I always scroll past the trump tweets as quick as possible, because nope thanks, but I feel like I’ve seen “READ THE TRANSCRIPT” everyday for like a week..?

Man, people really want to shit on this game. I, for one, am a 34 year old man who can’t wait to play this and go on a new adventure with new pokemon to catch and doesn’t give a single shit whether I can use the same team I’ve been using since 1998.

Shut up, Tomato.

I’m in the same boat in that io9 is the only one I really navigate to at this point.

While I certainly appreciate this post and I’m genuinely glad that the Splinter staff got to do a proper farewell post, the fact that it’s coming weeks after G/O Media and Jim Spanfellatio unceremoniously suffocated the site with a pillow, followed by decapitating their marquee site is just the goddamn perfect turd on…

Too far left? Only if you’ve never heard of The Overton Window.

They killed it without any warning or send-off on purpose, to show that they not only didn’t respect or value Splinter, but that they had open contempt for its content and its staff.

I’m even more amazed that comments are allowed.

Thank you all and thank you for this. After Splinter was killed by idiot assholes, I never removed the icon from my fave sites and would periodically click on it, mostly as a sad little visit to the site that, before its untimely demise, I’d check OVER A DOZEN TIMES A DAY and miss so very much. I did today and found…

I’m happy that Charlie Jane’s novel career is taking off, but her reviews were always my favorite part of io9.

I mean, io9 is already a shadow of what it used to be when it was its own independent site and not a subsidiary of gizmodo. Man remember when it did tv reviews??

This.

The death of Splinter and Deadspin have really f’d me up; I still come here a few times a day, hoping one of the remaining sites will emerge with an interesting political voice. It’s becoming clear that that’s not going to happen. Aside from io9, I’m having a hard time finding much value on the network to speak of.

I didn’t agree with a lot of the posts on Splinter and I often disagreed with a lot of the comments. But the one thing I always appreciated was that when something absolutely ludicrous happened and not nearly enough people were going around saying, “What the flying fuck was that?” I could always find people on…

How Splinter and Deadspin were handled was atrocious, the having Splinter go dead and having no announcement whatsoever was shitty on the part of Spamfiller and Madman. They should have dropped in a post like this when they pulled the plug.

I’m amazed this even got published. I was really thinking there was a firing-level edict against even mentioning the shutdown and firings.

It was a deliberate decision b/c Spanfeller and Great Hill Partners serve the needs of the capitalist class. They are taking a financial loss on this particular group of sites to shut down a voice which could inspire others to ultimately organize towards their doom.

I for one am amazed this post was allowed 

Shutting down the only dedicated politics website in your portfolio right before the 2020 election, one of the most consequential of our lifetime, kicks into high gear. Essentially shutting down the second-most highly trafficked website in your portfolio because one out of every twenty five posts rankles you. I’m not…

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