I hardly give a shit at all what a creative person is like vs their content. Some awful people make great stuff, and what we know about whom is so entirely selective. It's Chinatown. I have never really agreed with that viewpoint too much or engaged in it. For me, art is put out there and interpreted and in many cases I don't really care about engaging with any idea of who created it. Kubrick kind of seemed like an asshole, particularly to get the results he wanted in his art.
Don't fault others for it, but like I say I think it's selective many times. Some of them will sure fault me though. Had those fun discussions before.
Developers with an awful track record I guess would get me but even then I'd just wait and see how it turned out. Obsidian is an example there for me with how busted some of their games were but I still jumped in on PoE when that turned out solidly.
I'm not saying if some developer was out there being a Nazi I would go buy the game but I haven't ever had an experience remotely like that. And of course, if the work is racist or what have you, that's a different story. Like I said before, to me the art stands more or less alone to how I work with this stuff.
As far as Campo Santo goes, it is a mixed feeling for me but as someone who does some creative stuff in an amateur capacity and wants to professionally, I feel strongly that artists have rights to their work and shouldn't be swayed just because other creators do differently or the audience doesn't like it. And I see plenty of reason to cut Pew Die Pie off after this last incident.
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