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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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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (15 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

[–] Triti@lemmy.world 44 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 1 day 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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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it's an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing

I love when I hear folks do this. It always gives me a little wholesome bump that it's from reading.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is bigot pronounced "bih-got" or "bih-go?" 🤔

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[–] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 113 points 3 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 91 points 3 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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 34 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] ampy@discuss.online 10 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

He did? Weird, never mentioned it.

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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I don’t like him. Never have, never will.

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[–] teletext@reddthat.com 45 points 3 days ago (5 children)

He's still financially involved with the publisher.

Don't review bomb them, just don't buy from them.

[–] Noerknhar@feddit.org 36 points 3 days ago (8 children)

That's not the right thing to do.

There are more people behind the publisher than him. He's not big enough of a douche to make them all pay for it.

Impact is there, he got what he asked for. We're done here.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Review bomb where? On their page they link to Steam, where they have one released game (95% positive) and two demos (one unrated, second 90% positive).

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 21 points 3 days ago

Drama aside, I'm just glad to read the goal was reached. Hopefully something comes of the effort.

[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago
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