So, what you’re saying is that Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is a pedophile?
It is Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney telling us he is a pedophile and a nazi.
A far-right pedophile since his concern is also that far-right speech would be “censored” (despite occupying a majority of media)
Please don’t trip into that fallacy. He may be a self-serving asshole, but blanket-labelling people pedophiles for their policies only helps those trying to monitor and censor our communication and thoughts, see chat control.
All you had to do was say nothing, Timmy.
You’re an asshole, but only PC gamers had a reason to care—because you tried to buy your way into a dominant position by employing anti-consumer, monopolistic practices like paying for distribution exclusivity deals with third-party publishers.
The best possible choice here, clearly, was to voluntarily align yourself (and by association, Epic Games) with Nazis and pedophiles. I sincerely hope the board forces you to resign, you absolute chode.
*only entitlted PC gamers had a reason to care
No entitlement necessary.
People typically welcome more competition in retail spaces. Having the freedom to pick between store A and store B allows consumers to choose whichever works best for them, whether for convenience or service reasons. Look at GOG. Nobody is complaining that they exist, or that they sell a subset of the games that people could instead purchase on Steam.
What people don’t welcome is companies deciding they want a slice of the pie, entering a market, and then making the experience worse1. Coercing people onto a platform by removing their ability to choose is consumer-hostile. People complained when E.A. and Ubisoft made new games exclusive to their own storefronts, but they begrudgingly sucked it up because those were developed by the platform owners and they weren’t interfering with games they didn’t own.
What Epic Games did was make timed exclusivity deals with third-party developers2 and publishers in an attempt to stick their foot in the door, while providing the bare minimum service to consumers3. They made EGS for the publishers and offered little more to their customers than contempt and the occasional free game as a bribe to boost the Epic Games Store user counts.
The cherry on top was Tim Sweeney acting like the messiah of PC gaming coming to save it from the Steam monopoly, only to start behaving like a petulant child on social media in response to people justifiably being pissed off at Epic Games for the monopolistic shit they were doing.
If his decisions weren’t openly hostile to the people he expected money from, there wouldn’t be much of a reason for people to dislike him. But, through his decisions and actions both as the leadership of Epic Games and as himself on Twitter, he gave people plenty of reasons.
1: See digital streaming services, for example. Everyone was happy to just pay for Netflix. Some of them even paid for Crunchyroll, too, since it provided a separate catalog. Now, every media conglomerate has taken their shows off of Netflix and moved them to their own separate services at the same price point. It’s not a coincidence that digital piracy is making a comeback.
2: Such as with Ooblets, when they paid the developer after the game was crowdfunded to release it on EGS instead of Steam.
3: No user reviews, it took years to get a shopping cart, customer support being useless when people get locked out of their accounts, etc.
No one forced the studios to take up Epic’s offer of exclusivity. Nevertheless Sweeney is a cunt.
Tim Sweeney vocally supports child porn and deep fake porn? He certainly looks like the type of creeper, so I guess I’m not that surprised.
I wonder how many times he’s been to Trump and Epstein’s Pedophile Island 🤔
“Hey kids, Tim Sweeney here, want to play Fortnite!?!”
Wanna see my noodskin?
I have the sneaking suspicion that in private the guy agrees with some very nasty political views.
He’s probably in the Epstein files
And has generated some very nasty AI images.
Wait, so is Tim Sweeney a fucking fascist, too?
😮
I oppose CSAM and child abuse.
-Tim Sweeny.
HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO SAY THAT!
Christ on a stick! Weren’t pedo’s like the worse of the worse?! When did they start getting a voice in daily regular discourse!
Son of a bitch!
Not only that, but the side of politics which regularly fantasizes publicly about murdering pedophiles is awful quiet about the fact that the vast majority of offenders come from their ranks.
I kinda wonder.
Sexual abuse is often more about power than about physical gratification.
Child abuse of this nature is pretty universally decried as one of the most heinous crimes.
So after these rich pieces of shit get away with breaking all the other laws on the books, are they going after kids for the thrill of feeling untouchable by any standard of law and morality?
And to further that, I wonder if there’s almost some sort of sick initiation that involves this sort of abuse. Once you’re in “the group”, they can out you for all the sick and illegal shit you’ve been involved with so you can’t turn on anyone else. This also follows tactics commonly used by Russia etc.
Given all the stuff that’s happened and turned out to be projection, what’s the chance there actually was some sort of pizzeria based child-dungeon, but operated by the same people throwing out accusations?
Anything political has slid so far from the typical right–left continuum that the ruler class’s inner evil is plain for everyone to see.
Is it? Is it really? Is there some kind of lizard person level conspiracy out there that our entire ruling elite are just populated by pedophiles?
Is it some kind of pathology when somebody reaches a certain level of financial Freedom and power that they immediately find themselves attracted to the children?
What is happening to this world!
Well, the left was like, y’all chill, trans are people, respect that.
The GOP was like, hold my beer.
The actual post is even worse. Has the gall to call this, “crony capitalism”…
What about all the ACTUAL OTHER CRONY CAPITALISM HAPPENING
Why did this freak pick THIS of all ongoing issues to get fired up about? Holy shit
Cuz he’s one of them. It’s how he became CEO. It’s how they all become CEO. It isn’t rocket science. They’re broken freaks.
You know, if it was anything but Twitter, I could at least have an ounce of sympathy. I remember Tumblr getting a bunch of cheap heat over its active community of furry enthusiasts. Valve cracked down on a bunch of lewd games in their Steam Store, largely out of prudishness. Reddit’s been a notorious hub for revenge porn since forever, and its still been considered draconian to blank-ban the whole site.
But pretty much everyone drew the line at CSAM. Hell, 4chan generally drew the line at CSAM. Sites that had virtually no moderation still managed to swing their tiny hammers at CSAM wherever it cropped up.
Twitter seems to have fully embraced this shit with an enthusiasm that can only be described as satanic. Just really, nakedly, unapologetically evil. Maybe Sweeny just doesn’t get that, and he’s reflexively defending another billionaire from the oppressive hand of Big Government Regulation. Maybe the dude’s just a nounce and thinks CSAM is no big deal. Either way, someone needs to rub his nose in it until he gets the picture.
Satan isn’t a pedo. There aren’t children in hell. These people are worse then Satan.
Satan isn’t a pedo.
I wouldn’t hang my hat on this. Satanists have as much a problem with pedophilia as every other branch of the Christian faith.
As an old ass gamer who is fond of Unreal Tournament, I sure hate what Epic has become.
For where they are today, they got rid of UT so it wouldn’t compete with fornite. So I don’t even give them any positive thoughts for that legacy.
Also iirc it was one of the few games that targetted linux compatibility back in the day, but epic has more recently taken a “fuck linux” stance and from what I understand deliberately prevents it running on linux via proton (“from what I understand” because it might just be the kernel level anti-cheat bs, but iirc he’s said things like all linux users are just trying to cheat). So he can keep his free games and while I would like to see someone actually compete with Valve, I hope some fortnite players wake up and stop spending money on dumb mtx shit so epic goes under.
Love how the entire economy now revolves around the Torment Nexus and CEOs have to defend it every chance they get
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors…
good for him i guess, but why is this news?
…is just ‘gatekeepers’ attempting to ‘censor all of their political opponents’
ah of course, makes sense now.
anyone do a search for him on Epstein airlines?
So apparently AI generated CSAM is political? Interesting.
It’s how Tim celebrates his freedom.
Was America built on pedophelia this whole time? Is this why they “fled Europe” to colonize the new world???
Probably. Knowing what we know now, the Puritans look awfully sketchy.
There are two types of sexual intercourse now: consensual and political.
And my Epic Account is deleted.
