Has he got a point?

Has he got a point?

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>dat backpedaling

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>putting his opinions as facts and wondering why people are saying he is shit

Pearl clutch somewhere else, shithead.

If all you see in an action game is "killing a bunch a people" then you're choosing to ignore context.

>gross

How old is this guy?

How did he post them as facts? They clearly just opinions.

Talented devs make interesting games.

As it so happens, no one at E3 this year is talented.

>by an obviously true statement?

jesus, I can smell the smug from all the way over here

An opinion isn't "a true statement", it's an opinion

these faggots keep whining because video games are always about beating and/or shooting the fuck out of people but I've never seen one of them come up with other ideas that weren't shitty walking simulators

>I am not saying anything about video games causing violence of not
what's the problem then you fucking dipshit, there are some games out there that don't involve killing people, if you can't enjoy those either just stop playing video games and do something else, there is so much stuff you can spend your time on but instead you're forcing yourself to play/screech about video games you don't seem to enjoy

fuck off already

>by an obviously true statement

the part where he says

>by an obviously true statement

I didn't even see that tweet, i'm a fucking idiot.

He literally called his opinion an obviously true statement are you blind

>Why are so threatened by an obviously true statement?

Why should he be the arbiter of what kinds of fantasies are or aren't 'gross'? I think scat stuff seems gross, but I wouldn't give a damn whether or not video game companies catered to scat fetishists or not. Just because I find it repugnant doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. The exception might be child porn stuff. I heard somewhere that that sort of stuff is more likely to make pedos molest kids than keep them from molesting kids.

I think he blows something else aside from Jonathan

Yeah I fucked up

Post games that aren't murder simulators. Here, I'll start.

Blow can relate to Rusty, I'm sure.

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I'd rather play a game where you murder people over a line puzzle book.

Jackie Chan

It is pretty fuckin' cool, though

>implying basement dwellers on a Lao etching board are more mature than a guy who runs his own game studio

hey, guess what, I have testicles

I quite like playing games where I murder niggas

Any of the dozens of stealth games where you can beat it by only stunning enemies instead of killing them.

>why do people make murder fantasies fun
>actually tweets that he enjoys playing shooters
He deserves all the shit he's getting for that bullshit.

The most worthless camo paint application ever

>Like, is it so hard to at least allow a question about whether something is a good idea?

I wasn't aware being called an ignorant jackass for trying to pass off ignorant opinions was making it "difficult" to ask questions.

At least we aren't trying to be the pontificates of morality.

I laughed way harder than this idea deserved, but it's sort of true. The industry (maybe all culture) is stuck in a creative rut where nothing is happening. No one in power has a sincere vision that isn't about printing normiebux or pushing a political agenda.

Post Notchs response

>I'm saying, if you enjoy fantasizing about stabbing people in the neck, that is kind of gross

>20 years ago, radical conservatives wanted to get rid of video games
>now, radical left wingers want to get rid of video games
what the fuck happened

I'm not fantasizing, only simulating. Are actors gross too?

wow.. really makes you think

but what if I like killing people?

I do infact fantasize about stabbing blow in the neck.

But I expect thats common

Why does he even make games then? Get out of the industry if you hate it so much.

Did you guys know that violence happened before video games existed? Weird, right?

I like to read. It's probably the only hobby I spend as much time on as vidya.

When I was about 16 I read Don Quixote. It was my father's favorite novel, and so I read it, and enjoyed it. It was a bit of a slog at parts, after all it's a 400 year old Spanish novel translated into English with 3-4 footnotes on every page. I still laughed a lot and was surprised at how well the humor holds up. It's a fucking important piece of the history of literature and deserves respect...

When I was in college I took a literature class as a blow off. Something to pad out my average and unwind, since I had always loved reading. The teacher (who introduced herself as a feminist on the first day) asked us what our favorite novels were.

Now, back then I was a little insecure. I was 19, in a new city with new people, so I wanted to sound smart. I said Don Quixote. The real answer at the time was Snow Crash, but I thought mentioning such a classic might make me seem smart. It was pretentious and I've grown up since then, but that's what I did, sue me.

The teacher went into a ten minute long condescending discussion about how problematic Don Quixote is. How worthless it was. How the fulcrum of its comedy was laughing at a man who is suffering from delusions, and how him being the subject of comedy is damaging to the mentally ill. She tore down an important piece of the history of literature because it didn't fit within her modern liberal sensibilities. It didn't matter that the book had so much more, in her mind it was garbage because the joke was a mental illness the author couldn't have even known existed.

These people are fucking maniacs so detached from reality they might as well fight some racist windmills.

Nothing. Radicals despise all forms of media and expression because they are a vehicle for ideas that are not their own. And they wish to quash those opposing ideas so that theirs are the only ones and can be forced upon others.

This is true no matter where they fall on a political spectrum

twitter.com/notch/status/742254757864038400

Fictional Morality is a thing, there is nothing weird or twisted about it.

What a typical beta faggot.

>dat gradual backdown
Until what he's saying is completely aside from what he once said.

The games still have killing in them, doesn't count.
Burger Time doesn't count because the burgers used to be cows and they were killed.
Tetris doesn't count because you're mercilessly destroying those blocks.
Dance Dance Revolution doesn't count because you're killing it on the dance floor.

Is this even real?
I wouldn't normally say something like this, but holy shit what a fucking cuck.

>So far EA has been the only ones not wear those rainbow ribbons

That's some pottery right there

Fuck guys, after playing Braid I feel completely amazing. I crushed some dudes head in and then reversed time over and over to do it again and again. This is a great game to appeal to sadists such as myself :D

>gross

that's the SJW word

It's funny how quick it looped from everyone kicking out Jack Thompson with "We want our violent games! It's just pixels, it can't hurt you" to Anita "Remove this filth, it shames women" right back to "This game is violent, we're raising mass murders! Ban this shit" but all the journalist just go along with it without realizing the irony

The liberal cuckold movement happened.

What you call pushing a political agenda is only seen negatively because it's done poorly, in a crass and blunt manner. If a work raises questions and then answers them it's not necessarily pushing an agenda, just getting the author's own opinion or worldview across to an audience.

Written like a true shithead, but yeah, pretending to kill people is a mildly fucked up hobby to have.

I'm even willing to bet that there is in fact some shaky correlation between video games and IRL killstreaks, just like there's a correlation between gluten and some people shitting their brains out. You have to have something weird going on in your ass to be suscepitble.

Still, it's wicked cool

but i don't fantasize about that kinda stuff
i just like vidyagames

Damn. My English teacher just let us watch movies in class since he was a reviewer.

>you will never shitpost and laugh at retards on twitter with notch while stuffing your face with the mountain of candy he has in his mansion

Oceania was always at war with Eurasia.

I wanna stab that cunt in the neck. How much of a bitch do you have to be to make these kinds of posts and actually believe them? Geez.

>People like things I dont like. Waaaahhhh!!

>I have to exclusively use subjective language when discussing an objective "fact," because everything I say is just vague justification for my agenda, with no regard given to the details of how or why I come to my conclusions.
These people literally use the [STEP 1, ???, PROFIT!] formula.

I respect you because you actually read El Quijote,user

>Dance Dance Revolution doesn't count because you're killing it on the dance floor.

>Implying Braid wasn't a fluke.
>Implying Jonathan Blow wasn't always a pretentious numale on a high horse.
Link related:
insomnia.ac/reviews/xbox360/braid/page_01.php

I want to punch Blow so hard.

And Jesus Christ, that last name is just so limp-wristingly faggy.

This is reversing the chain of events. People who are already fucked up might enjoy killing people in video games then graduate to actual killings.

But correlation is not causation.

sjws happened but according to some in Sup Forums(don't know where they're really from)
Sjws are just a boogeyman

I worry about the next generation of English professors. The only ones that are cool are the really old ones that care about teaching historically significant and influential works, and what is good prose. And those ones are retiring and dying off.

If only profs could choose their successors.

>Not that you'd know.
Based fat guy.

i think anyone that wants to talk about ethics of video game violence needs to beat drakengard

I wanna retire and just shitpost on twitter all day

youtube.com/watch?v=eTdgHsifK38

>Not that you'd know

>Hey guise Im gonna talk about vdya developers making mass murder fantasy games in teh wake of an actual mass murder in the same country and then wonder why some people might take issue with the timing

Jonathon, if you're reading this, you're a fucking faggot.

It is an issue of bad writing/world design, with zero subtlety or nuance. They may as well have morality tutorials, secular sermons on the word of the crowd as truth and light to lead the way.

>Demeaning the death of 50 people to push your garbage political beliefs on the public, then not even being able to stand beside your turd.

Wow what a fucking faggot. Fucker doesn't care about the people that died, he just cares about people liking what he doesn't like.

Fucking Notch. Living the dream

wow Notch is really handing the BTFOs left and right.
how can one person be so based.

We all do, man.
We all do.

>that reading copmprehension
At no point did he backpedal
That being said i disagree with him, there's nothing wrong with having fun killing people in a video game

I really like notch now that he's retired.

Holy fuck.
Blow is going to need medical attention after being rekt that hard.

If he thinks his first statement, and his last statement have anything to do with each other, then maybe it HIM who has something wrong

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His last name is Blow.

He has no credibility.

Based notch, singlehandedly saving Sweden from complete cuckoldry.

Liberals are the people who are more offended and worried about people killing digital humans in a video game than muslims/non-whites murdering people in real life because one of those things conflicts with their obnoxious world view and the other doesn't.

You remember wrong user, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

are you a spy user? Thoughtpolice says you are

blown
the
fuck
out

>gross

Why do you guys get so triggered by this word.

did he hire someone to do twitter for him? He never had a sense of humor before last week

>Like,

is he a 16 year old girl?

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Did you read anything by Doyle? Currently reading The Sign of the Four. Shit is great.

>how can one person be so based.

He doesn't have to worry abour upsetting some PC faggot SJWs who michgt try to get him fired.

So he can basically say exactly what he thinks with no fucks given.

I envy notch. With all those billions, comes freedom from Politically Correct slavery.

Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing. The tweets are great now, but the change was so sudden.

>Don't drag me into your mire of intentional delusion.
Beautiful.

Who the fuck is Johnathan Blow?

>He never had a sense of humor before last week

Notch isn't joking.He's stating facts.

Also, games don't sell the mass murder fantasy. They sell the treasure hunter fantasy. They sell the espionage fantasy. At "worst" they sell a war fantasy. Only one game in recent memory sold the mass murderer fantasy, and that was hatred. That games got tons of shit. So I don't understand how he can say that.