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Arthur Gies (he/him)

@aegies.bsky.social

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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.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 35m

man, 51. www.wbls.com/news/dangelo...

D'Angelo Dies At 51 - WBLS

Michael “D’Angelo” Archer has passed away at 51 years old per BallerAlert. The R&B and neo-soul artist who emerged in music in the late 90s, has passed away after a private battle with pancreatic canc...

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 1h

covering handhelds i'd love to see how it holds up there. currently XeSS is the most performant/best looking option on all the windows handhelds in my experience.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 2h

every time i think i understand the current tariff situation across different categories i walk away from it for like a week and come back and find myself lost again.

(also we're like a month out from 145 percent reciprocal tariffs against china, which have not been in effect yet, so, weeeeeee.)

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 2h

yeah my patience for things breaking containment here is nowhere near what it was on the other place back in the day. i've lost the poster's spirit.

Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 13h

I think it is better by virtue of progress and technology, but contemporaneously it is worse than 2010 and better than 2012 (warfighter). It’s dumber and less polished than both though.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 13h

Chat was asking how it compares to the 2010s medal of honors and I had to think about it.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 14h

oof the battlefield 6 campaign is Bad bad.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 15h

ok i've actually swapped my GPU for the same model from another vendor, let's see if it's hardware or software causing problems as i attempt to play a bit of battlefield 6's campaign, then maybe some MP. twitch.tv/aegies

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 1d

anyway i'm going to try to play some bf6 and see if my computer stays stable? twitch.tv/aegies

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 1d

After a few stable months I guess it’s back to holding off on updating Nvidia drivers again. The newest release is super unstable for me again.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s 4k horror Blu-ray.

Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 2d

It’s definitely a French arthouse movie in most respects (which is why I really didn’t enjoy most of it).

Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, no discs tonight. Instead, tonight’s horror night at the theater:

Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 2d

this sounds sudden. tmz reporting that EMS responded to her home early this morning and carried someone out in an ambulance. www.tmz.com/2025/10/11/d...

Diane Keaton Dead at 79

Diane Keaton -- famed actress, director and producer -- has died.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 2d

at this point i think it has less to do with leto and more to do with tron.

Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 3d

streaming about an hour of bf6 assuming the game holds up! twitch.tv/aegies

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 3d

My optometrist office goes hard for Halloween.

Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 3d

hello i'm going to stream some battlefield 6 on PC! some campaign, then maybe some mp? who knows!? twitch.tv/aegies

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 3d

The new Akasha is tall! This should be interesting. www.thewrap.com/akasha-the-v...

‘The Vampire Lestat’ Has Found Its Akasha, the Queen of the Damned

"The Woman King" star Sheila Atim will take on the role of the ancient vampire queen Akasha, previously played by Aaliyah

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 3d

The world is hard so here is a picture of a kitten sleeping under a beanie/knit cap.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 4d

i liked the idea of the user-generated label tools here initially but it's hard not to feel like it's being abused for a lot of petty high school style bullshit at this point.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 4d

ALERT: that bonkers ~5 hour aliens documentary is on shudder/amc+.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 4d

the steam deck OLED is less than two years old. and it's always been like this.

Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 4d

my steamdeck OLED three days after charging it to full and leaving it alone: I'M STARVING PLEASE GOD HELP ME

my ally x (non-xbox, calm yourselves) after 4 weeks of standby, covered in dust because cats: shit sorry i've only got 95% charge, my bad.

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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social · 4d

boy that last boss in cronos is hot garbage huh

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