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I'm pretty sure this is the same guy who was ranting about Godot "being woke" last year lol

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

His defense of Godot and his stance on the attacks, seem very reasonable and correct: Clip 1, Clip 2. Nothing like what you remember, OP.

Separating from Off Brand Games to protect them of the fallout of his opinions and public exposure also seems like a correct decision.

Edit: fixed second link

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Just a heads up, your two clips are linking to the same vid

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 22 hours ago

Oh thanks, the second clip is actually here. I'll fix it in parent in a minute.

[–] Cossty@lemmy.world 140 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't like pirate software like any other guy, but I want to put credit where credit is due.

He wasn't ranting about Godot being woke last year. He was actually actively defending it from all the bigots. One of the very few YouTubers or streamers, I saw.

You have probably mistaken him with Asmongold. He has long hair too, and he is right wing nutjob pos.

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago

Wait, did PirateSoftware rant about wokeness, or are you confusing him with fellow failed game dev Grummz?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 23 hours ago

That actually happened, but not from this PirateSoftware guy. The anti-woke godoters made their own fork, Redot, which, as you might have expected, doesn't do jack shit other than offering cosmetic changes

[–] ampy@discuss.online 10 points 1 day ago

I guess they woke up and made a good open source game engine?

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (17 children)

So... I actually tinker around in Godot.

Whilst looking around to see if anyone had, or was developing an extension I would find useful...

I discovered 'Redot'.

Basically, there is a small but very vocal group of people who are very, very angry that a Godot community manager made some pro LGBT, inclusive twitter posts, turned that into a culture war flare up on twitter...

And then forked Godot.

To make the anti-woke version of Godot.

Their youtube channel has, as best I can tell, absolutely no descriptions of any substantial differences from... you know, an actual game engine feature set perspective.

Beyond of course being behind Godot now, lol.

What they do have is a bunch of rants about politics and edrama for their 'non-political' game engine.

Also... they pronounce Redot as Re-Dot, hard t.

Godot is Godot as in Waiting for Godot.

Go - Dough. God - Oh.

The t is silent.

... of course these idiots are literally uncultured and have never read the screenplay or seen the stage play, so they have no idea how to pronounce the word.

Could have gone with Re - Do, or Re - Dough, those would have been closer, the first at least an obvious allusion to them being a Godot fork.

But no. Re Dot.

smdh

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

Perhaps Thor is Pozzo.

[–] Triti@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Okay, as much as I approve of mocking bigots, I didn't pronounce "Godot" properly for a few years because I had never heard the name spoken before. I'd only ever read it.

Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it's an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing. Typically, people receptive to learning will try to correct themselves when it's pointed out. I'm very self conscious of this because I'm awful at pronouncing words.

But for folks like this, yeah, mock the hell out of them.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Also, “dot” with a hard T is like super common in programming naming. It’s a pretty reasonable mistake to make.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 33 points 1 day ago

They got 6, count them SIX, negative reviews in one day. Such review bombing, indeed.

[–] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The review bombing is another fabrication:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2217000/Rivals_of_Aether_II/?curator_clanid=45028385

It seems like a minor influx of recent negative reviews. Most likely they didn't want his current status in the public perception to work against the marketing push they wanted from him.

Because let's be real, "director of strategy" doesn't seem accurate for someone who is obviously just an influencer marketing your game to his large audience.

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 93 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Had a look at Offbrand Games' games and none of them have recent review bombs. I really have no clue what PirateSoftware is talking about.

I'm not surprised he was pushed out for fear of such review bombs, but I'm not seeing any evidence of them actually existing as he alleges.

[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

He's making shit up, as always.

[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Pretty weird guy, honestly. Seems competent, but spends too much time complaining about other people instead of working on his own stuff.

[–] gurnu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Exactly, seems competent. But only seems, he's a narcissistic nepobaby who just can't admit he's in the wrong be it in video games or real life.

I just can't understand why anyone would follow a piece of shit like him

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[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Woah, how can you say that? Don't you know he worked for blizzard!

[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 4 points 18 hours ago

Blizzard's last good release was Overwatch (2016), which they have subsequently completely ruined (in my opinion) so I wouldn't be proud of having worked there unless it was a long time ago 😅

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

He did? Weird, never mentioned it.

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