Episode
The Top Of The Jank Pile
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- Aftermath Hours
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- Feb 13, 2026
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- 5262
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Gita and Luke welcome special guest Brendan Caldwell of the newly-launched website jank.cool , which is all about PC gaming. Brendan is quickly learning how owning a website can be both exciting (you’re your own boss, no one else can tell you what to do or what to write about) and very scary (how even do websites work?). But if it gives you a place to publish your weird trauma about getting attacked by Australian magpies under the guise of reviewing video games, the rest of it is worth it. Then in video game land - aside from the usual layoffs updates, a horrifically normal thing - Luke gives us his impressions of Romeo Is A Dead Man, Gita’s got strong feelings about the romance options in Cyberpunk 2077, Brendan’s trolling his friends in co-op auto mechanic sim Car Service Together, and Overwatch is back in all of our lives (much to Luke’s ire & dissociation). And in the Mailbag we’ll reveal the ratio of dead-body cleanup requests to demo mixtapes we receive on behalf of other businesses also named Aftermath, and recruit other orphaned video game mascot characters to send to the Olympics. Credits - Hosts: Gita Jackson, Luke Plunkett, and special guest Brendan Caldwell - Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude - Subscribe to Aftermath ! About The Show Aftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that’s too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some…