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Reacting to 'Indi Game: The Movie" long after the fact...

EDIT PLEASE READ:Please do not leave comments from now on. It's has devolved into a toxic listing of peoples judgements of people in the film which is not what my blog was about. It's not going anywhere but down and I think we should all just end it.

-Thanks

-bluefish

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And I really enjoyed it, it's very well put together and all that but I paid the most attention to Phil Fish in light of the public perception of him and where it's directed his life. The following are my own thoughts, I appreciate people are polarized on the guy but lets try and keep this positive/polite/respectful.

I was struck by just how scared he was. Honestly. With his legal woes, development woes and just seeming like a pretty open guy emotionally I admire what he was able to accomplish.

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I just wanted to say something nice about the guy. He's a character for sure but keep in mind that was an incredibly stressful time in his life and he clearly let that film crew into his life with little held back. I just really admire that. It takes a certain kind of guy to make a game like that with so much of themselves in it and with so much dedication. If that means he's not the most reserved or genial man in the world that's fine, I'm genial and pleasant but I'll never make anything like he did and I'm glad something really cool came from all his hard work. Rough edges come with intense personalities and intense personalities are often the ones that accomplish remarkable things.

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I dunno, watching it with all the hate these guys get reminded me what a dark voice the gaming community can have. We can be critical of games but I don't think we have the right to be critical publicly of the people who make them. It just feels gross, and it's so much the norm that it made me sad watching this guy. He's younger than me, just a kid in a lot of ways, taking a bigger risk than most of us have taken in our lives. And he got shat on by a lot of people and it clearly hit him pretty hard.

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It's an uphill battle to ask this but: lets not make this a discussion of whether hating the guy is 'valid' or not. I was just reminded that we're all just people and we need to try and treat each other as such.

Thanks for reading.

-blufish

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