i get the feeling it one of those 'you'll never work in this town again' things? except i can't tell if it's real or just in the heads of these people that they go after? they always seem to be so intimidated...Hmm… this seems like a weird move. I assume they had a contract, wonder why the guy caved.
Comments seem semi-offensive and a bit dumb, but not terrible enough to cause the cancellation. Then again, UK is in a very weird state now as far as policing the internet goes.
what makes them the even the least bit offensive??Hmm… this seems like a weird move. I assume they had a contract, wonder why the guy caved.
Comments seem semi-offensive and a bit dumb, but not terrible enough to cause the cancellation. Then again, UK is in a very weird state now as far as policing the internet goes.
Brazil also didn't get the NES, it was a shit ton of clones thou. Maybe the most known was Dynavision 2 - the first one was an Atari 2600 cloneI mean Russia had the Dendy and not the NES. Maybe that doesn't apply to this, but yeah some countries didn't get a Nintendo. Dendy is the NES to people who grew up in Russia.
Sounds like they're being stupid about a stupid comment.
I think that book is by ROM not BitmapImagine you find out they are in cahoots with the charity, ironically that would be a classic 3rd world country corruption move.
I have the Speedball book they made, not opened it yet, seemed like they went into good detail with the screenshots applied a custom filter made by Tim Lottes. I can't speak to the quality of the writing though.
They could make a book about it.So did he get PS2 yet? I hate when things end on a cliffhanger.
I like how some dude posts a few tweets and says "Over this?" and everyone assumes that's it. Do you *really* think that's all it took for them to take this step? Don't you think that if that was it the author would be screaming about it on social media? His silence speaks louder than words. In that same thread, if you scroll down and read it all, someone posts "He is a complete asshole and pest. Literally plagues Facebook groups with his trolling."
You can have a debate on whether or not a company should take its employees (freelance or not) to task for social media posts, sure, but acting like this guy is a saint and being crucified for nothing is silly.
LOL at you all talking about never buying Bitmap Books and going ride or die for this dude without doing a shred of investigating first.
this pretty much confirms that was the tweet.
So a lot of you are like "oh come on, he's just racist, it's ok", wtf now ?
All the clichés of poor third world countries. Discriminating someone for his origins, I mean the definition of racism.Which thing did he say that was racist and why do you think that?
Well, Brazilian is not a race, but this is certainly not a great look.All the clichés of poor third world countries. Discriminating someone for his origins, I mean the definition of racism.
Damn, that's a great book, but runs near $100 after shipping and taxes.Just using this thread to tell people about Pat Contri's "ULTIMATE guide" books. They're all incredible and worth buying.
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I kickstarted his first NES book, and I think that one might currently be out of print, but the SNES one is available. He has an N64 book out now too, but I haven't gotten that one yet.
But they're incredible coffee table books, for real. Highly recommended.
Yeah, it's definitely pricey. But it's a beefy-ass book, and the reviews are very well-written. Certainly something to treat yourself to for your birthday or something.Damn, that's a great book, but runs near $100 after shipping and taxes.
So a lot of you are like "oh come on, he's just racist, it's ok", wtf now ?
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeAll the clichés of poor third world countries. Discriminating someone for his origins, I mean the definition of racism.
It should be ignored and not impact a thing.here's the thing I think people are missing I think they were just busting each other's chops.
everything said in those tweets was a joke imo.
and some jealous Jack ass has found it spread around and bitmap books took it as real xenophobia.
All the clichés of poor third world countries. Discriminating someone for his origins, I mean the definition of racism.
this the only villain here is bitmap cucks.It should be ignored and not impact a thing.
Full stop.
Too many cowards living in their bubbles.
I wonder why. I bought the FPS series of books and they were pretty damn awesome as they mention a lot of obscure titles. Plus i like things physical. So yeah, sue me for vanity.Videogame book publishing is made of the rejects from vanity publishing companies.
In the literary world they are considered the lowest of the low, it would be less frowned upon to be a straight up scam publisher asking for huge upfront fees.
Ah yes, ofcourse. And i am sure you never ever said something offensive either but it was just a joke, right?All the clichés of poor third world countries. Discriminating someone for his origins, I mean the definition of racism.
So Bitmap will still make their money, after issuing some bullshit statement, while the author will get nothing?
What that says is Bitmap doesn't actually care about what the author had said. If they actually did, they'd cancel the book altogether.
Releasing it and supposedly only cutting his royalties makes them look way worse.
Also, the tweets were fucking nothing. I guess people in the UK are just as fragile and delusional as those in the US.
And if they think they were, that's a them problem, not a him problem.No one was offended by his posts. Fact.
It definitely seems like nothing more than people getting offended on someone else's behalf.Racism means discriminating based on race, he implied (in a rude way) that some countries do not have modern consoles so they would be excited to play really old consoles still.
How does race come into that? Especially when its Brazil which has a crazily wide ranging selection of different races living there. So saying "Brazilians" doesn't in any way narrow it down to a race anyway.
I'm really not getting how this is racist or even xenophobic, its just factual that they didnt get some modern consoles there.
I'm Scottish, English people say everyone here is drinking all the time, addicted to heroin and is unhealthy from fried and sugary food. That doesn't apply to everyone... but also this is one of the capitals for heroin addiction, socially accepted ultra high levels of drinking and eating food thats really bad for you.
I get its a fine line, but I assume that people engage in exaggerated generalisations to make a joke sometimes.
this exactly why I cannot support bitmap books anymore they are acting like he threatened to bomb Brazil or something give me a break.Can someone explain to me what is offensive about what he wrote? I mean, it comes across from these people that he called someone a REALLY bad slur, yet I'm just not seeing it.