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Chelsea Van Valkenburg, Zoe Quinn's true identity! 2

ZOE QUINN AND CHELSEA VAN VALKENBURG ARE THE SAME WOMAN Besides the fact that photos of "both" Zoe & Chelsea clearlyshow the same person.. Chelsea's old meetup.com profile links to Zoe's flickr account http://www.meetup.com/torontophotographic/members/12780864/ Zoe's website, beesgo.biz, is registered under the name Chelsea Van Valkenburg... And the contact email addresses are Zoe's. Chelsea Van Valkenburg http://www.who.is/whois/beesgo.biz Location Toronto, ON Member since: August 18, 2010 Raw Registrar Data Registrant Contact Information: Networks Name: Chelsea Van Valkenburg Address 1: Zip: Country: Phone: Email: zoetquinn Administrative Contact Information: Name: Chelsea Van Valkenburg Address 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aboxforhats/ State: Zip: Country Email: phoenixsuicide Technical Contact Information: Name: Chelsea Van Valkenburg Address 1: City: flickr Sign Up Explore Upload Country: Phone: Email: phoenixsuicide Zoe Quinn Billing Contact Information: Name: Chelsea Van Valkenburg Address 1: ZoeQuinn Albums Favorites http://angelchild2columbia.tripod.com/AOS.html Chelsea Van Valkenburg (?) Alias: Oni-Chan "Lir Sister in Japanese" Since 2000 Chelsee A My RPG buddy. Chels is a nice kid...a lil' on the strange side, which makes me dig her even The Rhapsody of Divine more. Whether it's creme soda "hides the stash*, Lunaoy...Shinigami's Divine. A or parsley, Chelsea can make me laugh with the best of'em. I wanna go to NY to see her...we'll see. NY had better look out if it does happen, though. O O. LOL SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN? Considering she has to give sexual favors to video game journalists in exchange for coverage and beg the Internet to fund her vaporous game jam, it probably means she does NOT come from the wealthy Van Valkenburg family but rather a different, s------- line of Van Valkenburgs. She's been shilling HARD on 4chan saying she isn't Chelsea, but of course, she obviously is. Why the denial? Probably because she doesn't want people digging in to her past as Chelsea Van Valkenburg because they might uncover more people willing to tell of her sociopathic exploits. After all, there must be a reason Zoe doesn't want to be known as Chelsea anymore... Skeletons in the closet much?
ZOE QUINN AND CHELSEA VAN VALKENBURG ARE THE SAME WOMAN Besides the fact that photos of "both" Zoe & Chelsea clearlyshow the same person.. Chelsea's old meetup.com profile links to Zoe's flickr account http://www.meetup.com/torontophotographic/members/12780864/ Zoe's website, beesgo.biz, is registered under the name Chelsea Van Valkenburg... And the contact email addresses are Zoe's. Chelsea Van Valkenburg http://www.who.is/whois/beesgo.biz Location Toronto, ON Member since: August 18, 2010 Raw Registrar Data Registrant Contact Information: Networks Name: Chelsea Van Valkenburg Address 1: Zip: Country: Phone: Email: zoetquinn Administrative Contact Information: Name: Chelsea Van Valkenburg Address 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aboxforhats/ State: Zip: Country Email: phoenixsuicide Technical Contact Information: Name: Chelsea Van Valkenburg Address 1: City: flickr Sign Up Explore Upload Country: Phone: Email: phoenixsuicide Zoe Quinn Billing Contact Information: Name: Chelsea Van Valkenburg Address 1: ZoeQuinn Albums Favorites http://angelchild2columbia.tripod.com/AOS.html Chelsea Van Valkenburg (?) Alias: Oni-Chan "Lir Sister in Japanese" Since 2000 Chelsee A My RPG buddy. Chels is a nice kid...a lil' on the strange side, which makes me dig her even The Rhapsody of Divine more. Whether it's creme soda "hides the stash*, Lunaoy...Shinigami's Divine. A or parsley, Chelsea can make me laugh with the best of'em. I wanna go to NY to see her...we'll see. NY had better look out if it does happen, though. O O. LOL SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN? Considering she has to give sexual favors to video game journalists in exchange for coverage and beg the Internet to fund her vaporous game jam, it probably means she does NOT come from the wealthy Van Valkenburg family but rather a different, s------- line of Van Valkenburgs. She's been shilling HARD on 4chan saying she isn't Chelsea, but of course, she obviously is. Why the denial? Probably because she doesn't want people digging in to her past as Chelsea Van Valkenburg because they might uncover more people willing to tell of her sociopathic exploits. After all, there must be a reason Zoe doesn't want to be known as Chelsea anymore... Skeletons in the closet much?

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Valkenburg Masonry!

Anonymous Sun 24 Aug 2014 02:08:49 No.259479202 Report Quoted By: >259479348 >259479483>259479541 259479630 >259481790 259482076 >259482612 >>259484467 https://www.familytreedna.com/public/DUTCHVALKENBURGS/ >Many people whose Valkenburg ancestry is from The Netherlands and Belgium are trying to trace their ancestry back to the oldest known Valkenburg ancestor, Henken Wouters, who was born around 1385 at Farm Gruengracht in the town of Valkenburg, located in Limburg, The Netherlands. He came from a family of stone masons >Stone masons HELP HELP HELP
Anonymous Sun 24 Aug 2014 02:08:49 No.259479202 Report Quoted By: >259479348 >259479483>259479541 259479630 >259481790 259482076 >259482612 >>259484467 https://www.familytreedna.com/public/DUTCHVALKENBURGS/ >Many people whose Valkenburg ancestry is from The Netherlands and Belgium are trying to trace their ancestry back to the oldest known Valkenburg ancestor, Henken Wouters, who was born around 1385 at Farm Gruengracht in the town of Valkenburg, located in Limburg, The Netherlands. He came from a family of stone masons >Stone masons HELP HELP HELP

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patreon Search Discover Login Signup Ben Kuchera Supporting Creations Supported Likes Posts 4260 Good。°Follow 700 Good 231 Days LITINN Zoë Quinn is creating es ch Stuff Writing @polygon NEWS REVIEWS FEATURES VIDEOS FORUMS OPINION PLATFORMS MORE Search Games & Reviews Developer Zoe Quinn offers real-world advice, support for dealing with online harassment By Ben Kuchera on Mar 19, 2014 at 2:00p 159 days ago! C BUPR 150MG TAI TOP STORIES TAKE TTA Hacker bomb threat diverts flight carrying Sony Online president By Owen S. Good on Aug 24, 2014 MOUTH. ory 30 Store Pho The 'true' story of a Pokémon game that turns you into a murderer By Rich McCormick on Aug 22, 2014 PlayStation Network is down; hackers claim they did it (Update) By Owen S. Good on Aug 24, 2014 Super Smash Bros. 'Play in Sleep' mode lets you listen to the soundtrack on the go By Owen S. Good on Aug 24, 2014 oe Quinn is the creator of Depression Quest, and she became a target for harassment when the game was submitted to Greenlight. Fez developer Polytron hacked in ongoing game developer harassment effort By Michael McWhertor on Aug 22, 2014 "There's a certain subset of the Internet that sent death threats to my house and leaked my phone number," she said during a speech at the Game Developers Conference. She went on to offer some advice from her experiences in both dealing with the harassment and reaching out to people who took part in harassing behavior. The Elder Scrolls Online launches loyalty program for subscribers By Owen S. Good on Aug 24, 2014
patreon Search Discover Login Signup Ben Kuchera Supporting Creations Supported Likes Posts 4260 Good。°Follow 700 Good 231 Days LITINN Zoë Quinn is creating es ch Stuff Writing @polygon NEWS REVIEWS FEATURES VIDEOS FORUMS OPINION PLATFORMS MORE Search Games & Reviews Developer Zoe Quinn offers real-world advice, support for dealing with online harassment By Ben Kuchera on Mar 19, 2014 at 2:00p 159 days ago! C BUPR 150MG TAI TOP STORIES TAKE TTA Hacker bomb threat diverts flight carrying Sony Online president By Owen S. Good on Aug 24, 2014 MOUTH. ory 30 Store Pho The 'true' story of a Pokémon game that turns you into a murderer By Rich McCormick on Aug 22, 2014 PlayStation Network is down; hackers claim they did it (Update) By Owen S. Good on Aug 24, 2014 Super Smash Bros. 'Play in Sleep' mode lets you listen to the soundtrack on the go By Owen S. Good on Aug 24, 2014 oe Quinn is the creator of Depression Quest, and she became a target for harassment when the game was submitted to Greenlight. Fez developer Polytron hacked in ongoing game developer harassment effort By Michael McWhertor on Aug 22, 2014 "There's a certain subset of the Internet that sent death threats to my house and leaked my phone number," she said during a speech at the Game Developers Conference. She went on to offer some advice from her experiences in both dealing with the harassment and reaching out to people who took part in harassing behavior. The Elder Scrolls Online launches loyalty program for subscribers By Owen S. Good on Aug 24, 2014

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Edited version of "The Evolution of Games Journalism."

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THE EVOLUTION OF GAMES SOURNALISM. THE 90'5 THE 00'5 THE 10'5 THAT GAME you LIKE 15 AWESOME/ THAT GAME you LIKE I5 TERRIBLE. THAT GAME yOu LIKE 15 SEXIST 13 CORY RYDELL AND GREY CARTER COUNT THEIR BLES5SINGS NOT THEIR FLAWS WWW E5CAPISTMAGAZINE COM

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Interrogating a Reddit Mod - How they "found" the leak 2/2

-] Deimorz -6 points 3 hours ago The only thing "funny" was that we had a moderator on the team that apparently felt like an appropriate way to resolve a disagreement was to "leak some specific lies to try to initiate a 4chan witch-hunt. Ive always known that having XavierMendel as a mod of /Games was taking a risk, because he's a compulsive liar with a massive need for attention. He regularly tries to stir up drama for the sake of getting this attention (just check the type of submissions he makes in /t/SubredditOfTheDay if you want to see examples of that). Until yesterday, Ive always just rolled my eyes at the ridiculous lies he makes up and his drama-causing propensities because he generally seemed to keep it separate from /r Games, and the constant lies weren't actually hurting anyone. He definitely did a lot of good things for the subreddit as well, so tolerating his issues seemed to be a reasonable price for having that positive involvement. But that changed yesterday, when his need for feeling important finally got him to try and play both sides in a way that was fully intended to hurt both the subreddit as a whole, and one person in particular. Ijust wish that I had paid more attention to my instincts and removed him earlier, on one of the previous occasions that I've needed to figure out if he was still a net positive for the subreddit. Overall, Im mostly just glad that he's embarrassingly terrible at lying, especially for someone that spends so much of his time doing it. He's playing things as the victim and poor, innocent scapegoat for now, as you can see from his "statement" on pastebin that someone else posted, which includes the generous usual helping of s----he-completely-made-up (scorpions in Kuwait? uh-huh). But if that doesn't get him enough sympathy, expect him to move on to being a whistleblower martyr next if that seems like it'll get more attention. It's just what he does. permalink save report give gold reply -] Genericron [score hidden] 2 hours ago The crazy thing is that most of the stuff you described about him sounds like you are describing Zoe Quinn. The drama that keeps on giving permalink save parent report give gold reply -l A Cylon_Raider XavierMendel must be Zoe Quinn. The facts are all there people permalink save parent report give gold reply [score hidden] 2 hours ago -] shuckels [score hidden] 2 hours ago what if they are both just Unidan? permalink save parent report give gold reply XavierMendel [score hidden] an hour ago Can confirm, am slept with Uniquinn. Wait, that came out wrong permalink save parent report give gold reply l shuckels [score hidden] an hour ago Nice try Uniquindel permalink save parent report give gold reply -1 FungusFields [score hidden] 2 hours ago Kuwait does have scorpions. Specifically, the Fattail scorpion. If wikipedia doesn't convince you, here is video proof permalink save parent report give gold reply Scorpion in Kuwait -] Deimorz [score hidden] 2 hours ago Uh.. thanks? It's not whether there are scorpions in Kuwait tha I think he's lying about permalink save parent report give gold reply
-] Deimorz -6 points 3 hours ago The only thing "funny" was that we had a moderator on the team that apparently felt like an appropriate way to resolve a disagreement was to "leak some specific lies to try to initiate a 4chan witch-hunt. Ive always known that having XavierMendel as a mod of /Games was taking a risk, because he's a compulsive liar with a massive need for attention. He regularly tries to stir up drama for the sake of getting this attention (just check the type of submissions he makes in /t/SubredditOfTheDay if you want to see examples of that). Until yesterday, Ive always just rolled my eyes at the ridiculous lies he makes up and his drama-causing propensities because he generally seemed to keep it separate from /r Games, and the constant lies weren't actually hurting anyone. He definitely did a lot of good things for the subreddit as well, so tolerating his issues seemed to be a reasonable price for having that positive involvement. But that changed yesterday, when his need for feeling important finally got him to try and play both sides in a way that was fully intended to hurt both the subreddit as a whole, and one person in particular. Ijust wish that I had paid more attention to my instincts and removed him earlier, on one of the previous occasions that I've needed to figure out if he was still a net positive for the subreddit. Overall, Im mostly just glad that he's embarrassingly terrible at lying, especially for someone that spends so much of his time doing it. He's playing things as the victim and poor, innocent scapegoat for now, as you can see from his "statement" on pastebin that someone else posted, which includes the generous usual helping of s----he-completely-made-up (scorpions in Kuwait? uh-huh). But if that doesn't get him enough sympathy, expect him to move on to being a whistleblower martyr next if that seems like it'll get more attention. It's just what he does. permalink save report give gold reply -] Genericron [score hidden] 2 hours ago The crazy thing is that most of the stuff you described about him sounds like you are describing Zoe Quinn. The drama that keeps on giving permalink save parent report give gold reply -l A Cylon_Raider XavierMendel must be Zoe Quinn. The facts are all there people permalink save parent report give gold reply [score hidden] 2 hours ago -] shuckels [score hidden] 2 hours ago what if they are both just Unidan? permalink save parent report give gold reply XavierMendel [score hidden] an hour ago Can confirm, am slept with Uniquinn. Wait, that came out wrong permalink save parent report give gold reply l shuckels [score hidden] an hour ago Nice try Uniquindel permalink save parent report give gold reply -1 FungusFields [score hidden] 2 hours ago Kuwait does have scorpions. Specifically, the Fattail scorpion. If wikipedia doesn't convince you, here is video proof permalink save parent report give gold reply Scorpion in Kuwait -] Deimorz [score hidden] 2 hours ago Uh.. thanks? It's not whether there are scorpions in Kuwait tha I think he's lying about permalink save parent report give gold reply

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PressFartToContinue - Interrogating a Reddit Mod - How they "found" the leak 1/2

B呑迴 匆Jeroen Amingeroenamin@gmail.com> 8:41 PM (52 minutes ago) Piemonkey here. Write me any questions you have. We've got nothing to hide in the matter Nick Monroe <pressfarttocontinue@gmail.com> 8:45 PM (49 minutes ago) to Jeroen Look this s--- has escalated. You can try and hide it and wait for the public to take it into their own hands, or you can help by going through everything that's happened and explaining how it got to this point. I'm really sorry if I have to be direct about this. But this situation isn't right man. Normally I'm much more laidback. Jeroen Amin 8:47 PM (46 minutes ago) ☆ | I'm active on the SRD and Drama threads about it You can look through those threads for some explanations. I'm also here answering people on Twitter, email, and IRC. It's not like were hiding or anything here. So, like I said, we're willing to discuss what's going on. Just need to know what you'd like answered specificaly 8:48 PM (45 minutes ago) ☆ Nick Monroe <pressfarttocontinue@gmail.com to Jeroer Who is your boss? And who is their boss? 8:49 PM (44 minutes ago) Jeroen Amin to me For rGames? We don't really have a boss. We run like Valve does, really. Everyone is equal but Deimorz is more equal than the rest. 8:51 PM (42 minutes ago) Nick Monroe <pressfarttocontinue@gmail.com> to Jeroen Who makes the choice of how mods stay and go. Jeroen Amin 8:54 PM (40 minutes ago) to me We all do, collectively Xav was the one who usually led the charge with bringing in new people by interviewing them. We all agreed on people and then Deimorz signs off on it. Xav was the one who recommended and brought in nalixor in the first place. As for removing, that's only happened three times: once early in the sub's life when it was tiny and there were only a couple of mods. One of them was just over-removing stuff unapologetically. Another was removed for disappearing and being inactive (mkautzm). Xav was removed by Deimorz and the other mods who were around at the time recognized why and agreed with it. 8:57 PM (37 minutes ago) Nick Monroe cpressfarttocontinue@gmail.com> to Jeroen Recognized why I follow what you're saying, but elaborate on this 9:16 PM (18 minutes ago) Jeroen Amin to me That he was the leak ater all The biggest issue with that leak is that it was a bunch of indirect lies. A lot of evidence taken out of context and misrepresented to make it look like something else and make nalixor look like something else entirely. Anyone that reads his comments in the Phil Fish thread would be able to tell that what was said in the "leak doesn't match up to what naloxor was arguing for in that thread. Alongside that, it portrayed a joke as a serious plan. It also completely misrepresented how the ZQ PMs went. A lot of what was said in those screens mirrored the argument Xav had with nalixor earlier and followed similar wording. Nalixor was suspicious about it and Deimorz confirmed it. When Deimorz confirmed that Xav was the leak, then the mods were in agreement that it was a violation. Nick Monroe to Jeroen So there was more than one Zoe Quinn PM? If so, that's even more of a mistrust of the public There's still time release the rest com> 9:23 PM (11 minutes ago) 9:33 PM (1 minute ago) Nick Monroe <pressfartocontinue@gmail.com> to Jeroern F--- it. I don't think I have any more questions.
B呑迴 匆Jeroen Amingeroenamin@gmail.com> 8:41 PM (52 minutes ago) Piemonkey here. Write me any questions you have. We've got nothing to hide in the matter Nick Monroe <pressfarttocontinue@gmail.com> 8:45 PM (49 minutes ago) to Jeroen Look this s--- has escalated. You can try and hide it and wait for the public to take it into their own hands, or you can help by going through everything that's happened and explaining how it got to this point. I'm really sorry if I have to be direct about this. But this situation isn't right man. Normally I'm much more laidback. Jeroen Amin 8:47 PM (46 minutes ago) ☆ | I'm active on the SRD and Drama threads about it You can look through those threads for some explanations. I'm also here answering people on Twitter, email, and IRC. It's not like were hiding or anything here. So, like I said, we're willing to discuss what's going on. Just need to know what you'd like answered specificaly 8:48 PM (45 minutes ago) ☆ Nick Monroe <pressfarttocontinue@gmail.com to Jeroer Who is your boss? And who is their boss? 8:49 PM (44 minutes ago) Jeroen Amin to me For rGames? We don't really have a boss. We run like Valve does, really. Everyone is equal but Deimorz is more equal than the rest. 8:51 PM (42 minutes ago) Nick Monroe <pressfarttocontinue@gmail.com> to Jeroen Who makes the choice of how mods stay and go. Jeroen Amin 8:54 PM (40 minutes ago) to me We all do, collectively Xav was the one who usually led the charge with bringing in new people by interviewing them. We all agreed on people and then Deimorz signs off on it. Xav was the one who recommended and brought in nalixor in the first place. As for removing, that's only happened three times: once early in the sub's life when it was tiny and there were only a couple of mods. One of them was just over-removing stuff unapologetically. Another was removed for disappearing and being inactive (mkautzm). Xav was removed by Deimorz and the other mods who were around at the time recognized why and agreed with it. 8:57 PM (37 minutes ago) Nick Monroe cpressfarttocontinue@gmail.com> to Jeroen Recognized why I follow what you're saying, but elaborate on this 9:16 PM (18 minutes ago) Jeroen Amin to me That he was the leak ater all The biggest issue with that leak is that it was a bunch of indirect lies. A lot of evidence taken out of context and misrepresented to make it look like something else and make nalixor look like something else entirely. Anyone that reads his comments in the Phil Fish thread would be able to tell that what was said in the "leak doesn't match up to what naloxor was arguing for in that thread. Alongside that, it portrayed a joke as a serious plan. It also completely misrepresented how the ZQ PMs went. A lot of what was said in those screens mirrored the argument Xav had with nalixor earlier and followed similar wording. Nalixor was suspicious about it and Deimorz confirmed it. When Deimorz confirmed that Xav was the leak, then the mods were in agreement that it was a violation. Nick Monroe to Jeroen So there was more than one Zoe Quinn PM? If so, that's even more of a mistrust of the public There's still time release the rest com> 9:23 PM (11 minutes ago) 9:33 PM (1 minute ago) Nick Monroe <pressfartocontinue@gmail.com> to Jeroern F--- it. I don't think I have any more questions.

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Anonymous 08/25/14(Mon)15:32:53 No.259732062259732267 259732427 259732764 > Let it go already! > Lol ur only helping the SJW Bitches, listen up. This ain't about some crazy chick sleeping around. This aint about the SJW screwing up the game industry. Hell, this ain't even about Burgers and Fries anymore! This is about journalistic integrity. This is about the corruption of indie development. This is to change the future of gaming. Mother f------, this is a fight to the finish and we're gonna damn well finish it And we're gonna finish it right. No "hacking." No "doxxing." No b-------. Damn straight we're gonna keep finding the evidence till there's so much s--- covering all these "journalists" and "developers" that the whole damn industry comes tumbling down And when it's all said and done, and those with the strength, willpower, and real f-----' integrity are all that's left We're gonna play ourselves some god damn video games
Anonymous 08/25/14(Mon)15:32:53 No.259732062259732267 259732427 259732764 > Let it go already! > Lol ur only helping the SJW Bitches, listen up. This ain't about some crazy chick sleeping around. This aint about the SJW screwing up the game industry. Hell, this ain't even about Burgers and Fries anymore! This is about journalistic integrity. This is about the corruption of indie development. This is to change the future of gaming. Mother f------, this is a fight to the finish and we're gonna damn well finish it And we're gonna finish it right. No "hacking." No "doxxing." No b-------. Damn straight we're gonna keep finding the evidence till there's so much s--- covering all these "journalists" and "developers" that the whole damn industry comes tumbling down And when it's all said and done, and those with the strength, willpower, and real f-----' integrity are all that's left We're gonna play ourselves some god damn video games

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Eron discusses journalism coverage of games

Un-untitled. "Don't get me started... Actually, I have a feeling the journo aspect is going to be a big focus from this. Lotta angry folk have been complaining about how the whole scene is a big "hugbox" for a while, and now with the fact that they're all actually f------ each other, well, that's just more fuel Anonymous Tbh I kind of doubt we'll see a lot of journalists writing about how badly they're doing their jobs Relevant in case you're interested though, back during GDC, I was having lunch with Zoe, a very successful indie dev friend of hers, and a games jousrnalist As we finished up our meals, journalist asked the dev which games were worth covering, then went on to brag about how great this secret "ask the devs" technique was. Apparently he reasoned that if he wanted to know what games deserved success, he should just ask someone who'd made a successful game. To the dev's credit, he seemed quick to respond with an evenhanded suggestion, but it's not difficult to see how he could have abused his position to, say, plug a friend's game Posted 1 week ago 3 notes
Un-untitled. "Don't get me started... Actually, I have a feeling the journo aspect is going to be a big focus from this. Lotta angry folk have been complaining about how the whole scene is a big "hugbox" for a while, and now with the fact that they're all actually f------ each other, well, that's just more fuel Anonymous Tbh I kind of doubt we'll see a lot of journalists writing about how badly they're doing their jobs Relevant in case you're interested though, back during GDC, I was having lunch with Zoe, a very successful indie dev friend of hers, and a games jousrnalist As we finished up our meals, journalist asked the dev which games were worth covering, then went on to brag about how great this secret "ask the devs" technique was. Apparently he reasoned that if he wanted to know what games deserved success, he should just ask someone who'd made a successful game. To the dev's credit, he seemed quick to respond with an evenhanded suggestion, but it's not difficult to see how he could have abused his position to, say, plug a friend's game Posted 1 week ago 3 notes

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DMCA by Quinn on 8chan

Zoho Mail-Print-Chromium https://mail.zono.com/mail/print.do?&m=2508229000000373001&iss=0 Print |Close window Ray Willis <ray.willis3@gmail.com> admin@@8chan.co> DMCA takedown request re: https://8chan.co/burgers/ Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:18:00-0700 rom 0 Subject Date Nebsite: https://8chan.co/burgers List of copyrighted images used without permission: https://8chan.co/burgers/src/1488569527488.jpg https://8chan.co/burgers/src/1488598793984.png Depression Quest and all images from it are the copyright of Zoe Quinn. I request on her behalf that you remove all content at https://8chan.co/burgers immediately or else we will file suit. The following information is presented for the purposes of removing web content that allegedly infringes on our copyright per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We appreciate your enforcement of copyright law and support of our rights in this matter. Be aware that if you ignore this notice, you (as a Provider covered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) forfeit the Act's immunity from monetary damages, which range from $758 to $38,888 per work infringed and up to $158,888 per work for willful infringement. Attorney's fees and costs can also be recovered What you (the Provider) need to do now 1) reply to the Complainant (Us) and /or the Authorized Agent thereof that this notification has been received, within 24 hours 2) send your customer written notification, along with a copy of this notification requesting removal of the infringing material and requiring confirmation of the removal be sent to you (the Provider) within 24 hours; 3) disable access to the infringing material or the customer's account if the customer fails to remove the infringing material and/or fails to inform you (the Provider) of the removal within 24 hours of notification; 4) send the Complainant (Us) and /or the Authorized Agent thereof notice of the customer's counter notification and your (the Provider) intent to re-enable access to the material or the account within 14 days of your (the Providers) receipt of any customer counter notification assuming the counter notification meets the requirements of the DMCA Act. Identification of Copyrighted Work The copyrighted work at issue is the text that appears on www.mydomain.com and its related pages. The pages in question contain a clear copyright notification and are the intellectual property of the complainant Identification of Infringed Material The following copyrighted paragraphs have been allegedly copied from the copyrighted work. We have retained but not submitted printed examples of these and other alleged infringements Be aware that these are blatant and obvious examples and are not necessarily a complete list of all alleged violations. We require that all alleged copyright violations be removed from the website in question and the onus is on the infringer to locate and remove all alleged copyright violations of the complainant' s intellectual property Be further aware that simply making a few changes (such as changing a name or rewording or reformatting some text) is not sufficient to remove the rights of the complainant. The alleged offending materials (or website) must be wholly removed
Zoho Mail-Print-Chromium https://mail.zono.com/mail/print.do?&m=2508229000000373001&iss=0 Print |Close window Ray Willis <ray.willis3@gmail.com> admin@@8chan.co> DMCA takedown request re: https://8chan.co/burgers/ Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:18:00-0700 rom 0 Subject Date Nebsite: https://8chan.co/burgers List of copyrighted images used without permission: https://8chan.co/burgers/src/1488569527488.jpg https://8chan.co/burgers/src/1488598793984.png Depression Quest and all images from it are the copyright of Zoe Quinn. I request on her behalf that you remove all content at https://8chan.co/burgers immediately or else we will file suit. The following information is presented for the purposes of removing web content that allegedly infringes on our copyright per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We appreciate your enforcement of copyright law and support of our rights in this matter. Be aware that if you ignore this notice, you (as a Provider covered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) forfeit the Act's immunity from monetary damages, which range from $758 to $38,888 per work infringed and up to $158,888 per work for willful infringement. Attorney's fees and costs can also be recovered What you (the Provider) need to do now 1) reply to the Complainant (Us) and /or the Authorized Agent thereof that this notification has been received, within 24 hours 2) send your customer written notification, along with a copy of this notification requesting removal of the infringing material and requiring confirmation of the removal be sent to you (the Provider) within 24 hours; 3) disable access to the infringing material or the customer's account if the customer fails to remove the infringing material and/or fails to inform you (the Provider) of the removal within 24 hours of notification; 4) send the Complainant (Us) and /or the Authorized Agent thereof notice of the customer's counter notification and your (the Provider) intent to re-enable access to the material or the account within 14 days of your (the Providers) receipt of any customer counter notification assuming the counter notification meets the requirements of the DMCA Act. Identification of Copyrighted Work The copyrighted work at issue is the text that appears on www.mydomain.com and its related pages. The pages in question contain a clear copyright notification and are the intellectual property of the complainant Identification of Infringed Material The following copyrighted paragraphs have been allegedly copied from the copyrighted work. We have retained but not submitted printed examples of these and other alleged infringements Be aware that these are blatant and obvious examples and are not necessarily a complete list of all alleged violations. We require that all alleged copyright violations be removed from the website in question and the onus is on the infringer to locate and remove all alleged copyright violations of the complainant' s intellectual property Be further aware that simply making a few changes (such as changing a name or rewording or reformatting some text) is not sufficient to remove the rights of the complainant. The alleged offending materials (or website) must be wholly removed

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Zoe Quin: "oh shi-- pepsi is coming for me!

March 28 3/28, 8:43am Facebook User Oh f------ god. S--- got weird. I led a revolt against Pepsi Eron Gjoni 3/28, 9:56am Go on.. 3/28, 12:18pm Facebook User The show got really bad so l started having doubts and then it got worse and other people were kinda tired of it too and I may have done that inspirational speech thing I do where people cry and basically we all quit the show on the first day Eron Gjoni What do you mean by really bad? 3/28, 1:27pm March 28 3/28, 5:01pm Facebook User The cheesiest reality tv show s---, sexist b-------, humiliating s---, censorship s---, Mountain Dew s---. Everything March 30 Facebook User 3/30, 1:14am oh man lemme know when you're around Eron Gjoni 3/30, 1:15am okay. Should be in an hour High and at denny's right now Facebook User 3/30, 1:15am of course vou are Eron Gjoni Dont judge me 3/30, 1:16am 3/30, 1 :16am Facebook User and it's better if we talk when you're not high I am basically in a fallout shelter with my embedded journalist being told pepsi is on the war path also miss you
March 28 3/28, 8:43am Facebook User Oh f------ god. S--- got weird. I led a revolt against Pepsi Eron Gjoni 3/28, 9:56am Go on.. 3/28, 12:18pm Facebook User The show got really bad so l started having doubts and then it got worse and other people were kinda tired of it too and I may have done that inspirational speech thing I do where people cry and basically we all quit the show on the first day Eron Gjoni What do you mean by really bad? 3/28, 1:27pm March 28 3/28, 5:01pm Facebook User The cheesiest reality tv show s---, sexist b-------, humiliating s---, censorship s---, Mountain Dew s---. Everything March 30 Facebook User 3/30, 1:14am oh man lemme know when you're around Eron Gjoni 3/30, 1:15am okay. Should be in an hour High and at denny's right now Facebook User 3/30, 1:15am of course vou are Eron Gjoni Dont judge me 3/30, 1:16am 3/30, 1 :16am Facebook User and it's better if we talk when you're not high I am basically in a fallout shelter with my embedded journalist being told pepsi is on the war path also miss you

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Is This A GAME_JAM Confession?

QUINNSPIRACY HOME ARCHIVE MY GAMES TWITTER WRITING DEV BLOGS Ground Zero This is a more fluffy, personal bloggy type thing I wrote this the day after we walked off set of GAME_JAM, two days before today when we posted our articles For more context, see Jared's coverage, Adriel's thoughts, Robin's thoughts, and My thoughts I like to do this thing sometimes with other gamespeople when we're doing something games adjacent and things get really surreal I just say "because videogames". Acknowledging that I've ended up in extreme situations due to what a lot of people consider a silly pastime for children fulfills my love and respect of exactly how absurd the universe is. Get fanmail that thanks me for someone turning their life around while I'm drinking sake in a hot tub in downtown San Francisco? Wow. Videogames, man. Receive a photoshopped image of a map of every place I've ever lived carved in blood in the back of my current partner with a link to an mp3 file attached? H--------. Videogames Stuck in the middle of the desert on a train with no power at 4am, lit up by the glow of dozens of laptops and christmas lights? V-i-d-e-o-g-a-m-e-s Search This is one of those moments on crack In this moment, I am sitting in a messy apartment in LA. I'm physically mentally, and creatively destroyed after one of the most batshit experiences of my life, which I am legally bound to not talk about. I'm watching the only journalist who was there, who saw everything, pace back and forth in his messy apartment, retelling the story on the phone. He wasn't expecting me over I had to escape a bad situation several days before I had anticipated to leave, and he's an old friend so we're weathering the gathering storm together We refer to this place as our bunker from the wrath of a major company, and we stand on the precipice of something major m Zoe and I make games and a bunch of other stuff. Some of it's or Check out my work if you like ok I guesS. I've been involved in a big enough games scandal before, the twitter-issue- of-the-day, the kind that blows up everyone in games feed for about 2 days and is quickly forgotten about thereafter. I didn't see it coming then - I lost my cool and ranted about online harassment candidly and next thing you know it I'm seeing friends of friends talk about me on facebook and have since gained a permanent twitch response to people using my full name like I'm a google search word instead of a person It's different this time. We know it's coming, even if we're not sure exactly what it" is. There's a deadline and between myself and him we can see most of the moving pieces. At least most of the ones we think are there, who ever really knows. It keeps escalating. We know this is going to be big. It's already big It's strange being in this space with him. I can't say anything but I can watch him do his work and get insights from what's happening on the other end of things. We get emails saying things like "MAJORBRAND is on the warpath and "Three more people got fired". I'm right now covering him covering us Partly just because I can't speak for myself without summoning multimillion dollar lawsuits into my life and I need to say SOMETHING. But it just keeps seeming to get bigger and bigger like a tidal wave approaching shore, and I'm staring up at the massive tsunami with a resigned look on my face because it's gone so far off the charts in terms of size and weirdness that I can't even process it. Because videogames It feels like every time we go to sleep this week it's like 'ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF DRAGON BALL Z" he says, and I giggle through my failing voice because it's oh god so true The next morning we wake up to his phone ringing from some very, very nervous higher-ups. He paces in the kitchen while I tell an old friend that there's a nonzero chance that I get sued for close to one billion dollars soon.I also tell him that I'm so happy to be surrounded with people willing to risk so much in the pursuit of doing what we feel is the right thing. I'm so inspired by the other woman who is standing up and telling her story, by my normally pixie-like friend who has used the phrase waves of blood in an email earlier and aggressively pursuing speaking out when I contractually can't, by my journalist friend not pulling a single punch when his fists are aimed at the people who pay for the apartment we're hiding out in This feels like the calm before the story. I don't know what the day after tomorrow is going to bring. I don't know what the next few months of my life are going to look like, or any of us for that matter. I'm not sure anything like this, at this scale, has ever happened in games before. He's resigned to losing his job, I'm worried I'll end up getting sued back to the stone age by what are likely some of the most powerful lawyers in the world when l already anm destitute. ButI don't regret what I did. I don't regret any of this. I'm normally so anxious, but I have this weird calm about the subject. I know that standing up for myself, my friends, and my medium was the right thing to do and I wouldn't change any single bit of it. Maybe even if they do fire him and come after us it'll get some good conversations going about how to keep this from happening in the future, or what doing the right thing in this medium is, or even just draw attention to the fact that indie exists and is wonderful who knows. And I'm ok with that. And so is he. Because it's the right thing to do. Because we care about this medium we find ourselves in, and the people who work in it. Because videogames
QUINNSPIRACY HOME ARCHIVE MY GAMES TWITTER WRITING DEV BLOGS Ground Zero This is a more fluffy, personal bloggy type thing I wrote this the day after we walked off set of GAME_JAM, two days before today when we posted our articles For more context, see Jared's coverage, Adriel's thoughts, Robin's thoughts, and My thoughts I like to do this thing sometimes with other gamespeople when we're doing something games adjacent and things get really surreal I just say "because videogames". Acknowledging that I've ended up in extreme situations due to what a lot of people consider a silly pastime for children fulfills my love and respect of exactly how absurd the universe is. Get fanmail that thanks me for someone turning their life around while I'm drinking sake in a hot tub in downtown San Francisco? Wow. Videogames, man. Receive a photoshopped image of a map of every place I've ever lived carved in blood in the back of my current partner with a link to an mp3 file attached? H--------. Videogames Stuck in the middle of the desert on a train with no power at 4am, lit up by the glow of dozens of laptops and christmas lights? V-i-d-e-o-g-a-m-e-s Search This is one of those moments on crack In this moment, I am sitting in a messy apartment in LA. I'm physically mentally, and creatively destroyed after one of the most batshit experiences of my life, which I am legally bound to not talk about. I'm watching the only journalist who was there, who saw everything, pace back and forth in his messy apartment, retelling the story on the phone. He wasn't expecting me over I had to escape a bad situation several days before I had anticipated to leave, and he's an old friend so we're weathering the gathering storm together We refer to this place as our bunker from the wrath of a major company, and we stand on the precipice of something major m Zoe and I make games and a bunch of other stuff. Some of it's or Check out my work if you like ok I guesS. I've been involved in a big enough games scandal before, the twitter-issue- of-the-day, the kind that blows up everyone in games feed for about 2 days and is quickly forgotten about thereafter. I didn't see it coming then - I lost my cool and ranted about online harassment candidly and next thing you know it I'm seeing friends of friends talk about me on facebook and have since gained a permanent twitch response to people using my full name like I'm a google search word instead of a person It's different this time. We know it's coming, even if we're not sure exactly what it" is. There's a deadline and between myself and him we can see most of the moving pieces. At least most of the ones we think are there, who ever really knows. It keeps escalating. We know this is going to be big. It's already big It's strange being in this space with him. I can't say anything but I can watch him do his work and get insights from what's happening on the other end of things. We get emails saying things like "MAJORBRAND is on the warpath and "Three more people got fired". I'm right now covering him covering us Partly just because I can't speak for myself without summoning multimillion dollar lawsuits into my life and I need to say SOMETHING. But it just keeps seeming to get bigger and bigger like a tidal wave approaching shore, and I'm staring up at the massive tsunami with a resigned look on my face because it's gone so far off the charts in terms of size and weirdness that I can't even process it. Because videogames It feels like every time we go to sleep this week it's like 'ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF DRAGON BALL Z" he says, and I giggle through my failing voice because it's oh god so true The next morning we wake up to his phone ringing from some very, very nervous higher-ups. He paces in the kitchen while I tell an old friend that there's a nonzero chance that I get sued for close to one billion dollars soon.I also tell him that I'm so happy to be surrounded with people willing to risk so much in the pursuit of doing what we feel is the right thing. I'm so inspired by the other woman who is standing up and telling her story, by my normally pixie-like friend who has used the phrase waves of blood in an email earlier and aggressively pursuing speaking out when I contractually can't, by my journalist friend not pulling a single punch when his fists are aimed at the people who pay for the apartment we're hiding out in This feels like the calm before the story. I don't know what the day after tomorrow is going to bring. I don't know what the next few months of my life are going to look like, or any of us for that matter. I'm not sure anything like this, at this scale, has ever happened in games before. He's resigned to losing his job, I'm worried I'll end up getting sued back to the stone age by what are likely some of the most powerful lawyers in the world when l already anm destitute. ButI don't regret what I did. I don't regret any of this. I'm normally so anxious, but I have this weird calm about the subject. I know that standing up for myself, my friends, and my medium was the right thing to do and I wouldn't change any single bit of it. Maybe even if they do fire him and come after us it'll get some good conversations going about how to keep this from happening in the future, or what doing the right thing in this medium is, or even just draw attention to the fact that indie exists and is wonderful who knows. And I'm ok with that. And so is he. Because it's the right thing to do. Because we care about this medium we find ourselves in, and the people who work in it. Because videogames

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Patricia Hernandez Connection Admission

Follow ash-panic update I haven't blogged here in a while A lot has happened in the last month Patricia Hernandez HOME ASK ME ANYTHING I've learned a lot about myself. Mainly thatI am in a reconstruction phase. A person does things. I stopped doing much of anything a couple of years ago. I used to have interests and hobbies and now I don't. I can't continue growing and there won't be much to me if that's the case. This will help me with ARCHIVE aspirations and drive, as well. How can I have that when there's nothing I RSS wanted to do? So, July's axiom: make something every day. It doesn't matter what. I think there's a creative person in here (hah, everyone thinks that, though...). At the very least I think there's more to me than whatever it isI am right now The huge thing I learned about myself is that I do not know how to properly interact/communicate with other people. That's always baffled me, how people can do it so effortlessly. Couple this with the demeanor of a depressed person, well. I'm very sorry that some of my close friends have had to deal with me right now. I feel like I suck the fun out of a room sometimes, I swear I grew up being told to shut up. Ladies don't talk as much as ido was what l was told. There was a year in my life where I didn't say anything at all. This has stuck with me. Maybe I don't believe that nobody wants to hear what I think butl also don't know how to be another way. I'm learning and slowly changing, but it's still very difficult. I always have thoughts and opinions, but I'm used to keeping them to myself. Right now I'm trying to learn how to break free of that You should have seen what I was like before! I like to think I'm making some progress, it's just slow Everyone will say, you know, oh, I get it, I'll work with you, but I've yet to meet anyone that has the patience. People get tired of me or they have their own stuff to deal with, which is fair I think this is why I like Twitter so much, I feel that I have this freedom to speak whatever errant thought pops into my head that someone who is more 'well adjusted' would have no difficulty voicing to someone else who is a friend. I mean, sure, sometimes they're vapid thoughts. So what? That's how people work. There's a lot going on in someone's head and being someone's friend means allowing someone else to take a look at what that stuff is. It shows comfort Next month I move to Oakland with Anna and Daphny and I'm very excited about that. I feel like my life is about to change, by which I mean it's about to start! 2 vears ago f0 notes
Follow ash-panic update I haven't blogged here in a while A lot has happened in the last month Patricia Hernandez HOME ASK ME ANYTHING I've learned a lot about myself. Mainly thatI am in a reconstruction phase. A person does things. I stopped doing much of anything a couple of years ago. I used to have interests and hobbies and now I don't. I can't continue growing and there won't be much to me if that's the case. This will help me with ARCHIVE aspirations and drive, as well. How can I have that when there's nothing I RSS wanted to do? So, July's axiom: make something every day. It doesn't matter what. I think there's a creative person in here (hah, everyone thinks that, though...). At the very least I think there's more to me than whatever it isI am right now The huge thing I learned about myself is that I do not know how to properly interact/communicate with other people. That's always baffled me, how people can do it so effortlessly. Couple this with the demeanor of a depressed person, well. I'm very sorry that some of my close friends have had to deal with me right now. I feel like I suck the fun out of a room sometimes, I swear I grew up being told to shut up. Ladies don't talk as much as ido was what l was told. There was a year in my life where I didn't say anything at all. This has stuck with me. Maybe I don't believe that nobody wants to hear what I think butl also don't know how to be another way. I'm learning and slowly changing, but it's still very difficult. I always have thoughts and opinions, but I'm used to keeping them to myself. Right now I'm trying to learn how to break free of that You should have seen what I was like before! I like to think I'm making some progress, it's just slow Everyone will say, you know, oh, I get it, I'll work with you, but I've yet to meet anyone that has the patience. People get tired of me or they have their own stuff to deal with, which is fair I think this is why I like Twitter so much, I feel that I have this freedom to speak whatever errant thought pops into my head that someone who is more 'well adjusted' would have no difficulty voicing to someone else who is a friend. I mean, sure, sometimes they're vapid thoughts. So what? That's how people work. There's a lot going on in someone's head and being someone's friend means allowing someone else to take a look at what that stuff is. It shows comfort Next month I move to Oakland with Anna and Daphny and I'm very excited about that. I feel like my life is about to change, by which I mean it's about to start! 2 vears ago f0 notes

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Zoe Asks for Hacking Favors

A lot of people are starting to suspect Phil because Cloudflare, his site's host, would require both his phone and his laptop to access that information. Thoughts? Anonymous genstrider Last I checked most two factor authentication systems are optional security layers I also doubt Phil personally manages the website That said, cloudflare is absurdly secure. Like that's their thing A while back Zoe wanted me to help her hack into this very sexist learn-to-program site. I wasn't super comfortable with that, but agreed to poke around anyway to give her a sense of whether or not it was even worth bothering. They were using cloudflare as their CDN and I noticed a few things that seemed to hint at vulnerabilities while poking around so l did some research. I found a huge defcon talk about the class of vulnerabilities -the conclusion to which was that you should use cloudflare because it protects you from that sort of thing for a number of reasons-it turns out the talk was being given by someone who worked on that stuff for cloudflare So yeah basically, I don't know if or how the site was hacked, and I've been out of the security game for too long to speculate, but l imagine that it would probably have been something like 'someone correctly guessed the sysadmins email security questions and just got the login info from there. because cloudflare is actually kind of impressive about its security Holy shot she asked you to hack into something? For legal reasons, I ask that any stories related on this blog without additional evidence be interpreted as meaningless banter for entertainment purposes or blah blah blah
A lot of people are starting to suspect Phil because Cloudflare, his site's host, would require both his phone and his laptop to access that information. Thoughts? Anonymous genstrider Last I checked most two factor authentication systems are optional security layers I also doubt Phil personally manages the website That said, cloudflare is absurdly secure. Like that's their thing A while back Zoe wanted me to help her hack into this very sexist learn-to-program site. I wasn't super comfortable with that, but agreed to poke around anyway to give her a sense of whether or not it was even worth bothering. They were using cloudflare as their CDN and I noticed a few things that seemed to hint at vulnerabilities while poking around so l did some research. I found a huge defcon talk about the class of vulnerabilities -the conclusion to which was that you should use cloudflare because it protects you from that sort of thing for a number of reasons-it turns out the talk was being given by someone who worked on that stuff for cloudflare So yeah basically, I don't know if or how the site was hacked, and I've been out of the security game for too long to speculate, but l imagine that it would probably have been something like 'someone correctly guessed the sysadmins email security questions and just got the login info from there. because cloudflare is actually kind of impressive about its security Holy shot she asked you to hack into something? For legal reasons, I ask that any stories related on this blog without additional evidence be interpreted as meaningless banter for entertainment purposes or blah blah blah

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Zoe's Close Call

Ground Zero This is a more fluffy, personal bloggy type thing I wrote this the day after we walked off set of GAME JAM,two days before today when we posted our articles. For more context, see Jared's coverage, Adriel's thoughts, Robin's thoughts, and My thoughts. like to do this thing sometimes with other gamespeople when we're doing something games adjacent and things get really surreal-I just say "because videogames". Acknowledging that I've ended up in extreme situations due to what a lot of people consider a silly pastime for children fulfills my love and respect of exactly how absurd the universe is. Get fanmail that thanks me for someone turning their life around while I'm drinking sake in a hot tub in downtown San Francisco? Wow. Videogames, man. Receive a photoshopped image of a map of every place I've ever lived carved in blood in the back of my current partner with a link to an mp3 file attached? H--------. Videogames Stuck in the middle of the desert on a train with no power at 4am, lit up by the glow of dozens of laptops and christmas lights? V-i-d-e-o-g-a-m- e-S This is one of those moments on crack. In this moment,I am sitting in a messy apartment in LA. I'm physically mentally, and creatively destroyed after one of the most batshit experiences of my life, which I am legally bound to not talk about. I'm watching the only journalist who was there, who saw everything, pace back and forth in his messy apartment, retelling the story on the phone. He wasn't expecting me over - I had to escape a bad situation several days before I had anticipated to leave, and he's an old friend so we're weathering the gathering storm together. We refer to this place as our bunker from the wrath of a major company, and we stand on the precipice of something major I've been involved in a big enough games scandal before, the twitter- issue-of-the-day, the kind that blows up everyone in games' feed for about 2 days and is quickly forgotten about thereafter. I didn't see it coming then I lost my cool and ranted about online harassment candidly and next thing you know it I'm seeing friends of friends talk about me on facebook and have since gained a permanent twitch response to people using my full name like I'm a google search word instead of a person. It's different this time. We know it's coming, even if we're not sure exactly what "it" is. There's a deadline and between myself and him we can see most of the moving pieces. At least most of the ones we think are there, who ever really knows. It keeps escalating. We know this is going to be big. It's already big It's strange being in this space with him. I can't say anything but I can watch him do his work and get insights from what's happening on the other end of things. We get emails saying things like "MAIORBRAND is on the warpath." and "Three more people got fired". I'm right now covering him covering us. Partly just because I can't speak for myself without summoning multimillion dollar lawsuits into my life and I need to say SOMETHING. Buti see get bigger and bigger like tida sun the charts in terms of size and weirdness that I can aching shore, and I'm staring up at the massive resigned look on my face because it's gone so far off ve ven it Because videogames. ON THE NEXT It feels like every time we go to sleep this week it's PISODE OF DRAGON BALL Z" he says, and I giggle through my failing voice because it's oh god so true The next morning we wake up to his phone ringing from some very rvo riend that ther onze ance that I get sued for close to one llion dollars soon. I also tell him that l'm so happy to be surrounded with people willing to risk so much in the pursuit of doing what we feel is the right thing. I'm so inspired by the other woman who is standing up and telling her story, by my normally pixie-like friend who has used the phrase "waves of blood" in an email earlier and aggressively pursuing speaking out when I contractually can't, by my journalist friend not pulling a single punch when his fists are aimed at the people who pay for the apartment we're hiding out in This feels like the calm before the story. I don't know what the day after tomorrow is going to bring. I don't know what the next few months of my life are going to look like, or any of us for that matter. I'm not sure anything like this, at this scale, has ever happened in games before He's resigned to losing his job, I'm worried I'll end up getting sued back to the stone age by what are likely some of the most powerful lawyers in the world when I already am destitute. But I don't regret what I did. I don't regret any of this. I'm normally so anxious, but I have this weird calm about the subject. I know that standing up for myself, my friends and my medium was the right thing to do and I wouldn't change any single bit of it. Maybe even if they do fire him and come after us it'll get some good conversations going about how to keep this from happening in the future, or what doing the right thing in this medium is, or even just draw attention to the fact that indie exists and is wonderful who knows. And I'm ok with that. And so is he. Because it's the right thing to do. Because we care about this medium we find ourselves in, and the people who work in it. Because videogames. ◆ WRITING 72 NOTES
Ground Zero This is a more fluffy, personal bloggy type thing I wrote this the day after we walked off set of GAME JAM,two days before today when we posted our articles. For more context, see Jared's coverage, Adriel's thoughts, Robin's thoughts, and My thoughts. like to do this thing sometimes with other gamespeople when we're doing something games adjacent and things get really surreal-I just say "because videogames". Acknowledging that I've ended up in extreme situations due to what a lot of people consider a silly pastime for children fulfills my love and respect of exactly how absurd the universe is. Get fanmail that thanks me for someone turning their life around while I'm drinking sake in a hot tub in downtown San Francisco? Wow. Videogames, man. Receive a photoshopped image of a map of every place I've ever lived carved in blood in the back of my current partner with a link to an mp3 file attached? H--------. Videogames Stuck in the middle of the desert on a train with no power at 4am, lit up by the glow of dozens of laptops and christmas lights? V-i-d-e-o-g-a-m- e-S This is one of those moments on crack. In this moment,I am sitting in a messy apartment in LA. I'm physically mentally, and creatively destroyed after one of the most batshit experiences of my life, which I am legally bound to not talk about. I'm watching the only journalist who was there, who saw everything, pace back and forth in his messy apartment, retelling the story on the phone. He wasn't expecting me over - I had to escape a bad situation several days before I had anticipated to leave, and he's an old friend so we're weathering the gathering storm together. We refer to this place as our bunker from the wrath of a major company, and we stand on the precipice of something major I've been involved in a big enough games scandal before, the twitter- issue-of-the-day, the kind that blows up everyone in games' feed for about 2 days and is quickly forgotten about thereafter. I didn't see it coming then I lost my cool and ranted about online harassment candidly and next thing you know it I'm seeing friends of friends talk about me on facebook and have since gained a permanent twitch response to people using my full name like I'm a google search word instead of a person. It's different this time. We know it's coming, even if we're not sure exactly what "it" is. There's a deadline and between myself and him we can see most of the moving pieces. At least most of the ones we think are there, who ever really knows. It keeps escalating. We know this is going to be big. It's already big It's strange being in this space with him. I can't say anything but I can watch him do his work and get insights from what's happening on the other end of things. We get emails saying things like "MAIORBRAND is on the warpath." and "Three more people got fired". I'm right now covering him covering us. Partly just because I can't speak for myself without summoning multimillion dollar lawsuits into my life and I need to say SOMETHING. Buti see get bigger and bigger like tida sun the charts in terms of size and weirdness that I can aching shore, and I'm staring up at the massive resigned look on my face because it's gone so far off ve ven it Because videogames. ON THE NEXT It feels like every time we go to sleep this week it's PISODE OF DRAGON BALL Z" he says, and I giggle through my failing voice because it's oh god so true The next morning we wake up to his phone ringing from some very rvo riend that ther onze ance that I get sued for close to one llion dollars soon. I also tell him that l'm so happy to be surrounded with people willing to risk so much in the pursuit of doing what we feel is the right thing. I'm so inspired by the other woman who is standing up and telling her story, by my normally pixie-like friend who has used the phrase "waves of blood" in an email earlier and aggressively pursuing speaking out when I contractually can't, by my journalist friend not pulling a single punch when his fists are aimed at the people who pay for the apartment we're hiding out in This feels like the calm before the story. I don't know what the day after tomorrow is going to bring. I don't know what the next few months of my life are going to look like, or any of us for that matter. I'm not sure anything like this, at this scale, has ever happened in games before He's resigned to losing his job, I'm worried I'll end up getting sued back to the stone age by what are likely some of the most powerful lawyers in the world when I already am destitute. But I don't regret what I did. I don't regret any of this. I'm normally so anxious, but I have this weird calm about the subject. I know that standing up for myself, my friends and my medium was the right thing to do and I wouldn't change any single bit of it. Maybe even if they do fire him and come after us it'll get some good conversations going about how to keep this from happening in the future, or what doing the right thing in this medium is, or even just draw attention to the fact that indie exists and is wonderful who knows. And I'm ok with that. And so is he. Because it's the right thing to do. Because we care about this medium we find ourselves in, and the people who work in it. Because videogames. ◆ WRITING 72 NOTES

Zoë Quinn
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Operation Newspaper

OPERATION NEWSPAPER ROCK, PAPER KOTaKU IGN SHOTGUN PC GAMING SINCE 1873 What is this Recent events regarding Loe Quinn, Nathan Grayson, John'Totalbiscuit"Bain and others have uncovered the corruption in the gaming journalism industry. Like it's big brother, Operation Payoff, We seek to warn others of the corruption. This must be stopped. Who is involved? Do you have any proof? We have reason to believe many large sites such as IGN, Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun, CVG, and Destructoid, among others, have dirtied their hands in this buisness. Some refusing to partake in this dirty work have lost their jobs. Other Critics have Been labeled as mysogynists. The evidence is very real Reviewer fired for posting negative review of Kane &e Lynch: http://www.gamefront.com/jeff-gerstmann-finally-talks-about- kotaar Delibarately starts controvery over pe4 event amespot-firing/ http://kotaku.com/5985833/why-were-there-no-women presenters-at-the-playstation-4-event The Five Guys Incident: http://gamesnosh.com/zoe-quinn-scandal/ Totalbiscuit harrassed for criticizing Zoe Quinn http://gamesnosh.com/the-ugly-side-of-justice-total-biscuit denounced-over-zoe-quinn-scandal-comments/ What can I do? Be wary of these websites. Do not trust them Scrutinize their articles. Post this flyer and Operation Payoff flyers around. This cannot go on. Honesty and Integrity in the fifth estate must be demanded by us, the people. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ AgainstTheCensorship
OPERATION NEWSPAPER ROCK, PAPER KOTaKU IGN SHOTGUN PC GAMING SINCE 1873 What is this Recent events regarding Loe Quinn, Nathan Grayson, John'Totalbiscuit"Bain and others have uncovered the corruption in the gaming journalism industry. Like it's big brother, Operation Payoff, We seek to warn others of the corruption. This must be stopped. Who is involved? Do you have any proof? We have reason to believe many large sites such as IGN, Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun, CVG, and Destructoid, among others, have dirtied their hands in this buisness. Some refusing to partake in this dirty work have lost their jobs. Other Critics have Been labeled as mysogynists. The evidence is very real Reviewer fired for posting negative review of Kane &e Lynch: http://www.gamefront.com/jeff-gerstmann-finally-talks-about- kotaar Delibarately starts controvery over pe4 event amespot-firing/ http://kotaku.com/5985833/why-were-there-no-women presenters-at-the-playstation-4-event The Five Guys Incident: http://gamesnosh.com/zoe-quinn-scandal/ Totalbiscuit harrassed for criticizing Zoe Quinn http://gamesnosh.com/the-ugly-side-of-justice-total-biscuit denounced-over-zoe-quinn-scandal-comments/ What can I do? Be wary of these websites. Do not trust them Scrutinize their articles. Post this flyer and Operation Payoff flyers around. This cannot go on. Honesty and Integrity in the fifth estate must be demanded by us, the people. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ AgainstTheCensorship

Zoë Quinn
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Kotaku "Journalism" with Response

Kotaku follows a striet code of joumalistic ethies standard has long been this who are in any way close to people they Reporters who are in any way close to the people they might report on should recuse thelves Let's see how that poley is enforced What Games Taught Me About Haing Two Grlfriends At Once Wel, Patricia Hernandez sure seems to be pretty ¢lose with indie developer Anna Anthropy a blog twitter Surely Stephen Toslo's stromg joumalistie ethies would never allow Patricia to report on Amna's games, especialy without making clear before hand the nature of their relationship. In This Game, You Search For The Planet. No, Not That One. A Differe Planet. THE HUNT FOR T GAY PLANE BY ANNA ANTHROPy l Played A Drinking Game Against A Computer This Is One Way To Go About Making A Game Where You Slap Butts Wandering Through The 'Burning Man' Of Video Games And after being sent the above picture, Patricia posted the following tweet. It was deleted mere minutes later 4:36 PM Tweet Telstra令 Patricia Hernandez You dont even have to go more than a day or two back. Nerds: your sleuthing skills are absolutely useless. Go back to playing games 24/08/14 3:42 PMM Reply to Patricia Hemandez Messages
Kotaku follows a striet code of joumalistic ethies standard has long been this who are in any way close to people they Reporters who are in any way close to the people they might report on should recuse thelves Let's see how that poley is enforced What Games Taught Me About Haing Two Grlfriends At Once Wel, Patricia Hernandez sure seems to be pretty ¢lose with indie developer Anna Anthropy a blog twitter Surely Stephen Toslo's stromg joumalistie ethies would never allow Patricia to report on Amna's games, especialy without making clear before hand the nature of their relationship. In This Game, You Search For The Planet. No, Not That One. A Differe Planet. THE HUNT FOR T GAY PLANE BY ANNA ANTHROPy l Played A Drinking Game Against A Computer This Is One Way To Go About Making A Game Where You Slap Butts Wandering Through The 'Burning Man' Of Video Games And after being sent the above picture, Patricia posted the following tweet. It was deleted mere minutes later 4:36 PM Tweet Telstra令 Patricia Hernandez You dont even have to go more than a day or two back. Nerds: your sleuthing skills are absolutely useless. Go back to playing games 24/08/14 3:42 PMM Reply to Patricia Hemandez Messages

Zoë Quinn
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Polygon's definition of "having ties to a developer"

Fila: 140573 548 KB, 324 240) Se Danes. andeau cf pchygan made a reieu of Gan. Ham011010 ro ks) wti. harg consechana with the designer af the game Stea arter l am pr,,.rd the suggelben ofAnan rpwnn tape Though twiiar we know of one tweet about a year before the revie besides that w* know that but, Rkndaau and Sbr Gayfor are pat ofidle Thumba 숱賦work faunded r, 2004 which hests wwkly podcasts they a. butt hests and appear wukly togut dedice feeded) Besides this, a tweet of Riendeau on shich Gaynor replied contains seme eal inforration AYNOR KNEW HS GAME WAS BEING REMEWED BY HS IDLE THUMB COHOST http:www.polyon A week eorter Dane@e w25 Specol guest, en the·de thumb podcast the developer to ever WE HOOV THAT THE REVEER HAD TEs wm, THE Caticism tp M 4cdn 0 14038564319T9 ipg was quckly wBed with 1he pr ent th at one appearance ㅲ podcast doent eoactty equate havna»es we DEVELOPER finit twee was made 숱 year before the re iew previag that Darva8a ksew Steve Gayner before her appearance r, the podci lt should be noted th3t Danielle Rendeau kept agpeorn9 n the podcasts the most recent appeorance ben,.n My 3, 20 4 Steve Gaynor @fullbright-8 Aug 2012 KATHERINE HEPBURN SKATEBOARDING, 1967 retronaut.co/2012/08/kather via @sharkscanbiteme Danielle Riendeau @Danielleri Follow @fullbright @sharkscanbiteme lady was an insanely awesome athlete. And... skater わReply t Retweet ★ Favorite More 0:44 PM-8 Aug 2012 Steve Gaynor @fullbright 8 Aug 2012 @Danielleri @sharkscanbiteme she was a badass in all regards imho sharkscanbiteme @sharkscanbiteme 8 Aug 2012 @Danielleri @fullbright @rachelelm I want to be her when I grow up Danielle Riendeau @Danielleri 塩Follow Now putting the finishing touches on my Gone Home review layout. Excited to publish this one too わReply ta Retweet ★ Favorite More FAVORITES 43 PM-14 Aug 2013 Steve Gaynor@fullbright 14 Aug 2013 @Danielleri:3 Ozzie Mejia @Ozz_Mejia -14 Aug 2013 @Danielleri Ditto! Hope you feel the same way I did about it. Mike Mahardy@mmahardy -14 Aug 2013 @Danielleri If you haven't seen this yet, could be a good read polygon.com/features/2013/ Aug 16, 2013 13:47 AM HR Brick Does this review strike a several members of Idle Thumbs (She was on last weeks episode), which the lead designer of Gone Home, Steve Gaynor, is also a part of. The Idle Thumbs group is very close, often going so far as to follow each other to different jobs. The fact that this is posted so much earlier than any other website, as well as that it's a perfect 10, comes across as really weird to me. Something about all of this just doesn't fee... on the level. Aug 15, 2013 21S PM nyone else as weird? Danielle Riendeau, the reviewer, is close with thought tank Embargo just broke I think. I'm reading RPS's review right now. I don't think this review is out early Aug 15, 20131 217 PM HR Brick ah, my bad. It was the first I saw and I didn't see any others in my RSS feed. Still, though, why wouldn't Polygon assign a different reviewer? One that doesn't have ties to the developer? Aug 15, 2013 /2:21 PM Philip Kollar ◆ DEPUTY REVIEWS EDITOR, POLYGON I don't think Danielle guesting on one episode of a podcast that one of the game's developers is also sometimes on is the same thing as "having ties to the developer." Danielle can respond to herself here, but I think the podcast was even recorded after she had finished the game. I feel confident that didn't have any sort of bearing. Aug 15, 2013 /2:57 PM
Fila: 140573 548 KB, 324 240) Se Danes. andeau cf pchygan made a reieu of Gan. Ham011010 ro ks) wti. harg consechana with the designer af the game Stea arter l am pr,,.rd the suggelben ofAnan rpwnn tape Though twiiar we know of one tweet about a year before the revie besides that w* know that but, Rkndaau and Sbr Gayfor are pat ofidle Thumba 숱賦work faunded r, 2004 which hests wwkly podcasts they a. butt hests and appear wukly togut dedice feeded) Besides this, a tweet of Riendeau on shich Gaynor replied contains seme eal inforration AYNOR KNEW HS GAME WAS BEING REMEWED BY HS IDLE THUMB COHOST http:www.polyon A week eorter Dane@e w25 Specol guest, en the·de thumb podcast the developer to ever WE HOOV THAT THE REVEER HAD TEs wm, THE Caticism tp M 4cdn 0 14038564319T9 ipg was quckly wBed with 1he pr ent th at one appearance ㅲ podcast doent eoactty equate havna»es we DEVELOPER finit twee was made 숱 year before the re iew previag that Darva8a ksew Steve Gayner before her appearance r, the podci lt should be noted th3t Danielle Rendeau kept agpeorn9 n the podcasts the most recent appeorance ben,.n My 3, 20 4 Steve Gaynor @fullbright-8 Aug 2012 KATHERINE HEPBURN SKATEBOARDING, 1967 retronaut.co/2012/08/kather via @sharkscanbiteme Danielle Riendeau @Danielleri Follow @fullbright @sharkscanbiteme lady was an insanely awesome athlete. And... skater わReply t Retweet ★ Favorite More 0:44 PM-8 Aug 2012 Steve Gaynor @fullbright 8 Aug 2012 @Danielleri @sharkscanbiteme she was a badass in all regards imho sharkscanbiteme @sharkscanbiteme 8 Aug 2012 @Danielleri @fullbright @rachelelm I want to be her when I grow up Danielle Riendeau @Danielleri 塩Follow Now putting the finishing touches on my Gone Home review layout. Excited to publish this one too わReply ta Retweet ★ Favorite More FAVORITES 43 PM-14 Aug 2013 Steve Gaynor@fullbright 14 Aug 2013 @Danielleri:3 Ozzie Mejia @Ozz_Mejia -14 Aug 2013 @Danielleri Ditto! Hope you feel the same way I did about it. Mike Mahardy@mmahardy -14 Aug 2013 @Danielleri If you haven't seen this yet, could be a good read polygon.com/features/2013/ Aug 16, 2013 13:47 AM HR Brick Does this review strike a several members of Idle Thumbs (She was on last weeks episode), which the lead designer of Gone Home, Steve Gaynor, is also a part of. The Idle Thumbs group is very close, often going so far as to follow each other to different jobs. The fact that this is posted so much earlier than any other website, as well as that it's a perfect 10, comes across as really weird to me. Something about all of this just doesn't fee... on the level. Aug 15, 2013 21S PM nyone else as weird? Danielle Riendeau, the reviewer, is close with thought tank Embargo just broke I think. I'm reading RPS's review right now. I don't think this review is out early Aug 15, 20131 217 PM HR Brick ah, my bad. It was the first I saw and I didn't see any others in my RSS feed. Still, though, why wouldn't Polygon assign a different reviewer? One that doesn't have ties to the developer? Aug 15, 2013 /2:21 PM Philip Kollar ◆ DEPUTY REVIEWS EDITOR, POLYGON I don't think Danielle guesting on one episode of a podcast that one of the game's developers is also sometimes on is the same thing as "having ties to the developer." Danielle can respond to herself here, but I think the podcast was even recorded after she had finished the game. I feel confident that didn't have any sort of bearing. Aug 15, 2013 /2:57 PM

Zoë Quinn
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One last thing to say

ONE LAST THING TO SAY. Guys, I've got one last message for all you, including Ms. Quinn, Kotaku, etc., cause I just can't take this anymore. I know this has been said a million times before on other message boards and comment sections, and I'm sure as hell not gonna be the last on to say it. But you, Ms. Quinn, have awakened the sleeping giant within the Internet. And I'm not talking about just angrily posting or using stupid gifs, no I mean, you've F----- UP. We have actual people working to see what the hell you've done in the past to get yourself to the point where you are. There are most likely actual law and criminal justice people looking up what crimes you may or may not have committed. And now for the ones on 4chan, the ones on reddit, FunnyJunk, and KYM. I'm not saying you all should instigate and antagonize Ms. Quinn, I'm telling you guys to keep focused on the big f------ tumor in the gaming journalist scene right now. What we've discovered over the past few days could change gaming journalism and gaming itself forever, and it could be for the worse unless you all NEVER GIVE UP. Believe you can bring justice to your favourite hobby/pastime/profession/whatever. Because if you don't do it then no one else sure as hell will. Ms. Quinn is nothing but the foot that kicked over the big-ass hornets' nest at this point. We cannot, I repeat, CANNOT let them win. This isn't just some simple Internet "war" between a couple of nerds, this is balancing the future of one of the greatest hobbies that ever existed. And the sooner you realize that on the inside, the sooner you realize what gaming means to you and what these asshats that call themselves journalists are doing to it, the sooner this'll all get better. Do NOT forget and dismiss what has happened these few days, because history can and WILL repeat itself. Always know in your heart that something is yours, and no one can take it away from you. (btw, if you need some music for all this going on, here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?-B70IGUEbxug #idkw ati doing iththispart ) Cheers, Do/De La
ONE LAST THING TO SAY. Guys, I've got one last message for all you, including Ms. Quinn, Kotaku, etc., cause I just can't take this anymore. I know this has been said a million times before on other message boards and comment sections, and I'm sure as hell not gonna be the last on to say it. But you, Ms. Quinn, have awakened the sleeping giant within the Internet. And I'm not talking about just angrily posting or using stupid gifs, no I mean, you've F----- UP. We have actual people working to see what the hell you've done in the past to get yourself to the point where you are. There are most likely actual law and criminal justice people looking up what crimes you may or may not have committed. And now for the ones on 4chan, the ones on reddit, FunnyJunk, and KYM. I'm not saying you all should instigate and antagonize Ms. Quinn, I'm telling you guys to keep focused on the big f------ tumor in the gaming journalist scene right now. What we've discovered over the past few days could change gaming journalism and gaming itself forever, and it could be for the worse unless you all NEVER GIVE UP. Believe you can bring justice to your favourite hobby/pastime/profession/whatever. Because if you don't do it then no one else sure as hell will. Ms. Quinn is nothing but the foot that kicked over the big-ass hornets' nest at this point. We cannot, I repeat, CANNOT let them win. This isn't just some simple Internet "war" between a couple of nerds, this is balancing the future of one of the greatest hobbies that ever existed. And the sooner you realize that on the inside, the sooner you realize what gaming means to you and what these asshats that call themselves journalists are doing to it, the sooner this'll all get better. Do NOT forget and dismiss what has happened these few days, because history can and WILL repeat itself. Always know in your heart that something is yours, and no one can take it away from you. (btw, if you need some music for all this going on, here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?-B70IGUEbxug #idkw ati doing iththispart ) Cheers, Do/De La

Zoë Quinn
4chan reddit kotaku quinnspiracy