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The constant stream of little quips and inside jokes that endear you and I to things also can be off-putting and drive outsiders away. I am sorry but I've spent

The constant stream of little quips and inside jokes that endear you and I to things also can be off-putting and drive outsiders away. I am sorry but I've spent my years explaining so many strange things that nobody understands like "Guru Meditation," and it's not really funny any more when you have to keep explaining the joke. And those are just the little innocent gags, it's much much worse when the joke is disparaging someone. It also doesn't seem like this was written by some random open source contributor, it seems it was done by the maintainers, who are being paid to work on it by their patrons. They absolutely do have to answer to those patrons. While people seem to like to assign all blame for things on twitter commentators for whatever reason, it's likely the actions they took are the result of feedback from the patrons.

enriquto 6y ago
> I am sorry but I've spent my years explaining so many strange things that nobody understands like "Guru Meditation," and it's not really funny any more when you have to keep explaining the joke. New people are born every day and we have to explain to them a lot of well-known things, again and again. This is how everything works, not only humor. I do not want to lose great things like "guru meditation" just because some people like you are tired of explaining them.
- cycloptic 6y ago
  I don't know you mean by lose, the original Guru Meditation is already long gone. If you have your own thing and you want to keep the joke alive by spending your time fielding a bunch of support requests from confused users asking what "Guru Meditation" means then be my guest, I can't take that away from you. My feeling is just that if you change that message from "Guru Meditation" to "you are an ass hat" or something rude like that, you will probably get many more complaints.
Tabular-Iceberg 6y ago
> And those are just the little innocent gags, it's much much worse when the joke is disparaging someone. This may be a stupid question, but why is it such a bad thing that they are disparaged? Maybe Godot doesn't want them as patrons, and are they even contributing that much?

enriquto 6y ago

> I am sorry but I've spent my years explaining so many strange things that nobody understands like "Guru Meditation," and it's not really funny any more when you have to keep explaining the joke. New people are born every day and we have to explain to them a lot of well-known things, again and again. This is how everything works, not only humor. I do not want to lose great things like "guru meditation" just because some people like you are tired of explaining them.

cycloptic 6y ago
I don't know you mean by lose, the original Guru Meditation is already long gone. If you have your own thing and you want to keep the joke alive by spending your time fielding a bunch of support requests from confused users asking what "Guru Meditation" means then be my guest, I can't take that away from you. My feeling is just that if you change that message from "Guru Meditation" to "you are an ass hat" or something rude like that, you will probably get many more complaints.

Tabular-Iceberg 6y ago

> And those are just the little innocent gags, it's much much worse when the joke is disparaging someone. This may be a stupid question, but why is it such a bad thing that they are disparaged? Maybe Godot doesn't want them as patrons, and are they even contributing that much?