I’m an oldster. I use FB to stay lightly connected to friends and schoolmates from my decades of life who are spread all over the country. I don’t use it to spread anti-vax bullshit or plan insurrections. It has a use for me. But it’s free and I know that I am the product that’s being sold.

Guess it’s a time for me to buy a gun.

So, to be clear:

Then to go back to my original comment, again, if someone’s politics boil down to, “I hate acknowledging that minorities have the same worth as me” then I don’t want to consume their creative work because I don’t find that belief peaceful. It’s *possible* for them to create something that doesn’t endorse that…

I think it’s a useful bit of journalism to note that the lead designer, aka one of the people that’s going to have the largest impact on the game as a whole, including narrative elements, holds these views.

However I very strongly believe in not discriminating or boycotting people for peacefully holding their own beliefs and talking about them as long as they aren’t hurting someone.

You could try to be a bit honest here, nobody’s saying he should be locked up. But we are not obligated to buy things made by him whatsoever. 

“Absolutely no impact” is an absurdly high bar, and it’s more likely than not that critical readings of their works can explain how, however strongly or not, their views influenced their art. Some of the best art hides political views in ways that are open to interpretation by people on both ends of the political…

I can see how a person’s personal opinions on sports or, I don’t know, food might not be directly reflected in their art. However, Jesus Christ, did you read this article? He ran an entire YouTube channel that reflect his fundamental worldview. That’s absolutely the kind of thing that artists - good ones, anyway -…

Yeah, super messed up how people have opinions about his opinions.

People can choose to not buy games, and that’s what some of us are doing. Buy his game if you want, the rest of us don’t give a shit. Unless you think we should be compelled to purchase this game? That’s a real can of worms imo.

I didn’t read the whole article, but I don’t think that was the point being made.

No one forced this guy to be so public about his idiocy. He wanted attention, he got it.

And someone, somewhere fails to understand that “collectively, they have more money than people like you do.”

There’s a lot of games to play. More than I have time to play. I’ll choose to pass on this one because of this guy, and maybe companies will stop hiring guys like this. It’s my money and that’s how I’m using it. 

Considering he has several videos arguing how good some famously toxic bosses are... I wouldn’t doubt there’s been mistreatment in the workplace. It’d be really surprising for him to hold 100% toxic views in his head and then shut them off at work, despite believing them to be correct and good, actually.

No one has said there is a crime. You’ve imagined your own problem, because you do in fact want to defend him but are either too stupid or too cowardly to do so.

Not just creative decisions, he likely has a lot of influences over hiring too.  Good chance he’s exactly the sort who will fill development with people who look like him.

No one is accusing him of a crime.

I mean I guess I don’t know enough about the industry to know what someone in his position does, but if someone’s politics boil down to, “I don’t like acknowledging that minorities exist and have the same value as straight white men” I don’t really want to consume anything they have a creative input on, because that…