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mathew olson

@mathewolson.com
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blogging at virtualvector.xyz • writer and creative technologist at large • makin’ arcade stuff • totally sincere hater • he/him •

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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 9h
the pig planterleo pointing
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 28/09/2026
yup that sure is 9 games. some of these obviously rank as favorites too, but my selection criteria for this list is “the games i’d most likely say ‘we should do it like [game] did’ when working on a game project myself” honorary mention to pac-man
a “my 9 games” list with Lego Island, Outer Wilds, Super Mario World, Golden Sun, Half-Life, Max Payne, Halo, Super Metroid, and Tetris DS
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 26/09/2026
what tazer said
big apple at sunset baybee
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 25/09/2026
finally realized what the stupid meta ai mascot reminds me of
pitpat, the non threatening mascot for globochem in mr show
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 17/09/2026
i dunno if anyone besides chris has ever come close to explaining why VR won’t “die” in this succinct a manner
But at the same time, the magic of VR is that when it works it’s like being unstuck in time and deposited into a potential branching future. You can never kill VR because there is absolutely nothing like it for the people for whom it truly matters. [begin highlight] The format has a dedicated Sardaukar army of furries, simmers, Beatsaber players, and perverts. [end highlight] The lengths that they will go to make VR work, modding and tweaking and creating full body tracking, is terrifying and rarely matched. You should see the regular updates that Resonite, what I can only describe as “VRChat but made by furries”, received.
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 17/09/2026
(grotesquely) yeah
robert kraft’s horrible visage
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 17/09/2026
everyone’s asking “what happened to mitch” “why’s he acting like that” “what’s with the smile” it’s simple, really
cooper getting pulled into an electrical outlet in twin peaks s3
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 16/09/2026
this submission is catchy as fuck ngl
submission to the guitar center contest from “edshrancomplicit”

guiotar scenster suncks
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 16/09/2026
buster bluth at sleep deprivation study, u of chicagobuster at archeological dig, smithsonian fellowshipbuster at french sleep deprivation study, hon hon hon
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 15/09/2026
you know what, why not. it's not like i actually have to buy it...
"You are on the list for Steam Frame 256GB Kit"
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 12/09/2026
how i’m feeling about fixing up an arcade cabinet tomorrow
photo of red green looking into the camera while pulling a strip of duct tape off the roll
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 11/09/2026
hm. if i were the times i would have disabled this sale notice for 24 hours
a landing page from nytimes dot com for “The Anniversary Sale. Savings worth celebrating.”
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 09/09/2026
i love your movie reviews from this period
it's gene shalit
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 08/09/2026
working on my #picocad2 skills
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 07/09/2026
happy labor day, here's some 8 hours for what we will. hope you like it no apologies to fans of caroline polachek or of [redacted]
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 07/09/2026
ty @cashbrowns.bsky.social for knocking it out of the park on nancy’s most important holiday
today’s nancy strip inspired by the ricardo levins morales “8 hours” slogan artwork
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 06/09/2026
seeing someone reply into a thread *in favor of* vibecoding and his avatar is mattie's annoying newspaper columnist character
paul dano does he know
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 02/09/2026
they've got a whole park that's just Minecraft Quarry
Freeway Park in Seattle
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 30/08/2026
with an avatar like that you know you can trust this guy who says he "knows AI is evil"
screenshot of a resetera post

"I know AI is evil, and I'm probably the minority, but I actually think a lot of those examples [of DLSS5 AI filtered games] look better"

man's avatar is an ugly portrait of a gamer eating pizza with telltale AI linework and shading. god help us if someone actually drew that
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 29/08/2026
a drinky bird desk toy
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 27/08/2026
so cool that basically all of my personal data from the age of 15-onwards is in the hands of a company that’s also fine with melting the brains of dudes like this and then taking his money to blast out batshit advertisements he made when i’m just trying to fall asleep to a video about tetris
a youtube advertisement that’s just a guy going on about the rapture and ww3 happening today i guess
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 26/08/2026
leo pointing
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 24/08/2026
a second gilderoy lockhart has been cast
bush being whispered to on 9/11
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 13/08/2026
we are seeing a dangerous, unprecedented rise in guy gilchrist parodies. if these trends continue…
disco stu pointing at his disco record sales chart showing an exponential increase from ‘73 to ‘76
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 12/08/2026
it’s okay, outlier. i know why this word isn’t in your dictionary
today’s outlier word game 5x5 grid of letters. i have used the letters to spell “yakubian”, which the game does not include in its dictionary (but notably did not say “not a word”)
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 10/08/2026
i’ve been liking qobuz plenty since switching to it for music streaming but sometimes it just kinda refuses to work at least the error messages are funny
error saying it is IMPOSSIBLE to play call me maybe by CRJ
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 07/08/2026
my range of taste in games neatly summed up by two pieces of clothing
selfie of me wearing a Horse Race Tests shirt and a Half-Life 2 baseball cap
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 06/08/2026
the horrible brienne of snarth gator tweet
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 31/07/2026
coming up on ten years of american life neatly summed up by these two posts
the “like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of this jam/well. Nevertheless,” tweet“dems are gonna look in the mirror and tell themselves we gotta be more racist” tweet
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 29/07/2026
hey @joewintergreen.com I thought your contribution to Aftermath’s studios that don’t use AI piece was very well written, really cuts to the heart of the issues
the Impromptu Games entry from Aftermath’s piece that just reads “Cause it’s fucked.”
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 28/07/2026
It’s a banana, Michael. What could it cost, $7?
Mamdani holding up some bananas with a 30% off NYC-run grocery store sticker on them
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 27/07/2026
i literally did this when i heard the change
mourinho taking off the headphones
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 25/07/2026
Naomi Wolf “No! No!!” tweet
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 25/07/2026
here’s my favorite passage. if you believe in FOSS or anything like it, it should make you furious that the LLM “business model” has begun to severely limit access to computer hardware (and thus computing sovereignty) for small orgs and individuals
A growing digital divide
These price hikes also lead to a growing digital divide: Small and even large operators are endangered by rising costs, while only the largest cloud companies have reliable agreements for hardware. Increasing costs for services like website hosting, storage or compute can be challenging to a lot of small NGOs, local coops, research projects and other usage of digital tools that we considered for granted until recently.
Not only does it become more expensive to run digital infrastructure, even more basic digital tools like computers and smartphones are affected by the rising costs, turning personal computing back into a luxury — but now in a world where digital tools are a de-facto requirement to participate in society. Devices with little compute and storage capacity take away sovereignity from users and move them into the cost trap of cloud providers selling those back to you.
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 21/07/2026
the hulu viewers are already raising some good points
screenshot of a youtube comment on the hulu Nirvanna The Band trailer

@randomreviews4278 posted 8 minutes ago
How did they not get sued by nirvana

The Chris Pratt Mario avatar really seals it for me
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 21/07/2026
2010: Just received verbal mgmt approval to build this zipline.
the child-destroying zipline
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 21/07/2026
i'm thinking absolute best case scenario i'd be staring at a wall like this
roast beef from achewood with bugged out pac-man eyes going Oh, hee hee hee!
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 17/07/2026
not that todd’s much worse for wear after these layoffs but i do feel like his fallout statement has this exact vibe
simpsons, smithers holding a gun up to the back of a smiling tom jones. in this analogy todd is tom and smithers is asha (who is also being held at gunpoint by satya)
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 17/07/2026
well my laptop might be dead but i have triumphed over this piece of shit and, by extension, the verizon corporation
me flipping off the SIM card that died yesterday
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 16/07/2026
not sure what it says about me that my friend saw this cybertruck the other day and immediately thought to send me a photo. nothing good i guess
a cybertruck with a full body vinyl wrap for hatzulas volunteer ambulance/ems
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 15/07/2026
it’s so sick that one of the most successful companies on the planet has a product with such useful error messages and then it RULES that you can go the local store for your service provider and they just look at it and go “hey what if you upgraded”
iphone sim failure message. no other context. yeah, OK i guess
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 15/07/2026
live mas mentality from ink masters
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 14/07/2026
in my defense,
texts from a friend
“was it you that sent me a trailer for a sort of indie boomer shooter thing with a lot of hapf life coded map design?”
“I was trying to remember the name”CAUGHT emoji
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 11/07/2026
we got fuckin PLANK on the GDQ couch. good shit
it’s plank
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 10/07/2026
congrats on the new gig @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social i promise i won’t complain when the sponsor deal stop & shop episode of @storesthepodcast.bsky.social airs
it’s DBJ in an ad for stop & shop on a new york subway platform. just look at them
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 10/07/2026
posting this @gooffkings.bsky.social screenshot on bluesky because i think the composition of dudes on screen all at once will drive the people on here who got mad at JF for loving his wife go fucking bonkers
it’s the go off kings stream. also db and the hosts of guys are on. and they’re watching the average day joes.
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 06/07/2026
at the hang with Mitch McConnell. always good to see him. so lively
nathan fielder, smiling, friends just out of frame
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 01/07/2026
the first and last time a steelbook was cool
the halo 2 collector's edition case
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 30/06/2026
achewood panels featuring the shirt “i’m the guy who sucks/plus i got depres-sion”
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mathew olson @mathewolson.com · 23/06/2026
would a man who was wearing THIS shirt when he met danger ehren lie to you??
me trying not to laugh while danger ehren from jackass photobombs this selfie taken in portland
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