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chaos with ed miliband

Cartoonist Ellie Black finds Pokopia's take on gender refreshing, and maybe even healing, in the site's first ever illustrated essay: www.mothership.blog/pokopia-is-m...

All these X-Box news and no mention of the Boycott bsky.app/profile/noga...

This game changed my brain chemistry.

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

I wish I'd come up with this. It's inspired and would genuinely make TGAs far less odious.

The Kickstarter for Heroes of Midgar, an FFVII string quartet album spearheaded by my bro @israfelcello.bsky.social, launches next Thursday! I'm playing on several tracks! Please consider helping a humble little cellist bring his amazing dream project to life: www.kickstarter.com/projects/her...

I put together a cheeky little review for the lovely folks @kyusaimedia.bsky.social. HOMM: Olden Era is an unwieldy but noble beast; a strange relic. Read more here. kyusaimedia.com/gaming/heroe...

Ah, probably a shit idea to pivot our entire civilisation around it then

Very much looking forward to August.

It's almost as if the metrics by which most economic growth is measured only pay attation to the growth of capital, rather than any tangible indicator of mass prosperity.

You can hear that shit in your head clear as day

Possibly the most important piece of my career. Many thanks to Mothership for giving me the time and space to have a crack at this crucial topic.

Yaaay, my Eteo piece ist here!🥹 Please tell me if this is anything because I don't remember it lmao

This may be the best TTRPG blog I've ever seen. I love it so much that I'm slightly disgusted by the extent of the sensation. The post hit a lot of Weird California Feelings (tm) that I was wrestling with post-TGA on the head. Props to Valeria for unwittingly writing a post for me, personally.

I’m so proud of my friends at @imissmyfriends.bsky.social for releasing their gem of a game, Fishbowl. It’ll make you feel good and is super affordable, too. Heart and soul medicine for these times. ❤️

Wokerina of Time.

bilboification

happy transgender day of visibility! hi! i'm ashley! writer, critic, journalist, author, failgirl! trying my best to be very visible! i wrote a book! if you like my work, please consider employing or supporting me! both would be great! 💜 bsky.app/profile/ashl... ko-fi.com/ashlikeadragon

I’m reading War and Peace, and you know, probably a lot more people would read it if they knew just how extremely cunty the dialogue is

if you work for the Harry Potter property at all, you’re doing a moral wrong, but sure there’s a spectrum. John Lithgow, Nick Frost, Matt Berry — bad greedy people. Employee at Universal hitting rollercoaster buttons — cog in corrupt machine. let’s stop relitigating this monthly, okay?

The Epic layoffs remind me of my speech last year: "They're not going to stop. They'll never be happy with any amount of profit and will always look to extract more from us. I don’t say this to scare you, but so that we're on the same page." All we have is us. www.austinkelmore.com/blog/all-we-...

me getting like fifty dollars from a freelance commission

The first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was even more perfect than I could have dreamed⚔️ #akotsk #asoiaf

Disgraceful.

and yet

When there's no accountability for the folks up top, they will continuously make the workers suffer for their mistakes. That's why workers in the games industry all over the world are banding together. If no one else will hold them accountable: we will.

I can be trusted as the editor of the gaming section of the UK's biggest technology website @snoozykazoo.com www.techradar.com/gaming/pc-ga...

I love investigative journalism so much. Tracking down sources, asking questions, piecing things together - it makes my heart sing. If I may be so bold: I've got something interesting cooking.

Gender is a violent, difficult, chimeric thing. As usual, Mothership is knocking it out of the park.

Siri, play "Imagining" by Rina Sawayama. aftermath.site/neon-genesis...

Sharing only a screenshot because the article itself is as frankly fucking embarrassing as you'd expect from The Guardian but I saw only one single post about this news on my timeline and I try not to take social media as everything but truly feels like most cis people do not give a fuck

Happy International Women's Day 💖

Screaming

this combination of words will never be cool to say ever again

This is a serious fucking problem. My time covering wars only highlighted the inexorable link between racism and Western foreign policy. If you find yourself covering Iran, please be careful. They want you to treat dead brown people as mere statistics. Don't.

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs. Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

That's the first time I've sent off pitches in a Very Long Time (tm). Feels good.

I feel this very same sentiment deep in my soul.

Grateful to @aftermath.site for giving me the time of day amid the Ongoing Unpleasantness. Read the article. It's important. aftermath.site/gameshub-cli...

Another of my former freelancers is cooking. youtu.be/ZsVVtdEYUrw

One of my former freelancers, and current friend Max Nicoll, did a video covering what went down at VideoGamer and Clickout. This young woman is going places, let me tell you. youtu.be/OZ3Epxhneb0?...

Metacritic has only become more important as algorithms flatten and fracture the internet, but its authority relies on quality inputs from sources that are being hallowed out at an alarming rate.

After fighting game community member Ludovic Mbock was arrested by ICE, his family and friends have been working non-stop to bring him home aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-mb...

Christ this hurts. The fact that the executive thinks that this AI-generated mockery of the profession holds a candle to the work of our former writers is a dagger to my heart. Uncharacteristically, I feel lost for words.