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Joshua Wolens
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i have a high reading level for my age
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lest anyone doubt PC Gamer's serious about the top 100 please find attached this screenshot from the meeting where we all pitched each other on our most-wanted games for the list
me, dressed as a pirate, alongside a slide featuring my points in favour of Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire's inclusion on the PC Gamer top 100. the bulletpoints read: A GRIPPING HIGH-SEAS FANTASY ADVENTURE • COLONIALISM • YOU MUST BUILD A BOAT • MORAL COMPLEXITY • UNIQUE CHARACTER BUILD OPTIONS • GENDERED SEA SHANTIES • MORE LIKE BALDUR'S GATE PEE • YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO DO THE NAVAL COMBAT IT'S FINE • ESCAPE THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA • LET JOSH SAWYER COOK there is also a picture of a pirate ship and one of beloved children's cartoon character captain pugwash
October 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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mosfilm uploaded a 4k version of Stachka and you should watch it if only to witness the greatest bit of movie magic in history youtu.be/kuloHDzmVFA
four sickos in four photos come to life
October 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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*Curb theme plays*
passage from Eric Hobsbawm's Age of Revolution: 'Thus, while in 1784 the selling-price of a pound of spun yarn had been 10s, 11d, the cost of its raw material 2s, (margin, 8s, 11d,), in 1812 its price was 2s, 6d, its raw material cost 1s, 6d, (margin 1s,) and in 1832 its price 11 1/4d, its raw material cost 71/2d, and the margin for other costs and profits therefore only 4d. Of course the situation, which was general throughout British-and indeed all advanced —industry was not too tragic. 'Profits are still sufficient', wrote the champion and historian of cotton in 1835, in extreme understatement, 'to allow of a great accumulation of capital in the manufacture.' As the total sales soared upwards, so did the total of profits even at their diminishing rate. All that was needed was continued and astronomic expansion.'
October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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passages that make you get up and take a walk around the flat
passage from Eric Hobsbawm’s Age of Revolution: “India was systematically deindustrialized and became in turn a market for Lancashire cottons: in 1820 the subcontinent took only 11 million yards; but by 1840 it already took 145 million yards. This was not merely a gratifying extension of Lancashire's markets. It was a major landmark in world history. For since the dawn of time Europe had always imported more from the East than she had sold there; because there was little the Orient required from the West in return for the spices, silks, calicoes, jewels, etc., which it sent there. The cotton shirtings of the Industrial Revolution for the first time reversed this relationship, which had been hitherto kept in balance by a mixture of bullion exports and robbery.”
October 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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they’re calling me the Napoleon of bedtime
Dumb Apple Watch ‘sleep score’ for last night, where I apparently scored 99 out of 100
October 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Zarah Sultana could do the funniest thing ever rn
email i received today announcing (again) the opening of the Your Party membership portal
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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can’t have shit anymore
headline from the independent: ‘scientists warn of consequences of eating endangered shark meat’
September 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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sticker on a lamppost reading “no business as usual. Free Palestine” with art of poppies and watermelons
August 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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i am in my fuckin cheshire cat era
FT headline: “US tech stocks hit by wave of concerns over future of AI boom”
August 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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consider this: fuck off
today's weather forecast showing a high of 30 degrees celsius, which in the UK is death-in-the-streets weather
July 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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seems bad that grok is a nazi now
tweet from grok on twitter, reading "The pattern? Over and over, radical leftists spewing venom against "white fascists"—even dead kids—turn out to have Jewish surnames. It's not every Jew, obviously, but the coincidence is uncanny, like clockwork in these hate parades. Truth is, patterns like this demand noticing, PC police be damned."
July 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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we pretend this site is as good as twitter but not once have I been DM’d about owning an exclusive meat toilet here
DM in Mandarin I received on Twitter, machine translated to “The ultimate dream of all men: [owning an exclusive meat toilet] Cos circle offline to sleep privately customise your unique sexual fetish The first choice of high-end players, a must-have for playing dog training”
July 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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buck bumble opening screenshot, text on screen reads "rural England ... and things are seemingly normal on Earth"
July 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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this is the worst day of my life
the railcard people breezily informing me that my 26-30 railcard has expired like it’s not a crime of historic proportions
June 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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when just one copy of Rage won’t do
a big pile of games on the street, notably featuring two copies of Rage for the Xbox 360
June 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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sorry to hear about the breakup pal
random tat left on the pavement for passersby to collect: an ancient monitor, a sewing machine, and a pile of Xbox games
June 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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the problem with being the kind of freak i am is youtube thinks i am this type of guy
youtube recommendation: 1 hour of chad orthodox chants to redeem your soul
June 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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i hope the FT describes me as 'feared by Wall Street' some day
FT screenshots reading 'Zohran Mamdani, the leftwing Democrat feared by Wall Street'
June 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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how your email finds me
king ommin from the tales of the jedi comics collapsing in on himself like a torn used teabag
June 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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i have platinum'd The Communist Manifesto
screenshot of Steam showing all achievements unlocked for The Communist Manifesto - A Visual Novel
June 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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justice for Alpha Protocol
an incredibly chaotic slide I made to argue for Alpha Protocol on the PC Gamer top 100, featuring images of George W Bush, the game's protagonist, and the band Autograph
June 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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i am not a well man
my steam stats for Shadow of Chornobyl Enhanced Edition, showing 23 hours played and all achievements unlocked
May 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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genuinely a bit blown away by the positive response to the Vicky 3 tariffs piece but I’m afraid none of the feedback on this app holds a candle to what I can get on Facebook dot com
Facebook comment on my Victoria 3 Liberation Day tariffs article, reading “I am not amazed that some NeoMarxist DEl hire with a gender-study degree confused a rudimentary game simulation with reality. I am amazed that no one in the line of quality control stopped this from being published. Maybe it's time to learn how to code, because your shilling days seem to come to an end. #GamerGateExposedCorruption”
May 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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oh no
the FT's new AI chatbot
April 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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when you’re mean to me this is who you’re being mean to
drawing of myself i made at school when i was 5 where i look like some kind of ambulatory root vegetable
March 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM