jeff
@jeff@programming.dev
Software Architect turned Engineering Manager
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 2 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 2 weeks ago:
I’ve played a bit now. My first broken build was probably around 30 hours in. Which, yeah, is a bit.
I enjoyed the game before I started seeing broken builds. It’s still a solid tactics game. But it’s a genre I like.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Interesting take. You bring up a good point, but the game has been in development for 10 years and it’s a really small cameo. I’m assuming most did the voice work for free or a small flat rate. It’s not like you’re supporting them with royalties every time the cat meows.
If you asked Ben Stiller to remove the Donald Trump cameo from Zoolander he’d probably give a similar answer despite Donald Trump being a far worse person and Ben Stiller publicly being a Democrat. I don’t think it’s a “centrist bullshit” position to work with people with wildly different views.
For me, it’s just such a small issue to focus on and ruin something else you find enjoyable. It’s one thing if McMillen was a vocal supporter of Israel or vocal MAGA. Like, I haven’t watched a Tom Cruise movie in almost 2 decades because of his role in Scientology, but I watch Zoolander like once a year.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 months ago:
There’s a big difference between winning a rigged election, and losing an election but staying in power anyway.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 6 months ago:
There are novels that don’t measure up to the writing of visual novels.
There are comics that don’t measure up to the art of visual novels.
There are video games that are less engaging than visual novels.
Broad generalizations like this are so useless. It’s okay that you play one or two visual novels and they weren’t for you. I don’t particularly like visual novels either, but to discredit an entire genre because of it is just ignorant. I’ve played some visual novels that were excellent and pushed the boundaries of video games. See Slay the Princess and Doki Doki Literature Club. I’m playing Date Everything right now, it’s not exactly innovative, but I’m having fun with it.
- Comment on Anyone know where this is from? 1 year ago:
Do you subscribe to A24 Zines? I just googled it.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 1 year ago:
Psychonauts 2. I picked it up for 80% off during the autumn Steam sale and just getting around to playing it.
I also picked up It Takes Two and have been playing that with my wife.
- Comment on Chat, what do you see? 1 year ago:
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 1 year ago:
+1 for Halls of Torment
It’s a really solid entry in the rogue-lite vampire-survivors-like genre that Diablo enjoyers could pick up really easily
