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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

amazing work they've achieved so far though

yes, that's the complete change set for the fork

oh and a Godot discord moderator turned out to be extremely into dropping n-words in chat

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 12 points 21 hours ago

This is fucking hilarious. GIT is my favorite blockchain

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 20 hours ago

I have no idea what set the drama off btw, I have not really looked into it (could it be that this mod you are talking about was the unofficial mod the godot communication was talking about? Or is that a different mod? And did the redot (wait, re.? please tell me it isn't a reference to the reeeee thing) people really pick the side of the n-word mod?)

I did see that the guy who started redot basically only forked it and then went 'any devs wanna take over this fork?' Very I started the wiki, without even starting a wiki.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 16 hours ago
[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 16 hours ago
[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Apologies for crappy nitpicking on my part, but 4chan millennials really gotta learn to let go of impact font.

[-] self@awful.systems 8 points 16 hours ago

I want to pull quotes from that thread but it’s so satisfying in context to see the most toxic parts of a gaming community turn on each other

and dear god are those some ugly fucking logos. my favorite is the one that’s just Redot Engine with a ridiculously overbearing letter R (not gonna repost them here for obvious trademark reasons — I’ve got the feeling these fellas might not have that part figured out)

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 7 points 15 hours ago

I was too busy poking fun at them and posted them here

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago

found it: https://bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux.com/post/3l5ca3blqgn2y

The idiots claimed using game engines was le wokisme and Godot took the piss, and Grummz ran with it

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 17 hours ago

wait, the “pre-built” engine these little shits are trying to bully a developer for using is fucking Unreal Engine 5?

all wokes want is to use a notoriously advanced and difficult game engine owned by a right-wing asshole and that’s how they’re gonna destroy gaming. with the engine that gigantic studios use because writing an engine from scratch is a fucking money pit that never ends and you have to have a good fucking reason to do it

also I’ve been trying to force my hands to not start a Bevy project ever since Tiny Glade (a beautiful, cozy 3D sandbox builder running on the Bevy engine) launched and Bevy is manual as hell (but fun to work with), so this is a good reminder that Godot is cool and I should finally learn it too

[-] ibt3321@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago

Godot is really fun to use and to develop in. They basically gamified documentation writing: they show you tooltips for your custom elements just like the classes provided by the engine with their excellent documentation. The engine has hot code reloading too. I have a puzzle game project that I'm working on now.

[-] self@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago

also, holy fuck the reply guys are a plague on that post. is bluesky normally like that, or is it the blast radius from the gamers deciding they have a problem?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

dunno if i have an unusual amount of blocked posters, but the ones i can see are fine? bsky is largely le home of le wokisme

[-] self@awful.systems 7 points 16 hours ago

that’s probably it — logged out mastodon is probably just as bad. also the most aggressive reply guy’s take is “accounts for public projects should never block anyone and they should be required to debate the people yelling at them” which is, holy fuck, the most blockable thing I’ve ever seen

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago

ah yeah, i blocked that guy a while ago lol

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago

Holy shit that is amazing. The thinnest skins. All of this over the promise by God not to flood the world again.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

apparently godot posted something about supporting LGBT in games? can't find the original. then Grummz posted ragebait about it and the chuds flooded their github and discord with fuckwittery

this is from like 5 min following links after reading your post

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Looked at Grummz twitter, and looks like Notch is also getting involved. With friends like that.

Amazing how this new crop of outrage merchants who touched some game code in the past make Derek Smart look measured and well balanced.

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