I'm on a coach, a space between worlds, a powerfully liminal place. Rules don't apply. Things slip through the cracks like treasured personal possessions between seat cushions.
Didn't even get Final Fantasy VIII, probably my favourite game of all time, in here. Fuck me.
Never felt more like a millennial goth loser
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Day off. To the graveyard.
Been in this industry since I was 20, which I why I feel like I'm 85 years old now
I was a model for Toni + Guy, got free haircuts throughout Uni, some of my pictures ended up on billboards. It was all VERY camp.
Hello everyone. I come with the sad news that as you are no doubt already aware, we're saying goodbye to several of our friends and colleagues here at Eurogamer. Leaving us are Tom Orry, our editorial director; our video team of Ian Higton, Zoe Delahunty-Light, and Alix Attenborough; Alex Donaldson, our editor-at-large; and Will Judd, who worked across Digital Foundry, hardware and deals. I'll start with Tom, who over the past year-plus had made himself a hugely valuable source of advice, expertise, desert-dry humour and world class poker faces (I think we just about made him laugh once, for a moment, on his final day). Tom initially began the role when Tom Phillips was our editor-in-chief here, mostly working away diligently in the background in a two-Tom-tandem doing editorial director things, before taking on a more prominent role on the site itself over the past 11 or 12 months, gracing us with some signature console nostalgia and unjustifiably intense Project Gotham Racing enthusiasm. Tom, Dom, Alex and I, along with the rest of the team, worked together closely on what a 'new Eurogamer' might look like last year, and his experience in running multiple games media sites was consistently our rock to lean on. While he may have initially seemed an outsider of sorts compared to Eurogamer chiefs of old - at least to some on the surface, coming from his 20-plus years across our sister sites VG247 and USGamer, and before that the cult-favourite site he founded in our once-rival VideoGamer - I can't stress enough how much Tom 'got' Eurogamer. His goal was for us to be at the heart of the big stories that mattered most to our readers with original, diligent reporting and on-the-button commentary, and that will absolutely continue. In immaculately on-brand, limelight-dodging Orry style, Tom opted to sneak his farewell into this past weekend's What We've Been Playing column, but I'll be damned if he gets away with it that easily. Sorry Tom. Here's what he had to say…
From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙
One of the main reasons I joined the Green Party is because they are the only party ready to take on the criminal racket of landlords and developers that have parts of this country in a chokehold. Vote Green.
In the sun, Fro looks like the colour of stuff you find in the hoover
I got a post on the Discover tab by mistake
Come for the nostalgia, stay for the scientific experiment in which I try to call a Jigglypuff "dickhead"
Real dearth of decent chicken shops near me, so tonight I thought 'fuck it' and made my own.
7/10: succulent, tasty, GORGEOUS texture but next time I'll use way more seasoning and do a better batter than just what breadcrumbs I had lying around
Not a lot in this world I'll thank Nigella Lawson for, but this...
I have an eight hour coach journey this Friday, danger danger
I first cooked this about 5 years ago and it's been a staple since: the incredible, versatile and (relatively) healthy fish finger bhorta
Come for the nostalgia, stay for the scientific experiment in which I try to call a Jigglypuff "dickhead"
We're all allowed one conspiracy, and mine is that Donald Trump is going insane and rotting from the inside out because of untreated syphilis
I am always LOVELY to my Pokémon so having to call a Jigglypuff this for work makes me genuinely quite sad?!
Oops, spilled some David Foster Wallace in the gaming news
It is very weird not having you around
Sometimes having therapy at 8am on a Monday before the working week feels really useful.
Most of the time it is simply exhausting
I think I say at least once a day "what did we do to deserve dogs"
I don't know how he knows, but Fro will come and have a lie-in with me every Sunday morning. Only does it on Sundays. Forever blessed.
Very Nolan of you
Hey, do you party? Like, green party?
The Callous Daoboys biggest ever headline show last night in Bristol. Incredible energy, amazing set list, and they're having so much fun. 10/10.
Transition timeline
I've admired Alex since way before our days at GN, and will continue to with whatever happens next. He just *knows* stuff, gets people, is always willing to prop you up and give you advice.
I will miss the way he can just appear in Slack with a draft, and it can go up clean. Incredible talent.
I wouldn't be where I am without Tom; I owe my career as it stands to him. A phenomenal mentor, level head, excellent boss, and one of the most selfless people I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
The path forward looks dimmer, sadder without him. I can't overstate how much I look up to him.
