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Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture. www.aftermath.site

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 26m
How do you mess up any song that badly let alone the end of JoJo? aftermath.site/jojo-steel-bal...
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Man, They Gotta Change That JoJo End Song
How do you even manage to make a track that bad, let alone for the ending of JoJo?
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 53m
Primetime is a gorgeous, sleazy portrait of early 2000s TV aftermath.site/primetime-hans...
Primetime (A24)
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 3h
Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole: aftermath.site/babygirl-in-co...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 19h
Twitch is using AI to decide which streamers can make money off ads aftermath.site/twitch-ads-ai-...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 20h
If you have wired Ethernet in your home, the Pyrowave codec in beta on Steam might be for you. aftermath.site/pyrowave-steam...
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Steam's Pyrowave Update To Remote Play Chases Latency At All Costs
The addition of the Pyrowave codec in the latest Steam beta is a potential boon for people that love streaming locally and directly via Ethernet.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
I love the frustratingly realistic sewing in Dressmaker: aftermath.site/dressmaker-sew...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
We used to be a proper country: aftermath.site/animerica-maga...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 22h
Firefly Wedding is a shojo romance that takes cuffing season literally aftermath.site/firefly-weddin...
Firefly Wedding
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
A remastered Witcher 3 means a new bathtub Geralt aftermath.site/witcher3-remas...
The Witcher 3's Geralt in a bathtub
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
Slow Roads is a game for drivers, not racers: aftermath.site/slow-roads-imp...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/09/2026
The jigsaw puzzles got me aftermath.site/jigsaw-puzzles...
jigsaw puzzle pieces
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 19h
the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch
Streamers, wary of both AI and YouTube’s infuriatingly un-transparent hall of mirrors, are not enthused about this new development.

“Ohhh so that’s why ad revenue dropped,” longtime streamer JP "itmeJP" McDaniel said on Twitter.  

“I’m genuinely worried that the sheer fact that I’m a lesbian will cause the AI to remove ads,” said Vtuber LuminusRed. “In the past I’ve tested it and confirmed that I get less ad money if I had queer-related tags on my stream like ‘lesbian,’ so I am worried this dumb AI monitoring will mean I no longer get money from ads on Twitch.”
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 19h
Twitch is using AI to decide which streamers can make money off ads aftermath.site/twitch-ads-ai-...
the twitch logo surrounded by dollar bills
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 20h
If you have wired Ethernet in your home, the Pyrowave codec in beta on Steam might be for you. aftermath.site/pyrowave-steam...
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Steam's Pyrowave Update To Remote Play Chases Latency At All Costs
The addition of the Pyrowave codec in the latest Steam beta is a potential boon for people that love streaming locally and directly via Ethernet.
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trif @trif26.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Luke Plunkett nails it. So glad I subscribe to aftermath.site You should too.
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Video games, the internet and what comes after
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Suriel Vazquez @suriel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chernobyl power plant admin: "Our reactor took actions we did not intend"
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heck yeah.
Human-made over 5 years

No AI has been used to generate any code or content in or about the game, and never will be. Slow Roads has been a labour of love since the project began in 2021, and has been built with a decade of experience in 3D graphics and creative software development. Textures are hand-drawn, sounds are recorded locally, and all systems are designed and engineered specifically for the unique context of the game. This is a solo-developed project that I take great care over, and I believe AI simply doesn't belong in creative projects like these.

Please note that procedural generation is not a form of generative AI; the procedures used to generate the world in the game are mathematical functions that have been derived and defined by hand, with direct creative intent.
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joemag @joemag.games · 29/09/2026
This @aftermath.site blog sums up my thoughts on that new Meta VR headset. For nobody except Airplane Movie Watching Enthusiasts
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Aftermath Bonus Blog: Hey, Quick Question: Who Are Meta’s VR Glasses For?
Meta’s VR Glasses are aimed at a customer I’m not sure exists, unless we are counting "bored people at the airport."
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New York Games Week @nygamesweek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As part of New York Games Week, independent video game and internet culture website @aftermath.site will host their first-ever live podcast at Town Hall in NYC, with special guests @halfrobot.com and @mrsambarlow.bsky.social
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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 22h
Watch Firefly Wedding.
But there are levels to this shit. Some shows aren’t “I can fix him;” some, like Studio Deen’s adaptation of Asuka Konishi’s Yakuza Fiancé, are shows where “we can make each other worse.” The x-factor in these stories is that they play with the neck hair-raising fight-or-flight response of their headstrong heroines wandering—whether willfully or out of abject defiance—into a romance with dangerous men. Compared to its contemporaries, toxic romance anime of its ilk is sprawling. It’s big, it’s fun, it's fucked up! But that very danger makes it hard to put down. 

Firefly Wedding brings to the table a romance anime that walks the razor’s edge of violent, funny, and hilarious, an addition to this pantheon.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 22h
Firefly Wedding is a shojo romance that takes cuffing season literally aftermath.site/firefly-weddin...
Firefly Wedding
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 23h
Over the last week I've been messing around with the recently added Pyrowave codec in Steam remote play. It's an open source video codec that throws compression out the window in exchange for latency. If you are a freak with wired Ethernet, this may be for you. aftermath.site/pyrowave-ste...
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Steam's Pyrowave Update To Remote Play Chases Latency At All Costs
The addition of the Pyrowave codec in the latest Steam beta is a potential boon for people that love streaming locally and directly via Ethernet.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/09/2026
The jigsaw puzzles got me aftermath.site/jigsaw-puzzles...
jigsaw puzzle pieces
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
I love the frustratingly realistic sewing in Dressmaker: aftermath.site/dressmaker-sew...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
We used to be a proper country: aftermath.site/animerica-maga...
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my story from a little while ago about workers’ fight for recognition
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Workers Behind Immensely Popular Game Theorists YouTube Channel Will Get Their Union, With Or Without MatPat’s Help
"We are still people, even if we are not on camera, and we need to be treated as such"
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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m going to create a mod for Slow Roads where throughout your endless drive you have to respond to phone calls about both your ambitious construction project and your collapsing domestic life
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
A remastered Witcher 3 means a new bathtub Geralt aftermath.site/witcher3-remas...
The Witcher 3's Geralt in a bathtub
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
ICYMI
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
Slow Roads is a game for drivers, not racers: aftermath.site/slow-roads-imp...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 24/09/2026
Need something to play this weekend? Here's a selection of indie games we've been into lately: 🧵
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/09/2026
Woodo is pretty good, even if it is making Luke throw up a little bit: aftermath.site/woodo-impressi...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026
The M4 Mac Mini briefly let people buy aftermarket SSD modules and upgrade the tiny computer. With the latest Mac Mini, the party is over. aftermath.site/apple-makes-th...
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Apple Makes The Mac Mini Unupgradable Again Because Fuck You
Apple quietly rolled back a tiny unofficial feature of one of its best computers when the storage crisis is at its worst.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026
Craft subreddit bans Harry Potter projects: aftermath.site/craft-subreddi...
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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 26/09/2026
"X, the everything box" is one of the most cursed things I've heard in a while, thanks @papapishu.bsky.social
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m gonna be here.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026
Why it took years for a story about Bobby Kotick sending journalists legal threats to come out aftermath.site/aftermath-hour...
bobby kotick looking unhappy (from the film moneyball)
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 24/09/2026
Nintendo wins $4.5M in a Switch pirate lawsuit: aftermath.site/nintendo-switc...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026
The M4 Mac Mini briefly let people buy aftermarket SSD modules and upgrade the tiny computer. With the latest Mac Mini, the party is over. aftermath.site/apple-makes-th...
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Apple Makes The Mac Mini Unupgradable Again Because Fuck You
Apple quietly rolled back a tiny unofficial feature of one of its best computers when the storage crisis is at its worst.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Capping off the week going full Hater mode on Meta. aftermath.site/meta-vr-glas...
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Hey, Quick Question: Who Are Meta’s VR Glasses For?
Meta’s VR Glasses are aimed at a customer I’m not sure exists, unless we are counting "bored people at the airport."
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026
Craft subreddit bans Harry Potter projects: aftermath.site/craft-subreddi...
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
come watch us talk about new york (and video games)
Aftermath Hours Live
Join Nathan Grayson, Gita Jackson, and Chris Person of Aftermath for the first-ever live edition of the site’s weekly podcast, Aftermath Hours! To celebrate New York Games Week, they’ll be joined by two special guests—NYU Game Center director Naomi Clark and Half Mermaid (Her Story, Immortality) director Sam Barlow—for a wide-ranging discussion of NYC’s games scene.
How does NYC’s culture influence the games people make here? What makes its video game scene unique compared to perceived hotspots like Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and why doesn’t it get as much recognition for producing great games as those cities? What are local entities like the Mayor’s Office doing to facilitate game creation—already an expensive and time-consuming endeavor—in a city where prices are sky high? And is Zohran Mamdani the city’s first gamer mayor? Is he really? They’ll answer all these questions and more!
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026
Exciting news! As part of New York Games Week, we’re going to be hosting our first-ever live podcast at Town Hall in NYC on Oct 8 with special guests @halfrobot.com and @mrsambarlow.bsky.social. RSVP (for free) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/aftermath-...
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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It was such a blast going on Aftermath Hours to talk about my story with PMG! Also, you might be able to see/hear the exact moment a bat flew into our window because my dog very loudly freaks out, and then keeps jumping into my lap for the rest of the episode.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026
Why it took years for a story about Bobby Kotick sending journalists legal threats to come out aftermath.site/aftermath-hour...
bobby kotick looking unhappy (from the film moneyball)
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 24/09/2026
Heads up: We're experimenting with (a few, small) ads aftermath.site/aftermath-site...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/09/2026
A sniper game where the goal is not to shoot anyone: aftermath.site/a-sniper-game-...
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