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Christopher Baggett

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EIC @ The Homeworld, Editor @ Slashgear | He/Him 📧 [email protected] 🎮 twitch.tv/jcbaggee | 🔗 linktr.ee/jcbaggee "I may be but small, but I shall die a colossus!"

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

Test driving a new column format this week. Tell a friend, tell an enemy. Drop a comment and let me know if you dig it (or what it's missing to be truly great).

thehomeworld.net/2025/10/trad...

Trade Waiting #01: Green Lantern, Captain Planet, Action Comics, and More - Homeworld

There's too many good comics, so we're going to try and narrow it down.

thehomeworld.net

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 10h

Ghost of Yotei and chill stream! Come hang and let's talk about whatever's on your mind.

www.twitch.tv/jcbaggee
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Tuesday night GHOST OF YOTEI and chill stream // !discord !social 10-14-25

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Politico @politico.com · 17h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 17h

I don't know what show this is from, only that every time I see a clip, I have to watch the dude on the left to make sure he's actually breathing and not like a still image or a 3 second loop of a person. Show looks fucking exhausting to watch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 19h

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

gizmodo.com

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 20h

People really underestimate how good that block button can make you feel.

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 20h

God, have I really not reviewed a game since Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising?

Somebody hire and/or commission me to review a game for you; I'm wasting away over here.

(Or, if you're a media contact, e-mail is in my bio.)

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 21h

It's been a while since I've gotten to write a review, but I have definitely had that happen. Months of play time with some little indie thing that you can beat in one sitting, but then you'll get a massive RPG with an embargo of two days. It's like they forget people have to play these things...

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 21h

God, reviews are such a weird part of modern journalism. Codes don't come in until super, super, super late anymore, readers demand that you write them and balk if you don't have one, but then when you look at the numbers, nobody ever reads them. Which is a shame, because I love writing reviews!

Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 21h

I could have killed myself to get a review done - but I don’t do that anymore. I strive to have a health work-life balance. Plus, I couldn’t have spent so much time lounging at cafes with Haunter and Lucario!

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 22h

I think the reason is that what I'm enjoying the most about this era of X-Men is the interpersonal drama and conflict, and those go out the window once the whole team is in space and has to tighten up so they can deal with The Brood (again) or the Shi'ar (still).

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 22h

I've been reading the Claremont-era stuff in its entirety for the first time (I'm just on the other side of Storm losing her powers) and I have realized I honestly find most cosmic-set X-Men stories to be boring as hell. Keep those poor kids on Earth as much as possible, please.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

Test driving a new column format this week. Tell a friend, tell an enemy. Drop a comment and let me know if you dig it (or what it's missing to be truly great).

thehomeworld.net/2025/10/trad...

Trade Waiting #01: Green Lantern, Captain Planet, Action Comics, and More - Homeworld

There's too many good comics, so we're going to try and narrow it down.

thehomeworld.net

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

Test driving a new column format this week. Tell a friend, tell an enemy. Drop a comment and let me know if you dig it (or what it's missing to be truly great).

thehomeworld.net/2025/10/trad...

Trade Waiting #01: Green Lantern, Captain Planet, Action Comics, and More - Homeworld

There's too many good comics, so we're going to try and narrow it down.

thehomeworld.net

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

I did a few Facebook Gaming streams years ago and it was...fine. But it definitely all felt like "a thing we built because other services are offering this"

Mixer remains the only actual loss so far as streaming platforms shuttering, I think.

Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 1d

Facebook is shutting down the Gaming Creator Program at the end of 2025.

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

Nobody talks about the real perk of being work from home, which is being able to do laundry while you work instead of spending all weekend on it.

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

Yeah, the line as a whole is great, but those two highlight the untapped potential.

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

I'm enjoying Absolute Superman, but it definitely is the most restrained of the line. I feel like it's going to really hit when it wraps up its first arc and you can re-read it as a whole.

Absolute Batman is a fun sideshow, but it is just so hectic and unhinged that it gets distracting.

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

If you missed Thursday's stream, the VOD for the D&D one-shot (which we're breaking up into two sessions because adulting is hard) is up now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Oi...

Watch this space or join the Discord to get notified when we're streaming part two!

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

It's Wonder Woman by way of Berserk, and I love it so goddamn much. I wish the other Absolute titles took such well-thought-out big swings, honestly.

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

I am not paid by a King or the government. In fact, the government and its loser wannabe dictator seem to want me and everyone else in my tax bracket dead.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

Woke up somewhere between "it's time to lock on and get back on track, Chris" and "it's time to admit you're burnt out and log out for a few days, Chris".

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

That makes more sense 😅

Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 1d

I bought a keychron a while back positive I would have buyer's remorse, but genuinely the best keyboard I have ever used.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1d

Occasionally I miss old Twitter, but then I remember why I split.

"(Twitter) simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not."

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Christopher Baggett @jcbaggee.thehomeworld.net · 2d

What hate money??? Ares underperformed compared to Morbius...

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