Quotes by Zoe Quinn - Page 2

I'm an independent game developer - there's not exactly an offline version of that. This is where my community is; everybody I'm close to I know because of the Internet.
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Developer
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For me, I don't think there's anything more human than technology. That's a big thing separating us from other animals: we make things, we build things, we create machines.
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Machines
Separating
Big Thing
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Making accessible games opens up the world of digital play to people living with disability, or even simply people who lack the literacy of an intimidating twin-stick controller.
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Disability
Intimidating
Literacy
World People Living
World Living People
Opens
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The bigger your platform gets - it kind of feels like being Godzilla sometimes. You make a slight move and you can accidentally knock over a building. It's a tough thing to navigate.
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Godzilla
Navigate
Accidentally
Platform
Slight
Tough Thing
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There have been a number of film, TV, and - actually - theater productions that have been based off of me. Pretty much none of them have ever actually spoken to me, and I die in most of them.
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Productions
Spoken
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People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.
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Guidance
Look Responsibility Me
Regardless
Symbol
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Depression Quest's' tone is one of hope. Many players have told me they've tried to take steps in their life to get their illness under control. I tear up while reading my e-mail on subways a lot.
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Depression
Illness
Reading
Steps
Tone
Life Hope Me
Quest
Tear
Tried
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In terms of client & press requests, I operate under the assumption that anything I say will be blasted out in public, so I measure my words incredibly carefully because of the scrutiny I'm under.
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Assumption
Scrutiny
Carefully
Client
Measure
Operate
Requests
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Sailor Moon' was the first time I could say I was a super-duper-fan of something. I remember watching before school, at like 6 A.M. along with 'Dragonball Z' or 'Beast Wars,' depending on the months.
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Beast
Moon
Sailor
Depending
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It's weird when you stop being a person to a lot of folks and just become a weird talking point. It's like you become a meme, and you're not a person anymore, and people don't mind stealing your life.
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Folks
Stealing
Talking
Life Your Mind
Weird
Anymore
Life Mind Your
Life Mind People
Meme
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Everyone who has felt alienated by the games industry, both would-be players and creators, needs to rally together and support one another as we create a space for those of us who don't fit in traditional spaces.
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Would Be
Alienated
Creators
Rally
Spaces
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When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and we all laugh. That's generally how, just mechanically - super-distilled - comedy works.
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Humorous
Boil
Different Thing
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I have to wonder if some part of the difficulty in dealing with the repercussions of your actions on the Internet is just that we were not ever really built for being able to conceive of a global community of anything.
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Difficulty
Repercussions
Conceive
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I still strongly feel that a lot of people who participated in Gamergate, who participated in this sort of thing, are doing so because they go into it with - they'll believe the version of events that fits their world view.
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World View
Version
Fits
Strongly
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There's an idea that, 'Oh, the more technology you have, or the more you modify your body, the less human you are.' I think that's super gross, and inaccurate, and also offensive to anybody who relies on technology to live.
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Gross
Offensive
Your Body
Inaccurate
Modify
Super
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I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person.
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Birthday
Chatting
Husband
Online
Time Me People
Time Birthday Me
Celebrating
Birthday Time Me
Group
Spend
Spent
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What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.
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Baggage
Normal
Best Good Game
Best Good Start
Concept
Convention
Outside
Practices
Realize
Shedding
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It only makes sense that as our society becomes more and more integrated with technology, we'll start to see more cyborgs, grinders, biohackers - whatever you want to call us - thriving at the intersection of tech and body modification.
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Society
Body
Integrated
Modification
Becomes
Call
Whatever
Intersection
More And More
Tech
Sense
Start
Thriving
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Whether you need technology in your body for medical reasons, or just want it to augment your senses or for experimentation, there are numerous fronts that open-source advocates are working on to make implantable technology safer, cheaper, and available to everyone.
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Cheaper
Experimentation
Fronts
Senses
Advocate
Numerous
Safer
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It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past.
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Homeless
Bad Thing
Move On
Profoundly
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The topic is too big, there's too many people who live with it, and too many moving pieces for anyone to do a definitive statement on what depression is like for everyone. 'Depression Quest's' goal was to be a basic introduction to the concept and to get the conversation started.
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Depression
Introduction
Definitive
Quest
Statement
Too Many People
Topic
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A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'
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Attitude
Harassment
Misunderstanding
Online
Real
General
Barrier
Basic
Either
Getting
Help
Issue
Limited
Real Issue
Saying
Stems
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We need to discuss what our own standards are for games writing that falls outside of journalism, and support experimental formats and routes of production that may be more tailored to them than the status quo, because the public at large seems to still think that the only games writing that exists are reviews and news.
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Journalism
Reviews
Routes
Standards
Status Quo
Tailored
Discuss
Exists
Falls
Formats
Quo
Status
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