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[Jaimas]

So are you familiar with Danielle Riendeau, Kiwis? If not, she's Waypoint's resident Troon.

And when I say Troon, I mean Troon. We are talking 100% grade-A honest-to-GodJesus BearChrist Rat King supplicant.

From donating to Trans Lifeline and soliciting therefor:

To being a long-time friend of Pedo Nyberg:

To being personal friends with Brianna Wu:

And Catherine Cross:

You know we're in for some good shit with a pedigree like that, Kiwis. And good god... We are. Recently, she covered an indie game, The Red Strings Club. The game was basically designed to push the usual identity politics nonsense in a heavy-handed fashion that makes A Night In The Woods seem restrained by comparison. It hits all the notes: Diversity cast, every sexual orientation under the sun, and more. It's practically Tumblr-bait, right?

How 'The Red Strings Club' Sabotages Its Hopeful Cyberpunk Vision

Well, Riendeau fucking hated it. And why... Well, I'll just let you read it while I give my sarcastic commentary amidships:

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk adventure game (out today on Steam) that trades in all manner of genre tropes: There are massive corporations to deal with, transhumanism to wrap your unenhanced brain around, sentient androids who seek to understand humanity, and a sleek bar with retro stylings (including a fan and an old piano). It takes place in a far-future metropolis where one mega-corp—Supercontinent—is getting ready to unleash a mysterious program that will either facilitate human happiness or brainwash the population, depending on your point of view.

At its best, the game leans into one of the most exciting—and most often ill-incorporated—aspects of cyberpunk fiction: sexuality, and the ways in which technology can help and hinder it. At its worst, it stumbles on a key aspect of gender identity, so badly that it undercuts its own message.

Early on in the game, you step into the shoes of Akara-184, an android that manufactures implants for humans based on their desires and needs. Many of these needs have to do with sex, power, and influence, tying them in with all manner of social issues. One user wants to be more popular online. You can give her implants that make her more influential, or more immune to online trolls. You can give her “the prince” which makes her more physically attractive. But each solution brings more problems (kind of like life), until you simply move on to a new batch of clients.

So right out the gate, she likes it, or seems to.

I'll save you her Jaimas article-sized block of meaningless drivel and get to where she turns on the game with the force of a thermonuclear device (emphasis mine, in orange, as per tradition):

A late game puzzle has you literally playing telephone with execs and scientists at Supercontinent. I was enjoying this until it deployed Larissa’s deadname as both a solution to a problem and as a completely tone-deaf late game “reveal.” I really don’t know what the devs were thinking here. At best, it reads like a botched attempt to make a plea for good trans healthcare, but it is clumsy as hell and frankly, offensive. Don’t deadname. Ever. And don’t treat trans characters’ identities like “plot twists,” as if being trans amounts to some wild revelation.

So let's check out that link she posted:

Deadnaming A Trans Person Is Violence  —  So Why Does The Media Do It Anyway?

Just as a Rat King member would. Let's continue on her article.

Minus the deadnaming and treating her transness as a “reveal,” and uncomfortably hitting on the hypersexualized transwoman trope, I’d be singing this game’s praises to the WB_wombat_top of the neon cityscape. As is, I’m disappointed and baffled by this awful decision.

And her link reveals.... More sperging about how sexy poison is, to which I'm mandated legally to respond with this link.

So yeah, she tears the entire game to shreds because a virtual tranny is deadnamed. Anyone else really disappointed that the DEADNAME.INFO joke site is gone?

 

[dryb0nes]

Austin Walker is a typical internet personality with a slightly above average vocabulary which fools 99% of internet users into thinking he's actually intelligent.

 

[Ravana]

The hypersexualized transwoman trope: aka making a trans character look attractive and not like some malformed homunculus like real troons

 

[Incredible Crisis]

Don't a lot of supposed trans women hypersexualize and hyperfeminize themselves on their own?

Most legit trans women seem to want to pass as ordinary women, not Barbie dolls.

 

[Jaimas]

The hypersexualized transwoman trope: aka making a trans character look attractive and not like some malformed homunculus like real troons

Are you implying that actual women are not 300 pounds and sport full beards?
This intrigues me and I wish to know more.

 

[Zenigata]

Waypoint was also the site where someone posted a forced feminization Nier Automata fapfic, right after whinging on Twitter about the game Catherine's portrayal of trans women:

I'm absolutely certain that there's a doujin that follows the same storyline, except instead of being some epic grrl power fanfic, it's just trap porn.

Good job hosting borderline trap porn on your website, Waypoint.

 

[Wärring Ornac]

Doesn't Vice and by extension Waypoint prevent archiving via archive.is

Archive.is keeps crashing on me for some reason, and my screenshot extension doesn't wanna cap the whole thing, only one page at a time.

https://archive.is/ABI1D

To archive anything in Vice, use via.hypothes.is
Example: https://via.hypothes.is/http://foru...nd-solace-in-games-now-they-need-action/12656

Although sometimes archive.is automatically archived the site using via.hypothes.is

 

[Done]

In the latest exceptional episode of Waypoint: Here's a game we were too lazy/biased to cover despite it being a hit, let us tell you why we're too lazy/biased in a podcast that's over an hour long (the answer may shock you):



I thought about listening to the podcast, but I value my remaining brain cells far too much.

 

[Jaimas]

In the latest exceptional episode of Waypoint: Here's a game we were too lazy/biased to cover despite it being a hit, let us tell you why we're too lazy/biased in a podcast that's over an hour long (the answer may shock you):

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I thought about listening to the podcast, but I value my remaining braincells far too much.

I did. You missed nothing.

The entire thing - no joke - is a fucking hour-long spree of dead air, people bitching about the need for diversity, shrieking about Gamergate (and claiming it's still active), and huffing their own farts. There's a part, around 2/3 of the way through, where they launch into a protracted diatribe about how they couldn't just stream the game because that would "remove the nuance and context from the game" and "it would go against the values of our site."

There are so many "uhs" and "ums" and other bits of verbal cluttering that it borders on the hilarious. And these are people who are supposed to do this shit for a living.

 

[Done]

I did. You missed nothing.

The entire thing - no joke - is a fucking hour-long spree of dead air, people bitching about the need for diversity, shrieking about Gamergate (and claiming it's still active), and huffing their own farts. There's a part, around 2/3 of the way through, where they launch into a protracted diatribe about how they couldn't just stream the game because that would "remove the nuance and context from the game" and "it would go against the values of our site."

There are so many "uhs" and "ums" and other bits of verbal cluttering that it borders on the hilarious. And these are people who are supposed to do this shit for a living.

Sounds like a terrible podcast, matter of fact, is there anything they produce that isn't terrible?

Even if you try going with the clickbait path ahead of impartial journalism, surely it would have been better to review the game and give it a bad score because of diversity stuff? Instead of missing out on all those clicks..

I legitimately don't think this website will last for long under its current management..

 

[selere]

Nice to know that the Waypoint browsers are even bigger losers than their writers.

 

[Incredible Crisis]

I did. You missed nothing.

The entire thing - no joke - is a fucking hour-long spree of dead air, people bitching about the need for diversity, shrieking about Gamergate (and claiming it's still active), and huffing their own farts. There's a part, around 2/3 of the way through, where they launch into a protracted diatribe about how they couldn't just stream the game because that would "remove the nuance and context from the game" and "it would go against the values of our site."

There are so many "uhs" and "ums" and other bits of verbal cluttering that it borders on the hilarious. And these are people who are supposed to do this shit for a living.

Sounds like a terrible podcast, matter of fact, is there anything they produce that isn't terrible?

Even if you try going with the clickbait path ahead of impartial journalism, surely it would have been better to review the game and give it a bad score because of diversity stuff? Instead of missing out on all those clicks..

I legitimately don't think this website will last for long under its current management..

You can't run an entire gaming blog like it's Resetera because that line of thinking is inherently hypocritical, shallow, and resents games for not conforming perfectly to a warped worldview.

If they really didn't want to cover the game because there are no black people in it, then they could just not cover it and move on to covering Brave Transwymn Hawaiian Surgeon Visual Novel or whatever they think is more important. Making a big scene out of this is just making their editorial staff look like they are masturbating over their own moral superiority.

 

[Jaimas]

If they really didn't want to cover the game because there are no black people in it, then they could just not cover it and move on to covering Brave Transwymn Hawaiian Surgeon Visual Novel or whatever they think is more important. Making a big scene out of this is just making their editorial staff look like they are masturbating over their own moral superiority.

Which is exactly how they came across. The dumb motherfuckers took almost an hour to get across basic points and pontificate.

 

[Pop-Tart]

https://via.hypothes.is/https://way...kzqxd/kingdom-come-deliverance-waypoint-radio

To the shock of no one they are not going to be covering Kingdom Come till they find a way to make it less problematic for their reader base. How? I have no idea.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Which is exactly how they came across. The dumb motherfuckers took almost an hour to get across basic points and pontificate.

Austin Walker, Patrick Klepek are two dumb motherfuckers pretending to play smart but in reality are just huffing their own farts. They lack critical thinking and self awareness.

The whole concept of waypoint is to appeal to idiots like themselves, a minority, and to generate hate clicks.

 

[Incredible Crisis]

https://via.hypothes.is/https://way...kzqxd/kingdom-come-deliverance-waypoint-radio

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To the shock of no one they are not going to be covering Kingdom Come till they find a way to make it less problematic for their reader base. How? I have no idea.

Who is their reader base? It seems to be people who are less interested in video games and more interested in fueling an outrage machine.

This is the main aspect that these blogs have in common with mainstream news outlets.

 

[CrunkLord420]

Who is their reader base? It seems to be people who are less interested in video games and more interested in fueling an outrage machine.

This is the main aspect that these blogs have in common with mainstream news outlets.

Judging by their forums, transbians and trans chasers. I've always had a feeling that Austin is into some serious kinky shit, I mean he's implied it but I half think it's sex-positive virtue signalling.

Austin almost certainly wants to suck tranny cock.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Austin Walker was into trannies. You can’t throw a stone without hitting an anti-gamer tranny these days and all their supporters in games journalism are sick fucks.

 

[Beardfish]

https://via.hypothes.is/https://way...kzqxd/kingdom-come-deliverance-waypoint-radio

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To the shock of no one they are not going to be covering Kingdom Come till they find a way to make it less problematic for their reader base. How? I have no idea.

I love when these assholes don't want to "platform" something, but they do platform themselves for some moral grandstanding over it. "I'm going to talk about how awesome I am for not talking about this thing", this mix of self-gratification and downright autism is just unreal and yet it's so common that it's not even surprising. It literally is just like cancer.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

Does anyone else think it's hilarious how these guys are spending their entire adult lives bouncing from one low paying job to another to peddle social justice bullshit about video games? Like, these niggas peaked at age 19 and it's all downhill from there.