Doom: The Dark Ages is a (shotgun) blast
Plus, Plante launched Post Games!!!
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Doom: The Dark Ages is a surprisingly bold departure from its predecessors’ formula. It’s also quite fun — if you can vibe with its ever-so-slightly slower, parry-heavy gunplay. In the back half, the boys pick some letters from the top of the mailbag.
Plus, my friends, I (Plante) have a huge personal/professional thing to share with you: I launched my Patreon for Post Games, and subscribers can listen to new episodes right now!
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Post Games launches wide on May 26th, but you can listen to Episode 0 (A Post Games FAQ and an interview about indie journalism with Casey Newton) and Episode 1 (The game award that changes the lives of its winners) on Patreon right now! Patreon will even send all new episodes to your podcast app of choice! Here’s a teaser:
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A short documentary on the making of The Hundred Line
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Captain Disillusion on “blur”
No mention of Gaza or BDS and the boycott of Microsoft for helping to fund a genocide. I know you guys mentioned it a couple weeks ago, but it’s disappointing that this isn’t getting coverage alongside reviews of the game. I get that games media and journalism has to cover a new Doom game but it should also cover the call for large scale boycotts of Microsoft. I come to podcasts like The Besties and Into the Aether for stuff like that, and subscribe to both patreons. At least ITA is doing the right and responsible thing, highly recommend it to anyone else disappointed by a lack of commitment to informing listeners here.
Hey y'all, I'm unsubscribing because of this episode. Microsoft is providing technology to Israel that directly connects to their genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, including data processing for the IDF's assassination program. The Palestinian-led BDS movement has asked for a boycott of Microsoft as much as we are able. Some things are hard to give up, but Doom ain't one of 'em.
Bye.