#waypoint

[waypointpod]

To celebrate 5 years of Waypoint, we travel back in time to meet the first ever team to call itself the S.O.S.!

Waypoint: The Silver Age - Part 1

In which we travel back to the early years of Waypoint and meet the first team of the S.O.S.

[admiralskywhale]

Difficult Games: Beauty And Pain (Skate Story & Ultrakill Essay)

Really, really excellent video from Renata Price and K Tessa Newton. Deals with a lot of stuff I've been thinking about re: living an embodied existence, and ties it together with difficulty in video games, depictions of hell, when pain is useful, meaningful, beautiful, or instructive, when it isn't, and what we might do as a response to pain. The video is, in some ways, very unpleasant (or at least uncomfortable), because it does not shy away from describing both physical and psychic pain in accurate and unwavering detail - which is exactly the approach a video like this needs. True representation of a particular person's body in pain. Throughout the entirety of the video, you can see Ren's exposed back and shoulder muscles clench and relax, you can see her stretch in unintuitive ways to alleviate the discomfort she experiences as she talks directly to the camera, and you can see her hands, wrists, and arms spasm while she plays as flashes of shoulder pain forces her to move in unbidden ways. Accurately reflecting the pastime of gaming (or, for Renata, the Job of gaming and writing about games) as an embodied activity where acting in accordance with the game's goals has specific, physical demands, and admitting that a pain response might be a deliberate artistic motive that Has Meaning i think is really important work and a side of gaming criticism that is woefully under-represented. Renata and Tessa just launched the YouTube channel Crit Build, where they'll be doing more of this kind of work, and if you're interested, I highly recommend checking this video out.

Content warnings for: Descriptions of hell and suffering, frank discussion of muscular pain and psychic distress

[alizarinacolores-blog]

Come tutti i bimbi.....

[divinefealty]

it is INSANE that vice is trying to reboot waypoint, especially considering it's been a year and a half and they haven't paid severance to the people they fired

[meezimoo]

Fortnite comms for @/drhousekinnie on insta!! each of these were $20 if you're interested - flatcolor chibis (although I went a little crazy with the coloring on breakpoint, lmfao)

[waypointpod]

In this new episode of Waypoint, the Renegades confront the creator of the contest of champions and the world they just left.

Episode 75 - Omnibus

In which the Renegades learn the true reason for this whole mess

[cadmium-free]

Waypoint’s Rob Zacny destroying his stove in the pursuit of crushed ice is like a fable to me. A cautionary tale. Every time I’m about to act like an absolute clown in the kitchen I think about Rob Zacny taking a hammer to his glass top stove to make crushed ice because he accidentally cut open the wrong grapefruit and I stop doing what I’m doing

[folanoflimbo]

wild watching games criticism, real actual games crit without the shit of influencers and Geoff Keighley and sponsorships and the sort just like

Die

And its just because it doesn't make money in the billions, as if the cultural benefit is meaningless