I know several people with high functioning autism that aren't right wing loons so no.
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Jonathan Blow threatens to boycott conferences that "disinvite speaker[s] due to "cancel culture"-style pressure" [UPDATE: He's a COVID truther too]
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I know several people with high functioning autism that aren't right wing loons so no.
You know what would be nice.
If, in the face of seeing a prick show his ass on the internet, people didn't just suddenly start making shit jokes linking it to ASD when there is no evidence of him having ASD.
It spreads awful stereotypes about what people with ASD are actually like, and quite frankly you can fuck right off with making that kind of link.
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For some reason people just NEED to drag Phil Fish through the dirt. Again and again. The dude was abrasive, but generally didn't subscribe to particularly shitty politics. It is amazing that after he was already harassed by the gamer gate crowd (because, once again, he generally isn't a shit head, and he opposed them when everyone else was turning a blind eye) people STILL feel the need to pile on, despite his biggest crime amounting to him saying that Japanese games suck. It feels like the dude has paid his due a hundred times over at this point.
Keep forgetting Blow blocked me on twitter. I have no idea what for because I've never engaged with him before, but I'm not surprised a self righteous arrogant asshole who probably huffs his own farts is this this stupid.
hope everyone stops playing his shitty games too now
hope everyone stops playing his shitty games too now
There's nothing to compare between the two. As much as Phil had zero tact with people, he didn't have irrevocable bad positions. He supported Zoe Quinn and took a clear position against the GamerGater crowd. People are so fucking bitter over his comment over Japanese videogames, years and years later. It's beyond pathetic.
I literally spit my water out when I read this. Have some internet fame!
Way too often we seem to listen or hear stuff from celebrities (in whatever field/capacity); and way too often it's dumb takes on shit they're nowhere near qualified to answer... I dunno, it's like you become a big enough public figure feel the need to weigh in about every damn thing.
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A lot of people associate Jon, Phil and Edmund McMillen together as they were the "indie darlings" of their time, an image only solidied because of that indie game the movie thing.
Fuck you.
Edit: I have brothers who have Aspergers and I'm sick of seeing it used as the internet's punching bag.
Never got good vibes from this man. Anybody who goes to the lengths he did to let you know how far he can shove is head up his ass is never a good sign.
This. Dude's an asshole. Dude's been an asshole. Let's just leave it at that.
So similar to how you connected the dots of blow being an asshat and the witness being a puzzle game with dots. This also doesn't fit, since QAnon is about imagining and making up dots and then connecting them.
I don't thin Blow is some QAnon mastmind who hides his believes in his game, he is just an ass who thinks he is smarter then everyone else.
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Well, I couldn't agree more with him on this particular subject. Cancel culture is cancer.
This is a disgusting comment tbh. The comparison is foul. As others have said plenty of people with ASDs aren't like this.
The Witness was nothing special tbh...anyway what an idiot.
Yeah the brightest people I know are also the most humble, especially in fields they don't specialise in.
Yeah the brightest people I know are also the most humble, especially in fields they don't specialise in.
Man, what happened to this guy. I loved braid and his talks and articles on game design were so interesting a decade ago. Feels like he started getting weird (the bad weird, not his previous weird) in like 2016/2017. Or maybe he was always that way and it just didn't come up idk.
Anyone else watch his Twitch stream occasionally? I've tuned in every once in awhile for years. I don't know why I subject myself to it. Partially morbid curiosity and partially because sometimes I find his ideas about programming interesting. It's interesting watching somebody develop a new compiler, and then build a game with it.
But holy shit. His Twitter is tame compared to the stuff he regularly spews on his Twitch stream. The guy legitimately thinks almost everyone else in the world is a moron except for him. He's a classic narcissist. He's released two games, and considers himself one of the greatest game designers of our age.
Remember a year or two back when he shat on other indie devs, saying that there's a lack of creative and new ideas in indie games? The dude has made a puzzle platformer and a puzzle game about connecting dots. In the period between Braid and now, there has been an absolutely incredible number of amazingly creative indie games released, but apparently they don't live up to the incredibly high standards of the "one great game design mind of our generation".
But holy shit. His Twitter is tame compared to the stuff he regularly spews on his Twitch stream. The guy legitimately thinks almost everyone else in the world is a moron except for him. He's a classic narcissist. He's released two games, and considers himself one of the greatest game designers of our age.
Remember a year or two back when he shat on other indie devs, saying that there's a lack of creative and new ideas in indie games? The dude has made a puzzle platformer and a puzzle game about connecting dots. In the period between Braid and now, there has been an absolutely incredible number of amazingly creative indie games released, but apparently they don't live up to the incredibly high standards of the "one great game design mind of our generation".
He always had weird, bad takes. Like trashing all of Japanese game design based on Zelda having too many tutorials.
wait huh? you... agree with him? The covid truther stuff too orrrr?
I remember a stream of him trying super hard to shit on everything about BotW while also being extremely bad at it in 2017 or 2018 lol.
This is an old thread, so they might have just read the original post where he insisted that far right mass shooters don't exist.
I thought this was Phil Fish no?
Though it seems like he does share the opinion I guess. What a class act.
It was both of them. The event that whole thing started at was Phil saying Japanese games suck or whatever, and then Jon immediately swooping in and saying he agreed with him.
The difference being Phil got entirely off social media after his meltdown, whereas Jon has been spreading his horrible opinions constantly ever since.
Whenever someone in Era shits on people with autism, I'm just like... This is a gaming enthusiast forum. This is a place with a bunch of people who consider gaming an important enough part of their life to want to post about it in more depth/make more longform posts than other platforms like Twitter or Discord allow, for people who have games as their main hobby, special interest, hyperfixation, or whatever description is most apropos. Where do you think you are? Do you think no one who would take offense can hear you?
I swear I see more shitting on neurodivergent people here than any other social media platform, which aside from being bizarre to me, just sucks as someone with autism and ADHD.
It wasn't just a "comment over Japanese video games" and it didn't just "amount to him saying that Japanese games suck".
You can say the backlash was disproportionate (which it was, especially compared to the backlash or lack thereof Blow has gotten) without downplaying the stuff that caused it.
Had to look up who that guy was and it's the Braid creator. This fucking blows, man!
I have Asperger's. Not fucking cool to make such a comment!
I have Asperger's. Not fucking cool to make such a comment!
Loosely, it was both.
Blow complained about Japanese developers generally over tutorializing games, and described them as "joyless husks"
Phil then came in and compared the original Zelda to "modern Zelda" (at the time that meant TP and Skyward Sword), and made comments about the original dropping you into a world and leaving you to learn for yourself, while the modern ones hold your hand the whole way through, and in his mind that ruined a lot of the surprise and mystery of the game.
And, Phil being his abrasive self aside, I think most people post-botw would see that he kind of had a point there.
Really burying the reason why Phil got off social media there.
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Hey, I just remembered the secret ending of The Witness, and how incredibly stupid it was.
I accidentally got spoiled on it before I beat the game, and it completely destroyed any desire I had to keep playing. It was just a perfect example of how he wraps up his poorly thought out ideas in layers of mystery, to hide the face that there isn't really any substance underneath.
I accidentally got spoiled on it before I beat the game, and it completely destroyed any desire I had to keep playing. It was just a perfect example of how he wraps up his poorly thought out ideas in layers of mystery, to hide the face that there isn't really any substance underneath.