Minecraft Creator Markus 'Notch' Persson Eradicated From Splash Text (arstechnica.com)

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Minecraft Creator Markus 'Notch' Persson Eradicated From Splash Text (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:30PM from the gone-in-the-blink-of-an-eye dept.

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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RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 15:38 · Score: 3, Insightful

Microsoft doesn't want to continue to weather the based red-pilled notch in a predominantly blue-pilled society any longer.
1. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 16:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Microsoft doesn't want to continue to weather the based red-pilled notch in a predominantly blue-pilled society any longer.
  This is actually very insightful and the moderator who marked you down is either an ideological zealot, or not seeing what is really happening.
2. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 19:17 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Language is such a flexible construct. It allows us to read this, to know what you meant when you wrote it and at the same time to understand: "Microsoft doesn't want to be associated with that whining neo-nazi sympathizing little bitch". What a fantastic tool!
3. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 19:43 · Score: 0
  
  Neo-nazi doesn't really describe all of it.
  While the two frequently overlap you also get a whole bunch of MRA nuggets and other deplorable stuff from Notch.
  "Red-pill" covers pretty much all of the degeneracy.
4. Re:RedPill by jawtheshark · 2019-03-28 20:45 · Score: 2
  
  predominantly blue-pilled society
  ... but is that actually so? Talk to people privately, talk to them behind closed doors and see what they really think. You'll be surprised.
  It is not because the media tells us that "blue pill" is the right way, that the average person actually swallows it.
  
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  Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
5. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 20:52 · Score: -1
  
  You people fucking believe this stuff. It'd be funny if it wasn't so fucking pathetic.
6. Re:RedPill by Opportunist · 2019-03-28 21:12 · Score: 1
  
  Anyone able to translate for people who're not interested enough to understand jargon nor follow the life of some game creator?
  
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  We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
7. Re:RedPill by GrandCow · 2019-03-28 21:27 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  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.
  
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8. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 21:35 · Score: 0
  
  So you are now saying that MGTOW movement and people who takes part of MGTOW are "degeneracies" ?
9. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 21:39 · Score: 0
  
  A whole rapey subculture based on misunderstanding the entertaining film The Matrix... sign me up :(
10. Re: RedPill by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2019-03-28 21:42 · Score: 0
  
  Of course, they're not proper Chads. /s
  
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  Ezekiel 23:20
11. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 21:51 · Score: 0
  
  Matrix reference yes, but I'm thinking the colors map to the red vs. blue in US politics.
12. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:04 · Score: 0
  
  Yes, because it's not as if white countries, and only white countries, are being flooded with millions of non-white immigrants every year, and it's not as if white people DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE ELSE TO GO, to simply get away from non-whites and have their own countries any more, and it's not as if white people are going to become minorities in their own countries, while all the non-whites who have caused this STILL HAVE THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.
  Why aren't millions of Africans moving to India and China every year, and vice versa? Not enough white people there for them?
13. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:15 · Score: 0
  
  No, that is not what I am saying at all.
  You know very well that MGTOW is much saner than the things you will find if you start looking at red-pillers.
14. Re:RedPill by Cederic · 2019-03-28 22:21 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Yeah, MGTOW are totally into.. wait, it's in their name. They're into not raping women, even by modern feminist doctrine that all sex is rape.
  What misogynists, denying basic participation in rape culture to women.
15. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:21 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  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.
16. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:23 · Score: 0
  
  No they reference The Matrix.
17. Re:RedPill by Cederic · 2019-03-28 22:26 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Marcus has such extreme financial security that he no longer needs to worry about whether he upsets people.
  This means that he speaks his mind openly and his views transgress the politically correct viewpoints expected of public figures on social media.
  Notably he calls out what he perceives to be silliness and lies when people attack the industry he's helped shape on the topics such as sexism, racism, professional ethics or daring to actually suggest that certain business practices are damaging to customers.
  That upsets the echo chambers.
18. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:33 · Score: 1
  
  I don't participate in these forums so cannot comment on that but wiki has an article on him where it says that he was criticized for statements like: 'it is ok to be white' and support for 'heterosexual pride day. All things that show his white privilege. Come to think of it he is probably guilty of many other thought crimes. You should just go on with this nonsense and see where it all gets us. Let us hope the marxists so prevalent in modern academia and media will not cause massive slaughter typical of this ideology. As for pills you take - I am not sure how relevant that is here. Go to a doctor to find out if you take proper one.
19. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 23:32 · Score: 0
  
  African - Chinese interaction is robust and viewed as a threat to American hegemony.
20. Re:RedPill by Cmdln+Daco · 2019-03-28 23:46 · Score: 1
  
  The red/blue mapping the media uses in US politics used to be switched regularly, because the colors themselves are meaningless.
  Whoops, the colors are meaningless either way. It's Goldman Sachs versus Free Market capitalism.
21. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 23:59 · Score: -1
  
  in a predominantly blue-pilled society any longer.
  - metoo movement's results are that interest in sexual abuse has dropped among males to 1998 levels while female stats barely budged
  - SJW identitarian retards pushing the New Green Deal had the labor unions give them a middle finger. Labor Unions, representing 80% of society aka the mid-level economy and low-level economy aka the working class majority.
  - SJW media publications, NYT, Vox, GAWKER dogshit, CNN, MSNBC, all having their trust levels dropping to levels beneath the Congress as a first in history, and that was before the Mueller report.
  - Population statistics showing up that only 1% of the population deems situation with Russia relevant, despite all the Russia whining by SJW babies.
  - Various stats showing that the newest generations are increasingly distanced from identitarian left idiocy, because who would have thunk it that waging war on children's hobbies and children as Feminism did with video games would also distance the younger generation which is going to replace you in the future with consequences.
  - Retarded SJWs declaring Joe Rogan far-right and therefore losing support from millions of his followers who are pot smoking centrists and moderate liberals who are just facepalming at the stupidity.
  General society is showing that enough is enough with SJW idiocy. The only "blue-pill" is the 1% of the upper class scammers such as Jim Jefferies or Rowling or Jussie Shitlett who act all SJW but are frauds and dogshit, and because they get spotlight or their businesses have monopolies it falsely projects as a representation of general society when it actually doesn't, as elections showcase.
22. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:22 · Score: 0
  
  MRA has like one noble purpose: to extend fairness in custody cases to male parents. Unfortunately, they also include a bunch of other nutjob ideas amongst their members. Bitter male divourcees get pulled further into misogyny by other whackjobs in the group.
  A parallel can be made with the NRA. I support the 2nd Amendment as much as the rest of the bill of Rights, but I don't support the other political crap the group does. I wish the ACLU would take up the 2nd Amendment cause and then the NRA could just die in fire, but that would require the left AND right to unfuck themselves for a minute.
23. Re:RedPill by AmiMoJo · 2019-03-29 00:36 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  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.
  
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  const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
  SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
24. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:39 · Score: 0
  
  Here is your Red Pill
  'Free Market Capitalism' is not an 'American invention' nor is it not the system under which we have thrived. We live in a market that is generally regulated for fairness, honestly and safety and this has made all the difference. A man from ancient Rome where 'Caveat emptor' was the only market rule would have recognized Colonial America, but not so much today. I would argue that it is because of well regulated markets who's protections encourage both innovation and safer adaption.
  The GOP only talks about the 'Free Market' as a slogan.
25. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:40 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Imagine if more than 50% believed it
  That would be crazy, you would end up with Trump as prez and Brexit in Europe
  That could never happen...
26. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 01:33 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  What he says is bog standard right wing PC & right wing SJW language.
27. Re:RedPill by lgw · 2019-03-29 01:34 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  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.
28. Re:RedPill by AmiMoJo · 2019-03-29 01:39 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  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
29. Re:RedPill by squiggleslash · 2019-03-29 01:39 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  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.
  
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  You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
30. Re:RedPill by GameboyRMH · 2019-03-29 01:40 · Score: 2
  
  Notch has deplorable views, MS wants to minimize its association with said views.
  https://www.dailydot.com/irl/m...
  HTH
  
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  "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
31. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 01:41 · Score: 0, Informative
  
  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.
32. Re:RedPill by jythie · 2019-03-29 01:43 · Score: 1
  
  yet when you got into MGTOW spaces, pretty much all they talk about is women and how much they want sex. MGTOW only ever seem to complain about women daring to exist in their world for anything other than sex.
33. Re:RedPill by jythie · 2019-03-29 01:45 · Score: 2
  
  Eh, I would not really call that a modern infection, but an old slowly dieing one. The sex negative branch of feminism has bit by bit fading and has been for decades. It just keeps getting more and more focus by anti-feminists. But within feminism it is next to extinct.
34. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 01:57 · Score: 0
  
  All male feminists are rapists.
35. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:00 · Score: 1
  
  Then you sex-positive feminazis should work hard to deplatform the VERY vocal sex-negative feminazis. They're giving you a bad (even worse, that is) reputation.
36. Re:RedPill by elrous0 · 2019-03-29 02:19 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Do you know what TERF stands or? The "R" is for "radical", as in not part of the mainstream movement.
  I would hardly call Martina Navratilova a "radical." Until about 5 minutes ago, she was considered a popular mainstream lesbian, a moderate feminist, and a darling of the LGBTQ community. Now suddenly, she's being called a Nazi-transphobe "radical" for daring to suggest that boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.
  
  --
  SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
37. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:26 · Score: 0
  
  I would say that the issue that most brings me in line with MRAs is male genital mutilation. That is also a key issue for MRAs as it should be.
38. Re:RedPill by elrous0 · 2019-03-29 02:31 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Anyone able to translate for people who're not interested enough to understand jargon nor follow the life of some game creator?
  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.
  
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  SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
39. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:31 · Score: 0
  
  My house is a MGTOW space and that never happens. We play darts, smoke pot, talk about all sorts of shit. Yes, if you go to a web forum about MGTOW, thatâ(TM)s what people will be talking about. Itâ(TM)s a forum with a topic, so thatâ(TM)s basically true by definition. I went through my angsty phase doing that shit on /r/MGTOW after my divorce. Itâ(TM)s a useful thing for men going through that transition. But thatâ(TM)s not all MGTOWs are about.
40. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:36 · Score: 0, Interesting
  
  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.
41. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:44 · Score: 0
  
  Or he has such extreme financial status that he no longer feels a need to be accountable or responsible so he lets whatever fermented delusional views fester in his head loose without thinking.
  Notably, his own silliness is lauded by people who think that success necessitates a great deal of profound wisdom to his words and acts.
  This reminds me of the Narn custom of reproducing their Holy Books with full authentic replication. Including Garibaldi's coffee ring.
42. Re:RedPill by elrous0 · 2019-03-29 02:46 · Score: 1
  
  Oh yeah, the Chinese are famous for their love of Africans.
  
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  SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
43. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:50 · Score: 0
  
  You might be confusing incel spaces with mgtow spaces. There's overlap to be sure, but they're distinct.
44. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:05 · Score: -1
  
  Drink! Amimojo pulls a GamerGate defense! This is the "Oh you can't dismiss all of GG just because a few unconfirmed people might* have harassed some women!" response that I'm sure Amimojo received plenty of times back when he's going around telling everyone we shouldn't believe GG as the brand name was tainted by radicals.
  *nobody on GG side was ever caught AFAIK, and we had the FBI look. Can't say the same for anti-GGers being caught actually being sexist scumbags themselves...
45. Re:RedPill by AmiMoJo · 2019-03-29 03:05 · Score: 1
  
  Always bringing Nazis into it...
  
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  const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
  SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
46. Re:RedPill by elrous0 · 2019-03-29 03:10 · Score: 1
  
  Always bringing Nazis into it...
  LOL, it's your side who goes there, not us.
  
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  SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
47. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:14 · Score: -1
  
  Drink! Amimojo pulls from alt-right playbook! This one's where he switches topics and trying to control the conversation.
48. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:20 · Score: 0
  
  There is a pretty big overlap between MGTOW and incels.
  It is kind of funny how men "going their own way" can absolutely not stop talking about women.
49. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:31 · Score: 0
  
  You mean circumcision?
50. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:48 · Score: 0
  
  I see you aren't familiar with what PC and SJW mean.
  Though it is good to see we've really hit a nerve when you're trying to spin them as right wing institutions. But now, we won't own that one, those toxic shit piles are the lefts own creation, they have to deal with them.
51. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:51 · Score: 0
  
  Nazis
  That word, I don't think it means what you think it does. It actually refers to national socialists, not "people I disagree with". The national socialists called for the eradication of certain races, pushed eugenics and some other horrible stuff. People you disagree with very often have very rational views and just simply disagree with you.
52. Re:RedPill by Opportunist · 2019-03-29 03:59 · Score: 1
  
  So ... just the usual internet kindergarden bickering. Gotcha.
  
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  We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
53. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:00 · Score: 0
  
  You mean mutilation?
54. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:08 · Score: 0
  
  > doesn't want the secret conspiracy of Hispanic Black Jewish Muslim One-legged Lesbians that really runs the world to close them down
  But they still own the game with a black character which can't swim, loses it's shit when you look at it, and steal stuff, a green big headed thing that suicide bomb itself into your things, and the big nosed people being the only marchants, who are completely inconsistent in their pricing, and always ripping you off?
  XD
55. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:12 · Score: 0
  
  Trump won playing the rules of the game before both players played it. Brexit passed playing by the rules of the game before the game was played. Only lil bitches cry about the rules of the games they play AFTER they lose.
56. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:18 · Score: 0
  
  White people forced them and so did their own kinsman that sold them to white people in the first place. Slavery is fucked up but nearly every race has had it in some form throughout history. Let's just be better.
57. Re:RedPill by AmiMoJo · 2019-03-29 04:25 · Score: 1
  
  I dunno, it sure does seem like you are the one bringing it up most of the time, along with the "straight white male" trope that's in your signature right now. You seem kinda obsessed.
  
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  const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
  SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
58. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:32 · Score: 0
  
  White people "invited" them forcefully? White British people may have made money off of the slave trade but Africans were mostly enslaved as a result of lost African conflicts with other superior African civilizations.
  Here is a red pill for you:
  More black slaves exist today in Africa than existed at one time in America.
  The irony:
  People like you complain about the persecution of black Americans decades ago using fancy iPhones and laptops (whos batteries) are manufactured by blacks in Africa that are slaves today.
  More irony:
  When a white man shoots up Muslims in NZ its global outrage. American presidents (black and white) send American smart bombs to Saudis to bomb school buses of Muslim children in Yemen and little virtue signaling pricks like you vote for them again election after election.
59. Re:RedPill by lgw · 2019-03-29 05:15 · Score: 1
  
  Do you know what TERF stands or? The "R" is for "radical", as in not part of the mainstream movement.
  You know the term itself is new, and derogatory, right? It's what they got called when they were thrown out. As I said, they are no longer part of the mainstream movement because they were thrown out. Their views were perfectly mainstream 10 years ago.
  
  Of course not all feminists are sex-positive, which is how it should be. It's not a church,
  
  You do know that most churches are sex-positive, right? Just "within marriage". Which is how it should be, it's not like a church is a progressive movement where no disagreement is tolerated.
  
  That doesn't make your statement any less false though.
  What statement? That there are sex-negative feminists? Who condemn pornography, sex workers, and all that sort of thing? Of course there are. Or did you mean something else?
  
  --
  Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
60. Re:RedPill by lgw · 2019-03-29 05:18 · Score: 1
  
  Drink! Amimojo pulls from alt-right playbook! This one's where he switches topics and trying to control the conversation.
  Dude. C'mon. Even on Slashdot there have to be limits. You can't go around encouraging people to play the Amimojo drinking game - people will die of alcohol poisoning!
  
  --
  Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
61. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 05:31 · Score: 0
  
  Wait. Are you guys actual whatdoyacallem, "Incels"?
  Wow. Wait while I get a camera.
  "Hey Steve! These guys over here are those fucktard incel asswipes. Wanna throw garbage at 'em?"
62. Re:RedPill by elrous0 · 2019-03-29 05:31 · Score: 0
  
  Oh yes, it's the Right that's obsessed with race and gender.
  
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  SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
63. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 05:35 · Score: 0
  
  Yes, yes it is. It was the right's obsession with sex and gender that started the reaction against it (which is what feminism and anti-racism are both examples of.)
  If the right wasn't saying "I don't want to employ this person, she's black, and female, and gay, and has one leg, and as such not my kind of person" we wouldn't have a problem.
64. Re:RedPill by elrous0 · 2019-03-29 05:40 · Score: 0
  
  So two wrongs make a right, I presume?
  
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  SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
65. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 05:41 · Score: 0
  
  Corporate Progressive feminazis sure do hate heterosexual love.
66. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 05:47 · Score: 1
  
  Non-chinese are always and forever second class citizens in China.
  We Americans are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your genetic and cultural distinctiveness will be added to our own.
  We are not perfect. But we sure as fuck don't care what color you are or where your parents were born.
  Come, be one of us. Be an American. But you can't go back, you're an American now. Welcome!
67. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 05:56 · Score: 0
  
  No, YOU brought Natzi's into it.
68. Re:RedPill by AmiMoJo · 2019-03-29 06:02 · Score: 1, Troll
  
  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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  const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
  SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
69. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 06:15 · Score: 0
  
  Yes, the Electoral College was something Trump vocally hitched about, decrying its existence and calling for revolution, then like a little bitch, he cried about how he didn't even actually lose the popular vote because of the alleged existence of so many millions of votes that the entire election of all federal offices would be suspect.
  Hence his failed voting commission, but like all Trump endeavors, the worst possible person was in charge of it, and he failed almost immediately.
  Of course, the fact is, a large number of Americans are on record as rejecting the failure that is the Electoral College which despite its defenders claims does not endure small state representation at all, but merely adds an arcane system which discredits the process.
  Then we have Brexit, which had, in fact, no binding authority to it, being a stunt of an opinion poll by David Cameron, who hoped he wouldn't have to act on it, but wasted tens of millions of pounds as a sop to his more feckless members he wanted to shut up.
  That's why he passed a law for the ballot measure with no legal binding authority or declarative intent. He wanted to be able to say he tried, the public said no, and do nothing.
  But then through a fluke, possibly instigated by Russian interference, it came up to bite him, and he resigned so an ambitiously amoral could take over and all she wanted to do was declare a Brexit without even allowing Parliament to have its say.
  That is why it has been a train wreck. There is no overwhelming popular support for the consequences, no legislative impetus, just a few miserable miscreants who want something but can't really sell it.
70. Re:RedPill by serviscope_minor · 2019-03-29 06:20 · Score: 2
  
  Nah just the double standards I'd expect from you.
  Any non trivial group will have an extremist. You don't like feminists so you essentially paint the extremists as representatives of the whole. But you identify as right wing yet you don't paint the extremists as representative of you.
  Just another blowhard with double standards.
  What you'll most likely do now is excuse me of something random (because SJW or some such nonsense) and then utterly fall to present any evidence for it.
  
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  SJW n. One who posts facts.
71. Re:RedPill by serviscope_minor · 2019-03-29 06:26 · Score: 2
  
  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.
  The ironic thing is that a big part of it is that the identity forced on you by your surroundings is fake and instead identity comes from within. This is the compete antithesis of what red pillers seem to believe.
  Re watching the matrix 15 years later knowing the directors are both trans made some of the themes that were always there a lot more obvious.
  
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  SJW n. One who posts facts.
72. Re:RedPill by serviscope_minor · 2019-03-29 06:29 · Score: 1
  
  Your guy won the election. Why are you so incredibly sore about it?
  
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  SJW n. One who posts facts.
73. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 06:41 · Score: 1
  
  MRAs believe that there's no sexism against women
  Some do. Most don't.
  
  and in fact women secretly rule the world
  Of course they do. Most of what men do is for women. Look at how celibate bachelors live compared to the general population. Look at how single women live. Now look at how both of them live together. It is women that get their way, not men.
  In the modern words of some of the greatest contemporary western sophists "Life ain't nothing but bitches and money." Even the most misogynist bastards of N.W.A admit that all they do is for women or to acquire the means to get women.
  Most modern male movements are equivalent to "Yeah, feminism worked out pretty well for women. How about we try that too and start taking care of ourselves first?" Naturally people who benefit from the status quo must brand them as the modern equivalent of witches to be burned.
74. Re: RedPill by kaatochacha · 2019-03-29 07:11 · Score: 0
  
  The ACLU of today doesn't really care about civil rights, other than those rights they support.
  Remember that whole " we protected their right to march as nazis in Skokie because first amendment"? Today's ACLU would be bringing legal challenger against that march.
75. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:15 · Score: 1
  
  I must be old, because I have absolutely no idea what this conversation is about. Now I know what regular folks feel like when I start rattling off tech acronyms.
76. Re:RedPill by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · 2019-03-29 07:19 · Score: 2
  
  He had the temerity to actually publicly admit that he voted for Donald Trump
  I hope he didn't. He's not a US citizen.
  
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77. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:21 · Score: 0
  
  They know it's illegitimate so they must constantly justify it.
78. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:25 · Score: 0
  
  FWIW Brexit got 37.4% of registered voters, with an estimated 5% of eligible voters not actually registered.
79. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:49 · Score: 0
  
  Re watching the matrix 15 years later knowing the directors are both trans made some of the themes that were always there a lot more obvious.
  "Your appearance now is what we call residual self image. In time, your penis and testicles will shrink away to nothing, and your breasts will grow."
80. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:53 · Score: -1
  
  So you admit that the left's method of "fighting" racism and sexism is to just pile on more racism and sexism.
81. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:01 · Score: 0
  
  Liberal hates democracy when people don't vote his way.
  Blames Russia
  News at 11
82. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:04 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  Everyone thumping their chests against bigotry tends to be a bigot.
  Trump gets roughly a quarter of Americans to vote for him? AMERICANS want a wall!
  Hillary gets roughly a quarter of Americans to vote for her? AMERICANS want dudes who look like ladies in girls' locker rooms!
  That's just the most obvious bigotry of identity politics.
  Your average American if they even bothered showing up at the polls (nearly half eligible didn't) voted based on party rather than fringe issues.
  Your average gamer doesn't care one way or another if Notch is in splash text or if Final Fantasy won't have bouncing bunny boy cocks.
  Your average American is busy raising a family and figuring out what to make for dinner, not reeeeing over the patriarchy or complaining about child custody.
  Fringe bigots, however, always insist they're the majority - the o my truth there is that they are the majority of screeching whiners.
  But back to the topic at hand: Microsoft is ditching Notch from splash text not because zomg erryone; they're doing it because it will avoid a media screechfest while at the same time... the majority of people don't give a fuck either way.
83. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:06 · Score: 0
  
  Deal with it snowflake. For 8 years all we heard was "show us the birth certificate or impeach"
  Deal with it while your wife gets fuckrd by a big black dick. Cuckboy.
84. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:09 · Score: 0
  
  LOL. Transition.
85. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:10 · Score: 0
  
  This.
86. Re:RedPill by squiggleslash · 2019-03-29 08:14 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  They were like this in 2004 as well. They're always bitching, even when, as they were for 2017-2018, running all three branches of government.
  These are just not nice people, as you can also tell from their attitudes towards family separations. If they're not denying it's happening, or claiming Obama did it too, they're making up excuses and blaming the people fleeing terror.
  
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  You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
87. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:15 · Score: 0
  
  This x1000
88. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:23 · Score: 0
  
  Into the memory hole you go.
89. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:23 · Score: 0
  
  Really, when they actually filed a lawsuit for the opposite last week?
90. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:24 · Score: 0
  
  What the hell is "bog standard right wing PC & right wing SJW language"? Someone surely must know, as this has somehow been modded up Insightful.
91. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 09:11 · Score: 0
  
  What Democracy? You mean Rule by the People? The voice of the people, by the people, for the people? By in both of your examples, the problem has been the detachment from those same people.
  The Electoral College? Defended as some kind of means to prevent a tyranny of some sort, or some incompetent individual from being elected and running roughshod over civil rights. Didn't work, did it.
  Brexit? Not only did Theresa May want to implement it without input from Parliament, she is adamant in demanding they not even consult the public over the issue, but that it be declared, done and final, by her own fiat.
  You see, each of your chosen causes ends up boiling down to some malcontent tyrant wanting their way.
  And yes, both are connected to admitted and declared Russian interference. How does that work? Oh wait, it means another petty despot is involved.
  Why can't Trump even follow his own standards? Why must May have her Brexit? Why do you feign indifference to the new Russia and its corrupt manipulations?
  Answer these riddles.
92. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 09:21 · Score: 0
  
  Nothing I enjoy more than watching feminists eat each other...
93. Re:RedPill by SuricouRaven · 2019-03-29 09:32 · Score: 1
  
  "Punch a commie. The only good commie is the one your fist is connecting with right this second. As soon as you're no longer in contact, they are bad again. Help them be good. " - Notch.
  "How anyone is still on the left now that they're advocating infanticide and claim walls don't work is a mystery to me." - Notch
94. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 09:41 · Score: 0
  
  Incel male feminist nazis sure do hate men who are openly straight.
95. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 09:46 · Score: 0
  
  Their views were perfectly mainstream 10 years ago.
  Their supposed views were the straw womyn that were demonized for the past century and a half by the male power structure that still insists that they are so concerned that the female of the species isn't even capable of logical and rational thought like they are.
96. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 10:03 · Score: 0
  
  That's pretty sad that the business of running your country is just a 'game' now. No wonder you idiots vote against your own best interests time and time again.
97. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 10:11 · Score: 0
  
  Don't care about Brexit because I'm not from the UK. Don't particularly care to defend Trump or his actions nor do I care if you call him names. I only wanted to tell you what everyone else who isn't delusional thinks. That is you are a lil bitch. Your gal didn't win fare an square and your little Mueller report didn't pan out so now you cry like a lil bitch. You write some long post that I didn't completely read as it was probably stupid partisan NPC talking points.
  One point is that lil bitches cry about rules only AFTER the game is played and they lost.
98. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 10:23 · Score: 0
  
  Re watching the matrix 15 years later knowing the directors are both trans made some of the themes that were always there a lot more obvious.
  I wonder what secrets Speed Racer has to tell us about the Wachowski Brothers. But first we would have to find someone who saw it.
99. Re:RedPill by lgw · 2019-03-29 10:23 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  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.
  
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100. Re:RedPill by lgw · 2019-03-29 10:25 · Score: 0
  
  Did you reply to the right post?
  What extremists are you claiming that I painted as representatives of the whole?
  Are you seriously saying that "sex-negative feminists" are extremists? Even amimojo isn't claiming that, and he's nuts.
  
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  Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
101. Re:RedPill by elrous0 · 2019-03-29 11:01 · Score: 1
  
  I'm pretty sure the punch a commie remark was a parody of the Left's infamous "punch a Nazi" meme.
  But I'm going to throw out a radical idea here and advocate that it's not okay to go around punching either one.
  
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  SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
102. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 12:58 · Score: 0
  
  Two Wongs rarely make a white.
103. Re:RedPill by Cederic · 2019-03-29 13:13 · Score: 1
  
  Well, the email I just received tells me that the two posts I made in this discussion this morning have since received 22 moderations between them, split broadly equal. They're both currently sat at +2 Interesting.
  It's an insane level of moderation, especially for two relatively innocuous posts. Oh well.
104. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 13:15 · Score: 0
  
  Im actually shocked there is some bay shit crazy AmiMojo wont say.
105. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 13:17 · Score: 0
  
  He SJWs do not like notch. So they want to sag bad things about him. Good news is notch is rich and does not care.
106. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 14:24 · Score: 0
  
  So the rest of the population are all blue but just stay home because of gerrymandering, voter suppression and racism. Got it. Riiiiight.
  After 2 full years of the presss screaming 24/7 that the potus is a traitor, he has a 50% poll rating. That is across the general population. At his worst moments his polls dropped just below 40%.
  You can blame the electoral college (which protects us from hordes of illegal aliens taking over our elections because we do not have the most basic protections at our polling places that third world nations have), or a bunch of other shit from your echo chamber but the fact remains this is a pretty evenly divided nation and that is even after the extreme media bias. Somehow, roughly half the population sees through it and supports a generally centrist and s]conservative agenda -once they get the facts-.
  AOC is polling at 23% approval right now. Less than half of Trump.
  I am sorry the media lied to you for 2 years and you were naive enough to swallow it all but this is NOT a left wing society. The facts are out there if you were step back a bit from the koolaid stand and actually objectively understand the issues and the facts.
107. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 15:47 · Score: 0
  
  Sure man, after years of screaming about these supposed hordes of illegal voters somehow invalidating the polls, only the myth of the Electoral College keeps them in check.
  Funny how you've never produced evidence of hordes of them voting. Funny how every time the GOP is given a chance to support the electorate, they manage to choose ways to favor their partisan advantage. Funny how Trump is actually polling at 41% and his worst were in the mid 30s. Funny how we actually do have systems of voter security but if somehow we didn't it never occurs to you that all laws passed by the current government would be false.
  Funny how you're in an echo chamber listening to all your favorite rightwing fairytales and swallow them without ever once questioning the dogma you drink from the swill.
  Oh wait, you think it is other people drowning in Koolaid. You are the one with objective and paramount truth. Everybody else is fake news.
  And if everybody just accepted your alternative facts, the world would go swell. Here's a fact, despite 10 years of crying, the GOP still hasn't produced a health care bill. And that is with hundreds of attempts at banning abortion.
  Uh huh. RIIIGHT. Going to increase our Chocolate Ration? Going to tell us there are five lights? Going to tell us that Putin, and Kim Jong and the Saudis are our friends?
108. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 15:56 · Score: 0
  
  Seems you didn't recognize the point being made which was that there are such concepts applicable on both sides of the political spectrum.
  If you think that the Rightwing doesn't have its own dogma that it advances through PC enforcement or its own ideas of societal rectitude that it seeks to make just, then you are either blind, or following through with the Rightwing tendency to believe their shit don't stink.
  Did you not meet Roy Moore, and his Ten Commandments dictates? Did you not hear of the line about raped women's bodies being able to shut that whole thing down? Did you forget their Marriage declarations? All the talk about urban problems and declarations that those who don't support them aren't patriots?
  Dogwhistles and Coded language are real, and the Right Wing has its own moral agenda. They even did back when they were in the French Parliament.
  Sorry, but you should admit to reality.
109. Re:RedPill by SuricouRaven · 2019-03-29 19:00 · Score: 1
  
  Commie, nazi... either way, not something that a multinational mega-corp wants to be seen endorsing.
110. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 19:05 · Score: 0
  
  Incorrect! You punch a commie at least six times since they killed six at least six times more people.
111. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 21:51 · Score: 0
  
  There's upsetting the status quo and there's being an asshole. He's looking more like rich asshole to me.
112. Re:RedPill by mapkinase · 2019-03-29 23:39 · Score: 1
  
  we will become Digg
  Or any other Web2.0 platform (see, I can also use anachronistic name drops)
  
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113. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 01:13 · Score: 0
  
  Yes, yes, you think you are persecuted because people dare to moderate you in ways you don't like so you try to invalidate their opinion while simultaneously misrepresenting your own as merely stating some innocuous facts that nobody could possibly argue.
  Maybe you need to take a look at your own behavior and realize that you aren't bring truthful.
  And what's worse for you is that nobody is buying your bullshit. Yet nonetheless, you persist.
  Do proceed, Mr. Governor.
114. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 04:15 · Score: 0
  
  I assume these are all twitter terms, and as I block everything twitter, I have never seen them until this thread. So, we're probably not missing much.
115. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 04:19 · Score: 0
  
  > There is a pretty big overlap between MGTOW and incels.
  No, a MGTOW would be a "volcel."
116. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 04:25 · Score: 0
  
  And what about the other parts where he goes full on white nationalist with his homophobic, anti-semetic, and racist rants. They are all out there. But now that i see your signature i see you ARE one of these deplorables, and so won't understand.
117. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 04:31 · Score: 0
  
  He lives in California, you don't have to be a US citizen to vote there.
118. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 06:00 · Score: 0
  
  People you disagree with very often have very rational views
  [citation needed]
  The longer I live, the more I realize that everyone is clueless and acting in their own self interest. Humans are not rational beings. We act, think, and behave based almost solely on the other humans around us and what they personally think is the way to behave. No better than animals in that regard.
119. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 06:05 · Score: 0
  
  I'll take the bait.
  Why should a man and a woman enter a legally binding agreement, merge their assets, share liability, and be able to file taxes jointly if all they're after is some good old fashioned fucking?
  Your beliefs regarding the church and sex are that way because of your upbringing and the brainwashing the church does. The main reasons one comes up with to support marriage revolve around the multitude of ways society has made up to punish you if you *don't* get married.
  Furthermore, as a man I stand to gain *nothing* from being married. However, I assume a great deal of responsibility and liability if I do. I stand to lose everything I own, half or more of my money, and get to face discrimination in the court room.
  I feel sorry for people who think they need to be married to be close to someone. It's a trap.
120. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 06:09 · Score: 0
  
  How fucking retarded do you have to be to assume that a divorce doesn't come with some sort of adjustment period?
  Fucking idiot. You don't have to be MGTOW to understand that the end of a relationship comes with a lot of change. Change that humans need time to adjust to.
  Perhaps you'd understand that if you've ever been in a relationship.
121. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 06:17 · Score: 0
  
  To be fair, the average American doesn't even have a 12th grade education. They aren't educated enough to have an original opinion on the family court system. They're good little drones^Wpeople and do what society tells them to do. They aren't capable of original or critical thinking.
  It takes a desire to find the truth and expose lies in order to expand your world. The average American wants their world to be *smaller*. They want segregated, homogenous communities. They want curfews, and jail for people who have sex out of marriage. And public flogging for daring to not root for the home team or stand for the anthem.
  Meanwhile the infrastructure of this country is crumbling, homeless are becoming a larger problem, police are still rewarded for being trigger-happy, and the media cartels want to rob us of the same culture that they used to make their billions.
  Quite frankly the average American is a bumbling fucking idiot who I wouldn't trust with a Happy Meal, let alone the running of this country.
122. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 06:23 · Score: 0
  
  I feel sorry for the people who think they need to be close to someone to get married.
123. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 06:38 · Score: 0
  
  To be fair, Joe Rogan is an annoying and misinformed cretin. If you rely on a celebrity for your opinions, you're going to have a bad time.
124. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 10:07 · Score: 0
  
  Damn straight. No need for a pre-nup if you don't have a nup.
125. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 10:13 · Score: 0
  
  To be fair, the average American doesn't even have a 12th grade education.
  Since high school graduation rates are over 80% in America, I'm going to call bullshit on that one.
126. Re: RedPill by muridae · 2019-03-31 00:38 · Score: 1
  
  Modern feminists do work to critique and counter the arguments of the anti-sex, anti-sexworker feminists of old. The problem is with boys who think "femnazi" is a form of address; who seem willing to ignore modern feminists and focus only on the stuff from twenty years ago that they can nit-pick to prove their points.
127. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-04-01 03:01 · Score: 0
  
  Going on MGTOW subs on reddit shows at least half of the users would be satisfied if Trump forced women to have sex with them. And they are being serious.
  How is that "going your own way" if you want authoritarian figures to assign sex slaves to you?
128. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-04-01 03:06 · Score: 0
  
  This. Cederic has candycoated and glorified the turd, by AC nails it squarely on the head.
  Notch used to be quite intelligent; he insisted that the Minecraft model was non-gendered, and got irritated at the name "Minecraft Steve".
  Now that he's suddenly a billionaire victim, all lonely in his mansion and utterly abhorred by anyone who used to respect him, he's your typical idpol embracing right winger. It's quite funny to see how often he gets ripped apart on Twitter though by people who used to be his fans.
129. Re:RedPill by lgw · 2019-04-01 05:19 · Score: 1
  
  Marriage is the proven recipe for keeping a community going across generations. There may be other ways that work, but most clever ideas haven't worked out.
  I agree, in modern society there's not really anything in it for the man. Seems like a problem to be solved, if you ask me.
  
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130. Re:RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-04-02 13:08 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah, MGTOW are totally into.. wait, it's in their name.
  The name "Men Going Their Own Way" would suggest to an uniformed observer that it means "men who don't need emotional attachments with women", rather than "men who obsessively bitch about women a lot on the Internet".
131. Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-04-02 13:15 · Score: 0
  
  When you're rich, you don't have to pay attention to annoying things like objective reality.
NOT ANYMORE! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 15:40 · Score: 0, Funny

Microsoft: "We made this."
1. Re:NOT ANYMORE! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:56 · Score: 0
  
  E. E. E.
2. Re:NOT ANYMORE! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:05 · Score: 0
  
  canya believe it you've already finished C
Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 15:45 · Score: -1

He sold it and then went on to be a little shit on social media. Sounds like he made his choice, benefited from it, Microsoft made their choice and will benefit from it.
1. Re:Well... by Jarwulf · 2019-03-28 17:03 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  'little shit'= having a different opinion than me.
2. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:08 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  little shit=âtelling people of color white people matter' when all they are asking for is to not get killed by the police
3. Re: Well... by Jarwulf · 2019-03-28 17:18 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  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.
4. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:40 · Score: 0, Insightful
  
  NO they dont dumb fuck. Unarmed get gunned diwn. Sleeping get gunned down. In their own fucking home get gunned down.
5. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:53 · Score: -1
  
  White people are killed more by police than black people, both per capita, as well as absolute.
6. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:09 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  We can all agree, cops are fucking murderers. However, they murder you much more often if you're black. Blacks account for 31% of police murder, despite being 13% of the population. Granted, this means 69% are not black, but the majority are still people of color. https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938186/police-shootings-killings-racism-racial-disparities
7. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:29 · Score: -1
  
  then went on to be a little shit on social media.
  i don't even know this notch guy but i imagine it can't possibly be as bad as creimer, is it?
8. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  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
9. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:50 · Score: -1
  
  However! Racist faggots like the OOP do DESERVE to be shot by police, I think we can all agree, and it would ease some of those statistics you mentioned, at least by 1. I'm for it.
10. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:53 · Score: 0
  
  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...
11. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:54 · Score: 0
  
  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.
12. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 19:39 · Score: 0
  
  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.
13. Re: Well... by hvidstue · 2019-03-28 20:03 · Score: 1
  
  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?
14. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:07 · Score: 0
  
  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.
15. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:13 · Score: 0
  
  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.
16. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:18 · Score: 0
  
  "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.
17. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:27 · Score: 0
  
  "Have to pay for it" ...
  Quit being so damned insecure
18. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:40 · Score: 0
  
  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???
19. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:42 · Score: 0
  
  If you're an example of the kind of white person that's losing their country, then it can't happen fast enough.
20. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 01:08 · Score: 0
  
  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.
21. Re: Well... by lgw · 2019-03-29 01:39 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  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.
  
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22. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:19 · Score: 0
  
  I dunno about you, but not everyone of a particular is a racist, but I have met racists of every color.
23. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:20 · Score: 0
  
  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).
24. Re: Well... by phlinn · 2019-03-29 02:22 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  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.
  
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25. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:22 · Score: 0
  
  Unfortunately the facts do not back up the drivel you just leaked from your penis.
26. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:55 · Score: 0
  
  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.
27. Re: Well... by thegarbz · 2019-03-29 02:57 · Score: 1
  
  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.
28. Re: Well... by elrous0 · 2019-03-29 03:03 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  We can all agree, cops are fucking murderers.
  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?
  
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29. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:23 · Score: 0
  
  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.
30. Re: Well... by Bradac_55 · 2019-03-29 03:29 · Score: 1
  
  Only a AC would site vox like it's some sort of real information site.
31. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:45 · Score: -1
  
  All cops are boot licking class traitors who pretend to be protecting our communities. Sure, occasionally they stop something bad, but the majority of the time they're running around harassing their(and other) community for donations to pay their salaries. Often this involves harassing those least capable of defending themselves. Think about this, name one emergency you've ever encountered or would even encounter, where calling the police will make a difference in your personal safety...
32. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:46 · Score: 0, Insightful
  
  The real problem is that the vast majority then cover up for the murderers, every single time.
33. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:58 · Score: 0
  
  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.
34. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:00 · Score: 0
  
  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.
35. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:12 · Score: 0
  
  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.
36. Re: Well... by Kohath · 2019-03-29 04:34 · Score: 1
  
  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.
37. Re: Well... by bgrahambo · 2019-03-29 05:10 · Score: 1
  
  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.
38. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:29 · Score: 0
  
  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?
39. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:41 · Score: 0
  
  I think if you re-read the GP post carefully, you will find that he knows that already.
40. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 23:07 · Score: 0
  
  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.
41. Re: Well... by mapkinase · 2019-03-29 23:47 · Score: 1
  
  Shut up, niggah. You should be taken your broadband welfare.
  
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42. Re: Well... by Kohath · 2019-03-30 02:49 · Score: 1
  
  Happens all the time. Someone has proof the police did something wrong, nothing happens. Zero accountability most of the time.
43. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 04:54 · Score: 0
  
  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.
44. Re: Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-04-02 08:57 · Score: 0
  
  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.
Well since nobody else is doing it.. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 15:46 · Score: -1

FIRST
Big deal by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 15:57 · Score: -1

And nothing of value was lost.
Break up Microsoft again before it's too late. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 15:57 · Score: 0

Break up Microsoft again before it's too late.
1. Re:Break up Microsoft again before it's too late. by Narcocide · 2019-03-28 18:16 · Score: 2
  
  They never actually went through with breaking them up the last time, and it is definitely too late now.
2. Re:Break up Microsoft again before it's too late. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:40 · Score: 0
  
  I agree and it is the same for creimer, it is definitely too late now since his empire has spread all over the Internet.
  People didn't listen when we told them and this is what happens.
  Sad, so sad...
  captcha: creamery CROFLOL!
Considering he turned out to be an alt-right wacko by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 15:58 · Score: 0, Interesting

Good riddance. Go count your money with Palmer Lucky on has-been island.
He got paid by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 15:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
1. Re:He got paid by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 16:03 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You could say they used a notch filter.
2. Re: He got paid by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 16:07 · Score: 0
  
  But he left behind important stuff for day to day needs
3. Re: He got paid by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 16:14 · Score: 0
  
  I need a pickle.
4. Re: He got paid by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 16:30 · Score: 0
  
  Well, you can always stick a cucumber up your ass and wait a week.
5. Re: He got paid by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 16:39 · Score: 0
  
  This isn't Don Jr. you're talking to, he needs to know if he's going to prison NOW.
6. Re:He got paid by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:11 · Score: 0
  
  It's really important for some people that this becomes a big deal, so they feel they've "won" ...
  While they keep playing the game made by him.
7. Re:He got paid by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 06:53 · Score: 0
  
  Friendly reminder that Minecraft was not even an original creation. Its core concept was copied from Infiniminer. Notch found a composer for the music and he spent X years wading in Java trying to get Minecraft to perform well enough to build the creations players were wanting to make. Originally, there was *only* Creative mode, and it was free to play that mode. That scheme is part of what gave MC its popularity. Try-before-you-buy is incredibly powerful for sales.
  A decade later and afaik MC still doesn't have official, built-in mod support. I stopped playing before MS acquired it, and back then it was all Bukkit, Tekkit, and other mod frameworks. ComputerCraft was possibly the coolest mod there, since you could build and program mini computers in Lua. Some even ported coreutils to it, lmao.
  Ultimately, I stopped playing MC because it wasn't MC any more. They added tons of "content" and tried to turn it into something it wasn't. I played MC to build cool shit and learn how to make circuits (redstone's fun). It turns out that minetest is not only free/libre, but it performs better too.
  I don't have much of an opinion on Notch himself. He positioned himself as the indie messiah, but he lost that indie cred as soon as he sold out to one of the largest software companies in the world.
  Great for him. He won't have to work another day in his life. Still a sell-out. :P
Totalitarians don't like notch by Kohath · 2019-03-28 16:12 · Score: 1, Troll

This is my favorite tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/not...
I wonder if Microsoft is in CYA mode or full totalitarian true believer mode?
1. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by Hands+of+Blue · 2019-03-28 16:33 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  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.
2. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by Kohath · 2019-03-28 17:20 · Score: 1
  
  If it was google, there would be no question. Everyone knows they are true believers.
3. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by serviscope_minor · 2019-03-28 20:52 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Seems unremarkable to me. What secifically are you referring to?
  
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4. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:30 · Score: 0
  
  True believers in China. hue hue hue hue hue
5. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by squiggleslash · 2019-03-29 01:45 · Score: 0
  
  This is just it, I try to keep up with the bizarre memes and codewords used by the alt-right, but every now and again something like this gets posted, and you're like "I have no idea why the poster thinks this is a big deal." Yet the other replies to the GP suggest he didn't reference the wrong tweet, the alt-right really does think the Tweet is a big deal and an in-your-face to "Totalitarians" (by which I assume they mean "People who are against concentration camps, stealing the children of desperate people, against people being executed because they're the wrong "race", against women being excluded from employment, etc")
  
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6. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by Kohath · 2019-03-29 03:59 · Score: 1
  
  "Totalitarians" (by which I assume they mean "People who are against concentration camps, stealing the children of desperate people, against people being executed because they're the wrong "race", against women being excluded from employment, etc")
  This is exactly guilt-by-association. If you’re against censorship and guilt-by-association (definition: people being declared guilty of whatever random thing regardless of the fact that they didn't do that thing) then squiggleslash (and the hate movement squiggleslash is advancing) says you love concentration camps.
  The squiggleslash message is: you will obey
  If you ever want to make your own decisions or think your own thoughts in the future, you should reject censorship and guilt-by-association and other similar totalitarian tactics.
7. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by serviscope_minor · 2019-03-29 05:28 · Score: 1
  
  Seriously why the heck is this modded troll? I presume because I'm not blindly agreeing with the parent, but I've still literally no idea what I even should be agreeing to.
  Maybe it's because its referencing some meme I'm not familiar with or perhaps there's some context I am missing due to Twitter's aggressively poor user interface.
  
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8. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by serviscope_minor · 2019-03-29 05:35 · Score: 2
  
  You have an over developed sense of something. All I see is someone correcting someone else about their net worth. If that's your favorite tweet then you have an incredibly dull sense of humor.
  This doesn't seem to be sticking it to anyone particularly hard.
  Seriously why on earth do you think this is such a marvelous tweet.
  
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9. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by squiggleslash · 2019-03-29 05:38 · Score: 1
  
  The squiggleslash message is: you will obey
  
  And I'm the one being modded troll?
  What the hell is wrong with you?
  
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10. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 05:47 · Score: 0
  
  I wonder if Microsoft is in CYA mode or full totalitarian true believer mode?
  You mean like that time that Microsoft hired Suhail Khan and built a marketing pipeline specifically for Islamist activists to make hem "Indie" heroes, but they got caught when one of the women made hilariously shitty and ignorant fake feminist videos and another one slept with five guys so they had the ADL call everyone Nazis for talking about it?
  Yeah, that was a Muslim spy ring backed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Qatar, and Yad Hanadiv. It was run out of the White House, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. Trump has a lot of cleaning up to do.
11. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by Anonymous Coward · 2019-04-01 05:08 · Score: 0
  
  You're wrong, Microsoft definitely cares about gays. Blacks? Women. The POINT is it's very important here at Micro's friendly robot company.
12. Re:Totalitarians don't like notch by Anonymous Coward · 2019-04-02 08:29 · Score: 0
  
  Thank you for perfectly exemplifying squiggleslash's point. I'm not sure you intended to do it, but we all see it plain as day. Most right wingers aren't aware that they're typically much less intelligent than everyone else (by design; they wouldn't be so easily manipulated if they were more intelligent; this has been scientifically proven by multiple studies).
  In fact I think I'll use your post and squiggleslash's post in my class about the differences in political thought. It really is a shining example of how propaganda works, and how the right is oblivious to being propagandized to.
SHOW THE WORLD THE MUELLER REPORT by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 16:16 · Score: -1

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE?!?
Re:RedSwastika by Abraham++Hitler · 2019-03-28 16:35 · Score: -1, Troll

Enjoy your JEWISH existence while it lasts!!!

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I don't like him because he's dabbling by rsilvergun · 2019-03-28 16:44 · Score: 0, Troll

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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1. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 16:56 · Score: 0
  
  I had no idea he even moved to the USA, let alone became a citizen and could vote.
  Learn something new every day!
2. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 16:57 · Score: 0, Insightful
  
  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?)
3. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:00 · Score: -1
  
  American liberals are the fucking worst. Even when they're aware of their own ideology, they never gain awareness of its place in the wider context, making them susceptible to falling for every old-ass propaganda technique, and just generally being nazi stooges.
  When Americans awaken to class consciousness, and they ask why their eyes hurt. They've never used them.
4. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Kohath · 2019-03-28 17:15 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  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.
5. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:27 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  a broader call for working class unity.
  
  That is an aryan brotherhood meme, whether you realize it or not.
6. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:28 · Score: 0
  
  He lives in literally the most expensive mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
7. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:53 · Score: 0
  
  The first black president isn't really comparable to you toothless inbred faggots, sorry, no.
8. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:02 · Score: 0
  
  "The first black president" - What does Bill Clinton have to do with this?
9. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:02 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  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...
10. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by The+Evil+Atheist · 2019-03-28 18:17 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  That article was discussing another publication which called it a myth. The NYTimes itself did not call it a myth.
  
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11. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Cederic · 2019-03-28 22:32 · Score: 1
  
  I don't tend to follow Notch and never really enjoyed Minecraft either, but out of curiousity, which rhetoric and memes do you feel he's dabbling in that are white supremacist?
  
  I'm so sick of watching angry white men get taken advantage of while also being dragged down with them.
  I would ask 'dragged down with who?' because it's not clear from your post, but instead I'm going to laugh at you dabbling in what is clearly white supremacist rhetoric, whether you realise it or not.
  Oops.
12. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:34 · Score: 0
  
  What a twisted world.
13. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:44 · Score: 0
  
  Well he claimed 'it is ok to be white'. That cannot be good - some say. I thought this to be funny how people turn fight against oppression into oppression. Seems we are bound to have these waves of idiocy - I wonder if this time it will be followed by wave of blood as it did almost all previous times?
14. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 23:55 · Score: 1
  
  He uses white supremacist rhetoric like "It's Ok to be white"
15. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:35 · Score: 0
  
  Yes, and Joe Rogan is far right which just lost you a few million supporters who are pot smoking centrists and moderate liberals who are facepalming at your dumb SJW rhetoric,
  and Ben is also alt-right which just lost you the ADL and most of the financial support on the Democratic line,
  and each time you call someone out for dabbling in your perception of white supremacy and meme magic you lose even more and more people to your stupid SJW rhetoric every time.
  So keep at it. You even got Labor Unions to shit on your New Green Deal, don't forget to label the Unions white supremacist and therefore lose 80% of society on top of aforementioned.
  Every time stupid people like yourself open their mouth, i swear it's a comedy show. The right doesn't need to do shit, it only needs to sit back and let stupid posters like yourself make your stupid statements on the Internet and that's the real magic in getting them positive rep.
16. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:44 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  You're implying it's not okay to be white. That makes you a racist.
17. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:08 · Score: -1
  
  oh shut up with your junior college nonsense. Go fuck yourself.
18. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by mjwx · 2019-03-29 02:30 · Score: 0
  
  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.
  Yes, which is why White Supremacists are so quick to try to demonise and denigrate their opponents.
  
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19. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:52 · Score: 0
  
  Are you saying it is not okay to be white? Judging someone by the color of their skin seems sort of....racist?
  It is okay to be white.
  It is okay to be black.
  It is okay to be Asian.
  It is okay to be Gay.
  It is okay to be Straight.
  It is okay to be a blinded sheep.
  It is okay to call out people on their bullshit.
  It is okay to hurt someone's feelings.
  It is okay to say I think rather than I feel.
20. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:21 · Score: 0
  
  Not OK to be an angry white racist is different - not all white people are angry white racists. You are an illogical twat.
21. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:48 · Score: 1
  
  Is that seriously the distinction you are going for?
  What next? "The New York Times doesn't have a mouth, therefore it can't 'say' anything."?
  Additionally, I notice you can't rebut the fact that actual historical research has shown that there was no "Southern Strategy" switch of racists from the Democrat party to the Republicans. Attempting to distract from the entire point of the post by making trivial semantic quibbles does not make your position look good.
22. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:55 · Score: 0
  
  White Supremacists ... denigrate
  
  Not touching that one with a ten foot pole.
23. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Kohath · 2019-03-29 04:18 · Score: 1
  
  There's blood in the water and the frenzy is on and you're trying to argue against it with words.
24. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 06:03 · Score: 0
  
  Actual historical research shows the opposite, that includes living interviews with the numerous actual politicians such as Strom Thurmond and Rick Perry.
25. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:48 · Score: 0
  
  The rich irony of you calling people totalitarian if they recognize someone is a fucking NAZI is insane. People like you being upvoted shows how much influence right wing trolls have on a shitty site like slashdot. FUCK OFF. Your lies only preach to your evil choir.
26. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:08 · Score: 0
  
  The Evil Atheist simply pointed out that you mischaracterized the nature of the article to which you linked, which *mentioned* an opinion article which doesn't dispute that the Southern Strategy happened, but claims the nature of it was different than what people at the time claimed it was.
  And you continued to mischaracterize The Evil Atheist's post, in an effort to refute something he didn't say.
  Fascinating.
27. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by SuricouRaven · 2019-03-29 09:38 · Score: 1
  
  I can't actually find any white supremacist tweets by him mentioned. Crude, yes. Transphobic, certainly. Politically extreme, I would say, given that he accuses 'the left' of promoting infanticide and appears to advocate for violence against them, though he later claimed that one was a joke. But no white supremacy that I can find. He's deleted a lot of tweets though, so I'm going on news coverage.
28. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Cederic · 2019-03-29 09:56 · Score: 1
  
  Surely he was merely being sardonic. Nobody would be stupid enough to interpret "It's ok to be white" as supremacist rhetoric. Would they?
29. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 03:57 · Score: 0
  
  The article doesn't deny that it doesnt exist. It is just pointing out that it didn't have as strong an effect as Conservatives oped. In other words, because the Southern Strategy didn't work out as good as they liked it doesn't somehow say it wasn't a strategy by Conservatives to use as a way of shoring up racist voters.
  Oh and lets not forget Pat Buccanan even openly talked about the strategy on video. YT is your friend....its not hard to find.
30. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 04:45 · Score: 0
  
  No, YOU are a racist nazi white supremacist if you think it is ok to be white.
  And just in case you think I'm kidding, ask the Australian government. The senate voted 'No' when "It's OK to be white." was put to them. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45861433
  'White supremacist' signs declaring 'it's okay to be white' appear outside MPs' offices
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-01/its-okay-to-be-white-signs-appear-outside-mps-offices/10457140
31. Re:I don't like him because he's dabbling by Anonymous Coward · 2019-04-02 08:31 · Score: 0
  
  mjwx: 1
  Kohath: 0
  Thanks for playing!
Splash Text by phantomfive · 2019-03-28 16:45 · Score: 1

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.

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1. Re:Splash Text by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:41 · Score: 1
  
  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.
  That was added way back in Indev long before release, and before microsoft bought them.
  It was completely a notch/mojang 'joke'
  But you'll be happy to know that before release 1.0 the "open source!" message was changed to "closed source!"
  If you open the minecraft JAR there is a 'texts' folder in the assets and a 'splashes.txt' file with all the messages. You can see for yourself it isn't there anymore.
  Also worth noting, microsoft manages the day to day work on the bedrock edition of minecraft, the one in c++ or c# or whatever, that's on the consoles and labeled win10 only for windows.
  Mojang still manages day to day for the java edition, and mainly answers to microsoft as one would expect from a parent/child company relationship.
2. Re:Splash Text by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:56 · Score: 1
  
  Notch based his prototype of Minecraft on leaked source code from Infiniminer -- another block-based mining game, by lone indie Zachtronics, with similar fluid / lava mechanics, but with a combat focus and trampolines. So, technically, Minecraft should have been open source the whole time...
  Buy a Zachtronics game if you do or do not like Minecraft, he's made a cool hacking game recently slashdaugters might like.
Who cares? by Gravis+Zero · 2019-03-28 16:50 · Score: 1

Seriously, does anyone here actually care? If so, why do you care? Do you feel his compensation insufficient for the game?

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News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by UnknownSoldier · 2019-03-28 16:56 · Score: 5, Informative

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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1. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:33 · Score: 1
  
  "Is the company under some "moral obligation" to keep a reference to the founder for all perpetuity??"
  Yes, ask Sid Meier.
2. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:12 · Score: 0
  
  I love Minecraft but Why is this even news??
  Yea, why would it be news that MS buys out companies and virtually totally obliterates references to a key developer, designer, etc of one of the most popular video games of all times, presumably for the sake of political correctness. Yep, nothing news or for nerds in that.
  
  Founders leave their companies all the time. Is the company under some "moral obligation" to keep a reference to the founder for all perpetuity??
  For a game that were some high percentage (say 90%) the result of that one founder's efforts and for specifically they're removing near all reference, yea, 'moral obligation" sort of does start to matter. It's funny how their efforts to whitewash Minecraft is probably over "moral obligation".
  
  He's still listed in the credits, so who gives a fuck if his name has been removed from the Splash page?
  I counter that with, if he's still listed in the credits, why bother to remove his name from the Splash page? Oh, right, because the Splash page and all references are clear and prominent. The credits page is heavily ignored but is technically inclusive of him, so that's good enough, right? I mean, while we're at it let's try to minimize Kojima's influence on Metal Gear or Inafune on Mega Man. As long as we technically list his name somewhere in the fine print, that's good enough!
  
  Is Bill Gates listed in the credits for Windows, Excel, Word, etc?
  That's a pretty priceless strawman, given that while Bill Gates may have a lot of micromanagement tendencies, he wasn't chiefly responsible for a lot of what made Windows, Excel, Word, etc. If you really want to play that game, then let's put Bill Gates where it clearly belongs: front in center on the Internet Explorer epitaph that heavily ruined Microsoft's reputation for any ability to write a bit of secure software as it was clear business oriented Machiavellian tactics were always Bill Gates strong suit.
  Or, you know, we could not white wash history just because it becomes clear that the person who made a game might not be a terribly nice guy. Compare this to the counterpoint that is the farce that is Civil War monuments that tried to create white wash heroes which finally people are willing to seriously suggest tearing down.
3. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by fenrif · 2019-03-28 18:51 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  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.
4. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 19:01 · Score: 0
  
  Well, just try to do the same with creimer and you will get an avalanche of DMCA requests.
  Notch could hire creimer as a lawyer to represent him.
5. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 19:01 · Score: 0
  
  It's not worrying in the least.
6. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 19:51 · Score: 1
  
  Notch is a bit beyond just having unpopular opinions.
  He needs some serious psychiatric help and it is probably too late now. He could have used it years ago.
  From what I have heard he was a bit "off" even before he started Minecraft but it has really started to show the last few years.
  That guy is a nutcase.
7. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by slack_justyb · 2019-03-28 20:27 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  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.
8. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by AmiMoJo · 2019-03-28 20:52 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  It's news because the Freeze Peach Warriors demand you give them a platform. Failure to publish the fruit of their gobs is CENSORSHIP and an affront to humanity.
  Just look at poor Notch, de-platformed and down to his last billion dollars. He's only got 3.7 million Twitter followers, and how Microsoft has effectively silenced him. If he had a Patreon account you can bet that would be banned to.
  
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9. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 21:03 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  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.
10. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by religionofpeas · 2019-03-28 21:31 · Score: 1
  
  For $2.5 billion, I'll gladly let Microsoft remove my name from the splash screen.
11. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by mobby_6kl · 2019-03-28 21:55 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  Microsoft not wanting to be associated with outspoken nazis, the horror!
12. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by houghi · 2019-03-28 22:41 · Score: 1
  
  If Google gives me 2.5 billion, they can remove me from the Internet.
  
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  Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
13. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 22:54 · Score: 0
  
  Would you be so kind as to give us some examples of this bad stuff? I did have a look in wikipedia followed by a short browse his tweets but besides 'ít is ok to be white' I have not found much. Most of it boring stuff. OTOH we see lots of other things which are worrying and are motivated by the same left wing bigotry. I dislike bigotry left and right wing alike. Maybe we are too many to live peacefully on one planet in which case Musk better be ready with his Martian colony as if it goes on like it does now a mass oppression of people thinking freely the way Joseph S. implemented is on its way. So unless I come to see his really racists and bigot statements I refuse to accept ms action as anything but bending over for bigots. In itself nothing special or important. What is important is what follows if we allow it.
14. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:08 · Score: 0
  
  Pushing the Qanon/pizzagate bullshit and defending the gamergate harassment is not 'wrongthink', it's actively trying to instigate harassment and violence against innocent people.
15. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:53 · Score: -1
  
  Drink! Amimojo throwing out the freeze peace name calling again!
  Second drink for strawmaning and gaslighting what free speech people want (aka Amimojo's telling other people what they're thinking, something he bitched about others doing to him in his journal)
  Third drink for blaming the victim. It's not Brietbart or some right wing loon who wrote TFS to bring this into the spotlight, nor did TFS talk about Notch or anyone objecting... the latter is another drink: Amimojo railing out imagined outrage mobs of "freeze peach warriors" (ironic, as he's the one displaying outrage when he brings up this imaginary group), not unlike the alt-right talking about conspiracies from globalists, deep state, etc.
  Good start on a Friday!
16. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 01:11 · Score: 0
  
  Because it's part of a wider and very worrying trend of tech companies deciding to expunge people from the record for wrongthink.
  Lot of newspeak here.
  First step in the decoder ring: wrongthink = white supremacy.
17. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 01:29 · Score: 1
  
  Yea Freeze Peach! We should be like NZ and throw people in prison for sharing stuff we don't like. Then just wipe everything about them off the internet. Like they never existed.If you don't want to live in that society, you're a deplorable racist.
18. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:02 · Score: 0
  
  Better to be a Freeze Peach Warrior than a Freeze Peach Hypocrite like you, supporting the censorship of others but then getting all upset whenever you get censored. Not that I consider downvotes to be censorship, but you apparently do, which just makes your position even more laughable. It'd be like if you took a sledge hammer to someone else's car and claimed they deserved it, but then someone else drops a dandelion on your car and you start screaming bloody murder.
19. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by JeffSh · 2019-03-29 02:15 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  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.
20. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Kohath · 2019-03-29 02:35 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  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?
21. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:48 · Score: 1
  
  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.
  I worry more about the wider and very worrying trend of tin-foil nutters deciding to eviscerate companies based on assumptions.
  You know, like you're doing right now.
  He's still (rightfully) listed in the credits. It's been years since MS purchased his company. They're under no obligation to maintain "splash" silliness, and could have removed it on day one if they felt like it. It's their fucking product.
  Not sure why we have to assume the worst here. Would you care to provide any proof to back up your claim that he was expunged for "wrongthink"? One would think if they wanted to actually sever ties with him for that reason, he wouldn't be referenced or credited anywhere in their product.
22. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by thegarbz · 2019-03-29 02:58 · Score: 1
  
  Because it's part of a wider and very worrying trend of tech companies deciding to expunge people from the record for wrongthink.
  Or maybe they paid $2.5bn for not having to give credit to some dude they no longer care about. .... nah must be some wrongthink conspiracy.
23. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:01 · Score: 0
  
  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??
  Once upon a time it was common for creators to be denied credits. The first recognized Easter Egg was in Adventure because the programmers were denied the moral obligation of middlemen publishers to at least credit the Creator.
  I care for two reasons: 0. This is a regression away from celebrating creators, and for political reasons only. Who cares if Notch says stuff like: Doesn't matter if Q is real or not, he's got some people asking questions and thinking critically again (paraphrasing)? Microsoft, apparently.
  1. This means creators should be placing very hard to remove Easter Eggs in their games again in the event that publishers choose to go 1984 and un-person them for wrongthink.
24. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:02 · Score: -1
  
  Oooh, evil "Nazis"... You mean "any white person who doesn't want to become a minority in their own country, which will mean it has turned into a third world hellhole like Brazil"... How 'evil' of him!
  How 'evil' of white people to simply want to live around their own kind.
  So, in other words, you believe that all non-whites on Earth HAVE to live around white people. Why is that? You must think that white people make better countries than non-whites! Otherwise, why would you wish non-whites to move to a WORSE country (presuming you believe white countries are worse than non-white countries).
  LOL. You idiot. Try thinking things through next time, before you blindly parrot the Jewish media's memes.
25. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:06 · Score: 1
  
  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).
  Granted, although the word "trend" doesn't necessarily mean "new"; it does imply some degree of an increase, though.
  
  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.
  So? You're just reinforcing the point that it's okay because it's wrongthink. There's a reason whitewashing history is bad: it creates the false impression that leaders, creators, etc are some sort of perfect being above fault, even gross human fault of almost unimaginable scale. It makes it harder to argue that this time when it happens it's not an aberration of human nature or history but the norm. It also just simply warps the narrative of human history which even if it had no negative effect seems like a bad thing. So, no, I don't understand at all how that's some sort of justification.
  
  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.
  There's no real argument against this, but if notch went the other way and some very anti-racist, anti-sexist, etc and pushed hard against tech companies in general that'd also be news. Why? Because people give a shit what people with money say, especially when other people with money seem to go against them. That's the fundamental dynamic being discussed. If that were not the perspective, we'd all ignore notch and MS alike and the splash screen would both likely never have been changed and likley no one would have noticed.
  
  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.
  Apparently selling out doesn't stop people from following you on Twitter. Perhaps it's because people tend to be vultures who circle around such people or are sycophants who think they can learn from such masters of "gaming" the system. Regardless, if the goal was to fundamentally move towards making people ignore notch more, it failed at least in the short term. In the long term, who knows. Honestly, I don't care what notch's personal opinion is on most subjects just like most people shouldn't care what mine are. I do care if he were to actually start working on new projects because then that functional aspect would matter.
26. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:12 · Score: 1
  
  I now understand why your parents hate you.
27. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by nitehawk214 · 2019-03-29 03:35 · Score: 1
  
  For 2.5 billion, Microsoft can expunge me all they want.
  (That is some fetish thing, right?)
  
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28. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:40 · Score: 0
  
  "They cry out in pain as they strike you"
29. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by drinkypoo · 2019-03-29 03:44 · Score: 1
  
  Founders leave their companies all the time. Is the company under some "moral obligation" to keep a reference to the founder for all perpetuity??
  It's just a reminder that Notch is a liar. He promised that he would open source Minecraft when he was done with it. Instead, he sold it to Microsoft. I, for one, bought Minecraft while that promise was still on its webpages.
  
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30. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:02 · Score: 1
  
  I find what's going on less 1984 and more Fahrenheit 451. Unfortunately, Fahrenheit 451 is a fair bit more subtle and the average person tends not to get it. It's also rather more insidious.
31. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 05:31 · Score: 0
  
  hehehe another sweet summer child who thinks people are 'noble creatures' following a set of 'moral principles'.
  Why would he give a fuck what anyone thinks? Thats only true for 'little' people, he can shit on you and your 'freedoms of speech', 'democracy', rules of 'free' market and rubbish like that. Go read some of his tweets :)
  He got paid, he is done with your 'bullshit fairytales for slaves'.
32. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 06:31 · Score: 0
  
  Reblogging content from a neo-nazi organization that is literally advocating genocide is something that is, and should be, shunned in polite society. If you find yourself defending self-identified nazis, you might want to ask yourself why exactly do you feel the need to do that.
33. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:00 · Score: 0
  
  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.
  How different is Minecraft from where it was in 2014 compared to the difference between not existing and what it was in 2014? What has the Microsoft team actually, provably done?
  Time is irrelevant compared to output. Comparing time put in reminds me of a terrible union job I had where the senior guys did nothing but clock in and go on an eight hour smoke break, telling the young guys "I have been here 20 years. I put in my time."
34. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · 2019-03-29 07:26 · Score: 2
  
  Notch brought joy to like half a billion people
  Why is that relevant. Do we give passes on behavior just because of other behavior that's good? What's next, "person X saved 20 children from drowning, so here's a gift certificate for 2 free murders?"
  
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35. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:11 · Score: 0
  
  451 is *still* about the party in control controlling what you can think.
36. Re: News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:26 · Score: 0
  
  Friday's is "rape a coworker day".
  Only if you've finished all your work during the week.
37. Re: News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:27 · Score: 0
  
  Nice strawman.
  Microsoft is not the government, they can police any speech they want. Don't like it? Go over to 8chan you faggot.
38. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:59 · Score: 0
  
  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.
  Ah, so you think Microsoft personally cares about any of this? Like, Microsoft has a heart and a brain? No, Microsoft is complying with certain expectations to, as you already note, "[fit] their brand". Are there any companies that fit the brand of notch? Perhaps a few, for which he could do endorsement deals with. The general point, though, is it's rather absurd to argue that Microsoft is exercising its freedom in a meaningful sense. Companies are heavily regulated in their speech precisely because they aren't people and are only allowed to continue to exist so long as they aren't causing sufficient levels of social harm, even if nothing they do is outright illegal; this is radically different to how humans are treated for good reason.
  No, Microsoft is playing CYA and if you think that's justifiable, that's fine. It's still a version of wrongthink perpetuated out of fear of the consequences of actually expressing whatever opinions Microsoft execs might have, even if it's not nearly to the same magnitude as 1984. Perhaps it's even a good thing public companies and people engage in self-censorship. Or perhaps it'd be better if society as a whole judged public figures by different standards than they judge their own associates. Whichever is the case, I think it reasonable to at least bring up the similarities of the inherent deception that's being perpetuated for the "social good" rather than to just expound too strongly upon just how much it's not like 1984. Besides, I like Animal Farm a lot better. :)
39. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Kohath · 2019-03-29 09:36 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  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.
40. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 10:26 · Score: -1
  
  Thanks for that information, Anonymous Coward. You are really helping us all become better critical thinkers.
41. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · 2019-03-29 15:53 · Score: 1
  
  I honestly don't know what the fuck Notch did. I know that people are upset with him. I also know that you aren't really weighing whether Notch should "get a pass", it's that you don't feel what he's been accused of is important. Which, depending on what he did, may be a defensible position, but has nothing to do with his experience as a game designer.
  
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42. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by mapkinase · 2019-03-29 23:56 · Score: 1
  
  1984 is scary because the party is controlling everything
  
  Right and since the book was written by a New Age prophet (see what I did here, he did not live in the time of New Age), everything must be and only be in the way he wrote.
  Corporations are not very different from totalitarian states and at some point become indistinguishable.
  That's why they need to be regulated, that's why if you love free speech you must love the government that does not allow this sort of thing. Remember another Marx saying that government is nothing but a gang of armed people. What he did not say is that one gang is always better than many. That's the only way to maintain order.
  And government must stand up for people who are fired for their belief from companies exactly the same way it has laws for people being persecuted by government for their beliefs.
  Free speech does not mean anything when you limit it as "freedom from being persecuted by government".
  
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43. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by mapkinase · 2019-03-30 00:02 · Score: 1
  
  You are a hateful commie piece of shit. Get lost, asshole.
  
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44. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by AmiMoJo · 2019-03-30 02:37 · Score: 1
  
  Strawmanning /and/ gaslighting? I've outdone myself.
  I find it hard to see how Notch is a victim though. He sold the game to Microsoft, willingly giving up control of it. And with 3.7 million followers and a billion in the bank he doesn't seemed to have suffered much.
  "Mild irritation" isn't much of a qualification for victimhood.
  
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45. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 04:49 · Score: 0
  
  Only a NlGGER would try to make someone an unperson for using racial slurs.
46. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Highdude702 · 2019-03-30 05:46 · Score: 1
  
  If Microsoft gave me even 1 billion, they could use me as the fall guy for all their shitty security and should be illegal business practices. Hell I'll even volunteer to go to prison for a year or so!
47. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 07:13 · Score: 0
  
  You might want to think about the style of your argumentation and the logical conclusions that follow.
  There's a difference between defending ideas and rights, and defending Nazis. If a Nazi says something true, is it suddenly wrong because it came from a Nazi?
  One ought to be able to discern identity from truth. They are orthogonal. If you reject the truth because a Nazi says it, are you moral or just an idiot?
48. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by UnknownSoldier · 2019-03-30 07:47 · Score: 2
  
  > That's a pretty priceless strawman, given that while Bill Gates may have a lot of micromanagement tendencies, he wasn't chiefly responsible for a lot of what made Windows, Excel, Word, etc.
  *Facepalm*
  1. Joel says otherwise
  
  "I don't know, you guys," Bill said, "Is anyone really looking into all the details of how to do this? Like, all those date and time functions. Excel has so many date and time functions. Is Basic going to have the same functions? Will they all work the same way?"
  "Yes," I said, "except for January and February, 1900."
  "OK. Well, good work," said Bill. He took his marked up copy of the specand left.
  :
  Bill Gates was amazingly technical. He understood Variants, and COM objects, and IDispatch and why Automation is different than vtables and why this might lead to dual interfaces. He worried about date functions. He didnâ(TM)t meddle in software if he trusted the people who were working on it, but you couldnâ(TM)t bullshit him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer.
  2. Bill Gates personally reviewed every line of code for the first 5 years
  
  During Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well. In the first five years, he personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.
  :
  He finally retired as chief software architect in June 2008,
  Do you actually have ANY clue what a Chief Software Architect (also called CTO Chief Technical Officer) means?
  3. Who co-founded and RAN MS again??? The buck started and stopped with him. He would make announcements of what MS was working on next and would announce when they were ready. While he may have only written a small percentage of the code in the later years he was either directly or indirectly responsible for everything MS did, especially buying software companies and slapping their own MS label on it. Gee, go figure. From the same article previously linked:
  
  He met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers, and was reportedly verbally pugnacious, berating managers for perceived holes in their business strategies that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.
  The point is Bill wasn't some clueless company president. He was VERY much hands on. Especially in the early years.
  This has got to be a new low on /. I'm defending the guy and I hate his business practices! LOL.
49. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-30 08:22 · Score: 0
  
  I was with you until the Civil War shit. Every war has its heroes, on both sides. Trying to wipe the losing side from history is the real problem. Yes, "History is written by the victor," but that's a general truism, not advice or Gospel. We ought to have enough respect for the people we fought to acknowledge their deeds. There were considerable losses on both sides of the war, and both sides deserve credit for their valor.
  If we erase them from history, we rob future generations of the opportunity to learn from it.
  Leave them in museums. Move them. Don't glorify or destroy. I write this as someone born in the South and hated the culture enough to move across the country. A history being unsavory is no reason to pretend it didn't happen.
50. Re:News for nobody. Shit that doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-31 03:07 · Score: 0
  
  I find it hard to see how Notch is a victim though
  Drink! Amimojo doubledowns on talking about his strawman about victimhood as if he never read the post he's replying to telling him that the only one who brought up victimhood here is him!
For all those bayying about whacking the racist by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:00 · Score: 0

He's STILL in the credits!
1. Re:For all those bayying about whacking the racist by Jarwulf · 2019-03-28 17:05 · Score: 1
  
  X company erases Y creator from the splash screen because he supports SSM but he's still in the credits. SD: SCREEECH
2. Re:For all those bayying about whacking the racist by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:34 · Score: 0
  
  so spake martin? as in the list of GRRM's statements on a song of ice and fire?
3. Re:For all those bayying about whacking the racist by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 19:08 · Score: 0
  
  What does "SSM" mean? I couldn't find anything on Google.
  Is that the perverted type of sex that creimer is into?
Minecraft? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:03 · Score: 0

What is a Minecraft?
Is that like a hoover-craft for mines?
1. Re:Minecraft? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 19:15 · Score: 0
  
  LOL! you must be pretty young!
  I would bet that you don't know what a creimer is either!
Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:07 · Score: 0

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.
1. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:08 · Score: 0
  
  Learn to read. Notch is still in the credits, he's just not featured in the random message-of-the-day that pops up in the starting splash screen.
LOL Q SENT ME by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 17:45 · Score: 0

He mentioned QAnon.
VSG GEOTUS President Trump basically did in his rally tonight.
Great times ahead!
Slashdot did the same! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:17 · Score: -1

Slashdot did the same and removed Chris Reimer from the precious and renowned collaborator page after creimer made a video about buiying Slashdot for 3 pennies. That video was then hit by FCLM click bot.
That's actually a typo by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2019-03-28 18:22 · Score: 0

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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1. Re:That's actually a typo by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:55 · Score: -1
  
  My God! Which health issue did he have? Let's hope for him that it wasn't similar to one of the many health issues creimer has.
everybody chill out by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 18:26 · Score: 1

Microsoft paid 2 billion dollars for this game, they can do that.
1. Re:everybody chill out by Just+A+Gigolo · 2019-03-28 18:29 · Score: 1
  
  Notch got over 2 billion dollars on the deal, he can say what the eff he wants on the twitter since outrage mobs cannot touch him.
No official rationale offered for the change ... by fahrbot-bot · 2019-03-28 18:31 · Score: 0

... or why they would want to extinguish all references to Persson.

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Are you sure? by franzrogar · 2019-03-28 18:41 · Score: 1

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'"
1. Re: Are you sure? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:27 · Score: 0
  
  Alright you got me. For $2.5 billion you can replace my name with Anonymous Coward on my birth certificate :) it just feels wrong when it's totally blank...
Re:No official rationale offered for the change .. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 19:30 · Score: -1

I for one sure hope that all references to creimer would be extinguished from the Internet. What a nuisance!
a path to follow by smartphone producers by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 20:40 · Score: 0

If only smartphone producers could follow the path and got rid of notch
duh by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-28 23:50 · Score: 0

thats because blacks commit more crime. how clueless are you?
Re: RedSwastika by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:31 · Score: -1

Thousands of years if people trying to get rid of Jews and all have failed.
You will be no different
Re: RedSwastika by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:34 · Score: -1

Wow, they must be bad if everyone wanted rid of them for thousands of years
Nazis are bad for business by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 00:43 · Score: 0

Sorry, bitches.
1. Re:Nazis are bad for business by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:33 · Score: 0
  
  Lets see who else gets editied from the credits.
Shallow and myopic thinking. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 01:18 · Score: 0

Shallow and myopic thinking.
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Gameboy(R)acist(M)isogynist(H)omophobe by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 01:49 · Score: -1

Are his deplorable views that he believes blacks/women/gays should be allowed to express their views in public?
I could understand if those were his views and you called them deplorable. Good news for you though, it looks like the DNC is going to nominate an old white guy for their nominee, you won't have to be bothered with those other kinds of people in the debates or possibly being president.
Yes, Gameboy was telling me censoring gay/blacks/women, with violence, was such a minor thing it shouldn't even be noted in stats or mentioned. He thinks only old white guys should be giving public speeches.
Re: RedSwastika by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:27 · Score: -1

You get yourself kicked out of 109 countries then maybe you are the problem. Not the hosts you seek to subvert.
Red What by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:29 · Score: 0

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.
Re: Considering he turned out to be an alt-right w by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:37 · Score: 0

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.
Re: RedSwastika by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 02:58 · Score: -1

You are so #jelly of us. We have the mark of kings, kiddo. (And extra 2 inches longer cock on average). So when your women find out, they cum running to us.
A lot more, (I mean a LOT) more of you have a Jew in your ancestry than you would guess.
Killing and hating Jews is like hating yourself.
Re: Considering he turned out to be an alt-right w by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:01 · Score: 0

He exploited children by selling them a shitty video game. What a man!
CREIMER ALERT by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 03:15 · Score: -1

WARNING CREIMER JOKE
The REAL question by Bruce66423 · 2019-03-29 03:34 · Score: 1

https://babylonbee.com/news/en...
Re: Considering he turned out to be an alt-right w by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:02 · Score: 0

He exploited children? Do you even listen to yourself? I think you might seriously have a chemical imbalance. See a doctor.
An idea by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:24 · Score: 0

Maybe somebody should contact Missing Perssons.
Tim Stack by Cill · 2019-03-29 04:35 · Score: 1

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."
1. Re:Tim Stack by ItsJustAPseudonym · 2019-03-29 06:56 · Score: 1
  
  "Come to Malibu Adjacent, and you'll swear you didn't know it wasn't Malibu."
Made by a great white man by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 04:42 · Score: 0

Bought by a Jew.
Fuck you.
Re: RedSwastika by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 05:12 · Score: 0

Unfortunately, circumcision takes off 3 inches.
110813! is fairly innocuous. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 07:44 · Score: 0

110813! is fairly innocuous. That it happens to reference a wedding anniversary shouldn't threaten MS's ownership claims.
Sex-positive (Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 08:46 · Score: 0

I give. I can't keep up. Wtf is sex positive?
1. Re:Sex-positive (Re: RedPill by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 09:31 · Score: 0
  
  > I give. I can't keep up. Wtf is sex positive?
  Means straight males should be allowed to have sex with women.
And yet he IS the creator. He did CREATE it. by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 12:06 · Score: 0

And yet he IS the creator. He did CREATE it.
Re: RedSwastika by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 13:09 · Score: 0

Killing and hating Jews is like hating yourself.
So youre saying theyre acting like jews?
Re: Red by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 15:32 · Score: 0

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.
Re: RedSwastika by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-29 23:32 · Score: 0

> we have the mark of kings
Is that what youâ(TM)re calling your noses now?