Matthew Beswick (they/them)

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

The end of FFX was like a gut punch

Serbia has changed democracy with a grass roots student led movement *Looks at UK students* C'mon, do something!

Instead of getting Final Fantasy Resonance I got FF Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles on sale. I need the story as well as the aesthetics and I wasn't feeling it with the Resonance demo

I've now seen 4 episodes of Visionquest. I'm glad it ended on a cliffhanger because it was losing me a bit. It's good but trying too hard to do too much. It just doesn't have the aesthetic or thematic cohesion to make it fully work.

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title. Lemonade in my pants

Sometimes it feels like the difference between Labour and Tories is that Labour take the time to lie to your face first before enacting harmful policies

I'm wondering if with GTA VI being released next month amid huge industry buyouts followed by shutdowns, whether this is the end of AAA games as we know it. Many are committed to AI which will make games worse and consoles too expensive which will land them in a death loop imo

I'd like to leave the UK at some point before it goes full fash but finding somewhere that has my two non-negotiables; affordable, and good human rights records including queer rights, is surprisingly hard

I think I should just stop trying to engage with banter/fun online. Maybe it's my neurodivergence but I just seem to upset people when I think I'm just joining in the fun. And I just end up feeling like I did in school, like I can't hang with the cool kids because I'm too weird

It's very difficult to watch TV when this is my dog...

I'm a 'Protect The Dolls' in the front and 'Free Palestine' in the back kinda person

In an ideal world, when they get to the 'vote now' part on strictly tonight everyone should hold up 'protect the dolls' signs in protest of what happened with the editing scandal

Hey folks, this year has been rough for both me and my partner, and I'll sometimes link my Ko-fi to try make up for shortfalls in my income in streaming, especially as bills have been particularly bad lately, but tonight I'd like to ask if your help with my partner's cost of living. Thank you. ♥️

Where is the line with philosophical belief and the EA? Nazism is a philosophical belief. Phrenology is a philosophical belief.

I've now cancelled my TV licence. Probably far too late for many but I did really believe in the institution behind it for the longest time

With the NHS announcement today it feels like all this and the panel at the Labour conference are totally superficial. Just a way for MPs to alleviate their consciences as trans people suffer and die

Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it.

The British Fantasy Society does not allow the use of generative AI in any of its spaces. For more on this, read the interview with outgoing chair Shona Kinsella from earlier this year. This position has not changed since last week's AGM. ⬇️ britishfantasysociety.org/its-a-cheat-...

And if you're thinking of Maggie Gyllenhaal's husband, that's Peter Sarsgaard and unrelated to the Skarsgård dynasty.

Nothing is more infuriating to me in the modern era than how they're remaking and adapting works that specifically soften their edges; making characters more palatable and less complex. Just like how they've sucked the physical colour out of so many films, they're doing the same with characters

Cloud's mad he doesn't have more dresses

Barrett rode Cloud hard that day...

Robbie watching the film and writing his review:

BBC whitewash author's abhorrent views and actions in anticipation of the release of her book series' new TV show on a different, premium, channel

missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing.

The fact they didn't just blur it but went to the effort to make it look like it was a plain white tee feels insidious

Nic Cage for Backrooms 2!

The News at Ten: Labour hail their biggest success since Starmer became PM; only losing 3% of their vote share. Meanwhile, Zack Polanski is under pressure to resign as leader of the Greens after a dismal by-election that saw him gain only 23 points on the last election for Holborn and St Pancrs

Ruin a book by adding a word The Shoe Shining

So instead of doing something useful like banning gambling ads they're going to ban ADHD assessment ads. This country is run by the dumbest people

At least we know where Mitch McConnell is headed

Literary historians have discovered an early draft of Moby Dick that removes the ambiguity of the first sentence with one punctuation mark. It reads, 'Call me, Ishmael. UwU xxx'

From the people who brought you transphobia and ADHD is overdisgnosed, comes a brand new, old, grift: therapists are turning our children against us!

Gaydies and Gentlethems, this is the woman that just over the weekend several press outlets were bigging up as a political heavyweight ready to re-emerge as serious competition to Farage and Burnham

My Roman Empire is the story conceit from Final Fantasy Type-0. To wage an eternal war, when someone dies they are forgotten by everyone who knows them. They're aware the person died but feel no emotional connection to them because their memories are rewritten without that person in them. Brutal.

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times?

I found Jurassic Park terrifying as a kid especially when they were trapped in the car

It really is the 'no fats, no fems, no asians' of 2026

Zack Polanski praises the RNLI volunteers 👏 "From The Green Party, we want to say to the RNLI, you are the very best of us, thank you"

Okay Control Resonant, you've finally won my over by choosing one of my favourite songs from the 90s as the music for your latest trailer...

Nothing says I'm totally not a problematic person like a faq section on your website dedicated to countering all the terrible opinions you have

Btw, this is what you get when you vote in transphobic Dems. They don't improve over time or are secretly waiting to support trans people once elected

OMG, the JK Rowling FAQ is real? This is hilarious

Surely everyone knows it stands for ultra sexy bitches? And GIFs is even more well known: gays into fisting It's not rocket science