Carli Velocci 👽

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Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· 24d

This is all I see, so it removes the context!

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jul 8

Recession indicator this, recession indicator that. I just saw one of these girls walking around my neighborhood

An emo girl with giant hair, highlights, and a big bow sniffing a flower

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jul 8

The Emmys say "yes" to hot Ed Gein

Outstanding lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie and it's fucking Charlie hunnam as Ed Gein in Monster.

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jul 2

Lin Manuel Miranda looking at a phone and being sad.

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jul 1

I know everything is bad right now, but I just hit 50 books read this year because I (mostly) stopped doomscrolling and picked up a phone-sized e-reader and I'm very proud of myself

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 30

The padme and anakin meme that says "we'll continue to make games." So you're investing in studios and workers, right?

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 26

I don't know if people here fully comprehend how much Tumblr LOVES Project Hail Mary. A middle-aged Tumblr Sexyman who's a mess and his puppet friend? Truly a perfect combination

Top trending topics on Tumblr: art, delta rune, project hail mary, the amazing digital circus

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 26

Them: Oh so you're a games journalist Me:

Tim Robinson saying I didn't do fucking shit

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 23

I can't tell if Elon Musk is trying to be Jensen Huang or Leon Kennedy but either way it looks fucking stupid.

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 22

EW doesn't give a shit about things like industry-breaking layoffs, and entertainment trades without dedicated video game verticals aren't going to have the context. This is for an entertainment audience first THAT SAID... dedicating four grafs to layoffs is a hell of a choice.

When Sharma speaks with EW prior to the "reset" announcement, she's direct and matter-of-fact about the issues ahead.

"Technology companies are going through this, entertainment companies are going through this, and certainly gaming is not immune to it,” she says. “When COVID hit, all the demand came forward at the same time that AI happened. The whole industry is in a time of change…. In a couple of weeks, I'll share some numbers with our team and we can share some numbers with you, too, on the state of Xbox and the work ahead for us — and how we're going to make sure that we are a stronger business on the other side."

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 22

The whole piece is about upcoming games (Blade still exists) but it's mostly about how Xbox really cares about making video game adaptations and... I guess a Candy Crush album? Just feels like the same stuff pre-Sharma, but without the focus on Game Pass or gaming anywhere.

Sharma's vision is to turn Xbox into not just the biggest gaming company, but the biggest entertainment company. That includes expanding their imprint in Hollywood by piggybacking off the success of A Minecraft Movie and Fallout with numerous other movie and TV adaptations in the works. The main goal, though, remains making Xbox the go-to destination for "play."

"The next generation, their No. 1 form of entertainment is play," Sharma says. "It's not about what we say, it is about what the world does, and they're deciding that gaming is one of the most important forms of entertainment today — and the next generation is saying it is the most important form of entertainment. So we will continue to meet players where they are."

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 22

Lestat saying serving cunt has its consequences

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 18

Having low stats in "velocity" with my last name is pretty embarrassing.

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 17

I love gaining followers on Bluesky dot com

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 16

Tips for reading more in 2026: 1. Injure yourself so you can't use one of your hands 2. Get yourself a tiny e-reader that you pick up every time you're going to doomscroll instead 3. Have a tiny social battery so you stay inside a lot anyway 4. Stay up until at least 1am reading your tiny e-reader.

Carli holding up a boox palma, or a tiny phone sized e-reader.

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 16

One upside to injuring my wrist so badly that I couldn't play video games is that I've read, uh, 43 books this year. Those are booktok levels

Storygraph stats that says I've read 43 books this year, a total of 16,883 pages.

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 12

May I know the tea please? Thank you in advance.

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 11

The martin scorcese absolute cinema meme but it's Hideo Kojima saying "absolute video games"

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 9

Fixed it

a screenshot from piku niku but the giant foot is censored

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci· Jun 8

Everybody wish @bryantfrancis.me a happy birthday. He's not the nicest, most generous, most ridiculous person I've ever met and he deserves it. Plus if you don't, I will be, uh, annoyed?