"Here, have enough money to buy a decent house in most countries of the world!"
"You cheap son of a bitch."
Generosity is measured by the sacrifice made, not by the quantity given. A friend buying someone a drink when they're having car troubles is ten times more generous than a billionaire giving away the less than 1% of his net worth that the contract mandated (which in an investment in keeping the employees who are making your company money - a profit-minded move - anyways). Not to mention telling one of the employees who didn't get anything "fuck you, fuck you so hard" when they're trying to be empathetic. Call me when he's JK Rowling, who literally have so much of her own money away that she appeared on and then almost instantly disappeared from Forbes' billionaire list.
Like I said, this thread is difficult because everyone's arguing in extremes. The people criticizing Notch have never seen Citizen Kane and think that having money means you're immune to emotions, but the people supporting him seem to think that there's literally no reason for anyone to dislike him except that they wish they were him. Motherfucker EVERYONE wishes they were Notch. Everyone wishes they could become a billionaire over the span of five years because of a game they made in their basement. That doesn't mean you hate him, that means you also want to be rich, and by virtue of the fact that we live in a class-based system, everyone wants to be rich. Notch has done some genuinely shitty things to get where he is today, and some of what he's suffering now is the result of those things coming back to bite him in the ass. He single handedly demoted Yogscast's careers based off of accusations he made that weren't even true, he abandoned his employees less than a year after criticizing another company for doing the same and didn't let anyone but two of them see any money from it (including the man who had been the lead developer of Minecraft for longer than he had at that point), and he claimed generosity when the most he did was give 5k to a humble bundle now and then.
You know how you always hear about how the people who are bullies are usually covering up their own insecurities? And you're like "gee I dunno about that, he seems pretty secure about banging my head against these bleachers." You are watching it in action. We saw it happen already with Mike Krahulik, and he realized he was a bully soon enough for him to apologize and genuinely swear to be a better person - something he's held up since then. And now Notch is going through the exact same thing, and hurting the people around him in the process.
Acting like Notch is not guilty by reason of depression of all of this - acting like depression is something cannot be dealt with, cannot be treated, and instantly hobbles you to the point where you're not responsible for your own decisions - is an actual
disservice to Notch and everyone else suffering from depression. Because the truth is, the first thing Notch can do to fix his situation is to make amends to the people he's hurt on the way to get where he is today. And doubling down and saying "this'll pass, this is just how success feels!" and feeding his own ego in the process, blaming criticism on haters like he did after yesterday's outburst, is only going to make things worse for him in the long run.
And he really should start seeing a therapist.
Always hilarious when someone takes a positive (developers continue active development on a game) and spin it to the worst possible interpretation lol
Diablo 3, the still-unfinished game, just got some new content fml this cruel old earth just keeps shitting on me
Minecraft has been around for six years and has never replaced its programmer art. The enemies still do not have attack animations despite the existence of a block button.
