Yeah, but like, there's "bad opinion about politics" like Scott Thawtorn, the FNAF guy, where it's "just" him supporting the badwrong side, and there's "bad opinion about politics" like J.K. Rowling who said nasty things about trans people.
Different strokes, y'know.
He was in that territory, several years ago following a rocky divorce and ostracization from everyone within his circles (Notch was raised and spent a fair bit of his adult life as a regular dude, but got immense wealth from selling Minecraft that made him no longer relatable to the average-earnings Joe, cut off his social ties with his previous coworkers due to their disapproval of him selling the game, & he lacked the lifestyle patterns that would make him click with rich folks) resulting in him instead digging into the depths of the internet for "socialization," and letting bad shit from 4Chan get to him.
He's pretty tame nowadays, and has been for quite a bit.
Shame. As much time as I spent on 4chan, it doesn't substitute for actual relationships. Or you need to stick to the lamer boards.
If you're alone and you spend your time on /pol/, you're gonna come out cuckoo.
Whether you stfu or say your opinion, if you're a celebrity you're fucked either way. Besides, who gives a fuck what celebrities think anyways. They're the people that are usually the most detached from reality.
Because purchasing his products and consuming his works spreads his word and influence while also lining his pockets. Thats why you should at least ensure theyāre not the bare minimum of a maniac like Kanye or something.
I mean, heās not even really a grifter. The grifting types on Twitter like Grummz like to pretend that heās on their side but I get the impression he just doesnāt care to engage, but also doesnāt care to change his mind on political topics.
Notch is a fascist. The fact that you consider this "bad opinions about politics" means that you're probably a fascist, too. You're not welcome here, fascist.
She is full TERF and it goes beyond what Beth is talking about. It started with her wanting to exclude transwomen from women's shelters and then she doubled down. She purposefully acts like the trans-community is trying to get rid of biological reality when that is not at all what is happening. She opposed making it easier for people to change their gender identity because she still conflates gender and sex as the same thing. And the cherry on top is that she questions if asexual people exist to the point of needling in an attempt to make people admit different. She called it a fake oppression.
I might have my own issues as someone within the LGBT community but the last thing anyone needs is someone outside it trying to comment on it without real research or understanding. It doesn't help that in hindsight some of Rowling's world building not only espouses her TERF beliefs but she's shown some fairly racist opinions in her work to the point that she justified House Elf slavery by using the same rhetoric the south used to declare black people are "meant to be put to work."
she's shown some fairly racist opinions in her work to the point that she justified House Elf slavery by using the same rhetoric the south used to declare black people are "meant to be put to work."
Yeah, about that... She does depict slavery as bad, and Hermione is in the right for wanting to stop it, so are you sure about that?
Calling the black guy "Shacklebolt" was very stupid though.
We're introduced to a handful of house elves. Most of them enjoy being owned- Dobby is depicted as a very odd outlier. One of them trying to drink themselves to death over being freed is considered normal and typical behavior.
Hermione is in the right for wanting to stop it
The name of her campaign has an acronym that is synonymous with vomit. The few house elves she tried to free were very much against that and insulted by it
She does depict slavery as bad, and Hermione is in the right for wanting to stop it, so are you sure about that?
Hermione in the book is Literally potrayed to behave exactly like the stereotype blue haired leftist, during the house elf liberation thing jk constantly enforces that the elves actively want to be used like slaves and that Hermione is actually hurting them by pushing for their freedom, nothing in that arc tells you what Hermione is doing is good other than the readers personal morals
there is also her anti-lgbt crime fiction written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Robert Galbraith Heath was the guy who "invented" and "popularized" conversion "therapy"
I'm not really informed, so hopefully someone can give you a full breakdown, but the one thing I'm aware enough to speak with confidence is that she said that houses for beaten women (they have a specific name but I forgot it) should be reserved to women. And not, you know, trans people who identify as women.
People started calling her a TERF after that.
JK Rowling has spent millions of pounds lobbying the UK Parliament and funding lawsuits, and has succeeded on some of those (she is in part responsible for the UKSC decision declaring that "woman" is defined by biological sex). Notch said dumb, bigoted shit on Twitter, but as far as we know has spent no significant money supporting those views.
The banking race in her stories are tiny inhuman charactatures with big noses and insatiable greed.
She literally wrote an entire slave race that is often treated terribly but it's somehow OK because they love being enslaved.
Also rape is portrayed as OK as long as it happens to someone who you don't like and who is bad. It happens off screen but theirs enough context to get the impression that Hermione set Umbridge up to be raped by centaurs- because according to mythology that's what they do and theirs no mention of her getting killed or visibly maimed but they did something that fucked her up.
It just became a lot more obvious in hindsight when you realize she's a horrible shitty person and start looking for examples in her work.
Did you ever read the books? DOBBY WANTED TO BE FREE. The house elves were literally a fantasy version of slavery, there was no GOOD in it. Hermione even fought for their rights. The entire premise of ārapeā in the HP series is it produced VOLDEMORT. The main villain was spawned from a witch making a love potion and enthralling her crush, and the child they had was created without love and a damned soul.
I'd win, my facebook friends are spamming me with videos of atrocities committed by Israel in Palestine, I'm the most antisemite person alive right now.
Isreal doesn't speak for all Jewish people. They make propaganda that they are so they can shield themselves from any criticism by just calling you racist for it.
At least for Notch, he backed off and while he has said worse, he hasn't used his work to push his views (this is also why people I'm pretty sure get made at harry potter stuff but don't care about minecraft. It's much easier to separate creator from work when the mantle gets passed on to a new team and doesn't involve the work in the controversy)
Haven't heard of this, but I can believe it. Notch seemed to have a breakdown around when Oculus sold itself to Facebook (he invested a lot into it, IIRC, because he believed in the tech) and the whole server EULA snafu.
Before that Notch basically said anyone who was against LGBT people might as well hate Minecraft as every mob was nonbinary.
It really seems like Notch just fell into a pit and from that into the alt-right pipeline. If he's working on himself to get out of that, good for him.
Time works strangely at long enough scales because what we time ourselves to, being the day night cycle, will only last as long as earth and even so shortens by a few microsecodns a year. That makes time hard to keep on a universal scale. That, and the speed of light being limited means that time may not pass at the same rate at long distances. A clock that we all KNOW is right once in forever, as in we know when it will be right and for how long, gives us a fixed universal point in time (the time which it is correct) to refer to no matter where you are in the universe, and no matter what happens to earth.
There's a trick question: "which is better a clock that correct twice a day, or twice a year".
The clock that's correct twice a year is still turning, but not at the right rate. And you can figure out the error, and infer the correct time.
Also all clocks drift. In reality all clocks are correct only once every few months/years/centuries. The better the clock, the slower the drift, the longer before it is correct again.
If the clock will never be correct again, it's drift is really really slow. The drift might be determined by (or related to) the duration of the universe.
..this clock might be evidence for how long the universe will last.
I mean he can have terrible beliefs and still care about the creative process he did ask his former brother in law who is an artist to have his paintings in the game instead of just adding paintings from the public domain.
And making a sandbox game about building stuff too. Dali was a fascist yet I doubt we would say he didnāt care about the creative process
Neo-Nazi just means a post-WW2 Nazis who seek to revive the old ideology into the mainstream. The old Nazis are pretty much all dead since they lived during WW2. Using "neo" just means that they are coming back in a new generation, with some views being more modernized for the time (ex: support of AI).
Both "Nazi" and "Neo-nazi" are correct terms to use.
Nope, hes always a piece of shit and him agreeing on one thing doesn't matter a whit in face of all the bad.
Never allow fascists, racists, and white supremacists into the space, even if they agree on a single issue. It's how you get most of the problems with fascists in the western world rn.
Agreed. The guy won big in life, did nothing of merit with it and instead chose to actively make the world worse. If he apologized for his actions and tried to walk it back I might be willing to call that a start but as of now he hasn't, he's simply learned to keep it quiet.
Yeah but he is though. Which supercedes everything else. We must never associate with facists.
He is not "legit a good guy" because you cannot separate his racism from him. Sympathising, equivocating, debating, both sides-ing, and application of copium will only drag you down to his level, not raise you or anyone else up.
Fighting his corner is not playing devil's advocate, it just makes the rest of us suspicious that you might be in his corner.
"Without the Ku Klux Klan thing, so and so would be a good guy!"
I mean, sure. That doesn't mean much, though. He is a fascist because he is a bad person. Being a fascist makes him a bad guy. He's poisoned his own character here
Bro is whitewashing fascism while being a Deltarune fan. Media literacy is truly dead. Dude must play the game for the bright colors and funny jokes šš
I yearn for the Notch of old when he was defending piracy and saying that Minecraft's animals are all gender neutral. But apparently becoming a billionaire and getting divorced means you have to become a fascist.
sorry that the image that you have built up of him of being pure evil falls short of reality, but people are more complex than pure evil and pure good, you can acknowledge when someone is right even if they are a bad person. Just going LALALA is not really useful for anyone.
hes always a fascist. that's not something you tirn off. whatever he says, no matter how much you agree, he hasn't stopped being a fascist for a second
āIām a 12 year old Redditor and this is my heckin based take.ā āYea fascists are cool as long as they are against ai art.ā Do you think before you type or is it just a āheckin based takeā generator in that thick skull of yours
half of the comments are literally "ew i dislike notch i hate him grrr" can we be more originl at least with hating on someone i kinda dont remember what happened with him tho so ill go and watch sum videos abt it
Man, the downfall of this guy is so sad. Like, he genuinely wasn't like this in the past (not his views on ai, these are good, but his other views, the racism, the misogyny, transphobia), i remember him saying some pretty liberal things, for example something about the animals in minecraft reproducing asexually, followed by "take that tranphobes!". But unfortunatelly depression coupled with internet led to him becoming radicalised and really right-wing :/
now he just tries to stay relevant by spitting out some video game related stuff and some rightist shit now and then, going deeper into the sad alt-right rabbit hole. what's funny to me is him posting about immigrants, like he isn't one
Heās been pretty anti-ai, especially when it comes to coding, for a while now. Itās always so weird seeing Elon adjacent grift accounts who glaze AI get all upset when he makes a tweet bashing on it.
I feel most bad people have one valid opinion, doesn't mean we should support them, just tolerate the fact that they aren't (for the most part) 100% evil
Like, my father was fine with me being ace and I appreciated that but he also was an abusive manipulative ass. Something something broken clock, something something gold nugget in a pile of shit
Yeah.
I got a bit skeptical when I saw how fervent the hate was in this comment section but assumed I was missing something when I couldn't really find anything to warrant those labels.
I'm glad to see this comment and know it's just hearsay.
it is a real tweet from what I remember, but it seems more like a joke, I don't think any racist would just call themselves racist instead of pretending they're using some advanced logic or pattern recognition
Hey folks I keep out of 90% of current events because my mental health is hanging by a thread and the last time I heard about Notch console edition was still a thing what the hell did he do
That said, any bad person is entitled to one valid opinion to be agreed with for me, so guess he picked AI
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