https://mobile.twitter.com/Phanraiser/status/1568334697490485249
How many years into GamerGate was it when you first found out "Depression Quest" was free the whole time?
Remember when g*mers thought Twine games like Depression Quest weren't real videogames until Gamergate happened? I wonder why that is.
The real question is, how many years till you first found out that Depression Quest was what GamerGate was actually started over?
Wasn’t there also a game about a space station above china that was a perfect dark knock off and all the characters looked like Barbie dolls that melted in a housefire?
Wow, never heard of that. The description makes more sense to me than GarnerGate ever did though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_60
I remember now, it’s this. Just look at the models, it’s so bad!
that was much later, by a different GG target. i haven't ever met anyone who played it and i doubt it was any good, but the fact that it received approximately zero coverage in the press should kind of underscore how arbitrary the harassment was.
that and quinn's ex shopping his shitty rant around multiple *chan boards before it took off.
really? lmao i just knew /b/ or whatever didn't take the bait the first time
I had one guy try to explain me gamer gate in high school and it did not make any sense LOL I still dont really know what it was about
the basics are that a woman's ex boyfriend called her a slut on the internet so a bunch of people decided to harass her
How did we EVER get to a point in time where /b/ actually became someone's personal army?
i keep coming back to this classic Cracked listicle's intro
Editor's Note: A few weeks ago our message board and general inbox were bombarded with demands we address something called the "GamerGate Scandal", posts written with the urgency and rage one would associate with, say, discovering that Chipotle burritos are made entirely from the meat of human babies. It's apparently a big deal in some circles, so we followed the links and read the piles of data presented, and had to stop and take a deep breath just to grasp it all. "Gentlemen," we said amid the stunned silence, "do you realize that if what they're saying is true, then this is still the most pointless fucking bullshit anyone has ever forced us to read?"
I could give you a somewhat detailed explanation if you want. But honestly it's not worth it
And that there's nothing offensive at all about Depression Quest? The worst you can say about it is that there's almost no meaningful player input, and that's kind of the point re: the player character is depressed
I played it when i found out it was free, didn't like it all that much personally. It didn't reflect my experiences with depression. Probably good for people who either did have that experience, or people with no experience with depression.
it's also basically a free 10 minute choose your own adventure story? I remember they were sort of common in the late 90's when people were experimenting with new ways to use hypertext, lol. to get upset about it for a second is truly deranged behavior, but of course nobody was upset about depression quest.
interactive fiction isn't dead! twine games are art! cyoa is a good genre! dying on this hill btw don't try and stop me.
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i forgot about those lol, when i was into playing indie IF games in the aughts i never bothered with twine because it seemed like... not a game lol. definately art tho!
I played it to find out why people got so upset and came away even more confused. It was so much nonsense over nothing.
it was literally, no joke, not an exaggeration, a bunch of depressed /v/irgins who played it and were like "WTF this [slur] has never had depression girls don't know what depression is because everything is easy for them." like fully just miserable people lashing out.
Probably Alec Holowka, the guy who did the music for Night in the Woods, he was accused of abuse by Quinn and very shortly after he took his own life. Absolutely fucked to say that it's her fault.
he was accused of abuse by Quinn and very shortly after he took his own life
good. multiple people came forward.
no tears for abusers. in a better world he’d have been executed sooner.
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yeah, like, I remember one of the other people who worked on NiTW saying that he was awful to basically everyone he knew, then threaten them with his suicide if they spoke up about it, and was doing that for years
based if true, in fact i heard of an austrian painter doing something similarly heroic
Holowka's own sister said something along the lines of "yeah he probably did it" so...
I assume that in the chud mindset this is exactly as bad and actually even worse than anything the folks at Mango Pastures ever did
In their game of telephone that they've been playing for almost a decade, it doesn't matter.
The only one I recognize is Anita Sarkeesian, who made a series of feminism 101 critiques of video games and the gamers lost their freaking minds.
women involved in gaming which makes insanely weird dorks incredibly mad
I don't know who anyone here is aside from Zoe Quinn.
YOU HAVE DAMAGED THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY :wojak-nooo: :soypoint-1:
Reminder that entertainment doesn't even serve any physiological function and is thus the ultimate form of treat
Treats by themselves aren’t bad. Treats at the expense of human lives and suffering are bad.
We've dialecticed our way beyond treats. We're treatless and free.
Entertainment is essential to humanity, emotional regulation needs some sort of outlet or source of happiness which is steady and not short in supply.
Yeah, everyone should live garbo joyless lives. That's what Marx was saying. Burn your books, toss your chocolate in the ocean, and drink naught but water, ear naught but bread all the days of your life, ye blessed workers.
If the people didn't need treats, then treats wouldn't have been invented. The fact treats exist suggested that they fulfill a societal function. Treats predate class society and will most likely postdate class society as well.
Going to tell my dog what an idiot he is for playing with his ball
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It's muddy waters, but treats aren't inherently bad. I have treats, you probably have treats. We all eat from the trash can. :zizek-preference:
The tendency for more alienated and aggressive fans to overreact against their specific treats being criticized, however, was part of the dry kindling that fueled the G*merGate circus fire that is still smoldering. :zizek-fuck:
yes but the point is the magnitude of their offense about tiny details in one specific completely unnecessary thing being changed
they're not alienated at all (anymore than everyone else at least), they're just aggressive subhumans
Ukraine flag emoji in name and the worst fucking take you've ever seen in your life (surpassed only by all subsequent Ukraine flag takes)
can't tell if OP is :LIB: or :volcel-police: for not linking the tweet so that I could take a closer look at the pictures
https://mobile.twitter.com/Phanraiser/status/1568334697490485249
Didn't their husbando Clarence Thomas go on a crusade against sexy and violent video games in the 90s, and republicans in general (the party they are a part of) use them as a scapegoat for what is wrong with America today?
Didn't you guys win already? You have been in a 8 year long victory dance over this. You won, bad bad Anita Sarkeesian was cancelled for Wrongthink and was never heard from again. You're literally fighting a culture war you already won.
When Fascism no longer has an enemy, its gears start to seize up and shatter. A decisive victory is the absolute worst thing which can happen to a fascist, because then they have to actually do something besides hate and kill and hate again.
when Schwarzenegger tried to restrict the sale of mature video games in CA, Scalia joined with the majority finding it violated the first amendment. Roberts and Thomas were the only dissenting justices.
