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matte jones

@pillowfort.bsky.social

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Social Producer for IGN, Eurogamer, RPS, others.

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · Oct 22

Colonel: What is that you've got written on your helmet?
Joker: "Born to Post", sir.
Colonel: You write "Born to Post" on your helmet and you wear a t-shirt that says "Posting is a form of self harm". What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
Joker: No, sir.

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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 3h

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 15h

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

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dash. @dashiellwood.com · 22h

the real secret to getting high traffic indie game coverage is having an interesting game that people would actually want to read about

Maxi Molina @maximjdev.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much nobody cared about The Hayseed Knight's press releases "this whatever game is coming out" news in sites that would even give me the time of day, but it only took @dashiellwood.com finding a good angle to tell the story for the article to go viral everywhere!! There's an audience!!

sisi jiang / 姜思琪 @six6jiang.bsky.social · 1d

i wish games editorial could freely share their traffic data so that indies could understand just how little traffic their launch news after 7 years of dev does compared to like. Widely Anticipated AAA Game Posts Trailer Showing New Character's Face For 3 Total Seconds

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 18h

personal insult to you

matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 18h

play deadlock with me gamer

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phylan @phylan.website · 1d

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 1d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 1d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 1d

did you see what elton john did with his. it's cool as hell.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

i just realized there's a pretty good chance that in 20 years people are going to be nostalgic for the shitty, glossy appearance of generative AI. there will be video filters that make you look like you were generated with a mid 2020s-era AI tool

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 1d

marylebone, borough, holborn, southwark, greenwich, chiswick. it doesn't make any fucking sense. we're a joke of a city.

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 1d

living in london means playing this game on easy mode. you can't say you'll meet someone anywhere.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 1d

v annoying as a viewer, essential as a producer: we are always wrong about the one we think is best

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 2d

what's your most compelling point? what's an odd thing you noticed? how do you feel about it? what are you promising me that i'll find on the other side of this? so i'm not singling this page out, someone else pointed out Oatly has been making content for YouTube for a while with the same issue:

matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 2d

imagine it's quite hard to get a line to Anita Sarkeesian these days - very weird to see hours of content being produced, edited, with a unique asset, and then it falls apart at the moment you title it - why would anyone who doesn't know what this is click on it?

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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · 2d

Black History Month in the UK is largely ignored by the games industry anyway but this has to be the quietest I’ve ever seen it. No panels, no events, nothing. Damn.

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 2d

i am fairly sure i know two things you could spend 10,000 a day on and not miss it and they are: libelous

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 2d

video games are so funny this is the only medium where a game is crowned as a dense, psychological masterpiece but you can also say this

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 3d

i am often at games events and i start to hear something spicy and i have to remind the person telling me it that they should, perhaps, not tell me it

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 3d

Dear game developers, please remember what 'on the record' means

Let's discuss the role of journalists and journalism in the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 3d

a don't believe this. a man of your legendary prowess drinking... fucking... rain!

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 3d

jurassic park? uh, if any of that happened i'd jurassic keep on driving!

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently someone made a fucking Umineko video featuring Giant Bomb

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 3d

my feeling on the longevity of this site is you probably could not post the wesley snipes / tony hawk thing on here

matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 3d

i've been building heavy into heroic aura / healing tempo / echo shard so i've got a huge crew doing mega bullets around me and it's going good atm

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 3d

i've been playing a lot of mcginnis lately because if your job is just to push and counter-push lanes you can actually ensure you win because, well, you can't lose and there's no draws

matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 3d

also mina doesn't do as much object damage since this week's patch so you're better off building pure assassin and prioritising stacking bites after ult unlocks