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Author Topic: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.  (Read 27280 times)

Mictlantecuhtli

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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #120 on: August 20, 2014, 11:36:37 am »

Use your words. Put them together in a way that communicates concepts and ideas.

Okay. How's this:
Unlike this Zoe individual, TheDarklingWolf and most of the Cataclysm:DDA team, was being legitimately harassed at some points by Lazycat, idiots from Something Awful and other miscellaneous dunderheads, with Lazycat going to comical lengths at badgering people.
The Wolf didn't get political about it, he laughed it off, reveled in the (rapidly turned positive, since he was willing to put up with their bullshit) attention 4chan, namely /rlg/ gave him, and simply pursued development, until he faded off to sink hundreds of hours into progression-based games.

So, in this situation you're lazycat? All the attention the hate mongering has brought to her is making her more successful than if you actually condemned and ignored her.
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #121 on: August 20, 2014, 11:37:21 am »

Use your words. Put them together in a way that communicates concepts and ideas.

Okay. How's this:
Unlike this Zoe individual, TheDarklingWolf and most of the Cataclysm:DDA team, was being legitimately harassed at some points by Lazycat, idiots from Something Awful and other miscellaneous dunderheads, with Lazycat going to comical lengths at badgering people.
The Wolf didn't get political about it, he laughed it off, reveled in the (rapidly turned positive, since he was willing to put up with their bullshit) attention 4chan, namely /rlg/ gave him, and simply pursued development, until he faded off to sink hundreds of hours into progression-based games.

So, in this situation you're lazycat?
2/10, try harder little troll, you're getting repetitive.
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #122 on: August 20, 2014, 11:38:02 am »

As an aside, I like how the title is basically click bait.
One could even say it's a click whore or a cursor slut.
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Mictlantecuhtli

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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #123 on: August 20, 2014, 11:39:33 am »

2/10, try harder little troll, you're getting repetitive.

So the attention brought to Zoe by this hate campaign isn't helping her gain more fame? Curious. I was just noting the parallel in the shoehorned comparison.
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #124 on: August 20, 2014, 11:39:45 am »

As an aside, I like how the title is basically click bait.
One could even say it's a click whore or a cursor slut.

Honestly I thought it was about how "this entire situation explains why things suck!" :P
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #125 on: August 20, 2014, 11:40:37 am »

I like how the OP posted the topic and immediately abandoned it to its fate
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #126 on: August 20, 2014, 11:41:43 am »

I like how the OP posted the topic and immediately abandoned it to its fate

check werty's profile

look at last active

compare to current, and then to posts in this thread
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #127 on: August 20, 2014, 11:46:31 am »

Let's steer this cruise missile of a thread back on track, shall we.

What do you all think about video game journalism and it's credibility?
Does this incident reveal anything to you?
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #128 on: August 20, 2014, 11:47:03 am »

As an aside, I like how the title is basically click bait.
One could even say it's a click whore or a cursor slut.

This is so awful I can't stop laughing. Thank you.
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #129 on: August 20, 2014, 11:48:42 am »

Let's steer this cruise missile of a thread back on track, shall we.

What do you all think about video game journalism and it's credibility?
Does this incident reveal anything to you?
I will no longer believe anything video game media says at all.
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #130 on: August 20, 2014, 11:49:00 am »

2/10, try harder little troll, you're getting repetitive.

So the attention brought to Zoe by this hate campaign isn't helping her gain more fame? Curious. I was just noting the parallel in the shoehorned comparison.
That is exactly one of the arguments being made against her - that she's profiting off this whole thing so she clearly masterminded it.

Does this incident reveal anything to you?
No, because by all evidence this never been about that - even the people who hate her say it's because she inaccurately blamed wizardchan for some harassment she was receiving. The journalism scandal apparently happened months ago and has completely petered out.
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #131 on: August 20, 2014, 11:56:56 am »

That is exactly one of the arguments being made against her - that she's profiting off this whole thing so she clearly masterminded it.


That would be one hell of a conspiracy. All this for about 3k in donations the last couple months.
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #132 on: August 20, 2014, 11:57:43 am »

Okay. How's this:
Unlike this Zoe individual, TheDarklingWolf and most of the Cataclysm:DDA team, was being legitimately harassed at some points by Lazycat, idiots from Something Awful and other miscellaneous dunderheads, with Lazycat going to comical lengths at badgering people.
The Wolf didn't get political about it, he laughed it off, reveled in the (rapidly turned positive, since he was willing to put up with their bullshit) attention 4chan, namely /rlg/ gave him, and simply pursued development, until he faded off to sink hundreds of hours into progression-based games.
That's actually a whole lot better, thank you, I honestly had no idea what you were trying to say before. I won't speak for Wolf, though I didn't get the feeling he "reveled" in anything here. Especially since he's here, but for my own part I put a lot of effort into putting on a good face, but to be honest it was an incredibly stressful time and the whole situation had lots of people on edge for a while. And that was with only one persistent harasser and a few assholes taking pot shots, and the whole way through was actually almost completely devoid of any sort of personal harassment. It was also, surprisingly (to me) generally free of any sort of personal harassment (generally), and as bad as it got at times I'm actually really happy about that.

To the extent they were even comparable, we really were a lot more like the girl in this situation than anyone else - hell, consider one of the most common refrains I heard was literally that we were intentionally generating controversy to raise money for the Kickstarter and all sorts of bullshit about how we were terrible for getting money over our free game.

Also, Hi Darkling! Long time no talk to, how are things going? :D

As an aside, I like how the title is basically click bait.
One could even say it's a click whore or a cursor slut.
This is so awful I can't stop laughing. Thank you.
Thread was officially worth it.
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #133 on: August 20, 2014, 12:01:23 pm »

Let's steer this cruise missile of a thread back on track, shall we.

What do you all think about video game journalism and it's credibility?
Does this incident reveal anything to you?
I will no longer believe anything video game media says at all.

HOLY COW!!!

You believed in videogame media? Wow... So have you been gaming long?
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Re: Zoegate, AKA the fall of Video Game Media.
« Reply #134 on: August 20, 2014, 12:04:53 pm »

Let's steer this cruise missile of a thread back on track, shall we.

What do you all think about video game journalism and it's credibility?
Does this incident reveal anything to you?
I will no longer believe anything video game media says at all.

HOLY COW!!!

You believed in videogame media? Wow... So have you been gaming long?
I believed videogame media at 1% before, 0% now.  8)
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