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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by simonask on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:29AM (#46311861)
I just wonder how readily people would defend this viewpoint if they belonged to any of those groups whose "feelings" are typically being "hurt".

I don't know about you, but there does not exist any amount of technical achievement that will make me brush off sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, or anything else. If you are going to be disrespectful to me or people I care about, we cannot work together, period.

By "political correctness" people often mean "the basic requirement to treat your fellow humans respectfully", and that's an incredibly low bar.

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by jabbywocker on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:43AM (#46311962)
Don’t follow him much but do you got any links discussing Blow being sexist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic?
Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by jna_sh on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:57AM (#46312092)
The second paragraph of the linked article?
Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by armitron on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:11AM (#46312196)
"Interest is not the same as ability. I believe it is likely that the sexes have different interests on average, and that biological factors play a large part in this."

This statement, a basic biological fact, is now used as evidence of someone being sexist? To folks that think like this: I suggest you recalibrate your models of interacting with reality because you've gone wildly off track and are about to fall off a cliff.

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by perching_aix on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:18AM (#46312258)
> a basic biological fact

> looks inside

> opinion

He literally tells you that it's his bellyfeel: "I believe it is likely that (...)". Come on...

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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by djeastm on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:26AM (#46313755)
>the same opinion being an uncontroversial fact in biology,

I'm confused is it opinion or fact? Can't be both, can it?

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by ookdatnog on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:15AM (#46312928)
> one that every practicing biologist would agree with

Where are you getting this from? As far as I'm aware biologists, practicing or not, are not particularly concerned with the study of human behavior.

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by fnimick on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:36AM (#46312446)
It's a "biological fact" that women are less interested in technology?
Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by jabbywocker on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:33AM (#46312425)
The Reddit link didn’t load for some reason and the other day be didn’t include anything racist, homophobic or transphobic. What it did cover is definitely a simplistic view ignoring the cultural nuances that might lower women’s participation in stem, but I’m not sure I’d classify it as sexist.
Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by IAmBroom on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:10AM (#46313511)
He suggests women are biologically less capable than men in STEM. But I note you didn't include misogyny as a problematic belief.
Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by jabbywocker on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:18PM (#46315632)
Maybe I read it wrong but I took it as him saying women are “naturally” less interested in STEM not that they are less capable in the area.

And I’d say that misogyny falls under “sexist” in the list of problematic stuff

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by miltonlost on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:26AM (#46313752)
I wonder what his take on the differences of IQ among races are. Bet it's also as "enlightening"
Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by psyopsy on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:37PM (#46318314)
LOL. He literally said the opposite of that you fascist fuck.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRT4vNEUIAEJgP3.jpg "Interest is not the same as ability."

It's the first MOTHERFUCKING LINE, you absolute lying cunt.

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by uragur27754 on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:25AM (#46312352)
This provides a good summary of the drama that he cultivates: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/s/aB0aOJ5cas
Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by magicalist on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:55AM (#46312685)
Clicking on a random link:

> It doesn't help that all males currently under the age of 40 were raised to be supercucks

https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1854708962462982465

Dear lord, yeah, this is why I completely tuned him out years ago. Somewhat ironically it's the Blow fans in this thread that are cherry picking his comments. He's way too online so says things like this all the time, and it's the fans that are in here demanding a smoking gun comment that somehow proves he's awful rather than telling him "sometimes it's ok to stfu" to comments like this that enable and echo chamber him.

And I say this as a fan of Braid and The Witness (at least of the first couple of layers of puzzles...as you go deeper, just like with Braid, you find more and more self-indulgent windbaggery that should have been on the cutting room floor).

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by DonHopkins on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:46AM (#46314122)
Game Helpin' Squad totally takes the piss out of Braid's self-indulgent windbaggery in this review of "Time Travel Understander":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fABGyVzVwI

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by bena on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:16AM (#46314620)
This comment is pretty much the entire discussion whittled down to its essence.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1jh275b/ove...

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by CupricTea on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:50PM (#46316849)
Wow, what a nauseating subreddit. They are notorious for poisoning the well, bad faith cherrypicking to misrepresent positions, and blowing their positions completely out of proportion, all for the sole effort of smearing whoever or whatever they make a topic about.

And everything in that post are bad faith links to secondary reactionary sources.

I don't really know much about Jonathan Blow or Jai or really follow it but it's astonishing to me that anyone could possibly take anything from that toxic subreddit with any sort of seriousness.

Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by Levitz on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:24PM (#46316498)
>By "political correctness" people often mean "the basic requirement to treat your fellow humans respectfully", and that's an incredibly low bar.

I've gotta disagree. By "political correctness" people generally mean to not saying or doing anything that could be perceived as offensive. Especially against collectives perceived to be vulnerable.

For example, in the tiny paragraph above I've absolutely respected my fellow humans, but it can be considered offensive because you can suppose I might be looking to justify prejudiced attitudes.

For an even more evident example, political correctness has to do with the political climate and identity (as you mention: sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, or anything else, as well as referring to "those groups"). That is very much detached from treating fellow humans respectfully.