A Profound Waste of Time Issue 5 arrived in my mailbox yesterday, and it's just perfection as I've come to expect from APWOT. The cover story about Unicorn Overlord and Vanillaware was great and accompanied by some spectacular artwork throughout. @cazwis.bsky.social congrats on the release!

The special edition of APWOT 6 will feature a lenticular print affixed to the cover, allowing Astro to change expressions like he does in game! Art by @error403.bsky.social 🤖 ✨

Perfect excuse to #84bump right here

Heck yeah, support A Profound Waste of Time! They are sooo cool.

Just received APWOT5 and god @apwot.bsky.social is genuinely and consistently incredible. This edition is extra special to me: I am super honored to have my short essay on how games as a medium and flying as an activity connect in my brain.

Great game journalism in these pages. Support this worthy project. Honored to have contributed in the past! www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...

APWOT is easily the best printed media about video games. With a bullet. Been a fan since the first issue and back it every year. Absolutely amazing quality and design on every page, with some fascinating stuff inside. BACK APWOT!

Come party with me

Almost at the end of the first issue of APWOT. Such a masterpiece, got me to go try out Downwell as well finally given the neat pop out diagram too.

APWOT slipcase and Issue 5 arrived!! 😭✨ Lots of reading tonight~

imagine how quickly they could get this game out if they only had around 30 more people working on it.

Just after backing issue 6, this beauty came home. 🥵 As always, superb work @cazwis.bsky.social. Also, the packaging for this one was ✨ pristine ✨

独立系ゲーム雑誌『A Profound Waste Of Time』6号のローンチに合わせて制作される、ケースのデザインを担当しています。 12/5までKICKSTARTER実施中です（目標額は1時間で達成済み）！ kickstarter.com/projects/caz... APWOTはゲームを芸術と捉え、インタビューや論考を美しいビジュアルと誌面で紹介する雑誌です。Forbesの記事になったこともあり、来年創刊10年、5号まで発刊されています。 全編英語ですが、ゲーム好きなら見ているだけで楽しめます。 5号には私もイラストもあるので興味のある方は是非！ apwot.com

Good job New York, now Zohran Mamdani is gonna enact SARIA’S LAW (everyone gets a free ocarina)

24 hours later, and we're over 230% funded! This is by far the fastest an APWOT campaign has reached this point. We're so grateful to all of you for your incredible support. Thank you! 🤖💫

I have every @apwot.bsky.social issue and plan to continue that trend! Just one of the very best video game publications there is or has been. Check out the latest issue on Kickstarter!

GOOD MORNING! ❤️‍🔥🗽🎆

If I don’t wake up to read about Mayor Mamdami on the news I swear to god New York 😤

🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖 Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation. Get in there! 💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫

How lucky we are to have Cas and the team throwing everything at every issue of APWOT. An honour to be asked to contribute - so many great writers I can't wait to dig into. Its annual arrival is a highlight of my gaming year. Treat yourself to a copy and you won't be disappointed.

My life as a creative adult is just buying all my friends kickstarter projects Anyway, check out A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6 by Caspian Whistler on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...

Again - I would pay @cazwis.bsky.social good money just to get the cover. Let alone the other art. Let alone alone the great articles. If you're not on the #apwot train yet, get out there and fund the edition 6 Kickstarter

The last month or so has to be the one of the most stressful and anxiety inducing periods since I started making APWOT in 2016. Seems like a great time to launch issue 6! 😃👍

Got my first issue of @apwot.bsky.social. The cover’s by one of my favourite artists (blurring_my_day), and I can’t remember ever seeing such good graphic design and printwork together. It’s big and thick too, more like a book than a magazine. Expectations exceeded!

Been going through it recently, but every time I look over at my cat he’s doing something like this so I honestly can’t complain, my life is perfect.

Putting playable Nintendo video games back in Animal Crossing is the greatest announcement of all time, and I'm only a little bit joking. I don't care if they're available in an app right outside the game. This is the world I want.

Look what showed up in the mail today. @apwot.bsky.social

My personal copies of issues 1 through 4 of A Profound Waste of Time finally arrived. Utterly fantastic looking, the cardstock feels sublime, the articles are gorgeously laid out, with interesting typography, and their content is incredibly insightful. 10/10 will buy again.

Please sign up to this. I am working VERY hard. 🙌 🙏

APWOT is beyond amazing. This has to be some of the best writing on games you can find today, and the design on this is simply fantastic. Clearly a labor of love by all involved. Well done @cazwis.bsky.social 👏

A beautiful @apwot.bsky.social sleeve just appeared on my doorstep! I remember meeting @cazwis.bsky.social many many years ago and hearing about this idea that would become A Profound Waste of Time. Im so glad that its still going strong! Youre doing amazing work Cas!

🚨 It's that time of year again! Please sign up for the upcoming ISSUE 6 campaign! 🙌🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...

Oh my word

Forbes did a feature on me and APWOT. 👀 You can see a photo of my face if you're curious. I have a beard nowadays.

Thrilled speak to Forbes about the origins of the mag, the challenges of working on APWOT part-time for nearly a decade, and my hopes for the future. 📚 "APWOT is arguably the best example of print media celebrating the industry." www.forbes.com/sites/mattga...

It was a real pleasure to interview @apwot.bsky.social's @cazwis.bsky.social for Forbes this month, especially ahead of A Profound Waste of Time issue 5! Check it out here:

Today I opened up the doc as I needed to for work reasons, and found 2 typos. Here's my reaction to each one:

celebrating silksong's release by rereading my 2020 interview with team cherry in apwot, where we talked about game jams, bug clothes, and croissants. still think it's one of my best articles

Hey we have a super limited number of all Knock! issues now in stock!! These are genuinely some of my favourite OSR books so I’m so glad we can finally have some copies

I had a dream last night that there were loads of mistakes in the latest print runs 🤪

Well this has turned out quite nice indeed! 📚

This is genuinely what a Labour government thinks terrorism looks like in the UK right now and I'm losing my god damn mind

I handed in the final APWOT 5 PDF to the printers today 🎉 Now I have to do everything I can to not look at it again because I know I WILL find some mistake in there and I'll be horrified 😅

Downy Snagret

If I'm understanding correctly, Trump's new tariffs are going to cause problems for APWOT and that's bumming me out. Running a small business is hard enough without Brexit and Trump just continually messing with us over the last decade. I just want people to be able to get my magazine damn. 🫠

This goes so hard.

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad is out today in UK paperback. The book tells the true story of the botanists who worked at world’s first seed bank during the siege of Leningrad. It’s a finalist in the Orwell Prize and the 2025 Royal Society Prize. Pick up a copy wherever you get your books.

What is a haiku? A miserable little pile of syllables

So good to see Arkane's workers push for this! Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.