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...

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Considering he turned out to be an alt-right wacko

[Anonymous Coward]

Good riddance. Go count your money with Palmer Lucky on has-been island.

Re: Well...

[phlinn]

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
. 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 .00043
584 + 574 = 1158 whites, rate is .00045

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.

Re: RedPill

[Anonymous Coward]

It didn't happen. Trump got less than one quarter of the US population (around 60 million out of 330+ million US population and about half that voters) and Brexit got under 20 million out of around 45 million potential voters.

There's a reason why Trump loves the farce of the Electoral College and why May can't deliver an acceptable negotiation with the EU.

Re:RedPill

[lgw]

OK, WTF Slashdot - the politics has gotten nuts. This needs to stop.

The statement "some feminists are sex-negative", true or false, is not trolling.

There is no fucking mod choice on Slashdot for "fact that, if true, makes my political position look bad". OK, I lie, there is: the "Interesting" mod.

If we don't stop this modding-by-politics shit, we will become Digg. And, dammit, we're better than that.