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I'm a weird goofy dork.
Monster Hearts is pretty cool!
I like the weather in England.
It sucks to not have any privacy.
I've lived my entire life online.
I just wanted to make video games.
I still love gaming and the gaming community.
I know how nasty backlash can be on the Internet.
Games are awesome. Stop letting jerks hijack them.
My entire career is online - I create games on the web.
I used to go to games events and feel like I was going home.
The thing about astroturfing is that it can be really believable.
You don't really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games.
I don't want to tell a story about how technological advancement is bad.
I was nerdy and awkward and didn't know how to talk to people - except online.
Anyone can have depression. The illness doesn't care how much you do or don't have.
It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don't have data ethicists.
I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert.
Vertigo's always been a label that experiments with new stuff and forms of subversion.
Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life.
My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.
The reason I namecheck restorative justice so much is because that, to me, is the utopia.
There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.
I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.
Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.
I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.
I get apologies from Gamergaters pretty regularly saying: 'I didn't think you were a real person.'
The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy.
I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.
I was the funny-looking one who wore a trench coat and played hacky sack with the other greasy kids.
If Gamergate had happened to somebody else, years earlier, I probably would've been on the wrong side.
I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.
Growing up in a small town in upstate New York, some of the first real friendships I had were in chat rooms.
Our justice system is a punitive one that's there to sort of deal with what happens after someone's already offended.
It's very alienating to become a target, and it can be really difficult to try and explain to people, to family members.
I have countless fake accounts on social media sending me hate and it's hard to discern how many people are actually involved.
One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.
I've been trying to reassert myself as a human and not just a current events story. I should not be the face of online harassment.
I know the first time I see a 'Goddess Mode' cosplayer I'm going to cry in such a loud, obnoxious way that it'll be audible from space.
I was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, but I couldn't find any medication that did anything for me other than making things worse.
Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.
Ultimately, I love everything about making games, but I've come to hate everything about conventional sustainability, and I know I'm not alone.
GamerGate-promoted outlets fail at grown-up journalistic ethics, and they also fail at the cheap knockoff brand of GamerGate brand ethics, too.
I'm still an engineer at heart. So if I can automate conversations that I find myself keep having to have, it seems like a good opportunity for me.
A cool thing about enthusiast press is the low barrier to entry. Anyone can decide they want to set out on this path and start publishing immediately.
A lot of people need technology to survive. And if you're renting it and you don't own it or have control over it, you're at the mercy of whoever does.
Being able to work in comics at all - I know I came into it from a different medium, but I'd like to stay here. It's not like a weird touristy thing for me.
I know that if enough people shout a falsehood, people start to think it's true and a lot of people don't do independent verification of everything they hear.
The majority of my work in games, outside of 'Depression Quest,' has been experimental pushes into comedy games. I think there are a lot of intersections there.
The No. 1 thing I've seen actually help with online abuse is when the person has a good community or a strong support network that's savvy and that can help them.