AJUMP23
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Waypoint shutting down, all staff laid off
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anthraticus
Banned
Good riddance. Fuck all those shitty SJW sites.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
I thought Waypoint was a developer name. Clicked to be reminded what games they made . . .
SEGAvangelist
Member
Glad to see the system working. Waypoint was irrelevant before it even began. I hope he finds a new job (dude has a family), but not with one of my fav gaming companies.
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Bergoglio
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Smell woke leftist in the tweet.
DaGwaphics
Member
Was this a gaming media thing or a game studio?
graywolf323
Member
same, while I feel bad for people losing their jobs I did feel some relief that it’s wasn’t Wayforward
Lunarorbit
Member
I used to listen to waypoint when they first started after kotakus collapse. By the time they hired Rob I was done. I like social commentary on my gaming pods but it became way too preachy.In his writeup he said he was unsure if the game was going to "show him porn".
Just imagine the horror of accidentally having to look at some boobs
And Patrick klepick... Dude, you were a regular American perv in college and got heat over those drawings and pictures that went online. Instead of moderating your behavior like an adult you became a little wuss and covered your eyes during a yakuza scene.
Obviously it wasn't going to turn into a porn or have nudity or I'd be on the rating label. You knew that and still acted like a performative bitch. Get outta here.
He'll be fine. Dudes been making bank for awhile and if he falls on hard times then he only has himself to blame.
Mithos
Member
Melanie Iglesias.Naw for real tho, who is that? For....research purposes.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
His surname sounds like the sound of a woman walking in high heels
Yet you cared enough to post
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Yeah vice was fucking sick when the paper magazine was full of shit like 'im a photographer for cnn but decided to become friends with some gun traffickers and they won't print this story'
Just endless deep dives into the complexity of the world.
2005 - 2012 I think was it's best run. I'd say RIP but I've already mourned them.
ZoukGalaxy
Member
Seriously, who/what is that?
Billbofet
Member
I remember liking Patrick on the 1up show way back in the day, but he become the human embodiment of all that is wrong with gaming journalism.
Last time I heard of him was calling someone out for using "insane" in marketing materials as being insensitive to those with mental illness - and then someone dug up like 20 tweets of him using the word "insane!!" over the years.
This feels like karma to me.
Last time I heard of him was calling someone out for using "insane" in marketing materials as being insensitive to those with mental illness - and then someone dug up like 20 tweets of him using the word "insane!!" over the years.
This feels like karma to me.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Man I can’t stop laughing at this. Lisa was the “enlightened” progressive one who nobody liked because she had no charisma or sense of humor to balance out her idealism. (Also the Lisa episodes were always the worst ones)
Nobody I know who grew up with The Simpsons would willingly describe themselves as the Lisa Simpson of anything. For that matter, The Simpsons is satire and every single character pokes fun of something. No matter who you are, there’s probably some Simpsons character who’s pretty “on the nose” at lampooning one of your excesses.
Guess it’s a sign of the times that people unironically see Lisa as someone to be emulated rather than an example of “how to ensure nobody wants to listen to you regardless of whether you’re right or wrong”
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Hopefully the effected folks are able to land on their feet quick.
Patrick's probably gonna find his way back to Kotaku.
Patrick's probably gonna find his way back to Kotaku.
poodaddy
Member
Hopefully he finds his way to a new career field altogether.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
As horrible as it is for people to be laid off and out of work, the longer goons like Patrick Klepeck can be kept away from writing about videogames the better.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Glorious day. The first piece of PK writing I have ever truly enjoyed is the tweet where he cries about providing for his family
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
"writing about video games"
Game nerds are a hateful bunch and they live for the day they can shit on their "enemies."
begotten
Member
Again, they were all nobodies. Hopefully they all get a real job.
MALpractice311
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Not the original requestor, but thank you. So she's of Puerto Rican, Italian, and Philipino heritage. All three of those things are relevant to my interests. And my Google search history.
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MALpractice311
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Yeah, that's how I feel about Vice as a whole as well. There's some legit interesting documentary stuff, but a lot of absolute trash. I just hope that if all of Vice goes down the crapper that Dark Side of the Ring finds a home.
nikos
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That looks interesting, I think I'll check it out.
MayauMiao
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semiconscious
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2016-2022: the great dislocation
2023-?: the great correction...
blacktout
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Plenty of YouTubers are pulling in six figures for producing superficially comparable content (gaming news, criticism, and analysis) when you factor in ad revenue, sponsorships, and Patreon.
The difference is that they're providing actual value to their audience by discussing subjects they're actually knowledgeable and passionate about, rather than just powering on the culture wars resentment machine and hoping to harvest clicks.
Good riddance to a business model that made the world an uglier, nastier place.
saintjules
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Ah, Patrick. He was one of the guys hyping up false PS5/XSX rumors on the Vice Podcast. This was around February 2020.
nkarafo
Member
I'm sure his wife is a strong and independent woman who needs no man, so she can surely provide for her family herself.
bender
What time is it?
One of the last great bastions of games writing topples due to incompetence and mismanagement by c-suite executives who never understood their product in the first place.
MayauMiao
Member
Looking at Waypoint's Youtube channel with the number of subscribers (55k
) and videos that barely hits 5k views, its absolutely pathetic for what Kotaku calls "A Good Website About Video Games".It also says a lot about Kotaku being out of touch with reality and in complete denial.
Interfectum
Member
This douche legit thought people wanted a Lisa Simpson of gaming website... completely misunderstanding Lisa Simpson's role in the show.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
His Twitter avatar pic alone triggers the fuck out of me. This dude makes Weird Al look like Bullet-Tooth Tony.
AJUMP23
Member
This is weird take.
Kotaku reader feeling hurt about the death of Waypoint despite never heard of them. Such projection.
Soodanim
Member
A reminder that you did just that:
You told someone to stop talking about what the man did as part of his job for the company in question, with the reason being that he has kids. What is that if not trying to shift the focus onto him being a parent rather than the company's downfall as a whole?
Low blow, man.
Everything is performative these days. Truly weird take
Fine I'll notice you if only to say perhaps you want to distinguish between the "literal" and the "colloquial."
Just what the video gaming industry needed, let's just be glad we don't have The Velma/Brian Griffin of gaming.
Soodanim
Member
Which one?