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I hope they can handle this unlike Notch (Minecraft) - reckoned becoming a billionaire overnight ruined his life.

by tibbydudeza 4y ago

ilyt 4y ago
It looks more like it showed that he's an asshole to entirety of the world. Ruining he did of his own
- Minor49er 4y ago
  I heard he gave millions of dollars to his dev team. What did he do wrong?
  - brianwawok 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson There is a Controversial Views section
  - jedberg 4y ago
    He said some pretty awful stuff about race and gender on Twitter.
    - decremental 4y ago
      No he didn't.
      - jedberg 4y ago
        He said he found gay pride parades offensive, suggested that there should be hetero parades in response, and then said that anyone that disagrees with him should be shot. He's certainly entitled to his opinions on being offended by pride parades, but suggesting those that don't agree should be shot certainly crosses the line. That is just one example. He also has been very anti-trans.
        decremental 4y ago
        Here's some stuff I found. > In 2017, he voiced his support for Gamergate, an alt-right and sexist movement that largely targeted women, LGBTQ, and other minority groups in the industry. At the time, he referred to feminism as a “social disease,” claiming on Twitter that feminists were “overtly sexist against men.” At one point, Persson said that anyone who opposed “heterosexual pride day” should be “shot” and also tweeted “It’s okay to be white” after claiming groups pushing for more diversity and calling out white supremacy were being racist against white people. > Persson followed that up just a few days later with a series of transphobic comments in which he suggested that trans men and women were “mentally ill.” Aside from the thing about "should be shot", which is stupid, I agree with a lot of those takes from him. Heterosexual day is cringe though just like homosexual day is. His Q comments were cringe too, aside from his related comments telling people they shouldn't trust the media. In other words he's just a normal person who holds views everyone in the world held until 5 minutes ago.
        jedberg 4y ago
        > In other words he's just a normal person who holds views everyone in the world held until 5 minutes ago. You're either being disingenuous or live in a very small information bubble, because the majority of the world never held those opinions in the entire history of the planet.
        decremental 4y ago
        The majority of the world held those opinions for the entire history of the planet. In fact, the majority of the world still does. On the topic of bubbles, maybe western liberalism isn't as ubiquitous as it feels from within.
        mosseater 4y ago
        I disagree with his opinion too, but he's not lying. The majority of the world has and still does hold those opinions. The world is still very anti-LGBT outside of the western culture bubble. And even in countries that are westernized, they are often still anti-LGBT even if their governments and media are pushing people not to be. It's a very sad state of affairs. I mean, just 16 years ago I was marching for the right for gay people to get married in the US. We've come a long way but there is a long way to go.
    - copperwater69 4y ago
    - DeetrixDotter 4y ago
  - cokeandpepsi 4y ago
    got caughtup in the gamergate/qanon drama and it's all downhill from there imo once you lose your anchors to reality and social media becomes your world your mind is gone there's just so much contradiction and noise
  - Macha 4y ago
    Burned some bridges in personal relationships and then went deep into qanon stuff.
  - xwdv 4y ago
    Had the wrong opinions.
  - DeetrixDotter 4y ago
- e_i_pi_2 4y ago
  Just curious - what was the evidence for this before the success? I don't think people are really built to handle that much power over other people, seems like anyone that gets that much money goes down basically the same path: - Vastly different wealth makes you unable to relate to normal people - You have to justify that somehow to yourself and maybe others - The easiest answer is that you're successful because you deserve it and that means other people also deserve their relative failure - Resentment builds and you treat people differently because you see them as both failing and deserving of their failure, instead of through the lens of luck that would take away all the ego credit you built up from your perceived success This happens in pretty much every category - top athletes think they trained harder, executives think they have a better business mind, etc. Seems like artists are the most likely ones to realize that they just got lucky and can't really claim much credit. There was a great article from the creator on the end poem in Minecraft recently about this - they literally wrote the poem but attributed it to luck/god/muses/pick-your-magical-force so didn't feel justified in claiming the royalties even though they could sue Microsoft for a DMCA violation on every copy of the game sold
- tibbydudeza 4y ago
  Just like Elon - he has always been a racist and homophobic douche but being a billionaire rather amplified it.
flippinburgers 4y ago
Unnecessary tangent.
- tibbydudeza 4y ago
  And we are all thankful that Minecraft team is now in the safe hands of Microsoft and not Notch - it seems he was always an arsehole but it was overlooked and also forgiven because of his most wonderful creation. Kind reminds me of Tesla and it's CEO - starry eyed you can be but he revealed himself to be a racist homophobe.

I hope they can handle this unlike Notch (Minecraft) - reckoned becoming a billionaire overnight ruined his life.

ilyt 4y ago

It looks more like it showed that he's an asshole to entirety of the world. Ruining he did of his own

Minor49er 4y ago
I heard he gave millions of dollars to his dev team. What did he do wrong?
- brianwawok 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson There is a Controversial Views section
- jedberg 4y ago
  He said some pretty awful stuff about race and gender on Twitter.
  - decremental 4y ago
    No he didn't.
    - jedberg 4y ago
      He said he found gay pride parades offensive, suggested that there should be hetero parades in response, and then said that anyone that disagrees with him should be shot. He's certainly entitled to his opinions on being offended by pride parades, but suggesting those that don't agree should be shot certainly crosses the line. That is just one example. He also has been very anti-trans.
      - decremental 4y ago
        Here's some stuff I found. > In 2017, he voiced his support for Gamergate, an alt-right and sexist movement that largely targeted women, LGBTQ, and other minority groups in the industry. At the time, he referred to feminism as a “social disease,” claiming on Twitter that feminists were “overtly sexist against men.” At one point, Persson said that anyone who opposed “heterosexual pride day” should be “shot” and also tweeted “It’s okay to be white” after claiming groups pushing for more diversity and calling out white supremacy were being racist against white people. > Persson followed that up just a few days later with a series of transphobic comments in which he suggested that trans men and women were “mentally ill.” Aside from the thing about "should be shot", which is stupid, I agree with a lot of those takes from him. Heterosexual day is cringe though just like homosexual day is. His Q comments were cringe too, aside from his related comments telling people they shouldn't trust the media. In other words he's just a normal person who holds views everyone in the world held until 5 minutes ago.
        jedberg 4y ago
        > In other words he's just a normal person who holds views everyone in the world held until 5 minutes ago. You're either being disingenuous or live in a very small information bubble, because the majority of the world never held those opinions in the entire history of the planet.
        decremental 4y ago
        The majority of the world held those opinions for the entire history of the planet. In fact, the majority of the world still does. On the topic of bubbles, maybe western liberalism isn't as ubiquitous as it feels from within.
        mosseater 4y ago
        I disagree with his opinion too, but he's not lying. The majority of the world has and still does hold those opinions. The world is still very anti-LGBT outside of the western culture bubble. And even in countries that are westernized, they are often still anti-LGBT even if their governments and media are pushing people not to be. It's a very sad state of affairs. I mean, just 16 years ago I was marching for the right for gay people to get married in the US. We've come a long way but there is a long way to go.
  - copperwater69 4y ago
  - DeetrixDotter 4y ago
- cokeandpepsi 4y ago
  got caughtup in the gamergate/qanon drama and it's all downhill from there imo once you lose your anchors to reality and social media becomes your world your mind is gone there's just so much contradiction and noise
- Macha 4y ago
  Burned some bridges in personal relationships and then went deep into qanon stuff.
- xwdv 4y ago
  Had the wrong opinions.
- DeetrixDotter 4y ago
e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Just curious - what was the evidence for this before the success? I don't think people are really built to handle that much power over other people, seems like anyone that gets that much money goes down basically the same path: - Vastly different wealth makes you unable to relate to normal people - You have to justify that somehow to yourself and maybe others - The easiest answer is that you're successful because you deserve it and that means other people also deserve their relative failure - Resentment builds and you treat people differently because you see them as both failing and deserving of their failure, instead of through the lens of luck that would take away all the ego credit you built up from your perceived success This happens in pretty much every category - top athletes think they trained harder, executives think they have a better business mind, etc. Seems like artists are the most likely ones to realize that they just got lucky and can't really claim much credit. There was a great article from the creator on the end poem in Minecraft recently about this - they literally wrote the poem but attributed it to luck/god/muses/pick-your-magical-force so didn't feel justified in claiming the royalties even though they could sue Microsoft for a DMCA violation on every copy of the game sold
tibbydudeza 4y ago
Just like Elon - he has always been a racist and homophobic douche but being a billionaire rather amplified it.

flippinburgers 4y ago

Unnecessary tangent.

tibbydudeza 4y ago
And we are all thankful that Minecraft team is now in the safe hands of Microsoft and not Notch - it seems he was always an arsehole but it was overlooked and also forgiven because of his most wonderful creation. Kind reminds me of Tesla and it's CEO - starry eyed you can be but he revealed himself to be a racist homophobe.