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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...
This is my favorite tweet:
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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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little shit=âtelling people of color white people matter' when all they are asking for is to not get killed by the police
Microsoft not wanting to be associated with outspoken nazis, the horror!
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.
Now that's simply untrue. The fact is there's a great schism in modern feminism between sex-positive and sex-negative. The biggest rift of course is the ejection of the TERFs from progressive circles, but after that is the sex-positive / sex-negative divide.
Feminism has always had its radical lesbians, who think women should stop having sex with men, but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about finger-wagging moral scolds who infected feminism around the turn of the millennia, bringing a Victorian ant-sex, anti-porn, anti-everything ethos we used to associate only with the religious right.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Only if you think opposing racism and sexism is bad... And by the way you say "I presume" it kinda sounds like you do.
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