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I'm pretty sure this is the same guy who was ranting about Godot "being woke" last year lol

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

Why do you care about people caring?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 minutes ago

There you go.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

His defense of Godot and his stance on the attacks, seem very reasonable and correct: Clip 1, Clip 2. Nothing like what you remember, OP.

Separating from Off Brand Games to protect them of the fallout of his opinions and public exposure also seems like a correct decision.

Edit: fixed second link

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Just a heads up, your two clips are linking to the same vid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Oh thanks, the second clip is actually here. I'll fix it in parent in a minute.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

As far as I've seen, the only thing PirateSoftware did "wrong" was point out some unintentional consequences that would fall on indie developers given the language used in SKG as written, and get a bit personal in his criticism of Ross Scott, and everyone has lost their minds on the dude. Idgaf about personal beef between creators and I agree with his concerns for indie developers even though I still support the idea of SKG (there is a happy medium place to be found here). Even if I didn't, he's said nothing so inflammatory to the cause as to earn all this stupid drama. Chill the fuck out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No. Everything he said about this initiative was wrong

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Care to elaborate on what he said and how it was wrong? Or....

Edit: down voting someone asking for clarification does not make your side look better or more right, you know, guys. The guy essentially said "nuh uh" like that was a strong argument, and I said "because?". Seriously, chill out.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So he said it would force MPs to be able to be played single player. Which, is wrong.

In the stream/video he is on a page that litterly says "this is what its not about" and he says "so this is all what its about"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

Ok, I'll look more into that to better understand if that is the case. But even if he was wrong about everything, why is such a misunderstanding worth the drama and backlash? Everybody is truly up in arms over what seems like pretty mild criticism even if that criticism is all mistaken. Especially if it is all mistaken, really. People are acting like he said "fuck gamers/consumers and their rights", which is clearly not what happened. Disagreement isn't the same as disparagment or conflict. Reasonable minds can differ.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 minutes ago

"Not only do I not support this, I will go out of my way to tell people not to"

"This initiative can eat my ass, the whole thing. It can eat my entire ass"

That's not mild criticism in my world. About something that he did not even understand in the first place as many things he complained about was things the initiative literally said they were NOT trying to do.

But hey. Sometimes people can be wrong. We make mistakes. But when someone refuses to acknowledge they were mistaken and instead double down.

That's when people get upset.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

People have been out for him since the WoW drama where he as a self proclaimed genius and WoW god did everything wrong and left his mates out to die.

They dug into him and found that he's a master at bullshitting and pretending to find solutions to puzzles, that he obviously did google.

He might be a furry and also changes his voice to sound more masculine. He claimed to have received tens of thousands of death threats after the wow drama, which is highly unlikely.

He never admit fault but always doubles down.

All of that combined brought out the biggest of hate boners in people.

It's definitely easy and justified to dislike him, but he's not Hitler or something. He's just unlikable for bullshitting all day, but doesn’t deserve real hate.

People don't do themselves a favour by having such a low bar for literally hating someone. They will just get controlled by their hate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

People pointed out in his comments section but he did not apologize or mention for 10 months. When the video came out saying he was wrong he doubled down and said he is actually right. And then kept doubling down.

He also lied and said community is attacking him to see if that will hurt the movement. Community in fact did not attack him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Again, not taking the "he's definitely wrong" stance at face value. I'll decide for myself. Reasonable people can disagree and both br "right" from their perspectives. Regardless, who gives a fuck if one person is wrong and doubles down on being wrong when they have no authority to stop this movement (clearly, as it has been quite successful regardless of his opinion). That shit happens 1 million times a day on the internet, and often from big names too. The facts is that, generally, he is an ally to the gaming community, particularly for indie gaming, and this is in-fighting bullshit.

He also lied and said community is attacking him to see if that will hurt the movement. Community in fact did not attack him.

They are attacking him now, here, publically dragging him through the dirt, and I've seen it elsewhere as well for the last week or two. What are you talking about? Why are we talking about him now if not becuase people are pissed off and hating on him? I read that someone even Swatted him.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 21 hours ago

I don't like pirate software like any other guy, but I want to put credit where credit is due.

He wasn't ranting about Godot being woke last year. He was actually actively defending it from all the bigots. One of the very few YouTubers or streamers, I saw.

You have probably mistaken him with Asmongold. He has long hair too, and he is right wing nutjob pos.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago

Wait, did PirateSoftware rant about wokeness, or are you confusing him with fellow failed game dev Grummz?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

OP is mistaken. PirateSoftware defended Godot official and pointed out the actual perpetrator of hate was a mod of an unofficial fan discord. Someone else posted a clip of it in this thread.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

That actually happened, but not from this PirateSoftware guy. The anti-woke godoters made their own fork, Redot, which, as you might have expected, doesn't do jack shit other than offering cosmetic changes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

I guess they woke up and made a good open source game engine?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

They got 6, count them SIX, negative reviews in one day. Such review bombing, indeed.

[–] sp3ctr4l 77 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (22 children)

So... I actually tinker around in Godot.

Whilst looking around to see if anyone had, or was developing an extension I would find useful...

I discovered 'Redot'.

Basically, there is a small but very vocal group of people who are very, very angry that a Godot community manager made some pro LGBT, inclusive twitter posts, turned that into a culture war flare up on twitter...

And then forked Godot.

To make the anti-woke version of Godot.

Their youtube channel has, as best I can tell, absolutely no descriptions of any substantial differences from... you know, an actual game engine feature set perspective.

Beyond of course being behind Godot now, lol.

What they do have is a bunch of rants about politics and edrama for their 'non-political' game engine.

Also... they pronounce Redot as Re-Dot, hard t.

Godot is Godot as in Waiting for Godot.

Go - Dough. God - Oh.

The t is silent.

... of course these idiots are literally uncultured and have never read the screenplay or seen the stage play, so they have no idea how to pronounce the word.

Could have gone with Re - Do, or Re - Dough, those would have been closer, the first at least an obvious allusion to them being a Godot fork.

But no. Re Dot.

smdh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Perhaps Thor is Pozzo.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is bigot pronounced "bih-got" or "bih-go?" 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Pretty weird guy, honestly. Seems competent, but spends too much time complaining about other people instead of working on his own stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly, seems competent. But only seems, he's a narcissistic nepobaby who just can't admit he's in the wrong be it in video games or real life.

I just can't understand why anyone would follow a piece of shit like him

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

You might be right, but I don't believe you have any frame of reference to determine that he's not competent. How much of his actual work have you reviewed?

[–] Cqrd 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Woah, how can you say that? Don't you know he worked for blizzard!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

He did? Weird, never mentioned it.

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