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Never heard the guy speak but I'm not going to let a moron ruin my game. If it's good that is. They should patch it out though, can't be that hard.
I think that can only be Yooka itself, Unity can be used for so many things, it would not be fair to claim it causes motion sickness. However, Unity does not necessarily lead to bad framerates, take a look at Ori, for instance, which is quite fluid.
I think that can only be Yooka itself, Unity can be used for so many things, it would not be fair to claim it causes motion sickness. However, Unity does not necessarily lead to bad framerates, take a look at Ori, for instance, which is quite fluid.
If Jontron's voice is in the game, I will not buy it.
If it is not, I will buy it because I want to play it.
That's my position and I don't think I'm the only one. Do I care enough for you?
I'll still buy the game but I would very much prefer that they remove him. As a gesture of not condoning his racism and showing it has consequences you know?
This is just unfounded. They did not decide to hire a white supremacist, they decided to "hire" (it sounds to me like a freebie, not a paid job, so it put it in quotation marks) a person to do voice over that happened to hold white supremacist ideas. There is a huge, huge difference between those two and it is just dishonest to claim the former instead of the latter. That is, unless you have any evidence supporting they claim they thought "let's take a white supremacist" instead of "let's take this guy".
JonTron is a douche so fuck him. But I really wish we can all go back to when we didn't care about any minor involvement a douche had on anything.
This is the more active I've seen this topic and imo that's sad. We talk about the douche that did a voice in the game than the game itself.
We have also discussed similar stuff in off topic threads. Mel Gibson for example has said douchey stuff in the past, should I expect to have a version of Signs with a different actor to enjoy the movie.
Honestly I don't demand or expect from Playtonic to do anything.
This is just unfounded. They did not decide to hire a white supremacist, they decided to "hire" (it sounds to me like a freebie, not a paid job, so it put it in quotation marks) a person to do voice over that happened to hold white supremacist ideas. There is a huge, huge difference between those two and it is just dishonest to claim the former instead of the latter. That is, unless you have any evidence supporting they claim they thought "let's take a white supremacist" instead of "let's take this guy".
Come out and explain the issue that prevents them from removing a voice line.
I didn't say they hired him because he was a white supremacist. You entirely imagined I suggested such causality.
They did, however, hire a white supremacist.
Incidentally, JonTron was transparently terrible a long time ago.
Edit:
JonTron 2014: Hitler is cool. Don't be offended it's just a joke.
JonTron 2017: Hey kids, wanna hear about white supremacy?
JonTron is a douche so fuck him. But I really wish we can all go back to when we didn't care about any minor involvement a douche had on anything.
This is the more active I've seen this topic and imo that's sad. We talk about the douche that did a voice in the game than the game itself.
We have also discussed similar stuff in off topic threads. Mel Gibson for example has said douchey stuff in the past, should I expect to have a version of Signs with a different actor to enjoy the movie.
Honestly I don't demand or expect from Playtonic to do anything.
Honestly, the more you guys argue this point, the more you make me wish I could get a refund. And that's sad, because there's no game I've been more happy and excited for.
But fuck Jontron. He has no place in games.
Your arguments don't come off the way you say they do, they just come off as people who will excuse a lot for the things they like. And yes, fuck Signs.
I'll still buy the game but I would very much prefer that they remove him. As a gesture of not condoning his racism and showing it has consequences you know?
His true colors showed back in 2014 and now they've evolved to become white supremacy, 3 years later.I'm certainly not going to punish Playtonic for the minor involvement of a guy that didn't show his true colors until after the game went gold. That would be ludicrous.
Not directly related but I was already disappointed when I saw this tweet from one of the leads at Playtonic, just after the Women's March:
"muh-my videogames !"
Not directly related but I was already disappointed when I saw this tweet from one of the leads at Playtonic, just after the Women's March:
"muh-my videogames !"
Yikes. Hopefully, he doesn't speak for all of Playtonic, and they'll still make a statement.Not directly related but I was already disappointed when I saw this tweet from one of the leads at Playtonic, just after the Women's March:
"muh-my videogames !"
Not directly related but I was already disappointed when I saw this tweet from one of the leads at Playtonic, just after the Women's March:
"muh-my videogames !"
His true colors showed back in 2014 and now they've evolved to become white supremacy, 3 years later.
oh. Well that speaks volumes.
They already have my money from the Kickstarter so it's not like I can do anything.
Not directly related but I was already disappointed when I saw this tweet from one of the leads at Playtonic, just after the Women's March:
"muh-my videogames !"
Not directly related but I was already disappointed when I saw this tweet from one of the leads at Playtonic, just after the Women's March:
"muh-my videogames !"
Not directly related but I was already disappointed when I saw this tweet from one of the leads at Playtonic, just after the Women's March:
"muh-my videogames !"
Well, it's his job, if my feed for work was filled with stuff that has not much to do with my job, I would not be too happy either. Of course, asking people not to post about something on Twitter is strange, but to consider one's job an politics separate issues is understandable.
Not directly related but I was already disappointed when I saw this tweet from one of the leads at Playtonic, just after the Women's March:
"muh-my videogames !"
In trying to dismiss politics on Twitter (for some reason?) he's brought politics to his own Twitter. We know exactly where he stands just by making a tweet like that, where had he just been quiet, nobody would have cared.Well, it's his job, if my feed for work was filled with stuff that has not much to do with my job, I would not be too happy either. Of course, asking people not to post about something on Twitter is strange, but to consider one's job an politics separate issues is understandable.
If only there was some way to not receive updates from someone on twitter.
Which is why I said it is strange to ask people to stop talking about it. I can understand the frustration, but if someone overdoes it from his point of view, he could just stop following them. Playtonic people are not completely apolitical in their tweets anyway, I found out about Richard Dawkins being active on Twitter via Platonic people (Kirkhope I think).
EDIT: You know his political views because of that tweet? I don't, actually.
His true colors showed back in 2014 and now they've evolved to become white supremacy, 3 years later.
Seems they're also douches.
There's only one political mindset that makes Tweets about how much they hate political discussion during a worldwide march for women's rights.
Will this game launch on Switch same day it releases on other platforms?
I am worried that the Switch version may not run as well as the rest on account of it being added to pile later in development.
TBH if you're not on GAF or following news daily it was easy to miss.
Even as a GAF member since longer than that I only realized what kind of guy JT really was and unsubbed last week. I totally missed these news in 2014, or even if I did not, I honestly totally forgot, blame my shitty memory.
I will not skip YL for that though, even if there's a modified version of his voice saying ''BLUD-BURD-BOYD'' from an NPC, I won't mind because he was on record way before last week's shit happened.
A valid point to mention for those who are skipping this game for this very specific reason, do you check the background of every single people in a game's credits before committing to buy it? Because there's a lot of chances that there's a lot of dudes and dudettes in every studios with similar mindsets.
Disclaimer: I'm not excusing his behavior in any ways though, it's just that I won't miss one of the games I'm waiting for since years because this douche is in it during a few seconds.
Yeah... I mean it's really disappointing but I've loved the work of these guys all my life so I want to hope they're decent people and this tweet only reflects the person who posted it.It's not a great idea to make blanket statements about the whole team based on a tweet one of the team members made.
I disagree with what Mark said, but that's not the view of the entirety of Playtonic.
He's specifically talking about the outrage because of Brexit and Trump, not a march. You can be annoyed about postings that you in principle agree with, as well. To decude from this tweet alone that he is pro Brexit, pro Trump or against a worldwide march for women's rights is presumptuous.
Well, it's his job, if my feed for work was filled with stuff that has not much to do with my job, I would not be too happy either. Of course, asking people not to post about something on Twitter is strange, but to consider one's job an politics separate issues is understandable.
It's not a great idea to make blanket statements about the whole team based on a tweet one of the team members made.
I disagree with what Mark said, but that's not the view of the entirety of Playtonic.
Yeah... I mean it's really disappointing but I've loved the work of these guys all my life so I want to hope they're decent people and this tweet only reflects the person who posted it.
They can change my mind by publicly stating JonTron is no longer part of the game.
So he Tweeted he's annoyed people are talking about how much they hate Trump and Brexit and this is apparently supposed to be better than going against the woman's march?
There really is only one political ideology that makes Tweets telling people to quit talking about politics. And it's not the one this company should keep close to them.
Maybe if it is the exprerssion of a political ideology. But if it is not the expression of an ideology, but just of a person annoyed that a sort of personalised newsfeed (which some people use Twitter as) he uses for work is filled with stuff irrelevant for work, then it is compatible with a wide range of political ideologies.
The only reason they likely added JonTron to the game was to appeal to his considerable fanbase and reach. You take the good with the bad. You can't have it both ways. You can't now just ask people to ignore the hateful shit your popular YouTube Internet personality said when the only reason you hired him was because he is a popular YouTube Internet personality. People are absolutely right to turned off by the fact that a reprehensible piece of shit like JonTron is going to involved in this game.