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.
“It looks fun right away and doesn’t fuck around getting to the interesting stuff in the trailer” is usually on the list of reasons why IMO.
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“It looks fun right away and doesn’t fuck around getting to the interesting stuff in the trailer” is usually on the list of reasons why IMO.
Early on your first companion will have ammo for you, and it’s pretty easily craft-able at tables. Later you’ll have enough to just grab it from the machines if you like.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Early on your first companion will have ammo for you, and it’s pretty easily craft-able at tables. Later you’ll have enough to just grab it from the machines if you like.
Three! Watch killer of killers.
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Three! Watch killer of killers.
yes and they also need ways to extract more money out of a maturing and more well-off core audience in addition to reaching lapsed or never-invested buyers. two prongs of a survival strategy.
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
yes and they also need ways to extract more money out of a maturing and more well-off core audience in addition to reaching lapsed or never-invested buyers. two prongs of a survival strategy.
i would see that statement and raise you a "more than equal odds of committing actual crimes."
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
i would see that statement and raise you a "more than equal odds of committing actual crimes."
Hadn’t Trump already functionally won at the SC Friday night?
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hadn’t Trump already functionally won at the SC Friday night?
There is no state or city infrastructure capable of covering for snap financially or bureaucratically.
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
There is no state or city infrastructure capable of covering for snap financially or bureaucratically.
Minority report as well, probably.
November 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Minority report as well, probably.
we'll also be battlefielding and arc raider'ing!
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
we'll also be battlefielding and arc raider'ing!
nintendo is still running them, and xbox and playstation still roll them out for first party stuff. COD i suppose? battlefield 6 had one.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
nintendo is still running them, and xbox and playstation still roll them out for first party stuff. COD i suppose? battlefield 6 had one.
microtargeting is aimed at persons, rather than people or culture, and we've lost something important in that transition.
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
microtargeting is aimed at persons, rather than people or culture, and we've lost something important in that transition.
definitely on the list. i'd also point to konami's castlevania commercials in the PS2 era, one of which includes the line "a family's destiny was born not in a cradle ... but in a coffin" WHICH ROLLS SO EXTRA HARD.
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
definitely on the list. i'd also point to konami's castlevania commercials in the PS2 era, one of which includes the line "a family's destiny was born not in a cradle ... but in a coffin" WHICH ROLLS SO EXTRA HARD.