Dominaa little indie game on Steam about managing gladiators has recently started trending online, but not because it’s a really good game or it just got a cool update or anything like that. No, the developer behind the game instead included an extravagance and blasphemy about the transgender political commentator and streamer. Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti inside patch notes for Dominalatest update. And strangely, this isn’t the first time this developer has put weird and terrible political dissent in the patch notes for Domina.
Summary: On August 5, Sorrenti was the target of a violent attack that resulted in the wrongful arrest of her by London, Ontario police, and repeated use of her dead name while pointing a gun at her. her face. After describing the attack in a YouTube video A few days later, Sorrenti and her fiancé moved to a supposedly safe hotel. But members of forums with violent hate speech that misrepresent Kiwi Farms have continued stalking and harassing Sorrenti when she fought back and tried to force the security and hosting company Cloudflare to stop supporting the site and its dangerous users.
Pressure to leave the forum continues as of this writing, with Cloudflare recently stating that it has no plans to phase out KiwiFarms, with the company’s exec saying an August 31 blog “Just as the telephone company does not terminate your line if you say terrible, racist, bigotry things, we have concluded in consultation with politicians, policymakers and experts that turning off privacy services because we think what you publish is despicable wrong policy. “
For some reason, the developer behind the Steam game is not involved Domina decided to share their bad thoughts and opinions about Sorrenti, transgenders etc in a completely unrelated video game. inside patch notes for the August 31 update Into the game, the developer included a loose and almost uncoordinated statement claiming that the name of the game was being changed and repeating over and over that the old name was its dead name. We point it out less here because it deserves attention and more because it makes no sense that such a thing could be uploaded to a professional, official store.
Here are the full words as shared in DominaThe patch notes for its 1.3.25 update, but note that the text below includes some nasty, anti-transgender bullshit:
deadname: dominate. Please don’t mention it again. We only mention it here to say: don’t mention it anymore. Changing the gender of a video game is completely normal and has NO RELATIONSHIP TO ANY COMPETITION. Please don’t insist. If you’re confused, please stop being confused and remember that DOMINA doesn’t exist and never will, but DOMINUS exists and always has, you just don’t know that you’re playing a man, who dress like a woman, but now we’re revealing it to you, you have NO RIGHT to feel cheated, in the same way that poor transgender drunks like Keffals have sex without don’t reveal that they are a man, have no right to feel wronged and you’re obstinate out of embarrassment or even mention something similar is going on, let alone have an opinion about it.
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This alone is bad, but what’s wild here is that this isn’t the first or even the second time that this developer has used Steam patch notes to share out-of-control rants about various political topics.
Earlier this yeardeveloper got angry at people wearing masks to avoid covid-19, wrote in previous update Note that masked people won’t have girlfriends and that women prefer confident men. The developer also asked what the masked people were “afraid of” and ended by suggesting that they were actually afraid of “getting fired”. Previously, the developer also complained in the patch notes for Domina that person watch too much porn.
It’s strange that after all these examples of developers using patch notes for disgusting and bizarre complaints Valve doesn’t seem to do anything…at least on the most public front . In a way, it makes sense, since the company previously avoided having to actually do anything when running its super-popular PC game service on Steam. Most of the features built into the service are run and managed by the community, with Valve taking a mainstream approach.
But it seems like a clear example of someone abusing Steam’s patch notes to harass and attack others by name, and it seems like this is something Valve might want to prevent. However, van did recently ban developer Dolphin Barn Incorporated from its own Steam forums following abusive and malicious posts. (This of course led to another bastard use Domina’s Steam page.)
Kotaku contacted Valve about the races but received no response from the company prior to the announcement. When contacted about the rant and asked why they decided to use the game’s patch notes on Steam to comment on Keffals, the developer instead complained about Twitter suspending their account. and continued to attack Sorrenti.
“I lost my verified Twitter account where I use my real name,” explains the developer, “While ‘Keffals’ is now verified, uses a fake name, while ‘in the background’ later. fake crying. [sic] on national television and admit they had sex with men, without telling them they were born a man too. “
As for Sorrenti, she seemed completely confused and exhausted by the patch notes. Early this morning, she shared them on Twitter and asked the developer to keep her out of his “midlife crisis”.
“Can I please go one day without the most goddamn creeps on the internet projecting their insecurities at me?” asked Sorrenti on Twitter in a follow-up tweet. “Dude, I’m just passing through here.”
