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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary

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Anglophonic Tsinoy | He/They | Twitch @ experimentego 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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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.

28.11.2025 05:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Zohran Mamdani's people need to figure out how to spin this like they just created a new Honmoon over the city.

28.11.2025 03:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

27.11.2025 00:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 263    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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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.

26.11.2025 09:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was no cheap trick! He went to wizard university for 17 years to learn that. He's still paying off his loans!

26.11.2025 04:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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/

25.11.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think at the bare minimum that excess trust can be said to be true of Ken Williams, if no one else. Remember that he's a self-made member of the C-suite from Simi Valley and not an MBA holding chucklefuck from an Ivy League business cunt factory. But defo leaders at Cendant and CUC sucked eggs.

25.11.2025 06:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"The Cool side of the Force is a pathway to fits some consider to be too fashionable."

24.11.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You're not like a regular Jedi, you're like a cool Jedi.

24.11.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

WinDirStat is what I use.

24.11.2025 12:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"We have a saying in my galaxy, thousands of light-years away in the Cablaranian system: Apathraxibros before Gulwynvilihoes."

24.11.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love when they take normal ass metaphors and then apply some setting-specific proper noun-based descriptors to them, making them sound stupid as hell. ("He cut through the steel like a hot Antarian dagger through Majeen butter!")

24.11.2025 02:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The agony of running my fingers through a dense field of luxury

24.11.2025 01:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If youโ€™re a journalist whoโ€™s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace โ€œthe American people wantโ€ with โ€œtroll bots in Eastern Europe demandโ€

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I donโ€™t care how savvy you think you are, youโ€™re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

23.11.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21310    ๐Ÿ” 5165    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 375    ๐Ÿ“Œ 259
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a boy and a girl brushing their teeth together in a bathroom ALT: a boy and a girl brushing their teeth together in a bathroom

Get in your robots, you guys

24.11.2025 01:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"sloughed" is such a gross fucked up little word

19.11.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh to be cursed with such a luxurious mane

23.11.2025 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gonna tell my kids this is a Far Cry.

22.11.2025 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

See there's a difference between, "you are playing the character" and "you are controlling the character," and it's this. The latter has horrific violence weaponized against the player to make them feel bad and render female bodies disposable.

22.11.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"To be fair" is the prefix to some of the least funny replies you'll ever read on social media

21.11.2025 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 428    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

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

20.11.2025 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hey the beatles, just was listening to eight days a week and have a quick question: are you guys fucking stupid

20.11.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I feel like it was only yesterday we were all like, "YEAH! cut it off go king" and now this?

20.11.2025 05:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Watching all your friends play Dispatch but they won't play Road to Empress

19.11.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 362    ๐Ÿ” 67    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

I'm the weirdo in my friend group chat -- with zero media professionals -- who is like, excitedly reading out headlines like they are as amusing to them as they are to me.

19.11.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Honestly, the shift to headlines that are 5 to 9 lines long -- optimized to make room for some of the most unhinged details of any particular story and sometimes just to shitpost -- is one of my favorite evolutions to occur at PC Gamer.

19.11.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"I am become horror, destroyer of words"

19.11.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

19.11.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

19.11.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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[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...

"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 Christโ€™s in worship service? Why do we have activities such as โ€˜OneWithEVMโ€™ and most recently โ€˜Obey and Never Complain?โ€

18.11.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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