Omar L. Gallaga

The most successful people I've met: 1. Read constantly 2. Cool by day, then at night work up a sweat 3. Know how to become number one in a hot party show 4. Push it 5. Push it real good 6. Pump hard 7. Make it fast 8. Know this dance ain’t for everybody 9. Only the sexy people

@JonathanSnoddy @people 😁

@people I can fix her.

🔗: bit.ly/4lI1sFV ABC has canceled Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette just three days before it was set to premiere, PEOPLE can confirm. 📷️: Disney/Getty

@EndahBagja @meghanncuniff A fucking hilarious context

@meghanncuniff If a plaintiff claims a nickname is defamatory, the court has to examine how and why it was used. Playing the Lemon Pound Cake video to establish context is standard legal procedure, not a stunt.

A retired deputy suing Afroman for defamation testified he doesn’t know why the rapper nicknamed him “Officer Pound Cake,” so Afroman’s lawyer played the “Lemon Pound Cake” video. “You would admit that’s you with the glasses walking by the lemon pound cake on the counter?”

This is by no means comprehensive -- even after spending five full days at #SXSW I still barely touched on all the happenings, but here's my initial take on what South by Southwest was like this year. Will have more highlights later at @BookPlusFilm. bookandfilmglobe.com/film/sxsws-rea…

and apparently the show will guest star Barack Obama

Larry David's new show for HBO is called "Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America" #sxsw BREAKING NEWS! June 26, 7 episodes

Announced at a panel at #SXSW -- "It's good! It's pretty good!" David says

One thing perhaps affected at #SXSW this year by big leadership changes is communications breakdowns (Convention Center loss isn’t helping). Different volunteers or coordinators for panels are giving conflicting info to attendees, making it harder to navigate and attend stuff.

Seated for Steven Spielberg podcast recording simulcast. It started with a tease to a sizzle reel, but the reel didn't get shown on the simulcast. Many derisive remarks from the simulcast audience, but now dead silence as he speaks to Sean Fennessey. #SXSW

At #SXSW @YoBenCohen shows how to outdo DOGE

I think we have enough ways to make coffee now. Good job, coffee imagineers, you can stop now.

'SNL' leaned into Ryan Gosling's giggles in his fourth stint as host latimes.com/entertainment-…

I recapped last night's #SNL for @latimes - lots of giggles, some Harry Styles, some Gorillaz and a prank on the performers latimes.com/entertainment-…

My recap of last night’s #SNL for @latimes which had a lot for fans of hockey and of #heatedrivarly

@MikelaWacho @FedUpGirlDad @MrPitbull07 I hope every restaurant bans you and posts about you on their social media.

@FedUpGirlDad @MrPitbull07 I'm going to go out and eat and leave no tip. Anyone aggrieved can call the police😂

We went to a dinner as a group and had a $500 bill. We tipped $40. We were happy we can be able to give our server something, but her reaction was the opposite. She told us she assumed we're going to give her at least $120. When we asked for the manager, she said she was just joking, but she wasn't smiling at all. Idk, but is $40 tip enough for $500 bill? I just feel like expecting $120 is not realistic. ~Lea Robertson

@ThomasNordicADA @MrPitbull07 Thats not the country we live in

@MrPitbull07 Here's a crazy idea. How about the restaurant actually paying decent wages to its employees and you tip when you get exceptional service? Salary should not be the responsibility of the costumer.

@RealRadixZee @joakim_a @Scobleizer @ballmatthew I’m not confident anyone is building that. And if they are it would take years to reach the scale Roblox already has

@omarg @joakim_a @Scobleizer @ballmatthew Ah. Sorry I misunderstood. Players will switch when there are better games, a more fun experience, better challenges/puzzles. and more folks talking about the “new” platform. Kids still play Minecraft and Fortnight. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Just read @ballmatthew new The State of Video Gaming in 2026 report. Top ten takeaways for me: 1. Game industry revenue hit $195.6 billion in 2025. That's a new all-time high. Operating profits have declined since 2019. 2. Almost all of the growth went to three parties: Chinese publishers, platform holders like Apple, Google, and Sony, and Roblox. Everyone else is fighting over a market that barely moved. 3. There isn't one video gaming industry. There are many. A Western AAA studio, a Roblox developer, and a Chinese mobile publisher are in completely different businesses, with different growth rates and different competitors. 4. Roblox had 150 million daily users in Q3 2025. Its quarterly engagement is now equal to Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined. It monetizes at $0.05 per hour. PlayStation monetizes at $0.44. Roblox is winning on volume. 5. Mobile game advertising generated $67 billion in gross revenue in 2025. Most industry analysis doesn't count it. Including ads, the non-China market grew $35 billion since 2021. Excluding ads, it grew $6.8 billion. The two numbers describe completely different industries. 6. US gamer participation is down 2.5 to 4 percentage points since the pandemic. Most of the eight major Western markets are flat or declining in players and spend. 7. The Rest of World is growing at 11.7% annually. The Mature Market 8 is growing at 1.4%. Capturing that gap requires designing for low-end devices, building economics around $5 to $50 per year per player, and making games for local cultures, not Western ones. 8. Of $136 billion in non-China content sales, platform stores took $33.7 billion in fees. That's iOS, Android, console, and Steam combined. D2C channels bypass most of those fees. Roblox has saved $422 million in platform fees since Q1 2022 by routing spend through its own channels. 9. Online sports betting hit $17 billion in US gross revenue in 2025. That's 35x what it was in 2019. iGaming globally generated $54 billion. TikTok averages 102 million daily hours in the US alone. These aren't passive entertainment alternatives. They're interactive, real-time, and built for engagement in ways most games aren't. 10. In 2025, 35.5% of all game content investment was outsourced. That's a record. And 74% of that growth is upstream: art, engineering, game design, not QA or localization. Hollow Knight: Silksong has 3 internal credits and 94 external ones. That's the new normal. Early access version: matthewball.co/all/presentati…

@RealRadixZee @joakim_a @Scobleizer @ballmatthew Maybe now someone will make a platform similar to X but better.

@omarg @joakim_a @Scobleizer @ballmatthew 1. The parental controls and child safety needs to be improved. They’ve done too little too slowly. 35 lawsuits 2. The way the pay game developers isn’t the best. Roblox has way too much control of payments. Exploitative 3. Banning critics and whistleblowers