James Whitbrook

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Deputy Editor at io9 and Gizmodo. Questionable taste in puns, sci-fi, and video games. 🏳️‍🌈│He/Him │Icon by @joehunter.bsky.social ❤️

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Yoshi-P you can't get away with adding stealth tailing missions to FFXIV by culminating it with a riff on one of my favourite FF characters of all time, that only works once

I hope she plays pink pony club

I literally like 2 levels later I have reached a point of having even less idea of where this is going but now my brain is also just screaming at me (complimentary)

hit what I *think* is the half way point of Dawntrail and I have absolutely no idea where it's actually going from here, but in a good way. I'd seen murmuring that the expansion was slow to kick off, but I've really liked the it so far–hopefully that continues!

inside of you there are two wolves

returned from voting to participate in the escapist fantasy of being involved in an election with candidates I support, and where my vote matters

World-swallower.

4K First Gundam? Don't mind if I do, day off, don't mind if I fuckin' do

You have new gods now.

just realised that between having a mostly American social circle, existing on Terf Island, and playing Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, approximately 80% of my passive awareness to existence is electoral drama and now I yearn for Wuk Lamat to bring her axe down right in my forehead

as if my mood wasn't bad enough!

If you notice that things look slightly different on io9 right now, it's because... they are! We just migrated to WordPress, so if things look weird, please pardon our proverbial dust for the next few days (maybe weeks, what do I look like, someone who works at a tech website?).

not to be dramatic but I need manny jacinto to give me the yord fandar special so I can stop having to deal with work today

My recap of this week's Acolyte, in which Osha and the audience alike attends the Sexy Sith Summer Camp for Gifted Questioners of Jedi Ideology

The Acolyte's Real Lessons Can Finally Begingizmodo.com "Teach/Corrupt" sees the aftermath of last week's carnage providing learning moments for Osha, Mae, and the Jedi all alike.

pov: you are cate blanchett's husband and she is about to sign on to the borderlands movie gizmodo.com/cate-blanche...

persona 3 reload figures they're being made by mcfarlane

the audacity to offer Kate Mulgrew a garbage scow instead of a refit of the greatest ship in starfleet design history

Star Trek: Prodigy Almost Made Janeway Captain of the Enterprise, Until Kate Mulgrew Said Nogizmodo.com And of course, she's 100% right to say so. Rude to even ask!

The most dangerous line in final fantasy XIV has been spoken

like hot damn this makes me want to throw hands with everyone on the continent and you're just hearing it for stabbing turtles

I'm still barely into Dawntrail because I ended up not playing much over the weekend after grinding Viper but holy shit the generic combat theme is the Vamo'alla Flamenco-iest Vamo'alla to ever Flamenco, and they already added Vamo'alla Flamenco back in SHB as the Dancer theme

Dawntrail Battle Theme - FFXIV OSTwww.youtube.com YouTube video by Uvi

A question that could be easily resolved tomorrow, but I wanted to ask anyway, because I have not stopped thinking about this moment in The Acolyte since it dropped last week

You Just Gonna Leave Those Bodies There, Star Wars?gizmodo.com Amid the carnage of The Acolyte's latest episode, there's one grim part of the aftermath I can't stop thinking about.

send this to me in the middle of the work day when I can't be playing Early Access is a cruel move, yoshi-p

dropping this the first day after pride, what a fumble

It's still the exact movie I thought it was in 2019: a hell of a mess with One Very Good Idea that people somehow still don't understand and act like their entire world ended over, thus here I am not hating it out of spite, five years later

there's no new doctor who to watch this weekend so me and @joehunter.bsky.social are watching what, apparently, might as well be the same thing

You had a choice, Jedi Skywalker. You could have ruled beside me. Instead, you chose death.

The Last Command.

Which means, at last, it's time to trail the dawn.

Viper level 90 get!

And so monsterfucker season comes to a close 😔