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24-03-2015, 09:13 AM | #1 | |||
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What is your view on depression quest?
http://www.depressionquest.com/ 'Until recently, you might have lived a life blissfully unaware of the online #Gamergate movement. But last week, computing giant Intel pulled its ads from an independent game-development site thanks to the gaming lobby. Now that major companies are taking sides, it's time to figure it out. Let us be your guides.' http://gawker.com/what-is-gamergate-...eks-1642909080
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24-03-2015, 10:04 AM | #2 | |||
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I find the whole thing absolutely ridiculous, both sides need to grow the hell up. They're both acting as bad as each other.
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24-03-2015, 10:12 AM | #3 | |||
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I got about half way through that explanation and gave up lol Basically, this woman who made a game about depression was being harassed by "gamers" (what are these? just video game players?) because they don't like women being involved in video games?
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24-03-2015, 10:15 AM | #4 | |||
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That's pretty much what it started, but it has become such an ugly convoluted mess that all the normal people who play video games are tired of.
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24-03-2015, 10:16 AM | #5 | |||
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this comment did make me laugh a bit though
Too long. "What is #GamerGate?" "Ever met a dip**** teenager who thought he was oppressed? This is another form of that."
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24-03-2015, 10:19 AM | #6 | |||
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What do these people just ............not play her game if they don't like it?
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24-03-2015, 10:21 AM | #7 | |||
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I really don't know, there seems to be a popular thing at the moment with people constantly whinging about games they don't like, and overreacting to games they don't like.
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24-03-2015, 10:23 AM | #8 | |||
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That's just really strange, just don't buy the thing then, it's not rocket science, is it?
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24-03-2015, 10:25 AM | #9 | |||
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I think there was more to the Depression Quest thing, I heard stuff about the creator apparently sleeping with a reviewer or something, but I didn't really pay attention to it all. It's just all really odd.
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24-03-2015, 10:26 AM | #10 | |||
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This sounds like something I'll never be interested in
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24-03-2015, 10:58 AM | #11 | |||
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It's actually really interesting it's more like an interactive novel than a game, not something your average grand theft auto player would be into I suppose.
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24-03-2015, 11:02 AM | #12 | |||
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I've been reading through the comments below the article and I'm getting a better grip of the situation from there. Sounds like another case of people thinking they're untouchable behind their computer screens and behaving in a repulsive way, this type of trolling and speaking to and about people in that kind of way seems to almost be like a game in itself, that's quite worrying
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24-03-2015, 11:40 AM | #13 | |||
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I agree, it's abuse whichever way you look at it.
Have you had a go at playing it? It's a bit real for me and had to turn it of
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24-03-2015, 11:42 AM | #14 | |||
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Which? That depression Quest game? No lol, I'm as far from being a "gamer" as you can get, I haven't played a game like that since Sonic and Mario were popular
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24-03-2015, 11:43 AM | #15 | ||
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24-03-2015, 11:48 AM | #16 | |||
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I clicked back on and finished it... bit choked tbh. Those dumb, drone minded gamers
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24-03-2015, 11:50 AM | #17 | |||
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24-03-2015, 11:57 AM | #18 | ||
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They're just a bunch of morons who perpetuate the gamer stereotype in the worst possible way. Fedora wearing losers with bad necksweat that blame all women because they're too repulsive inside and out to get a girlfriend.
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24-03-2015, 11:59 AM | #19 | ||
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I don't mean manipulated or programmed, I mean that it offers some quite overt messages about the establishment, authority, politics and western culture. The sort of things that many teens aren't naturally inclined to seek out - so it's a massive positive if they encounter these ideas when they're "just gaming".
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24-03-2015, 12:03 PM | #20 | |||
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24-03-2015, 12:08 PM | #21 | ||
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Its OK if you don't "get it" though Kizzy. The Media has been demonising gaming for years and GTA has taken a major chunk of it. It's OK that you've just accepted everything you've read or heard without actually having any clue about gaming as a creative medium. Totes OK. |
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24-03-2015, 12:12 PM | #22 | ||
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24-03-2015, 12:15 PM | #23 | |||
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24-03-2015, 12:18 PM | #24 | |||
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24-03-2015, 12:23 PM | #25 | |||
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Can we get back to my topic now?
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