The sound designer for popular marine survival sim Subnautica has been fired for politically incorrect tweets, after far-left keyboard warriors put pressure on his (apparently equally left wing) employers – who then held a poll on Twitter asking if their players wanted to play as a female, which they then deleted after the answer was a resounding ‘no’ and vowed to make them play as a woman anyway.
Polish national Simon Chylinski was targeted after expressing various conservative-leaning opinions on his personal Twitter account – or after having “made many hateful statements online” as his employers put it.
Critics on far-left gaming website resetera (a successor of sorts to NeoGaf) objected to such heinous crimes as agreeing with an Infowars journalist, pointing out that women are treated better in Western countries, and sexually identifying as an attack helicopter:
The resetera thread that served as a focal point for criticism of the sound designer has seen multiple users banned for claiming that the anti-Chylinski campaign was a witch-hunt, and the thread itself was locked after Chylinski announced that he was fired.
The community manager in full shut-it-down mode:
As the individual in question is no longer working on the game, this thread appears to have run its course.
The creators of the game have been pressured over being insufficiently “progressive” for some time; before this incident, the focus was on the gender of the protagonist, with many demanding an option to play as a female and some expressing disgust over the fact that the majority of fans would rather see the devs’ limited resources focused on improving core gameplay.
Chylinski himself has been surprisingly sympathetic to the employers who dismissed him. Although he said that he “should have the freedom to express myself without being fired”, and that he thought the devs would reprimand him privately rather than fire him, Chylinski believes that they simply did not know how to respond to the behaviour of leftist Twitter users.
Commenting on them personally, he added:
These guys are not bad people. I don’t want to paint them that way…They are very talented and on a personal level they are nice to be around.
The response from other internet users, who see this as the latest in a long line of politically motivated censorship due to an increasingly intolerant strain of identity politics, has been less sympathetic. Angry consumers have made their feelings known on the steam forums and review sections, and many have demanded refunds due to the actions of the game’s creators.
The effects of this firing on the fame are as yet unknown, although it has been pointed out that the music and sound effects have been a large part of the game’s appeal, and the removal of the sound designer could be damaging. The PR and legal ramifications are rather more obvious however…
Not really surprising, liberal/leftist are the real fascist. Nothing new under the sun
It’s especially scummy since…It was his own twitter account. He wasn’t slandering his company. It shouldn’t have any impact on his job..
Needs to sue, this is legit grounds for a defamation suit.
Simon shouldn’t have been fired, but your comment is just stupid. Where is the defamation?
Fortunately he’s smarter than to take advice from idiots like you.
His bosses didn’t like him. According to many (including conservatives), that’s reason enough to fire him. That he was giving their games a bad image is just the icing in the cake. Stop complaining only when it affects you.
Bake the cake
Fascism is actually a right-wing ideology, involving racism, scapegoating immigrants, ethnic groups, nationalism mislabeled as patriotism, church dogma chosen over truth and legislated into laws that erode civil rights. Companies are within their rights when they choose NOT to support employees who spew hate speech on social media – Companies have an image to protect and racism is REALLY bad for business.
What an absolutely clueless, misguided post of a demoralized goy. I wonder if you got any smarter 5 years later, probably not. At that point of such sheer mental rot, any “Truth” will seem like merely some words to you. Hell, just the fact that this comment section believed so fervently into “red team” “blue team” nonsense shows how much of a cattle an average internet poster is. Pathetic.
Eat a dick dumbass. You want to subscribe to a brain-dead left/right/whatever world view, go ahead. But a company’s free to fire whatever dumbass spouting stupid s♥♥t they feel like. And the “right” sure likes to spout alot of dumb s♥♥t.
Eat s♥♥t and die.
You’d be like, the first to want to become a boss in the company, and fire everyone that even looks funny your way, or god-forbid, disagree with your opinions.
Fucking faggot
@halo
Yeah you sure sound like you don’t subscribe to the “brain-dead left/right/whatever world view”.
You can’t get fired for a twitter tirade you dumbfuck. NO ONE should be fired for their tweet. It’s hypocritical when you have a knee-jerk reaction and slam the dude without even thinking of the processes a company should follow before firing their employee.
Yes he went full asshole but is this the proper thing to do? Just fire him? What? Should we all avoid twitter now because it risks our livelihood? We give those who would literally put gambling mechanics to an accessible product regardless of age a damn pass yet we fire a guy because of his tweets?
Yeah dude, you’re just disguising yourself as someone who doesn’t pick a side. In truth, you’re one of them.
For a company it is a simple matter of protecting their image, and their image directly affects their customer base. A company that wants to sell to the MOST customers will wisely REJECT hate speech, and will separate it self from people who promote that ignorant hate. Hate speech toward any group is bad for business.
And yes, YES that absolutely includes the speeches you choose to post on social media – ESPECIALLY if you are including your business credentials online. Better to do as you are doing and hide behind an “Anonymous” tag rather than to proudly declare you are so-and-so, you work for such-and-such, and then dumping a steaming pile of ignorant hate speech. You are not only destroying your own reputation but damaging the public image of the company when you do that – which is why the company would have valid reason to fire you.
So idiots on the right favor suppressing free speech. Great! What’s next? Christian preachers go on trips sucking escort cocks while condemning gays? Wow!
Of course it is free speech to get fired over dumb tweets due to online mobs.
Have fun losing your rights fighting some shitty partisan battles. Enjoy your free Hitler/Stalin equivalent in the future.
ps. I know there are legit some people who went from left to basically neo-nazi because of the garbage from the left. From one stupid extreme to another.
This is not a free speech issue AT ALL. No one has censored the hate speech that was spread. What happened is that the hate speech had a consequence – the person was fired from their work, because the company they worked for does NOT wish to be associated with that ignorant hate. Again no one is censoring any one’s speech – they are simply saying how horrible; there is the door – we do not want to work with haters here.
Either extremes of the right or left need to eat a bullet. Difference is, the alt-reich embraces their psychopathic terrorist extremists and make no shortage of excuses for them when they, oohhhh, let’s say, run 19+ people over and call it either a heart attack or a peaceful protest.
Trumpanzees need eradicated as badly as they claim supposed “apes” and jews do. Fortunately tho they will never reproduce so maybe all we gotta do is wait a century so this virulent hate plague can simply die.
Meanwhile, the extreme left says it’s okay to beat people with locks to silence their wrong-think. Oh, and perform terrorist acts to keep people from being allowed a platform, again, for wrong-think. Or to take over events that are not about them via threatening violence if the event doesn’t cater to them. Or kidnaps people and abuses them physically and emotionally for days while recording it.
And while not everyone on the left is doing it, most of them are excusing it. Talking about how they support BLM or Antifa. At this point Antifa is the literal (actual literal not figurative literal) definition of a terrorist group, but you STILL have people supporting them.
Neither side is without blood on their hands. Trying to condemn one extreme while playing down the other extreme makes you a hypocrite.
The alt-reich loves spouting retarded s♥♥t. They run on defamation, lies, deceit and screeching whenever something or someone fights back against their bigotry.
LOL what you gonna do Nazis? Call me an autist SJW cuck? Gee, how original. Crawl back to T_D you whiny little permavirgins.
I’m canadian and more afraid of trumpers coming to my country and doing the same thing they’ve done to america.
Zero Trumpers threatening to flee north. Plenty of US celebrities threatening to do so though. Now that is much more scary.
Preach! This is capitalism at its best. If you say something your employer deems counterproductive to the company they can Fire your ass. You don’t have to like it but they can do it.
Go on. I dare any of you who have bosses and work in a formal company to stand in front of your boss and shout your hateful rhetoric. See if you see the end of the day in that office.
>liberal/left >literally the opposite of fascists
Glad i don’t live in whatever hellish place all you people are in, cause this leftist or rightist or whatever thing, i don’t really get it but all i see is a group of people of the same nation are fighting over nonsense including, that one group is narrow minded and the other while being somewhat open minded somehow makes it into some political prop ? , everyone of you need get your head out of the gutter and talk about the subject aside of the political stance, so there is actually a solution to the problem rather than more problems without solutions to it. from any logical stance shouldn’t anyone be bringing out equality of gender in a situation like this ? i mean it is a game that both genders may play ? as a typical game; most with character customization would never dare deny the users right of choice when it comes to the two common genders of all time, which also makes the product marketable for most with these options(because by no offense but these genders are the majority who affect the sales in consumerism). So isn’t this simply denying the users the rights to play as who they choose to be or as who they are?
Its just people being brainwashed at this point. Heads so far up their rears they have no idea at all what the real world entails. The US and UK are fairly guilty of this and its reflective of how much substance in their culture they’ve lost. They try to find meaning where there is none, then make new “culture” through ID politics. Its tragic.
Leftist are not interested in debates, discussions or an open marketplace of ideas. Which is why they do everything in their power to shut down even mere attempts to publicly talk about stuff like this. Trying to find a solution or a compromise becomes impossible.
Agreed, it’s really difficult to find people on either side of the political spectrum to talk to regarding hot topics without someone going ad hominem on the other these days…
That said, though, personally I have found a few good friends -some from the left, and some from the right, whom we can talk together about things without resorting to insults and such.
I do admit though, that I know of a few devout lefties and righties who are quite ‘adamant’ about their stances… And that mightier-than-thou attitude is quite discouraging to those actively willing to discuss and understand the other.
As someone who is leaning liberal (in terms of civil and political rights), I agree that there appear to be alot more closed minded folks these days. Though I’d say alot of this is due to the politically charged climate in everything these day –hell, even videogames have become a political battleground… And as the guy before me has mentioned, many of these ‘ultra-liberals’ are merely riding the progressive train to fulfill their own agendas. And these certainly paint an unfair image of the left just as Neo-Nazis do for the right.
But I will say that if you looking for people to engage in discussion with, there certainly are people out there willing to engage in genuine political discourse without all the insults and trash talk. It’s hidden away by all the noise, but defs out there –on both sides.
As a famous person once put it, “you gotta wade through all the dicks first!”
that goes for both sides.
as you go to the edges there wiill be a close resemblance to brown ether its on the red or blue side.
stalinist’s, ultra-feminists, neo-nazis etc etc…. no difference, they don’t like democracy but loves to missuse it for own agenda
In Your Faces. Another Win For The Left. HaHaHaHaHa!
pfft cute. the right thinks everyone needs to be white, male, and christian… have you SEEN how intolerant christians are? this shitty website needs to lay off the stupid political snowflake crying, “stick it to the left edglording” may be cool to the youths, but this aint a site for it.
stick to what you do best, author, bringing us smut/fap material from japan.
Left, right, fucking idiots, the whole lot.
All I see is people in power staying in power while the poor and stupid are herded like sheep to kill each other based on the labels they wear. Left vs right is meaningless. Poor vs rich is the only fight that matters.
“Poor vs rich is the only fight that matters.”
In this economy? If you’re unemployed and have no physical ailments barring employment, you have only yourself to blame. You sound like Bernie, half nuts and out of touch.
You are an idiot if you think politics is only left and right. it is also up (authoritarianism) and down (libertarianism). These guys, like most SJWs, are left authoritarian. While the majority of actual progressives are left and libertarian leaning towards personal freedoms like free speech.
Also, fascism is the marriage of corporations and state. This is the definition said by Mussolini, creator of fascism.
Have you noticed that it’s only left wing fuckwits that act dangerously aggressive to shut down free speech? If that’s not fascism I don’t know what is.
Because at the end of the day Conservatives aren’t dressing like Ninjas like the Antifa scum do to attack people physically that they disagree with.
In Australia, it’s always the right wing committing violence, closing down free speech, freedom of the press or trying to force their religious dogmas into politics.
They had the Cronulla rights where thousands of conservatives gathered, wearing patriotic flags and lynched minorities.
Conservatives tried to stop same-sex marriage when all polls showed that the overwhelming majority wanted it. And they’re always trying to force their religion into politics, law and public education.
The left don’t want to shut down free speech, only hate speech.
Also, the official statistics in Australia (and the US) show that violence in the name of political and social agendas is committed by the right wing far more than the left.
“ommitted by the right wing far more than the left.”Kek. Sure.. Have you even seen the raids by lefties in the US? I cant foucht for ausi. But here in the netherlands, lefties are damaging every fucking thing.
And who decides what is hate speech? Considering Nazi is being used to describe everyone that doesn’t 100% agree with the far left, then excuse me for not wanting to let that side dictate what hate speech is.
>australia
>>conservative violence
>>>hate speech
>>>>left protecting free speech
That is not what news everywhere tell me. Australia is one of the worst cuckhold leftist shitholes on earth. Have fun fighting wild life + sandbombers + leftist insanity while trying to make a buck every month to pay for their welfare + social justice programs.
Aspecially in lands with Russian GRU agents – who put hate against minorities and nathionalism in politic, because they want to break EU, USA and whole modern world, who are many times more rich than authorithiaristic lands of poverty like Russia, China or whole Middle East. This whole propaganda agains so called leftist is created by well paid troll. Antifa is just an reaction against agressive haters who goes on the streets of Europe and destroys city property and attack peoples. Last days in nathionalistic Poland one actor said in TV: “Catholic Church is Mafia” – he was bitten on the street – this is freedom of speech by right wingers. Anyway Jesus Christ was a cannibal, and Bible was thousand times changed (for example by Caesar Constantin III).
When it’s “right-wing” fucktards spouting racist bullshit? Oh noes…people are trying to censor them! And no, you don’t know what fascism is, because you probably have the education level of a toaster.
IP … … … … Vladimir Putin should be deleted
Of course conservatives don’t dress like ninjas to attack people. Conservatives hold their heads high and join Antifa to take down Nazi fuckwits.
Don’t even bother arguing with lefties.
They will always try to discredit you with personal attacks, just so they can take a perceived moral high ground that doesn’t exist.
I am not a fan of the right either, but at least some of them can be reasoned with when it comes to fascism. The left does not acknwoledge its fascist tendencies, depsite the fact that it tries to get people fired and publicly shamed for daring to have an opinion. For a political camp that propagates the idea of “just having a conversation”, the left has surprisingly little interest in participating in saind conversations. They just label you and cast you aside, like the fascists they are.
A reasonable person looks at both sides, discards the bad parts while simulatneously making use of the good parts. There is no necessary evil, nor do people deserve to be treated like s♥♥t for having different views.
I disagree with the firing, but it’s common knowledge that you shouldn’t post your political views online if you value your employment – not because it might get you fired, but because it might prevent you from getting another job. Background checks are a thing. I don’t like them either, but they exist.
right wing extremists commit political violence almost exclusively in the US. right wing lunatic politicians defy courts, media, and anything that prevents them from having power. the right are the only ones making laws exclusively for christians to f♥♥k anyone not a white jesus freak.
you can go f♥♥k yourself with your deluded idiocy about “the left”
What you stated there has been true like… 10 years ago. Times have changed. I agree, rightwing extremists are terrible. But right now, it’s the left that’s the biggest threat to almost everyone, including minorities. Wouldn’t have thought this would happen either and yet, here we are.
right wing extremists commit political violence almost exclusively in the US. right wing lunatic politicians defy courts, media, and anything that prevents them from having power. the right are the only ones making laws exclusively for christians to f♥♥k anyone not a white jesus freak.
you can go f♥♥k yourself with your deluded idiocy about “the left”
right wing extremists commit political violence almost exclusively in the US. right wing lunatic politicians defy courts, media, and anything that prevents them from having power. the right are the only ones making laws exclusively for christians to f♥♥k anyone not a white jesus freak.
you can go f♥♥k yourself with your deluded idiocy about “the left”
right wing extremists commit political violence almost exclusively in the US. right wing lunatic politicians defy courts, media, and anything that prevents them from having power. the right are the only ones making laws exclusively for christians to f♥♥k anyone not a white jesus freak.
you can go f♥♥k yourself with your deluded idiocy about “the left”
you prove people right you know, you’re not interested in any kind of conversation. just labeling and the same tired talking points
I don’t know what America you live in , but we have psychopaths on both ends of the spectrum.
The “Right” psychos are automatically deemed as evil, while the “Left” psychos are judged as heroes.
While in reality, they’re all filthy criminals that need to be executed.
No, Actual progressive are not libertarian, they are SJWs, those who defend gay marriage, minorities and all of this non sense. They are progressive and pro free speech as long as it lean toward their views.
i have yet to see right winger chimping out on the street and manifesting.
Oh and the definition of fascist today is arbitrary imposing you views on people using censorship or violence. Your definition, obviously apply to a state. But when people use violence, authority to silence you, it falls in the fascist definition.
For exemple, antifa and brownshirt have a lot in common, intimidating people who don’t share their views or considered as nazi, by using violence.
It becomes much easier to spot the fascist, when you have people with nazi insignias parading in the streets. Then you just need to see wich way they lean, to see who is supporting fascist and abherrant ideologies.
Ill give you a hint, its the right.
Looks like someone doesn’t know what a Political Compass is or how it functions…
This is actually correct, there is an “X-Axis” on the political spectrum that MANY people mistake “Extreme Right” and “Extreme Left” on.
This grid helps define with what is what.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/PhPdn.png
Who knew saying stupid, racist s♥♥t or giving an upvote to it might signal warning signs to a developer that probably doesn’t want anything to do with a political group of psychopaths?
No racism in here. I know you leftard love to consider everything you find offensive or don’t agree with, racist. But there’s absolutely NO reason to fire this woman.
“Racism” for you, is like “heretics” for the evangelists. You are a religious group using slander and intimidation tactics to silence those who talk bad about thing you care about.
The very definition of fascism.
It wasn’t a woman, it was a man with a woman as his avatar that likes to act like he has a woman opinion online (from the look of it, quoting as if he was a woman on the topics which are ironically topics about being able to play a woman in-game, specifically). Read the article, it notes his name in it, “Simon Chylinski” and states that he is in fact a he.
No that avatar is literally a picture of his girlfriend. Stop making s♥♥t up.
It is nothing new for a right winger – someone who has a problem with sexual identify and try to play conservative and blah blah blah family values… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0QCHYWGjwQ
Pot, meet kettle. Hypocrite.
Europe has opened the gates of oblivion and what we’re seeing is the end results. You’ve got migrants with medieval attitudes towards women behaving like savages.
There’s nothing wrong with racism.
The comment section in this site scares me.
Is this the land of freedom? What a joke! Being conservative now is reason for you to be fired …
This whole article is so constructed to provoke such thinking. Remember this guy was non Swedish – this is normal, that in any country if someone want to fire someone, first will be foreigner worker. He started to put politics in computer game, and this is always wrong.
Sweden is not land of freedom my friend, nor Poland in its current state.
I am really confused by this modern world… That profile image shows a ‘he’?
It’s a guy, check his soundcloud. I guess he thinks the girl is pretty or something.
when I read that bit, I was at least comforted by the fact that my “no fucking way a chick that looks like that is actually a competent developer” first thought was correct.
and I wasn’t even trying to be sexist, types like that would find instagram whoring to be far more lucrative for far less effort.
You can never know with these thai fuckbois.
Until one “slips” right into your ass at night.
Well that adds another layer of fucked up
Why am I not surprised
Wow, west is fucked up. But its nothing new.
your general apathy might be one of the reasons it’s fucked. Stop being a passive beta. Find likeminded people. Bring about the change you wish to see.
You know the world is fucked when the only people with functioning brains are from Poland.
Happens only when we’re not busy drinking vodka or argue with one another.
Damn…guess things really are bad..