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Killing Floor Studio Cofounder Blames Woke Leftists For Layoffs [John Gibson: “it was that woke leftists got me, the CEO, key leader and creative force ousted and the company forced to be sold”] (kotaku.com)
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[–] 77 points 15 hours ago* (9 children)

But pull the linchpin and the machine collapses. Like kicking Steve Jobs out of Apple.

Is this man aware that Steve Jobs has been dead for over a decade and Apple is still the richest company in the world?

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  • [–] 28 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

    No it’s not that, they still think normal people look up to Steve Jobs whatsoever.

    Dude was an antivaxxer in regard to science and got exactly what he wanted. I wish the rest of them would follow in his footsteps like that more often, the world would thrive.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

    I’m with you, Steve Jobs was such a legendary douchebag* it pains me to correct anyone.

    I think the Tripwire co-founder is referring to when Steve Jobs was fired by Apple’s board of directors in 1985.

    Jobs went on to co-create NeXT and Pixar, and Apple absolutely tanked. John Gibson has not been wowing anyone, and few have cared about Tripwire.

    When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the 90s, it was literally Apple’s next big wave and they became a powerhouse.

    It’s actually kind of nice that everyone has forgotten this part of Jobs’ narrative, and it’s comical that the founder that left a shitty little game studio in 2021 is comparing himself to Steve Jobs. Uhh… sure, in some ways.

    * If I remember correctly… Steve Jobs literally stank because he didn’t think he needed to wash. He never had license plates on his car, because apparently at the time you could drive a new car without plates so he just bought a new car when the time expired. He ignored his first child for most of his life. He thought he could out-vegetable cancer and then tried to jump the organ donor line because he was rich?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 hours ago* (1 child)

    You forgot he stole actual inventors ideas. He didn't do shit, he just had the money to fund it and the charisma to make other people listen to what introverts couldn't articulate.

    I had a work project to collect all his "patents" when he died. They were mostly .ttf typefaces and co-signed design patents with actual inventors. Design patents are just appearance of a product. Which typically meant he gave feedback but didn't do the heavy lifting.

    He was not the genius people paint him as. He was a good marketer. The sad part is people don't recognize the actual geniuses behind the curtains.

    This is a problem I personally hate. Same reason Musk gets all this credit for being the man behind this or that technology. Motherfucker just throws money and his name at things. He's a modern Steve Jobs in that sense.

    This is what confuses actual talent with "I have the money to fund things".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago*

    Even during the zenith of the Apple hype, back in the iPhone days, the joke in Android circles was that Apple would just take whatever Samsung was doing, rebrand it with Apple terms, and launch a media blitz about the new feature they "created". And frustratingly it worked every time.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    Steve was a terrible person but he was amazing at getting the company to fix things when they went so anti customer that it was impossible to use.

    Apple really needs someone to fucking yell at them for how shitty their software is lately — just yesterday and the day before Notification Center crashed on two different machines I was using and required hard reboots. I have windows get forgotten by expose and stop responding to the window server properly, iOS keyboard is unusable. iWork is dead and gives me subscribe pop ups on every open, settings has ads, apps like Image Capture haven’t been updated for like three OS major versions and show the wrong chrome, mdstore and spotlight is constantly using 300% CPU every day, spotlight can’t find files anymore, Siri on iOS can’t cancel a request that you meant to make a web search but now you’re stuck waiting on AI bullshit, new Siri is approximately 100% wrong, the settings app is impossible to use, keychain is full of dead APIs, APIs have no actual documentation anymore you get like one or two examples instead, copy and paste images is dead, Time Machine is constantly wasting invisible space, launchctrl daemons are broken by permission dialogs, Automator has been replaced by Shortcuts which is supposed to only be used by AI… I could keep going… but it’s utter crap.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Steve said users were holding their phones wrong instead of admitting to an obvious design flaw.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago

    Yes. He was an asshole. I couldn’t find the right word for customer because of that and flash and a million other things that were blatantly self interested. Maybe the best way to put it is he cared more about Apple than anything, and that meant he cared more about customers than engineers (Apple > Customer > Staff?)

    But at least most things made sense and didn’t suck with him around.

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