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I saw the apology statement and the original tweet but I'm genuinely confused about what people are mad about?

Especially mad enough to make a fork of the Godot engine?

I did watch This video from Games From Scratch but he barely gives any actual information about what people are mad about. The most information I got is that a joke tweet was made and a non-affiliated moderator went a little overboard.

What am I missing here? What's got everyone so upset?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This has actually helped a lot.

I never understood the criticism people make of "maybe focus on the engine instead of making bad tweets" as in the social media manager is ALSO the lead coder or something?

At no point does putting out a tweet change how fast someone unrelated takes to code something.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Honestly this was my biggest takeaway, what fucking moron of an engineer thinks the guy running the twitter account has anything to do with bugfixes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Even if it was the lead coder, the 30 seconds needed to post a tweet aren't going to make that much of a difference on fixing a major bug.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Clearly bigots looking for any excuse to fight in the culture war. 30 years ago we had SJWs, now we just have CWs.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

fuck am I really unironically going to Know Your Meme for news now??????????

...this is a weird timeline

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

knowyourmeme, the hero we need, but don't deserve.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

When the world becomes a joke the only reliable way to be informed is to "know your meme".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

@kryztofcheski wrote, "Woke studios always use pre-built engines to make games because they can't build their own engines."

LMAO most of the industry runs on a pre-built engine, what a loser

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Very good summary. The only thing missing is a mention that in the aftermath a Godot fork called Redot was created and it's twitter account gained 17k followers in 2 days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool. Let's see how that goes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

My guess is that at best they're going to mirror all the merges happening in the main godot repo with the only difference being the custom branding, but even that they will probably lose interest after a few months and peter out. I highly doubt there's going to be any unique developments or improvements. And even if they do? The main Godot repo could just yoink them right back lol.