4mo ago

"Go Woke, Go... uh..."

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Did something happen with Godot that caused the lost sponsors....?
Edit: this thread has some discussion if you're out of the loop like me
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1ft26by/what_is_going_on_with_the_wogot_engine/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Kinda sounds like Godot did pretty much nothing wrong and it's just a bunch of internet drama? Hard to tell honestly
- Silly drama about a mod of an unofficial discord.
  
  It was the official discord until earlier this year, so it's kinda not just "some unofficial server". Also, the mod in question was using racial slurs. Granted, the Godot foundation also split ways with them.
  Additionally there was something about an over zealous community manager blocking people over responses that supposedly weren't all that inflammatory or bad? I'm not super sure there, I've only kinda half been paying attention to it
- Outrage baiters doing their rounds. Business as usual.
- WTF is the "Gamer Word?"
  
  Racist and sexist slurs, most likely.
  You know, edgy 14 year old kids on xbox
  
  I no longer identify as a "gamer" it's long since been coopted by a group I have no desire to associate with.
  Not sure what their "world" is but I imagine a lot of tendonitis from all the knee jerk reactions from the members of it
  
  The n-word.
  Such named for multiple incidents of edgy preteens using it in voice chat. And then PewDiePie cementing the relationship during an infamous incident where he said it while playing player unknown's battlegrounds.
  
  Oh you know...
- They made a cheeky tweet asking for people to share their projects while referencing a lowlife saying that "using 3rd party engines is woke"
  cockroach "people" then jumped in on it triggering a harassment campaign
  
  Please dont call people lowlifes or cockroaches or "people" thats such a Nazi way of expressing your thoughts. Im sure there are better insults that dont involve calling them "subhuman".
  
  If we look at their perspective, engines that could block you from developing in them are more "woke" than an open source one that doesn't enforce any restriction on its developers by design. Going after godot for this feels so dumb.
  
  Ah. I misread the post, I follow what the guy is saying and what your title was about now.
  And yeah that's more or less the basic jist I was getting. Seems like a really dumb thing for people to be upset over.
- So just shitty people we don't need in the community anyway.
- The only people who are mad are the kinds of people who have the ages of consent memorized for all 50 states.
- Also my impression. Seems like it's manufactured, encouragement not to engage with any of it?

I was on Xitter to read an update about LGRs situation, when I got one of those "suggested tweets" about Godot from some random account. I clicked on it because I thought it was a totally different situation like Godot going closed source or something.
Nope. It was an entire thread on a bunch of racist transphobes being pissy about an LGBTQ post and how Godot was "Woke" now and "Why are they being political now". "Go woke, go broke" was also mentioned unironically quite a bit and how people were going to leave in droves for Unity. Nice to see the chant was (once again) proven wrong.
It was a disgusting echo chamber, I had to wash my hands after that.
- how people were going to leave in droves
  These idiots seriously think they're in the majority viewpoint. No exposure to reality will dissuade them of this belief.
  
  That is exactly the issue with algorithm-driven social media : they are the majority in their reality. It is distorted because of the algorithm, but nevertheless it is the world they are living in.
- Wait, what's going on with LGR?
  I don't have xitter account so I can't see what's going on
  
  He lives in Asheville, NC one of the places wrecked by flooding from Helene. Last update was his house has been significantly damaged to the point where it's basically unhabitable, but he is safe with family.
  
  Tree fell on his house.
- "Go woke, go broke".
  Seriously, has this really happened to any company?
  It's easy to claim Bud Light, but they were doing fine until they backed away from supporting LGBT, then they had trouble (from both sides), so it's just as easy to claim "Go fasc, no cash".

Damn I guess my game is woke now. I should up my donation

Fuck twitter.
Godot is amazing! Adding my contribution to the fund. The future is open source.

I love that one fork that was made. So cute that they think people will use it when it's basically just a mirror.
- "we're the not woke godot! It's exactly the same but maintained by dipshits!"
- @gamerbro83 @toAIC pretty sure someone just saw the opportunity to run a donations scam (mirror for a few months, maybe change the default theme while taking donations). Seems to be the thing to do for that crowd (cause drama, scam others based off the drama)

The software and programming world desparately needs to go more woke, so does gaming culture in general, it is the only way to get the toxic assholes to shut up and sit down... and create the oxygen needed for communities that arent embarassing sess pools of tiny pathetic men who exclude everyone else.

It's so funny seeing tourists complain about it being woke. 9/10 times these guys have never used the engine before

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