GRANDPA'S MAGICAL TOYS! Chad's joined by @briamgilbert.bsky.social (and a secret surprise guest) to discuss this WeeSing VHS musical of sentient toy nightmares. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6ZMY... iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... VIDEO: www.patreon.com/posts/grandp...
#Sponsored I'm the host of the very first official Pokémon game show! They approved me! Against all odds! It's gonna be so much fun! Come through! pkmn.news/gameshow #PokemonGameShow
Fourteen Thousand. The long campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is, fundamentally, about this. To provide cover for the annihilation of a people and their culture, from the youngest to the oldest, to shrugs from the most powerful nations in the world.
Kieron Gillen@kierongillen.bsky.social · last yr.“I want to save as many as these 14,000 babies as we can in the next 48 hours,” he told the BBC.
anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.
Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast. For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join
polygon and giant bomb dead in the same week is just unfathomable
Woke up in a lovely bed and breakfast today on a lovely vacation to find out a place I've loved to work for just over a decade has been dismembered in minutes. Just wanted to join the chorus to say that I've been let go from Vox Media on May Day, along with a great team doing great stuff.
I am among the MANY folks who got laid off today. Don't have anything good or thoughtful to say on it atm. gutted, sad, feel completely fucked. Fuck vox media management forever. they did this shit on may day. vox media union forever.
After today, I am not employed! Not sure what the hell I'm going to do next but follow me on twitch and instagram (pizza_suplex_vevo) and stuff. twitch.tv/pizza_suplex
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Adult man playing video games on line. Streams on Sunday, 8am PT. Also some other times.
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By now you've probably heard the news: Polygon has been sold to Valnet and I, along with most of my wonderful colleagues, have been laid off. That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!
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Julia will never say this so I’ll say it for her: when I worked for Polygon, she was responsible for not just the biggest Polygon article, but the NUMBER 1 MOST CLICKED ARTICLE ON ALL OF VOX MEDIA. She was single-handedly paying all of our salaries. Hire Julia.
julia@hardykiwi.bsky.social · last yr.crawling back to bsky to pasta this from my twitter: just like my coworkers, i've been laid off from polygon after it got sold (and now gutted i guess) obvs if you need a guides writer who loves organization, spreadsheets, and comes with all her own equipment, let me know! also hire my coworkers
Anyway, I need to go around saving some of my clips and also I would like an ego boost because I frankly feel shitty SO if you have a favorite story of mine, please thread it here so the process of going through and picking some to download isn't so overwhelming/lonely ahaha
Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her)@petrana.bsky.social · last yr.I know this says something about the state of games media, but Polygon had a superb entertainment desk too!! We were tiny but mighty and we did some stories that I am super proud of and it's been an honor to work alongside them and apparently i cant tag them all bc im running out of characters but
I'm getting more sad about getting laid off. My work means so much to me. I'm a really good reporter. I've been getting scoops every single week lately, while also doing in-depth, award-winning reporting. I have good ideas! New email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com www.polygon.com/23776996/bar...
The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’
How Digital Domain and Mattel Media built Barbie’s wardrobe
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Just woke up to this news, need to be a little more awake to fully process it, but the people I worked with at Polygon are some of the most kind, insightful, and passionate people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Support them wherever they end up. Also, fuck whoever made this decision.
Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs
One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up
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Ep. 387 - Ethical Banana Diamonds, with Brian David Gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social of YouTube and Dropout joins our panel to cover Switch 2 preorders, Donkey Kong dating your friends, and the legendary Nier butthole. insertcredit.com/show/387
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Brian David Gilbert of Dropout.tv, Unraveled, and his own excellent youtube channel joins our panel to cover Switch 2 preorders, Donkey Kong dating your friends, and the legendary Nier butthole.
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praying that clair obscur is successful for all the wrong reasons: i need a new type of weeb but for france
Scotland managed to get “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead” to number 1 following Thatcher’s death. I’m just saying we should agree on a song now so that we’re prepared
haha whoops, i used humor as a defense mechanism in order to make a song about how i use humor as a defense mechanism youtu.be/Sj4BuUWcZ6Y?...
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Mamma Mia! (2008) Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) Execs, you should be devoting 80-90% of your time right now on Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You? pitch meetings in order to hit that highly marketable 2028 release. As it happens, I’ve got a four-quadrant, necromancy-focused pitch ready whenev
constantly thinking about this ominous sticky note drawing i saw in a boba shop
ugh I hope nobody leaks one of these to a reporter! especially not one with Signal, such as meganfarokhmanesh.76, at a publication with great policies for protecting sources, like WIRED
Aidan Moher@aidanmoher.com · last yr.The coolest part about games media layoffs is how all the severance packages now include an NDA requiring laid off employees to stay silent about the layoff, further suppressing reporting on the same corporate behaviours those outlets likely cover when it’s dame devs/publishers.
haven’t posted a video in months so here’s a frog playing a trumpet
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Highlight of @jococruise.bsky.social @umactually.bsky.social show was when @ifycomedy.com revealed how much buying all the sims 4 dlc costs and we got a five way rant.
out of nowhere my kid laughed and said "I'm having a great time with you people" which might be the funniest thing you can say in a room containing only your parents
🍷Cabernet is out now on PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, + Xbox! This title is a labor of love by Party for Introverts and fully voice acted by talent including @samanthabeart.bsky.social , Dylan Marquis Meyers, @briamgilbert.bsky.social + more. Steam: bit.ly/CabernetSteam All platforms: buff.ly/3CH4lEF
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Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you reta...
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