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we’ll convince him someday

this guy sucks

Tim Sweeney, it's not too late to log off: aftermath.site/tim-sweeney-it...

we're just about to hit 5,200 subscribers! we're so close to the ludicrously large mug that I can almost taste the bad coffee I'll be drinking out of it

Such a fantastic piece!

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

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:

Games Done Quick's long, difficult journey to a better gaming future aftermath.site/games-done-qui...

My second installment of The Work is now live: a conversation with @scottmeslow.bsky.social , about his book on Twin Peaks, living in Minneapolis under ICE occupation, and how we get back up when evil lays us out aftermath.site/the-work-twi...

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From the man himself.

Something you should read this week:

i wrote about girl games for aftermath!

'The mission is about creating supportive environments and authentic content' What a DEI manager at a AAA video game company actually does: aftermath.site/video-games-dei/

A love letter to 'girl games' aftermath.site/a-love-letter-...

This shonen anime fights toxic masculinity: aftermath.site/wind-breaker-s...

Sure, it's woke 2.0 week on aftermath.site But did you know @rcmacleod.bsky.social also made it woke week on the U.S. Catholic Magazine?

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Hello I was on podcast

@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

This is so sad. In games I enjoy I specifically seek out the art and look for references or even real art or personal photography in a game. Phasmaphobia has actual peoples pets in the game around the houses. It’s not that hard. There’s so much artwork in public domain now. And resources.

Thank you, Chainsaw Man.

fucking @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social made me tear up

CEOs when the money-printing machine prints slightly less money:

Chainsaw Man is great. It holds a similar place in my brain to Book of the New Sun, in that it contains many images and thoughts that will live with me forever, and in that it contains many moments in which I found it nearly impossible to tell what was happening in a phenomenological sense.

Chainsaw Man is over :) aftermath.site/chainsaw-man-p...

Epic lays off 1,000 people and ends support for game modes after making Fortnite more expensive aftermath.site/fortnite-epic-...

The vast majority of research about diversity from the last 30 years shows, unambiguously, that diverse organizations outperform non-diverse ones. DEI policies are not some weird leftwing social engineering project; they are what happens when you follow the data on organizational performance.

Please do not buy a bootleg 'Destroy AI' shirt aftermath.site/destroy-ai-t-s...

'The mission is about creating supportive environments and authentic content' What a DEI manager at a AAA video game company actually does: aftermath.site/video-games-dei/

'All skin, no juice' Crimson Desert is a game bereft of joy: aftermath.site/crimson-desert...

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

"Being aware is really easy to do, and if just being aware becomes in itself a virtue, then there’s the potential for an ecosystem that is centered around showing other people how much you know." excellent writing from @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

Excellent essay by @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social on @aftermath.site. So glad to be a subscriber here. And oh crap, there's merch! I don't need a new hoodie... I don't need a new hoodie... I don't need a new hoodie...

This is an incredible read. An Aftermath sub isn't really in my budget at the moment, but this article alone convinced me to start shuffling things around financially to make room for it.

gonna set the standards for social justice for the rest of time also backwards compatible with Woke 1

All-timer header image for this one, subscribe to Aftermath, y’all.

I can't stop thinking about this. Capcom chose to have one of their most popular characters marry and have a baby with his cousin canonically. This is unprecedented levels of shooting yourself in the foot.

i made it maybe 5-6 hours in before my subconscious yanked the handbrake and saved me. a studio spending 7 years to copy the shape of better games, without once realising what we actually loved about them, is just so depressing

'All skin, no juice' Crimson Desert is a game bereft of joy: aftermath.site/crimson-desert...

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

we believe all of our subscriber goals are imminently and reasonably achievable

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

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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.

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