• Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    7 days ago

    So he’s politicising child abuse material now, and associating it with the political right. He’s not entirely incorrect, but it seems like he needs to think before he opens his idiot mouth.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      7 days ago

      no, hes saying banning child porn is equivalent to “Censoring” political opponents=right wingers violating TOs.

  • JOMusic@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    6 days ago

    This is a CEO who shares opinions on many things he is truly uninformed on.

  • REDACTED@infosec.pub
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    7 days ago

    Is it just me, or does his surname work perfectly as a slang for small dick?

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    7 days ago

    I don’t know if people are just not recognizing the metric fuckton of nuance with this situation, or they’re being willfully ignorant. Either way, not my monkeys, not my circus.

  • disregardable@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    378
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    8 days ago

    Wow. There was just zero reason for him to say anything. Nobody is accusing Fortnite of being unsafe for kids. And he chose to say that. For himself.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      175
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      He’s probably just trying to get noticed by Trump. “Hey, look at me! I’m on the side of you and the other pedoNazis! You’re the best!”

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      56
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      Is EpicGames involved with Roblox? Because as far as minors go, I hear THAT game is a dumpster fire with zero redeemable qualities.

    • ryper@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      8 days ago

      Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents," Sweeney wrote in a first tweet responding to MacRumors’ report of US politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores.

      Politicians want the offending apps removed from the app stores, and Sweeney thinks app store business is his business. He really ought to worry more about improving his own store.

      • brsrklf@jlai.lu
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        8 days ago

        But, his store has nothing to do with X. And, for example, Horses was banned from EGS too.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      7 days ago

      Hi every one, my name is Tim, and I like video games.

      I like it when kids can fully enjoy playing video games.

      Kids are great, they’re the future, and they should be able to enjoy video games!

      . … …

      You know what else I like?

      Well, its called ERP, and it stands for…

      wretching, vomit splashing noises

    • Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      90
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      Majority of them are it seems. It’s why the full Epstein files still haven’t been released.

    • tatann@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      A far-right pedophile since his concern is also that far-right speech would be “censored” (despite occupying a majority of media)

    • Damage@feddit.it
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      8 days ago

      Please don’t trip into that fallacy. He may be a self-serving asshole, but blanket-labelling people pedophiles for their policies only helps those trying to monitor and censor our communication and thoughts, see chat control.

      • athatet@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        8 days ago

        His policy of not wanting to censor CSAM? I mean, it certainly seems like something a pedophile would do.

    • Nelots@piefed.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      ·
      8 days ago

      The day he says something I agree with is the day I reevaluate everything I believe.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    153
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    8 days ago

    All you had to do was say nothing, Timmy.

    You’re an asshole, but only PC gamers had a reason to care—because you tried to buy your way into a dominant position by employing anti-consumer, monopolistic practices like paying for distribution exclusivity deals with third-party publishers.

    The best possible choice here, clearly, was to voluntarily align yourself (and by association, Epic Games) with Nazis and pedophiles. I sincerely hope the board forces you to resign, you absolute chode.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        40
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        8 days ago

        No entitlement necessary.

        People typically welcome more competition in retail spaces. Having the freedom to pick between store A and store B allows consumers to choose whichever works best for them, whether for convenience or service reasons. Look at GOG. Nobody is complaining that they exist, or that they sell a subset of the games that people could instead purchase on Steam.

        What people don’t welcome is companies deciding they want a slice of the pie, entering a market, and then making the experience worse1. Coercing people onto a platform by removing their ability to choose is consumer-hostile. People complained when E.A. and Ubisoft made new games exclusive to their own storefronts, but they begrudgingly sucked it up because those were developed by the platform owners and they weren’t interfering with games they didn’t own.

        What Epic Games did was make timed exclusivity deals with third-party developers2 and publishers in an attempt to stick their foot in the door, while providing the bare minimum service to consumers3. They made EGS for the publishers and offered little more to their customers than contempt and the occasional free game as a bribe to boost the Epic Games Store user counts.

        The cherry on top was Tim Sweeney acting like the messiah of PC gaming coming to save it from the Steam monopoly, only to start behaving like a petulant child on social media in response to people justifiably being pissed off at Epic Games for the monopolistic shit they were doing.

        If his decisions weren’t openly hostile to the people he expected money from, there wouldn’t be much of a reason for people to dislike him. But, through his decisions and actions both as the leadership of Epic Games and as himself on Twitter, he gave people plenty of reasons.

        1: See digital streaming services, for example. Everyone was happy to just pay for Netflix. Some of them even paid for Crunchyroll, too, since it provided a separate catalog. Now, every media conglomerate has taken their shows off of Netflix and moved them to their own separate services at the same price point. It’s not a coincidence that digital piracy is making a comeback.

        2: Such as with Ooblets, when they paid the developer after the game was crowdfunded to release it on EGS instead of Steam.

        3: No user reviews, it took years to get a shopping cart, customer support being useless when people get locked out of their accounts, etc.

        • dukemirage@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          18
          ·
          8 days ago

          No one forced the studios to take up Epic’s offer of exclusivity. Nevertheless Sweeney is a cunt.

      • cybernihongo@reddthat.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        29
        ·
        8 days ago

        I swear, the whole outrage over EGS can only be plainly and simply explained as the stupid “no steam no buy”. When a game remains exclusive to this DRM launcher made by an American corporation for 50 years, all is well in the world, but when the game becomes exclusives to that DRM launcher made by that other American corporation for a year, suddenly all hell breaks loose. They’re both the same toxin! Just blind devotion to a company that only did very pro-consumer things like make lootboxes really popular and making it hip and cool to give up ownership of your games.

        For the record, the Tim should really just shut up. Or really, any American wealthy CEO for that matter, their grand standing over freeze peach isn’t worth the oxygen required to produce it instead of just… not enabling CSAM like normal platforms do?

          • cybernihongo@reddthat.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            12
            ·
            7 days ago

            Yeah, no. EGS is a piece of shit DRM launcher, just like Valve’s own piece of shit, but it has the Epic logo. Heck, they even have free games and not even that is enough to kill the vitriol, so yeah it’s just “no steam no buy” all over again, or Steam would also be chided for many of the same things - which would be very dandy if it happened, after all, neither of them respect us enough to own our games without having to phone them home first.

            • Zozano@aussie.zone
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              7 days ago

              I would rather pirate a game than claim it for free on Epic.

              How is that Steam loyalty?

              • cybernihongo@reddthat.com
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                7 days ago

                I’ll raise you one and say I’d rather pirate games than use either of them. At least there’s GOG, itch, Zoom-Platform, putting aside games that never come there until a decade later.

    • db2@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      46
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      They’ve been given a green light for it by the pedo in chief. It’s not that surprising really, they only care about themself (singular because there isn’t any real solidarity among them).

      Take names. Don’t forget.

    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      8 days ago

      Thinking about it, being the type to take moral “forbidden fruits” such as exploiting your workers is what makes people rich over time.

      It does make sense “clubs and connections” would start to form around pedophilia.

      And since it becomes more of an advantage in business, the richest of the rich may just be as rich thanks to their pedophilia.

      Besides the greed and the luck, of course.

  • Ledivin@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    116
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    8 days ago

    Tim Sweeney vocally supports child porn and deep fake porn? He certainly looks like the type of creeper, so I guess I’m not that surprised.

    I wonder how many times he’s been to Trump and Epstein’s Pedophile Island 🤔

    • mPony@kbin.earth
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      8 days ago

      I guess “think of the children” only applies when it erodes consumer privacy

    • FrankFrankson@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      Censoring child porn is extra unfair to republicans as it’s the only way many if them can cum and only banning orgasms for one party isn’t fair.