Thread 724035937

What am I in for?

>>724035937 (OP)
>This is the game that began the rapid downward spiral of modern society

>>724035937 (OP)
Why do I get the feeling that this whole shit storm was some kind of CIA psy op to radicalize young people into left vs right civil war division

a depressing quest

You'll be the 6th man to play it

>>724035974
>>724036038
qrd? never played it

>>724035937 (OP)
my friend played this game but he never lived long enough to see the ending :(

>stop feeling sad
>win game

>>724035937 (OP)
A pill advert.

Probably the most influential video game to ever exist.

>>724036245
lucky

>>724035937 (OP)
Ironically, /v/ originally viciously maligned this game for being an edgy CYOA novel with no gameplay, but now that's all they "play". Was Zoe Quinn right all along?

>What am I in for?

A Powerpoint presentation

>>724036038
probably, post-occupy

>>724036038
Because you are dumb enough to think people wouldn't fight each other over shit regardless.

>>724036223
An extremely short CYOA flash thing(It's certainly not a game), where most of the choices result in a bad end. You either brute force down the path of submitting to a shrink or you lose. It's zero-effort, shallow, exploitative schlock.

>>724035937 (OP)
Guys, about 5 of them
A burger and fries.

>>724035937 (OP)
Burgers and fries

>>724035937 (OP)
It's shocking to me how indirectly influential this game is. GamerGate wasn't because of the game itself, but because of Zoe Quinn's actions surrounding the game. It's ironic how she is completely out of the spotlight in recent years despite being such a key figure on where video games and their culture have come.
I sincerely wonder what would have happened had it never existed.

>>724036223
>Girl that made Depression Quest fucked a bunch of games journalists in exchange for positive coverage.
>Her ex-boyfriend exposes her publicly.
>Gamers start criticizing journos for pay-to-play (or pay-to-fuck) coverage.
>Journos wage a full scale culture war against gamers in retaliation.
>They call gamers misogynists, bigots, losers, etc., over hundreds of written articles.
>Regular casual normie gamers get caught in the crossfire, they're pissed and confused.
>They elect Donald Trump as retribution for starting a culture war.

>>724036223
a psycho woman they/them made this game to gaslight her mentally ill ex-boyfriend, then fucked her way through the kotaku staff to get it publicized. she finally claimed her ex raped her, which was completely fabricated, and in response he killed himself.
the game journo plus defense force - jim sterling and co - sided with the murderer and accused anyone who criticized her of being a bigoted manbaby. the saga continues but my favorite part was het and anita sarkessian delivering a speech to the UN. this was such a cartoonish shitshow that liberalism has been permanently stained by her existence, which is why young white men have shifted right.

>>724036567
unironically for the modern era.
if the game didn't exist, the world would be a completely different place

>>724037215
I like to view as some form inevitability by the powers that were always there because it's not the first time something like this happened and unfortunately it wont be the last.

>>724035937 (OP)
I wouldn't really recommend playing games created by murderers but you do you I guess?

>>724041446
When has this happened before or after?

>>724041827
Kirk Hamilton and Leigh Alexander from Kotaku (surprise, as they're the ones hit the hardest by Gamergate) were friends with (and Kirk may have been fucking) the actress from Gone Home. 10/10 game by Kotaku.
I remember reading the ED stuff about "fuck for reviews" from Kotaku before Gamergate.

>>724035937 (OP)
>an interactive non-fiction
interesting that it doesn't call itself a game, yet this kind of thing ("walking simulator" etc) was one of /v/s triggers

zoe hit many of the triggers resulting in a perfect storm

>dangerhair female
>gamer girl
>corrupt gaming journalism industry (9.5/10 "Its Okay" -IGN)
>sexual impropriety (allegedly)
>walking simulator
>mental health/emotional topic in place of gameplay

and yet Zoe herself is supposed to have had an NFC chip in her finger that gives out a txt file of Deus Ex steam codes. Her and anita may have just been provocateurs that did an amazing job

I really don't think this had any effect on the industry or elections or whatever. We would've ended up here even if Zoe Quinn didn't exist

thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioTQ7erZD1c

What do you think sex with Zoe Quinn is like? Do you think it's amazing? She managed to seduce so many men. She must be a real minx.

FIVE GUYS
BURGERS AND FRIES

>>724036148
I like playing CYOA games (started from the books), so I played it on Steam because it was free and it was advertised. While I was playing it a friend who lurks 4chan writes to me "why are you playing the whore game" and I had no idea what he was talking about. Even if you go through every single option you have in every single way possible and get every single ending, it would still take you less than an afternoon to experience the entire game. It's not a *bad* game, it's really just a game. A very little CYOA about depression. I'd even honestly recommend people try it, they'll be able to experience the entire game in 5 minutes. It's really magic how all of this started from a nothing shovelware free game.

>>724044138
http://www.jerking.com/

>>724035974
the worst part? it's not a game.

and to the newfags who are learning all of this for the first time;
4chan was on quinn's side, banning gamergate discussion, we have tranny and jeet jannies now (and .edu emails but we dont talk about that) so a whole lotta good gamergate did huh?

>>724038338
>>724038771
This entire thing is insane to read if people stop to think for two seconds.
>Girl that made Depression Quest fucked a bunch of games journalists in exchange for positive coverage.
Why would any person wish for publicity on his free game that's barely a homework assignment? This isn't a sick tech demo, it's a text game made with a commercial engine. Every single /v/tard can make this game in less than a day, this isn't advertisement material.
>Her ex-boyfriend exposes her publicly.
This happens all across the world. People have abandoned families of 6 for less. For a game barely anyone played. It's not like it was a sick 6 figure heist - literally nothing happened to neither the game, nor Zoe (unless writing a book nobody read is something)
>Gamers start criticizing journos for pay-to-play (or pay-to-fuck) coverage.
Been happening for decades. Director of GameStop was fired because he gave Kane and Lynch a 6 and Eidos made GS fire him because the entire website was riddled with Eidos ads. This was important, and pivotal in video game "journalism", yet everybody talks about some ho that peddled a free game, rather than the AAA publisher openly firing an editorial director for giving a fair score. This has been happening for probably more than 3 decades, and there are still discussions on whether or not we should trust video game journalists.
>Journos wage a full scale culture war against gamers in retaliation. They call gamers misogynists, bigots, losers, etc., over hundreds of written articles.
When Pot met Kettle. Nobody's the good guy here. Gamers are faggots and journalists are corrupt.
>Regular casual normie gamers get caught in the crossfire, they're pissed and confused.
They've never heard of GamerGate.
>They elect Donald Trump as retribution for starting a culture war.
If all of this (likely in combination with other things) led to Trump getting elected, then I finally understand how the USA functions. USA deserves itself.

>>724044182
pretty good

>>724036223
It's literally a Twine cyoa text game (if you don't know what Twine is, you can learn it in 20 seconds flat and make something comparable in an afternoon, I'm not even kidding) that some Tumblrtubby made. It got a strange amount of coverage coupled with an unrelated game, Gone Home, getting strangely high praise which warranted an investigation by gamers into why these shit tier games were outranking all time favorites. Turns out there was HEAVY nepotism involved and Depression Quest girl was having sex with every reviewer. Gamers called journos out who were desperate to cover up the plot so unleashed the gaming industry equivalent of the Samson Option by writing a billion articles about how gamers are evil, mysoginistic men who rape babies and kill kittens. A lot of white male devs got fired because their studios believed in those articles and a lot of companies went through restructures to appease an incredibly INCREDIBLY vocal minority. Grifter women would rise up from out of nowhere to get in on the craze by creating YouTube channels parroting whatever their Tumblr brethren were saying, who were effeminate beta males with oily hair. So if you ever want to know why a lot of western games were shit between 2014-2018, that's why. By 2019 people were pretty knowledgeable about the whole thing, tumblrtards were getting sued for defamation (mostly for fake #metoo accusations) and a lot of studios that leaned hard into the nonsense closed down for releasing slop.

i had played it before the drama, so when gamergate kicked off i thought it was stupid as shit
does that make me cool
also gg didnt lead to the modern right wing its more like it got co-opted into it
/v/ was not a radical christian board for fucks sake, you'd have been laughed at for saying crap like "christ is king"

something that always gets missed in these rosy retrospectives of some plucky 4chan autists founding our modern hellscape is just how much gg-tards were hated on /v/ itself

>>724035937 (OP)
Shitty text adventure that barely qualifies as a game. Maybe it's actually an interactive Powerpoint pres.
It nails some depression related stuff, sure, but it's so pretentious and the presentation is kinda shitty. And it's "dev'd" by an absolute garbage bin of a human being. Toxic isn't enough of an adjective, she is/was Po-210 and I'm to this day kinda bewildered how she managed to garner such a simp army from both fans and media.

>>724044994
It's incredibly easy to understand the whole debacle if you align with goals. It's apparent that Zoe never intended to be a game developer but an influencer, politician and media person and profit from that angle.

>people start campaign against corruption in games journo industry
>journos call them sexist
>retards take the bait and melt down so hard that no one can take them seriously anymore
>journos lmao and do a victory lap for a decade

>>724044994
>Been happening for decades
So what? That's a fact but this is a recent example. What's different here are the political implications. Trying to disregard this relatively different situation just because before it wasn't political is dumb
>They've never heard of GamerGate.
It's something that got public coverage. To the point were we got a lot of internet articles, ecelebs talking about it, videos with millions of views, and memes like "gamers are the most oppressed group"
>Gamers are faggots
Oh get out. You try to sound like an unbiased observer (look guys I even said that journalists are corrupt) but ultimately still parrot the same idea that people that play games are just crybabies that exaggerate regarding the modern state of the idustry
Also the other dude is right. It made sense if you consider that she just wanted to be an activist

>>724045794
GG spawned 5 guys burger and fries memes for a half decade until the whore in chief slunk out of the industry quietly

So when is Zoe Quinn going to finish working on that Chuck Tingle FMV game she raised over $85K from Kickstarter?

>>724043672
She was on Suicidegirls.
She's a a frumpy sow with sad titties.

>>724047205
>What's different here are the political implications.
In the entire thing that happened in and of itself, none of it was connected to politics. It was people airing out personal grievences. The problem was that she had sex with video game journalists for publicity. My example had actual ramifictaions as it pertains to video game journalism being a joke and should not be taken seriously, which was known 7 years before the Depression Quest thing. It's senselss to gloss over the actual problem - a top 10 video game publisher at the time openly firing a director, but focusing on an unknown girl who fucked journalists to publicise a free game.
>It's something that got public coverage.
Just because it was discussed on xitter and reddit doesn't make it mainstream knowledge. If your point is that internet denizens have heard of it, sure. But "regular casual normie gamers" have never, and will never know of GG.
>ultimately still parrot the same idea that people that play games are just crybabies that exaggerate regarding the modern state of the idustry
Been playing games for 25 years. Have like 20k hours combined playing the most popular online games, co-op, comp, single player, every platform imaginable. I've been playing every kind of game with other people for basically all of my life. I can comfortably say that the majority of gamers are faggots, my friend. Meek losers who crubmle at every hurdle and blame their life inadequacies on every external factor because they are too weak to fix their problems, so they take it out on the internet. If GGfags weren't emotional children that made Zoe a martyr, she would have been long forgotten. GG made her a star, she played everyone and got free publicity on the backs of gamers hook, line and sinker.

>>724044994
Kill yourself

I managed to miss this entire affair by browsing /a/ and playing FFXIV at the time. It's wonderful what having a real hobby can do for you.

>>724037009
>choices
>It's certainly not a game

>>724038338
>Girl that made Depression Quest fucked a bunch of games journalists in exchange for positive coverage.
Fact is you've still never been able to prove this. The "exposé" was only intended to call her a cheating whore and never meant to imply more than that. /v/irgins independently made the connection that some of these people were writers for video game publications and really, really latched onto the fact that there was a potential conflict of interest. The goal, of course, was not "ethics" but to vindictively ruin Zoe Quinn for the sins of promiscuity, hurting a man, making a bad game, and having dyed hair. Which is why you couldn't let it go when a thorough investigation revealed that the totality of "positive coverage" was highlighting Depression Quest among others in a round-up article for Rock Paper Shotgun.

Honestly, 4chan wasn't meant to be anyone's personal army and look what happened when you broke that rule.

>>724048891
>The problem was that she had sex with video game journalists for publicity.
The real problem was that she wasn't, but you really, really wanted her to have done that.

>>724035937 (OP)
Ah yes, the wall street derailment campaign

>>724052197
Yes, the campaign to manipulate you and make you hate women and minorities. Good thing you didn't fall for that one eh

This game got great reviews so it has to be good right?

>>724054519
>This game got great reviews
It did? I can't seem to find a single review.

Literally who game? Wait, why are all the outlets publishing a "Gamers are Dead" article at the same time? It's almost like they coordinated that on an email list.

>im jesse ventura
>and this is quinspiracy theory

>>724056160
Speaking of unproven claims that were used to push an exaggerated narrative lol

Always remember that (((the left))) is fully aware of being wrong, retarded and delusional, this is why they need (((the right))) to validate their own existence, this is why they are constantly provoking and attacking normal people into shifting right for their own self defense so they can use (You) to play the victim.

>>724056585
So, you're saying you're a leftist?

>>724056805
It does not matter what ideology is fronted or what flag is waved around, fascists are fascists. It's a method, a way of thinking and doing things. Whether swastika or rainbow, fascists are fascists.

>>724055942
SINCE YOU LOOKED AT ME
COCKED YOUR HEAD TO THE SIDE AND SID I'M ANGRY.

>>724058137
Good thing I don't support either then

>>724056805
>false accusation
Excuse me?

>>724059490
just like zoe quinn falsely acused her ex of rape and he killed himself over it, whoopsies!

>>724060039
Murder by proxy is still murder.

>>724060039
Yes but what about le epin oppressed whaamans in the middle east? Huh? What about that, incel?

>>724060570
A MAN BEATING HIS GIRLFRIEND JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE.

>>724060728
Good. So the lawnchair catapult worked. You go girl!

>>724060796
Go back to the kitchen you retarded worthless parasite.

>>724061151
>worthless parasite
That's what your mother called you before I convinced her to not abort your ass.

>>724035937 (OP)
Low effort dogshit that singlehandedly killed video game journalism.

I was working in the industry when all this gay shit happened. I no longer choose to work in the industry as a result.

>>724061240
Women should not even have the right to decide how many tomatoes go into the salad.
Revoke human rights from women now.