Nick Edwards
@nkedwards.bsky.social
Product and brand guy for games. Child of the console wars. Way too many brain cells dedicated to gaming. Bad ideas are all my own.
A while back I think I said RFK would end up a mass murderer on at least a Pol Pot level, and that prediction is looking pretty good.
February 13, 2026 at 4:29 AM
A while back I think I said RFK would end up a mass murderer on at least a Pol Pot level, and that prediction is looking pretty good.
Trump is cratering the economy to make sure you never get a decent burrito again in this country
Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."
February 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Trump is cratering the economy to make sure you never get a decent burrito again in this country
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Re: the NFL and Bad Bunny
At least 10 years ago, I met with the EA Madden NFL studio to talk about Madden Ultimate Team (multiplayer live service gaming with in-app purchases)
They told me Latinos and Blacks over-indexed by 100% in their audience
That meant 39% of Madden players were Latino
At least 10 years ago, I met with the EA Madden NFL studio to talk about Madden Ultimate Team (multiplayer live service gaming with in-app purchases)
They told me Latinos and Blacks over-indexed by 100% in their audience
That meant 39% of Madden players were Latino
February 10, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Re: the NFL and Bad Bunny
At least 10 years ago, I met with the EA Madden NFL studio to talk about Madden Ultimate Team (multiplayer live service gaming with in-app purchases)
They told me Latinos and Blacks over-indexed by 100% in their audience
That meant 39% of Madden players were Latino
At least 10 years ago, I met with the EA Madden NFL studio to talk about Madden Ultimate Team (multiplayer live service gaming with in-app purchases)
They told me Latinos and Blacks over-indexed by 100% in their audience
That meant 39% of Madden players were Latino
This actually undersells it, because Bezos doesn't have it in a Scrooge McDuck vault, he (like every other rich person and many normal people) has invested it, so it grows. If he lit $1m/day on fire he could do it forever. He has to spend at over $25m/day just to keep from getting richer.
again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
February 4, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This actually undersells it, because Bezos doesn't have it in a Scrooge McDuck vault, he (like every other rich person and many normal people) has invested it, so it grows. If he lit $1m/day on fire he could do it forever. He has to spend at over $25m/day just to keep from getting richer.
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When I try to explain to people that investors are generally very, very stupid people this is what I mean.
Video game stocks are suddenly crashing today with the launch of Google's Project Genie as investors think games will start magically getting made with AI
➡️ ca.investing.com/news/stock-m...
#GoogleGemini #TakeTwo #CDProjektRED #Roblox #videogames
➡️ ca.investing.com/news/stock-m...
#GoogleGemini #TakeTwo #CDProjektRED #Roblox #videogames
January 30, 2026 at 5:35 PM
When I try to explain to people that investors are generally very, very stupid people this is what I mean.
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A 14th century parable about agentic AI transformation
January 28, 2026 at 4:32 PM
A 14th century parable about agentic AI transformation
Wait, Highguard is 3v3 only? Seriously? When the fuck did every multiplayer game become allergic to team sizes higher than a basketball pickup game?
January 26, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Wait, Highguard is 3v3 only? Seriously? When the fuck did every multiplayer game become allergic to team sizes higher than a basketball pickup game?
Here's hoping my hometown does me proud.
imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
January 26, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Here's hoping my hometown does me proud.
I'm surprised that no Dem has staked out the position that Trump/Noem/Bovino should resign. I'm aware they never will, but why not get some media attention for the idea when your signature policy results in the public execution of 2 citizens you should resign in disgrace?
January 25, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I'm surprised that no Dem has staked out the position that Trump/Noem/Bovino should resign. I'm aware they never will, but why not get some media attention for the idea when your signature policy results in the public execution of 2 citizens you should resign in disgrace?
It continues to be disturbing that in this era, one of the public intellectuals who most clearly articulates my highest priority political beliefs is Bill fucking Kristol.
I want to get off this ride.
I want to get off this ride.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
It continues to be disturbing that in this era, one of the public intellectuals who most clearly articulates my highest priority political beliefs is Bill fucking Kristol.
I want to get off this ride.
I want to get off this ride.
I'm generally in favor of more strident messaging and tactics from the Dems, but in fairness to them they ran a "Trump is a dangerous fascist who promises to destroy America" campaign just last cycle and the voters elected the fascist and gave him control of Congress.
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I'm generally in favor of more strident messaging and tactics from the Dems, but in fairness to them they ran a "Trump is a dangerous fascist who promises to destroy America" campaign just last cycle and the voters elected the fascist and gave him control of Congress.
At this point any Dem near a microphone needs to be demanding the cabinet 25th Amendment him, not because they will, but so the media has to start writing about it and asking Rs about it on camera.
Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
January 21, 2026 at 3:47 PM
At this point any Dem near a microphone needs to be demanding the cabinet 25th Amendment him, not because they will, but so the media has to start writing about it and asking Rs about it on camera.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Don't threaten me with a good time.
I think the right line is "Trump has turned GW's terrible ICE agency into a Gestapo nightmare that costs billions and disappears citizens off the street. We should tear it down and go back to Clinton-era INS." And then just design whatever immigration agency we want and call it 'INS'.
January 21, 2026 at 1:50 AM
I think the right line is "Trump has turned GW's terrible ICE agency into a Gestapo nightmare that costs billions and disappears citizens off the street. We should tear it down and go back to Clinton-era INS." And then just design whatever immigration agency we want and call it 'INS'.
I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called but there was a fantastic szechuan chinese place on 110 & Broadway in NYC, it got bulldozed when they knocked down the building in ~2004. Best sesame chicken I've ever had, and you could eat lunch for <$10 despite it being kinda upscale.
Sunday night timeline cleanse
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
January 20, 2026 at 10:50 AM
I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called but there was a fantastic szechuan chinese place on 110 & Broadway in NYC, it got bulldozed when they knocked down the building in ~2004. Best sesame chicken I've ever had, and you could eat lunch for <$10 despite it being kinda upscale.
The step in here that's missing is the voters repeatedly giving the right political power on the grounds of the bullshut bad faith objection. That the public keeps buying the bad faith bullshit despite many MANY efforts to debunk it as a big reason why the Dems get squishy on these topics.
This dynamic is basically unchanged in the decades I've followed US politics. The right raises a bullshit bad-faith objection, Dems try to change policy to address it, the right just repeats the bad-faith objection, Dems try again ... forever.
So in the end, what does this article amount to? Republicans are telling the same lie about welfare that they've told for 40 years despite consistent efforts — including many led by Democrats — to restrict and police it.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
January 19, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The step in here that's missing is the voters repeatedly giving the right political power on the grounds of the bullshut bad faith objection. That the public keeps buying the bad faith bullshit despite many MANY efforts to debunk it as a big reason why the Dems get squishy on these topics.
As much as I'm in favor of burning ICE to the ground and starting over, I do worry about how 'Abolish ICE' plays with non-politicals, that it sounds like 'No border control'.
I do think this is a better pitch: ICE is a failure, we should ditch it and go back to what worked just fine 20 years ago.
I do think this is a better pitch: ICE is a failure, we should ditch it and go back to what worked just fine 20 years ago.
I’d love to see a poll Q about INS. I bet a lot of people over forty think it still exists. The easiest play may be for Dems to say “we need to restore the Immigration & Naturalization Service & put ICE back where it belongs,” then pass whatever they want.
Say this exact phrase even if this exact phrase makes it harder to achieve what it demands!
January 15, 2026 at 11:07 PM
As much as I'm in favor of burning ICE to the ground and starting over, I do worry about how 'Abolish ICE' plays with non-politicals, that it sounds like 'No border control'.
I do think this is a better pitch: ICE is a failure, we should ditch it and go back to what worked just fine 20 years ago.
I do think this is a better pitch: ICE is a failure, we should ditch it and go back to what worked just fine 20 years ago.
Again, France is a nuclear power with (unlike the UK) independently developed weapons including at least one nuclear sub on patrol in the Atlantic.
I don't think it's going to come to this, but France can make DC glow in the dark if it wants. That's how insane this whole thing is.
I don't think it's going to come to this, but France can make DC glow in the dark if it wants. That's how insane this whole thing is.
January 15, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Again, France is a nuclear power with (unlike the UK) independently developed weapons including at least one nuclear sub on patrol in the Atlantic.
I don't think it's going to come to this, but France can make DC glow in the dark if it wants. That's how insane this whole thing is.
I don't think it's going to come to this, but France can make DC glow in the dark if it wants. That's how insane this whole thing is.
I don't think we've really grappled with the fact that the US has nukes deployed in 5 countries that would be treaty bound to defend Denmark. Like, is there a world were the troops aren't at best expelled or at worst become instant POWs while creating 5 new nuclear weapon powers?
If Trump invades Greenland, the Europeans won't fight back, Republicans will defend it, Democrats will issue statements, there will be protests, and most Americans will disapprove of it enough to earn Democrats a bit more of the vote in November. Then on to the next thing.
More than an attempted coup, where a mob tried to seize Congress on live television did? There's not going to be an implosion about anything. It's either a slow slide towards oblivion where everything gets incrementally worse as people try to live normally, or a slow grind in the opposite direction.
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
I don't think we've really grappled with the fact that the US has nukes deployed in 5 countries that would be treaty bound to defend Denmark. Like, is there a world were the troops aren't at best expelled or at worst become instant POWs while creating 5 new nuclear weapon powers?
I don't care if we swap out Schumer/Jeffries, but I wish people were honest about the whole 'Dems didn't use their power' complaint. The last time Dems had real power was under Obama when then passed the ACA, which I'd argue is a pretty important thing (it saved my dad's life for one).
No! The criticism of the Dems isn't that they never win elections, it's that they don't use power to solve the problems that got us here. Elite impunity, concentration of wealth, the unitary executive. Winning is only step 1
New - Chuck Schumer to haters: “The answer to these critics is to win. If we win back the Senate, that will answer every question"
Peltola “was the last piece to the puzzle"
He says Dem path to Senate is Ohio, Alaska, Maine and NC. Dems are watching Texas/Iowa
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Peltola “was the last piece to the puzzle"
He says Dem path to Senate is Ohio, Alaska, Maine and NC. Dems are watching Texas/Iowa
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 14, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I don't care if we swap out Schumer/Jeffries, but I wish people were honest about the whole 'Dems didn't use their power' complaint. The last time Dems had real power was under Obama when then passed the ACA, which I'd argue is a pretty important thing (it saved my dad's life for one).
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Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
January 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
It's the troops thing that really blows my mind. Like how can NATO/EU allow US troops within their borders if Trump tries to take Greenland? And if they expell them they make like 5 new Nuclear weapons powers if they don't let the US evacuate their EU based nukes when evicted.
The Telegraph reports that Europeans expect Trump to disapprove a large deployment of military forces by NATO to Greenland, and is preparing for a severe deterioration of Atlantic relations as a result.
January 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
It's the troops thing that really blows my mind. Like how can NATO/EU allow US troops within their borders if Trump tries to take Greenland? And if they expell them they make like 5 new Nuclear weapons powers if they don't let the US evacuate their EU based nukes when evicted.
I'm celebrating this because you have to reward the behavior you want to see more of.
Jeffries: "The killing of Renee Nicole Good was an abomination, a disgrace, and blood is clearly on the hands of those individuals within the admin who have been pushing an extreme policy that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement connected to removing violent felons from this country"
January 10, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I'm celebrating this because you have to reward the behavior you want to see more of.
Seems not great that your average cashier at a minimum wage burger joint is held to higher standards of behavior than people the state employs to carry a gun.
Like 1/10th this level of aggression gets you fired from McDonalds before you finish your shift.
Like 1/10th this level of aggression gets you fired from McDonalds before you finish your shift.
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Seems not great that your average cashier at a minimum wage burger joint is held to higher standards of behavior than people the state employs to carry a gun.
Like 1/10th this level of aggression gets you fired from McDonalds before you finish your shift.
Like 1/10th this level of aggression gets you fired from McDonalds before you finish your shift.
A Vance shooting at a Kavanaugh stop.
January 9, 2026 at 2:03 AM
A Vance shooting at a Kavanaugh stop.