Waypoint and the Waypoint Forums - NeoGAF's Autistic Inbred Cousin and Shitty Game Site

[CrunkLord420]

I'm willing to bet Patrick was one of the game journos who behind the scenes helped Jim Sterling and Bob Chipman make the Escapist's name toxic to a lot of devs and made them refuse to provide easy coverage. It wasn't what killed the Escapist (the site always had money problems) but it didn't help.

And now he must be enraged that the thing he tried to kill is rising from the ashes.

I imagine the GameJournoPros immediately just became a network of slack channels.

 

[CrunkLord420]

Nick Monroe tweeting about Patrick Klepek. A lot of tweets. https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1030201931254452224 (https://archive.fo/g6oG7 https://archive.fo/bAmzi https://archive.fo/TfFeN https://archive.fo/zSiTB)

Spoiler: tweetstorm

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Nick Monroe is now one of my favorite person. That shit is savage.

Edit: Jesus fucking Christ, "one of my favorite person"? I'm apparently too high to English correctly.

 

[Lucas Silva #4903141]

Given this glorious twitter thread of Patrick Klepek pics where Nick Monroe reveals some amusing stuff, I feel like Klepek deserves his own thread. What do you guys think? Anyways, these photos were uploaded on flickr by Patrick himself (and they're all gone now), some would say these are problematic. Among the pics, you'll find Klepek taking pics of women's chests, and a pic of two black guys dancing that is captioned "Ready for a hate crime" (whatever the fuck that means), a few rape jokes, usual college tomfoolery, you know. A lot of things that make you think "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"

EDIT: just realized that a poster above me had already linked to the twitter thread, my bad

 

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Given this glorious twitter thread of Patrick Klepek pics where Nick Monroe reveals some amusing stuff, I feel like Klepek deserves his own thread. What do you guys think? Anyways, these photos were uploaded on flickr by Patrick himself (and they're all gone now), some would say these are problematic. Among the pics, you'll find Klepek taking pics of women's chests, and a pic of two black guys dancing that is captioned "Ready for a hate crime" (whatever the fuck that means), a few rape jokes, usual college tomfoolery, you know. A lot of things that make you think "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"

1) I don't think he deserves a thread, he is just a boring SJW Male feminist with a creepy side, which is basically all of them lol. What I am saying is he doesn't stand-out enough from the rest of the soyboy pack.

2) This is shit that's made to be archived, so please archive it next time, doofus.

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1030201931254452224?s=19
http://archive.is/D8Ybc

If someone can check if all the cringey photos are intact in the archive, and upload them here, I am on mobile, and I can't verify it for myself. Context is preserved for sure tho, that I can verify.

Thanks.

 

[CrunkLord420]

1) I don't think he deserves a thread, he is just a boring SJW Male feminist with a creepy side, which is basically all of them lol. What I am saying is he doesn't stand-out enough from the rest of the soyboy pack.

2) This is shit that's made to be archived, so please archive it next time, doofus.

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1030201931254452224?s=19
http://archive.is/D8Ybc

If someone can check if all the cringey photos are intact in the archive, and upload them here, I am on mobile, and I can't verify it for myself. Context is preserved for sure tho, that I can verify.

Thanks.

I manually went through the tweetstorm and archived where the auto-expand cuts off. If someone wants to double check to make sure it didn't miss anything: https://archive.fo/g6oG7 https://archive.fo/bAmzi https://archive.fo/TfFeN https://archive.fo/zSiTB

 

[Jaimas]

Given this glorious twitter thread of Patrick Klepek pics where Nick Monroe reveals some amusing stuff, I feel like Klepek deserves his own thread. What do you guys think? Anyways, these photos were uploaded on flickr by Patrick himself (and they're all gone now), some would say these are problematic. Among the pics, you'll find Klepek taking pics of women's chests, and a pic of two black guys dancing that is captioned "Ready for a hate crime" (whatever the fuck that means), a few rape jokes, usual college tomfoolery, you know. A lot of things that make you think "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"

EDIT: just realized that a poster above me had already linked to the twitter thread, my bad

He absolutely deserves one at this point. Let's go over the fucking details:

1. After Alison Rapp was fired, he wrote this fucking thing claiming that Rapp had been fired because of "harassment" from GG (as opposed to her being a fucking prostitute). He further went on to blame Jamie Walton for getting her fired because she brought up Rapp's history of advocating lowering ages of consent and defending pedophilia. Klepek doing this led to not only a fuckton of abuse thrown at the head of a fucking anti-child trafficking organization, and the widespread belief to this day amongst Anti-GGers that Rapp lost her job because of Gamergate, but nearly led to an industry boycott against Nintendo by the retarded journo class. While he later fessed up to getting it wrong, Klepek denied any culpability for his wrongdoing and whined that because of his shitty reporting his life and family had been threatened and you should feel bad for him.

2. Patrick is the instigator of Kevin Dent's blacklisting by Game Journo Pros. Not much to say here, even with Oliver being Oliver in that link. It pretty much speaks for itself. While on the subject, he's one of the more active members of that group (widely considered the "smoking gun" of Gamergate).

3. Presented without comment:

4. Also speaks for itself:

I could get into more, such as that fucking video where he covers his face because boobs appear during a Yakuza game, but the dude is a fucking sociopathic beta male and premium lolcow thread fodder. Do some digging, you'll find fucking pages of content.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

I could get into more, such as that fucking video where he covers his face because boobs appear during a Yakuza game

Oh man, I completely forgot about that faggotry. I'm all about a Klepek thread as well.

 

[CrunkLord420]

I thought this was Patrick's thread.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

I thought this was Patrick's thread.

I suppose that's true, but the title would need his name added.

 

[Haramburger]

I'm not particularly interested in Patrick Klepek myself, but he's a very public sperg that spergs publicly, which is pretty much the criteria for having a lolcow thread. I only care about his pathetic sucking up to/dealings with Zoe Quinn aka Chelsea Vanvalkerburg, but if someone is willing to compile Klepek-isms I would salute them.

 

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I honestly still don't think a lot of those game journos should get threads, look at the ones who actually do have them, you will see that they have so much more to them than just being SJWs or Game journos:

• Jed Whitaker wrote an article about shoving amiibos/JoyMiis up his ass with a straight face, unironically made the Jedders Pedders video and was somehow too autistic for even fucking pre-showergate NeoGAF to handle, he still tard rages whenever he sees reminders of Destructoid firing his ass.
• Josh Dale/Laura Kate Dale claimed that he got kidnapped by a Taxi, publicly accused a Microsoft employee of misgendering him, freaked the fuck out because of a simple "are traps gay?" joke during Cox Con, frequently attempts to be seen as a 'leaker', to the point of commemorating his single good leak with not one, but two tattoos, and somehow managed to cut his dick off and still retain a perpetual 5 o'clock shadow..

I honestly can't see ppl like Patrick Klepek, Austin Walker or fucking Ben Kuchera..etc getting a thread that competes with the above for quality, the bar is just too high for them to even make it as lolcows for people to laugh at.

Also, here's all the Klepek pics uploaded, so we can preserve his retardation in full res.

 

[CrunkLord420]

I never realized how much of a frat-boy Patrick used to be. I always just assumed he was a journalism major who spent most of his time gaming.

He's confirmed himself as a self-hating stereotype. These pictures display pure dude-broism ("toxic masculinity"), but in a pathetically milquetoast sort of way.

For contrast our white knight shielding his eyes from potential softcore pornography.

David Jaffe just threw up a livestream titled "KlepekGate+Last Jedi 'Fans'+Chris Pine Kirk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BsMHHbZT9I

fun fact, David Jaffe's 12 year old daughter identifies as pansexual and he's way to into talking about it on public livestreams.

EDIT: stream just started

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Nick Monroe tweeting about Patrick Klepek. A lot of tweets. https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1030201931254452224 (https://archive.fo/g6oG7 https://archive.fo/bAmzi https://archive.fo/TfFeN https://archive.fo/zSiTB)

Spoiler: tweetstorm

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That was an extremely brutal takedown of Patrick Klepek.

He fucking deserved it too.

 

[Jaimas]

I'm not particularly interested in Patrick Klepek myself, but he's a very public sperg that spergs publicly, which is pretty much the criteria for having a lolcow thread. I only care about his pathetic sucking up to/dealings with Zoe Quinn aka Chelsea Vanvalkerburg, but if someone is willing to compile Klepek-isms I would salute them.

Gotcha, bro. In fact, since he decided deleting 50,000+ tweets last week was a good idea, I thought it'd be a good time to immortalize his accomplishments via this thread.

Patrick Klepek flashing his progressive bonafides.

So who the hell is Patrick Klepek?

Patrick with Zoe Quinn, 7 months before the beginning of the Autism Holy War

Patrick Klepek is a "game journalist" who is, for all intents and purposes, a major reason GG even fucking happened. He was a member of the infamous Game Journo Pros list - the proverbial "smoking gun" of GG, which showed that not only were a number of indie game journalists in open collusion with one another, they were doing so in violation of the law, and were actively involved in attempting to suppress not only the Zoe Quinn scandal, but GG once it became clear that the public wasn't going to shut the fuck up about said scandal. He was, of course, financially supporting Quinn at the time of the scandal.

Klepek's hands were anything but clean on this. He was involved with attempting to blacklist Kevin Dent, a former IGDA chair, mostly because Phil Fish took issue with the guy, to say nothing of how aggressively he tried to fight against those pushing the Quinn scandal in the GJP leaks.

Throughout the entirety of the Autism Holy War, he tried avidly to play both sides, pretending to be on-the-level while actively supporting Quinn and the usual suspects at every opportunity. The dude is a gigantic triangulating fucker who will never commit to anything unless it backs his SJW buddies. It doesn't always go so well, however; the above blacklisting attempt would spell the end of Patrick's work at GiantBomb. He also has a tendency to Virtue Signal, which, of course, means he tends to make a gigantic ass of himself in public, one of the truest of lolcow behaviors:

The world's most oppressed white man demands your sympathy

He currently works for Vice via Waypoint, but has a history working for everyone from EGM to G4 to 1UP. Like any good infection, Patrick's found ways to survive his host's destruction, and somehow always lands in another indie game publication where he quickly resumes doing exactly what he was already doing until that, too, goes under. He was also a regular on NeoGAF, where he helped the usual suspects coordinate their shithead assaults and would broadcast their talking points to whatever publication he was part of at the time. That's only scratching the tip of this iceberg - there's a lot to cover about this loathsome asshole, so without further ado, let's get into the deets, with part one of three:


"Pollute the Waters if It Means A Single Click":
While many things are hallmarks of why Klepek deserves coverage, there is one in particular that quickly establishes why even the most even-tempered of people can be pushed to go full A-Log against him quickly: His propensity to push absolute horse-shit if it means getting attention.

Time and time again, Patrick has been caught lying, misrepresenting people, and committing flat-out slander before being either bitch-slapped by his corporate parents, threatened with legal retaliation, getting absolutely butt-fucked on Twitter, or having his talking points systemically dismantled. Despite this, without exception, he will charge right back into the fray to do it again, and deny he was ever wrong.

Below you'll find two really good examples of the shit he's done in the name of clickbait:

1. Causing a Gigantic, Autistic Clusterfuck Through Shitty Reporting:

I mentioned it before, but it bears repeating: after Alison Rapp was fired, Klepek wrote this fucking thing claiming that Rapp had been fired because of "harassment" from GG (as opposed to her being a fucking prostitute). He further went on to blame Jamie Walton for getting her fired because Walton went to Nintendo regarding Rapp's repeated pushing for advocating age of consent lowering and whining about how victimized pedophiles were.

Klepek doing this didn't just lead to a ton of Social Justice-types screaming about Jamie Walton being a double super secret Gamergater (because throwing that accusation a year after GG died off makes perfect sense), and subsequently led to a fuckton of abuse being thrown at the head of an Anti-Child Trafficking Organization, but it nearly led to an industry-wide boycott of Nintendo by many of Klepek's fellows in the indie gaming press:

While it's doubtful Klepek's buddies boycotting Nintendo would have actually done anything (Social Justice is not an audience, after all), the fact that this fucking thing got as far as it did is testament to how much influence he used to have. After the fact that he had essentially rushed to judgment and caused this minor shitstorm got exposed, he issued this no-pology, which ends with this fucking statement:

One point I want to make, though. For the great sin of covering this topic, the personal details of my family have been investigated, with harassers finding ways to target us in real-life. That we cannot even have a discussion without such extremes shows how toxic this has all become.

He does that one a lot when he's losing arguments - claim he's been harassed, so you can't criticize him.


2. Helping to Further Ignite Existing Shitstorms:
So, you guys remember the Jontron debacle? If not, you missed a doozy. Basically, Jontron got in a debate with Destiny, and, being less than experienced at debate and not having all the facts, wound up saying some things that could be construed as being racist.

That was all Klepek needed, and he was one of the first on the bandwagon to claim Jontron was a Nazi. In what can only be called a particularly Autistic Kafkatrap, Klepek claimed that the very fact that he went on the likes of Breitbart in response proved his guilt (when in truth, nobody in the so-called gaming press would even agree to an interview with the guy). This was hot off the heels of the PewDiePie debacle too, so you'd better believe that the usual suspects were out for Jon's blood. Not one to shy from this, Klepek also entered the fray to take potshots at those defending Jon on Twitter.

While this was going on, more was brewing behind the scenes. Notorious corrupt moderator on NeoGAF Besada led the charge in trying to get Jontron subjected to his own Autistic form of damnatio memoriae; this started with aggressive attempts to bully Playtonic, Yooka-Laylee's developer, into removing the alleged Iranian Nazi from the game. Playtonic caved, and this quickly pissed off quite a bit of the fanbase, who demanded refunds.

So how did Klepek reward Playtonic for capitulating to his friends' demands?

....By accusing them (and Bloodstained) of scamming about a month later.

Klepek has fucking dozens of these. He's tried to purge them with mass tweet deletions, but, as ever, the Internet does not forget.

 

[CrunkLord420]

YO https://www.neogaf.com/threads/patr...eurism-and-more.1464743/page-3#post-253397424 (https://archive.fo/NGgBI)

 

[Racist Trash]

Gotcha, bro. In fact, since he decided deleting 50,000+ tweets last week was a good idea, I thought it'd be a good time to immortalize his accomplishments via this thread.

Patrick Klepek flashing his progressive bonafides.

So who the hell is Patrick Klepek?

Patrick with Zoe Quinn, 7 months before the beginning of the Autism Holy War

Patrick Klepek is a "game journalist" who is, for all intents and purposes, a major reason GG even fucking happened. He was a member of the infamous Game Journo Pros list - the proverbial "smoking gun" of GG, which showed that not only were a number of indie game journalists in open collusion with one another, they were doing so in violation of the law, and were actively involved in attempting to suppress not only the Zoe Quinn scandal, but GG once it became clear that the public wasn't going to shut the fuck up about said scandal. He was, of course, financially supporting Quinn at the time of the scandal.

Klepek's hands were anything but clean on this. He was involved with attempting to blacklist Kevin Dent, a former IGDA chair, mostly because Phil Fish took issue with the guy, to say nothing of how aggressively he tried to fight against those pushing the Quinn scandal in the GJP leaks.

Throughout the entirety of the Autism Holy War, he tried avidly to play both sides, pretending to be on-the-level while actively supporting Quinn and the usual suspects at every opportunity. The dude is a gigantic triangulating fucker who will never commit to anything unless it backs his SJW buddies. It doesn't always go so well, however; the above blacklisting attempt would spell the end of Patrick's work at GiantBomb. He also has a tendency to Virtue Signal, which, of course, means he tends to make a gigantic ass of himself in public, one of the truest of lolcow behaviors:

The world's most oppressed white man demands your sympathy

He currently works for Vice via Waypoint, but has a history working for everyone from EGM to G4 to 1UP. Like any good infection, Patrick's found ways to survive his host's destruction, and somehow always lands in another indie game publication where he quickly resumes doing exactly what he was already doing until that, too, goes under. He was also a regular on NeoGAF, where he helped the usual suspects coordinate their shithead assaults and would broadcast their talking points to whatever publication he was part of at the time. That's only scratching the tip of this iceberg - there's a lot to cover about this loathsome asshole, so without further ado, let's get into the deets, with part one of three:


"Pollute the Waters if It Means A Single Click":
While many things are hallmarks of why Klepek deserves coverage, there is one in particular that quickly establishes why even the most even-tempered of people can be pushed to go full A-Log against him quickly: His propensity to push absolute horse-shit if it means getting attention.

Time and time again, Patrick has been caught lying, misrepresenting people, and committing flat-out slander before being either bitch-slapped by his corporate parents, threatened with legal retaliation, getting absolutely butt-fucked on Twitter, or having his talking points systemically dismantled. Despite this, without exception, he will charge right back into the fray to do it again, and deny he was ever wrong.

Below you'll find two really good examples of the shit he's done in the name of clickbait:

1. Causing a Gigantic, Autistic Clusterfuck Through Shitty Reporting:

I mentioned it before, but it bears repeating: after Alison Rapp was fired, Klepek wrote this fucking thing claiming that Rapp had been fired because of "harassment" from GG (as opposed to her being a fucking prostitute). He further went on to blame Jamie Walton for getting her fired because Walton went to Nintendo regarding Rapp's repeated pushing for advocating age of consent lowering and whining about how victimized pedophiles were.

Klepek doing this didn't just lead to a ton of Social Justice-types screaming about Jamie Walton being a double super secret Gamergater (because throwing that accusation a year after GG died off makes perfect sense), and subsequently led to a fuckton of abuse being thrown at the head of an Anti-Child Trafficking Organization, but it nearly led to an industry-wide boycott of Nintendo by many of Klepek's fellows in the indie gaming press:

While it's doubtful Klepek's buddies boycotting Nintendo would have actually done anything (Social Justice is not an audience, after all), the fact that this fucking thing got as far as it did is testament to how much influence he used to have. After the fact that he had essentially rushed to judgment and caused this minor shitstorm got exposed, he issued this no-pology, which ends with this fucking statement:



He does that one a lot when he's losing arguments - claim he's been harassed, so you can't criticize him.


2. Helping to Further Ignite Existing Shitstorms:
So, you guys remember the Jontron debacle? If not, you missed a doozy. Basically, Jontron got in a debate with Destiny, and, being less than experienced at debate and not having all the facts, wound up saying some things that could be construed as being racist.

That was all Klepek needed, and he was one of the first on the bandwagon to claim Jontron was a Nazi. In what can only be called a particularly Autistic Kafkatrap, Klepek claimed that the very fact that he went on the likes of Breitbart in response proved his guilt (when in truth, nobody in the so-called gaming press would even agree to an interview with the guy). This was hot off the heels of the PewDiePie debacle too, so you'd better believe that the usual suspects were out for Jon's blood. Not one to shy from this, Klepek also entered the fray to take potshots at those defending Jon on Twitter.

While this was going on, more was brewing behind the scenes. Notorious corrupt moderator on NeoGAF Besada led the charge in trying to get Jontron subjected to his own Autistic form of damnatio memoriae; this started with aggressive attempts to bully Playtonic, Yooka-Laylee's developer, into removing the alleged Iranian Nazi from the game. Playtonic caved, and this quickly pissed off quite a bit of the fanbase, who demanded refunds.

So how did Klepek reward Playtonic for capitulating to his friends' demands?

....By accusing them (and Bloodstained) of scamming about a month later.

Klepek has fucking dozens of these. He's tried to purge them with mass tweet deletions, but, as ever, the Internet does not forget.

I remember the first time I heard of Quinn was her and Klepek's presentation about how feeding trolls was the right thing to do.

They aren't very bright.

 

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@Jaimas, I think it would be a good idea to have a link to your Klepek Megapost on the OP.

Hell, I think intermittent megaposts like this on Waypoint's staff, along with a directory on the OP are a good compromise for Waypoint idiots that aren't interesting enough to have their own threads. I will try to do something similar with the ResetEra thread too.

I also think we should have a thread for other retarded websites as well, we already have this and the OneAngryGamer thread, so why not a combined Polygon/Kotaku thread for example?

YO https://www.neogaf.com/threads/patr...eurism-and-more.1464743/page-3#post-253397424 (https://archive.fo/NGgBI)
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This is significant to me, because:

1. I didn't know Klepek was an admin on NeoGAF, how long ago was this?
2. Tyler recently mentioned that Klepek was a childhood friend of his along with BishopTL, leaving aside the general shithead vibe of that crew, what industry contact would be big enough to cause something like that (my money's on Blowy Zoe)? And did it have any impact on Klepek's subsequent coverage of Showergate?

 

[CrunkLord420]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/patr...-rape-jokes-voyeurism-and-more.1464743/page-4 (https://archive.fo/YBgYY)

1. I didn't know Klepek was an admin on NeoGAF, how long ago was this?
2. Tyler recently mentioned that Klepek was a childhood friend of his along with BishopTL, leaving aside the general shithead vibe of that crew, what industry contact would be big enough to cause something like that (my money's on Blowy Zoe)? And did it have any impact on Klepek's subsequent coverage of Showergate?

From my own memory I remember Patrick stating he was a moderator on Gaming Action Ages Forums, pre NeoGAF. But I dunno, he probably talks about it on the Waypoint podcast when NeoGAF exploded.

 

[Jaimas]

YO https://www.neogaf.com/threads/patr...eurism-and-more.1464743/page-3#post-253397424 (https://archive.fo/NGgBI)
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I'm finding his posts very enjoyable reads these days.