I have to love the SJW. They reliably screw up.
I sit here ahd think “what is an example? What is happening to day?” Well, it turns out that one of the more successful game developers, TenNaple (hat tip to Milo and Vox for reporting this, because I don’t game) has also a track record of standing up to the scoffers. Besides, Vox notes, he has animated Veggie Tales, The man is a saint. Every Christian parent with toddlers has had his media: I think we wore out the videotape. His most recent project, ArmiKrog, has just made Steam.
For the scoffers are here. They consider that all things must be political, all must be managed, and that we have no hope. They instead proclaim that we are iehter feeble minded or following base superstitions. That we just need to be educated into enlightenment.
And until then we are not allowed into the main part of society. Well, the prophet once had to deal with a corrupt Samaria, and noted that most would not survive that corruption.
Thus says the LORD: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.
(Amos 3:12 ESV)
THe scoffers are akin to the SJW Scam. They assume that if they mock and shriek and say that we are undesireable that we will change and acdcept their narriagive. But the narrative is a lie. It is a lie. And it will be exposed. For Christ is delaying long enough that we will all reform and that he will rescue from this generation those called to God from before the beginning of time.
This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
(2 Peter 3:1-10 ESV)
Well TenNapel is talented. I think the sscreenshots from his tweetstream show that. But that is not enough. He must acceded to the narrative. Because Hollywood is like the Borg: you must be absorbed. It uses rhetoric, emotion, with more skill than a Nigerian email scammer.
As I said, thanks SJWs. You have less skill than the average Nigerian scammer. Evil stupid made you has.
The inevitable happened in 2011, when TenNapel publicly disagreed with the rising tide of support for gay marriage. At the time, TenNapel maintained that what’s “appropriate for one sex isn’t automatically appropriate for another” and that allowing gay marriage would be the equivalent of “letting a man take a dump in the ladies’ room.” His comments were posted in a blog on the website GayGamer.net, the author of which suggested that whether readers would want to continue reading his webcomics after learning of his views was “up to them.”
An online witch-hunt quickly followed, of course, with some online commenters attacking TenNapel in terms the U.N might call “cyber violence” (“I wish someone would punch him in the nose,” said one). Unsurprisingly, the hyper-progressive games press of the pre-GamerGate era was not sympathetic. “Doug TenNapel is, apparently, a living parody of American bigotry,” wrote Jim Sterling at Destructoid. “It’s pretty sad to see such miserable opinions from an otherwise talented guy.”
Years later, progressives still refused to let the matter rest. When TenNapel began crowdfunding for Armikrog on Kickstarter in 2013, he again faced attacks from progressive bloggers, with one accusing him of the appalling crime of – wait for it – writing for Breitbart! The blogger added that only “bigots who hate gay people” should support the Kickstarter project.
Again, games journalists joined the chorus of condemnation. The Onion Network’s video games magazine, the Gameological Society, argued that TenNapel’s “history of anti-gay comments” should make gamers think twice before funding his project. When considering whether or not to back the Kickstarter, a commentator for The Games Station said his “love of stop-motion and snazzy art” was being “overpowered by my dislike of homophobia.”
Implicit in these screeds is the argument that an artist’s political views should be considered alongside the quality of the art itself. It echoes the arguments made against Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, who was forced to resign his position as CEO of Mozilla, despite his extraordinary talents, for having the wrong opinions on gay marriage.
The attacks on TenNapel’s Kickstarter project also reveal the priorities of the games press. Unlike troubled projects like Cloud Imperium’s controversy-ridden Star Citizen, TenNapel had an established track record of successfully-delivered projects. It seems that many games journalists appear to prioritise political gatekeeping over consumer protection.
They also appeared to object to his sense of humour, with several reports making specific references to his language on Twitter and in comment threads. The implication is that TenNapel is a bigot, but on inspection they seem to be objecting to his refusal to kowtow to political correctness.
Speaking to Breitbart Tech, TenNapel took the opportunity to strongly reject any allegations of prejudice. “I’m surrounded by homosexuals, liberals and people who disagree with me and they never come up with this idea that I’m hateful.
“I’ve been in the arts for thirty years and am completely comfortable with the people I work with, nearly all of whom disagree with me. But my sense is that we’re at a cultural tipping point, where the left is trying to win the ground by caveat so that if we just label someone as anti-feminist, anti gay marriage or ‘writing for Breitbart’ that it will end the debate.”
TenNapel also slammed the games press for its poor standards. “Further, the idea that a gaming journalist needs to first warn his audience of what a developer thinks or believes so the reader can better determine if the game is of quality is the worst kind of journalism. I’ve always found games journalism to be of low caliber when it comes to journalistic standards.”
TenNapel’s experience mirrors that of other game developers who have faced biased attacks from the notoriously sloppy games press over baseless allegations or politically unfashionable views.
If you have a steam account, there is a nicely warped game to enjoy.
For the rest of us: the elite will do anything to keep their holy narrative going. They worship that, not the almighty. But all ideologies fail. And only a remnant will be left: they will at one with the Hittites, the Huns, and the Red Guards. Join them not.