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Agreed. Stop throwing steve under the bus about the alleged homophobia in AD2. Some other massive faggot wrote that shit.

scubasteve, to clarify, in my previous post I am arguing against the point that Impie had to change any of mod's content because of the feedback received, whether to avoid reputation loss or ban. You seem to promote opinion that artists should refrain from using their work as a vessel to send a political message, especially if that message is controversial, but I hold the opinion that artists can use their art to promote whatever the fuck they want. I do not, however, consider you the one responsible for his ban, directly or indirectly, and as I stated before, I don't have positive/negative bias towards/against DW members anymore.

MegaPancakeStrategist, I am not a native English speaker so the irony you might have intended is lost on me. Did you mean "we agree to disagree" or "practice what you preach", i.e. "make a wad/mod with a controversial political opinion and publish it"?

MegaPancakeStrategist, cool. I just got confused by the fact that the word "preach" by itself is imbued with negative connotations, like forcing an opinion down other people's throat, and that urban dictionary's entry on the phrase is equally confusing (for me as non-native English speaker once again), whereas a lot of other results I got when searching for the idiom's meaning were garbage, or referenced urban dictionary again. I also don't use Google or similar personal data collectors directly which leaves with me with search engines which give suboptimal results, like Duckduckgo or Searx.

No, I believe artists need to decide WHICH one they want; make a political statement or a project with mass appeal. If you want to make a political wad... make a political wad, but don't write some half-assed psuedo-politcal dialog and try to straddle the line, it feels lazy and hackneyed. There is, without a doubt, a place for artists to make political statements with their work... but if that's the case, go all-in. Dynamite Duchess tries to do both--appeal to a broader audience while simultaneously being a commentary about COVID restrictions--and is worse for it.

So I guess ignorance is an excuse. But only when one side is guilty. 

Also fuck you. If the girl and the parents were locked in the castle following all the COVID restrcitions and wearing their masks outside you wouldn't have said shit. You wouldn't have brought your little dogpile troupe of assholes with you. You're the only person who brought up politics in the thread, because they were ones you didn't like. It had nothing to do with the legitimacy of the argument or the storytelling, that's some pissant cover for your shitty behavior. Who are you fooling aside from your sycophant suckups? Oh sure Impie can make a political wad, how nice he has your permission. Only if it's the progressive orthodoxy that Doomworld approves of. Impart that wisdom right up your ass you condescending twat. 

Cringe.

Justince is a bad-faith actor and deserves the respect he gives others. Everyone else has argued in good-faith and I'm happy to have real conversations with them.

Stay classy.

If this was your intent, you failed completely. Your opening post was sarcastic and a bit rude, exactly the type of comment that would make someone go on the defensive. "Excuse me" and "Get the fuck out of my way" both convey that you'd like somebody to move out of your way but if you go around saying the latter to people, you'll find people are much less likely to do so and more likely to give you a piece of their mind. Same principle here.

He isn't getting paid to do this, it's a hobby. He's under absolutely no obligation to alter elements that are "culturally offensive" just because he makes his work public. He's free to alter or not alter his project however he wants. It's his project.

Impie was able to find a point of criticism he thought had merit in Arlene's post and updated his project accordingly, despite her somewhat rude response to him. So, I'd say Impie seems to already possess this humility.

It's unfair to say that Impie doesn't want criticism simply because he doesn't find any value in your criticism. He seemed quite keen to fix the issues people had with the music transitions, for example, and he was polite with users who were not throwing insults or accusations his way, even if they had issues with his work. Sure, everyone's entitled to criticize his work since it's public but as the creator he has the right to choose which criticisms to take into account and which criticisms to discard. As the guy himself said:

"I don't have a problem with people responding to the politics. I have a problem with HOW they respond. If you disagree, fine, we can talk. If you think it doesn't fit the medium, fine, we can talk. But if you feel the need to insult, bully, and reprimand me because you disagree (or even outright ban me without letting me defend myself, which has happened before), that's totally out of line."

Except that Impie never actually said that or did that. He explicitly stated that he did not intend to provoke people with his project. He did say that, because of the subject matter he felt people might be offended but recognizing that a topic is controversial is not the same as seeking to provoke people. He did say that he was glad that it provoked people - not because he meant to trigger people but because it showed the mask dropping. You know, like how you just told Justince to die of COVID in this thread.

Fair enough but it's absolute valid to make something for a niche audience as well. As I said, Impie's not getting paid for this - it's his own creative endeavor so it's up to him whether he wants it to have a broad appeal or not. Should Ribbiks stop making maps since his maps are too hard for a large percentage of the Doom playerbase? Should there be no puzzle maps because Doom, for a lot of people, is a game about action?

And everything doesn't have to be apolitical all the time. If the politics ruins Dynamite Duchess for you, that's fair - perhaps the project just isn't for you. I didn't see any incidences of Impie's politics seeping into his Splatterhouse TC or his Robocop one, so perhaps those would be more up your alley.

"When people download the latest Doom TC masterpiece—which just happens to be simply adorable—they often think to themselves, "You know what this TC was missing? Needlessly shoehorned political opinions."

Boy you certainly broke fast. This is what Scuba's definition of good faith looks like everyone. This is the deep political discussion he decided to 'engage' Impie with. Funny, from here it looks like a gutless, passive aggressive dogwhistle, but maybe that's just me. Is this how you broach politics at home? Sashay into the room with a Cosmo and say hold the white supremacy? Real respect brother. You're a coward and a fake.