Luke Plunkett

Canberra

Founder at Aftermath

Articles

One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums

3 days ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

I feel like I've written this like four times already, but I just realised those blogs were for a different website, so I'm just going to say it one more time so I can be on record for this website: stop closing forums and moving people to Discord, they are not the same thing. They're not even close! A forum is an everlasting repository of knowledge, a place where questions can be asked and their answers enshrined forever, the solutions to someone's problem just a google search away.
Giant Bomb Has Been Sold To Giant Bomb

5 days ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

Just over a week after being "blow up" by owners Fandom, a very exciting press release has hit our inboxes this evening: the site/podcast has been sold to the people who make it. "Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb, and it would not have been possible without the speedy efforts of Fandom and our mutual agreement on what’s best for fans and creators", a joint statement issued by new owners Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb says.
Giant Bomb Has Been Sold To Giant Bomb - Aftermath

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Luke Plunkett

5 hours ago John Cleese Suggests ‘Suspending’ Trump Chief of Staff Stephen Miller – ‘Preferably by the Neck’ John Cleese lashed out at White House chief of staff Stephen Miller after the latter said habeas corpus could be suspended for migrants in federal … 8 hours ago Pastor Is Accused of Sexually Assaulting 2 Girls at a Florida Church — and Allegedly Gave a Chilling Reasoning Behind the Abuse NEED TO KNOW A Florida pastor is accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls on church...
I Simply Do Not Know Where To Start Writing About Clair Obscur

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

When you write about games for a living, you rarely just sit down and write about a whole damn game. Even reviews, which some people think should be that, are hopefully something more focused and nuanced. Impressions of a game tend to involve the writer choosing a hook, an angle, something to peg their thoughts on before expanding on them over the course of an article.
I Simply Do Not Know Where To Start Writing About Clair Obscur - Aftermath

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Luke Plunkett

Star Wars Genesis is blowing RPG fans away, and we can see whyIt has been almost two years since Starfield was first released and with the game still criticised for its lack of content and detail, this brand-new …
There Is No Getting Back On This Ride - Aftermath

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Luke Plunkett

4 hours agoA few A-listers made the shortlist. In a new interview, Christie Brinkley shares who she’d like to play her in a screen adaptation of her new memoir, Uptown Girl. • A handful of celebrities, including her own daughter, Sailor Brinkley Cook, make the cut. • Brinkley said she wrote the book “to inspire …
Buy Our 'Destroy AI' T-Shirt

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

The long microphone used Bob Barker on the Price is Right and Gene Rayburn on Match Game haven't been produced in years. It's time they came back.
An Exhaustive Collection Of Football Shirts Featuring Video Game Sponsorships

2 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

There are two things I love more than anything else in this world: football and video games. Sadly, I do not love football video games as much as I used to, but that does not mean that I don't get to enjoy, and even occasionally get excited about, the two things coming together regardless. See, my love of football (and of some overlapping stuff like fashion and design) has meant that over the years I've become a collector and just general appreciator of football shirts.
Gennojo Fuckin' Sucks, Man

3 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

For those who haven't played it, a central component of Assassin's Creed Shadows is the 'League', a loose cohort of friends and allies you pick up along your travels. They all hang out at your hideout, can be chatted with, have a handful of story missions each and can be called upon to unleash extremely cool special attacks in the middle of a battle. Most of these are memorable characters, rogues and misfits all, and I'm glad I went to the trouble of recruiting them.
Assassin’s Creed, I’m Begging You, Please Just End Like A Normal Video Game

3 weeks ago | aftermath.site | Luke Plunkett

A few weeks back I wrote some very positive things about Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and so it should be of little surprise given the series’ contentious, recent past that I have since found that I am an idiot, and now have to write some less positive things as well. Why am I an idiot? Because I should have seen this coming.