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Cofounder and reporter @aftermath_site . Beats: labor, livestreaming. Preorder Stream Big, my book about Twitch. Formerly: @washingtonpost . nathan @aftermath .site
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exciting news! my book, which I've been working on for years, finally has a title and release date. it's called stream big: the triumphs and turmoils of twitch and the stars behind the screen, and it's coming out in february. you can preorder it now
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little known fact: bill nye is short for william new years eve
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if you're not using baldur's gate's speak with animals spell, you're missing out
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love to watch twitter get brutally owned in this exact way every time it tries to pretend it's a person
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maybe I’m just tired and/or have been trapped inside for the better part of the past two months, but goldo is the funniest shit I’ve seen in my life
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earlier this year
@ironmouse
streamed nonstop for 31 days. it was a huge undertaking; IRL she suffers from a chronic illness that's kept her isolated and bedridden for years. I interviewed her about how she became twitch's biggest vtuber in spite of that:
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there is only one real gamer in the world and it's this person
I BEAT MARGIT AND GODRICK (!!) today on my Ultimate Challenge run where I play Elden Ring two times simultaneously (dance pad & controller). It was really hard but we got it in the end! Very satisfying Margit kill where I walk off the battlefield into gravity in the end.
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Netflix is staging a real-life
#SquidGame
series that’s billed as “the biggest reality competition ever."
#SquidGame
: The Challenge will include 456 players in real competition in a series of games for a record-setting $4.56 million cash prize:
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twitch has suspended two popular political streamers,
@hasanthehun
and
@VaushV
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every time blizzard purports to make a game about a better world, battling against an unfair status quo, or empowering marginalized people, think about this. think about the company's real world actions when money is on the line
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just got released after being detained by police in a parking garage (and then a series of immobile buses where I almost certainly got exposed to covid) for 14 hours as part of richmond’s crackdown on protests/riots. will have more thoughts later, but for now: acab
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don't 👏🏻 break 👏🏻 up 👏🏻 with 👏🏻 orcs 👏🏻 via 👏🏻 text 👏🏻 message
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with the blade reboot announced and taika waititi continuing to direct thor, we now exist in a universe where it's not entirely inconceivable that the vampires from what we do in the shadows will cameo in a marvel movie and thereby become part of the canon
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evergreen post
I can’t believe I’m defending the God of War reboot games! I fucking hate them! but what is this even supposed to mean? yeah, I would hope a live service multiplayer focused game would have more active players than a 4 year old single player campaign
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if I was "committed to making activision blizzard the most welcoming, inclusive, and safe workplace possible," I would simply not destroy sexual harassment evidence
California steps in to prevent Activision Blizzard destroying sexual harassment evidence:
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there's been debate over the years about how much articles from press harm under-the-radar fan projects based on popular series. according to pokemon's former chief lawyer, who
@LukePlunkett
interviewed, the answer is: a lot
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after twitch and the army received widespread criticism for a series of fake giveaways in which the army offered viewers a chance to win a nice controller, only to dump them into a recruitment page, twitch has forced the army to stop
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pewdiepie is, once again, doing exactly what neo-nazis want. whether he's just memeing or he ascribes to these values, it doesn't matter. what matters is that he normalizes these ideas as jokes on THE platform where kids increasingly get their first exposure to the world at large
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without revealing anything else in order to protect sources, I can say that this is not the first time I have heard basically this explanation. nor is it the second, or third
He got banned because got caught sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch whispers product. He was trying to meet up with her at TwitchCon. The powers that be could read in plain text.
Case closed, gang.
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sony is forcing a popular fan game, bloodborne kart, to rebrand days before launch. creator is grateful the game got this far and will be able to release eventually, but imo it still feels like sony benefitted from good pr for years and then screwed over fans at the last second
WHELP. IT HAPPENED
Sony contacted me 🫣
Long story short I need to scrub the branding off of what was previously known as Bloodborne Kart, which we will do. But that requires a short delay.
Don't worry, the game is still coming out! It'll just look slightly different 💙
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you, a fool: I'm playing genshin impact bc it's breath of the wild but with anime girls
me, wise:
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this week twitch suspended three streamers,
@hasanthehun
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@vaushv
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@fawnchild_
, for saying "cracker." many have protested twitch's decision, citing much larger problems with anti-black racism and a lack of action against ableist slurs. my story:
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if I was a child in the era of covid, I would simply throw out my video games, go outside, watch neighbors I cannot interact with pass by, reflect on the childhood I'm being deprived of by a society that does not care about me, and weep for several hours
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us army is back on twitch. not playing video games yet. just sporadically responding to chat. this is chat:
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tfw you're trying to convince everybody that things are going gr8, but actually you're a fetus that was incubated inside norman reedus
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triple-a game development is not sustainable
Hacked files released online as part of a malicious ransomware attack offer a glimpse at the complex challenges Insomniac faces juggling teams, projects, and budgets to deliver top-tier games while contending with potential cost-cutting measures from Sony
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video games: imagine a mindbogglingly vast universe with near-infinite worlds to explore
also video games: imagine there’s only one band, and it’s imagine dragons
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incredibly funny/depressing that the actor hewn from diamond specifically to play geralt and superman is now playing neither
Henry Cavill is officially out as both Geralt in The Witcher and... Superman in the DCU.
Here's a 🧵 on this wild news.
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my extremely lukewarm take is that activision blizzard should probably not be allowed to pay its way out of a jam caused directly and indirectly by its executives for less than some of those executives make in a year
Breaking: Activision Blizzard is settling with a federal employment agency (EEOC), which just filed a complaint accusing it of sexual harassment and discrimination.
Creating an $18 million fund to "to compensate and make amends." Story coming soon.
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wow, fuck this!!
103 Democrats just joined Republicans to continue the military's predatory recruiting practices on Twitch
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found out about akira toriyama's death while in the gym, where I would not have been if not for the influence of dragon ball z, which basically invented the nerd-to-workout-nerd pipeline
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g/o media is effectively forcing kotaku to pivot away from news and demanding that its staff of seven writers churn out an impossible number of guides per week. not what writers signed up for and not why people visit kotaku in the first place. stupid and cruel
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keffals, one of the most popular trans streamers on twitch, remains suspended after an appeal. this follows a meteoric rise and clashes with centrist/right-wing personalities, which you can read about in
@TaylorLorenz
’s profile of her from last month:
twitch rejected my appeal. I am banned for another 28 days for displaying a list of hateful slurs that were actually hurled at me by bigots in order to illustrate the kind of harassment I receive for being an openly trans twitch streamer. I have never been this disappointed
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NEW: following playstation head jim ryan's email urging employees to respect "differences of opinion" surrounding abortion (and then going on about his cats), insomniac plans to donate $50,000 to a reproductive rights organization, which sony will match
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last month sony announced a movie adaptation of until dawn. this month, 90 layoffs at the studio that made the game
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twitch mainstay
@drlupo
just signed an exclusive deal with youtube. I spoke to him about why, and he did not beat around the bush: this means he's functionally set for life and can ease off a grueling streaming schedule to spend more time with his family
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this is a galactically bad take, but it’s also a perfect encapsulation of how right-leaning people (and many self-described gamers) view advocacy of pretty much any sort. nobody cares about anything! it HAS to be self-interested posturing, virtue signaling, etc
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went to tonight’s stardew valley concert in nyc, and
@ConcernedApe
gave a short speech about making music: “no one ever wanted to listen to my music. so after many years of failure, I’ve finally discovered the secret: all I had to do was develop an entire video game from scratch”
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NEW: blackbird, the 300-person studio behind homeworld and hardspace: shipbreaker, is switching to a 4-day workweek after a lengthy trial. 100% of employees —many on a team perilously late in development—said they wanted to make it permanent. my report:
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what you need to know is that blink 182 just shouted out untitled goose game, and yes, this is the actual reality we live in
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fun fact!
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jk rowling will forever be remembered as a person who could have shut the fuck up after 2007, but for some reason did not
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NEW: sweet baby, a small video game narrative studio, has found itself at the heart of a massive anti-woke conspiracy theory – a wild one involving blackrock (yes, that blackrock). it's obviously untrue, but on the modern internet, that barely matters
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video games: where people are more likely to stand up for a fake woman's butt than a real woman's job
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I got taken in for breaking curfew. a group of at least 20 armed, armored police officers and national guard members told me and two other people to go home. we tried to go home. when we made it halfway down the block, they gave chase and told us we were under arrest
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if you're wondering why ninja is trending, it's because he participated in one of the most incredible trainwrecks to ever grace this website
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alright, I can finally announce this: next week I’m starting my new job as a video game reporter at the
@washingtonpost
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you know an esports scene has issues when a) someone identifying as a woman feels the need to hide her identity, and b) the community proceeds to demonstrate exactly why anyone would take those precautions in the first place
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I see people turning up their noses and tut tutting at this, blaming The Kids for eventual election results. it’s the job of politicians to enthuse voters and give them what they want. if politicians are not accomplishing this, THEY have failed; young people have not failed them
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lmao, I was doing all these things at WaPo. they still laid me off. you cannot make yourself indispensable to companies that see human beings as disposable/interchangeable — and, with AI in the picture, replaceable
No. What it comes down to is, if you wanna make it/survive, you have to make yourself indispensable. You have to be able to do 100 things. Can't just be a writer. Have to be a podcaster, a Tik Toker, a blogger. It's just reality. It sucks. It's grinding. It blows. But it's true.
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here it is, the rarest diamond in all the world: an objectively correct take
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NEW: after yesterday's confusion, we have a clearer picture of who was hit by the microsoft/activision blizzard layoffs, and it's not pretty
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doom: the dark ages' steam description gets straight to the point
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the white house, evidently run by cowards, will not say if joe biden the guilty gear player and joe biden the president are one and the same
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hate it when companies make these sorts of comparisons bc size means nothing. tons of mediocre games have enormous maps stuffed with repetitive filler content. prey was great because of map density, design, and focus, not square footage
Just one section of Redfall’s map is bigger in size than the entirety of Talos I, the space station setting of Prey.
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animal crossing is finally realistic
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this kinda lays the whole thing bare. a lot of these people don't even care about the games they're trying to police all that much! some who've latched on do, sure, but the crusade itself is what they're here for. no amount of explaining how things work will change that
The person who started Sweet Baby Inc Detected says he's not actually played some of the games he claims he detected a "pattern" in
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went to the booth just now. talked to a person staffing it and got answers to questions I’ve seen floating around:
-not twitch’s. booth is a collaboration between intel and lenovo
-the foam pit is now closed. they shut it down at noon bc people were breaking rules (and bones)
Probably the most painful thing I’ve seen in awhile. Twitch streamer Adriana Chechik has confirmed broken her back in two separate places following this jump at TwitchCon
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glad to see red dead authentically representing the great boat calamity of 1899, a plague in which identical boats rained from the sky for 13 days and 13 nights because god was mad at americans for industrializing
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the ones who arrested me were *giddy* to be rolling with the national guard and their arsenal, too. they were having the time of their life pretending to be soldiers, laughing and joking as they talked about cutting off protesters and chasing down a black guy in a red hoodie
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we got so tired of hearing everyone ask “why isn’t there a defector for games” that we decided to make our own. welcome to aftermath
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get ready, because with hollywood starting to run low on comics and books, expect to see basically every video game you've ever heard of get a tv/film adaptation
Would you kindly…get excited because Netflix is partnering with 2K and Take-Two Interactive to produce a film adaptation of the renowned video game franchise BIOSHOCK!
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hell is someone at karaoke breathlessly trying to tell you why uber, lyft, and corporations are good and any sort of government is bad, and then they go in and sing rage against the machine
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ninja’s stance here is thorny as hell. while I get where he’s coming from (people IMMEDIATELY start gossiping about/harassing women who interact w big male streamers), this lends credence to the idea that women *are* different and should be treated as such
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at the very least, this functions as a look at the inner machinations of big companies when it comes to far-right extremism, gamergate, etc. they try to feign ignorance when they really step in it (see THQ going on 8chan), but the truth is that they know. they just don't care
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there are 3,084 mods for crusader kings ii and 141 mods for crusader kings iii, and *none* of them turn all the characters into members of donkey kong's extended family (aka crusader kongs)
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in some cases, officers tricked people. the guy from out of town was there to take photos and maybe pitch them to a magazine. he casually chatted with officers for an hour prior to curfew, during which time they did not inform him of curfew. when curfew began, they arrested him
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guy whose company notoriously inflated numbers to convince people to publish video on his platform says new platform has attracted an enormous number of people
Mark Zuckerberg claims his new Twitter competitor passed 30 million sign ups
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when I said "that's awfully specific given what I just told you" he replied "oh uh that's a general area haha uh here I'll note that you were just downtown" and changed it. he was trying to pin me to a specific location/officer without evidence, right? I'm not misreading this?
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dipshits coming out of the woodwork to pretend like my tweets have in any way impacted their awareness of a game based on *checks paper* one of the single most popular series in human history is the funniest shit on earth
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bigger story on why g4 failed coming soon, but for now a major theme: failure to acclimate to the YT/twitch era despite desperation to fit in. former employees tell me some major content creators charged day rates of $25,000-$30,000. not sustainable!
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as hate raids worsen, streamers implore twitch to do better. but this is more than just a twitch problem. I investigated the openly racist, homophobic discord servers that plan hate raids and discovered how they stay one step ahead of the banhammer
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alright, now that I've rested a little: here's what happened and why it was just a completely unjustified, irresponsible response from police at every turn
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glad to see miles morales fighting one of spider-man's most famous enemies: ubisoft's hyper scape
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"so all of you were rioting last night, huh?" "I heard you threw a brick through a window." stuff like that. these claims were unsubstantiated. cops made them just to see if they'd stick
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I heard stories like this from countless people I talked to while we were all detained: a woman who got arrested while walking to her car, a man who got taken from his own porch, a man from out of town who didn't even know there was a curfew
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perhaps... it is generally very bad that we live in a world where countless companies and other entities relentlessly and unaccountably collect our data. maybe... we should do something about that instead of just this one app. idk, just spitballing here
you play fortnite. tencent owns 40% of epic. tencent is a chinese company.
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you say north carolina teen, I say north carolina hero
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so cool how marketing now rules the world to the extent that utility no longer matters, that the internet is basically robots tricking people into clicking on trash
"But the robot articles published on CNET don’t need to be “good” — they need to rank highly in Google searches so lots of people open them and click the lucrative affiliate marketing links they contain." 👆👆👆👆
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this is gross even by their low standards
Fucking disgusting
The Navy recruiters on
@Twitch
are playing Among Us and two players are named "Nagasaki" and "Japan 1945," celebrating the US war crimes in Japan.
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both the mario brothers are now dead. it's canon
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