Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 days ago
the Night in the Woods incident
I’m so out of the loop (it’s great for my own mental health) that I never heard of that one, and I quite enjoyed playing NitW
Ryoae@piefed.social 2 days ago
Okay so this is entirely going off the top of my head as I remembered it.
So in 2017, the MeToo movement was strong (actually I just learned it started as early as 2006 on MySpace, just gained lots of momentum by 2017). And, it was strong and going where lots of allegations were fired off from women who were sexually assaulted or objectified or other similar things afflicted to them.
And allegations were made towards Alec Holowka, who was the Developer/Programmer/Musician of Night in the Woods. He was alleged to have physically and emotionally abused Zoe Quinn in 2012. These allegations didn’t come to light until August of 2019. Within a day after the allegation, the team behind Night in the Woods immediately severed ties with Alec, they claimed they had evidence and all that.
Four days after the allegation and the severation, Alec committed suicide. Now this sparked a huge drama-storm of its own and has heavily divided the Night in the Woods community. Because, the allegations were left unresolved which made a lot of people think that Zoe Quinn just wanted to ruin Alec’s life. Keep in mind, MeToo was a wildfire of its own because as we’ve learned later on after that wave, people were found to have made lots of unproven allegations just to ruin another’s reputation.
Not to say all of them were unproven, it is just a large amount of alleged claims were. It was just exhausting to hear yet another allegation come up after so many years after the fact that it happened and then it becomes a giant he-said she-said dramasode that goes on and on and on. You can see the problem. Also, the whole GamerGate thing was happening too.
All I know from the whole thing was that people really, really hated Zoe Quinn. It was a huge messy situation that went off the rails, divided a community, alienated people about MeToo, made people hate Zoe .etc
Just, ugh. I hated everything about that incident.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Zoe was, is and likely will be. Always a massive cunt.
No personal idea if she was lying or not. I never looked much I to it by the time I heard about it all. I just know by the time I did. Zoe was already firmly on the list of turbo cunts that you can’t trust.