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Meet the indie studios funding other indie studios "At the end of the day, the more information available to folks, the better we can all learn from each other and negotiate better deals."

there is a cure!!!

It’s been a year since I was laid off from Vox Media, along with most of the Polygon team. I really miss the great people I worked with, but I’m proud of what I’ve done in the past year.

Nothing to add to this myself beyond the fact that it's terrible news and another severe blow to the landscape of gaming coverage and criticism. Games deserve better, readers deserve better, these writers definitely deserve better.

Games criticism owes so much to Garrett Martin. Quietly one of the most influential people in the space, a guy who was happy to publish anyone that had something interesting to say. A shame AV Club is shuttering its games coverage. End of an era, long live Paste Games

i love this because it's hilarious (using a q-tip sloppily wrapped in tinfoil as a stylus) but also there's science behind it (making a stylus that can conduct electricity or something, idk im not a scientist)

this is my current work setup

In which I argue Housemarque is the only studio to make “next gen” games that aren’t primarily about looking pretty www.theverge.com/games/921391...

happy dual May Day/one year layoff anniversary to me and my former polygon colleagues!! ☹️

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

WERE EATING SO GOOD (and so are these men ayyyyyy)

...........i have to play this game aftermath.site/love-and-dee...

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

Today is your last day to back the Comics Staple, a new monthly comics news and reviews zine! Each issue will feature reviews from me and writing from lots of other blisteringly talented people! At $15 for 6 issues of a magazine it is unbelievably affordable! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

bruins 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

computer perfume blog aftermath.site/computer-per...

the story made the front page of today’s newspaper! its always very excited to see your work in print. i walked two miles to try to find a paper this morning and failed, so settling for digital for now

Magic: The Gathering Arena team unionizes at Wizards of the Coast aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...

This reminds a lot of why 2023's Sing Sing was such an important film. We veie men who are incarcerated as unworthy of art and play, and programs like this one for video games and Sing Sing's RTA are vital. Such a wonderful piece and if you're moved by it I suggest you watch Sing Sing next.

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

found my pokemon binder clearing out my parents‘ garage and this is a devastating crease on this card lol

As kid my way to school was always blocked by checkpoints From that day i know my life gonna be different But i didnt imagine my game will be blocked or my posts would be flagged as a spam just because I'm Palestinian Please consider supporting this gorgeous game about Palestine launchgood.com/1948

two legal scoop week! I’ve reached out to both sides to ask what’s changed—why the execs no longer believe Krafton violated the court‘s order by announcing Subnautica 2’s early access release date

anyway all i really want to post about is how i've been painting/drawing the same thing repeatedly for the entire month (this is not even half. the third one i did tonight while watching dallas vs wild!)

its dang hard being a freelance reporter right now. ive found it hard to be a “personality” and have a social media presence throughout my career—its just not something im good at!—but feels increasingly necessary in not having my work overlooked or unnoticed, which is key in getting more work lol

I've uploaded the full complaint here, if you'd like to read it: www.scribd.com/document/102...

new Nintendo lawsuit alert: Nintendo customers are suing to force Nintendo to pay back customers with its tariff refund (the tariff portal for companies is now open, but you’ll remember Nintendo is one of thousands of companies that sued the govt for tariff refunds)

i sent a lot of emails today

i like to be dangerous and paint in bed (i am practicing different ways to paint azaleas)

more from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on what the hell is going on with roblox

new from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, ludum dare is winding down, slated to end in 2028, and parts of the community are unhappy about this aftermath.site/after-20-yea...

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

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it feels like spring today ✨

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

ive been alerted to an exceptionally cute video game fountain pen in overwatch!!!

chat am I cooked?

if you find more fountain pens in video games that i missed, send them and i will paint them too ❤️

i'm so happy that aftermath lets me publish my silly little drawings. for nicole art week part two, i drew some of my favorite fountain pens in video games ✨

warframe has been around for 13 years. players have experienced births, graduations, weddings, and funerals, as have devs. many of these moments, they’ve shared. this is the story of the unique bond digital extremes has cultivated with its community—and what happens when people occasionally overstep

man i really killed it with this essay huh aftermath.site/the-new-game...

i wrote about my rainbow pencil and getting back into art

from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social for woke week: she is fully going to convince me to start drawing again as a nice thing to do for yourself aftermath.site/i-love-my-ra...

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:

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...

i got to play two hockey games in a real arena!!! ✨

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

new from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social: she talked to players trying to tackle the Marathon ARG aftermath.site/marathon-cry...

these super low profile thumb braces are the reason i can play video games again and i did a lot of searching to find them. no provider recommended them to me for video games! none of them really knew what to do about gaming. i don't want to gatekeep! www.mothership.blog/a-thumb-brac...