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Remember Jennifer Scheurle? Now accused of preying on junior women in gaming (previously ran false hate campaign against Atari's Nolan Bushnell)

Kamina

Kamina

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The question is wether she should be judged the same way as she did with other people, which is by “twitter court”, or if people should just be better and let her disappear like the nobody she is and always was.
 
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UnNamed

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Kamina said:
The question is wether she should be judged the same way as she did with other people, which is by “twitter court”, or if people should just be better and let her disappear like the nobody she is and always was.
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Twitter.

But her reply would be, "I'm sorry, I'm learning". Some people never learn.
 
strange headache

strange headache

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cormack12 said:
Aside from her game design work, Scheurle is perhaps best known for her campaign against the honoring of Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell by the Game Developers Conference, wherein she alleged that various women had come to her with stories claiming Bushnell fostered a sexist and misogynistic workplace environment at Atari in the 1970s.

However, when pressed for the names of Bushnell’s accusers, Scheurle refused to provide any names, saying “You don’t understand. I don’t have to prove anything to you and neither do they. It is your job to practice empathy to an experience that might differ from your own.”

Earlier this year, she falsely accused an innocent man of committing vehicular assault against a pair of Black Lives Matter protestors in Seattle, claiming that the incident was an example of “white supremacy and domestic terrorism” despite being presented with evidence to the contrary.

In June, Scheurle garnered widespread criticism after stating that her “worst nightmare” was for men falsely accused of misconduct to have “all the receipts ready to discredit” their accusers.

What a glorious explosion of this piece of filth.
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And yet Bushnell's reputation remains irreparably damaged, he'll never receive the recognition for his life's work and will most likely never be served any kind of justice.
That is how these trash people win in the end, since it is easier to destroy than to create.
 
K

K' Dash

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Michael Jordan Lol GIF by ESPN
 
CGiRanger

CGiRanger

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strange headache said:
And yet Bushnell's reputation remains irreparably damaged, he'll never receive the recognition for his life's work and will most likely never be served any kind of justice.
That is how these trash people win in the end, since it is easier to destroy than to create.
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Didn't this cost Nolan Bushnell an award and such? And he's now pretty much a pariah that no one ever talks about?
 
IntentionalPun

IntentionalPun

Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
strange headache said:
And yet Bushnell's reputation remains irreparably damaged, he'll never receive the recognition for his life's work and will most likely never be served any kind of justice.
That is how these trash people win in the end, since it is easier to destroy than to create.
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Her lame accusation had little to do with that though...

Total revisionist history.. she isn't even mentioned in the media about that. It was Brianna Wu and others, and it was people largely quoting Bushnell's own interviews.
 
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IntentionalPun

IntentionalPun

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This entire thread is ironically based on a false premise, that it was this total nobody that caused the Bushnell issues.

Find me a major media outlet even mentioning her.

It was about things he said in interviews over the years, and well known facts about Atari, that he doesn't deny:

www.theguardian.com

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell loses award after sexism outcry

Major video game industry event reverses its decision to honour Bushnell following claims of improper conduct
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

In the book The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steve Kent, Atari employee Al Acorn remembered Bushnell holding company meetings in a hot tub and attempting to coax a female employee to join him. Acorn recalled: “Nolan needed some papers and documents so he called his office and said, ‘Have Miss So and So bring them up.’ We were in this tub [when she arrived] so he proceeded to try to get her in the tub during the board meeting.”

In a 2012 Playboy profile of Atari, Bushnell stated that prototype machines were named after attractive female employees, with the home version of Pong codenamed Darlene after an employee who “was stacked and had the tiniest waist”.

When author Tristan Donovan spoke to ex-Atari executive Ray Kassar for his video game history book, Replay, Kassar is quoted as stating, “When I arrived [at Atari] on the first day, I was dressed in a business suit and a tie and I met Nolan Bushnell. He had a T-shirt on. The T-shirt said: ‘I love to fuck.’ That was my introduction to Atari.”
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Defend Bushnell if you want, but doing so by claiming this lady somehow led the charge against him is rather.. ironic?
 
plushyp

plushyp

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LightofRohan said:
It's just HUMANS, especially younger humans that tend to be more sexually active and in relationships. So the game industry tends to look more "Dark AND seedy" but it's just what happens when you put younger people together at a place and then give them this Harry Potter magic spell where they can cancel one another. It's why the entire thing is lame and BS and nobodies business...
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It has got nothing to do with age but with the morally bankrupt media (games, films, tv) industry especially since you have old creeps like Harvey Weinstein, Aria Argento etc by the hundreds...
 
Dick Jones

Dick Jones

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UnNamed said:
I wonder why the greatest videogame journalist of our time didn't cover this story or being exposed by him in the first place. This is what journalist should do.

He is only active when there is a developer to harass or take a 10yo controversy pretending it was new.
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He knew, he just didn't want to break it yet. Now where the next Assassin's Creed is set is more high brow material and he hopes to crack that soon.
 
Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie

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DeepEnigma said:
I don't disagree with the last sentence, but you have quite the conundrum in current year with those two pieces I bolded. ;)
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recursive said:
That's the thing. If you stick the dick in them you have given them all they need. You will be poundmetoo'd into oblivion.
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Eh I'm not a public figure and I'm not worth much of anything. I'd roll the dice and bone milk truck punk rock chick like a caveman.
 
Dr. Claus

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
IntentionalPun said:
This entire thread is ironically based on a false premise, that it was this total nobody that caused the Bushnell issues.

Find me a major media outlet even mentioning her.

It was about things he said in interviews over the years, and well known facts about Atari, that he doesn't deny:

www.theguardian.com

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell loses award after sexism outcry

Major video game industry event reverses its decision to honour Bushnell following claims of improper conduct
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com





Defend Bushnell if you want, but doing so by claiming this lady somehow led the charge against him is rather.. ironic?
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And nobody gave a shit as that was the fucking 70s. This cunt was one of the major people who pushed for his awards to be rescinded and for him to be ostracized from the industry.

That is the reality, but for some reason you *really* want to downplay her involvement. Why is that?
 
Barakov

Barakov

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cormack12 said:
Previous: https://www.google.com/amp/s/boundi...ner-jennifer-scheurle-let-go-by-arenanet/amp/
Previous: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/gdc-...volving-atari-founder-nolan-bushnell.1460807/
Previous: https://www.google.com/amp/s/boundi...-vehicular-assault-of-two-blm-protestors/amp/

Aside from her game design work, Scheurle is perhaps best known for her campaign against the honoring of Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell by the Game Developers Conference, wherein she alleged that various women had come to her with stories claiming Bushnell fostered a sexist and misogynistic workplace environment at Atari in the 1970s.

However, when pressed for the names of Bushnell’s accusers, Scheurle refused to provide any names, saying “You don’t understand. I don’t have to prove anything to you and neither do they. It is your job to practice empathy to an experience that might differ from your own.”

Earlier this year, she falsely accused an innocent man of committing vehicular assault against a pair of Black Lives Matter protestors in Seattle, claiming that the incident was an example of “white supremacy and domestic terrorism” despite being presented with evidence to the contrary.

In June, Scheurle garnered widespread criticism after stating that her “worst nightmare” was for men falsely accused of misconduct to have “all the receipts ready to discredit” their accusers.

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What a glorious explosion of this piece of filth.
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These fucking people are so predictable.
 
Clear

Clear

CliffyB's Cock Holster
The whole deal with Bushnell really demonstrated to me how utterly worthless the GDC is.

That they'd back these non-entities over a true pioneer showed all they care about is optics, that actual historic achievement doesn't matter to them.

And that, in my unvarnished opinion, is fucking pathetic. Its hipster bullshit where so long as you affect the right pose and spout the right political rhetoric it doesn't matter how infinitesimally little you actually contribute to the industry.

The IDGA is/was the same, possibly even worse because its always nakedly been a clique.
 
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Velius

Velius

Banned
I don't know who she is, but I am not surprised whenever I hear that someone who is either rich, famous, influential in entertainment, or any combination of those three, has been discovered to be in some sort of reprehensible scandal.

It is a safe bet that anyone in those lofty positions has done some terrible things to get there. I'm not saying that everyone has. I'm simply saying that if you bet on it every time, you'd win most of the time
 
FF:Enhanced_Reality

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Fuck me. This is a vicious cycle I just can't seem to see breaking. It's always the same.

  • Someone takes issue with an action/conversation/phrase/historic issue/anything really
  • That person calls out this 'piece of shit' (we love saying piece of shit)
  • Everyone jumps on the band wagon
  • We defend ourselves is liberal heroes, the absolute paragon of morale and human integrity
  • Someone inevitably ends up cancelled, fucked, losing their job, livelihood and sometimes more
  • Some time goes by
  • Turn out the super hero in our story was either full of shit, lying, had a political agenda or was worse/just as bad as the fucker they tried to take down for humanity!

Honestly, I hate this day and age. Social media has turned every cunt into a politician. We all have an opinion but we're not always informed or educated. People have even committed suicide over shit. People are absolutely thoughtless, but the worst thing is it happens time and time again.

As much as I like the modern GAF, this forum really had a class of person who gave rise to this shit. Censoring people, banning those with a different opinion, shutting down discussions, closing and deleting threads, purging those with the 'wrong' point of view. I saw it happen over years when I asked for my original account to be deleted.

Honestly, the corruption and toxicity of these people makes one want to delete the internet. Every day this industry just becomes more complicated than any current political issue in the world and it just drains me of any joy in life. I miss simpler times so much sometimes hahaha.
 
Futurematic

Futurematic

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As regards Nolan Bushnell the real answer was that he gave women, minorities, even crackheads the chance for a better life—because even if you wanna call him a sexual harasser women still found non-Atari cultures a massive shock. From the oddly good Kotaku article:
“I know people who had psychological issues after Atari. It never prepared us for the real world,” Shirley said. “Nobody could have asked for a better experience.”
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Over the last week, Kotaku interviewed 12 of Atari’s earliest female employees, in the hopes of hearing their stories—good or bad—about working at Atari in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. The culture they told us about was certainly, as Playboy described it, one of “sex, drugs, and video games,” but one in which all 12 employees say they freely participated, if they participated at all. Many interviewees said it was the best job they ever had, adding that news of Bushnell’s rescinded award struck them as shocking or unfair.
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Edit the man himself plus Al Acorn, also a genius:

“I don’t care when you come to work, I don’t care if you come to work, I don’t care what you wear, I don’t care if you bring your dog, I don’t care if you bring a six-pack. Get your job done. You’re an adult, and I’ll treat you like an adult.”
—Nolan Bushnell
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“That was part of our culture. Smoking pot and doing a lot of cocaine. Our attitude was work hard, play hard.”
—Al Acorn
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Saint Boot

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I don't condone harassment, but I am wondering why her twitter feed has not blown up over this since she was outed.
It was by another woman, so based on their logic, should we not believe her accuser because of "believe all women"?
 
LightofRohan

LightofRohan

Member
FF:Enhanced_Reality said:
Fuck me. This is a vicious cycle I just can't seem to see breaking. It's always the same.

  • Someone takes issue with an action/conversation/phrase/historic issue/anything really
  • That person calls out this 'piece of shit' (we love saying piece of shit)
  • Everyone jumps on the band wagon
  • We defend ourselves is liberal heroes, the absolute paragon of morale and human integrity
  • Someone inevitably ends up cancelled, fucked, losing their job, livelihood and sometimes more
  • Some time goes by
  • Turn out the super hero in our story was either full of shit, lying, had a political agenda or was worse/just as bad as the fucker they tried to take down for humanity!

Honestly, I hate this day and age. Social media has turned every cunt into a politician. We all have an opinion but we're not always informed or educated. People have even committed suicide over shit. People are absolutely thoughtless, but the worst thing is it happens time and time again.

As much as I like the modern GAF, this forum really had a class of person who gave rise to this shit. Censoring people, banning those with a different opinion, shutting down discussions, closing and deleting threads, purging those with the 'wrong' point of view. I saw it happen over years when I asked for my original account to be deleted.

Honestly, the corruption and toxicity of these people makes one want to delete the internet. Every day this industry just becomes more complicated than any current political issue in the world and it just drains me of any joy in life. I miss simpler times so much sometimes hahaha.
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It's all so tiring, I'm so sick of all of it... why do we keep letting it just be a thing. Morally questionable people judging other morally questionable people and stating how they are more morally questionable and then we move the goal post and they are no more morally questionable, keep going until everyone is 'canceled'.

I hate this fake "objective goodness". People act there is a score-card and if you don't hit it correctly you are not deemed a part of society. We have a Law System to determine who should be "outcasted".
 
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