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antinegationism So I just got out of a 7 month relationship with someone I thought was just the most amazingly honest, creative, clever, morally-centered, principled (and as a bonus, good in bed) person I ever met or would meet, but -- Aug 15, 2014 STUPID (This is a long 6 part story -- there's a TL;DR on the last post; but I promise things get interesting if you read the whole thing) Act 0: Whereof One Cannot Speak, Thereof One Must Be Silent NEWBIE Sometime around November of 2013, I signed up for an OKCupid account got a 98% match with a cutie with colorful hair (cool), who was super into social justice stuff (good!), and was super into video games (neat!), and liked to make them (ah! I used to make them, that was fun times!), and by some coincidence turns out to have made a somewhat esoteric game I happened to have played a while back So I messaged her to meet up for drinks -- on my birthday. She seemed pretty cool; I didn't talk much at first, and mostly listened as she related tales of adversities she'd overcome and how they'd shaped her as a person and fueled her determination to improve the world. I was enamored, but after a while she caught herself ranting and asked about my interests and from there we discussed all sorts of stuff from art to programming to neurology to artificial intelligence to philosophy to how the "is it a game?" argument has literally been going on for a quarter century before video games even existed. At which point she showed me Tractatus Logico Philosophicus she carried around in her bag. Swoon -- good birthday. copy of Wittgenstein's That date lasted about three days. And we went on a couple more and just kept hitting it off on every point, and within two weeks we threw caution to the wind and went exclusive - facebook official, the works We'd spend hours discussing anything and everything; though the conversations often turned to ethics, motivations, and stories of her past. Among the most commonly recurring were: 1. Stories about how the grief and confusion of being raised by a pathological liar taught her to make it a point to always say what she meant, and to communicate at face value. 2. Stories about an extremely manipulative ex-husband, who would do things like refuse to stop wearing the ring from his last relationship, and make her feel terrible or insane for any discomfort she expressed -- though he was in fact cheating on her as he was making her feel terrible for being worried. 3. The pain of spending most of her childhood alone, as well as the injustice of being ostracized from various groups and communities in her adulthood. 4. Views on the ethics of infidelity. Which she maintained is inherently wrong even if the person who was cheated on never finds out, because (aside from willfully endangering their partner by way of increased STD risk) if the unfaithful party then has sex with their partner, they are doing so under false pretenses, and therefore without their partner's consent. That is, sex with a partner who doesn't know you've cheated on them is sex without consent. There were other strong principled positions, sometimes brought up for their own sake, sometimes brought up in relevant situations, and almost always tied to her past, but they didn't in any sense make up the bulk of our relationship. We'd spend a lot of time hacking around on our separate projects together, eating vegan food, flirting on tumblr, and having awesome sex Eventually she asked me to work with her on her new game, and I happily agreed. She took me to IndieCade East, and she got me a pass to see her at GDC GOC GDConf.com GAME GOC Eron Gjoni Butt Toucher Zoe Quinn Games EΧHIBITOR And seemed everything was going immeasurably well until I started succumbing to pointless and seemingly inexplicable bouts of anxiety sometime between the very end of April to the very beginning of May. We kinda broke up, but kinda not. She'd often message me to say she loved me and wanted to be with me again someday. She had eyes only for me, she said, and wanted me to say the same for her. A few months later, around the end of June, we get back together (though this time she was worried about a mole among her facebook friend's list, and so she didn't make it facebook official until two weeks into the relationship, for a carefully vetted group of, by her estimate, roughly 200 friends or so). Before you know it we're hitting on each other over tumblr again and sending cutesy couples photos whenever we missed each other. ... July 9 7/9, 12:51pm Zoe Quinn Are you here for that 7/9, 1:05pm Zoe Quinn aaaa I woke up and you're not here again 7/9, 2:30pm Zoe Quinn "sleepypout 7/9, 2:31pm Zoe Quinn 7/9, 2:31pm Zoe Quinn also just found these 7/9, 2:32pm Zoe Quinn Zoe Quinn 7/9, 2:32pm 7/9, 3:23pm Zoe Quinn talk me down I am considering going to that ramen place for the 3rd day in a row it's gonna happen am gonna noodle OD you're the worst NA sponsor ever. you with yourday job and me with my total irresponsibility in the face of unfairly delicious ramen 7/9, 3:35pm Eron Gjonl I'm sorry that I'm such a bad noodles anonymous sponsor 7/9, 3:35pm Zoe Quinn i am so glad you understood what na meant without me saying anything 7/9, 3:35pm Eron Gjonl I love you Zoe Quinn 7/9, 3:36pm I love you t00 She even flew me out to San Francisco on a last minute whim around early July (The last photo of this set is one she took of me in SF, though the goth n------ and smoke ring are both back in Boston). This was for the most part a good time -- Until I found out she'd been cheating on me with her boss (Joshua Boggs). And a few days later we have the following conversation, where I ask for her help finding and informing his wife: S---, man, what happened? mean, obviously she cheated on me (a lot actually), but why would someone violate their own beliefs on something as important to them as sexual consent? And what's with all this fear of someone aoing.nublic2 What hannened to her strona

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GamerGate ground zero: The Something Awful post that started it all


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zoë “lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch - 1h Since I'm getting a lot of emails about this: no, l've got nothing to do with That TV show. I learned about its existence at the same time as the rest of you. No, I was not asked, consulted etc. and if I had been asked, I wouldn't have been ok with it. That's all. 5 17 42 408 zoë “lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch · 1h I continue to reject any oversimplification of GamerGate that leaves out its roots in white supremacy, domestic violence, and the pre-existing societal issues it capitalized in favor of a more convenient and inaccurate narrative about it being solely about women in games. t7 78 5 510 @UnburntWitch - 57m zoë “lycan subscribe" quinn If I am portrayed in it, it's without my involvement or any input on my end, and is happening without my consent. If I'm written out of it, well. I'm not so sure how you can present it as an “honest" story. But that's really not my problem, either. 27 10 204 zoë “lycan subscribe" quinn ... @UnburntWitch I don't want to do any interviews on this, I don't want to give any other statements aside from this. It's bad enough having all of this pop up again without any warning or regard for how I might feel about it, so l'd like to just try and ignore it. Thank you for understanding.
zoë "lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch I haven't stopped screaming this for the last seven years because the scarlet letter on me hasn't come off, the harassment hasn't stopped, and people still refuse to learn a god damned thing about what happened to me (and others). Ignoring history enables the repetition of it. * Margaret Sullivan O @Sulliview 7h The AP's treatment of 22-year-old journalist Emily Wilder shows how much newsroom managers still have to learn about bad-faith attacks and online harassment of their staffers, seven years after Gamergate should have taught them. My column washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi. Show this thread 7:00 pm · 27 May 2021 Twitter for iPhone zoë "lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch Replying to @UnburntWitch You might be sick of hearing about it, but I promise I'm more sick of having to say it. It is nothing short of a waking nightmare to be constantly impacted by it for the better part of 10 years despite all attempts to move the f--- on, only to have people say it never happened. 7:08 pm 27 May 2021 Twitter for iPhone cory barlog O @corybarlog 10m ... Replying to @UnburntWitch people are just the f-----' worst. O 1 zoë "lycan subscribe" quinn O @UnburntWitch · 7m I'm losing my mind dude, there's honestly Discourse saying gg never even happened and wasn't that bad anyway like 2014 never stopped. ... O 11 Cliff Bleszinski O @therealcliffyb - 6m JFC
zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch - 1h wow what a "fun" idea. assholes. O DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm - 9h Ellen Page and Paris Berelc have been cast in the gaming comedy 1UP' for BuzzFeed Studios. The film is described as being in the vein of 'Pitch Perfect' but set in the world of esports with a Gamergate backdrop. (Source: link.hollywoodreporter.com/click/21952263..) IB CAD 44 27 251 M 1.6K zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch 1h love that the psycho ex who ruined my life and the alt-right mob he drummed up basically seems to have won the disinformation wars given the replies to this. big props to everyone who knew better but stayed ""neutral"" during gg. O 6 27 52 O 829 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch - 1h fun reminder: the game review I supposedly "bought" with sex literally never existed in any way, shape, or form, and the psycho ex who kicked up the mob even said so himself. 000 I hate that this still somehow is considered a controversial statement. 27 78 O 771 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch · 1h I hate that I have to keep saying it but I don't know what else to do when people just let the waters be muddied for this long and my existence has been politicized to the point where I can't just live my life. 000 277 O 497 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch - 1h 000 They even named the protagonist "Vivian" so they know enough to know better than to make this a fun comedic romp. O 10 337 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O @UnburntWitch 57m I'm so sick of talking about this even though it STILL impacts my life every day. I struggle to live my life around it, recover from it, and not let it break me and then stuff like this comes up from time to time and kicks me in the teeth. O 4 27 8 O 386 zoë "leonardo doujinshi" quinn O 000 @UnburntWitch Replying to @UnburntWitch Sorry. I know a million more important and f----- up things are happening rn. Logging tf off. 1:57 AM - Oct 31, 2020 - Twitter for iPhone ZOE QUINN GAMERGATE
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