i'm so glad that, in this time when other outlets are dying left and right and there's less space to cover the breadth of games coming out, aftermath exists as an independent worker-owned game news site that can give us much-needed coverage of video game-related topics such as (checks notes) prestige tv shows, mr. beast, and the us presidential election. can't get this anywhere else!
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in reply to @ponett's post:
I will never understand their dedication to just making Kotaku again. a wild amount of personal interest-based bits and hit pieces like they've been set an output goal by corporate. it's weird!!!
you can take the writers out of the kotaku but you can't take the kotaku out of the writers, i guess. i look at 90% of their articles and i'm like "this could have just been a tweet"
this really, really, really is it and I don't understand it. who was clamoring for this
I feel like I always assumed that writers were under some pressure from editorial or whatever to write like that? And I guess it turns out that is actually just want they wanted to write, but I still don't want to read it
in reply to @ponett's post:
Does Aftermath have comments? And if so, are their readers filling the comments with the Margaret Thatcher Girl Power meme, like I'm expecting of them?
they do have comments but you're only allowed to comment if you're a paid subscriber. this is generally understandable to avoid getting shit-stirring Gamers in their comments, but sometimes you just want someone to pop in and say "idk about this one y'all" and the paid subscribers just aren't going to criticize them like that
a sad thing i've come to realize is that most people who work in videogames journalism are massive squares and that even when they have the license to write thoughtful, boundary-pushing stuff it still mostly ends up being shit like What Guitar Hero 3 Taught Me About Being An Empath.
there's a ton of indie games out there (not even counting altgames) that just don't get coverage anymore. I know writers like austin walker have talked about how articles on more obscure games get almost no attention versus the usual editorial fluff, but shouldn't the value of a subscriber-based news outlet be to cover what larger sites won't? utter waste of potential with this shit
It's weird, because the small traffic they do get converts to relatively sizeable traffic to those games. Anytime I happened to get one of my games mentioned on Kotaku, my itch.io page views and downloads skyrocketed. Stuff like that is an incredibly good thing for small no budget games.
You would think having someone who has time dedicated to finding 3 to 5 small games a week and writing even a paragraph about them would be a regular feature for a site like Aftermath, but I've been pretty iffy on the sorts of stuff they cover.
It feels like they’re trying to take the same path as defector but they aren’t aware that the reason defector is successful is because people actually liked the culture/politics/longform/investigative stuff from late-gawker-era deadspin and wanted to see more of it
i will put a disclaimer here that i've seen positive responses to this article that make it sound way more nuanced than the attention-grabbing meme headline would suggest, which doesn't surprise me because i generally like gita as a writer. however i have to go off of secondhand impressions here because it's behind a fucking paywall so i can't actually read what gita's takes are beyond the meme headline
and also it's just. more blogging about us election discourse on what's supposed to be a video game site, at a time when we desperately need more space for game journalism and criticism
i do believe that gita would be writing something like, Real out of this but seeing her name attached to this headline hurts a little.
