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Something that’s really frustrating me about the reaction to pizza tower discord/game design stuff is treating it like “well, McPig apologized, so eh”

McPig's statement, saying "Yea i saw the post. Needless to say im not exactly proud of those post, theyre just very shallow and not funny at all lol"

Because that's... not an apology? That's saying you don't find your old posts funny anymore. Where, specifically, is the growth? When the focus is on “not funny at all lol”, what is actually being said here?

The bigoted enemies in the game are still there! McPig's message about the Game & Watch anti-native controversy, calling the criticism of the Game & Watch Smash Bros. move "faggotry", got deleted from the discord. However, the anti-native enemy still exists in pizza tower! So that anti-native sentiment still exists within the actual game.

What his response to the criticism basically amounts to, as far as I can tell, is:

“I’m not proud of saying people being upset about game & watch’s anti-native imagery is ‘faggotry’, but I still made an anti-native enemy in my video game.”

That’s just... not an apology! You’re not saying you’re sorry, you’re saying your not proud. And you still made an anti-native enemy in your video game, so where does that “not proud” sentiment actually get us at the end of the day? It didn't seem to factor into your design choices.

I saw someone on a different site say (direct quote!) “he regrets his past behavior, so eh. i won't hold it against him” and... I just don't see how you come to that conclusion! I get if this isn't the "line in the sand" for you, but I think to prop this response up as something it isn't is absurd. Just say it's not that big a deal to you and be honest.

And it's more frustrating for me personally because I was so looking forward to doing a Let's Play of the game. I made art, I made a promo trailer, I'd been recording footage, some of my very good friends hyped the game up, and now I see this stuff and I'm just like... completely uninterested in any of that. Similar thing happened with Factorio, when one of the devs just went absolutely full-blow bigoted chud on reddit and I was like "welp, time to pull my Let's Plays off my channel and stop my series!"


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