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Ryan Quintal

@quintal.me
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Design, tech, film, music, games, and dissatisfied observations. Mondoo | Shopify | Waymark | IGN | Apple | Squarespace ryanquintal.com/social-links Opinions are my own

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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 23/09/2026
Beautifully written
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 22/09/2026
I'm sure most of the complaining parties didn't actually support the project at all. I'm in for a good chunk of change, and excited to see your work, hopefully you get all up in the documentary too!
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 20/09/2026
Agreed!
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 16/09/2026
But I know personally seeing friends and colleagues be forced out of their jobs, in order to keep a corporate strategy where Google really calls the shots intact can’t be the answer 
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 16/09/2026
Platforms from companies like Meta and Google want free content, and large audiences. If they can find out a way to make synthetic content acceptable to a large audience, they will. I don’t know the answer to any of this, it’s one of the hardest problems facing the media industry.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 16/09/2026
This is happening across a ton of publishers, and multiple verticals, and we’re likely to see most media websites cut to the bone just for a chance to survive. For everyone saying independent creation is the future, they’re just not in the center of the crosshairs yet.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 16/09/2026
Page by page and featured by future, the builders have attached themselves to being completely reliant on Google, as direct site traffic wanes. Now the very source of IGN’s traffic is abstracting away all of its value through AI summaries to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic that do the same.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 16/09/2026
Nearly all of what the people who work on IGN’s website are asked to do has either a primary or secondary goal of bolstering Google ranking, SEO, or execute sales campaigns. The editorial staff is deliberately not aware or involved in any of this. Which is critical to their independence.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 16/09/2026
At IGN, while the content and editorial team work tirelessly to create and publish quality content on sharp and exhaustive deadlines, there’s another side of the building where sales, product, and engineering work. It’s an unspoken rule, but when it comes to decisions there’s clear power imbalance
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 16/09/2026
As somebody who worked at IGN twice and cares both about people who are still there and those who are no longer there I felt it necessary to correlate what’s happening with IGN directly to AI and Google. What you’re seeing is also the result of Ziff Davis and J2’s strategic decision making.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 14/09/2026
The industry has caught on to say things like this while absolutely not altering their behaviors or slowing, or bolstering independent saftey verification of their work.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 09/09/2026
I guess my question is, what's your current backup stack? I have a 14TB slow spinning disk that I use to back up all my external drives to, then for my Mac itself I rely mostly on iCloud and Backblaze is backing up the Mac, and external HDDs (including the 14TB drive). You using Time Machine at all?
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 09/09/2026
hey @gruber.foo — I just picked up SuperDuper! And it seems okay so far. Currently rocking ChronoSync, and I've never been fond of its UI. One question I have – ChronoSync is super good at watching for changes in a folder then having those copy over after a delay, this is hand for photos.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/09/2026
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a major voice in the U.S. women’s movement for more than six decades, has died. She was 92. to.pbs.org/4zYGZTW
An image of Gloria Steinem with the years 1934-2026.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 12/08/2026
Our new library is incredible
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/08/2026
Power-Mad Marvel Claims ‘Night At The Roxbury’ Part Of MCU theonion.com/power-mad-marvel-claim…
Power-Mad Marvel Claims ‘Night At The Roxbury’ Part Of MCU
Raving Execs Say ‘What Is Love’ Dancers Are Heroes From Silver Age Of Comics
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 03/08/2026
You’re attacking an Xbox fan FWIW.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 01/08/2026
Completely agree wity @jezcorden.com here. MS has run a once-great franchise into a ditch. XBOX’s inability to establish a culture to ship games in the 90th percentile of the quality bar undoes all of their corporate strategies. www.windowscentral.com/gaming/halo/...
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Halo Campaign Evolved performed well on Xbox, but PS5 gamers shrugged
Halo Campaign Evolved has been an abject failure on PS5 according to new data, heaping on evidence that Xbox's rush to PS5 publishing has been a huge mistake.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 27/07/2026
This, my friends, is bullshit www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-final...
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A Final Fantasy 6 remake would need four or five games to do the story justice, Yoshi-P says | VGC
“I understand the feelings of the players but you’ve got to think about it…
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 26/07/2026
Hear me out. A season of taskmaster with these five:
The cast of what we do in the shadows
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 25/07/2026
My wife just said it was just be him going around being a dick. A24 material if you ask me
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 15/07/2026
weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/f...
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Free The Icons
Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 14/07/2026
Stunning
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 12/07/2026
No two Republican senators spent more minutes of their career trying to break American democracy than Lindsey Graham & Mitch McConnell. - They believed in nothing - Lied with impunity - Created the corrupt system Trump seized - And did nothing to atone for it
A photo of Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 09/07/2026
Hey. If they can tell a terminator, they maybe already can?
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 09/07/2026
I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 05/07/2026
Not ominous at all.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 01/07/2026
The organizational cost of low taste uxdesign.cc/the-organiza...
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The organizational cost of low taste
When taste is weak, organizations don’t fail in strategy. They fail in decisions.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 21/06/2026
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ori-dir... I agree
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Ori director says Game Pass ‘could’ve worked’ if Xbox didn’t ‘slop out mediocre content like a factory’ | VGC
The Moon Studios CEO argues Microsoft has not delivered enough hit games…
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 13/06/2026
Capitalism in 2026 is going good.
An email alerting me that Shake Shack has updated their privacy policy.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 11/06/2026
youtu.be/rTM-I_HDC9A?... Stellar interview from Chris Dring, and Matthew Ball gives great answers
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The Big Xbox Matthew Ball Interview: “The console market is not dying”
YouTube video by The Game Business
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 11/06/2026
Hahahahahahaha
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 11/06/2026
Agreed. There’s no end in sight.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 10/06/2026
Forget what they say. Watch their actions.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 10/06/2026
Exhausting.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 08/06/2026
Found this in my email today. That’s a new one. 😆 Genuinely though, happy #WWDC to those who celebrate.
A screenshot of the mail app with the icons to take action on an email floating outside of their container, overlapping content.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
An image of a book cover in an older (50s? 60s?) style with a young man pointing at the inside of a car hood, at the engine. The title text across the top reads, "Everything I don't like is WOKE" The subtitle reads: "A book for basic dickheads." Next to the boy is a quote: "'This engine is woke.'"
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 08/06/2026
I felt the same way, and he ended up being a highlight of the movie for me!
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 06/06/2026
Looks like a stunner, Mitch. Congratulations to you and the team.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 04/06/2026
Fuck outta here with shitty takes from pathetic man children. Losers don’t know how to handle themselves.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
lmao
/Reddit community “shittymoviedetails” by user “69chevy_396. The title: “In Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, Grogu is a 50 year old baby. This is a subtle nod the franchise's only remaining demographic.” Included is a picture of Grogu (AKA Baby Yoda).
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/06/2026
At long last, there will be justice for every man in America who was very unfairly told no,” said the president, noting that all heterosexual males could claim up to $5 million each by documenting abuses such as being denied a second date
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Trump Launches $88 Billion Fund For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Rejected By Woman
WASHINGTON—Declaring the money long overdue compensation for some of the nation’s most persecuted individuals, President Donald Trump announced an $88 billion fund Tuesday specifically appropriated to...
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 01/06/2026
I forget… is there a subscriber discount?
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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
i wrote about motion capture, animation, and bodies in games for TEEN VOGUE! it's very excited to have a byline at a magazine that i've been reading since i was teen✨ www.teenvogue.com/story/why-ar...
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Why Are Thin Bodies the Default in Games?
Motion capture has the ability to capture fat bodies. So why don't we see more plus-size characters in games?
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 01/06/2026
The amount of character creators I go through where they’ll let me be just about anything in the world other than fat is… tiresome.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 01/06/2026
"The internet appeared as a powerful tool, but still a bounded one. Something that could be folded into domestic life without completely upending its order." mudmapmagazine.com/the-utopia-o...
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The Utopia of the Family Computer - mudmap
There was a time when the internet had a place in the home; a corner, a schedule, a shared practice. That idea didn't vanish overnight. It came apart gradually, and left something behind.
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 31/05/2026
Love this!
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Ryan Quintal @quintal.me · 30/05/2026
hell yeah
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