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Patrick Klepek - News Editor at Giant Bomb Part 1- Patrick's PAX Talk April 2014 In a talk mainly focussed oncyber bulying Patrick brings up an example here several people on Twitter voiced their con- cern about nazi-like imagery found in Viambeer's latest title I have a question about Luftrausers: is there some political point to playing as nazis or is it supposed to be funny? FAX East 2014 Why Intemet Jenks Arent Going to Win, And You Can Help so luftrausers as a jew, what offends me is the aesthetic as a game designer, what offends me is the absence of critical distance from it. Warning: For those interested in watching this talk , Patrick mentions a m려or MGS Ground Zeroes plot pont酵about 18:15, 18:23. Relevant-Luftrausers. information at Patrick Kiepek's statement in the video14-50 to-16:30 … The two of them thoughtfully explained their position on Twitter. This is criticism, and in tact it is well articulated criticism. So even though Fm not jewish...and so even though Idon't have much of aproblem with the imagery in Luftrausers: Irespect imins and Dubbin are coming at this from a very different ife perspective, I beleve scientists call this empathy, but they're stil' looking into And they're not asking viambeer to change the way Luftrausers looks, they're only raising questions about wheter its aesthetics could leverage nazi imagery in a way that's glessed ever, because the game is really damn fun LJ And Vlambeer didn't have to respond to this, but they in fact did They wrote an extremely long blog post Here's the excerpt that stood out to me We de have to occept that or gome culd moke some people uncomfortable. We're extremely sodobout thet, and we sincerely apologise for that discomfort. The fact ls that no interpretation of a game is wrong When you create something you leave certain implications of what you're making we accept there'sno wrong interpretation of a work, e also have to accept that some of those inter pretations.could not be along the lines af what ww 're trying to create It is unlikely that Luftrausers will undergo any major aesthetik change as a resultofwhat Simins and Dubbin said, but the con clusions ofthis exchange brings a better understanding of what Viambeer wanted to do by creating Luftrausers Noone has to agree with either side but our understanding of Luftrausers place in gaming culture place was deepend as aresult of acritical ex- change where no one toldeach ather to screw off Everyone won and we understood the game just alittle bit better. Part 2 -Patrick's News Coverage Of Dead Island Riptide Limited Edition January 2013 Deep Silver announces Dead Island Riptide's special edition contents, The box includesa female zombie torso. Does Patrick give Deep Slver the benet of the doubt he isgeing togive Eight Women, Eight Responses, and One Dead Island Riptide Statue by Patrick Klepek on Jammary 36.3013 A collection of reactions to last week's questionsble marketing tactio from, variety of women in the video me industry. Dead Island Riptide Offers Up Bikini-Laden Statue, Publisher Quickly hy Patrick epek on Isuary 16,3013 Unclear the bundle In question will still be sold, howevcr. TRIPTIDE Note: Compare the aggresive and negative language used in this news piece com pared to Patrick's fairexplanation af passible cffense caused by Luftrausers. An apolo- gy by Deep Silverdoesnt seem to be enough while Viambeer "didn't have torespond to potentlally offensive content in Luftbrausers Nate: The second article features statements by women in the video game industry the female chest st omitted these because this is Klepek Part 3-Back to Patrick's Luftrausers Coverage April 2014 Considering the amount of news coverage Dead Island's limited trovesial posts on GiantBomb's official website received, did Vlambeer's Luftrausers alsorecelvecon Patrick Klepek Will Now Take Your Calls Dldn't mean to write about Luftrausers aesthetic convo between Vlambeer @robdubbin @ElizSimins, but someone asked. patrickklepek tumblr.com/post sonaltebouthe was writen before the y. This is lk and hini pretty calm and collected content Part 4-Gaming News or Game Developer News? Let's take a look at other gaming related coverage by Patrick Kepek. Bombin' the A.M With Zoe Quinn Patrick Klepek Will Now Take Your Calls The designer behird Depression Quest. whkh Noter Releasing one game on Steam seems to be enough reason to be inwited toa one hour show, and speak at a collaborative panel at PAX with Patrick Note: Patrick Klepek seems to be more interested incovering the personal life of an indie developerwith one released game than writing video game Patrick Klepek Will Now Take Your Calls With Note: Shertly aheavily delending sonal tumb, Patick invites VMambeers Rami Ismail to hiá one hourshow to "talk about his worldly travels and helping grow small communities Luftrausers visul style on his per- Note: Patrick's tumble followers have to romind him thathe's writing for a gaming website and nota website that covers game developers personal Hains Is Klepek's news and indie title coverage fair and unbiased? You be the judge

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