I have played ssoo much Hitman in my life but I just successfully pulled off a mission in Freelancer and I feel like the best gamer in the world (this mode is hard, jeez!)
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Riley MacLeod
@rcmacleod
Lead assignment editor, . formerly . Before that: Topside Press. Trans; he/him. riley.macleod @ washpost .com
Washington DCJoined October 2010
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I could pay my rent online but this also costs a fee! This is my first time renting from a company and I have to say I miss my landlord who was my neighbor who cashed my checks, you know, eventually whenever he got around to it
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My rent check is missing I guess so now I get to spend the rest of the day staring out the window waiting for the mail carrier to see if they know where it is while my property management company demands a late fee
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BDG management is so afraid of the writers who actually keep the business running that it locked them out of work rather than letting them show support for the union
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This morning, the BDG Union undertook a concerted activity in response to 40 of our colleagues getting laid off last week.
We changed our Slack avatars to the union logo, set our names to “No Layoffs, Fair Contract Now,” and shared the same message in the BDG general channel.
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I don't have anything to add to The Discourse, but here's (a gift link to) an article we ran about it a few weeks ago that I'm pretty proud of
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The robot programmed to generate fake "Seinfeld" episodes forever got banned from Twitch for scripting fake Jerry Seinfeld to say bigoted things about trans people:
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I went with a friend to the natural history museum and there's a hall full of cool rocks and they were very cool rocks
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Finally checking out the new Hitman mode, have completely forgotten how to play Hitman, promptly lost 47's iconic gun maybe forever? but despite this, Hitman continues to be great doesn't it
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It's not worth continuing to do this kind of post but our analytics came through and our The Last of Us coverage is bringing in new subscribers 🙂
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Perhaps the surest sign of how weird my life is right now is that I'm finding it really emotionally soothing to be on the treadmill, previously my most hated of all activities
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I'm always in awe of the care takes in his reporting, and this piece on how episode 3 of The Last of Us resonated with a survivor of the AIDS crisis is the latest standout example:
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Hey here’s my piece on noncompete agreements in games!!!
They’re not common but they’ve hurt enough devs for the ones I spoke to. They want them *gone.*
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Developers are ready for noncompete agreements to die
gamedeveloper.com/business/devel
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im wanting some more impactful Q&As this year on The Frontline for . have connections with an important voice/leader in the climate and environmental justice space? hoping to interview someone? pitch me! :)
yessenia [at] atmos [dot] earth
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My apartment has this tiny, inefficient washer/dryer thing and doing a small load of laundry is about to take literally all day, but in-home laundry means I get to revel in the smug self-satisfaction of doing a chore while not really actually having to do anything
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Adding to the chorus of reporting here about Squid Game: The Challenge; a participant we spoke to believes the show was essentially rigged, and that most players had no chance of winning a challenge performed in dangerously cold conditions.
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New: CNET's AI saga is just the most visible effect of being owned by Red Ventures, a private equity-backed marketing firm.
Former staff told me about the breakdown of editorial firewalls at CNET, including being pushed to change stories for advertisers.
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Today in trans masculinity: REI seems to have stopped selling men's climbing shoes small enough for me (climbing shoes, notably, are meant to run small), so that's filling me with inadequacy today
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It was an honor to do this reporting — to honor Jeff German and complete his work. I'm proud that his story lives on.
You can read it today in both and the : shorturl.at/abjQ3
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7% of every media company seems like a large enough group of people to make a pretty good new website
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In an email to employees, Bustle Digital Group CEO Bryan Goldberg announces the company is laying off 8% of staff and “suspending operations” at Gawker
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Hear me out: running away to the woods never to return
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Well, after an incredible 1.5 years, BDG has decided it is done with Gawker 2.0. Can't say enough about how proud I am of the site and all the brilliant people who worked to create it, and what a staggering shame this is. I had an absolute blast, and I love you.
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🚨🚨🚨We are thrilled to announce, at 1:43 a.m., that we have a deal!!!!!!!!!!!!! More details to follow!
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I made sundubu jjigae and my life is still a mess but now I also have heartburn (worth it though)
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Last month the Washington Post ended publication of its award-winning magazine and laid off its brilliant, irreplaceable staff.
Today, on their last day at their jobs, magazine employees & members are bringing the magazine archives to for posterity.
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1. I was super charmed by Kidding, what a shame
2. So is basically every business move now just... seeing other people do it and deciding to do it too, or what?
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Showtime Removes Short-Lived Originals From Streaming Platform (Exclusive)
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Millions of workers can form a union right now, even when union certification or a contract may be impossible or many years away.
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I've been especially heartened by how many folks have written about queer history--as a trans person who screams "people like me existed before 2015!" at 80% of the news these days, I love to see so many folks remember what came before us
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I've been loving all the queer takes on last night's Last of Us episode--when I showed up in this field it felt like there was only room for 'that one queer take,' and now look at us! Shameless plug, here's a (free) link to mine ICYMI
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"Every day they both survive together is a day where people who were alive for queer history are around to keep it alive and to make strides they never got to in a world too indifferent to maintain that history for those still to come."
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The Last of Us has shown culture is as much a casualty of the apocalypse as people are, but HBO’s take on Bill and Frank is a lovely reminder that elder queer people who lived through LGBTQ+ history survived into the end of days, and our stories can, too. kotaku.com/last-of-us-hbo
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ok i fixed it
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getting belligerently angry when “the last of us” tries to claim that a mountainous terrain that’s clearly northwestern is “10 miles west of boston”
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With his guns and truck, Bill was a man vindicated in his worldview and mistrust of other people… until he met Frank.
my recap of #TheLastOfUs episode 3
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Here’s my piece for aboout tonight’s #TLOU episode - first time I watched it I cried for a straight hour afterwards 😅 I spoke to Craig Mazin about why he wrote this reimagined & beautiful story for these characters.
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Read Riley’s take on tonight’s Last of Us ep!
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LOL here's a gift link, my words long to be free wapo.st/3wBXyWa
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(Please praise me for cutting out a digression about Forster's "Maurice" and also some parallels I drew to "Rent" about why straight people end up the beneficiaries of queer death, I am truly a man of restraint)
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I wrote about TLOU's third episode: I think it does some beautiful and unexpected things with its source material, but it still falls into certain tropes about queer deaths
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(This tweet brought to you by finally pulling out my guitar and trying to remember what songs I know, and also by remembering The Postal Service is playing in DC next fall but it's all sold out, and if you are under 40 and got a ticket instead of me I am very mad at you)
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I am gonna arrange the saddest, emo-est version of "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" on my guitar and you're all gonna have to deal with it
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I haven't been leaving the house much because going outside reminds me why I'm in this town and then I get overcome with ~feelings~, but I'm out of Tums and vape juice, so it looks like I have to pull myself together here
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