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Co-founder of Aftermath, a website about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him https://aftermath.site/
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YYyyoooo!!

I'm watching YouTube videos about the bodhrán but I have no business learning the bodhrán right

When you went to the Iowa Writers Workshop but ended up in journalism

I need to know if this has hit punny D.C. cocktail menus yet.

Conservative scorning, poster's warning. Conservative fight, poster's delight.

I sit across from our Elon subject matter expert in the office and he just got up, put on his TV appearance blazer, and ran off

I wrote a yes-and response to Luke's piece: noescapevg.com/smiling-thro...

Why Switch 2 preorders from Walmart came with Coca-Cola and Pringles aftermath.site/nintendo-swi...

It wouldn't be video games news week if I didn't feed myself like a gremlin, in this case eating cold potatoes out of a tupperware with my hands while answering emails

I am far too old to be out so late, but I had a nice time discussing why we so romanticize lines with @theautumnwright.bsky.social

Time in line: 2+ hours Time to retrieve pre-ordered Switch: 11 minutes

📢 We have news: Employees of Le Monde’s Los Angeles bureau are forming a union! Today, we asked management for voluntary recognition. @NewsGuild @CWAUnion

Couldn't make up a meaner parody of the discourse than the moderators asking all the candidates a breezy lightning-round question about where they'd go abroad as mayor and then seizing the opportunity to hammer Mamdani with follow-ups to try to force him to endorse Israel as a Jewish ethnostate

Side note: a couple of hours before Trump announced this, Harvard Divinity School announced that they’ve received the highest number of applications for the 2025 cycle *ever.*