Zoe Quinn's neo-Vertigo book Goddess Mode came out today, and it's being discussed in the
Zoe Quinn thread. Scans have already leaked to pirate sites if you're so inclined. I love/hated this panel
posted by Norvic:
Imagine an entire
book full of those colors…
A little background on Quinn for those unfamiliar; Quinn was a key figure in the early days of the GamerGate saga. She developed a simple text adventure game about mental illness called Depression Quest which was fawned about in the press but ignored by pretty much anyone else. A disaffected ex-boyfriend posted a rambling blog post accusing her of cheating on him with five other men while she was with him, some of whom were games journalists. Other games journalists went on the attack against the author of this post and those discussing it - the "Gamers Are Dead" sub-saga, as a common theme in the articles was that the typical AAA gamer stereotype was no longer a significant segment of the market (which is arguably true given the rise of mobile/casual gaming, but the way they phrased it was universally hostile). The #GamerGate hashtag came about on Twitter - first posted by actor Adam Baldwin, of all people - in the following days.
Zoe milked the situation for all it's worth and didn't hesitate to paint herself as a victim even though, from the facts that have been verified from the ex-boyfriend's posts, she unambiguously victimized him. Aside from the predictable Twitter sperging, she was able to parlay the situation into a conference at the freaking UN, of all places, though from what I understand it was poorly-attended. (Apparently international representatives with diplomatic immunity had better things to do, go figure.) Aside from that, though, she pretty much did nothing interesting until October 2016, when she started a
KickStarter campaign for an adventure game co-produced with parody gay porn story author Chuck Tingle. That game was due to be released in "early 2017" (the reward tiers say February 2017), so of course it was released on time and all the backers were satisfied ha ha ha ha just wanted to check if you were still paying attention - it has yet to be released and has the typical "Sorry for the delay" KickStarter updates every three to six months. But thankfully she wasn't so inundated with work making sure these backers finally get the products they have already paid for that she couldn't take the time out to start work on a comic book.
Dear Lord, those last two paragraphs turned out much longer than intended. I pay way too much attention to internet drama. What am I doing with my life?
Fucking wut
