Notch, the creator of Minecraft and coiner of the term “ma’amsplaining,” is back in the fray over video game politics after he responded to a Redditor’s question about demands by some to put more female characters in video games. This issue came to a head when a bunch of liberal gaming journalists crybullied Nintendo over Link not being a woman in the new Zelda game. Notch responded to this growing trend by calling it censorship.
Then later in the week a reporter from Crave criticized Notch for what the author perceived was Notch advocating for censorship of female characters. Notch later clarified on Reddit that he was actually talking about a culture of censorship throughout the whole industry.
Regardless of intent, Notch and the article’s author had at it on Twitter.
Notch’s devil-may-care attitude on Twitter and his willingness to speak up on issues other developers are afraid to discuss publicly has a lot to do with his semi-retirement and the fact that he has a shitload of money. He explained the situation last week on Reddit.