How many years into GamerGate was it when you first found out “Depression Quest” was free the whole time?
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
that and quinn’s ex shopping his shitty rant around multiple *chan boards before it took off.
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 played it to find out why people got so upset and came away even more confused. It was so much nonsense over nothing.
Who do they think Zoe Quinn killed
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.
Who tf are these people
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.
I don’t know who anyone here is aside from Zoe Quinn.
