Matt Chandronait

Oligarchy (noun):

A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

it has been many many years since i wrote a personal essay but i wrote one for today

Sure. Let’s be credulous about Brett fucking Rattner.

YouTube video by PlayStation HITMAN - E3 2015 Trailer | PS4

Every now and then, against my will, the music from this -- one of the all-time great trailers -- gets stuck looping in my head. Today is one of those days. Not mad about it.

youtu.be/LVqxMCZ3u6k

Mealy-mouthed weak sauce.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

You an indie developer? Wanna get your game shown off in the coolest physical display event of the year? Well, have I got a deal for you...

last chance!!! i am gonna wake up early and flip a metaphorical large switch tomorrow for all of this 🙌🏻

AGDQ 2027 Fable speedrun (marrying everyone %) estimate: 37 minutes

“Please get the truth out about our son.”

Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

Board the Mothership. You're just in time. A couple weeks from now, on January 26, 2026, we'll be launching the full version of our new gaming website, Mothership, which aims to analyze games specifically through the...

my new website, mothership.blog, is launching this monday!! it's going to be super fun and you will all enjoy reading it. we are independent and worker-owned and can't stay alive without subscribers, though, and we are currently running a lifetime 15% off deal that you should realllly be grabbing ->

Fucking disgusting.

When Democrats folded in the last government shutdown—rescuing the GOP majority from itself and helping them pass a budget, giving validation to the Trump administration’s lawbreaking—the savvy politics knowers explained that folding was clearly worth it because it got the Epstein Files released.

Yes, what Star Trek needs now is the incredible creative vision of the mind behind TekWar at the helm.

This is sort of a niche topic I guess but I met the author of my favorite Atari 2600 game and he was cool as hell, so I got him on the show. I also brought in my former co-worker Kevin, a programmer who was inspired by the game, and we had a really great chat breaking down what makes it so great.

"That looks stupid." How Harmonix made The Beatles: Rock Band A new book excerpt reveals how Harmonix, MTV Games, and Electronic Arts teamed up with The Beatles for a rare video game collaboration.

"Directing The Beatles: Rock Band is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life."

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

Drops in FEBRUARY too AYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOO PULL UP

Oh right on! Happy to have you back :)

SO good!

masterpiece

What’s the greatest snack ever invented by humankind and why is it tortilla chips and salsa?

once again where we're at right now with the runaway price increases on SSDs isn't even because of usage demand, it's hoarding behavior from companies who may not have even broken ground on the data centers they want to install it in.

I've been attending the DICE Awards for literally 20 years straight, but this will be my first time ON the red carpet instead of just off to the side of the red carpet. Let's go!!!

Rebel FM Music Spectacular 2025

Made a Spotify playlist of the RFM Music Spectacular 2025 if it's of interest to anyone! Thnx again
@aegies.bsky.social, @talkingorange.bsky.social,
& Anthony! ✨🙏

open.spotify.com/playlist/2Cy...

(Note: Spotify is missing a couple of the tracks/albums from the episode)

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

Farm workers join workers around the world in condemning U.S. aggression in Latin America.

Too many children of the farm workers who feed the United States have been sent to fight overseas while their families can’t put food on the table at home.

There's a great moment in Caligula where the Senate is applauding then Caligula starts braying like a sheep and they ALL, to a man, start braying too

As any true artist would say: it’s up to the interpretation of the viewer. 🤷‍♂️