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Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft (wccftech.com)

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[-] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fortunately several thousand other people made that same point long before he did, so we can always just agree with one of them instead.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

I have no problem agreeing with anyone on a point, even the worst people on earth, if I think the point is correct. If someone else chooses to associate me with the person making that specific point because I agree with it, that’s on them.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I feel old

https://wccftech.com/minecraft-gold-officially-releases-friday/

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago

Well, what do you know, even a racist clock is white twice a day.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

I would not recommend making a habit of quoting Notch. In fact, I would strongly recommend you avoid quoting him at all costs.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

Who gives a shit about Notch in 2025

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Karl Jobst sure does

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Well that’s someone I haven’t heard about for a long time.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

...a long time.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Nazi parrots popular sentiment.

[+] [email protected] -29 points 2 days ago

notch is so based

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Notch is also a nazi, so I don't think he's worth listening to

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

notch is a fucking nazi and ought to be strung up like one too.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago

Notch was (maybe still is?) an ill person, someone dealing with a lot of demons that just wanted to make little java games and turned insta-famous and insta-rich, and that seemed too much to handle.

Like the Harry Potter lady or the Father Ted guy, they couldn't handle their new lives and went bananas.

Nazis are just broken people that want to hurt others to numb their own pain. (Not that I'm justifying their shitiness). Then again, in Behind The Bastards, often there's a guy who has a plain happy childhood and becomes a monster, so WDIK.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 2 days ago

Nazis are just broken people

nazis aren't people

Not that I'm justifying their shitiness

yeah, you are. not only is it ableism, it's nazi apologia, and bullshit to boot.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

To claim Nazis aren’t people isn’t just to dehumanize your enemy, but it is also to deny your own capacity for great evil.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Dehumanization is what Nazis do. Don't gaze into the abyss so long that you start thinking like them.

I think it is essential to remind ourselves that Nazis are people, that Naziism is an evil that mankind is capable of. In order to effectively fight Nazis, we must pay attention to how real people get suckered in by Nazi propaganda. The second you start othering them is the second you lose the fight because you willfully stopped paying attention.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Nazis are people. awful people, sure, but the capacity for evil is a uniquely human trait

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I think you meant to say Hatsune Miku

this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025

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