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Yeah, he had his stopped clock moment for 2025. What a shame. Shit, I used to really like that guy.
one of their best articles ever
Notch is a POS, he just needs the PR.
He's a bit of a tragic figure, terminally online dude who went down the alt right pipeline until he wouldn't publicly admit that the Nazis were bad. He used to openly support trans rights! What a mess.
Lot of rich people need to learn how to properly exit to wealthy retirement like Tom from MySpace did fading away. Don't be Notch and please don't become Zuckerberg or Musk. Just go away and leave people alone.
it's astounding that all rich people don't just do what the locally famous businessman living a town over from me did:
get a nice house in your home town (provided it's not a shit place, obviously) and spend your days living a normal "middle class" life where you can just buy and do whatever the fuck you feel like, just pop down to the grocery store and buy some muffins, why not? That's actual contentment in life, having yet even more money and buying a luxury yacht isn't any better than just going on a cruise with your family every single summer
It was definitely not a graceful fall. Hate to see it happen but, how can you be convinced against human rights? His beliefs must have been quite ephemeral to switch up like that.
I had my own son radicalized by Tik Tok's algorithms. With some parental guidance he managed to "break loose", but no, there was nothing wrong or fleeting with his views before that happened imho.
Extremely scary to watch.
Add to that radicalization pipeline bit the fact that obscene wealth like what Notch came into tends to be extremely socially isolating and directly causes people to lose touch with reality. Not to be like "oh the poor billionaires," but having that kind of money literally causes mental illness. For their own good, no one should be allowed to have that kind of money.
Yeah I agree, he just didn't have anyone by him in real life reminding of reality and had several people online reminding him of delusions
no one should not be allowed to have that kind of money
I think there is a 'not' too much - or do I read it wrong?
Yeah I missed that one. When I was writing it I changed my wording from "they should not be allowed," to "no one should be allowed," and missed a word. Thanks.
Even if you disregard that, he fucking sold minecraft to microsoft. He is the biggest offender ever in terms of killing games.
Lets be honest... if someone walks up to you and offers 2 fucking billion dollars for a block game you made on the whim.... youd take the money.
It still blows my mind that someone thought Minecraft was worth two billion dollars. ...in 2014. .......and they seemed to be mostly correct.
Mostly? Pretty sure Microsoft has seen s profit on that purchase.
Wasn't he already rich, though? Once you're over, like, $10mm, you don't really need to work anymore.
And then when he took the money, I think he just squandered it on bullshit.
If someone handed me 2 billion dollars I'd probably be building trains and houses, or maybe something for the climate crisis. Not jerking off alone in a house full of candy. He's a shithead failure of a human, if that's all he's done.
In the context of SKG, Minecraft seems pretty unkillable to me.
- Solid single player experience
- Vibrant ecosystem of people hosting their own servers
If Microsoft disappeared overnight, everyone could still play Minecraft.
I guess there is a login system, but back when I used to play MC, you could play offline with cracked copies.
The guy who required a login for his game, allowing Microsoft to steal ownership from the earliest owners while he walked away a billionaire? That guy? That’s the guy talking about digital ownership?
What was that second point? I was an early buyer (before infdev) and I still have it.
Yes notch is a dick but on the upside, they're at 1.3M signatures!
I don't follow Minecraft drama. Why's he a dick?
Alt right bigot
Gathered that after reading more of the comments. Thank you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson
Check out the personal life section.
FYI, you can link to a specific section of a Wikipedia article like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Personal_life
Yeah uhhhh let's maybe not promote shit that Notch says.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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