or Tolkien or other mass media" no because those are not parables and that is not how people learn how to be people. The chance of catching an antifascist subtext in mass-appeal fantasy is pretty low unless you've acquired those ideas already.
October 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Didn't the technofascists learn anything from Star Wars or Tolkien or other mass media" no because those are not parables and that is not how people learn how to be people. The chance of catching an antifascist subtext in mass-appeal fantasy is pretty low unless you've acquired those ideas already.