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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 39519, member: 73"] Search your feelings. You know it to be true. :devilish: Yeah yeah yeah, you can justify it all you want – regardless of content, they're all just snide, passive-aggressive, ultimately-impotent posturing to me, meant entirely to bolster the dev's already-inflated ego even further. (Even Notch's political stuff, which I specifically didn't link so as not to muddle my point.) I'm sure you could find several examples of even more smug nonsense from all three of those developers and many more, I just chose the first three that came to mind. Yep![B] I'm the one with the money[/B], remember. If any of these dopes are allowed to be vitriolic on the internet, I – their potential customer – sure as heck am. Again, zero empathy for any of them – sorry. [IMG width="246px" size="498x460"]https://media1.tenor.com/m/4ncxpl6WgRoAAAAC/give-me-a-break-right.gif[/IMG] Somnia, with all due respect, get over yourself. None of these people are your friends, they're random internet nerds who got famous due mostly to circumstance and the herd-like mentality of their audience, and now use that popularity to massage their own ego endlessly in public forums. Any one of them, Toby included, would toss you under a bus if it meant they'd gain an extra 10 followers. (In particular, Toby Fox's [I]constant[/I] self-aggrandizing is one of the biggest reasons why I find him so intolerable.) Why anyone would ever defend even the most innocuous one is beyond me to the extreme. This is what I'm talking about when I say that I don't have any "emotional connection" to these people or their work – they're entirely insufferable, and not worth even a slight bit of my regard. Why would they be? I certainly don't like their games (except Minecraft, that one's great). Call it "weird" or "bizarre" or whatever dismissive, thought-terminating cliche you want – it's true. If these people were genuinely humble, respectful, decent individuals, we wouldn't be having this discussion. (I can think of many people in the industry who fit that description, and whom I like in general: Shiggy, Al Lowe, Warren Spector, Roberta Williams, even more acerbic individuals like Kenji Eno, etc. Of course, none of them are millennial indie developers with Twitter accounts.) I don't mean to come off as rude, but if you can't understand where I'm coming from even with clear examples, we'll just have to agree to disagree. [/QUOTE]

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