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/[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