Patrick Klepek can eat shit and die, in whatever order he likes.
RIP in piss Gaypoint.
Here's their thread whining about it:
Just gutted by this news. I’m sad about the hardship for some very talented people whose work I enjoy and admire. I’m sad about the loss to wider games journalism. Mostly, I’m sad I might not get to see these folks continue to hang out and have fun. This was a team that seemed to genuinely enjoy...
forum.waypoint.vice.com
If this is true, I'm honestly surprised. I'd think that VICE would just nuke the entire forum out of concern for liability rather than waste any time transferring it and all of its contents over to new owners.
I also forgot that they have a private, invite-only Discord server. I wonder what the talk has been like there for the past couple of days.
Exiled VR pioneer Palmer Luckey seems convinced that a cabal of games journalists were behind "hundreds" of articles that claimed he was funding people to make racist/sexist memes during the height of Trump fever. He tweeted the following after the demise of Waypoint:
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Not content with the endless arguing on Twitter, Luckey decided to take on the redditor menace
by posting on the Giant Bomb subreddit for some reason. Every interaction goes the exact same way:
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It is indeed a stupid waste of time to argue on the Giant Bomb subreddit as so, but Palmer Luckey is right to see justice and personal satisfaction in the demise of VICE Waypoint. His ordeal really was as he says. I remember it well as one of the greatest injustices of the video game industry since the dawn of Gamergate. All he did, as a private, anonymous individual, was fund an anti-Clinton billboard ad for the 2016 presidential election and attempted to fundraise for more such ads from the much-maligned "The Donald" subreddit.
When game journalists found out, they threw a massive bitchfit about what amounts to normal political campaigning until Mark Zuckerberg pressured Luckey to publicly lie that he was merely a misunderstood supporter of Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, then fired him from Facebook some months later anyway, thus indeed robbing Luckey of the Oculus company he built. This was at the same time that Max Temkin's Cards Against Humanity, as a company, openly funded similarly-memetic anti-Trump billboards with celebration from those same game journalists.
Having been rendered persona non grata to much of the West Coast tech industry, Luckey then went on to start a big, successful defense company, much to the chagrin of the journalists who banished him and continued to make occasional potshots to this day. I just realized the irony of this. If these Lefty journos didn't clamor to oust Luckey from Facebook, then he would've never started a company in service to the US military that they also loathe.
Waypoint actually has a special place in this. Not only did
Patrick Klepek write an article to join in the slanderous deluge against Luckey. The podcast, the crown jewel of the entire Waypoint endeavor, had it's very first episode out of 500+ specifically about condemning Luckey for his "crimes":
