Tony Elias
@tonyelias.bsky.social
Writer @ CDPR. Cyberpunk 2. Chronic reader, runner, film obsessive. Lit PhD. Worked on Shadow of War, Quantum Break, Alan Wake, Deadlight, Lost Odyssey, and others. He/Him.🇦🇺🇱🇧🇺🇸
Against genocide and genocide denial.
Against genocide and genocide denial.
I have a short story in the fall issue of Copper Nickel based on a memory my father shared about strangers who came to his mountain village in Lebanon when he was a child and excavated something enormous from the dirt (though no one ever knew how they did it, or what it was).
October 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I have a short story in the fall issue of Copper Nickel based on a memory my father shared about strangers who came to his mountain village in Lebanon when he was a child and excavated something enormous from the dirt (though no one ever knew how they did it, or what it was).
Paul Thomas Anderson is a wonderful translator of Thomas Pynchon. One Battle After Another takes the spirit of Vineland's counterculture story--with its big ideas and general looniness--and places it thoroughly in our broken present. Brilliant, energetic, thoroughly timely film.
October 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Paul Thomas Anderson is a wonderful translator of Thomas Pynchon. One Battle After Another takes the spirit of Vineland's counterculture story--with its big ideas and general looniness--and places it thoroughly in our broken present. Brilliant, energetic, thoroughly timely film.
Paul Thomas Anderson is going full Pynchonverse…
September 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Paul Thomas Anderson is going full Pynchonverse…
I’ve probably searched “Ubik first edition” a handful of times over the last few years. Then I remember the price and move on
August 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I’ve probably searched “Ubik first edition” a handful of times over the last few years. Then I remember the price and move on
This happens every day now...
July 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This happens every day now...
From Doctors without Borders: "the Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid”
June 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
From Doctors without Borders: "the Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid”
If I voted tomorrow, half the films would be different, but this is what it looks like today.
June 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
If I voted tomorrow, half the films would be different, but this is what it looks like today.
We all knew this day would come... 🍿
June 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We all knew this day would come... 🍿
Started playing the Black Mirror game Thronglets out of curiosity. Was not expecting this very charming systems-based life sim with occasional ethical conundrums. Great job, Night School!
April 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Started playing the Black Mirror game Thronglets out of curiosity. Was not expecting this very charming systems-based life sim with occasional ethical conundrums. Great job, Night School!
Believe it or not they’re painted spiders by an artist named Marlin Peterson.
April 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Believe it or not they’re painted spiders by an artist named Marlin Peterson.
Found this Abbie Hoffman quote in the opening pages of Matt Ruff’s Sewer, Gas & Electric. It’s as true today as it was in 1987.
April 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Found this Abbie Hoffman quote in the opening pages of Matt Ruff’s Sewer, Gas & Electric. It’s as true today as it was in 1987.
A charming fellow I met yesterday.
March 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A charming fellow I met yesterday.
Love Common Side Effects. Best animated show since Scavengers Reign, and it’s getting another season!
March 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Love Common Side Effects. Best animated show since Scavengers Reign, and it’s getting another season!
Big news! I've joined the team at CD PROJEKT RED Boston as a Senior Writer. I'll be working on the follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077 (Project Orion) with an incredible team of devs.
Looking forward to creating in that world!
Looking forward to creating in that world!
March 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Big news! I've joined the team at CD PROJEKT RED Boston as a Senior Writer. I'll be working on the follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077 (Project Orion) with an incredible team of devs.
Looking forward to creating in that world!
Looking forward to creating in that world!
Last night’s unlikely conversation with Ted Chiang and Natasha Lyonne touched on everything from immortality and becoming a cyborg (but a cool one) to free will/determinism and the virtues of pop rocks.
March 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Last night’s unlikely conversation with Ted Chiang and Natasha Lyonne touched on everything from immortality and becoming a cyborg (but a cool one) to free will/determinism and the virtues of pop rocks.
Happy 91st birthday to the great Ralph Nader!
February 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy 91st birthday to the great Ralph Nader!
Very happy to have cancelled my subscription to the WP (cancelled NYT a long time ago).
February 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Very happy to have cancelled my subscription to the WP (cancelled NYT a long time ago).
How hard would it be to incept the idea in Elon's brain that he, like some modern day Dr Manhattan, is tired of this earth, these people, tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives, and that the only solution left is to leave for Mars.
February 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
How hard would it be to incept the idea in Elon's brain that he, like some modern day Dr Manhattan, is tired of this earth, these people, tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives, and that the only solution left is to leave for Mars.
Great time to be making protest art
February 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Great time to be making protest art