I did it my way.

Birmingham, AL
Joined June 2009
Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
Between all the layoffs, price hikes, generative AI usage, and super restrictive digital push, the last few years have made me so sad and angry for the state of the gaming industry
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
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have you ever tried ✨this one✨ xitter.cf/DMCAClips/status/20718…
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
TONIGHT IS MOVIE TIME 🔥🦂🔥🦂🔥🦂🔥🦂🔥🦂🔥 LINK youtu.be/ZR2Gu-A953I IT COST NOTHING TO SUPPORT … JUST PRESS PLAY AND SEE WHAT 4TH ROPE IS ABOUT 🤘🏽💪🏽🤘🏽💪🏽🤘🏽🦂🦂🦂🔥🔥🔥🔥🤲🏽🤲🏽🤲🏽 HEELS HAVE EYES 11 PHILADELPHIA LIVE AT ECW ARENA @2300arena 10PM EST. @youtube LETS WATCH THIS HISTORIC NIGHT TOGETHER AS FAMILY.. LEAVE COMMENTS AND INTERACT w/ the @4thrope FAMILY 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 ILL BE WATCHING WITH YALL FROM BERLIN 🤘🏽🤘🏽 PLEASE SHARE LINK AND LETS SPREAD THE CULTURE EVERY MATCH ON THE CARD 🔥 EVERY MUSICAL PERFORMANCE IS 🔥 SO MANY INCREDIBLE MOMENTS AND ITS FREE!!!!!! WERE GETTING U READY FOR THIS SAT. HHE12 @essencefest TICKETS 🤲🏽 essence-fest-2026.ticketbud.… THE WAIT IS OVER… SEE YALL TONIGHT 🤲🏽❤️🤲🏽 #4THROPE #HEELSHAVEEYES11 #HISTORY #CULTURE #SHARELINK
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
It was Rally’s
While speaking to Fallon Henley, Cody Rhodes tells a story of how Aaron Solo tried to shoot his shot with Fallon. “You were working there [in AEW]. You were doing some extra work and it was a COVID bubble kind of. A lot of us in the hotel, and I had a workplace proximity associate, Aaron Solo. He often talked about you very fondly and very sincerely. He’s like, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty and she’s really smart,’ this whole thing. He had said so much that finally, we all just were like, ‘Well, you should just talk to her.’ This is basic. You learn this in high school. You should say something to her. You should say hello. You should ask her if she wants to hang out. You should do anything other than talk to us about it. You walked in and you had a bag of Arby’s. He literally nudged me and he goes, ‘I’m gonna go say hi to her. I’m gonna do it.’ I thought, ‘Great. Do it.’ Here he goes. Now we’re watching and we’re not roasting him. We’re not giving him a hard time. We are sincerely looking, hope this goes well. No one is making fun of him, which is normally what guys I feel like would do to each other. You walk past, so he missed that first opportunity. Then it’s even weirder now because he trails you to the elevator and you have a group, so it’s not looking good. You turned and you smiled at him. You were very nice. Then he just looked at you and he said, ‘Arby’s, huh?’ I feel like I could hear you say it because we were far away at this point and I just heard, ‘Yeah.’ And then the elevator door shut in my story and you went away. He came back to us as if… why would you even walk back to us? Walk to your car. Drive away. Leave this city. Don’t ever… all that talk. A month of build-up, all that for that moment? ‘Arby’s, huh?’ Really? But he shot his shot I suppose and that was it. Nice guy.” (What Do You Wanna Talk About?)
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
A special message from the Street Fighter 6 dev team for the Indian community! Indian FGC head @shadoken caught up with Street Fighter 6 Director Takayuki Nakayama @takaNakayama and Producer Shuhei Matsumoto talk about their plans for the future of the game! We look forward to growing the scene together with @capcomfighters and can't wait for Street Fighter's newest Indian character Arjun coming out in Autumn
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
Final DQ calcs: IVS: 39% ROA2: 33% COTW: 30% VSAV: 27% UNI2: 23% VF5: 21% 2XKO: 20% BBCF: 19% GBVR: 19% GGST: 18% SSF6: 15% TEK8: 14% All things considering, I'm actually the most surprised by 2XKO. I was thinking it would fall off a bit more but it's still going strong.
Aight, I did the DQ rate calculations for the first 36 Rivals of Aether pools at EVO 2026 Average DQ per pool: 35% In the name of fairness, I'll do the rest of the games over the weekend and see how things compare ✍️
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
BREAKING: Two people climbed atop the Empire State Building’s 1,454-foot spire and unfurled a banner reading, “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.” Police are working to bring them down safely.
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
Wow -- one of the climbers atop the Empire State Building appears to have gotten down on one knee and proposed to the other
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
But it's a great day to talk about your new age verification partner. Will this one leak sensitive user data too? Asking for a friend.
it’s a terrible day for rain
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
let it be known i’d sacrifice all of you to get tetsuya naito new knees and eyes
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
Sony & Microsoft every week 😭😂
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
I make this post every year, but if there are any opportunities coming up for me to do more work within the gaming sphere, I’d love to talk about it. If any company, organizations or people are interested please contact me! email in bio and DMs are open! Retweets appreciated <3
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
gen ai could disappear overnight and not only would it not do damage but it would actually be a massive positive for the entire world
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
Even if a game vanishes from the GOG storefront, it never leaves your library. Exactly as digital ownership ought to be.
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
We're well on our way to never owning anything physical. DVDs died for streaming, game discs are dying for download, and even PC's are sliding towards rental services due to insane component price hikes from the AI bubble.
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@HYPEXJul 1
PLAYSTATION IS ENDING PHYSICAL DISCS Starting January 2028, new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be digital-only. Games already released won’t be affected.
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
Killing discs in the middle of a storage cost crisis where you can only fit like four games on a drive to begin with is quite the move. See Xbox just cutting its 2TB model since it costs too much
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Michael 'ViewtifulCrow' Thomas retweeted
Announcing that you’re no longer producing physical games at the same time as announcing that you’re shutting down a digital storefront is quite the choice
Important updates: News on physical discs for new games - play.st/4v86Wg3 News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - play.st/4vEN9FX
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Digital purchases are licenses, not ownership. Sony can revoke access. This raises concerns about long-term ownership, game preservation, resale, lending, and reliance on servers/stores “The Software is licensed to you, not sold...” → playstation.com/en-us/legal/so…
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