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Zoe Quinn #meToo / Alec Holowka suicide -- Update: Article questions ZQ's account of events (link in OP)

DeepEnigma

Gold Member


The funny thing about all of this ingrained ideological warfare, if the sexes were reversed, EVERYONE would be raising hell on the one who threw the virtual Molotov into the cancel culture mob.

Right now, it is investigative journalists (who are women themselves) exposing all the BS surrounding this. Real journalists and not PR mouthpieces. This is very mild in retrospect, especially after a man has lost his will to live from it.
 
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Lol at David Jaffe. We're in this "fight" because Zoe Quinn did this all in public, bringing real consequences to Alec. That's why it's okay to question her in public as well, nothing really obscene about that. Investigating a claim, trying to gather more information, finding things that casts doubt on her assertions, that's all pretty much something that should be expected. That's kinda what everyone should do, trying to find out what happened when a bold claim goes public.

I chuckle at David Jaffe going "IF she lied she's a shitty person", yeah sure a guy died and all nothing big, but also denouncing any attempts at trying to find out the truth. If we're not allowed to point out inconsistencies, then it's all just a sham of "guilty until accusers takes it back". I agree with Jaffe that it SHOULD'VE been something private, but more so something involving law enforcement. However ZQ literally made all of it public, so you can't really put the genie back in the bottle, making his point moot.
 

Raven117

Member
Wow, David’s tweets make no sense. On one hand he says Zoe can say what she wants in public (which is true) but then says that Gaf is creepy when challenging that statement....(especially when it’s clear others are ignoring the suicide).

Look, I don’t like that all of this is out in the open. It should have been a private affair. One party, however, decided to bring it all out in the open...and all that comes with that.
 
Dunno about that but he seems like a bit of a cock.

Agreed
Guy seems to be brainwashed.......tacky was a was a word he used for the summary
i guess the person who committed suicide because if the same tacky sort of public tweets is not here to defend himself....does that mean she wins?

Calling her out on her shit is what she deserves.....dont try and play both sides of the fence
 
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Shmunter

Member
I guess David Jaffe didn’t get the memo that neogaf is open to all viewpoints. Even his.

What point are you making David? That certain discussions are somehow taboo? EviLore is right in his tweet, the one sided nature of majority media skews perception so much so that pushback is needed to offer some semblance of balance. Don’t believe the echo chamber David.
 

ROMhack

Member
I won't get involved with him publicly on Twitter but he keeps making declarative points about Alec while using parenthesis on points about Zoe to cover his ass.

Edit: and then he emerged here. Seems like a nice guy so I won't comment further.
 
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Hudo

Member
Well, Jaffe has one point, though. Are police investigating this? Is anyone pressing charges? Can anyone press charges or at least instigate an official investigation? I mean, going by Alec's sister, his family doesn't seem to give much of a shit? His colleagues low-key use this to promote the game and others use this equally for their own "I am a victim!"-stage plays.

So far, only a few have actually cared enough to point out that Quinn's narrative doesn't seem to hold up.

Edit: I think it is at least worth pointing out continuously, that Quinn is not to be trusted without reservations, in the very least.
 
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I won't get involved with him publicly on Twitter but he's displaying a total lack of empathy with Alec and a heck of a lot for Zoe.

I don't think he sees it.
hes trying to sit on the fence.............there no fence to sit on David......she is a parasite who has done nothing for videogames except inject toxic shit which SJW seem to be attracted too
do you honestly think gaming has been better in the last 5 years....do you know why???.....this sort of shit
 

Scopa

The Tribe Has Spoken
“Grown ass adults should know better”

I’ve seen your live streams David Jaffe. Streaming like a 15 year old in their bedroom. “Like and subscribe”. I wouldn’t be playing the maturity card if I were you.

It’s embarrassing.
 

Shmunter

Member
Reading some more tweets it comes across as Jaffe has absolutely no in-depth knowledge of the issue at hand. Shooting off the cuff based on a casual glance.

Be better David, do your homework before engaging in sensitive matters. Your behaving no better than the twitter mobs that create the issues to start with. Very disappointing.
 
Era hates him....im not sure why he is trying social media foreplay

Because them hating him means he is already on thin ice.

The only evidence we have against Alec is that he was likely a jerk in their (mutually abusive, based on the sum of the evidence) relationship. Being a jerk does not mean that you rape people, just like (with Vic Mignogna's case) sleeping around on your fiance with women in their 20s does not mean that you groom rape teenagers. However, that is the evidence which was used against him to "prove" sexual assault/rape.

IIRC Jaffe was kind of a jerk too, so he is just one Tweet from a friend of Quinn's away from being ruined by "Man was an asshole once, therefore rape!"
 
Because them hating him means he is already on thin ice.

The only evidence we have against Alec is that he was likely a jerk in their (mutually abusive, based on the sum of the evidence) relationship. Being a jerk does not mean that you rape people, just like (with Vic Mignogna's case) sleeping around on your fiance with women in their 20s does not mean that you groom rape teenagers. However, that is the evidence which was used against him to "prove" sexual assault/rape.

IIRC Jaffe was kind of a jerk too, so he is just one Tweet from a friend of Quinn's away from being ruined by "Man was an asshole once, therefore rape!"
hes fucked now.........he said something that goes against the grain
i await the era thread
 

Helios

Member
I think we started the conversation off on the wrong foot. Both us and Jaffe. I feel like there's a good discussion to be had on this subject and based on what I've seen Jaffe is one of the few people in the industry that likes to talk about these complicated issue that most people avoid.
I can understand the place where Jaffe is coming from but I don't agree with most of the things. First off, all of this information is already publicly available and as far as I know has been known for years. Most of that information are her own tweets.
Second off, I don't understand where the "judge, jury and executioner" comes from. We have not done anything of the sort.
I think he's also misunderstanding people's curiosity with malice. Zoe Quinn may or may not have just driven a man to suicide with false allegations. Let's say we ignore her and she does it again later on? Do we still believe her? Will we let another person take his life because Zoe makes him a social pariah based on absolutely no evidence?
The thing I do agree on is that it probably looks creepy. I can understand that.
There's way more to unpack here and this thread is starting to pick up steam again so I'll leave it at this for now.
 
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autoduelist

Member
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Clown World, indeed.
 

Enjay

Banned
Meanwhile if the roles were reversed jaffe would throw on his ronald mcdonald costume and facepaint and be lecturing whoever listens to him on twitch about how they should be getting to the bottom of what made quinn kill itself.
 

petran79

Banned
Neogaf justice? If neogaf posters go on social media rampaging and trolling, then yes but had they done this they wouldn't have been banned from RE
 
"You're not being investigative heroes;you're just being creepy. "

Phew, for a second there I thought he was going to use "gross" again when referring to things he doesn't like. You know like a perfectly normal blue haired adult does. :pie_eyeroll:
 

lifa-cobex

Member
What the hell is he going on about?
What lynch mob?

All conversation generated by Gaf has stayed on Gaf.
This is the same of other forums and sub reddits.

It becomes more of an issue when you start going spaghetti brain and try to directly infer personal belief directly to the person.
E.G Reeeeset complaining about a game. But instead of keeping the discussion in-house, going directly to the company to Ree about it.

Nothing like that is leaking of Gaf (correct me if i'm wrong).
Quinn has had a very bad reputation for years now. Most of the information discussed in this very thread is years old from other forums.
 
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Arimer

Member
Shouldn't the people he's trying to suck up to now already hate him because his games promoted violence and hyper masculinity thus turning us all into violent sex offenders with toxic masculinity?
 
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