Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon announced his retirement after receiving death threats and harassment over his benign, right-leaning political views. We discuss games journalists’ reaction to his political donations along with the good and bad of E3, the laughable state of Kotaku since Patricia Hernandez became editor in chief, and a cringe VG24/7 article comparing Mass Effect 2 to the United States funding terrorist groups.

IGN wrote a piece this week criticizing Dice for saying Battlefield 2042’s story and setting themes exist only for gameplay reasons. We discuss game journalists’ penchant for demanding games take polarizing political stances, Kotaku holding a grudge against Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s ongoing success, the Tolkien Society going woke, and Wargamer’s reminder to not be racist while playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Only three days into Pride Month, Kotaku got upset with how gay characters are represented in video games. We discuss Kotaku’s regressive complaint about queer representation in Injustice 2 Mobile along with Patricia Hernandez becoming the site’s new editor-in-chief, Asian-American voice actors hypocritically expecting only Asians to voice anime, how dumb it is to have wheelchair-bound heroes in Dungeons & Dragons, and the Prison Architect board game being canceled due to a few offended fans.

In their never-ending quest to link video games to unrelated real-world issues, Polygon and Paste published pieces talking about Mass Effect’s police state mentality. We break these hilariously bad articles down and also talk about Twitch’s new hot tub streaming category and marginalized channel tags along with the fallout from gaming sites weighing in on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Vice was so offended by Mass Effect 2’s Overlord DLC that they published a piece calling for its outright censorship in the series’ Legacy Edition. We talk about how ludicrous it is to blame a fictional villain’s “ableism” on the writers who made him along with Anita Sarkeesian’s terrible take and IGN’s stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Devolver Digital supporting Sarkeesian’s grifting, Activision firing a sexist voice actor, the He-Man remake censoring and race-swapping women after its showrunner promised that wouldn’t happen, and the Power Girl co-creator ironically calling out “sexism” in manga.

Game Rant wrote an article based on a single streamer’s complaint that Valkyrie, the new playable character in Apex Legends, does not represent her Japanese heritage enough. We break down this silly complaint and also discuss ZombaeKillz and Girl From Canada being eaten alive by their woke allies, games journalists thinking it’s just fine to not be good at or finish the games they’re reviewing, and Doctor Strange being pulled from the WandaVision finale for the sin of being a white male.

As is their custom, Kotaku published a stupid piece saying including white cis women characters in games isn’t progressive enough, adding more proof to the never-ending pile of evidence that video game journalists will never be satisfied with their social justice agenda. We also discuss Dia Lacina’s terrible takes on politics in Returnal and Nier’s auto-battle system, Jeffrey Grubb simping for Lacina and his history of being not a good guy, Respawn’s jab at Polygon’s error-riddled article on Titanfall lore, a Riot developer’s based take on critical race theory, Polygon pushing the idea that people have body dysmorphia over Wii Fit, and a World of Warcraft voice actor being canceled over fruitless sexual misconduct allegations.

Wokies are accusing a game where you play as a Native American chief fighting colonialists of being racist. I break down the completely ridiculous controversy and discuss other recent news, including Diablo II censorship, more Six Days in Fallujah nonsense, a Kotaku story about “black pain” I actually kind of agree with, Marvel comparing Jordan Peterson to Red Skull, and Twitch’s new offsite conduct policy.

Extra Credits recently released a video that implies that evil, ugly orcs in video games are an obvious stand-in for real black people, among other hilariously terrible takes. We watch and break down the video along with their take from last year that WWII shooters will turn players into Nazis. We also discuss some of the cringe writing in Outriders, Kotaku writing a story based on an obvious troll, a senator calling Gina Carano a Nazi, and how Sony is dropping the ball.

Cancel culture has reached a new peak with prominent games journalists and developers alike calling on the government to censor the upcoming Six Days in Fallujah. We recap the events leading up to a petition to cancel the game along with Eurogamer getting offended over It Takes Two’s love story, Ghost of Tsushima getting made into a movie, and Kotaku defaming the developer of Super Seducer 3.