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James Whitbrook
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Lead Editor at @io9.com and @gizmodo.com. Questionable taste in puns, sci-fi, and video games. 🏳️‍🌈│He/Him │Icon by @joehunter.bsky.social ❤️
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I just think he's neat
A screenshot from Mass Effect. Lucas Shepard walks down from the main bridge of the Normandy SR-1. A screenshot from Mass Effect. Shepard, helmeted and aiming a pistol as he glows with purple-blue biotic energy, prepares to psionically attack. Behind him, Kaidan, similarly helmeted, outstretches his left arm, glowing with the technological interface of his omni-tool, and ot sparks out a bolt of electricity. A screenshot from Mass Effect. Shepard and Ashley move forward blasting covering fire with their pistol and assault rifle, as Kaidan takes position behind some rocks to their distant left. A screenshot from Mass Effect. Shepard stands at the apex of the Normandy's CIC, on a small platform overlooking the ship's holographic galaxy map.
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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I have been faced with atrocious decision paralysis about the sheer amount of current games I could be playing right now, so instead I've basically said I'll go fuck myself
A screenshot from Mass Effect. Lucas Shepard, a man wearing dark tight-fitting armor with an N7 emblem on the right side of its chest and a long red and white-bordered stripe running down the right sleeve, squints as he aims a pistol in the cockpit of the Normandy SR-1.
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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We love an alt art variant lesbian, don't we folks
A photo of the Vel Sartha, One Path, One Choice variant art card from the Star Wars Unlimited set Secrets of Power.
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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You couldn't imagine the horrors, casval
A screenshot of a panel from the Gundam-San manga. Char, sweatily quivering in fear, says "If Hollywood made a remake of Gundam, would everyone be a westerner...?" Lalah, comically angry behind him, yells "You're the only one in the world worried about that, Colonel!"
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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OH GOD ITS 08TH MS TEAM FROM AINA'S PERSPECTIVE
A screenshot of a paragraph from a THR article about Noah Centineo bring in talks to star in a live-action Gundam movie. It reads as follows: "The project is a centered on a character played by Sweeney and sources say the actress is very much involved in the casting of those opposite her. In Gundam, her character and the male lead are, in the vein of Romeo & Juliet, on opposite sides of a war between planets who find a connection."
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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It's the only way to be sure
A screenshot from Mobile Suit Gundam. A space colony smashes into the skyline of Sydney, basking it in glowing orange light as a massive explosion erupts from the impact point.
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Imagine buying a randomised gundam snack and getting the Nazi Biscuit
A photo of a series of small Gundam themed biscuits. They feature emblazoned prints of busts of Amuro, Sayla, Bright, Char, Lalah, and Gihren Zabi.
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I love working on the internet
A cropped screenshot of a google search for "io9 bacta". The search has been largely replaced by Google's AI overview, which helpfully notes "The user query 'io9 bacta' likely refers to the intersection of two distinct topics mentioned in the search results: the Oral-B iO9 electric toothbrush and the fictional healing substance bacta from the Star Wars universe, which is frequently discussed on the pop culture website io9 (a part of Gizmodo Media Group)."
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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She was such a diva
A screenshot from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Els Renora, a senior female Bajoran with hair in an updo and a slate dress accented with a blue draped shoulder scarf, sits against a stained glass background with her lips pursed.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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oh, to be a psyduck barely keeping its head above water
An image of an alternate art Japanese language Pokémon Trading Card from the MEGA Dream expansion for Psyduck, illustrated by REND. The card shows a Psyduck on a sunny day relaxing in a glittering ocean. It floats with only its head above the water, with its eyes closed, as we see its body below the water line barely floating above the sandy waterbed. A wingull flies overhead towards the clouds in the distance.
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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genuinely however else were you meant to read this than extremely homoerotically
A screenshot from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. An extremely-earnestly-worried-looking Doctor Bashir talks to an extremely-tired-of-Doctor-Bashir's-homosexual-bullshit-looking Commander Sisko in Ops. Bashir's subtitled dialogue reads "He wants me to buy a suit."
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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forgot that it literally only took 3 episodes for DS9 to give us Garak's incredibly fruity introduction scene AND the jazz hands gif moment

arguably the best introduction of a major supporting character in trek history
A screenshot from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Garak, a Cardassian wearing a small green textured vest over a jumpsuit that is itself striped in various shades of green, raises his open hands as if mid-jazz-hands, smiling widely.
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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PRISM THE GOAT
A screenshot from Dispatch. The final statistics screen for Episode 8 shows a graphic of Prism using her light-manipulating powers, and reads "Your most successful hero was Prism".
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Wrapped up dispatch!

Really liked it a lot, think I would have loved if it was a TV show instead tbh. Game bit didn't really become mechanically interesting until the very end. But still one of my faves of the year.
A screenshot from Dispatch. A news broadcast for LAN7 with the chyron 'Shroud and Red Ring Defeated' shows the Z-Team—Flambae, Sonar, Waterboy, Punch Up, Golem, Prism, Phenomaman, and Malevola—celebrating.
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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a screenshot from the 1960s Spider-Man animated series. It's the famous 'Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man' meme, of two Spider-Men pointing at each other, one standing in front of an NYPD van, the other next to some large wooden boxes.
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Okay, game good
A screenshot from Dispatch. During a bar brawl, Robert grapples with a female supervillain with large translucent green spectral claws emerging from her back. In the background, Prism, singing at the karaoke station, says in subtitled dialogue "Fuck you mean temporarily? Bitch you blind foreva!"
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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the return of the KING
A photo of the SH Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Shinken Red, standing on a white display base with his shinkenmaru drawn in a loose grip in his right hand. A photo of the SH Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Shinken Red, standing on a white display base with his shinkenmaru drawn in a loose grip in his right hand.
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
A photo of the Star Wars Unlimited cards Karis Nemik, Freedom Is a Pure Idea. The card features art of Nemik focusing as he constructs a scale model of the Aldhani Imperial base.
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Noticing a distinct theme from my latest SWU packs...
A photo of six Star Wars Unlimited cards from the Secrets of Power set. It includes cards for Cassian Andor and B2EMO, borderless variants for Luthen Rael and Ambition's Reward (featuring Major Partagaz and Dedra Meero), and alt arts for Kino Loy and Director Krennic.
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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hot damn, amano-illustrated Expedition 33 prints

store.ign.com/collections/...
A painting by Yoshitaka Amano of Verso and Maelle from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 battling the Dualliste.
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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the devil works hard but a challia bull stan works three times harder
A cropped screenshot of a skeet from myself, indicating that it was posted at 3:48 PM on November 13, 2025. A cropped screenshot of a skeet from Joe, indicating that it was posted at 3:49 PM on November 13, 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Bandai has successfully created the first action figure capable of being a whore
A photo of the SH Figuarts Challia Bull from Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Challia leans forward, smiling cheekily while he wears an extremely slutty pair of spectacles. A photo of the SH Figuarts Challia Bull from Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Challia, leaning backwards, offers a knowing nod and smirk as he wears a mask akin to that worn by his former carnal lover, Char Aznable, because after all, what is gayer than scaring your boyfriend into wanting to be a better person for you because you have received psychic visions of the events of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, before going on to wear his old gear?
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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*extreme northstar alpha flight #106 panel voice*

I

AM

G A Y
A photo of the SH Figuarts Challia Bull from Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Challia stands with his right hand in the pocket of his olive green Zeon officer's suit, with a wry smile on his sexy, sexy face. A photo of the SH Figuarts Challia Bull from Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Challia looks concerned, but like a seafoam zaddy, as he raises his right hand to his forehead. A photo of the SH Figuarts Challia Bull from Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Challia grips his face, delicately stroking his beautiful goatee, lost in thoughts that are presumably about his ex-boyfriend, Char Aznable. A photo of the SH Figuarts Challia Bull from Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Challia scowls as he looks at his mobile phone, which is covered in stickers for the Pomeranians, because like any good homosexual, he is both a hater and a stan.
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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God is real and makes action figures
A photo of the SH Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider Black RX. He wears dark green body armor with black boots and gauntlets and a buglike black helmet with large red eyes and metallic detailing. Black RX stands with his legs planted and the the clenched fist of his right hand held tightly to his waist, as he holds his left fist up perpendicular to his head.
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Never seen SHFs with such... romulan eyebrows before
A photo of SH Figuarts figures of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Ahsoka Tano, as they appeared in early seasons of the Clone Wars.
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM