The narrative has jumped from “video games cause violence” to “video games cause fascism” as the riots at Capitol Hill are being blamed on gamers. We discuss why this is a ludicrous idea along with the other game-related fallout from the riots, plus Kotaku’s “gamers” of the year and the push to censor Top Hat Studios’ Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story.

Cyberpunk 2077 had such a horrible launch on last-gen consoles that the game is being refunded, no questions asked, and has been pulled from Sony’s digital storefront. We discuss the fallout from this unprecedented disaster along with Devotion being censored again, Twitch banning the words “simp” and “incel,” what happened during The Game Awards, and Kotaku’s hilariously bad takes on everything from Dragon Age fanfiction to Soulsborne games.

Nearly every major review of Cyberpunk 2077 shoehorns in long tangents about trans representation, for some reason. Video game critic Sophia Narwitz, who happens to be trans herself, joins the show to discuss the gaming media’s activist mentality and clique-like nature. Listen as we discuss trans voices, in-game ads, “fetishization,” nonbinary options, and other nonsense games journalists can’t shut up about.

Cyberpunk 2077 is only days from release, but Polygon wrote an article of pent-up angst about the game’s marketing over the past two years. We make fun of their offense over such a progressive game and also discuss Polygon’s failure to condemn people who harassed an Animal Crossing player over her hairstyle of choice, Twitch getting rid of the tag “blind playthrough,” why inverted controls have nothing to do with empathy, and Feminist Frequency’s latest attempt to ruin the gaming industry.

An Animal Crossing: New Horizons player was accused of racism and cultural appropriation for wearing a black hairstyle as a white character. We discuss this asinine controversy along with Brianna Wu’s hypocrisy regarding harassment, ZombaeKillz’s attempt to silence critics, Sony’s censorship of PS5 users’ tweets, gaming companies using the cringe term “Latinx,” and plenty more.

Journalist Jesse Singal made waves last week when he pointed out most gamers don’t want politics injected into games despite the fact games journalists can’t stop shoving their ideologies down gamers’ throats. We discuss the age-old topic of politics in games, including Nintendo asking companies to stop making Animal Crossing political and why a communism experiment in Cities: Skylines failed. We also talk about Demon’s Souls’ nonexistent easy mode, why the beautiful characters of Hades aren’t fat or disabled, why it sucks to use your skin color and genitals to get a free PS5, and plenty more.

Ubisoft has updated Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla to remove “offensive, ableist language” referring to a burn victim as “disfigured.” We discuss the future of gaming in a world that caters to the perpetually offended along with weird political takes on new video game console reviews, more games people being canceled over benign opinions on gender identity, race obsession in Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Biden’s plan to waste tax dollars on stopping online harassment, and plenty more.

Richard La Ruina, Super Seducer creator and former pickup artist, joins as the show's first guest. La Ruina talks about everything from controversies surrounding the blowback to his first game to problems with video game journalism in general. We also talk about the changes to the upcoming Super Seducer 3, next-gen console excitement, and more.

Kotaku used an article about Amnesia: Rebirth to preach about everything from “stigmatizing” language to abortion rights to race. We break down the hilariously weird take and also cover Vice’s article about how Dark Souls critiques capitalism, colonialism in Animal Crossing, using “minority privilege” to get a free PS5, Pokémon characters being told they’re gay, the latest updates on Halo Infinite and Cyberpunk 2077, the upcoming GamerGate movie, and plenty more.

Being a person who always looks for offense where none exists, Anita Sarkeesian has declared popular Among Us term “sus” homophobic. We talk about how language isn’t that simple along with Twitter calling a Cyberpunk 2077 cosplay transphobic, Sony licking the boots of their Chinese overlords, Alex Hutchinson of Google Stadia’s hot take on game streaming, ads in NBA 2K21, and video game publishers joining the Anti-Defamation League.