Al Jourgensen has spent his whole life trying to piss everyone off at some time or other, but I think his black, fetid heart is mostly in the right place.
He also wrote the Texan Pride anthem. He’s sort of an anthemy guy.
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It’s nice to think that some of my teenage idols are still people I might look up to.
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Hello, just a short note on Minecraft creator (mind you, I am a Luddite-ey exhippie in her 60s).
He apparently embraced QAnon, HRC devouring baby brains or blood, DT is actually a “Patriot” conspiracy delusion.
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I would be literally plastered to a inactive volcano in a temperate sunny climate such as Central Mexico mojito and a huato. Then I’d go to a remote Pacific island and scuba.,
But also would spend 99% of $$$ on wiping out a horrific foster system (do NOT ask me how!)for kids then every unwanted dog and cat…
Oh THEnnnnnnn, I’d hang out with elephants at a isolated sanctuary, then dive with the whales The VERY last thing I would do would be replying to trolls on twitter or FB…AND embracing Qanon… Great scads of money always isolate-look at all the lotto losers…the trick is getting the “right mount”…how much is that I wonder.
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Oh, 100%. It’s true to some degree with every successful indie game (that is, every game that doesn’t have a marketing budget), and especially true for a first successful indie game. He absolutely stumbled on the hit due to the community, probably without really understanding how or why. It was clear from the start that without the community, the game wouldn’t have been particularly big, much less the monster hit it was.
Eh, the thing is, unlike most (or really, all) creatives in that situation, he made enough money that he never had to make another game. Follow-up project problems are about trying to maintain a career, but he didn’t need to maintain a career - he was in the position to make games (or not) to please only himself.
A lot of “famous” game developers only have one (very modest, in comparison) hit game, despite working in the industry for decades, and this is pretty normal. There’s really not the same kind of name recognition you get with authors or directors, and there aren’t the same expectations. So even when developers still need to be working, the dynamics feel quite different from other mediums. In cases where a developer had a big enough hit they didn’t need to work again, they often use the money to fund studios, where they oversee things more than get their hands dirty with development.
Though it’s a lot easier to separate Notch from his work, as it built on someone else’s work, and then accidentally stumbled into success (with the help of his community).
That lets people off the hook when they don’t have to be. There were progressives 200 years ago. There were people whose attitudes would be considered “enlightened” even today. Their understanding of issues may have been different (because it hadn’t been developed yet), but the empathy and the desire to understand was there. They also may not have been in the majority, but a majority of people have shitty attitudes today and we can hold it against them. It’s simply a lot easier for people to (publicly) hold the positions that were more remarkable 200 years ago.
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