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Julien Andlauer, WEC: 1000M of Sebring

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Jörg Bergmeister had a very very hot lap at the FIAWEC test days last week at Sebring - He’s Ok, the Porsche not so much ... The leading FIA WEC AM Team Project25 did everything to rebuild the car for the upcoming 1000mSebring this weekend - All the best and good luck guys! 📷 Jamey Price Photo

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Representation is the key to kickstarting discussion, and video games have taken a woefully one-dimensional approach in the mental health conversation. While there’s no shortage of mental health-related content in today’s games, it falls into one of two specific camps, neither of which confront the complex and nuanced issues with the empathy and consideration they deserve. If you encounter a game that deals with issues of mental health, chances are it’s a horror game. The genre loves to play around with mental illness; specifically the vague, generalized Saturday Morning Cartoon-style "insanity" that doesn’t match any real definition of the term. In fact, the concept of sanity is so ubiquitous within the genre as a thematic, narrative and mechanical device that several horror games feature [in]famous "sanity meters;" literally a way to quantify how "crazy" characters are. These representations are as harmful as they are common. When discussing a topic as sensitive and misunderstood as mental illness, empathy and understanding are crucial, and this content fosters neither.

Patrick Lindsey, Gaming's favorite villain is mental illness, and this needs to stop

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day 22 – depression quest (ages 20 and 19)

developed  by zoe quinn, patrick lindsey and isaac schankler

released in 2013

(rynne is feeling down)

rynne: todays game is depression quest ha ha kiera: 😟 but yeah I’ve played it it’s actually a good game so is depression quest our game of the day? rynne: no because I turned it off it was depressing me kiera: it's quest is complete

rynne: um I'm planning to play it more (he does so a few days later)

rynne: what is the plot of depression quest kiera: you’re a depressed DUDE rynne: NO A WOMAN not a doubt in my mind kiera: man no I could not get rid of the idea she was a boy even tho I was like ‘don’t be heteronormative kiera rynne: is it supposed to be ambiguous kiera: yeah I think so i mean he was /so/ a boy to me rynne: it's weird cause they give your girlfriend Alex a gender ambiguous name and use "they" pronouns but other times call her "she" kiera: yeah! and call her ‘your partner’ i was thinking the exact same thing

kiera: anyway I think its a good game I think it suffers from being too simple sometimes? rynne: no what's the plot kiera: oh well you’re a depressed guy who finds no meaning in work or life um you have a girlfriend and you don’t think you’re good enough for her and then decisions you make as a player affect if you get more depressed or better 

as expert video games bloggers, rynne and kiera forget to mention the central mechanic of the game, namely that otherwise reasonable actions and responses are unselectable according to the nature of your depression

rynne: yup i agree that's it too simple I was pretty affected while playing it but after I was like huh i wonder if reading things like marbles took away some of the impact things that kinda go more in depth about what it's like to have a mental illness kiera: don't forget hyperbole and a half kiera: it’s obvious what’s going to make you better rynne: what happens if you take meds that's the only think I didn't do kiera: really? rynne: yeah kiera: why? rynne: i was in character and didn't want to do it and i didn't have time to go back and see what would happen kiera: so i took meds and therapy and i got clearly the happiest ending which I thought was kinda forced because sometimes you hate your therapist and sometimes the meds' side effects fuck up your life but at the same time this game might have been too much of a downer if there was no clear ‘happy’ ending? rynne: I was fine when I didn't take the meds idk I thought that was pretty responsible of them as like a general overview on depression meds or not if you're gonna get better you probably did it through some kind of help anyway I'm taking a shower kiera: I’ll try to be awake when ur back but no promises

rynne: yo kiera: hey still here um I’m not sure if I have much more to say i don’t think i liked the game as much as you did? but also i’d played it before but I think it’s a good like depression 101 course rynne: yeah I wish it went a little deeper yeah I thought the transitions were weak kiera: oh really? rynne: yeah like it would suddenly be like you are very depressed and want to not live i was like woah when did that happen kiera: I didn’t get that sense at all I thought the sound wasn’t as special as they thought and the static=depression thing is a pretty obvious artistic choice

rynne: no that's cool I found that pretty enlightening maybe not the visuals but the simile used in the text kiera: hä? which simile rynne: just the notion that there is static in your head that intensifies when your depression gets worse kiera: oh. yeah I guess i’ve heard that comparison a lot so its kinda lost its intensity for me? rynne: yeah that was new for me whatever 

rynne: um the fact that gamergaters hate this game is mind blisteringly stupid i mean people are always gonna be alienating shitheads about thing the care about just look any tumblr fandoms but i don't think any group has laid claim to an entire medium before i mean you don't see comics nerds mad that girls like pretentious graphic novels there being dicks about other people liking the comics they like the gamergaters would never play games like dq in a thousand years but they hate them? kiera: bc those dastardly women created them rynne: talk about depressing rynne: when you're 14 you effectively stop changing in major ways kiera: nahhhhh I disagree rynne: This is a planet of 14 years olds and younger accept my hot take kiera: it’s bullshit and defeatest tho so no rynne: bah