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A Subnautica developer has reportedly been fired over controversial comments he previously posted to Twitter, with the game's sound designer Simon Chylinski tweeting that he has been ousted from his position at Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
Chylinski has come under fire recently after a number of recent comments he posted to Twitter were placed under the spotlight. The sound designer took to Twitter yesterday to post an update on his status with Unknown Worlds Entertainment, tweeting: "so. i just got fired.. :("
Isn't it illegal to fire someone for their political views in California? Unknown Worlds Entertainment may be in for one hell of an uncapped damages lawsuit.
Source: http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/366749-subnautica-dev-fired-controversial-twitter-comments
(Score: 4, Informative) by Arik on Friday February 16 2018, @07:46PM (7 children)
Also I gather the fellow is Polish and has likely learned much of his "English" in the same or similar illiterate contexts.
As a 'sound designer' proper literacy probably isn't really a job requirement.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday February 16 2018, @07:53PM (6 children)
Is he Polish? I couldn't tell from the article. "Simon" doesn't sound like a terribly Polish name to me, and tons of Americans have Polish surnames without having any connection to the country besides having some great-grandparent or something who emigrated from there almost a century ago. I just assumed he was an American with that name.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday February 16 2018, @08:26PM (1 child)
Quote - In one such tweet, posted in response to an article shared by InfoWars editor and conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson discussing "Islamic no go zones," Chylinski tweeted: "ppl arn't blank slates that can be reprogrammed simply by being in a new country. importing random ppl from the 3rd world is also importing 3rd world tier crime rates and IQ. now u r dealing with 3rd world levels of dysfunction, condolences from Poland, but we tried to warn u." \Quote
""Simon" doesn't sound like a terribly Polish name to me,""
It didn't sound out of line to me, I expect Poland to feature most of the same names as surrounding countries, as so many of them are ultimately religious names from the Bible (Thomas/Paul/John/James/Simon and so on) but I'm certainly no authority on things Polish so I looked it up. It is indeed one of the more popular boys names in Poland, although it looks like he probably anglicized the spelling from "Szymon."
http://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/poland
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/penpals/stats.php3?Pays=POL
http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art359fr.htm
Several different sources with minor disagreement but all place it in the top 10.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday February 16 2018, @08:32PM
Good catch, somehow I missed or forgot the "condolences from Poland" bit. You're probably right about the Anglicization part.
(Score: 1) by Crash on Saturday February 17 2018, @08:47AM (3 children)
Destructive Creations, of Hatred [hatredgame.com] fame, are also Polish.
It would seem white supremacist sociopathic ideologies aren't the exclusive purview of America.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @01:35PM (1 child)
Are all the enemies black or something? What's racist about "kill all humans?"
(Score: 1) by Arik on Sunday February 18 2018, @12:27AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday February 17 2018, @10:29PM
You know that those Nazi guys were German, right? Those fellows who carved Africa up among them at the 1884 Berlin Conference were French, Belgian, Italian, English, German, Austro-Hungarian, Dutch, Italian, etc, too; That was a white supremacist doozy.
Washington DC delenda est.