Chris de Hoog

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stop throwing that around to brand yourself when actual independent media is fighting to for access and stability

☀️ Solaris: A FF Gents Zine ⚔️
🗓️ Aug 7th - Sept 7th
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Solaris honors the strength and charm of #FinalFantasy’s finest gents with 130+ pages of beautiful art, fic, cosplay, and stunning merch 💙 Join us in celebrating these iconic characters!

Bundles ⤵️

Played around in #Warframe's Captura for a laptop product shot, accidentally ended up looking like I might drop the hottest album of 2025.

Having worked in indie games media for just about 5 years, I’m not sure I’d have gone with the phrase “indie games media gold rush” but…

Are we really running *this* low on things to clutch our pearls about?

sim city screenshot of a bearded man saying YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS

I feel like I owe this sim city a guy an apology for using him as a joke format for the last decade. I was not expecting to eventually live in the special brand of hell in current year where All The Funding Is Cut and it is very bad actually

I was seriously considering going to Gen Con this year on my own dime until January arrived and things started going down.

You didn't get a screenshot of the best part - the Austin Powers-esque montage of unrelated stock footage that illustrates the metaphor.

Lex is completely right here. Games media can and IS profitable. People are hungry for video game content - video, longform crit, news, reviews, etc. And executive vultures have taken advantage of that hunger to squeeze out every single penny they possibly can

Edge of Eternities: 5 MTG Cards We're Seeking In The Depths of Space Edge of Eternities is another unusual set for Magic: The Gathering, but it has plenty of interesting new toys for planeswalkers to experiment with.

𝗜𝗖𝗬𝗠𝗜: 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝟱 𝗠𝗧𝗚 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲

#MTG #MagicTheGathering #EdgeofEternities

It Will Only Hurt for a Moment is listed as a Dragon Award nominee for Horror, and you don't need to look at the other books because this is your choice. Yup. You loved it. It's your jam. Ignore the SGJ and Chuck Tingle. It's fine. Really.

It's Dragon Award time, and I am so honored that It Will Only Hurt for a Moment has been nominated! I don't know how I could possibly win against some of these heavy hitters, but if you liked it, I hope you'll give it a vote! awards.dragoncon.org/2025-ballot/

"Forever" was pretty short lived, actually

Parents: Kids are more depressed these days, I wonder why? Kids: You destroyed the economy for us, the earth is literally dying, we are going to work until we die, and on top of that Nazis are back. Parents: It's those pesky iPhones.

Good morning

Hello again, Gen Con FOMO.

“What should I do now” how about your fucking job

Mono-green Tifa landfall: for when you’ve had enough “dilly-dally, shilly-shally”

Fair, but now I’m gonna hear the song every time I see that name.

I was ready to write that Direct off and move on when they showed Hyruled Warriors without a launch date - until they dropped TWO new Squeenix titles?!

(Also, not gonna lie, the prospect of a Romancing SaGa 2 NSW2 edition almost makes me want to dive back in.)

This didn't go where I expected.

I thought the dude was going to say he could make LLMs generate output without prompts after about 50,000 prompts, a kind of LLM telepathy.

But instead, he seems to have discovered how to think.

The correct way to get help with the original Final Fantasy is to persdonally consult someone like me who spent his childhood staring at the posters that came with the NES version, and their teen years studying Final Fantasy Classic dot com.

I suddenly feel a white-hot rage.

leaked part 3 ending trust 🙏

#megaconlive #FF7R

The other day I slapped Traveling Chocobo in my Tifa landfall deck and the results were staggering.

If you'd told me a year ago that Rings of Power would be moving forward but Wheel of Time was cancelled, I would've doubted you.

(Not throwing shade at RoP in anyway, I enjoyed it, it just seemed a shakier production from the get-go.)

Tennocon 2025: Charting Warframe's Narrative Constellations With Kat Kingsley and Adrian Bott We caught up with Warframe's narrative leads, Kat Kingsley and Adrian Bott, to talk about the process of crafting bombastic, yet grounded, stories.

At Tennocon I had the pleasure of chatting with Kat Kingsley and @cavalorn.bsky.social about the writing process for Warframe 1999, Tau, and the dichotomy between the Operator and the Drifter:

I haven’t done something this big on my 3D printer before - 13 hours in, 2.5 to go.

But know what would be reeeeally nice? Taxing the rich more.

While this is an incomprehensibly bad idea that shows an utter and insulting lack of understanding of the man and his work (and Matthew Lawrence should be ashamed to suggest it)... I'd bet $5 that the AI would straight-up explode trying to wrap its algorithm around the idea of him.

The scam is to conflate everything that computers do (or ever have done) with the current "AI" craze, so that the AI scam tech that nobody wants feels inevitable, rather than a tech bubble run by villains, that needs to crash immediately.