I read his take more like: “the game is edgy, offensive, and gross anyway. If you are offended by someone we had do 3 minutes of meows who turned out to be a terrible person, you probably can’t handle other content in the game.” And “it’d be cool if we get a bunch of people that had a big influence on internet culture in the last 20 years do a cameo”
It felt more like an apolitical take than a centrist take. For me, that’s fine. I understand your perspective also and generally I agree.
“yeah this is kind of fucked up after everything that’s happened, let’s cut these out before release”
I mostly agree. I think there’s a couple reasons why it didn’t happen though. First one is he just didn’t know. He was probably more focused on other things than if some of the cameos in are from problematic people. The other reason is that if he did remove them he would anticipate a headline like “McMillen removes cameo from Conservative Internet personality in new game” and he wanted to game to stay apolitical.
I’m really enjoying the game. And think McMillen could have done better. But if I stopped playing/reading/watching/using every piece of media from someone I disagree with a little then I wouldn’t be able to do anything ever.
I read his take more like: “the game is edgy, offensive, and gross anyway. If you are offended by someone we had do 3 minutes of meows who turned out to be a terrible person, you probably can’t handle other content in the game.” And “it’d be cool if we get a bunch of people that had a big influence on internet culture in the last 20 years do a cameo”
It felt more like an apolitical take than a centrist take. For me, that’s fine. I understand your perspective also and generally I agree.
I mostly agree. I think there’s a couple reasons why it didn’t happen though. First one is he just didn’t know. He was probably more focused on other things than if some of the cameos in are from problematic people. The other reason is that if he did remove them he would anticipate a headline like “McMillen removes cameo from Conservative Internet personality in new game” and he wanted to game to stay apolitical.
I’m really enjoying the game. And think McMillen could have done better. But if I stopped playing/reading/watching/using every piece of media from someone I disagree with a little then I wouldn’t be able to do anything ever.