Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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      I agree But for a while he didn’t even do anything It was just jeb

      And I think it could of worked out But even with all of the dumb stuff Microsoft brought I can’t say it was a bad thing

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      Man Notch really turned out to me a mess didn’t he…? 😥

      I remember back in like 2012 he was one of my personal “heros”.

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          He got sucked into Right-wing extremism. Posting racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic things on Twitter. Also got into Qanon I think.

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              Someone below me posted a big video on that. Other than that it takes two seconds to Google. He has a history of saying extremely reactionary things (advocating for a straight pride parade, saying feminism is a disease, being transgender is just a mental illness etc.) And then walking it back which is weird that it happens over and over again. He also unironically believed in Qanon.

              Maybe not an outright fascist bigot but however his social system and brain works, it leads him to fall face first over and over into extreme right wing reactionary takes.

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    Minecraft maybe? I would say at the minimum it’s a net neutral but considering how far off the deep end Notch is now I imagine it was a good thing.

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      They’ve made some pretty awful changes to the game since. That being said, I bet minecraft would have fizzled out if microsoft didn’t purchase them. They’re still pumping out regular updates and its popularity is huge. I’d definitely consider the acquisition an overall win.

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          The game has overall become way too easy. 1.14 villagers completely broke gameplay making trading and building iron farms way too boring. The pre-1.14 mechanics were way more balanced and fun. Raid farms are just way too powerful especially with the nerf to natural spawning that 1.18 brought making witch farms basically unusable. Loads of features like that which just made things too easy. It feels like you’re rewarded too much for very little effort.

          Chat reports and microsoft migration are also really controversial, of course.

          Not to say that they haven’t made lots of positive changes but that’s my main gripe with the development over the past few years.

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            I think it’s only easy if you know all the tricks for farming and whatnot, normal players wouldn’t likely say it’s too easy necessarily, I also didn’t notice any big change between 1.13 and 1.14 unless you mean the light level thing?

            People will always find a way to break the system, and for longtime Minecraft players, it’s nice not having to do all gathering by hand, instead being able to use your knowledge to create a ridiculous farm is… Cool imo.

            To be honest though, I can’t really get into vanilla in general, I’m always playing modded if I’m playing myself, tho I watch vanilla players like Hermitcraft

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      I’m not familiar with the detail of that one - was he always a lunatic, or did that come with the money following the buyout?

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    The company I work for got bought out and from my perspective things have only improved. From the perspective of the random customer who has the first thing go wrong in half a decade though? Those immediately blame the acquisition.

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        I agree that the way that train copilot is very morally iffy, but “without permission” isn’t totally accurate. That type of usage is covered by their ToS.

        If you don’t want MS to use your shit, self host a gitlab 🤷🏼‍♂️

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          If it was covered before copilot that’s something I actually wasnt aware of but if they added it afterwards it’s not actually a good point because they seem to feed it absolutely everything on the platform.

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            It certainly was - the github ToS grants Github (or MS in point of fact) the ability to use your code to “improve their products and services”, and has pretty much from the get-go.

            Now, with that being said, what with all the recent rulings surrounding copyright and AI, it’s possible that this clause will be deemed void in the context of training AI, but at least according to current law in the US, github was acting legally.

            Whether they were acting morally is much different question, and in my opinion the answer is no - but being evil has never stopped corporate America before, or resulted in them being held accountable