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[Boss Mog]

I wish people keep this type of shit to themselves instead of shouting it on social media, especially when they represent the entire development team.

But how would they "virtue" signal if they did that? How would they get internet brownie points from their fellow evil degenerates?

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

You guys do realize the overwhelming majority of gamedev these days is very liberal right? Enough of them will share this view that boycotting all their games becomes silly. Better give up on the hobby all together.

I actually knew one extreme right individual who quit the hobby for this reason.

 

[icecold1983]

How fucking unhinged do you have to be to think celebrating the murder of a political opponent is a mainstream liberal idea?

What constitutes mainstream will be near impossible to pin down. But I do think a large number of liberals celebrate this. Not all will do so vocally of course.

I actually knew one extreme right individual who quit the hobby for this reason.

I would never let other peoples beliefs push me out of my own hobby.

 

[lifa-cobex]

You guys do realize the overwhelming majority of gamedev these days is very liberal right? Enough of them will share this view that boycotting all their games becomes silly. Better give up on the hobby all together.

I'd say the vast majority of devs, coders, artists etc just want to get their head down to create a product and make money.

You would have to be an absolute fuck nut to post somthing like that.
It's tasteless, inhumane and selfish.
Really stupid idea that puts yours and your staff jobs in jeopardy.
Game dies because of tweet. heads roll.

 

[djpeepz]

They should have sympathy for him when he called for their deaths?

Openly celebrating is distasteful I agree, but in regards to Kirk, it's a case of "say stupid things, win stupid prizes" for me.

Show me where he specifically called for people deaths? Nah what a cop out, you just show again you are such a weak willed person that disagreement means that they deserve to be killed. Gutless, spineless, tasteless. Is religious=deserves to be murdered? What an absolute gimp you are

 

[DenchDeckard]

End of the day. I dont know the guy. Never heard his comments. But assassinating a 31 year old man for using his freedom of speech is absolutely horrible.

I probably wouldn't agree with many of his comments, but someone losing a life for saying stuff you dont want to hear is beyond disgusting.

 

[Senua]

They should have sympathy for him when he called for their deaths?

He did?

 

[mrmeh]

I think it says more about you if you genuinely believe these people are joking and dont mean exactly what they are saying.

Is this going to be the excuse going forward?, they were just joking?.

I mean go and read the thread on Reee if you want to see how lefties are taking this news.

I was being specific about that tweet, It just seemed to be a bad attempt at dark humour not the poster having a party/popping champagne etc..

I can only go off what I see? I'm not the thought police.

 

[Loope]

Yes, words are vile. Everyone gets that.

Bleeding out infront of your family, over words? Not so much..

Is this some sort of tactic or something? Where did i say that? In fact, before that one i said it's not right to kill someone for their views.

But it is ironic that you're all judging people for words and choose not to see his words

 

[Lethal01]

You seem like a coward. Why not just say what you think?

No? No empathy for a man killed for having an opinion? How about his wife and kids?

I am sorry for his daughter seeing something like that at such a young age. I hear they were there when it happened, haunting to imagine.

For him I got about as much sadness as I do as I do for the guy luigi killed or the guy who got bribed to turn a blind eye to pedophiles. I hope the people around them meet better people.

My eyes are dry.

 

[nemiroff]

More than one thing can be correct at the same time. But form and timing is important. So I don't agree with those who carelessly Schadenfreude this situation.

I could say lots of things about Kirk before this happened. But considering the circumstances, right now it's important to acknowlege the murder is reprehensible and to condemn political violence.

 

[calico]

For him I got about as much sadness...

Do you support the assassination of Charlie Kirk?

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Is this some sort of tactic or something? Where did i say that? In fact, before that one i said it's not right to kill someone for their views.

But it is ironic that you're all judging people for words and choose not to see his words

I never said you did say it

I'm saying it doesn't matter what he said, or how vile it was. Get over yourself.

 

[Boss Mog]

Nah i just like video games

Thanks for outing yourself as a rotten egg (to put it very mildly). And don't think we don't know what you're doing when you post a Luigi gif.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Thanks for outing yourself as a rotten egg (to put it very mildly). And don't think we don't know what you're doing when you post a Luigi gif.

Subtle, wasn't it

 

[Three]

I may have interpreted it wrong but just seemed like a clumsy attempt at dark humour rather than celebrating?

Don't get the boycott stuff whether its for HP or this. Also don't get the people that jump on tweets calling to for people to be fired, get a fucking life.

Same bullshit, different thing. Play games.

Yeah it was a clumsy dark humour joke about Luigi Mangione but people try to politicise everything these days to start some kind of "movement".

 

[djpeepz]

I am sorry for his daughter seeing something like that at such a young age. I hear they were there when it happened.

For him I got about as much sadness as I do as I do for the guy luigi killed or the guy who got bribed to turn a blind eye to pedophiles. I hope the people around them meet better people.

Good lord you are spineless

 

[cripterion]

Sounds like an American problem to me. The US is messed up.

 

[Radical_3d]

Ok. I came from Twitter and…

I think I'll spend the rest of the day on GAF.

 

[MayauMiao]

As for Charlie Kirk, I don't really have opinion on him or the assassination, but I think we can at least all agree it's kind of ironic, right?
Same goes for the response from anti-Woke to the tweets from the devs.

I'll leave it at that. No politics allowed and all.

Its not that their hatred for Charlie Kirk that bothers me, its the way the celebrate on what essentially an attack of free speech even at the cost of a human life.

 

[Windom Earle]

You seem like a coward. Why not just say what you think?

Even though what you are saying is correct, that is such a ResetEra thing to say.

 

[Lethal01]

Do you support the assassination of Charlie Kirk?

Nah, public massacre probably just stokes the flames. and makes matyr.

think we don't know what you're doing when you post a Luigi gif.

I mean I would hope you would. I thought I was being clear.

 

[Forth]

Well done devs and publishers, you've just saved me money by cancelling a few pre-orders.
Should be fucking ashamed of yourselves.

 

[MrAlwaysRight]

Sony might as well shut sucker punch down, the liberals don't have money to buy sucker punch games, the conservatives do, and we won't ever again.

 

[Senua]

I am sorry for his daughter seeing something like that at such a young age. I hear they were there when it happened, haunting to imagine.

For him I got about as much sadness as I do as I do for the guy luigi killed or the guy who got bribed to turn a blind eye to pedophiles. I hope the people around them meet better people.

My eyes are dry.

We know your eyes are dry, in fact it seems you have a smirk on your face. Idk bro I didn't agree with his politics either but you have to have lost your humanity if you feel nothing from this murder, he was a fellow human who had their own views, like everyone else

 

[lmimmfn]

Hopefully this will impact their sales if nothing is done.

 

[Lethal01]

Good lord you are spineless

But not soulless

I shed tears for the children hit in the school shooting today.

 

[Kerotan]

We shall see. If it was a comment against a trans, black, palestinian, muslims in a second, Sony will fire them. Sony is really poisoned by California headquarters wokeness.

It's a fucking disgrace. 31 he was only a kid.

 

[Madserb2023]

I bet there are some discussions going on at Sony. Japan is quite a conservative society.

 

[calico]

Nah, public massacre probably just stokes the flames.




I mean I would hope you would. I thought I was being clear.

Ok, so you don't support the assassination of Charlie Kirk but you do support the assassination of Brian Thompson?

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Fuck em all. Vile pieces of shit.

 

[Senua]

But not soulless

 

[Ozriel]

I don't understand why people are mad when there are videogame dev layoffs. It always filled me with joy seeing these type of people lose their jobs. Most devs these days hire these types of people anyways, a bunch of politically driven left wing lunatics. They don't hire top tier engineers, writers, coders anymore, it's these literal type of people. When you see a layoffs in the industry, be happy about it, some lunatic lose his/her job.

Posting this in a thread irate about lack of empathy is quite the thing indeed.

And no, most hires optimize for competence, despite what some YouTuber told you.

 

[djpeepz]

But not soulless

Edddggyyy

 

[MondoPentecost]

Stop putting words in my mouth. I do care that he was murdered, and I fear this will only escalate with violence and inflame online rhetoric. The political instability in the USA due to killings and tribalism on both sides is getting out of control and it is leading to greater infighting and instability in the west.

That is completely separate from changing my purchasing habits because of what some loons say on social media. If I was going to apply such logic equally then I would just about need to give up most gaming and technology purchases.

That is ridiculous, you wanting something to change but doing nothing to accomplish it has the has the same outcome as not caring. It is quintessential virtue signalling.

The idea that both you are not going to do anything about any issue because you can address them all equally simultaneously. You can just pick an issue and focus on it. Why not change you habits for one issue. Doesn't have to be this one. But this is a good tactical choice: its target is specific, has specific and limited demands, other corps have already buckled see DC so we know it's feasible, The thing you claim to want we not be achieved without pressure.

 

[Topher]

This is pretty pathetic. It takes dozens of people to make a game and if one does something you don't like, you hate them all. Um Ok.

How you got "hate them all" out of "I'm not buying this product" is beyond me.

 

[djpeepz]

How you got "hate them all" out of "I'm not buying this product" is beyond me.

It's that kind of logic that today happened

 

[DirtInUrEye]

No? No empathy for a man killed for having an opinion? How about his wife and kids?

Oh do bugger off with this sanctimonious shite.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

We know your eyes are dry, in fact it seems you have a smirk on your face. Idk bro I didn't agree with his politics either but you have to have lost your humanity if you feel nothing from this murder, he was a fellow human who had their own views, like everyone else

Look at the laughing reply. He's an actual psycho.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Its not that their hatred for Charlie Kirk that bothers me, its the way the celebrate on what essentially an attack of free speech even at the cost of a human life.

Don't get me wrong, I fully agree with you and I'm 100% for free speech under any circumstance.

It's just that there are quite some ironic aspects to this topic/thread, is all.

 

[Senua]

Oh do bugger off with this sanctimonious shite.

None of the sort, it's basic human decency after such a horrific event.

 

[Radical_3d]

How you got "hate them all" out of "I'm not buying this product" is beyond me.

Yeah. I wouldn't stop buying a game that interest me because the dev is a jerk (I bought Fez), but I know better about GAF and the customers in general and I know they do.

 

[saintjules]

Reading some takes here and must feel nice to have freedom of speech and not be banned for it like in the purple asylum.

It's funny, I didn't see anything there yet that talked about Sucker Punch. I'm sure it will come up.

 

[kat_on_the_roof]

Wasn't the argument once that one should separate the statements and actions of developers from their games/art?
I can at least remember such arguments when Hogwarts was "canceled" by ideologues.

 

[ScHlAuChi]

Questions:
Why is this in the "Gaming" section?
Who the hell is Charlie Kirk and why should us EU Gaffers give any two fucks about some dude getting shot in the US?
Why should we give any two fucks about the opinions of a few artists who worked on a product with hundreds others?
What happend to separation of artist and art?
Why was the Politics Section banned when this crap seeps into everything now?
Cant you Americans leave your completely insane political bullshit out of Gaming?

*edit* I was threadbanned for this.... *edit*

 

[Novaex]

I don't know if it was posted before but Asmongold is going to do a video about all these devs.

You can write them down in the replies:



That should give these this vile, rotten sorry excuses for humans some exposure. Maybe finally they will face accountability for their disgusting behavior.
If some other big accounts like Elon retweet it, it might force the studios to act.

 

[BlackTron]

Guess I gotta preorder some extra copies.

Thoughts and Haikus to people who were planning to debate him that are now scared of having public events like Hasan and such.

Anyone who celebrates this is giving the far right big ammunition to call you evil and be legitimately correct about it. It should be universally condemned by everything with a pulse.

 

[djpeepz]

Wasn't the argument once that one should separate the statements and actions of developers from their games/art?
I can at least remember such arguments when Hogwarts was "canceled" by ideologues.

Yes because murder and people REEEEEing about JK Rowling is absolutely the same.

 

[yogaflame]

It's a fucking disgrace. 31 he was only a kid.

What happened to him is barbaric, cowardly act and sick mind. They dont have to courage to face him in a debate. They want to supress his freedom so they shot him in cold blood. Then after this cowardly act they laugh but hide. Why dont they fight fair, rule of the wild wild west face to face? Cowards, pweh! This will anger so many people around the world. This cannot be justified.

 

[djpeepz]

Questions:
Why is this in the "Gaming" section?
Who the hell is Charlie Kirk and why should us EU Gaffers give any two fucks about some dude getting shot in the US?
Why should we give any two fucks about the opinions of a few artists who worked on a product with hundreds others?
What happend to separation of artist and art?
Why was the Politics Section banned when this crap seeps into everything now?
Cant you Americans leave your completely insane political bullshit out of Gaming?

Or and hear me out OR. Stay out of the thread? You are a big boy off ya go