Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary
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Just a cat in a human suit. The death of print magazines put me on retirement. Sometimes I still get to write words.
"Aren't you, *the* Matthew Arcilla?" "I used to be."
Just a cat in a human suit. The death of print magazines put me on retirement. Sometimes I still get to write words.
"Aren't you, *the* Matthew Arcilla?" "I used to be."
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Long story short: the people who are 'making' these dubs probably hate it just as much as we do, but they don't have any choice.
If they want to keep their job (and in this economy, and the only way to have health insurance being through your job, they do!) they have to do as they're told.
If they want to keep their job (and in this economy, and the only way to have health insurance being through your job, they do!) they have to do as they're told.
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Long story short: the people who are 'making' these dubs probably hate it just as much as we do, but they don't have any choice.
If they want to keep their job (and in this economy, and the only way to have health insurance being through your job, they do!) they have to do as they're told.
If they want to keep their job (and in this economy, and the only way to have health insurance being through your job, they do!) they have to do as they're told.
It's itchio Creator Day and I just want to take the time out to recommend some TRPGs. My first recommendation is "Ex-Capes" from by Jim Crocker. It's a game about former superheroes who must wrestle with their pasts, coming out of retirement to save the world once more. Shades of Powers, Watchmen.
Ex-Capes RPG Bundle by Jim Likes Games
A tabletop RPG of retired Supers getting dragged back in.
jimlikesgames.itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It's itchio Creator Day and I just want to take the time out to recommend some TRPGs. My first recommendation is "Ex-Capes" from by Jim Crocker. It's a game about former superheroes who must wrestle with their pasts, coming out of retirement to save the world once more. Shades of Powers, Watchmen.
What I'm basically saying is that publishers appear to be holding prices longer in an attempt to squeeze as much full price sales as they can out of a single game, where as 10 years ago, you could expect to see an 18-month old game be down 75% from its launch price during the holidays.
My gang used to be aggressive Steam shoppers when we didn't own consoles back in the X360/PS3 generation and gifted each other shit left and right. It's been our shared observation that publishers don't cut prices on old games like they used to, which impacts the now smaller discounts.
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
What I'm basically saying is that publishers appear to be holding prices longer in an attempt to squeeze as much full price sales as they can out of a single game, where as 10 years ago, you could expect to see an 18-month old game be down 75% from its launch price during the holidays.
The way white people and Americans keep saying it was the bamboo over and over again, it stops sounding like an ill informed hypothesis and more like denigrating "Chinese" timber or some fucking thing like that.
after hours of burning the scaffolding is still standing—the netting is toast. this is due to cutting corners re: fire retardant netting and other materials but it isn’t the bamboo
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
The way white people and Americans keep saying it was the bamboo over and over again, it stops sounding like an ill informed hypothesis and more like denigrating "Chinese" timber or some fucking thing like that.
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And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
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ATTENTION ALL CRPG DESIGNERS. PLEASE TAKE NOTES. I AM BEGGING YOU. I DO NOT WANT TO SCROLL THROUGH A 2.5-INCH TALL TEXT BOX ANYMORE. MY COMPUTER RESOLUTION IS VERY LARGE NOW. YOUR TEXT BOXES ARE VERY ANNOYING TO READ.
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
ATTENTION ALL CRPG DESIGNERS. PLEASE TAKE NOTES. I AM BEGGING YOU. I DO NOT WANT TO SCROLL THROUGH A 2.5-INCH TALL TEXT BOX ANYMORE. MY COMPUTER RESOLUTION IS VERY LARGE NOW. YOUR TEXT BOXES ARE VERY ANNOYING TO READ.
By the holy bebops of cowboys, I declare my Tuesdays to be Battle Suit Aces night! More of the episodic space drama with mobile suit card battles from team.trinketstudios.com! Stream starts at 15:30 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
By the holy bebops of cowboys, I declare my Tuesdays to be Battle Suit Aces night! More of the episodic space drama with mobile suit card battles from team.trinketstudios.com! Stream starts at 15:30 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
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"We have a saying in my galaxy, thousands of light-years away in the Cablaranian system: Apathraxibros before Gulwynvilihoes."
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"We have a saying in my galaxy, thousands of light-years away in the Cablaranian system: Apathraxibros before Gulwynvilihoes."
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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"sloughed" is such a gross fucked up little word
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"sloughed" is such a gross fucked up little word
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"To be fair" is the prefix to some of the least funny replies you'll ever read on social media
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"To be fair" is the prefix to some of the least funny replies you'll ever read on social media
If we reach a point in gaming where there are more installments of Call of Duty: Black Ops than there are installments of King's Quests I swear to God
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If we reach a point in gaming where there are more installments of Call of Duty: Black Ops than there are installments of King's Quests I swear to God
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hey the beatles, just was listening to eight days a week and have a quick question: are you guys fucking stupid
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
hey the beatles, just was listening to eight days a week and have a quick question: are you guys fucking stupid
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Watching all your friends play Dispatch but they won't play Road to Empress
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching all your friends play Dispatch but they won't play Road to Empress
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My Necronautilus zine is officially out! The Forsaken Reach is a campaign framework where you explore the titular Reach of the Dead Galaxy, a powerful singularity and four unique factions racing to gain control over it, and other fun goodies inside. Grab a physical copy from Adam at booth 3953!
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My Necronautilus zine is officially out! The Forsaken Reach is a campaign framework where you explore the titular Reach of the Dead Galaxy, a powerful singularity and four unique factions racing to gain control over it, and other fun goodies inside. Grab a physical copy from Adam at booth 3953!
If you're curious as to how much it bothers Michael Rosenbaum to platform the rape cult lieutenant and former co-worker Alison Mack, consider that when asked, this is what he said about a video game console.
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If you're curious as to how much it bothers Michael Rosenbaum to platform the rape cult lieutenant and former co-worker Alison Mack, consider that when asked, this is what he said about a video game console.
"We criticize Catholic papal infallibility, saying no man should be blindly followed, why then do we hold Eduardo V. Manalo on the same level? Why do we hear his name more than Christ’s in worship service? Why do we have activities such as ‘OneWithEVM’ and most recently ‘Obey and Never Complain?”
[The Slingshot] An inside story on the INC
A former INC member warns: the Iglesia ni Cristo is not a religious sect but a cult, its much vaunted bloc voting might, a myth because of its declining memberships. But will government and politician...
www.rappler.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"We criticize Catholic papal infallibility, saying no man should be blindly followed, why then do we hold Eduardo V. Manalo on the same level? Why do we hear his name more than Christ’s in worship service? Why do we have activities such as ‘OneWithEVM’ and most recently ‘Obey and Never Complain?”
"There’s a clear double-standard when it comes to which journalists are allowed to be (and rewarded for) being morally fluid, and who is held to a separate standard. And it’s not skill but gall that sets them apart. Their ability to slink into the world of the rich and powerful is no coincidence."
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"There’s a clear double-standard when it comes to which journalists are allowed to be (and rewarded for) being morally fluid, and who is held to a separate standard. And it’s not skill but gall that sets them apart. Their ability to slink into the world of the rich and powerful is no coincidence."
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Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure
Yehey, it's Tuesday! Time for more Battle Suit Aces, the episodic space drama with mobile suit card battles from team.trinketstudios.com! Stream starts at 15:00 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Yehey, it's Tuesday! Time for more Battle Suit Aces, the episodic space drama with mobile suit card battles from team.trinketstudios.com! Stream starts at 15:00 UTC at twitch.tv/experimentego/
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The middle ground between "pay people for their work" and "shit something out of a computer so we don't have to do that"? What would the middle ground be? Paying people half a paycheck for a full job?
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The middle ground between "pay people for their work" and "shit something out of a computer so we don't have to do that"? What would the middle ground be? Paying people half a paycheck for a full job?
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i do not think of the kind of monster masculinity made me, and i would not hold its teeth or those bars against the throat of a transmasc. we should be glad there are those building the men that can be good for the world, finally.
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 AM
i do not think of the kind of monster masculinity made me, and i would not hold its teeth or those bars against the throat of a transmasc. we should be glad there are those building the men that can be good for the world, finally.
This might come off as a petty bunch of making something out of nothing but I do not appreciate seeing a Twitch notification telling me not to miss the "Together for Good kick off," which turned out to be a Wicked livestream. Big studio movies I expressed no interest in are not what my inbox is for.
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This might come off as a petty bunch of making something out of nothing but I do not appreciate seeing a Twitch notification telling me not to miss the "Together for Good kick off," which turned out to be a Wicked livestream. Big studio movies I expressed no interest in are not what my inbox is for.
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We need a National Book Awards-style game award: every year a committee of five freaks is handed the keys to all the prestige, they pick stuff no one's heard of, readers (players) get mad, the committee members get defensive, no one is truly happy, and then next year we do it all again
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We need a National Book Awards-style game award: every year a committee of five freaks is handed the keys to all the prestige, they pick stuff no one's heard of, readers (players) get mad, the committee members get defensive, no one is truly happy, and then next year we do it all again
Good morning to this perfect girl.
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Good morning to this perfect girl.