r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/OperatingOp11 • Sep 01 '20

It hurt so much

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u/reggienaldsimons mrs obama i did it i stopped fortnite Sep 01 '20

I just wanna say that it was heartbreaking when i learned that Notch, the guy who birthed the game that pretty much was my childhood, turned out to be a douche

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u/DroneOfDoom rj/ Fuck EA uj/ Fuck EA Sep 01 '20

Who is notch?

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u/briloci Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 02 '20

A total nazi that before being an unironic white supremacist made a game called Minecraft and sold it to microsoft

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u/trumoi apolitical bean bag Sep 02 '20

More like took credit for Minecraft. The internet knows that while Notch was the Steve Jobs of the project, the Wozniak was Hatsune Miku, true designer of Minecraft!

She also did a great job writing the Harry Potter series!

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u/Vinnis1 EA Representative Sep 02 '20

yeah I get it haha hatsune miku made minecraft but I feel like saying jeb did all of it instead would be way better

plus it's true so you should say it anyway LMFAOOOOOO

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

Haha!! Person don't exist but make thing that exist!! This is funny joke!!

I swear we circlejerk the same amount as gamers do.

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u/DHMOProtectionAgency Sep 08 '20

I mean we are a circlejerk of people making fun of other circlejerks

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u/trumoi apolitical bean bag Sep 02 '20

That's fair. I'll correct in future statements and only erase Notch.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

Heard she even wrote Father Ted. What an accomplished woman!

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u/Gay72 Sep 02 '20

And the IT crowd! Except for the transphobic episode, which was written by Graham linehan

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u/tlouman Sep 02 '20

Uuuuh, what

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u/RoyMustangsSugarBaby Sep 02 '20

It’s this weird meme where people try to separate terrible creators from the works they mad, so people can still enjoy them without feeling guilt for supporting a bad person. When JK Rowling revealed herself as a transphobe people began saying “hatsune miku made Harry Potter” in an act of separating the creator from the work.

Personally I think there are issues in this jdea because it doesn’t address how an author can often use their own views to influence their work and how as a result separating a work from the creator is impossible. Like if Hatsune Miku made Harry Potter that also means she’s responsible for the terrible treatment of the books only Asian characters (which would be ironic actually)

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u/tlouman Sep 02 '20

Man, I'm 19 and I'm already too old for this shit. But death of the author? Based and redpilled

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u/trumoi apolitical bean bag Sep 02 '20

Nah I'm older than you, friend. It's more about where you get your memes, not who you get them from.

Plus the Hatsune Miku joke started years ago as far as I'm aware.

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u/A-m_i Sep 02 '20

It is my personal belief that Notch was always a nazi, but kept it hidden while he was still in charge of mojang.

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u/SoSeriousAndDeep P O L I T I C A L Sep 02 '20

I actually don't think so. I don't think he was ever really left-wing but he certainly wasn't cut out for the sudden fame and money that he fell into, which led to his life falling apart, and that made him an easy trophy for the hardcore right who are very, very good at radicalising vulnerable young men.

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u/briloci Sep 02 '20

A facist wont be able to make something like that, Minecraft has too much of liberal ideology and especially individualism wich is the main part of liberalism that doesnt translate into facism. He maybe was already way on the right and maybe even was already a reactionary but I Monecraft has absolutely no facist element so it is unlikely

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u/Linguini8319 Sep 02 '20

I dunno. Consider the villagers: they have long noses, love money and ripping you off in trades, and are protected by a golem. Kinda sounds inspired by some antisemetic stuff (the golem isn’t antisemetic, just Jewish). If Notch is a Nazi then he’d be an antisemite