...say, you’ve had a stressful day and can’t read your favorite sports blog because it’s been destroyed from the inside out.

THIS is the post that should exist for ‘playing high.’ Doesn’t matter the strain: it all keys me down from an eleven to a three. No fancy lights or crazy hallucinations. Feels like someone is just ever so slightly putting a finger down on the vinyl record that is my life, slowing it from the 45rpm that is my usual…

ALL KINJA!!!!

Smells like Troll in here. 

Pacman?

The first good video game?  

Splinterrip.kinja.com is the place to start. 

Oh, I’m pretty sure at this point that’s what we’re shooting for.  It’s been a good run, but Deadspin is gone (from an Editorial point of view) and I’m sure Kotaku is poised to lose some of their talented folks as well, whether in solidarity with Deadspin and the GMG Union or just to the natural effects of Spanfeller…

I started deadsplinter.com as a failsafe if they kill kinja. And there’s a discord being promoted on the RIP sites that’s worth checking out.

“nAtiOnAl pLatFoRm”

But can I still drink while my favorite website implodes because a couple of limp-dick assholes would rather fuck it’s dead corpse than stick to what has worked for nearly two decades?

Ohhhh snap.

Oh hey, Arnheim. Some of us from from the remains of Splinter have gathered up at SplinterRIP account. Be cool to have you with us if you’re interested. We got a pretty neat little thing going.

Arnheim! Before it’s too late I want to give you a shoutout and thank you for all the years of brilliant posts. I always appreciated seeing that Doge pop up for some knowledge and to me, your posts were never TLDR.

That is essentially an obituary for all these sites. The final nail in the coffin. 

It could be done, but I’m toward the bottom of the ladder in terms of ability to contribute financially. Academia doesn’t pay well.

That said, if we get a GoFundMe or something similar started to purchase the sites, I’d give what I could—and demand only that I be allowed to keep my Doge avatar and obsession with my…

With everything that has been going on since the fall of Gawker, the uncertainty of ownership and employment, and now with G/O and Spanfucker, it has had me thinking for some time.

It’s stuff like this that reminds my why I’ll be right here at Kotaku until the lights go out.

Go not gentle into that good night, folks—we’ll be here with you all the way.

...even the assholes who will invariably scream “don’t drag Kotaku into this mess,” not realizing that y’all are owned by the same VC company, and…