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Zoe Quinn #meToo / Alec Holowka suicide -- Update: Article questions ZQ's account of events (link in OP)

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Komatsu

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Alec's still fucked.

The Night in the Woods team has cut ties with him and the physical edition has been postponed.

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On a different note, fellow Gaffers, surely we as a forum can avoid commenting on the person's appearance, etc? I hold no candle for Twitter lynch mobs (like, none at all) but surely their behavior can be criticized without resorting to dragging their pictures?
 
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ZehDon

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I read tweets like Ryan’s as little more than quivering signs saying “I am for the group”. What’s to gain, other than making sure the choir your preaching too is placated?

No Ryan, actually no sexual predators have been outed. Men have been accused. No Ryan, it’s not “our” job to hold them accountable. That’s what the large and experienced law enforcement institutions are for.
No Ryan, you’re not safe for another round. Anita has made it clear - attacking the supposed misogyny of the “fans” has run its course. Now we’re focused on the developers. When that’s run it’s course, Anita may very well declare its time for gaming journalists to be the focus. And then they’ll be the ones saying “it’s about ethics in games journalism”, but by then the irony of it all will be utterly lost.
 

Ar¢tos

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Who are the real predators here?
The ones accused of raping?
Or the ones that accuse others of rape on Twitter without a single piece of evidence?
The lines are getting blurred...


Remember children, if you witness or are the victim of a crime, DON'T GO TO THE POLICE!
Instead, wait a few years and tweet about it!
 
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petran79

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I am even afraid to mention the name Benny Hill in front of those people,. They are no different than the conservatives who cancelled his show
 

nush

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Fuck me, Ryan O’donell, the man behind the beloved 1up show that solidified my interest in games is Woke!

If I were a sociopath I’d by rubbing my mitts knowing that a one sided anecdote (not even a chance for a rebuttal) being enough to de-person someone...


Helpfully putting in thier twitter handles so they can get harrassed even more. Rayn, you're as much of a cunt as the women making allegations that they have no evidence to support.
 

MagnesG

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Helpfully putting in thier twitter handles so they can get harrassed even more. Rayn, you're as much of a cunt as the women making allegations that they have no evidence to support.
I want a counter lists after all of this ends, well at least for people like him.

Do we know whether someone has done the reasonable thing and has gone to the police? Or is this still just a Twitter drama? If the latter, then I can't take this shit seriously, sorry.
Nope, will update if that's the case.
 
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You know, the ones who jump in front first for virtue signaling usually have the most skeletons in their closet...

Yes. It's called projection. These people do not really have a healthy conscience and compensate it with a artificial one. We've seen this with the religious institutions.
 

Darak

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I'll never understand people who campaign for someone to get fired. I guess it's the only way they have to hurt someone distant who they have never meet. The term 'hate speech' was supposed to refer to those kind of things (I don't know why it has come to mean "anything said by someone I don't like").

If I suspect someone committed a crime, I'd ask for justice (which means due process, including a trial). If I have a personal stake and the justice system fails to reach the result I want, there are ways to fight the system. But the idea of going straight to the person to do physical or psychological damage (such as getting them fired) would not even cross my mind.
 

Clear

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When someone who is actually successful in their chosen field steps up and makes an accusation I'll give them some credit because they will have something to lose.

This latest round of "victims" however... not so much.

And no, making an accusation on Twitter/social media is not a high-risk strategy because the way the culture is right now stacks the deck so hard against the accused there is never any blowback. People will join in the condemnation without knowing for sure because publicly standing against it will put them in the mob's crosshairs too. Its a climate of fear.

Another tell for me about how messed up things are is when the people close to the accused instantly capitulate and cut-ties the second the allegations are made. So, we're supposed to believe that they have flip-flopped from being completely oblivious to a position of certainty of guilt almost instantaneously? Really?

Was this an "open secret" all along? Were they enabling/hand-waving it off until it became a public embarrassment to them? Or were they honestly blind-sided by it all? Whichever way you slice it, this is not a good look for them...

But of course, so long as they cower before the mob, and spout the appropriate verbiage, meh... no questions get asked. Which you'd kinda think SHOULD be asked if these allegations were being considered in good faith.

Its almost as if they are hoping the sacrificial goat will sate the mob's bloodlust long enough for another victim to get served up instead of them.
 

nush

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I'll never understand people who campaign for someone to get fired. I guess it's the only way they have to hurt someone distant who they have never meet.

It's the online version of "Karen who wants to speak to your manager" to get you fired.
 

Gamernyc78

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Yeah, but I heard crazy girls...... give off the chain sex...:messenger_tongue:……..It's hard to resist...

That's a fact! The bipolar ones have that wet wet but I wouldn't touch Zoe with a 100 foot pole 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

But damn all this condemning and no actual proof, it's sad. Don't get me wrong if there is proof then fuck them but I hate the guilty till proven innocent aspect of today's society.
 
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Cato

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Why Winnipeg?.... like.... seriously? I feel as though the more fingers she points the harder it might be getting any work... not sure how much I believe her. It just reads funny to me.
I will say this however, I felt Night in the Woods was fantastic and totally took me by surprise, that's the complete truth.

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Pointing fingers is literally her work. That is what she does.
Can you point me to any actual game she has worked on in the last decade and actually finished?
Any evidence of gainful employment in the industry at all outside of pointing fingers?
 

The Shepard

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Be nice people, the girl is having a tough time. Her mum already died twice!
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Silvawuff

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This whole situation reeks of bullshit. More to the point, even though NitW "cut ties" with the accused, is it now a socially radioactive game to like now? Internet witch hunts are the worst thing ever, especially through a lens of toxicity in gaming.
 
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DeepEnigma

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The Night in the Woods team has cut ties with him and the physical edition has been postponed.

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On a different note, fellow Gaffers, surely we as a forum can avoid commenting on the lady's appearance, etc? I hold no candle for Twitter lynch mobs (like, none at all) but surely her behavior can be criticized without resorting to dragging her pictures?

The gaming industry is such a joke.

Imagine GM delaying the launch of the 2020 Corvette because some engineer was accused of something with no due process at all.

Grow up gaming industry.
 

StormCell

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I'm not at all surprised to hear this from Zoe Quinn.

I bet I will be writing the above again within the next two years.
 

Dr. Claus

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Remember the young man by the name of Emmett Till? He was a young man of but 14 years old, accused of a crime he did not commit and lost is life because of it. These folks who immediately jump to a "guilty before proven innocent" mindframe are no better than the folks who killed the innocent child.

For people who are supposedly "progressive", they sure love to repeat the sins of the past. Pathetic, disgusting, and wretched folks.
 
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It's always the GAF guy. :messenger_tears_of_joy:

And what the fuck does believe survivors really mean? There's like 7 billion plus of us "survivors" currently but we're dying all the time. I guess believe everybody?
 
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