senior editor, UK @polygon / formerly editor-in-chief @eurogamer / games, film, TV / he/him
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Oli Welsh retweeted
[Kate Middleton, 14 Mountain Dews deep into the most crippling World of Warcraft addiction of the 21st Century] just photoshop me into the picture, I'm in the middle of a raid
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Oli Welsh retweeted
people have a lot of nerve talking shit about martin scorsese. have YOU ever made a scene in a film so powerful that everyone on earth thinks about it every single time they chop garlic
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Christian Donlan on Pokémon and Van Gogh is an absolutely unmatched way to start a weekend eurogamer.net/pokemon-and-va…
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polygon is looking for pitches! we’re running a package about twitch’s place in pop culture, and the streamers who've made it, to coincide with twitchcon 2023 las vegas. please pitch us by sept. 8
check out our pitch guide for what we’re looking for:
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Oli Welsh retweeted
I hope one day we can move past the own-goal of "none of us want to make bad games" to Well what if we did? What if the production of & acceptance of & critical understanding of flawed or imperfect or "bad" art is healthy for a medium?
Oli Welsh retweeted
TOMORROW! I'm going to play PowerWash Simulator live on Twitch for 24 hours, with special guests. I'll be attempting a Guinness World Record and raising money for @BorneCharity. Do pop in and say hello! RTs appreciated, thank you! @PowerWashSim
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looking for culture pitches for polygon!
fandom, people focused, trend, streaming, + subculture stories related to video games and blockbuster film/TV. not looking for reviews. (thread has more info and examples)
send to [email protected]; pay starts at $300 for reporting
Oli Welsh retweeted
do the french give different names to their pokemon. if they do i think geodude could be “homme de terre.” thanks
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In the NES era, tech restraints meant that instruction manuals did some heavy lifting: lore, art, tutorials, hints.
A few years ago I played Zelda 1 with only that manual as a guide. Making my own map was one of my most satisfying experiences I've ever had with a video game.
ALT A rough pen drawing on graph paper of a world map with caves highlighted. In the margins are annotations like "meet the old man at the grave" and "it's dangerous to go alone. take this"
ALT A second view of the map, with many blank spaces. It has eight rows and 16 columns.
Oli Welsh retweeted
In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then turned it into one of the most mind-bending riffs on identity in the digital age I've ever heard.
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Disney: "Let's send these hit movies to streaming but release the one that looks like Disney Channel circa 2004."
Netflix: "Let's pull this hit movie from theaters after 1 week and leave like 100 mil on the table."
Universal: "COCAINE BEAR! COMING THIS FEB ONLY IN THEATERS!"
Oli Welsh retweeted
Every JRPG is called 'Nimbly Electric XV - Diamanté EDITION Remagistered' and the blurb is like, 'The Night Wielder is missing! Join Hot Pot, Plump Hawthorn and all your favourites, with deluxe raytraced 9K slash attack boost bonuses.' Please just tell me what it's about.
Oli Welsh retweeted
parents please be careful this halloween --- in my kid's candy i found a tv with the motion smoothing still on
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Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum and unidentified wedding bassist who is thrilled to be there.
