Thomas Mahler (CEO of Moon Studios. Ori. No Rest for the Wicked) has some really sus views (GamerGate)
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Mahler is Austrian, not that this changes anything really.
And yet he tries to make it seem like it was Moon's decision, when it very likely wasn't.
The original report about Moon also seemed to suggest that Xbox staff faced poor treatment too.
Just as a reminder:
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Moon Studios devs accuse founders of poor management, bullying, unprofessional behavior
Moon Studios founders Thomas Mahler and Gennadiy Korol are the main subjects of a VentureBeat report in which former em…
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There are people that will flock to the game because of this. This is advertising for a pretty mediocre game that's stalling out.
i assume the irony of ranting about cancel culture to a journalist that they seemingly "cut off" contact with is completely lost on him.
i also don't see the correlation between "cancel culture" and inclusion in media
i also don't see the correlation between "cancel culture" and inclusion in media
it's comical that twitter allows this lol.
elon really has no clue what made the site good.
I personally don't care either way, but I just thought it was hilarious that I was expecting to see one or two more sentences, but instead he went on a giant rant...
There is none, but they mingle everything in a single piece of cloth and shift goalposts as they go. What I'll say below is just a rant and is not directed to you.
They talk a out cancel culture together with hidden political agendas. And they say that having straight white men as the norm is "natural", and you should only go for "natural". You should only go for people of other cultures, colors and whatnot in a "natural" way. Not to try to be inclusive. You shouldn't force yourself. How do you tell apart? Don't worry about it. They will be the judge and will be fair. (Contains sarcasm)
Of course, that needs to ignore straight white men and patriarchal cultures forcing themselves as a culture for a long time, such as colonizing others for starters, or simply denying black people opportunities for multiple years while doing blackface.
But hey, their argument totally has legs. Let's wait and things will get better as they always did. We never needed any movements to give rights to people before, right? (Contains even more sarcasm)
I agree but the difficult part is threads like this, and many many others are always what propagate and keep it going. We just need to ignore this shit till it dies in the ground. It's like what you learn when being bullied as a kid. We need to stop reacting. Who gives a fuck about the guy asking if it's woke (obv a complete idiot lol), who cares what this guys views are lol it's all just too much. Def an internet/social media problem.
Not even thread hating it is what it is, it's more a broader comment on this stuff. They love the attention/chaos.
"Everyone is sick of it" love how people saying this have obviously just been TOLD that everyone is sick of it when that couldn't be further from the truth. Classic case of how fox news tells people what they believe and pretends that there's this huge swath of people that feel the same way. "People are saying" shut the fuck up no they're not.
i'm thinking this is a desperate attempt to catch the gamergate 2 audience and get them to rally around nrftw similarly to how people rallied around stellar blade. nrftw does seem to be underperforming a bit. they are so desperate for attention that i've even seen them attempt to advertise with promoted posts on twitter. really scraping the bottom of the barrel. and they're barely getting any engagement there. despite paying for impression, they're struggling to even get to a triple-digit number of likes on their promoted posts. so i guess now he's trying to appeal to the chud crowd
The word "woke" is just being used by far right idiots who don't even know what it means. Actually it's a compliment, because if someone or something is "woke", it's progressive, equality, humanity.
An only good thing about assholes is that they (proudly) announce that they are assholes, so we know to avoid them. I used to love Ori-games, but now I avoid every Mahler's piece of work. Be a piece of shit, I don't buy your shit.
You know, different views!
"Oh so like different makeup of tax brackets"
Well uh, no not exactly...
"Differing opinion on how to allocate government funds?"
No, not that either....
Sorry everyone else who worked on No Rest For The Wicked, not giving idiots like this my money.
Note to devs who have "different opinions". Keep them to yourself.
Note to devs who have "different opinions". Keep them to yourself.
Yeah, it's actually "half a bible", I just forgot while posting earlier :D
Good news, Elon already announced how blocks will do basically nothing in the near future anyway.
He didn't find me yet it seems.
It's always the people with the shittiest takes that don't know how to just shut the fuck up.
People, spouting off a wall of text with faux intellectualism doesn't make you look as clever as you think it does. In fact it does quite the opposite, when the wall of text is brimming with bs as it is in this case.
People, spouting off a wall of text with faux intellectualism doesn't make you look as clever as you think it does. In fact it does quite the opposite, when the wall of text is brimming with bs as it is in this case.
That's a no, seeing as "cancel culture" is a phrase used by people who are upset that the shitty things they do have consequences. Remember, it's a boycott when right-wing crazies won't drink Bud Light due to the company recognizing a trans person exists, it's "cancel culture" when people decide they don't want anything to do with products created by people who commit sexual assault, are racist, or generally abusive. One is organized, the other is a response to people being assholes.
First, they came for the vagina bones, and I did not speak out because I didn't like vagina bones.
Then, they came for the whites, and I did not speak out because I was...oh uh.....err....
Something something and now no one is left to speak for me!
Then, they came for the whites, and I did not speak out because I was...oh uh.....err....
Something something and now no one is left to speak for me!
He what now?
I know one should never assume but the idea of Ori coming from a studio led by this fucking hurts.
I've seen this same sentiment hurled at the Pathfinder tabletop RPG and I think D&D caught some it too recently. Some people get really bothered by other people getting to see themselves in imaginary elf games.
same dude whose first response to the microsoft closures was bigging up his own studio. absolute man child. thankful i've never gotten into any of his games
Thanks for finding this. Just to also put context into what Franciska wrote in that thread on March 2022 because not everyone has twitter or can see past the first tweet.
"I worked at Moon Studios for two years. I was the only woman on the story team. I struggle to find the words to express what a soul-destroying experience it was to work with the heads of the studio, Thomas and Gennadiy.
The whole studio is built on the lie that Quality justifies everything. Verbal abuse. Crunch. Public humiliation. But it just wears you down, and burns you out. Burnt out people do not produce quality.
Anything good that you had made before they had killed your creative spark was used to lure new, unwitting devs in, to fill the places of the friends you watched leave, one by one.
Please, don't be fooled. Don't perpetuate the problem by working for places like Moon. We have to stop the defeatist mentality that this is just what the industry is like. There are better places out there. You deserve better."
Absolutely disrespectful remarks from Thomas Mahler.
I remember about ~5ish years ago I wanted to try and get into Moon Studios and Thomas told me I don't have the right experience, heavily implying in several paragraphs that people who ever work at Ubisoft are passionless drones who don't understand game development and are unreliable since they work in big teams. And on a personal level it was also clear that he didn't read my resume cause he went on a rant about people not learning anything in what he called Ubisoft Factory Open Worlds and at the time I was fully on the Trials brand so didn't work in the open-world genre at all lol. But I didn't go pointing that out because he masterfully insulted so many great devs by calling them talentless and whatnot that I just told myself that I never want to work with this man who disrespects so many of his peers. After this conversation learning of the company culture several years later was sadly not that surprising.
What I like about this image is not the fact that you have this screenshot, but that you caught and saved it the moment it was posted.
This is sorta where I'm at with this. Feels like he's held these views for a while, but his studio's game under-performing probably has him spewing this garbage as a calculated move in a last ditch attempt to boost sales from the everythingIdon'tlikeiswoke crowd.
It's a shame because I do think the game looked good and has a decent amount of promise. I've always disliked ARPGs and this seemed at least a little different from your usual mindless ARPG, with more souls like combat.
Oh well, I'll probably be skipping it now. Wish people from these companies would shut the hell up about these things.
Dude got banned on this forum for a reason. What a loser. I'll never touch any of his games....clown.