• residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    22 days ago

    As a teenager I loved to read Lovecraft. It was a way to learn English as a nice side effect because it isn’t my native language but that also obscured the appalling racism from me which lead to disappointment when I found out later.

    • Ex Nummis@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Lovecraft deserves some redemption. First of all he wasn’t especially racist, just the “normal” amount for his time (take with a grain of salt please!). More importantly he significantly mellowed out in his later years primarily due to exposure to talented black writers which made him realize the error of his ways.

      But yeah, I wouldn’t ask him to name my void cat.

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Neil Gaiman. I fucking loved Sandman and damn near everything else he wrote. Finding out he’s a total scumbag has basically ruined a lot of very dear memories.

  • VivianRixia@piefed.socialEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I used to love Joss Whedon from everything he made. I grew up watching Buffy, and loved Firefly, then Marvel got him for Avengers and I was excited for him to be getting such a big break. He later Agents of Shield which I also loved. But then it came out that he was an abuser. His whole persona of championing strong women was merely a facade to hide this.

    Learning that Michelle Trachtenberg (RIP) had a clause in her contract while working in Buffy (2000-3) at age 15 that she was not to ever be in the same room as Whedon alone opened my eyes to just how bad things are. Not just how bad he was, but how well it was known that he was an abuser and no one did anything about it. That’s just how things were.

    I have a hard time watching Buffy or any of his works anymore, just knowing now that he was behind these things.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    22 days ago

    Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros. I had a period where I appreciated people who played the system to get rich. Before I understood the system itself is the problem.

    • Aljernon@lemmy.today
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      20 days ago

      What I find most interesting is that Warren Buffet has come right out said it’s weird that society will reward people into being billionaires and has publicly stated that there’s is for sure a class war going on and billionaires are winning.

      I think it’s nice he’s giving most of his fortune away but disappointing he hasn’t called for the system that made his fortune to be dismantled.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        21 days ago

        because he benefited from that system that gave billionaires that advantage, of courses hes not go to bite the hand that feeds him.

        • Aljernon@lemmy.today
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          20 days ago

          Of all the wealthy people I’ve ever read about, Buffet seems to actually care about money the least. Like’s he’s in love with the process in the way that an autistic person loves their hyper focus but if he lost everything, it wouldn’t faze him.

  • trslim@pawb.social
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    20 days ago

    Not so much an evil person, but moreso a fool that fell for conservative and techbro propaganda, John Carmack is insanely smart and intelligent bookwise, but i think his social skills are zilch.

    Sandy Petersen is another one i really used to enjoy but the amount of times he’s scammed people out of crowdfunded boardgames has turned me off from anything that has to do with him.

    Thankfully John Romero is a great person (afaik) who overcame his ego, probably after Daikatana failed to sell.