I’m pretty sure this is the same guy who was ranting about Godot “being woke” last year lol
What has this Pirate Software released? I’m not familiar with their games
They got 6, count them SIX, negative reviews in one day. Such review bombing, indeed.
Pretty weird guy, honestly. Seems competent, but spends too much time complaining about other people instead of working on his own stuff.
Review bomb where? On their page they link to Steam, where they have one released game (95% positive) and two demos (one unrated, second 90% positive).
“on discord and twitter”
#gasp
“lol,” I said, “lmao”
I don’t like him. Never have, never will.
yeah, same!
So… I actually tinker around in Godot.
Whilst looking around to see if anyone had, or was developing an extension I would find useful…
I discovered ‘Redot’.
Basically, there is a small but very vocal group of people who are very, very angry that a Godot community manager made some pro LGBT, inclusive twitter posts, turned that into a culture war flare up on twitter…
And then forked Godot.
To make the anti-woke version of Godot.
Their youtube channel has, as best I can tell, absolutely no descriptions of any substantial differences from… you know, an actual game engine feature set perspective.
Beyond of course being behind Godot now, lol.
What they do have is a bunch of rants about politics and edrama for their ‘non-political’ game engine.
Also… they pronounce Redot as Re-Dot, hard t.
Godot is Godot as in Waiting for Godot.
Go - Dough. God - Oh.
The t is silent.
… of course these idiots are literally uncultured and have never read the screenplay or seen the stage play, so they have no idea how to pronounce the word.
Could have gone with Re - Do, or Re - Dough, those would have been closer, the first at least an obvious allusion to them being a Godot fork.
But no. Re Dot.
smdh
Is bigot pronounced “bih-got” or “bih-go?” 🤔
LevioSAH
Okay, as much as I approve of mocking bigots, I didn’t pronounce “Godot” properly for a few years because I had never heard the name spoken before. I’d only ever read it.
Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it’s an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing. Typically, people receptive to learning will try to correct themselves when it’s pointed out. I’m very self conscious of this because I’m awful at pronouncing words.
But for folks like this, yeah, mock the hell out of them.
What you’re saying is true, that not knowing how to pronounce aloud a word you’ve only ever read is not some kind of 100% surefire sign you’re a bigot or anything like that.
It just means, as you say, that you’ve never heard it said aloud.
But… that also means you never bothered to look up how it is pronounced (its on wikipedia, the actual Godot devs have videos of them saying it, etc)… and it does also mean you presumably are also unfamiliar with Waiting for Godot.
So I would say you are also ‘uncultured’ in that way, but of course, simply being uncultured doesn’t make one a bigot.
You could just not have the time, money, etc, to have seen the play before.
That by no means say anything else really concrete about you, or any other person, if that’s like… the only single datapoint you know about them.
In all seriousness, I do strongly recommend seeing the actual play, probably you could find a dramatic reading / radio drama version of it somewhere on the net, or even a full video captured performance of it on a forgotten youtube channel or the Internet Archive.
I… don’t know that its ever been adapted as a proper movie, perhaps a film snob can appear and call me uncultured, haja!
Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it’s an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing
I love when I hear folks do this. It always gives me a little wholesome bump that it’s from reading.
Go - Dough. God - Oh.
Or even “g’dough”, either way the T is always silent.
I’ll say it that way sometimes, haha!
I also have a tendency to shorten ‘good night’ and ‘good morning’ and even ‘good to see you!’ into just basically g’ with a glottal stop, haha.
Most of the folks I’ve heard making tutorials about it pronounce it “guhDOUGH.” To get that FOSS cred the name has to be a dumpster fire.
Ubuntu.
Oo boon too?
Oo bun too?
Pretty sure the correct pronunciation is the first, but a lot of people say it as the second.
… lets just name the next big FOSS thing ‘Uranus’ and watch everyone disagree about how to pronounce that, very loudly.
Redot still exists? I expected it to die off after a month max
Drama aside, I’m just glad to read the goal was reached. Hopefully something comes of the effort.
The review bombing is another fabrication:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2217000/Rivals_of_Aether_II/?curator_clanid=45028385
It seems like a minor influx of recent negative reviews. Most likely they didn’t want his current status in the public perception to work against the marketing push they wanted from him.
Because let’s be real, “director of strategy” doesn’t seem accurate for someone who is obviously just an influencer marketing your game to his large audience.
Reviews since July first look at least 50% negative which was not seen before so there could be an argument it is happening.
More than 0 reviews related to the drama = review bombing
He worked at blizzard for 7 years guys.
You do understand that on Steam if you have 50% or more negative reviews, it is a “Mostly Negative” and puts people off even trying. Bad reviews can have a serious effect on sales. 10 negative reviews in millions is nothing, 10 negative reviews alongside 10 positive is detrimental. It’s all about the percentage and indie games work at a different scale.
I’m unsure what the point about working for Blizzard means. You’ll have to elaborate.
Had a look at Offbrand Games’ games and none of them have recent review bombs. I really have no clue what PirateSoftware is talking about.
I’m not surprised he was pushed out for fear of such review bombs, but I’m not seeing any evidence of them actually existing as he alleges.
He’s making shit up, as always.
He’s still financially involved with the publisher.
Don’t review bomb them, just don’t buy from them.
That’s not the right thing to do.
There are more people behind the publisher than him. He’s not big enough of a douche to make them all pay for it.
Impact is there, he got what he asked for. We’re done here.
Sorry, but anyone taking up space in my pigeon brain is “big enough” to be petty. I don’t know what qualifies as big enough for you though.
And just to be clear, I’m just talking about boycotting, not leaving nasty reviews or messages.It’s the right thing to do in my not-so humble option.
Elon Musk owns “only”
20%10% of Tesla and I would never buy a car from them because of that. There are probably hundred thousands of workers involved with the company.Jason Hall probably still owns 50% of the company with only a handful of people involved. Why should I not boycott them?
In my mind it’s the severity of the action.
Among other things, Elon Musk helped put a fascist in the White House, then withheld food aid killing children in the developing world while that food rotted in warehouses.
We should fight back against Elon in whichever way we can, including boycotts.
Thor has a controversial opinion about video games.
Enough with the pitchforks. Musk is a Nazi, Thor is just an idiot. There is a difference.
Boycott who you want, but don’t make this a vendetta for life. Petition is through, Thor got what he deserved. Case closed.
Musk was also just an idiot and look what became a few years later.
Elon Musk owns “only” 20% of Tesla
I don’t think it’s that high.
kagis
12.8%.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/052616/top-4-tesla-shareholders-tsla.asp
CEO Elon Musk is the largest shareholder, with 12.8% of the company’s equity as of Feb. 28, 2025.
I found my info at https://www.uamr.de/wem-gehoert-tesla/
Elon Musk ist mit 20,6% der größte Einzelaktionär von Tesla
Elon Musk is Tesla’s largest single shareholder with 20.6%
I did not assume that his stake was this high, but I did not care enough to look for a second source. So, thank you for providing more reliable figures!
Why are you trying to harm anyone associated with stop killing games
Easy on the trigger man.
I have no idea what your are asking or implying.
I guess it’s a joke that he is involved because he did help the project, even if not on purpose?
Yeah, people flipped out seemingly claiming he was killing the intuitive. And in the end the over reaction and excess of attention directed towards him brought more attention to the whole topic and the petition.
It’s like manufactured drama for a good cause. I’m not sure how I feel about that. 😅
