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.

[Haramburger]

Tokyo isn't cheap and unless this guy made a hit game I haven't heard about someone has to be bankrolling his gaudy ass. My bet is on trust-fund baby.

A little of both; Hyper Light Drifter from 2016 has between 500K-1mil sales at $19.99 on SteamSpy, and it's been ported to consoles. It's as successful as an indie game made by a handful(less than 10 people on core team) of people can be. In fact, Teddy's only credited with Design(Idea Guy'ing with Alx Preston, the real creator), Narrative Design(Chelsea's angle for other things), and Producing(wrangling artists and managing programmers on a timetable). Interestingly, he's listed as Teddy Diefenbach so apparently he shortens his name for press materials/dating/public appearances. "Theodore Diefenbach" is a little too German Aristocrat for the L.A. scene I guess.

We've covered it before earlier in thread but for their next game, Solar Ash Kingdom, Teddy is currently credited with Design & Code, and Chelsea is just Narrative Design. The whole team numbers 9 to 13, depending on who's counted/left out on the two lists they have on their own site.

I'm pretty sure Teddy gets to spend company money on bullshit like "networking trips and dinners" but he's not top dog, Alx/Alex runs the whole shebang.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Teddy worked for Square Enix Montreal for a time, before leaving/being let go when his game was cancelled. Now he’s making another game titled which gaming journos fawned over and made lame Prince comparisons to.

Stop making assumptions that he’s bankrolling Zoe or he’s a millionaire without proof. He probably has a good sum of cash from hyperlight drifter and being a creative director at Square but he’s not associated with heart machine anymore or working on solar ash kingdom. You read the team page wrong.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The Zoe Cycle?
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"Geek Chic" was such a fucking mistake, the "mainstream" only ever destroys everything it touches.

The 2000s were the best time because nerd culture was juuuuuust mainstream enough to have newfound accessibility, but the mental midgets of society were too busy drinking, fucking and getting high to care, then we reached the tipping point around 2009 and now look at what it's become a decade later.

And the carpetbaggers have the audacity to show nothing but pure contempt for those who were already there and act like it was only ever their culture to begin with.

 

[The Grognard]

"Geek Chic" was such a fucking mistake, the "mainstream" only ever destroys everything it touches.

The 2000s were the best time because nerd culture was juuuuuust mainstream enough to have newfound accessibility, but the mental midgets of society were too busy drinking, fucking and getting high to care, then we reached the tipping point around 2009 and now look at what it's become a decade later.

And the carpetbaggers have the audacity to show nothing but pure contempt for those who were already there and act like it was only ever their culture to begin with.

It's pure gentrification. Cool people make a place cool, but then all the posers who want to be cool show up, hike up all the prices and sanitize everything for mass appeal. All the actually cool people fuck off and what's left is a theme park dedicated on maximizing profits from trend-chasing sheep.

 

[Haramburger]

Teddy worked for Square Enix Montreal for a time, before leaving/being let go when his game was cancelled. Now he’s making another game titled which gaming journos fawned over and made lame Prince comparisons to.

Stop making assumptions that he’s bankrolling Zoe or he’s a millionaire without proof. He probably has a good sum of cash from hyperlight drifter and being a creative director at Square but he’s not associated with heart machine anymore or working on solar ash kingdom. You read the team page wrong.

For some reason I thought HLD came after Squeenix, not before. Dug and found the goodbye tweet so I don't mix it up again.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It's pure gentrification. Cool people make a place cool, but then all the posers who want to be cool show up, hike up all the prices and sanitize everything for mass appeal. All the actually cool people fuck off and what's left is a theme park dedicated on maximizing profits from trend-chasing sheep.

I just find it amazing how so much of the infighting could have been avoided if they just offered the tiniest modicum of respect to those that came before, but nope, people like Anita Sarkeesian came out swinging demanding every aspect of the culture bend to their will and while they claim to be "nerds" they sure don't hesitate with slinging insults like "basement dweller" "virgin/incel" "neckbeard" and so on.

That's the thing of it is to be a nerd is not about liking superheros or dragons or whatever, it's to in some way be a social outcast, these people have no true understanding of nerd culture if they don't grasp that and hypocritically bully nerds.

 

[Kheapathic]

I just find it amazing how so much of the infighting could have been avoided if they just offered the tiniest modicum of respect to those that came before, but nope, people like Anita Sarkeesian came out swinging demanding every aspect of the culture bend to their will and while they claim to be "nerds" they sure don't hesitate with slinging insults like "basement dweller" "virgin/incel" "neckbeard" and so on.

That's the thing of it is to be a nerd is not about liking superheros or dragons or whatever, it's to in some way be a social outcast, these people have no true understanding of nerd culture if they don't grasp that and hypocritically bully nerds.

They're clout chasers. They were never athletic enough to run with the jocks (though they might have a few friends on a team), they're not rich/preppy enough for that group (but would sometimes be welcome to hang around, only to be laughed at when they leave), they'd never want to spend a weekend playing D&D (or trying to learn that THAC0 is WHACK0), etc etc. So when something got popular, and they remember the main audience being easy prey, they did everything they could to muscle their way in and then repeat what they saw when they were younger; just call them nerds, losers, virgins, etc. Unfortunately enough for them, the people they remember being bullied grew up and their bullying didn't work like it used to. They'd never accept the nerd life as it used to be, where you were on the lower end of the social ladder, because that'd mean going back to their pointless existence, where no group wants them around. The problem is, so many of these idiots all showed up at the right time and got placed in positions of authority (like the press), they could all jerk each other off and cover one another. And if something more trendy and easier to take advantage of came about, we'd see them jump ship so fucking fast.

When I was younger, all I wanted was for people to like what I liked and for more people to play with. Now that it's happened, I'd rather go back to few friends and low social standing than having these people around.

 

[33rd]

I hope Cyberpunk 2077 marks the turning point when these shitheads are kicked out of gaming culture.

I don't think they're going to be kicked out necessarily but I think it's going to expose them as paper tigers. Cyberpunk 2077 looks fantastic and is made by a well respected developer that won't capitulate to random dangerhairs. When you take the implosion ResetEra is going through into consideration, it seems fair to conclude that influence wielded by the outrage mob has peaked. There's no amount of screeching they can drum up to take down the guys who made the fucking Witcher trilogy. The most they'll be able to do is publicly smolder with impotent rage while CDPR breaks sale records and wins awards for their racist transphobic nazi simuator.

 

[Dom Cruise]

They're clout chasers. They were never athletic enough to run with the jocks (though they might have a few friends on a team), they're not rich/preppy enough for that group (but would sometimes be welcome to hang around, only to be laughed at when they leave), they'd never want to spend a weekend playing D&D (or trying to learn that THAC0 is WHACK0), etc etc. So when something got popular, and they remember the main audience being easy prey, they did everything they could to muscle their way in and then repeat what they saw when they were younger; just call them nerds, losers, virgins, etc. Unfortunately enough for them, the people they remember being bullied grew up and their bullying didn't work like it used to. They'd never accept the nerd life as it used to be, where you were on the lower end of the social ladder, because that'd mean going back to their pointless existence, where no group wants them around. The problem is, so many of these idiots all showed up at the right time and got placed in positions of authority (like the press), they could all jerk each other off and cover one another. And if something more trendy and easier to take advantage of came about, we'd see them jump ship so fucking fast.

When I was younger, all I wanted was for people to like what I liked and for more people to play with. Now that it's happened, I'd rather go back to few friends and low social standing than having these people around.

Yup, I used to think nerd culture becoming more and more mainstream was a good thing, how foolish I was.

I forgot to mention though that being a true blue nerd doesn't just mean being a social outcast, but just guys in general who have had some sort of challenges and difficulties in their life that they used fantasy escapism as a way to cope with.

Point is, there has to be some pain to real passion, true nerds love this stuff not just because it's the latest popular, trendy thing to like, we'd love it even if it ostracized us, which it used to.

I don't think they're going to be kicked out necessarily but I think it's going to expose them as paper tigers. Cyberpunk 2077 looks fantastic and is made by a well respected developer that won't capitulate to random dangerhairs. When you take the implosion ResetEra is going through into consideration, it seems fair to conclude that influence wielded by the outrage mob has peaked. There's no amount of screeching they can drum up to take down the guys who made the fucking Witcher trilogy. The most they'll be able to do is publicly smolder with impotent rage while CDPR breaks sale records and wins awards for their racist transphobic nazi simuator.

Yes, revealed as paper tigers, that's what I meant.

Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be a smash hit and it's going to reveal how toothless the whole SJW bullshit is, I feel the sun is setting on the SJW era, people are just sick of all the whining.

 

[V0dka]

Teddy worked for Square Enix Montreal for a time, before leaving/being let go when his game was cancelled. Now he’s making another game titled which gaming journos fawned over and made lame Prince comparisons to.

Stop making assumptions that he’s bankrolling Zoe or he’s a millionaire without proof. He probably has a good sum of cash from hyperlight drifter and being a creative director at Square but he’s not associated with heart machine anymore or working on solar ash kingdom. You read the team page wrong.

Square Enix Montreal is a Montreal-based studio under video game developer Square Enix best known for creating the Go series of turn-based puzzle games for smartphones and tablets based on former Eidos Interactive intellectual properties. The company developed prototypes for two mobile Hitman games, which became the board game-inspired puzzle game Hitman Go (2014) and the shooter Hitman: Sniper (2015). The commercial success of the latter and the critical success of the former led to two additional titles in the Go series: Lara Croft Go (2015), based on the Tomb Raider series, and Deus Ex Go (2016), based on the Deus Ex series.

Wow Teddy got fired from a studio that makes Go puzzle games for phones? Man he must be shit.

 

[Okubo Naoya]

Another one of Zoe Quinn's CON network volunteers snapped and made a long series of tweets in which they denounce Zoe for failing to pay her trans staff members.

They also call Zoe's Chuck Tingle Kickstarter a "scam".

Spoiler: Another poor homeless troon

 

[Pargon]

Square Enix Montreal is a Montreal-based studio under video game developer Square Enix best known for creating the Go series of turn-based puzzle games for smartphones and tablets based on former Eidos Interactive intellectual properties. The company developed prototypes for two mobile Hitman games, which became the board game-inspired puzzle game Hitman Go (2014) and the shooter Hitman: Sniper (2015). The commercial success of the latter and the critical success of the former led to two additional titles in the Go series: Lara Croft Go (2015), based on the Tomb Raider series, and Deus Ex Go (2016), based on the Deus Ex series.

Wow Teddy got fired from a studio that makes Go puzzle games for phones? Man he must be shit.

If he's an actual Creative then that's a go-nowhere position and good for him for moving on. Hyper Light Drifter is a good game.

If he got sacked, though, then yeah, I'd definitely want to neck myself.

 

[The Gagh Whisperer]

"Geek Chic" was such a fucking mistake, the "mainstream" only ever destroys everything it touches.

The 2000s were the best time because nerd culture was juuuuuust mainstream enough to have newfound accessibility, but the mental midgets of society were too busy drinking, fucking and getting high to care, then we reached the tipping point around 2009 and now look at what it's become a decade later.

And the carpetbaggers have the audacity to show nothing but pure contempt for those who were already there and act like it was only ever their culture to begin with.

The cancer was always there, it was just dormant. The same shitheads were around in the 90s, lording over their convention committees, D&D groups, and anime clubs. They were forming cliques and gaining mod powers on MUDs. They dominated their shitty little forums. They ran your local ren faire.

It's just that before global social media and big geek money, it was decentralized. The reach and comparative rewards for these nerd social climbers was limited.

Social media gave them the chance to strut around in front of a larger audience. They could network with each other and, more importantly, with employees at game companies and publications. They networked their way into Nerd Royalty because they'd already been doing it for decades, just at a smaller scale.

That comic about carpetbaggers needs an edit, because in reality it's one of the co-creators that brought in the politics and mean-girl behavior. This shit came from inside the house.

 

[Racist Trash]

Another one of Zoe Quinn's CON network volunteers snapped and made a long series of tweets in which they denounce Zoe for failing to pay her trans staff members.

They also call Zoe's Chuck Tingle Kickstarter a "scam".

Spoiler: Another poor homeless troon

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Wait what has randi harper got to do with kotakuinaction and this place?


Also love that shit about how she states Zoe clearly doesn't care about anyone but herself but then "SHE REALLY DOES CARE ABOUT THE TRANS, GUYS!" This person hasn't learnt a damn thing they are still an easy manipulated target they just saw past the curtains enough to peek the truth about Zoe and nothing else.

 

[gobbogobb]

There are a lot of people in this thread getting way too mad about who is or isn't a nerd.

Also unless that dude has receipts nothing he says is going to matter to anyone who doesn't already think Zoe is lower than trailer park white trash.

 

[Racist Trash]

I think that’s a typo. Xyr meant to say that Chelsea doesn’t give a shit about trannies and is only doing it for the likes.

Ah yeah reading it again, pretty funny that they always have the add on how evil gamergate was tho, like "OH WOW Zoe Quinn is a massive liar but what she said about Gamergate must be true!."

Also unless that dude has receipts nothing he says is going to matter to anyone who doesn't already think Zoe is lower than trailer park white trash.

Even receipts don't matter Zoe will just claim something and tell her loyal followers to just not look at it or else.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Another one of Zoe Quinn's CON network volunteers snapped and made a long series of tweets in which they denounce Zoe for failing to pay her trans staff members.

They also call Zoe's Chuck Tingle Kickstarter a "scam".

Spoiler: Another poor homeless troon

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Tweet link: https://twitter.com/mombot/status/1141108644315979776?s=21

 

[Astarothpitecus]

It only took these drones 5 years to realize Zoe and Anita are con artists and just scammed them out of every last penny

 

[Water-T]

$10 says that Jake Alley is going to assume that "homeless disabled trans woman" is him, and this is going to make him redouble his efforts to make Senpai Quinn notice him and let him slide into her DMs again.

Also love that shit about how she states Zoe clearly doesn't care about anyone but herself but then "SHE REALLY DOES CARE ABOUT THE TRANS, GUYS!" This person hasn't learnt a damn thing they are still an easy manipulated target they just saw past the curtains enough to peek the truth about Zoe and nothing else.

I get the feeling that they meant to write "DOESN'T CARE" and didn't notice until it was too late to do anything about it.

Honestly, though, i'm surprised it took this long for Zoe's habit of using people and throwing them away like a soggy tampon to finally bite her in the ass. And since this a trans woman calling her out Zoe can't activate her "HELP ME MEN ARE ATTACKING ME!" trap card.

 

[AnOminous]

Another one of Zoe Quinn's CON network volunteers snapped and made a long series of tweets in which they denounce Zoe for failing to pay her trans staff members.

They also call Zoe's Chuck Tingle Kickstarter a "scam".

Spoiler: Another poor homeless troon

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This troon idiot sucker has a thread here of course:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/james-corbett-ramonasewage-lonelyfrontier.20972/

He got suckered and fucked over because he is so fucking dumb that he ignored all the screaming warning signs that Chelsea is a con artist because "muh goobergrape."

He got what he had coming, that is to say, he got fucked hard.