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'I'm bleeding to death:' In 2009, Wurm Online was still the wild frontier of online gaming Original

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By Quintin Smith , Wes Fenlon 
| PC Gamer
I'm bleeding to death. I've got six minutes before I'll be too exhausted to do anything but lie down and die. I wish it was the worst of my problems. But it's not. The real problem is that… gamers are bastards. Lost. In the middle of a dense forest, crowded with ravenous mountain lions. I'm kind of ravenous myself, since Egg and I had all our belongings taken away. Egg's my only friend in the world, and right now he's staring death in the face over a mile away. I just don't know in which direction.
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Pathologic's ambition and atmosphere made it easy to praise, but hard to enjoy

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By Quintin Smith 
| PC Gamer
We're digging into the PC Gamer magazine archives to publish pieces from years gone by. This article was originally published in PC Gamer issue 214, June 2010. In the past, I've described Pathologic as: (1) "An errant hypodermic needle thrown into a children's ball pit." (2) "A Nick Cave ballad brought to unlife in hideous 3D." (3) "The single best game you've never played." Following this weapons-grade hyperbole, imagine my surprise on returning to find it's even better than I remembered.
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How Roblox Exploits Children w/ Quintin Smith on Apple Podcasts

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By Paris Marx, Quintin Smith 
| Apple Podcasts
45 min Paris Marx is joined by Quintin Smith to discuss how Roblox profits from the labor of children, built an exploitative in-game economy, and needs to be regulated as soon as possible. Quintin Smith is a journalist working with People Make Games and Shut Up & Sit Down. Follow Quintin on Twitter at @Quinns108. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world.
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