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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (35 children)

Small FYI, not a sneer or anything, you can stop reading if you don't know what the godotengine is. But if you do and hear of the fork, you can just ignore the fork. (the people involved also seem to be rather iffy, one guy who went crazy after somebody mentioned they would like gay relationships in his game, and some maga conspiracy theory style coder. That is going by the 3 normal people the account follows (out of 5) who I assume are behind it).

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (28 children)

amazing work they've achieved so far though

yes, that's the complete change set for the fork

oh and a Godot discord moderator turned out to be extremely into dropping n-words in chat

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (26 children)

I have no idea what set the drama off btw, I have not really looked into it (could it be that this mod you are talking about was the unofficial mod the godot communication was talking about? Or is that a different mod? And did the redot (wait, re.? please tell me it isn't a reference to the reeeee thing) people really pick the side of the n-word mod?)

I did see that the guy who started redot basically only forked it and then went 'any devs wanna take over this fork?' Very I started the wiki, without even starting a wiki.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

apparently godot posted something about supporting LGBT in games? can't find the original. then Grummz posted ragebait about it and the chuds flooded their github and discord with fuckwittery

this is from like 5 min following links after reading your post

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looked at Grummz twitter, and looks like Notch is also getting involved. With friends like that.

Amazing how this new crop of outrage merchants who touched some game code in the past make Derek Smart look measured and well balanced.

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Christ, it's like Gamergate never ended

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

yes, that's correct

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