Horrorcow Zoe Quinn / Chelsea Van Valkenburg / Locke Valentine / @UnburntWitch / @Primeape / CrashOverride / Hat Box / Old Uncle Anime - Con Artist, Abuser, Sexual Harasser, Drove Alec Holowka to Suicide.

Oh Long Johnson said:
Eventually, we're going to have to decide whether she's a worthless cum dumpster or some Machiavellian puppet master who chooses to live in a dumpy LA 1 bedroom.
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If you're a soy guzzling game journo, indie game designer, or some social justice faggot on social media it's the latter. If you're anyone else, it's the former. I mean the "worthless cum dumpster" part is still accurate for the latter, but still.
 
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LordKaT said:
Hmm...

Sounds like a bunch of people I know.

I wonder how much crossover there is here.
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She's a perfect fit for the channel awesome revival. She's dumb, biased, rude, unsupportive and unreliable but she's loud enough that people assume she's an expert in whatever she does. She also incites drama for shits and giggles and the only thing she can reliably do is become the workplace bicycle.
 
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Jaimas said:
When I say that Quinn doesn't have the kind of Charisma for it, I mean that while she can inspire loyalty, she has trouble keeping it for long. Former associates of Quinns have spoken about this, as have, hilariously enough, the many people Quinn's backstabbed.

Even Jake Alley, in his Autistic Zoe Post, talked about it:



Quinn can be exceedingly charming when she wants to be, and she knows how to manipulate individuals that already have an axe to grind, which most of the gaming press, indie gaming circuit, and Social Justice movement were. She knows how to make contacts, she knows how to network, and she knows how to use connections. However, she's not some big movement head like some others of her ilk - she's the leader of a cult of personality, and her mercurial nature means that any loyalty she initially inspires she tends to eventually burn off. Remember, she was the only one who benefitted from CON, despite there being close to two dozen people in it - and while you will no doubt have the likes of Jake who will continue to try to impress her despite being cast out by her, you will have plenty of others who go the IMC or Tessera angle and immediately turn on Quinn and her buddies.

But the thing is, the people backing Quinn I mentioned? The bulk of the dumbasses running attacks on her behalf right now? The Gr0bis, the Sebs, the ResetERA crowd? They back Quinn, but they follow her solely for ideological reasons. Her own accomplishments and indeed her own worth as a human being (or lack thereof) is immaterial to them. For the people who are true believers in the ideology, Quinn can do no wrong, and it has nothing to do with Quinn herself. Look at this shit, from when Quinn vacated her order of protection against Eron Gjoni after it became clear she may have perjured herself (And @Alan Pardew's infinitely funnier parroting of it), and it explains plenty.
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Yeah, but Jake Alley also desperately desired Quinn and took it very personally when he wasn't getting the attention he felt he warranted, I'm taking everything he says with a degree of doubt.
 
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Oh Long Johnson said:
Eventually, we're going to have to decide whether she's a worthless cum dumpster or some Machiavellian puppet master who chooses to live in a dumpy LA 1 bedroom.
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It's kind of like saying we've got to decide if Vordrak is some sort of mastermind who can blackball people from the entire internet or just a sped living on tard bucks in England. It only sounds like there's a contradiction here.
In fact, if you can live with no job to worry about keeping, no reputation to maintain, no shame, and a healthy dose of autism, you can translate that into a tiny bit of influence.
 
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The real answer is never ever doubt the lengths nerd will go to impress a girl if she even as much as hints at the possibility of sexual contact. Mentally castrated dudes are ripe for the plucking, especially when someone who looks like a cool and with-it gamer gurl that totally knows FFVII and old Sierra adventure games is the one doing the baiting.
 
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Gorilla Tessellator said:
So, I was truly shaken (no joke) and decided to investigate myself Tim Soret's problems.

It seems that his problem with funding is mostly caused by rookie mistakes, and it's not the woke crowd doing. His project is still very popular, and I think that the attack from Zoe squad only helped him in grand scheme of things.

However, it's hard for a young man to suddenly embody entrepreneurial spirit if so far he was James-Dean-vibe-wearing dreamy-eyes artiste. He got overwhelmed by popularity and just overspent in anticipation of bigger cash flow.

Anyway he just announced on his Twitter that the Last Night is not cancelled.View attachment 634248

I also like the tweet he retweeted:
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How very true, indeed. He keeps up his spirit, and all is fine. Quinn is still nobody, and I can finally go to sleep :)
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What I've noticed lately is that games journalism is far from the influencer that it is back then. Thanks to more democratized social platforms, gamers can find out about game releases from other sources, even if the woke games media tries to sabotage a game through whatever means they can. Recommendations from streamers and YouTubers carry more weight than a hundred woke articles railing against a single game by Leigh Alexander, for example. This is where keeping platforms honest and centered becomes key, and why the SJW crowd is so adamant on seizing control over powers to deplatform.

As long as Soret and his team can get the game done and it ends up to be a good game, it will find a market in Steam, at least, where Valve is more keen on selling stuff and gamers more interested in, well, playing games, than telling people what to think. Case in point: SJWs tried to shit on A Hat in Time because of JonTron's participation there, yet the game still ended up with glowing reviews on Steam and had sold 50,000 units in 2 weeks from launch.
 
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Brain Problems said:
The real answer is never ever doubt the lengths nerd will go to impress a girl if she even as much as hints at the possibility of sexual contact. Mentally castrated dudes are ripe for the plucking, especially when someone who looks like a cool and with-it gamer gurl that totally knows FFVII and old Sierra adventure games is the one doing the baiting.
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I have to admit, your painting a mental picture of women working out Sierra adventure game puzzles of their own free will has me erecting a tent pole. I know you're talking about Chelsea and I shouldn't, but the broader brushstrokes of women trying to find a way to remove a guard from a door using a tin can, a worm and a ticket stub is too alluring.
 
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Qi Meng Dealer said:
Recommendations from streamers and YouTubers carry more weight than a hundred woke articles railing against a single game by Leigh Alexander, for example.
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I remember when some indie developer paid Leigh $20,000 to promote their walking simulator, and they only ended up selling 3,000 copies. As a result they had to shut down their company and sperged about it all over Twitter.

Meanwhile, Kotaku and Polygon are all but boycotting Daniel Vavra's game "Kingdom Come" for not putting black people in Middle Ages Bohemia (which is like complaining why there are no Asians in "Gone With the Wind" or Mexicans in "Passion of the Christ"), and his game sells like iced tea in the Sahara.
 
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KillThemCrackasBabies said:
Yeah, but Jake Alley also desperately desired Quinn and took it very personally when he wasn't getting the attention he felt he warranted, I'm taking everything he says with a degree of doubt.
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And that's a good idea in general considering how often he lies, but you missed my point in quoting him:

If someone like even Jakeyboo - a man that will quite literally attack people for years on Quinn's say-so alone (and indeed, continues to do so), to the point of keeping it up half a decade or more since every party involved has long since forgotten the original transgression - can muster up the balls to call her the backstabbing whore she is, then Quinn has a lot less control than she'd probably like. At the end of the day, her betas she only has so much of a leash on.

The thing about Quinn's supporterbase is that for most of them, Quinn herself is irrelevant. It's entirely ideological, to the point of religious adherence for them. For all intents and purposes, the ideology is their religion. I mean, it's not like they featured a fucking lionized image of one of their biggest sticking points as if she were a saint or anythi--

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....Oh right. They did. This was fucking Gamerghazi's banner image for the better part of a year, until someone thought it was bad optics, at which point it was changed to this:

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I shouldn't really need to get into this further at this point, but the TL;DR is that the people who are outside Quinn's circle and still relentlessly support her do so because they are intersectional Social Justice cultists and anything that opposes that they immediately see as the devil. Sarkeesian and Anita are seen as patron saints for these fucks, and as far as these clowns go, may as well be the same people. Fitting then, that these are the ones doing the gruntwork on Quinn and company's behalf.
 
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Gamergate is dead on both sides. It's just veterans of the great autism war telling soldier's tales now.

Zoe had pull in the games industry years ago but she's burned those bridges. Who's going to give her a legit platform after she's objectively failed financially at every single thing she's done.

No more games.
No more books.
No more politics (Twitter doesn't count).
Soon, no more comics.

Even the biggest bleeding hearts on the planet look at her CV and keep moving on.

The problem with Zoe's cult is exactly Zoe. She knows how to get people in the door but can't convert Tru Beliebers to any long term success.

So yeah, she's got power until she actually has to produce.
 
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gobbogobb said:
The problem with Zoe's cult is exactly Zoe. She knows how to get people in the door but can't convert Tru Beliebers to any long term success.

So yeah, she's got power until she actually has to produce.
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You hit the nail on the head. Chelsea had so many connections that she used to snag prime opportunities, but then once the novelty wore off and there was actual hard work to be done, she just moved onto the next thing like a child with ADHD chasing the newest shiny trinket that got their attention.

Games: The only one she even came close to finishing was Depression Quest, and that's because other people did most of the work. Her FMV game was promised 2 YEARS AGO, and once the "fun" part of filming was done and the actual work of programming the thing had to be done, Chelsea decided that making good on something she was paid $85,000 for wasn't worth her time anymore. She also had a small voice role in some indie game along with her fellow NPC cronies like Jim Sterling, but her VO skills are non-existent as her programming ability.

Wrestling: Pro wrestler Joey Ryan cameoed on her unfinished game, so she decided to use that connection to insert herself into wrestling. Quinn started yammering on Twitter about the wrestling classes she was taking and the kewl wrestling stuff she was going to do. Then Chelsea realized she had to that dreaded "Work" stuff and noped out.

Grifts: Chelsea decided to take a page from fellow waste of oxygen Anita $camkessian, and try to make a grab for those sweet NPC dollars, with nowhere close to the success that Ms. Hoop Earrings did. Using her ex cuckboi Alex's connections to rub elbows with politicians garnered her nothing more than a few lame photo ops. Teaming up with Anita to whine about "muh cyber horse mint!" in front of the UN resulted in an embarrassment that both have yet to live down. Finally, the closest that Zoe got to pulling off a successful grift was CON. Assemble a bunch of troons, soyboys, and pathetic shut-ins, promise them them world (and access to her cooch), get her cronies to get the word out on the usual sites, then sit back and watch the cash roll in - but she couldn't even do that right. All she ended up doing was derailing the gravy train by reneging on her promises to troons, thus earning her the enmity of a large section of SJW circles.

Game jams: After screwing up a Pepsi game jam on purpose , sabotaging TFYC's jam, and getting her cuckboi Nathan Grayson to spin the "oh poor put upon Zoe!" narrative on Kucktaku, she was poised to launch her own Rebel Jam (IT'S COMING!). Too bad Chelsea was too lazy to do anything but create a shit page for it that linked to her personal PayPal account, only to let the page lapse last year.

Books: Yes, her "book" got nominated for a Hugo, but considering that they already nominated a book called "SLAMMED IN THE BUTT BY DINOSAURS", a Hugo award is about as meaningful now as a Grammy for "Best New Artist". Even Milo Y's book sold more than her, and he didn't need his mommy to post a fake review on Amazon to do it.

Comics: Her latest grift. So far, only one issue has hit the stands, and estimates don't look good. It was clear that she was hired for the novelty value, and not her writing skills. If things go as predicted, her next issue will run late, the series' numbers will drop further with each issue, end up cancelled within 6 to 8 issues, and then Chelsea will never get asked to write another comic again.

So you can see that Chelsea has a pattern of being an impatient little shit who doesn't think of the long game. She keeps being gifted golden geese, and instead of caring for them so that they keep producing valuable golden eggs for years, Zoe just slaughters them for a quick meal of foie gras.
 
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Jaimas said:
The game was Sunset, and the developer was Tale of Tales. The reviewer was Leigh Alexander but Polygon and Kotaku were both in on the promotion buyin.

Details are in my Depression Quest review.
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I never played it, but it sounded and looked like some pretty unfun shit. It's a walking simulator, and you're a colored maid in a rich white man's mansion and you pick up really pretentious books from Faulkner and shelve them while trying to hide notes about smuggling your kids our of the country or something during some political shit going down. It apparently ends very abruptly without any emotional pay-off. This is on the heels of one of their other games where you're an old woman and you hobble through a cemetery and sit on bench to rest your old ass, and the game is roughly 5 minutes long.

Tale of Tales weren't selling games, they were selling propaganda and nobody wants to buy that shit. At least Rami Ismail has a euro partner that makes fun shooters that are fucking games before he goes off on political rants about Europe and the US.
 
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I remember when some indie developer paid Leigh $20,000 to promote their walking simulator, and they only ended up selling 3,000 copies. As a result they had to shut down their company and sperged about it all over Twitter.
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These two beautiful people.

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