Fuck Off Zoe

In certain parts of the internet there's a topic that many many people are discussing and that's the situation involving someone called Zoe Quinn.

I'm not entirely sure of all the intricate details of all the bullshit flying around but I'll try to fill you in to the best of my understanding. 

Basically, there's a woman called Zoe Quinn who makes a shitty non game called Depression Quest.  This woman cheats on her boyfriend with something like 5 people and the boyfriend who is understandably just a little upset posts a bunch of info about Zoe on a blog.  When I first came across this information a lot of people were just waving it away with a "who gives a shit about someones personal life" but after some digging it turned out to be a bit more than just a gossip story about someone cheating on their boyfriend.

The information that's come to light, which you can look up on your own time because I'm not providing a fucking toilet paper long list of links for you, exposes that Zoe was sleeping with other developers and members of gaming "journalism" in order to get her game green lighted on steam and to drum up publicity and all sorts of other shit.  A lot of the articles being written by various outlets and their hypocrisy by covering this scandal but exposing other (male) members of the industry for far less also exposes the agenda driven bullshit side of the games "journalism" industry.

Now my explanation might not be enough or my understanding might be wrong but I don't give a fuck. 

Anyone with half a working brain has known that games "journalism" has been complete and utter bollocks for YEARS and it's only gotten worse.  I don't follow ANY of these fucking sites because they are all complete garbage run by people who generally speaking don't know diddly shit about anything and it's only gotten worse.

Anyone with a working brain can see that scores are being bought and relationships between publishers and the press are being used to generate buzz for a game so they can generate more sales.  Shit games getting great scores and a bunch of undeserved acclaim because some money changed hands somewhere probably.  All this Zoe Quinn situation is doing is laying it out out bare but we all knew it was going on anyway and we don't need to go on a fucking internet crusade to "take down shitty journalism". 

All you have to do is stop reading the reviews from the sites that you KNOW are bullshit.  Stop giving them clicks, then you stop giving them money and then maybe one day they'll go away.

It's an almost impossible task anyway since the way "gamers" feel is that if you don't conform to the mass opinion then you are some kind of deviant that should be purged.  If I don't agree with the 10/10s for The Last of Us and GTA5 or whatever then I'm just some cunt who doesn't know what I'm on about when really it's the exact opposite and anyone with a lick of taste knows that.  But the problem is that there are so many of these twats that you could lay the whole corrupt state of things completely bare for all to see and these sites would still make money hand over fist because opinionless twats need to see the big fat 10/10 for video game du jour so they have a sense of self validation.

Fuck Zoe and fuck games "journalism".  Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to actually go and PLAY and have some FUN with a game instead of worrying about if some cunt thinks it's worthy of a good score or not.