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.

I'll be at the London concert next year. Hit me up if you'll also be around ^^

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.

Player-driven answers to mysteries looks to be a real game changer for the space. Excited to try this system for myself :D

OBAMA CHOOSING A FURSONA: Uhhhh…let me be deer

today at @mothership.blog we have a story from a freelancer about experimenting with gender expression in pokemon games, including some quotes from other players who feel the same way. this is the kind of community reporting that i really love!! www.mothership.blog/pokemons-cha...

stop talking about mogging, and start talking about Mog King

@team.trinketstudios.com's glorious indie card battler Battle Suit Aces is helping me beat redundancy blues in a big way. Let this heartwarming, unapologetically queer sci-fi adventure into your life. You won't regret it.

Wednesday

I'm launching a site! Booster Pack is an independently run and community-funded site dedicated to TCGs like Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Lorcana, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Been working on this for a while, and I'm excited to finally be showing it off! www.boosterpack.site @boosterpacksite.bsky.social

why say "I'm a fan of metal gear solid and death stranding" when "i like to play hideogames" is right there

i dont know what devices retro game corps will make videos about in 2027 but in 2028 he will have to review sticks and stones -albert einstein

Quite literally not a single person I’d rather have doing a Saros review more than Veerender

That's me and my team gone from VideoGamer. Very sad day. I'll probably do a bigger post on this later on down the line. Still reeling.

I have a very simple and straightforward two-step plan to Save The Video Game Industry: Step 1: Globally eliminate the concept of a classed society and redistribute all surplus resources among the populace, permanently enshrining social ownership of the means of production. Step 2: Ridge Racer 8.

With more people getting the opportunity to play Metal Gear Solid 4, it means more people will understand one of my favorite posts online

Oh, my God, babe. You consumed that media so ethically. You are definitely going to be reincarnated as a lotus flower in your next life.

i often think about this review

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Hello! I'm looking to speak to anyone who works, or has worked in a diversity position at a major studio or publisher (or whatever it's been called at that company, inclusive growth, DEI, whatever!). Conversations can be 100% anon, of course, via DM here or email lukeATaftermathDOTsite. Thanks!

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

"Turn that crown upside down" might be one the best straplines I've ever seen.

My gradual transformation into a butch version of Captain Haddock continues unabated.

Go pick up Crown Gambit. The writing is so very *zesty* - it's got The Juice. youtu.be/060dTm7i6mA?...

Remember like 15 years ago, when Russian dash cams of horrible accidents went viral? And everyone in Russia was using them because they couldn’t trust the authorities? Fundamentally, the dash cam and the body cam are the visual record of a failed state. They are a symptom posing as a substitute

Don't you talk to me or my son (Henry of Skalitz) ever again.

Considering how shit the industry is, no thanks to some higher-ups in some companies becoming incredibly biased on AI, it’s more important than ever to support those who have written books, maintain newsletters, independent sites, YouTube channels, and anything else.

A Baldur's Gate TV show is a bad idea. The point of TTRPGs as a medium is their flexibility and scope for interactivity. This is why its themes and mechanics fit so well in video games. A TV show is Not It. The hunger for Hollywood "prestige" is nauseating and distasteful.

This is the strangers’ case And this your mountainish inhumanity

While I'm here, Paranormasight also does not credit its localizers, only listing the in-house localization producers/directors/project managers, then blanket crediting Digital Hearts at the end as "production cooperation". #TranslatorsintheCredits youtu.be/v_CEEDC27c4&...

I adore this kind of critical work. Please check out Mothership if you have a moment - the folks over there are knocking it out of the park.

What does the 'S' in "Leon S Kennedy" stand for? Wrong answers only.

I know it’s annoying that I constantly ask people to sub, but subbing makes a huge difference. @aftermath.site has around 5,000 paying subs right now; most of us still work other jobs on the side. we have over 90k bluesky followers. if a fraction subscribed, it would literally change our lives

One of the first interviews of my career was with Meredith. I was bowled over by how thoughtful, considered and erudite she was. Great to see her and her work resurfacing in Mothership :D