Callie Petch
@calliepetch.bsky.social
Occasional critic, human disaster, naïve progressive. Words: Soundsphere Magazine, Little White Lies, Stereogum, and my own place. (They/them.)
Reporting like this is why @aftermath.site are the elite of games journalism right now.
For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke.
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
Two Months After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Ghost Of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment Campaign, Not ‘Bad Joke’
"I really don’t want this to happen to anyone else, because I feel like with the state of everything, it will absolutely happen to other people," says Drew Harrison
aftermath.site
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reporting like this is why @aftermath.site are the elite of games journalism right now.
Conspiracy brain talking, perhaps, but I wouldn't be shocked if this was to try and stop protestors - Palestine-supporting and climate activist ones in particular - from having a chance to evade prison after the many rightful Ls the governments taken on jury trials so far...
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Conspiracy brain talking, perhaps, but I wouldn't be shocked if this was to try and stop protestors - Palestine-supporting and climate activist ones in particular - from having a chance to evade prison after the many rightful Ls the governments taken on jury trials so far...
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It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.
I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.
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EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Pluribus is doing a hell of a job at bringing me up to speed on the "Rhea Seahorn is one of the best actresses alive" train all the Better Call Saul watchers had been banging on about for years.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Pluribus is doing a hell of a job at bringing me up to speed on the "Rhea Seahorn is one of the best actresses alive" train all the Better Call Saul watchers had been banging on about for years.
#NowWatching The Running Man [1987].
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#NowWatching The Running Man [1987].
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#NowWatching Sisu: Road to Revenge.
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
#NowWatching Sisu: Road to Revenge.
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Thank you again to everyone out there! Another year down, another million raised, and so many people who will be helped because of what you've done with us this year and every other! We couldn't do this without you, and through all the laughs and the tears, we wouldn't want it any other way...
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Thank you again to everyone out there! Another year down, another million raised, and so many people who will be helped because of what you've done with us this year and every other! We couldn't do this without you, and through all the laughs and the tears, we wouldn't want it any other way...
Get your Brits out, we're on a mad one. [ @kneecapceol.bsky.social at O2 Academy, Leeds on 20th November 2025] #MusicSky
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Get your Brits out, we're on a mad one. [ @kneecapceol.bsky.social at O2 Academy, Leeds on 20th November 2025] #MusicSky
Vanishing Point is one of my favourite albums and, even though he's not on all of the tracks, Mani's bass work is a key part of that mood. Imagine "Kowalski" without that bass charging along at a gutteral roar like a 1970s Dodge Challenger? You literally cannot. R.I.P. youtu.be/2l-V6KygkFU
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Vanishing Point is one of my favourite albums and, even though he's not on all of the tracks, Mani's bass work is a key part of that mood. Imagine "Kowalski" without that bass charging along at a gutteral roar like a 1970s Dodge Challenger? You literally cannot. R.I.P. youtu.be/2l-V6KygkFU
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whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
I was at the Jamie Oliver petrol station... [ @cmatbaby.bsky.social at O2 Academy Leeds on 17th November 2025] #MusicSky
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I was at the Jamie Oliver petrol station... [ @cmatbaby.bsky.social at O2 Academy Leeds on 17th November 2025] #MusicSky
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can't wait to see all the amazing new game announcements at the Game Awards 2025 wario64 thread
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
can't wait to see all the amazing new game announcements at the Game Awards 2025 wario64 thread
The Bus has set off!
Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond.
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025
A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.
desertbus.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The Bus has set off!
#NowWatching Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#NowWatching Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
#NowPlaying: "Getting Killed" by Geese. #MusicSky
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#NowPlaying: "Getting Killed" by Geese. #MusicSky