Godot being woke? Wtf?
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
319 points (91.6% liked)
Games
20323 readers
248 users here now
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
- News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
- Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
- No humor/memes etc..
- No affiliate links
- No advertising.
- No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
- No self promotion.
- No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
- No politics.
Comments.
- No personal attacks.
- Obey instance rules.
- No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
- Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Wait, did PirateSoftware rant about wokeness, or are you confusing him with fellow failed game dev Grummz?
I don't like pirate software like any other guy, but I want to put credit where credit is due.
He wasn't ranting about Godot being woke last year. He was actually actively defending it from all the bigots. One of the very few YouTubers or streamers, I saw.
You have probably mistaken him with Asmongold. He has long hair too, and he is right wing nutjob pos.
load more comments
(1 replies)
What has this Pirate Software released? I'm not familiar with their games
Really? Most games I played in my life were pirated software.
Pretty weird guy, honestly. Seems competent, but spends too much time complaining about other people instead of working on his own stuff.
load more comments
(3 replies)
They got 6, count them SIX, negative reviews in one day. Such review bombing, indeed.
"lol," I said, "lmao"
Review bomb where? On their page they link to Steam, where they have one released game (95% positive) and two demos (one unrated, second 90% positive).
"on discord and twitter"
Alright, so no review bombing going on then, as Twitter is full of dumbfucks anyway and can burn to the ground, and who the hell goes on Discord to review a game? It seems like it was about harassment, and not review bombing.
Yup
#gasp
I don’t like him. Never have, never will.
no idea who he is, should I care?
No.
yeah, same!
So... I actually tinker around in Godot.
Whilst looking around to see if anyone had, or was developing an extension I would find useful...
I discovered 'Redot'.
Basically, there is a small but very vocal group of people who are very, very angry that a Godot community manager made some pro LGBT, inclusive twitter posts, turned that into a culture war flare up on twitter...
And then forked Godot.
To make the anti-woke version of Godot.
Their youtube channel has, as best I can tell, absolutely no descriptions of any substantial differences from... you know, an actual game engine feature set perspective.
Beyond of course being behind Godot now, lol.
What they do have is a bunch of rants about politics and edrama for their 'non-political' game engine.
Also... they pronounce Redot as Re-Dot, hard t.
Godot is Godot as in Waiting for Godot.
Go - Dough. God - Oh.
The t is silent.
... of course these idiots are literally uncultured and have never read the screenplay or seen the stage play, so they have no idea how to pronounce the word.
Could have gone with Re - Do, or Re - Dough, those would have been closer, the first at least an obvious allusion to them being a Godot fork.
But no. Re Dot.
smdh
Okay, as much as I approve of mocking bigots, I didn't pronounce "Godot" properly for a few years because I had never heard the name spoken before. I'd only ever read it.
Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it's an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing. Typically, people receptive to learning will try to correct themselves when it's pointed out. I'm very self conscious of this because I'm awful at pronouncing words.
But for folks like this, yeah, mock the hell out of them.
Lol grew up reading a lot of books and such, so very similar and I am usually bad at assumed pronunciation, such as godot which I just learned thanks to this thread.
What you're saying is true, that not knowing how to pronounce aloud a word you've only ever read is not some kind of 100% surefire sign you're a bigot or anything like that.
It just means, as you say, that you've never heard it said aloud.
But... that also means you never bothered to look up how it is pronounced (its on wikipedia, the actual Godot devs have videos of them saying it, etc)... and it does also mean you presumably are also unfamiliar with Waiting for Godot.
So I would say you are also 'uncultured' in that way, but of course, simply being uncultured doesn't make one a bigot.
You could just not have the time, money, etc, to have seen the play before.
That by no means say anything else really concrete about you, or any other person, if that's like... the only single datapoint you know about them.
In all seriousness, I do strongly recommend seeing the actual play, probably you could find a dramatic reading / radio drama version of it somewhere on the net, or even a full video captured performance of it on a forgotten youtube channel or the Internet Archive.
I... don't know that its ever been adapted as a proper movie, perhaps a film snob can appear and call me uncultured, haja!
not reading / watching a play by Beckett means you're uncultured
Is there a community for Shit Lemmy Says?
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it's an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing
I love when I hear folks do this. It always gives me a little wholesome bump that it's from reading.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Go - Dough. God - Oh.
Or even "g'dough", either way the T is always silent.
I'll say it that way sometimes, haha!
I also have a tendency to shorten 'good night' and 'good morning' and even 'good to see you!' into just basically g' with a glottal stop, haha.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Most of the folks I've heard making tutorials about it pronounce it "guhDOUGH." To get that FOSS cred the name has to be a dumpster fire.
Ubuntu.
Oo boon too?
Oo bun too?
Pretty sure the correct pronunciation is the first, but a lot of people say it as the second.
... lets just name the next big FOSS thing 'Uranus' and watch everyone disagree about how to pronounce that, very loudly.
I most often hear it pronounced you-bun-too.
But it is oo-boon-too.
Dang, I can't say I've ever heard You Bun Too... thats new to me!
There's an Arduino-based CNC controller firmware called GRBL. Gurble? Gerbil? Garble? GeeArrBeeElle? GuhRuhBuhLuh?
Hah! I'm gonna go with the last one, hahaha!
No, YOUR anus!
load more comments
(1 replies)
Redot still exists? I expected it to die off after a month max
load more comments
(1 replies)
Drama aside, I'm just glad to read the goal was reached. Hopefully something comes of the effort.