Episode 324: Abuse and Harassment in the Video Game Industry
Waypoint Radio
VICE
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Content Warning: Discussion around recent abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual assault allegations from approximately 14:33 - 53:15. Specific reference to abuse within families from 46:28 - 48:29
Over the past several days a still increasing number of victims in the video game industry, from streamers and influencers to developers, have spoken out about their abusers. We discuss how this current wave of allegations came about, the systemic issues that enable abuse, and the hope for a safer future. After the break we catch up with Patrick, who's back from paternity leave with stories of playing games not for content, imagine that!
Discussed: Video Game Industry Abuse 14:33, Gears Tactics 57:56, Divinity Original Sin 2 1:02:26, Hades 1:14:52, Humankind 1:23:05
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it is Austin here with a content warning for this episode. |
| 0:07.3 | We go pretty long on the ongoing wave of allegations of sexual misconduct and more general harassment |
| 0:15.3 | throughout the video games industry for the first, I'd say, a little bit of this episode. |
| 0:22.1 | It's tough to give exact times because of the way ads are kind of procedurally entered |
| 0:28.3 | into certain listener's feeds. |
| 0:30.3 | It's not a thing that we have exact information on how long it add is or who will get it. |
| 0:36.2 | So that means timestamps are a little tough, but we think it will be around 12 minutes |
| 0:41.4 | to 51 minutes somewhere in there. |
| 0:44.9 | Again, we don't go too deep on any particular case. |
| 0:47.5 | We don't go too deep in any particular incident. |
| 0:50.3 | We're not going beat by beat. |
| 0:51.3 | There's no, we're not getting into specifics. |
| 0:53.9 | It's a larger conversation around the state of the culture, the ways in which this is |
| 0:58.6 | a systemic issue, and then some particular cases, but not in terms of the events of the |
| 1:06.1 | allegations or anything like that. |
| 1:07.8 | I will say there is an additional smaller conversation at around 43 or 44 minutes depending |
| 1:12.6 | on the ads in which we briefly discuss familial abuse, inter familial abuse, which is about |
| 1:22.0 | two minutes long, three minutes long, something like that. |
| 1:25.9 | So maybe an extra note of caution there for folks. |
| 1:31.2 | Just want to make sure everyone who listens is able to be safe, and we hope that you've |
| 1:34.9 | had a safe and secure week, and that the weekend is good. |
| 1:41.4 | All right, that's it. |
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