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Minecraft Creator Markus 'Notch' Persson Eradicated From Splash Text (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft has removed a trio of references to Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft, from the game's opening menu screen. Random messages known as "splash text" are printed in yellow on this screen, and they used to include "Made by Notch!", "The Work of Notch", and "110813!" (a reference to the day Persson got married), but now all three mentions are gone. Notch is still included in the game's credits, but the change means that Minecraft players will no longer be randomly referenced.
Persson first released the blocky building game in 2009. Five years later, after the game had become a global smash hit, he sold his company Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, giving Redmond ownership of Minecraft. The references to Notch have remained a feature until their removal in this latest patch. They're reported to have been removed both from the original Java edition played on PCs and the legacy console edition used on PlayStation 4. No official rationale has been offered for the change, but Persson has become something of a polarizing figure on Twitter...
Persson first released the blocky building game in 2009. Five years later, after the game had become a global smash hit, he sold his company Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, giving Redmond ownership of Minecraft. The references to Notch have remained a feature until their removal in this latest patch. They're reported to have been removed both from the original Java edition played on PCs and the legacy console edition used on PlayStation 4. No official rationale has been offered for the change, but Persson has become something of a polarizing figure on Twitter...
Microsoft doesn't want to continue to weather the based red-pilled notch in a predominantly blue-pilled society any longer.
Microsoft: "We made this."
Break up Microsoft again before it's too late.
Good riddance. Go count your money with Palmer Lucky on has-been island.
So it's ok if they do whatever they want with the game. They own it. He's still in the credits and they're not trying to say he didn't make it so... This isn't much of a story. For $2.5 billion you can take my name off my birth certificate, I wouldn't care.
This is my favorite tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/not...
I wonder if Microsoft is in CYA mode or full totalitarian true believer mode?
in white supremacist rhetoric and memes, whether he realizes it or not. And the Southern Strategy has been used consistently to get white voters to vote against their own best interests as well as mine. These sort of petty race politics are how the ruling class divide us and get us fighting among ourselves while they take all the good stuff for themselves.
On the plus side Bernie Sanders has been calling this out in his rallies as part of a broader call for working class unity. I'd like to see more politicians doing that. I'm so sick of watching angry white men get taken advantage of while also being dragged down with them.
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The worst Splash Text I've seen there is one that proudly declared, "Open Source!" Considering the history behind it, I nearly reached through the screen and stabbed Microsoft.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Seriously, does anyone here actually care? If so, why do you care? Do you feel his compensation insufficient for the game?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I love Minecraft but Why is this even news??
Founders leave their companies all the time. Is the company under some "moral obligation" to keep a reference to the founder for all perpetuity??
He's still listed in the credits, so who gives a fuck if his name has been removed from the Splash page?
Is Bill Gates listed in the credits for Windows, Excel, Word, etc?
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The Lie of Judaism: God commanded his children to kill one another.
He's STILL in the credits!
'little shit'= having a different opinion than me.
What is a Minecraft?
Is that like a hoover-craft for mines?
In EU, If this was a book, it would be illegal to remove attribution. A creator has moral rights of attribution that are not removable or transferable. In some jurisdictions, these rights aren't even waivable.
little shit=âtelling people of color white people matter' when all they are asking for is to not get killed by the police
The police gun down whoever's in the way. Its not a racial thing, its a militarized society thing. If it was Asians predominantly around wherever crime and police tend to hang around, they'd be gunned down in similar numbers. Men are gunned down far more than women, yet you'd never admit that as a sign that society favors women. Plenty of whites get gunned down, the other day a white man was shot for playing with a garden hose and nobody cried for him.
NO they dont dumb fuck. Unarmed get gunned diwn. Sleeping get gunned down. In their own fucking home get gunned down.
He mentioned QAnon.
VSG GEOTUS President Trump basically did in his rally tonight.
Great times ahead!
It was a reference to a health issue Notch was dealing with at the time, and was supposed to read "open sores"... but English isn't Persson's first language so there you go.
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Microsoft paid 2 billion dollars for this game, they can do that.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
For $2.5 billion you can take my name off my birth certificate, I wouldn't care.
Are you sure? Mr. "The Artist Previously Known as 'Anonymous Coward'"
You are oversimplifying things. There are wide studies, not just in unjust murders by police officers, but also via judicial biases too. For example, statistically, despite whites using marijuana at the same clip as blacks, it is blacks who are pretty much only tried, convicted and jailed for using it.
I get the sense we white people will tend to look for any justification for these biases when the victim is black so as to feel comforted that this bias does not exist. That is the REAL problem. We are more willing to discredit the victims situation when they don't look like us because we don't want to vicariously experience the situation. I am a white man and i have seen this bias many times among my people, and openly admit to this bias existing in our society.
Just speaking the truth
Police do more frequently, as in per encounter, shoot unarmed black men. But for those pushing the narrative, the analysis ends there. If you include threat level, i.e. are police responding to a call about violence or witness an attack, and the disparity disappears, some years showing the opposite bias, http://www.copinthehood.com/20...
So, you're saying, don't love or go somewhere police go often, because they will murder you? I agree. Unfortunately, they tend to harass black and poor neighborhoods more often. One of the reasons men a murdered more, and black men in particular, is that men and black men especially are perceived to be violent. This is reenforced in media, even black media that whites and blacks consume and in police training.
The truth has more to do with poverty than racism, though racism does exist.
The bad thing is is that by not acknowledging that the true underlying cause goes unadressed and nothing gets fixed. Racism as a basis for political empowerment is also being embraced by minority communities who see non minorities clearly don't mind it.
Peele even says point blank, I won't cast white guys as leads in my movies. That is flat out racist and he doesn't need to say it. He could have simply said black leads are going to get a fair shake in my movies, but he had to tied his response in to white historical racism.
White kids born today won't ever own slaves. If they watch even a tiny bit of sports or TV they likely won't ever become racist. Because they are white and their ancestors did messed up stuff, they are going to be made to pay for it. If anyone is under any illusions that it won't have hugely negative consequences, they will be rudely awakened to it one day.
Actually that is not true in every part of the world. Imagine if there existed a way to change the way the police works in your society, wouldn't that be wonderful?
If only smartphone producers could follow the path and got rid of notch
Are they being killed by the police in the countries of their ancestors? i.e. in non-white countries? Why are 'people of color' so desperate to live around white people? Why don't they want to live around their own kind? Why don't they LEAVE in order to get away from the dreaded 'racist' police in white countries?
Any answers?
Access to whites is not a human right.
Nobody is forcing non-whites to live in white countries.
But ALL white people on Earth are being forced to live with non-whites.
Who is in the wrong then? Obviously the non-whites. White people aren't forcing ourselves into their lives, they are forcing themselves into OUR lives. Why? Why can't they stand living around their own kind? That's all white people want - to be left alone to live around our own kind. Not one of you have a reason as to why white people, and ONLY white people, have to allow endless immigration until we lose our countries.
thats because blacks commit more crime. how clueless are you?
"Unarmed get gunned diwn. Sleeping get gunned down. In their own fucking home get gunned down." You're a retard.
Stay in a culture that glorifies crime.... Mess with drugs.... Stay in a neighborhood that does both, get gunned down.
If you want to believe your hallucinations that cops go out to kill blacks and get points, go for it. Just don't try and convince us (people with sense) of your 'truth". Actually, I take that back, keep spouting your nonsense, it's good to identify he idiots early.
"Have to pay for it" ...
Quit being so damned insecure
White kids born today won't ever own slaves. If they watch even a tiny bit of sports or TV they likely won't ever become racist.
Wow racism has been gone for decades now???
If you're an example of the kind of white person that's losing their country, then it can't happen fast enough.
Sorry, bitches.
You are true, however the police get called on blacks much more often even when nothing illegal is going on. How often do white people get police showing up when they're outside picking up trash from their backyard, trimming their bushes, or taking their dog to the dog park? All those things hit national news this past year. I'd blame the "if I don't feel perfect then you're assaulting me" attitude many people have. I don't know how society gained that toxic attribute but it has.
Shallow and myopic thinking.
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Blacks account for 31% of police murder, despite being 13% of the population.
But they're a much greater percentage of "police encounters". People tend to have confrontations with the police in crime-ridden areas. That is not racist per se and more than explains your statistic. You can argue that there's some racist reason that black neighborhoods have more crime, of course.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I dunno about you, but not everyone of a particular is a racist, but I have met racists of every color.
I'm sure the significance of the fact that 13% also happens to account for around half of all violent crime either completely escapes you, or you'll fall back on an argument that necessarily requires the existence of vast numbers of white crime victims whose offenders aren't arrested because theyre also white (the 'but black people just get arrested more, despite not doing it more' argument that's true for pot and some other really petty things, so presumed true for violent crime too).
No, not per capita. Per violent criminal, possibly, depending on which stats you use. We don't have good statistics on police shootings OR violent crime rates though. Using numbers from the NCVS for 2012-2015 and The Guardian's list of police shootings in 2015-2016 .00043 .00045
. 4,847,887 total violent crimes with a perp group of pers with a single known race.
1,324,270 violent crimes committed by blacks.
2,557,910 violent crimes committed by whites.
307 + 266 = 573 Blacks shot by cops, rate is
584 + 574 = 1158 whites, rate is
Those rates are close enough that I'd say the police are fairly even handed in their brutality, and mostly aren't gun happy. Not even 1 in a thousand violent criminals get shot. Unfortunately, numbers over 3 years shouldn't be directly combined with numbers for 2 years of which only one overlaps, but that's what I've got. 2015 alone has roughtly the same, while 2016 is wildly different. I used to use an older measure of violent crime, because prior to 2017 the last time violent crimes by race were included in the NCVS was 2006 IIRC.
I could go to the UCR, but then I have to limit it to homicides to get race of offender, and relative homicide rates did NOT track relative violent crime rates the last time I checked. The latter is measured by victim surveys, the former is for crimes where the victim obviously can't answer. That doesn't even get into simpson's paradox issues, where certain areas have different crime rates and shooting rates, and it's possible for the overall trend to be magnified OR reversed in every jurisdiction. And of course the fact that counting crimes does not count criminals, since one person can victimize multiple people. And not all violent crimes are the same.
"Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny! Free men pull in all sorts of directions" -- Havelock Vetinari
Unfortunately the facts do not back up the drivel you just leaked from your penis.
Red Pill is used by the "Manosphere" as well as quite a few other online communities to indicate being "woke" to some issue or another.
MRAs are not really interchangeable with the tag "alt-right" though there may be some overlap in some areas, as with any set of groups.
I'm not sure Persson identifies with either of these groups. Both encompass a wide variety of views, some of which are pretty objectionable. It seems the terms are often used as smears to shut down conversation, or to marginalize opinions a writer does not agree with.
Hahaha the life of a man. Your words mean nothing to a true man, because you are nothing. A real man creates. Everyone else, buys, borrows, steals and imitates. Notch, as a real man, who uses his very will to create, has not a single reason to even listen to someone as below him as you.
They already get this "not get killed by the police" thing better than white people. Police disproportionately kill white people as compared to black people.
They also ask for reparations.
They also ask for segregation.
They ask for many things.
The police gun down whoever's in the way. Its not a racial thing
And yet somehow you're far more likely to be gunned down as a black man than as a white man for a 100% identical interaction with police.
He exploited children by selling them a shitty video game. What a man!
No, we most certainly can't all agree with that. The vast majority of cops are decent people just trying to do their jobs. Every day they have to deal with some of the shittiest human beings on the planet, so that the rest of us don't have to. And most of them--despite getting regularly beaten, spit on, attacked, screamed at, and threatened by said shitty human beings--will never murder anyone in their entire careers.
You try being a cop for a while and see if YOU can maintain that level of professionalism, loudmouth. It's always easy to play armchair quarterback on every police shooting when you're not the one having to go out there and put YOUR life on the line every single day, isn't it?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The weird thing about these sorts of discussions is that you'd think poor white people would hear about black problems with the police and demand the police get it together. Instead they call blacks a bunch of whiney crybabies... like it's perfectly reasonable to get shit on by the cops. DURR THE COPS BEAT ME UP TOO COME ON TYRONE
Oddly I don't see this attitude from white people on COPS or in court.
Only a AC would site vox like it's some sort of real information site.
https://babylonbee.com/news/en...
The real problem is that the vast majority then cover up for the murderers, every single time.
The appropriate population to use as potential police shooting victims is "people that interact with police", rather than all people of a certain skin color.
Unfortunately, that number is difficult to track. You can estimate it by counting citations, arrests, and detainments, but that still isn't 100% of all populace/police interactions.
In the US, there are 800,000 police (or so).
There are roughly 1,000,000,000 police interactions per year (arrests, citations, documented detainments, etc).
Of these interactions, about 60% are with whites, 30% blacks, and the last 10% is mostly Hispanics with a dose of 'other'.
Blacks make up 12% of the general population - so you can see that they get involved with police at roughly 2.5 times their per capita rate. White makes up about 75% of the general population, and thus interact with police at roughly a 0.8 per capita rate.
If blacks were shot by police at a purely equal rate to whites during police interactions, then we'd expect to so 2.5/0.8 = 3.125 or over 3 times as many blacks shot as whites shot per capita.
Yeah, that is why when I try to find supporting evidence for a polarizing point, I try to find a source from "the other side," so if I am saying gun violence is decreasing, I'd site Vox, or at least CNN, WaPo, etc. If I am trying to show that greenhouse gasses track with global temperature, I'll try to site Fox, etc.
He exploited children? Do you even listen to yourself? I think you might seriously have a chemical imbalance. See a doctor.
Yeah, you could also just read the article and validate for yourself that the data came from the FBI. But, I'm pretty sure you're so committed to your racism and boot licking no amount of data would matter to you and you don't have time to look into the sins of your team.
Maybe somebody should contact Missing Perssons.
Even if they aren't murdering people, they're still treating us all like cattle to be milked for traffic fines.
And there's no accountability most of the time when police mistreat non-police.
The us vs. them mentality towards non-police needs to end if police want to be supported by the public in the future. Go back to "protect and serve" the public. Protecting and serving police interests only isn't going to work out in the future.
I'm heart broken it wasn't a Son of the Beach Reference this whole time.
Kimberlee Clark: Notch, you think there's a connection?
Notch Johnson: No, but there may be a link.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Bought by a Jew.
Fuck you.
I just needed to log on to say THANK YOU, that is an amazing set of statistics you put together. To see those numbers spelled out for two races, and see that the police shooting rate is the same makes me happy. Of course it'd be nice if the police shooting rate was zero, but maybe we don't have to have race riots if everyone realized that we're being shot at the same rate by the police.
Unfortunately, circumcision takes off 3 inches.
Per-encounter black american men are less likely to be shot. They happen to have far more encounters. Goes with the group being 6% of the population and committing 51% of the murders, 60% of the rapes, and 78% of the assaults. Not to say group membership is sufficient for judgement, but a pro-Trump advertisement paid for by a Russian company is more suspicious isn't it?
I think if you re-read the GP post carefully, you will find that he knows that already.
110813! is fairly innocuous. That it happens to reference a wedding anniversary shouldn't threaten MS's ownership claims.
I give. I can't keep up. Wtf is sex positive?
And yet he IS the creator. He did CREATE it.
Killing and hating Jews is like hating yourself.
So youre saying theyre acting like jews?
Yes, yes, youâ(TM)re proud of not reading, so thatâ(TM)s why you make up false attacks even as you proclaim youâ(TM)re not making an apologia for Trump even as you do. Says a bit about how partisan you really are. More than a bit.
Much like the unread Mueller Report, which is still unseen except by the Trump loyalist who doesnâ(TM)t even see fit to challenge a sitting President. Of his own party. But did he really write 300 pages of bloviation?
Face it, youâ(TM)re bitching so hard because not everybody is fooled by your smoke blowing dance.
Remember the original claim, that Trump and Brexit got 50% support?
Still wrong, and yet instead of admitting it, you saw fit to defend all the nonsense of the Electoral College. As if it wasnâ(TM)t anything other than a flawed system that is widely derided. You acted like it was based on the outcome this year. The thing is, some of us are on record as opposing it before the year 2000. Not just Trump, but unlike him, we arenâ(TM)t calling for a revolution just because weâ(TM)re upset over early night returns. We know it is a joke on the whole country.
And beyond that, we actually have documented failings on the part of Trump. By his own standards he should resign.
Or at least lose his security clearance. Or his son-in-lawâ(TM)s.
We have technology today. It is your right to film a police officer in public while he is doing his job. If the police are doing something wrong, then prove it your technology.
> we have the mark of kings
Is that what youâ(TM)re calling your noses now?
Shut up, niggah. You should be taken your broadband welfare.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
Happens all the time. Someone has proof the police did something wrong, nothing happens. Zero accountability most of the time.
White person. From a poor neighborhood. Everybody gets shit on by cops in our neighborhoods, its really a fucked up situation. What we don't need is the rich sheltered assholes pissing the cops off more in their off times because they just treat us all worse. But I wouldn't expect many from slashdot to understand.
Sorry, but facts don't care about your feelings. All the data shows that crime isn't a factor of race, it is a factor of socioeconomic strata. Since black people are generally shit upon by white people, they are more likely to be in poverty. White man gets wrongfully gunned down, the family sues and typically gets a few million while the officer is fired in disgrace. A black man gets wrongfully gunned down, and the media demonizes him, praises the bravery of the police officer who was "fearing for his life" because a teenager had a candy bar, the family gets death threats even when they try to avoid media exposure, and to boot the cop often gets a few years paid vacation (aka suspension with pay). This is the scenario 99.9% of the time according to the data.
You will have to bring data to sway minds of intelligent people. Unfortunately you have no data to support your position.