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This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 3w ago

This Week in Videogames has reached its first full year of operation. Thank you to our paid subscribers for helping us sustain an independent, commercial-free, AI-free, and no-nonsense approach to games coverage for everyone. Here's a brief rundown of what we've managed to achieve in Year One:

Pop music has been amazing for the last decade, but who among you would deny there is a Chicago-shaped hole in our auditory landscape?

You have to watch Furious. 👍

thank you SO MUCH to everyone who subscribed or just otherwise enjoyed Hater Week, it was one of the biggest weeks in the site's history (in terms of pageviews AND new subscribers) Because of this, we're extending the sale. $75 for a 'Member' sub is an absolute steal.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2d ago

Our latest sale was such a success we're extending it for another week! Until midnight on August 9 you can get 25% off our 'Member' tier annual sub, OR pay just $1 for your first month! aftermath.site/aftermath-sale...

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

"Dear Erling Haaland. I am triple captaining you during this upcoming double game week, will you please score a fucking hat trick against Hull City."

Rebekah Valentine@duckvalentine.bsky.social · 3d ago

do not do this

I have spent hundreds of hours playing this video game.

Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea@rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 3d ago

Oh wow, Tricky Towers was released 10 years ago. Time flies! I learned so much while working on this at WeirdBeard, and had such a great time with my colleagues. Only the 6 of us on the core team!

Sounds good!

404 Media@404media.co · 4d ago

Researchers argue that a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples could prevent “the potential ecological devastation of an invasive extraterrestrial organism.”

I'm on Letterboxd and I have no followers. letterboxd.com/Serrels/

Mark Serrels’s profile

Mark uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 170 films watched. Favorites: Look Back (2024), The Thing (1982), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Predator (1987).

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I wanna hear from the people who drink Diet Coke over Coke Zero. Give me your reasons.

Rewatched Ponyo last night. Heavily underrated. Features one of the most mindblowing scenes in any Ghibli movie IMO.

Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo: Running on Water

ALT: Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo: Running on Water

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I wish Nikki Freeman loved me more than anyone in the fucking world.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

Anyone after a tattoo?

I accidentally sent this screenshot to a Doordash employee ama

🧪 New: Inspiring NSW, part of the national STEM engagement strategy, using AI-generated images of kids in labcoats on half-laptops to represent National Science Week events... Misrepresenting science / entrenching bias in 2026. Why are we still doing this? nobreakthroughs.com/the-abominab...

The Abominable Little Ghouls of Australia's National Science Week

I believe we have a duty to call out this garbage.

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We hope you're enjoying Hater Week so far! Every theme week is also a subscription drive, because the website doesn't exist without the support of our paying subscribers. So we're having a sale! Pay just $1 for your first month, or get a huge 25% off an annual sub! aftermath.site/aftermath-su...

Over 25,000 people are into the website enough to get sent some newsletters and read 6 blogs every month. Converting just 1000-2000 of them into regular paying subs transforms the business! If that's you, try it out this month for just $1! aftermath.site/aftermath-su...

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

As of right now we have 26,205 'free' members. If that's you there's never been a better time to upgrade and try a full subscription! It's just $1! If only 1000-2000 of those free members converted, this website would change forever. aftermath.site/aftermath-su...

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

Very excited to do a big full-page illustration for an article in CONTINUE's first issue! 🦊

Serrels@serrels.bsky.social · last wk.

@jacksonwryan.com just pubbed a big update over on Kickstarter. Huge part of this has been making sure contributors get well paid for their best work. Check it out. www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

The WWE Unreal TV show is one of the most fascinating TV shows on the planet to me. Because it presents as being "real" but it's actually just another layer of the "work". Just pure genius shit IMO.

it's looking so goooood god damn

Serrels@serrels.bsky.social · last wk.

Wanna see a sneak peek on what you can expect from @continuemag.bsky.social? Genuinely hyped with what we've got so far. Sending this bad boy to print in September and it's gonna be stacked.

Some early concepting for our hero pages as Erin, our designer, starts putting together our stories and our illustrations. Some of the stuff we can't show yet is ridiculousssss!!! Now it's starting to feel very real. This thing is going to rule!

Serrels@serrels.bsky.social · last wk.

Wanna see a sneak peek on what you can expect from @continuemag.bsky.social? Genuinely hyped with what we've got so far. Sending this bad boy to print in September and it's gonna be stacked.

Wanna see a sneak peek on what you can expect from @continuemag.bsky.social? Genuinely hyped with what we've got so far. Sending this bad boy to print in September and it's gonna be stacked.

Say no more fam

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

ANNOUNCING Sydney Games Festival! We are community-run game festival, organised by Sydney's various game-making groups. A jam-packed week of events organised a crossed Sydney by local game dev communities in industry, digital and tabletop games. When? 13 Oct - 18 Oct 2026 sydneygamesfestival.org

Dropping this hot food take late on a Friday so no-one notices it. Ooshman do the best wraps of any fast food place in the game. Not even close.

I know this sounds silly, but this World Cup has really solidified for me how incredibly fucked we are with AI and misinformation. Because of how subtle it is, how calculated it is, and how easily very good and smart people can be manipulated. No-one is above it and it's happening all the time.

An amazing piece of sports writing. defector.com/what-messi-m...

What Messi Means | Defector

“Everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn’t end.” As it is in life and love, so it is in soccer. From the outset, the 2026 World Cup was sure to mark an ending for Lionel Messi—not to his career as ...

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The anime is one of my favourite movies ever. Why we doing this?

Anime News Network@animenewsnetwork.com · 3w ago

Look Back in live-action in two months!