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Wes Davis

@blunderchief.blather.ing

Professional orange whip drinker. Freelance tech journalist, often at Gizmodo and IGN. Previously The Verge. Also pubbed at Tom’s Hardware/Guide, PCWorld, TechHive, CNN Underscored. He/him/they

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Latest posts by Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing

Doing a li'l shorty stream. Might do a longer one later? Halfway through Wario Land 4 though!

06.03.2026 00:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wild, I could have sworn Wired had been doing incredible journalism, oh well guess I'll cancel my subscription

05.03.2026 15:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I once opened for The Village People.

05.03.2026 13:10 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
04.03.2026 17:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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blunderchief - Twitch blunderchief is live.

In which I remember to turn my mic on at the beginning of the stream, a which is key for becoming a world-famous video game streamer. www.twitch.tv/blunderchief

04.03.2026 03:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

The shock at the Mexican blend that’s obviously just like… chili powder and paprika and salt etc

I will admit I have never seen/heard of zaatar though.

01.03.2026 13:49 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.

Ugh www.wired.com/story/hacked...

01.03.2026 13:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know, I went to a show Thursday night, saw two weird, fun bands in a tiny venue. It wasn’t packed, it wasn’t empty. The vibe was good. For all the talk about AI slop and such, tech blows at replicating that experience.

I think some folks forget there is good meat space out there.

01.03.2026 02:56 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't know exactly when I crossed the line into having a hangover even if I only had three beers over several hours and never felt drunk territory but it really feels unfair.

01.03.2026 00:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Even until like 2013/14 it felt that way, despite everything that had been going on. But then again I was in a cool band and had just met my wife, I was not paying that much attention to The Way Things Were Getting

01.03.2026 00:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Day one of this shitfuck of a war. Day fucking one.

28.02.2026 18:12 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Peace ‘within reach’ as Iran agrees no nuclear material stockpile: Oman FM Oman's Foreign Minister says most recent indirect talks between US, Iran 'really advanced, substantially'.

The first bit of news I saw this morning was better than the second bit of news I saw. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

28.02.2026 12:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think about this a lot. 2020 was absolutely a dividing before/after line for me, personally.

28.02.2026 04:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If it pleases the court, I'd like to play more Wario Land 4 on the internet. (Live now)

28.02.2026 03:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some of the tricks yall did with scrolling to make it linger at moments weee really great. I still haven’t finished this but what I’ve gotten through is utterly delightful.

28.02.2026 02:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like we don’t know that already, also. Like my man I have been skipping beef for years, that’s not the problem.

27.02.2026 23:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Twitch Twitch is the world

Had some spare time today, so I'm streaming a bit. Come watch as I dive back into Wario Land 4? www.twitch.tv/blunderchief

27.02.2026 19:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Ah yes, Terry Blacks. Overpriced to all get out and fired a trans pitmaster over his politics and gender. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

26.02.2026 20:30 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Also terry black’s is uniquely mediocre as fuck bbq and extremely not worth paying for. I’d rather go to Bill Miller’s and get a sack of chopped bbq sandwiches. At least that place is honest about what it is.

27.02.2026 04:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anyway I’m really fucking sad about what this means for Star Trek.

27.02.2026 04:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Imagine trying to get people interested in the goings-on of a DFW suburb after the year 1995

27.02.2026 04:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Little late to be saying it now, but no stream tonight, and I’m going on hiatus from scheduled streams for now, while I figure out a schedule that works better for me.

27.02.2026 04:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen ... Tried to add "12 Years a Slave" to Google Calendar and it created a 12-year-long event called "a Slave" • a Slave Tue, February 25, 8pm - Wed, February 25, 2026, 8pm Delete Edit event » 5:27 PM • Feb 23, 2014

It’s finally over

26.02.2026 02:09 👍 5060 🔁 835 💬 6 📌 21

😩

26.02.2026 12:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Child refusing to get out of bed? Try playing some Bananzas at them.

26.02.2026 12:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Twitch Twitch is the world

My all-of-the-Wario-Lands playthrough continues with Wario Land 4 now! I mean, soon. Right now I'm just playing music from a friend's old music duo while I prepare something to drink. www.twitch.tv/blunderchief

25.02.2026 03:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Endlessly grateful for the presentation you gave on how to cover AI when I had first joined the verge.

The big one that continues to drive me bonkers is articles quoting AI like they would a tech executive or even a man on the street.

24.02.2026 12:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshotted text: “…people actually do this. It's hard to get an accurate sense of how many people actually hit themselves in the face with a hammer, but it's not zero. There are YouTube…”

Screenshotted text: “…people actually do this. It's hard to get an accurate sense of how many people actually hit themselves in the face with a hammer, but it's not zero. There are YouTube…”

This is quite a sentence.

24.02.2026 12:38 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Requiem for a Dream. Granted, I was like 20 at the time and have seen many more horrors than it now, but also, I have no interest in finding out how I feel about it now.

24.02.2026 12:30 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Damn, I could really go for one of those right now.

24.02.2026 12:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0