Reddit trannies are trying to cancel one of the devs of Factorio.
Some background:
Factorio is logistics and automation simulation game. It has the cleanest code of any game ever released, and thus no bugs remaining in the game as of release. Every Friday one of the devs writes a short blog post (FFF) on their website about the coding of the game, and how they deal with the bugs and improvements. (If you are a coder i HIGHLY recommend reading the all of the FFF: https://www.factorio.com/blog/).
In the most recent FFF (https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-366), one of the devs, Kovarex, references some sort of programming guru, Uncle Bob. Apparently Uncle Bob said some positive things about Trump once. Kovarax never said anything political in the FFF or his initial reddit replies. The video he linked never said anything political. And he only mentioned cancel culture once Reddit started demanding that he remove the video from the FFF. His response was for said redditor to "shove their cancel culture up their ass." This reference to someone who is not a flaming liberal and Kovarax's refusal to back down (so far) is enough to cause reddit to freak out. Now they are calling for Kovarex to resign and are trying to get refunds for Factorio. Before Friday, Factorio had the highest user rating on Steam. It has now fallen to second place according to steamdb, thanks the the tranny terror.
The locked thread in question, with enough deletions to satisfy even Antonio:
https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/o2ly6f/friday_facts_366_the_only_way_to_go_fast_is_to_go/
And the megathread to kill the discussion:
https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/o3e9y4/meta_fff_drama_discussion_megathread/
Here are some choice bullshit from the salt mines:
[–]nckl 113 points 1 day ago*2locked comment This game was almost a meme because of how many trans people loved it. Like, it's like the go-to game in a lot of queer discords I'm in for whatever reason, for years. It's kinda impossible to describe how out of the blue this is, and like everyone's trying to find the next game to play together. Like again, I know you don't care, but this game has done good for those communities, and could've continued to do good. I can't in good conscious ever recommend this game again knowing people like you profit from it.
As for why? A lot of trans people are programmers (one of a few jobs even possible with very little interaction with other people), and this game appeals to programmers. Maybe there's an overlap with autism with meticulously placing and designing everything, which is more common in queer people. It's a really good game to play without voice chat, which trans-peeps usually try to avoid. It's really easy to just kinda tune out the rest of the lgbt-phobic shitty world and lose yourself in it. It's quiet and non-threatening. It can be played on crappy hardware, and a lot of queer people are broke af. And it's just a well-made game.
While there's nothing wrong with enjoying content made by problematic people (with appropriate disclaimers, which you adamently hate), some people can't get over that, and I can't blame them. I can't think of Bill Cosby without thinking of all the fucked up shit; like I couldn't watch the Cosby show, it's too distracting. I can't watch uncle Bob's shit thinking of the other stuff he said. If you can, seriously great! There's clearly some useful info there. But understand that others (usually in marginalized groups) sometimes can't. That doesn't make them weaker, that usually just means they've been hurt due to that marginalization. If you want someone to blame, blame the person for being a bigot.
And now in the minds of a lot of people, factorio is forever linked with you, the founder, going on some insane right-wing tyrade in reddit one random Friday morning and refusing to just acknowledge that Uncle Bob is bigoted. It sucks! Every time I launch the game, I just get to be reminded about another bigoted person with power and wealth. I wish you hadn't done this.
[–]kovarexDeveloper 66 points 1 day ago What did Uncle Bob say against trans people, be specific please.What did I say or do against trans people?
Could we please be able to open topic like this without the need to immediatelly take sides and approach it as a war with extremes on both sides?
The amount of delusion from nckl is incredible. And he can't even point to a single sentence where Kovarax says ANYTHING disparaging trannies. Also he reinforces stereotypes about Discord.
[–]angrywheel18 -20 points 1 day ago* Please note that I am using trans rights as an example here.
Please understand that somethings aren't a debate and can never be a debate, people's human rights being one of them. Pretending you don't mean any harm to trans people while being open to debating whether they should have rights is harmful because you are legitimizing the other side of the argument by giving equal weight to a side that never had any merit in the first place. Basic human rights are not debatable period.
Bringing out the Trans rights are human rights bullshit. They need to prove that trannies are human first.
[–]UTUSBN533000 14 points 1 day agolocked comment Free speech only deals with the state. Private companies and platforms can retaliate however they want. Sad that factorio developer doesn't know the difference.
muh private companies
https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/o3e9y4/meta_fff_drama_discussion_megathread/h2d6fxk/
[–]someinfosecguy [score hidden] 5 hours ago Kovarex mentioned a man named Uncle Bob in reference to coding. Someone demanded Kovarex put a disclaimer saying Uncle Bob was a misogynist bigot without providing any evidence to that fact. Kovarex told them to "shove their cancel culture up their a**." People were upset that Kovarex was unprofessional in his response and Kovarex didn't back down. Now people are saying that Kovarex and Uncle Bob are massive racist, misogynist, bigots because Kovarex told this user to take his politics and shove it instead of putting up a disclaimer. Just to add on, having a disclaimer like that is completely and utterly unheard of, the user was just trying to start something.
If you want to check for yourself, just take a look through the comments at which side of the argument is providing sources and evidence and which side is just yelling accusatory things at people who disagree with them.
This is one of the few sane replies.
There are, of course, many more crying redditors.
Now the only thing to do is wait and see if Wube bends the knee, or stands its ground. Godspeed, Kovarax.
Faggots delenda est.
Trans assholes have no love, because they can't even love themselves.
To forsake one's name is a form of suicide in my book.
Before cradle-to-grave ID, taking on a new name could be a form of symbolic suicide and rebirth. (When it wasn't just criminals changing their name when they go to a new place where no one knows them, that is.)
Thus the association with taking a Christian name at adult baptism.
The roots go back even farther than that, with most pagan and polytheist cultures worldwide regarding knowledge of the "true" name of an entity granting power over that entity - you'll see this in naming djinni and demons and the forbearance of the Hebrews to say or write the name (or even the most popular nicknames) of their god, the Indo-European gods taking on aliases when dealing with humanity, and even in the far East and Americas.
Its the same idea of when someone joins the French Foreign Legion that they take on a whole new identity as a way to break from their prior life.
Eh, depends. My grandma changed her name because she hated how it sounded more like a childish nickname then a real name. But that's different from "I'm a girl now. Call me Crystel UwU."
Well, go take a look at the current reviews on Steam. There is an absolutely massive spike of positive reviews, burying the pathetic attempt at a reviewbomb. I doubt they're going to be bending any knees.
Not exactly bending the knee, but he’s since clarified that “I have nothing against trans people” and said that he’s “disturbed” by the positive replies he’s getting from people who actually hate “trans people”.
"My superiors have informed me that I strongly believe trans folx are heckin valid and bigots are icky and yucky"
That excuse doesn’t quite work here. He’s a co-owner of the company and lead designer of the game. He has no superior.
Everyone has a boss.
Maybe there's an overlap with autism and wrongful transition, not like these extremist fucking spergs will EVER realize it.
It’s because they have trouble understanding the difference between reality and mental fantasy, meaning assholes can easily give them the “I would be perfect if I was the other sex” idea and they’ll fall hook line and sinker for it. Just look at Chris Chan.
shut the fuck up trannies
Even if the conference were run by people who don't think women should code, does that justify canceling it? As long as the material itself isn't propaganda, women can still go there and learn things. Now nobody gets to learn anything. Everyone loses.
I'd understand if they were saying "eliminate women, patriarchy forever #capthebitches", but in any other circumstance it's just punishing heresy for the sake of it. The only people who benefit are members of the progressive cult.
No one encouraged me to go in to tech if anything the girls were always the teachers favorite.
He should promise them more trans friendly game content as a peace offering. Then release a fork called Fagtorio.
Just have it be the same as factorio except every so often there's a 50% chance that the game will delete your save and crash.
40% chance of conveyor belts randomly changing direction.
You will never be a clockwise-moving conveyor belt.
That's it, I'm randomly mixing your ore supplies.
Trannies belong in a nuthouse
So just to be clear, they want to cancel Bob because he likes Trump. The first president to run while supporting gay marriage and lgtbbq, lol. Because orange man bad!
Even Trump makes mistakes.
Autism. And I say that without disparaging intent.
I love factorio and feel like I've played it for a cumulative century, but my actual number is under 150 hours. There's still a lot I could do with it, but I'll never get anywhere close to half of 1200. It's a game that appeals very strongly to a certain type of autistic person, and once that kind of person starts playing they're not going to stop until something replaces it. That could take a while.
We start memeing IRL and heckling trannies in packs. Post the "You will never be a women..." copypasta on the front door of every medical building you can find.
I bet the dev was sick of the troon bullshit that follows these people round like an unpleasant smell....thought he'd swap them out for some real gamers.
Those parasites will never create anything of worth, they are dead inside, and I feel even that is being generous.
If the trans fags want war..... We'll give em war. No one touches my crack-torio.
What are Alphabet people trying to accomplish here? Factorio has been around a long time and tons of people already bought it and enjoy it. Even if it were pulled off Steam, people would still be playing it in droves and the devs already have plenty of bank.
They are trying to destroy something because it is good. I have always held that Wube is the best game developer, and trannies have to destroy it because they make the tranny devs look bad by comparison.
A lot of trannys seem to be recommending a different factory game in the comments...so maybe the comment above has some validity to it.
which one?
Alphabet guy here. The developers got my bucks today. Game looks interesting, as a former programmer the developer's blog is riveting and besides, fuck the haters.
ayylmao a few years back, their official dev account responded to me on twatter. That sub got really salty over it, so it was pozzed for a long time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/6zhhmy/has_the_factorio_twitter_account_been_hacked/
yes it means angering, the closest english equivalent would be indeed be pissing off, incidentally the root of the word is closest to the other human waste, so it is more like shitting off except that doesn't mean anything in english. The "sulfurization" of machine translations must just come from the fact, that the word contains a word that means sulphur, but it has no connection to it whatsoever. Google translate has a long way to go
I went through and reported a few of them calling the dev transphobic and just harassment responses and they did get removed. I’d suggest doing the same.