Zoe Quinn

“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.”

“I used to go to games events and feel like I was going home.”

“It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don't have data ethicists.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You don't really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games.”

“I was the funny-looking one who wore a trench coat and played hacky sack with the other greasy kids.”

“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.”

“I just wanted to make video games.”

“I would not have pretty much any of the good things in my life if it weren't for the Internet.”

“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.”

“I really, really, really love writing comics.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“I like the idea of using cool cyberpunk stuff to tell really stupid jokes.”

“The reason I namecheck restorative justice so much is because that, to me, is the utopia.”

“One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.”

“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.”