I Stand With Tim Soret -- The Last Night E3 2017 Controversy -- #Gamergate Indie-Fensible (Patreon)

I Stand With Tim Soret! -- The Last Night E3 2017 Controversy -- (Indie-Fensible #Gamergate)

I stand with Tim Soret. Tim Soret did nothing wrong in being pro-#gamergate during GG's height. His vision for The Last Night originally consisted of a cyberpunk dystopian future where rampant regressive leftism destroyed society. The Universal Basic Income crippled humanity's ability to live life on their own terms, and technology coddled them into submission. The Last Night's protagonist, Charlie, is unable to indulge in this futuristic, hedonistic society due to an accident from his youth, and lives as a perpetual outsider. Regardless of whether or not you think that this is a realistic vision of the future (there is no great consensus regarding the effects of UBI vs the increasing automation of the workforce,) it is Tim Soret's right to write the story, craft the world, and create the game of his choosing. But as soon as The Last Night hit center stage at 2017's E3, suddenly Social Justice Warriors, regressive leftists, and radical feminists began crawling out of the woodwork to shame and attack Tim Soret, causing him to publicly denounce his previous #gamergate-related tweets, and proclaim that The Last Night will not contain any anti-regressive commentary. If Tim Soret has actually changed his opinion since 2014, and that version of The Last Night is not the game he wants to create now, that's completely fine by me. He's free to create the works he wants. But if he's being brow-beat by the gaming establishment - that is, the corrupt journalists, the regressive SJW "game devs" who don't actually make games, and the social media hordes, then I stand with Tim Soret against them. Make the game that's in your heart, Tim. Don't listen to anybody but yourself.