Small, weak people need an excuse for why they feel so small. One that deflects the blame from where it truly belongs--on them, for lacking the strength and courage to be better than they are. For lacking the spine to take a more difficult, more noble road.
So just believe it's not your fault, it's some mighty shadowy conspiracy thing of great darkness. Not just you being a coward and weakling. Much more preferable.
What was the saying? Don’t assume malice when it could be incompetence? Especially when malice requires a John Wick level of shadow organisation?
I think it's
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
I'm not sure I understand what's happening here, but I'm looking forward to the five hour hbomberguy video explaining the whole thing in about 8 years.
It's gamergate 2.0: electric boogaloo
It definitely smells like that, except maybe just anti-"woke" or anti-minorities instead of just anti-women?
Awesome writeup. I had heard that some very special individuals were trying to paint this company as "pro-woke", and therefore any game they touched should be avoided -- and that's obviously going to be nonsense, but it's good to see the full story.
Some ordinary gamers had a nice video about those racists.
Yeh I saw the same video. Right now there are tons of youtube videos made by different gamers (this past week) that have been expressing their dislike over how SBI have been terrorizing companies to hired them. Good this is coming back to the surface again so we are aware of these business practices.
When I was still buying new games, I've had development studios I preferred, and others I avoided. Those were simpler times (and simpler games), when one small studio did everything.
Later, additional external companies got involved, and some tried to hide their presence. I remember when The Adventure Company started using a very customer unfriendly sort of copy protection, and I started using a list of affectted games, so that I could avoid them.
These days, multiple companies are involved with game design. As a consumer, it's only normal that I'd like to know who had their hands on developing a game I'd be interested in. I haven't played any games Sweet Baby was involved with, but if I did and had a strong opinion (negative or positive) about their work, I'd appreciate a list of games they worked on, to make a purchase choice that would suit me best.
that's why i play indie games, but mostly cuz im poor
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