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this sums up the current drama about him but he's well known as a poisonous asshole beyond that

he built his rep on being a big 'environment guy' who tried to live this ultrasustainable life

part of this apparently involved raising a kid of his on a 'true vegan diet' which left them with permanent health problems

Disco Effluvium on Twitter did a thread here of just some of his most recent greatest hits

is passage that one where you move from left to right and get older until you die and it's, like, life, man?

oh god, NFTs are like Bitcoin in that they're burning massive amounts of power for a gain of nothing, right?

...without asking permission because he didn't want to send the emails. wow.

yes, that's the one

i take no pleasure and do not seek to judge others in having always thought passage was shit, but i have always thought passage was shit

Oh my god, the best quote: “Either Jason does more gross public shit using my art, or else I have to like...talk to Jason, and spend some of my life doing that, which also sucks,” Saltsman told Kotaku in an email.

one thing i find revealing about the article is that even people who self identify as his 'friends' loathe him

the nicest thing anyone said about him was that he is a 'flawed and problematic person who is nevertheless my friend'

also, he found my negative tweets vanity searching and just popped up in the comments with no apparent emotional reaction from me calling him all these names and saying his games are garbage

i do not generally think it's good form to go around insulting people in public but this guy

if he'd shown up and been mad, or even obviously 'ha ha i'm not mad i'm laughing', or defensive, i would get i

instead it just came off like... a pedantic nerd

this is an old article but I'm sharing it here because it has some quotes from him that show off just how emotionally shallow and reactionary he is On Why I Will Never Play The Castle Doctrine | this ...

I absolutely loathe this man

I'd never heard of The Castle Doctrine before this and wow

‘if a guy came into your house, and he had a gun, and you were standing in the kitchen would you pick up a knife and try and defend your family?’ And they said ‘no, I’d try to talk to him first.’ [Laughs in disbelief.] So someone’s coming into your house and threatening to kill your family, and you’re going to try to talk to him.

I mean...talk vs gun seems like it has a higher possible success rate than knife vs gun, a famously not well balanced matchup

Jason lives based on JRPG rules

he and the intruder will take one turn taking a step forward and waving their weapon around, causing a damage effect based on their stats

no but seriously, and this is kind of irrelevant and mean but I'll say it anyway - does anyone seriously think a game developer is going to be able to successfully kill this kind of imagined perfect criminal

killing people is actually extremely hard to do! because life is not a fucking video game. it is not only physically hard but psychologically difficult as well!

talking to people is a lot easier because it's something most people do every single day

most of us get pretty good at it, or at least better at it than we are at killing