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.

[AnOminous]

So the game is officially two years behind schedule? An amazing scam that not a single "journalist" will cover.

Too busy learning to code I guess.

 

[WaltherPPGAY]

Here's an idea: If you want to make a video game/comic book about zomg quirky teenage lesbians, why not make one where they're actually likable characters we can root for?

I would guess because that's difficult and unnecessary. After all, Life is Strange was extremely successful almost certainly and entirely because of underage lesbians.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Unless the character has pairs of balls planted on her chin the entire game, it seems unlikely. I don't know anything about that game, though.

Maybe she thinks all of the porn that's been made with the Life is Strange characters is based on Zoe Quinn?

 

[Judge Dredd]

I saw that video last night. I was only partially familiar with that game - if it's true that the canonical ending involves

I'm only partially familiar with the game as well. I know it opens with a hipster giving you a lecture on how artistically important selfies are, and the line "I have to blame someone else for this because otherwise all this is my fault, and fuck that." which to any sane person would be the moment when you know she's insane and should die.

Life is Strange was extremely successful almost certainly and entirely because of underage lesbians.

I disagree. It was one of the last of the "walking simulators" before that genre died. The game pandered to the Tumblr crowd so much that I've heard people call the game "Life is Tumblr", and was written by 30-40 year old men trying to sound like teenage girls meant it ticked all the SJW boxes.

The spin off game was about as well received as a fart in an elevator, and if I had to guess I'd say Life is Strange 2 is going to do okay but be no where near as popular as the first.

I don't think the character is based on Zoe. She seems like a cliched Tumblr stereotype, a teenager as imagined by an out of touch SJW. But if it is based on someone, I'm going to guess that it's an amalgamation of Quinn, Wu, Sarkeesian, and the rest of that clique just like the women in the Law and Order GamerGate episode. Or to put it another way, selfish, stupid, and completely unlikable certainly sounds like Quinn.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I don't think the character is based on Zoe. She seems like a cliched Tumblr stereotype

It should be noted that Quinn isn't an original or trailblazer of anything and she is a cliched Tumblr stereotype herself. The stereotype goes back further than Tumblr, but you get what I mean. There was even a big budget Hollywood movie of the stereotype back in 2011, Sucker Punch, and when the movie business gets around to cash in on a trend you know it's old and busted.

 

[AnOminous]

It should be noted that Quinn isn't an original or trailblazer of anything and she is a cliched Tumblr stereotype herself. The stereotype goes back further than Tumblr, but you get what I mean. There was even a big budget Hollywood movie of the stereotype back in 2011, Sucker Punch, and when the movie business gets around to cash in on a trend you know it's old and busted.

That was a massive critical and box office flop and I've heard it was as fun as a root canal.

 

[damian]

Ha, only 5 copies of Goddess mode how unwoke are the shops you visit bigot? Here's WOKE
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https://twitter.com/bdotnupe5/status/1088226298357370880 http://archive.li/pqUYZ

He made an update, there’s now video of the stack and it’s thicker than the picture he posted previously led me to think:
https://twitter.com/bdotnupe5/status/1090800065554182144

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

That was a massive critical and box office flop and I've heard it was as fun as a root canal.

Yes, old and busted just like I said.

 

[ColorfulCassowary]

It should be noted that Quinn isn't an original or trailblazer of anything and she is a cliched Tumblr stereotype herself. The stereotype goes back further than Tumblr, but you get what I mean. There was even a big budget Hollywood movie of the stereotype back in 2011, Sucker Punch, and when the movie business gets around to cash in on a trend you know it's old and busted.

Sucker Punch had nothing to do with those kinds of stereotypes. None of the characters were wacky, geeky manic pixie dream girls with dyed hair, no buffy-ish dialogue, and there wasn't even a single lesbian. It was more like Zack Snyder was like "I wanna do something like annie may" and failing as that talentless hack is likely to do.

I think the proto Tumblr girl (and I'm not slamming this series, I honestly think it's good) is Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim. She's got the dyed hair, she's tough, she's cool, she gets a ton of geeky references, she had a lesbian thing once, she's what every girl on Tumblr aspires to be. Once again tho, she's interesting, because the writer's politics wasn't on his mind. And he actually knew how to write too.

 

[proteus4994]

I disagree. It was one of the last of the "walking simulators" before that genre died.

It wasn't a walking simulator. It was a "new school adventure game" which meant an on-rails story with a couple of branching points that ultimately don't matter. Telltale was doing it before AND after Life is Strange.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Sucker Punch had nothing to do with those kinds of stereotypes. None of the characters were wacky, geeky manic pixie dream girls with dyed hair, no buffy-ish dialogue, and there wasn't even a single lesbian. It was more like Zack Snyder was like "I wanna do something like annie may" and failing as that talentless hack is likely to do.

Sucker-punch built on establish stereotypes. Let's call that one the "hot-topic" stereotype.

It wasn't a walking simulator. It was a "new school adventure game" which meant an on-rails story with a couple of branching points that ultimately don't matter. Telltale was doing it before AND after Life is Strange.

Life is strange went to some weird places that made it entertaining.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

Just to clarify:
The girl reviewing "Goddess mode" comic also reviewed "Life Is Strange" comic, and she stated in the video at 1:18 that Chloe Price was based on Zoe Quinn. I'm not sure what is the source of her claim, I'm just noting that she made this statement in more than one video.

Here is the video starting at her statement.

It sounded like she was going for a joke and it bombed.

But Life is Strange came out less than 6 months after Gamergate, if she wasn't kidding she's apparently retarded.

I'm only partially familiar with the game as well. I know it opens with a hipster giving you a lecture on how artistically important selfies are, and the line "I have to blame someone else for this because otherwise all this is my fault, and fuck that." which to any sane person would be the moment when you know she's insane and should die.



I disagree. It was one of the last of the "walking simulators" before that genre died. The game pandered to the Tumblr crowd so much that I've heard people call the game "Life is Tumblr", and was written by 30-40 year old men trying to sound like teenage girls meant it ticked all the SJW boxes.

The spin off game was about as well received as a fart in an elevator, and if I had to guess I'd say Life is Strange 2 is going to do okay but be no where near as popular as the first.

I don't think the character is based on Zoe. She seems like a cliched Tumblr stereotype, a teenager as imagined by an out of touch SJW. But if it is based on someone, I'm going to guess that it's an amalgamation of Quinn, Wu, Sarkeesian, and the rest of that clique just like the women in the Law and Order GamerGate episode. Or to put it another way, selfish, stupid, and completely unlikable certainly sounds like Quinn.

I have mixed feelings about the game, but the one thing I always have to stick up for it over is throughout the entire length of the game, Chloe is supposed to be a complete douchebag. She snaps at the player character constantly and at the end where you're given the choice to kill her or save her, she pretty much admits as much.

Pretty much everything people throw at it is warranted, but people always seem to miss the fact that Tumblr Girl is, throughout most of the game, supposed to come across as an asshole.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

Life is Strange is also from a French publisher and Dontnod is the typical "arthouse" game developer that France seems to cultivate that will eventually disband or go out of business, or live long enough to become more of a corporate entity.

Dontnod did some massive pandering in 2 - the sequel is literally a leftists wet dream of what "Dumphs America" looks like, and the only non-protagonist character to not be an unlikable racist is a travelling games journalist. But I'm fairly sure Chloe isn't based off this lolcow but rather just supposed to be tumblr girl who gets into trouble a lot but has a hint of something that makes her redeemable despite being incredibly flawed.

The game is compelling in a way...I can't deny the effort put into it, but I'll never understand people singing it's praises as any time I saw people playing it. I generally came away feeling like it was a great pile of pretentious wank and written by people desperately trying to write cool teenaged characters and failing miserably.

 

[proteus4994]

Yeah, I'm also in the "it was pretentious but I enjoyed it anyway" camp on LiS. Its "coming of age" story was overrated just as much as Gone Home's was, but it did do some interesting things in the genre. I came out of there saying to myself "Huh, I really have never played a game quite like that before".

The sequel seemed like more "coming of age" shit and less weird interesting mystical crap, so I stayed far away. I have wondered if it was any good though

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

Life is Strange is also from a French publisher and Dontnod is the typical "arthouse" game developer that France seems to cultivate that will eventually disband or go out of business, or live long enough to become more of a corporate entity.

Dontnod did some massive pandering in 2 - the sequel is literally a leftists wet dream of what "Dumphs America" looks like, and the only non-protagonist character to not be an unlikable racist is a travelling games journalist. But I'm fairly sure Chloe isn't based off this lolcow but rather just supposed to be tumblr girl who gets into trouble a lot but has a hint of something that makes her redeemable despite being incredibly flawed.

The game is compelling in a way...I can't deny the effort put into it, but I'll never understand people singing it's praises as any time I saw people playing it. I generally came away feeling like it was a great pile of pretentious wank and written by people desperately trying to write cool teenaged characters and failing miserably.

Yeah, I'm also in the "it was pretentious but I enjoyed it anyway" camp on LiS. Its "coming of age" story was overrated just as much as Gone Home's was, but it did do some interesting things in the genre. I came out of there saying to myself "Huh, I really have never played a game quite like that before".

The sequel seemed like more "coming of age" shit and less weird interesting mystical crap, so I stayed far away. I have wondered if it was any good though

Life is Strange has the same problem a lot of the "artsy" SJW hipster shit these days has; it wants to "tell a story", but thinks the actual story part itself isn't as important as the little pieces it makes up. The game has it's own little Tumblt asthtic universe, ok, seems legit. It does it's own things with the characters, and adds in little time travel aspects and all these little pieces... but it doesn't amount to much in the end. Why is the photographer girl magic? Just because. Why are the rules of the powers changing? Dunno. Why is so much of this story ebbing and flowing with little rhyme or reason? Just is.

I think that's the problem with Quinns shit. She knows she wants to "make something", and comes up with all these ideas she thinks are cool, and then either can't, or is just too lazy to, do anything with them. It's just pile of ideas with nothing impressive being done with them.

 

[MyOtherNicknameIsAPun]

Spoiler: Surplus comics 'tism

Maybe Zoe could team up with the Assigned Melee author, it seems that French market is doing nicely with the medium.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/books/france-comic-books-angouleme.html

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Spoiler: Surplus comics 'tism

Maybe Zoe could team up with the Assigned Melee author, it seems that French market is doing nicely with the medium.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/books/france-comic-books-angouleme.html

I don't think Zoe's storytelling would work in France. They actually like having story driven characters not rainbow puke on a page. It's one of few countries I still collect comics from.

 

[Rei is shit]

escapist cuck acts like a cuck when confronted by zoe

 

[Least Concern]

I tried to find the “piece” she’s referring to. I’m guessing it’s this one (archive). I didn’t read it all because it’s typical journo pablum…

To those who willfully enabled and enacted this terrorism, I say this: Fuck you. You are pathetic. And we don’t need you.

…but even though it’s clearly anti-gamer, it apparently doesn’t mention Literally Who enough, and that cannot be abided.

 

[Tanner Glass]

The escapist sure couldn't hold on to the "no politics" they tried to re-start with, could they?