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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...
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.
a broader call for working class unity.
That is an aryan brotherhood meme, whether you realize it or not.
The "Southern Strategy" is a typical Democrat myth - as even the New York Times admits.
Just look at the fact that the South continued to be run by Democrats for almost 40 years after your supposed switch by racist voters. It must have been one hell of a strategy if it took more than an entire generation to work...
That article was discussing another publication which called it a myth. The NYTimes itself did not call it a myth.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
Anyone able to translate for people who're not interested enough to understand jargon nor follow the life of some game creator?
Notch has some incredibly stupid personal ideas about society, backed up by reading a subforum on reddit that is filled with shitty people and creating an echo chamber of "I deserve to get laid by women" instead of treating women like normal human beings. This shitty thinking extends to white nationalism as well, because SURPRISE: most of them are sheltered white young males with little to no empathy, claiming there is a conspiracy against white people and they have to get ready for an upcoming race war.
They use The Matrix as a way to show that they are informed of the "real world" and believe these shitty ideas, aka taking the red pill and seeing how deep the rabbit hole goes.
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
Uhm, there are millions of Africans moving to India.
You probably don't think the surrounding countries took the largest wave of the Syrian refugee crisis either.
As for the "Africans" in the US they didn't exactly go there by choice.
White people "invited" them forcefully.
Actually there are different kinds of MGTOW, some of whom do have relations with women.
Modern feminism is sex-positive, you are thinking of one radical feminist who didn't actually think men and women should stop having sex, decades ago.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Do you know what TERF stands or? The "R" is for "radical", as in not part of the mainstream movement.
Of course not all feminists are sex-positive, which is how it should be. It's not a church, it's a body of work and a philosophy that many choose to follow and of course there will be a diverse range of views in it.
That doesn't make your statement any less false though.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Red Pill is a term used by the "Manosphere" ("MRAs", Incels, etc) to describe their version of the world, which is a reference to an old, classic, movie from decades ago called The Matrix whereby the hero takes a "red pill" and suddenly finds out that the world is fake. MRAs believe that there's no sexism against women, and in fact women secretly rule the world, something in conflict with the view most people have of the world.
Basically the GP is saying that Notch is a bit of an MRA/alt-righter these days, which is more or less correct.
Microsoft, being a corporate entity that doesn't want the secret conspiracy of Hispanic Black Jewish Muslim One-legged Lesbians that really runs the world to close them down (or alternatively doesn't want people in general to think they have polarizing political views) is putting some distance between them and Notch with this change. And that's fine, Notch knew that he was losing creative control of Minecraft when he sold it, and knows that Microsoft is unlikely to want to associate with him if he posts "unpopular" political comments all the time.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
You are trying that fake news bullshit about Feminism and Radical Feminism being two different things after the Boghossian Exposure? When the academia fueling the entire movement is radical, the movement at its core is. Especially when nobody does jack shit to fix the academia and it keeps getting worse, that shows the trend is stupidity rather than rationality, one which can only be enabled by everyone being radical as opposed to a minority. Cat's out of the bag.
What you mean to say is that Egalitarianism is sex-positive, because Feminism is the radical stupid identitarian branch of Egalitarianism which had over 20 years to regulate itself and make itself rational and instead becomes worse and worse each year corrupting even Academia. Even antisemitism spread within it, and it keeps spreading.
Translation: He had the temerity to actually publicly admit that he voted for Donald Trump instead of Her Divine Holiness, which makes him racist-sexist-homophobic-puppie-kicking-worse-than-Hitler.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.