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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.
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.
Presumably they've just decided that referencing Notch any more than they are legally-obligated to will bring them more problems than benefits.
So, yeah, CYA mode.
There are going to be a lot of people saying that Microsoft are "pandering to snowflakes" (or whatever the current jargon is) but any time a company "takes a step for more inclusivity" or the like it's only ever been about optics.
They've never really cared about anyone's cause—save their own.
Oh please STFU - Notch is no more a white supremacist than Barack Obama was a Black Supremacist, whether you realize it or not. And while we're on the subject, communism and socialism has been used, consistently, to get morons like yourself to vote against their own best interests by promising you a life free from work and worry and then enslaving you. You may have seen some examples of this - like, everywhere it's been tried (oh and it's ALWAYS instituted by the ruling class to do a totalitarian power grab - like Bernie Sanders who lives the poor life like he preaches... right?)
'little shit'= having a different opinion than me.
in white supremacist rhetoric and memes
Totalitarians like to proclaim guilt-by-association, just like that. Regardless of truth, they proclaim guilt. And if anyone questions them for proclaiming guilt, that makes the questioner guilty too.
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.
I love Minecraft but Why is this even news??
Because it's part of a wider and very worrying trend of tech companies deciding to expunge people from the record for wrongthink.
Because it's part of a wider and very worrying trend of tech companies deciding to expunge people from the record
Oh buddy do I have news for you. None of this is new. Like not even this century new. Companies just vanishing you from all code is pretty par at least since I've been programming (~ late 70s).
wrongthink
Have you read some of his tweets? I mean it's not really important, but have you read some of his tweets? I could maybe understand if he's apologetic about some of them, but nah, he seems totally fine with some choice racial slurs. That being said, he's totally free to say what he wants but Microsoft is free to do whatever they want with the code they bought from him for ~$1B. Do remember he sold his company lock, stock, and barrel to Microsoft so, I think that kind of entitles them to vanish his ass if they so wish it. I think they were leaving it in just to be nice, but ya know, push come to shove. Either way, dude got his money and ran. Now he's on Twitter whining about "injustice". Maybe he's making a pitch to be noticed again? Maybe not. I won't pretend to know what his motives are or if he's truly lost his ever loving mind from all the money (because he does bring up the fact that he's a billionaire quite often on Twitter). It's Microsoft's code, Notch can kick rocks and go say whatever he wants to say. Microsoft still gets to do whatever they want with their code. That's what it means when you completely sell out.
Seems unremarkable to me. What secifically are you referring to?
SJW n. One who posts facts.
You use the word "wrongthink" like you've read Orwell but, if you have, you've clearly got no fucking idea what he was on about.
1984 is scary because the party is controlling everything you do and changing society so that you can't think any other way.
This is a company ditching an association with someone they don't think fits their brand.
No-one is controlling what Notch is doing. He *literally* sold his right to control what happens to Minecraft.
It's kind of the opposite of what you're suggesting. Everyone involved in this story is exercising their freedom. Notch is still free to say whatever it is he says on Twitter (I don't follow him so I've no idea what it is). MS is still free to say (or not to say) whatever it wants on its software.
You're implying it's not okay to be white. That makes you a racist.
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 dont think its about expunging.
Minecraft was sold in 2014, so that is 5 years ago. The continued references to Notch as "The Creator" is more and more offensive to the TEAM behind Minecraft today. Notch was responsible for the early days of Minecraft, but we are approaching the break-even point between Notch's cumulative time and the Mojang team's cumulative time.
It's an appropriate point to begin to define Notch's contributions appropriately in context of the total time of Minecrafts existence.
Wrongthink is exactly the right term.
We should ask ourselves:
Is there any evidence Notch mistreated anyone based on their membership in a 'protected status' group? Any evidence at all? Who was mistreated? What was the date and time? What action did Notch take against this person? What indicates his motive in this incident?
Do any of the people complaining about Notch answer any of these questions?
Should someone who didn’t do anything to hurt anyone be considered guilty?
Notch brought joy to like half a billion people. What did Notch's detractors ever do for anyone?
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 real problem is that the vast majority then cover up for the murderers, every single time.
Why is that relevant. Do we give passes on behavior ...
What behavior, specifically, are you talking about? What was the date and time of this behavior? How many people were injured?
Details please. Because if this is just general totalitarian bitching about someone taking offense instead of being cool, then you're damn right Notch should "get a pass" for someone's (opportunistically) hurt feelings for all the millions of people's lives he made a little bit better.