please read this @nathangrayson.bsky.social really worked his fucking ass off writing it

Such a fantastic piece!

while many gaming communities default to white guy-centric toxicity, @gamesdonequick.com proposes an alternative: welcoming to all, with "trans rights" as a rallying cry. but it wasn't always this way, and old problems still fester. for @aftermath.site's woke week, my months-in-the-making report:

reminder that there is woke week merch, and it rules aftermath-shop.fourthwall.com?ref=aftermat...

i wrote about girl games for aftermath!

The @aftermath.site newsletter about this that arrived in my inbox today, authored by @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social, was really good.

it is at least funny that bari weiss seems to have somehow still not caught on to the fact that she was hired specifically to destroy CBS—that her cartoonish incompetence would invariably lead to this outcome

🧵 I think it's a complete sellout of their reporters for a paper's opinion editors to publish [professionally-produced] content from subjects who declined an interview or comment. Letting people complain in the opinion pages is one thing. Letting them do that in lieu of an interview is another.

lmao

I feel like this is almost correct, but it’s more that they want to drive culture—or at least have their names attached to it—sans awareness of its function, history, or meaning. or anything resembling taste

Please join me for a rousing round of: lol, get fucked aftermath.site/sora-shutdown-...

“if the state of israel had a di— wait why are you yanking me away with a giant cane”

hell yeah

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

finally, someone gets it

@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social went on @killthecomputer.com and shared the origin of woke week—which sounds right to me even though I don’t remember the precise moment in question, bc being annoying in this specific way is very in character for me

fucking @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social made me tear up

Thank you, Chainsaw Man.

Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org

I’m not a business genius or anything but if you shed 1800 jobs in three years, while owning one of the most popular entertainment products in history and the tool used to make it, maybe there are other questions to be asked somewhere.

Tim Sweeney’s net worth is 9.6 billion

Woke Week is a subscription drive we're running all week on @aftermath.site; we've got big goals for 2026 but need subs to get there, so if you've ever appreciated the stuff we've been able to write but haven't yet been able to support us, we're currently having a sale!

DEI this, DEI that, DEI is killing video games, blah blah blah: for woke week I spoke with a recent DEI manager at a AAA games company, to find out what leading a diversity team at such a huge studio actually involves, and what the challenges are:

still not done yet, but finally close

Easily one of the root causes of all the dumb shit we're dealing with is how guys like this lie, just straight-up make up the dumbest most "everyone is 12" brained bullshit they can possibly imagine, and everyone reporting on it just runs with that as their headline uncritically

Please subscribe so I can get more You Are Error! (And because this site is absolutely amazing, that too)

I’m not saying it’s funny that an extremely woke 1 mob is coming after a member of our staff on first day of our celebration of woke 2, but it’s certainly something

$20 is $8

Only Isaiah would A, write this and B, make a header image with "diabolical YouTube" energy

The Alex situation in Street Fighter 6 is the most Rube Goldberg machine of incest storylines I've ever encountered in all my years covering anime bullshit.

its back (welcome to our first sub drive of 2026, we're running TWO sales and have a whole week of WOKE CONTENT lined up)

*Frantically doing some napkin math* OK who out there has $20,650,000 so we can do something INCREDIBLY FUNNY

first theme week of the year means a new subscriber drive! look at all those cool goals, which you—yes, you—can help us achieve

Your options for placeholders: - Make them yourself (difficult, takes time) - Slop (monthly sub, kills the planet, enriches oligarchs, bad assets, everyone hates you and they're right) - Incredibly made game assets by @kenney.nl ($19.95, one-time, supports give-aways to those who can't afford it)

As Homer put it the better part of 3,000 years ago, the blade itself incites to deeds of violence; if you put these guys anywhere, they're going to brutalize people, because they're lazy, stupid thugs and that's what they've been hired to do

the most important new feature in Woke 2 is the co-op mode

Grateful for Discourse Blog every single day of my life, and grateful for the support of our audience, which has sustained this wild ride for the past six (!!!!) years. Thank you all one trillion times over.

Being a reactionary is about weaponizing the concept of being a massive pussy. Always has been

ironical

in nightmare kart the narration text between each level was originally planned on being voiced, but we ended up cutting it for time / resource reasons. because of that, streamers started reading the text aloud in their own voice that they felt best fit the vibe. it was beautiful. theres no excuse.

going live with @giantbomb.com and @grubb.wtf to talk about woke week (and da news)

really like Gita’s tracking of “woke 2” from joke to considered philosophy to actual practice. woke 2 is about Doing Stuff

We're having a theme week! As part of that, we've got two sales for you: $1 for your first month of our Reader tier: aftermath.site/03-20-2026-0... OR $75 for a year of our Member tier, which gives you access to our Discord and a merch discount: aftermath.site/03-20-2026-0...

it's time for our latest, greatest, perhaps dumbest theme week

i guess i don't understand how this isn't crime-against-humanity stuff. or does that simply not matter anymore www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.

it’s true, we never would’ve gotten 9/11-ed in the first place if the towers were just giant guns apple.news/ACcLgJOQ-Q1W...

at the socialist gathering telling people I only read teen jacobin