Wow. There was just zero reason for him to say anything. Nobody is accusing Fortnite of being unsafe for kids. And he chose to say that. For himself.
He's probably just trying to get noticed by Trump. "Hey, look at me! I'm on the side of you and the other pedoNazis! You're the best!"
"I like kids too!"
We already know they're buddies; Tim Sweeney travelled to Saudi Arabia with Trump's bribe-seeking entourage.
"Epic MAGAgames"
Edit: better link
He was on the list, but I couldn't find him in any of the photos or videos from the event. The CEOs of Nvidia and OpenAI were indeed present and shaking hands though.
He wants an invitation to Epstein island v2
I think the USA is a bit big to be considered an island
Well if north-Korea can call itself and democracy, why can't Trump call the us an island?
"We have certain things in common, Donald. Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? A pal is a wonderful thing to have!"
Is EpicGames involved with Roblox? Because as far as minors go, I hear THAT game is a dumpster fire with zero redeemable qualities.
Not really, no. It's clear that Epic took way worse a direction than Digital Extremes.
Digital Extremes, the makers of Warframe?
Indeed. DE branched off from Epic Games in the 90s, I believe. Obviously took a more ethical direction.
As per their download page https://www.roblox.com/download, no. Not to say EGS is good, it's Roblox treasuring independency where they can.
Going by the claims their CEOs make you could swap them and things would progress as usual. Or regress, rather.
Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents," Sweeney wrote in a first tweet responding to MacRumors' report of US politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores.
Politicians want the offending apps removed from the app stores, and Sweeney thinks app store business is his business. He really ought to worry more about improving his own store.
But, his store has nothing to do with X. And, for example, Horses was banned from EGS too.
Hi every one, my name is Tim, and I like video games.
I like it when kids can fully enjoy playing video games.
Kids are great, they're the future, and they should be able to enjoy video games!
. .. ...
You know what else I like?
Well, its called ERP, and it stands for...
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So, what you're saying is that Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is a pedophile?
Majority of them are it seems. It's why the full Epstein files still haven't been released.
Oligarchs gunna oligarch.
Or why they exist in the first place. Takes a village to make Epstein Island.
It is Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney telling us he is a pedophile and a nazi.
Hardly a surprise.
A far-right pedophile since his concern is also that far-right speech would be "censored" (despite occupying a majority of media)
Please don't trip into that fallacy. He may be a self-serving asshole, but blanket-labelling people pedophiles for their policies only helps those trying to monitor and censor our communication and thoughts, see chat control.
His policy of not wanting to censor CSAM? I mean, it certainly seems like something a pedophile would do.
Banning twitter, not censoring it
Okay? Twitter, at this point, is a Nazi hellscape. It should be banned.
It's almost impressive how Sweeney manages to have the most wrong take on every single issue.
The day he says something I agree with is the day I reevaluate everything I believe.
All you had to do was say nothing, Timmy.
You're an asshole, but only PC gamers had a reason to care—because you tried to buy your way into a dominant position by employing anti-consumer, monopolistic practices like paying for distribution exclusivity deals with third-party publishers.
The best possible choice here, clearly, was to voluntarily align yourself (and by association, Epic Games) with Nazis and pedophiles. I sincerely hope the board forces you to resign, you absolute chode.
*only entitlted PC gamers had a reason to care
No entitlement necessary.
People typically welcome more competition in retail spaces. Having the freedom to pick between store A and store B allows consumers to choose whichever works best for them, whether for convenience or service reasons. Look at GOG. Nobody is complaining that they exist, or that they sell a subset of the games that people could instead purchase on Steam.
What people don't welcome is companies deciding they want a slice of the pie, entering a market, and then making the experience worse1. Coercing people onto a platform by removing their ability to choose is consumer-hostile. People complained when E.A. and Ubisoft made new games exclusive to their own storefronts, but they begrudgingly sucked it up because those were developed by the platform owners and they weren't interfering with games they didn't own.
What Epic Games did was make timed exclusivity deals with third-party developers2 and publishers in an attempt to stick their foot in the door, while providing the bare minimum service to consumers3. They made EGS for the publishers and offered little more to their customers than contempt and the occasional free game as a bribe to boost the Epic Games Store user counts.
The cherry on top was Tim Sweeney acting like the messiah of PC gaming coming to save it from the Steam monopoly, only to start behaving like a petulant child on social media in response to people justifiably being pissed off at Epic Games for the monopolistic shit they were doing.
If his decisions weren't openly hostile to the people he expected money from, there wouldn't be much of a reason for people to dislike him. But, through his decisions and actions both as the leadership of Epic Games and as himself on Twitter, he gave people plenty of reasons.
1: See digital streaming services, for example. Everyone was happy to just pay for Netflix. Some of them even paid for Crunchyroll, too, since it provided a separate catalog. Now, every media conglomerate has taken their shows off of Netflix and moved them to their own separate services at the same price point. It's not a coincidence that digital piracy is making a comeback.
2: Such as with Ooblets, when they paid the developer after the game was crowdfunded to release it on EGS instead of Steam.
3: No user reviews, it took years to get a shopping cart, customer support being useless when people get locked out of their accounts, etc.
No one forced the studios to take up Epic's offer of exclusivity. Nevertheless Sweeney is a cunt.
I swear, the whole outrage over EGS can only be plainly and simply explained as the stupid "no steam no buy". When a game remains exclusive to this DRM launcher made by an American corporation for 50 years, all is well in the world, but when the game becomes exclusives to that DRM launcher made by that other American corporation for a year, suddenly all hell breaks loose. They're both the same toxin! Just blind devotion to a company that only did very pro-consumer things like make lootboxes really popular and making it hip and cool to give up ownership of your games.
For the record, the Tim should really just shut up. Or really, any American wealthy CEO for that matter, their grand standing over freeze peach isn't worth the oxygen required to produce it instead of just... not enabling CSAM like normal platforms do?
The problems with EGS are not about steam loyalty.
Yeah, no. EGS is a piece of shit DRM launcher, just like Valve's own piece of shit, but it has the Epic logo. Heck, they even have free games and not even that is enough to kill the vitriol, so yeah it's just "no steam no buy" all over again, or Steam would also be chided for many of the same things - which would be very dandy if it happened, after all, neither of them respect us enough to own our games without having to phone them home first.
I would rather pirate a game than claim it for free on Epic.
How is that Steam loyalty?
I'll raise you one and say I'd rather pirate games than use either of them. At least there's GOG, itch, Zoom-Platform, putting aside games that never come there until a decade later.
Weird how many billionaires are just openly pro paedophia.
They've been given a green light for it by the pedo in chief. It's not that surprising really, they only care about themself (singular because there isn't any real solidarity among them).
Take names. Don't forget.
PedoTUS
Thinking about it, being the type to take moral "forbidden fruits" such as exploiting your workers is what makes people rich over time.
It does make sense "clubs and connections" would start to form around pedophilia.
And since it becomes more of an advantage in business, the richest of the rich may just be as rich thanks to their pedophilia.
Besides the greed and the luck, of course.
Tim Sweeney vocally supports child porn and deep fake porn? He certainly looks like the type of creeper, so I guess I'm not that surprised.
I wonder how many times he's been to Trump and Epstein's Pedophile Island 🤔
This just in: Epic games CEO tim Sweeney is against banning child porn!
I guess "think of the children" only applies when it erodes consumer privacy
They're thinking about children all right ...
Censoring child porn is extra unfair to republicans as it's the only way many if them can cum and only banning orgasms for one party isn't fair.
"Hey kids, Tim Sweeney here, want to play Fortnite!?!"
Wanna see my noodskin?
Wow, even with everything going on these days it's been a long time since I've seen this fella. I can't believe I'm getting a nostalgia wave over god damn Pedobear of all things
When I'm in a dogshit opinions competition and my opponent is Tim Sweeney
I have the sneaking suspicion that in private the guy agrees with some very nasty political views.
He's probably in the Epstein files
And has generated some very nasty AI images.
“Tim Sweeney totally down with child porn if it owns the libs”
The last five words in your sentence might not be needed...
Yet another reason not to use the Epic Games Store.
Haven’t touched that pile of shit in years.
Wait, so is Tim Sweeney a fucking fascist, too?
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Most probably. However there maybe another reason, maybe he just likes having the option to make paedo stuff on xhitter...
😮
He does know that Xitter is already, actually and literally, censoring their political opposition right?
That was pretty much the whole project, right?
Yes and it is still isn’t fair to the right wing and the synonymous .1% wealthy class. He is being explicit.
I oppose CSAM and child abuse.
-Tim Sweeny.
HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO SAY THAT!
Christ on a stick! Weren't pedo's like the worse of the worse?! When did they start getting a voice in daily regular discourse!
Son of a bitch!
Not only that, but the side of politics which regularly fantasizes publicly about murdering pedophiles is awful quiet about the fact that the vast majority of offenders come from their ranks.
I kinda wonder.
Sexual abuse is often more about power than about physical gratification.
Child abuse of this nature is pretty universally decried as one of the most heinous crimes.
So after these rich pieces of shit get away with breaking all the other laws on the books, are they going after kids for the thrill of feeling untouchable by any standard of law and morality?
And to further that, I wonder if there's almost some sort of sick initiation that involves this sort of abuse. Once you're in "the group", they can out you for all the sick and illegal shit you've been involved with so you can't turn on anyone else. This also follows tactics commonly used by Russia etc.
Given all the stuff that's happened and turned out to be projection, what's the chance there actually was some sort of pizzeria based child-dungeon, but operated by the same people throwing out accusations?
But this guy is being open about it. Apparently being a paedophile isn't blackmail material for CEOs. Elon does it, the president does it, thousands of people on Twitter do it. Goddamn.
Because it's easier for these psychopaths to believe that there's a cage of children in some random pizza restaurant basement rather than believe a billionaire has a group of children in their mcmansions.
Anything political has slid so far from the typical right–left continuum that the ruler class's inner evil is plain for everyone to see.
Is it? Is it really? Is there some kind of lizard person level conspiracy out there that our entire ruling elite are just populated by pedophiles?
Is it some kind of pathology when somebody reaches a certain level of financial Freedom and power that they immediately find themselves attracted to the children?
What is happening to this world!
Well, the left was like, y’all chill, trans are people, respect that.
The GOP was like, hold my beer.
Commenting on the very article from the OP, he called the content disgusting.
You know, if it was anything but Twitter, I could at least have an ounce of sympathy. I remember Tumblr getting a bunch of cheap heat over its active community of furry enthusiasts. Valve cracked down on a bunch of lewd games in their Steam Store, largely out of prudishness. Reddit's been a notorious hub for revenge porn since forever, and its still been considered draconian to blank-ban the whole site.
But pretty much everyone drew the line at CSAM. Hell, 4chan generally drew the line at CSAM. Sites that had virtually no moderation still managed to swing their tiny hammers at CSAM wherever it cropped up.
Twitter seems to have fully embraced this shit with an enthusiasm that can only be described as satanic. Just really, nakedly, unapologetically evil. Maybe Sweeny just doesn't get that, and he's reflexively defending another billionaire from the oppressive hand of Big Government Regulation. Maybe the dude's just a nounce and thinks CSAM is no big deal. Either way, someone needs to rub his nose in it until he gets the picture.
Satan isn't a pedo. There aren't children in hell. These people are worse then Satan.
There aren’t children in hell.
Law and Order SVU 6.06 begs to differ.
Satan isn’t a pedo.
I wouldn't hang my hat on this. Satanists have as much a problem with pedophilia as every other branch of the Christian faith.
Kind of doubt it. I feel like satanists have higher morals than christians
Aleister Crowley believed there were three forms of sex magick; autoerotic, heterosexual, and homosexual, (Drury, 2012). He claimed that by performing specific sexual rituals, including sado masochistic sex rituals on young boys, one could achieve financial gains and personal success, (Drury, 2012). For Crowley, the sex rituals were a sacrament and ingesting the fluids from sex and certain biological functions, such as using menstrual blood in rituals, would imbue him with knowledge, power, and success, (Drury, 2012). Certainly, in creating a cult of personality with a devoted following and in being an influencer through many generations, he can be considered successful
Hardly a secret
Shows what you know about Satanists.
Satanists don't believe in Satan. They call themselves Satanists because it annoys the Bible bashes who likes to hide behind religion as an excuse for being terrible people. You know, the types that like to say "we are good Christian conservative god-fearing family" and leave you to fill in the missing pieces.
Satanists advocate being good people and helping each other precisely because there isn't a god to enforce this stuff. Satanists aren't Christian and they don't believe in God.
You are thinking of the Church of Satan.
I'm sure there are many types of satanists.
The actual post is even worse. Has the gall to call this, “crony capitalism”…
What about all the ACTUAL OTHER CRONY CAPITALISM HAPPENING
Why did this freak pick THIS of all ongoing issues to get fired up about? Holy shit
Cuz he's one of them. It's how he became CEO. It's how they all become CEO. It isn't rocket science. They're broken freaks.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors...
good for him i guess, but why is this news?
...is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'
ah of course, makes sense now.
Someone check this man's hard drive.
As an old ass gamer who is fond of Unreal Tournament, I sure hate what Epic has become.
At first I was kinda offended that they turned their backs on the unreal franchise in such a disrespectful way.
But at this point that feels right. Current Epic doesn’t deserve to be associated with Unreal.
For where they are today, they got rid of UT so it wouldn't compete with fornite. So I don't even give them any positive thoughts for that legacy.
Also iirc it was one of the few games that targetted linux compatibility back in the day, but epic has more recently taken a "fuck linux" stance and from what I understand deliberately prevents it running on linux via proton ("from what I understand" because it might just be the kernel level anti-cheat bs, but iirc he's said things like all linux users are just trying to cheat). So he can keep his free games and while I would like to see someone actually compete with Valve, I hope some fortnite players wake up and stop spending money on dumb mtx shit so epic goes under.
So apparently AI generated CSAM is political? Interesting.
It's how Tim celebrates his freedom.
Was America built on pedophelia this whole time? Is this why they “fled Europe” to colonize the new world???
Probably. Knowing what we know now, the Puritans look awfully sketchy.
Generally speaking if people go out of their way to tell you how wonderful they are it's usually because they're not.
Look at Ellen, and Oprah.
There are two types of sexual intercourse now: consensual and political.
Love how the entire economy now revolves around the Torment Nexus and CEOs have to defend it every chance they get
And my Epic Account is deleted.
Holy shit. I honestly can't believe people are willing to actually openly support that shit.
Umprompted too. It's not like he's been interrogated by, say, Nick Frost.
Seriously. It's genuinely making me worry about the few past interactions I had with him as the guy who created Jill of the Jungle and ZZT. Like, what might have happened if me or any of the other kids at the computer show were alone with him? What might he have done when no one was watching?
“I like looking at AI generated kiddie porn, actually!”
- Tim Sweeney
Aaaaaand…. Boycotted.
I have boycotted them since their stupid launcher that was nothing but greed, and also when Idle it ate up like half my ram
…The fuck?
Is Tim Sweeney legitimately outing himself as a pedophile? Does the Parasite Class really feel so comfortable and immune from consequences that they can openly advocate for pedophilia?
They're under the protection of the POTUS. Yes, they feel immune to consequences.
probably, he could well be associated with files.
Look at that dude, even on pedophile island he's not getting an invite. Not saying he isn't into kids, just that all the other pedos probably picked on him.
anyone do a search for him on Epstein airlines?
Wow. I already thought of Sweeny as scum but I didn’t know he was nazi pedophile scum. So long Epic.
Found the pedo!
He's even got the glasses..
Check his hard drive. Is he on the lolita flight logs?
It's astonishing how arrogant and stupid this guy is. Surely he'd notice that this is a great argument against having large centralized services, right? Does he think Twitter is the only Microblogging thing on the net?
Hmmm. I think I won't be reinstaling the Epic Games Store app on my gaming PC any time soon. (My old drive failed December of '23..) I'm only playing two games anyhow - Horizon Zero Dawn and No Man's Sky and both I got through GOG.
NGL, I only tried the Epic Store to get Bioshock on one of their free giveaways.. and it turned out to be a bit much.
Really not into body horror games.. Or people that make excuses for maintaining platforms that enable the creation, and distribution, of CSAM.
See ya later, Tim.
On one hand, the technology exists, sure.
On the other hand, arguing that everyone should have easy, free access to child porn is not the "good look" he think it is. I wonder why people regularly shit on him.
never had an epic account. never will.
Anyone have a script that just repeatedly downloads and then uninstalls my epic library?
Absolute L take from the undisputed king of L takes.
I knew him from way back in the good old days of ZZT and epic pinball.
Why do many of these guys end up being goddamn weirdos?
Asbestos. Lead. Microplastics.
They're not to blame directly, but they're letting their shit thoughts run wild.
I think it's the other M.
Money.
Money and power.
Once they got those, it's an addiction they'll pursue over anything else
De man say yez but he might mean no
It's not about twitter. It's about grok. Please do not knock the spinning AI plates.
... censor all of their political opponents
... ' child pornography?
To be clear: X is the political opponent of anyone who values democracy. As such, it can be fairly said that this IS an attempt to censor my opponents' ... child pornography. I do not object to 'censoring' CSAM. Tim Sweeney thinks child porn is free speech (pcgamer - contact me for rights to this far superior headline). When X was just vile hate speech, propaganda, and misinformation, the free speech argument prevailed. This is not the same.
Even before Grok, the moment Elongated Muskrat took over, reporting actual CSAM become much harder. But yeah, if you value democracy, you want Xitter to be gone.
My god, the outspoken billionaire pedophile club just keeps growing.
Just can't fucking help themselves.
... though... that... does makes sense, that you would lack self-inhibition... if you were a pedophile.
Hooray clown world!
I knew I had a reason to hate Tim and Epic games. I’m glad I never took their bribes of free games and installed their store
You know Tim Sweeney really could do with having his social media access taken away from him. It's not like he has anything of value to contribute.
He should stick to just announcing Epic releases and otherwise just shut up.
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oooooookayyyyyyyy.
billionaires, man: they not like us ._.
edit: oh wow i suddenly just realized, the fact that i never installed the epic games store and didn't accept from them even the things they were giving away FOR FREE means that i never aided or abetted this irredeemable monstrous pedophile scumbag sack of shit. I did not expect to feel vindicated today. What a pleasant surprise.
On the other hand, all I have in my Epic account are the free games. I expect those cost his company money.
Even so, I feel dirty and will close my account. I can get the titles I really like in Gog or Steam.
You are based for stanning gog and thus are absolved <3
I love their zero tolerance for DRM so much
He doesn’t care about user freedom of choice only his own interests and now his mask in falling. He is openly supporting child pornography.
Classic Epic response!
Is the image Grok’s representation of what a pedophile might look like?
Nah, Grok isn't that accurate.
Yeah, I'd like to censor those pedophile politicians, with my rpg censor.
Every accusation is a confession. Tech CEOs are filthy scum.
I thought "gatekeeping" was a good thing, to keep fandom spaces "safe from normies", so big corporations will only make stuff for "real, hardcore fans".
They will not care. When you reach that level then it doesn't matter what working class talks about.
Tim Sweeney has a shitty take? Must be a day ending in Y!
Communities have values and standards. Those fat cats and their systems of extracting capital have been chipping away at that for decades. Shame used to be a thing. No values. No standards, No shame.
I'm fine with all of these CEOs giving me even more reasons to not support AAA companies and give my money to indies.
I have a feeling that after this is all over there's going to be some kind of McCarthyist search to out all of the pedos in business and politics.
I mean in a sense I hope there will be one in order to rid the world of the pedo cabal, but there are always false positives in such moral panics.
Also he's wrong, this isn't the first rodeo of AI producing CSAM, when people discovered stable diffusion could do it they made the filters a lot better on the XL version, but Musk doesn't give a fuck.
What kind of fucking dope he's on?
This fuckhead as the head of a gaming company, what a fucking joke. This loser has never had fun in his life
I'm so sick and tired of the self-evident stupidity of free speech absolutism.
I don't know why but these people want to normalize pedophilia.
They probably want to normalize it so they can do it in public without any push back. I mean, remember when fElon was getting "Karate" lessons with Jizz Lane Ghislane Maxwell on behalf of Epstein; after all this grok pedo shit and his projection onto that cave diver, there's not a singular doubt in my mind he's a child rapist too just trying to move that overton window.
it worked for trump, well at least hes using distractions after distraction from the PDF. it is why THIEL is so anti-lgbtq by funding it, because hes been associated with epstein his peference would "F-boys", and his constant effort to stay out of the media.
Well... The obvious answer is that they're pedophiles. Why they would want to telegraph that to everyone I can't say.
Oh dear, Tim. I guess you just told us your future.
Why do people keep quoting this guy? His whole gimmick is saying asshole things to stay in the media. Just stop talking to losers like him and they go away.
I dunno, letting the him stay in the media for saying pedophole comments seems like a reasonable thing to do, least someone might not know what his stance is.
This shit has to be fake, right?
Great. I'll never by anything of his crappy store anyway
I wonder if he'd 'gatekeep' if started making ai-generated Epic Games?
Eat the rich
Jesus this guy really always finds a way to dig deeper in the abyss doesn't he? Why does anyone even listen to him anymore?
I honestly don't think anyone does listen to him. He's just shouting into the void at this point.
I would be genuinely interested how many industry professionals actually bothered to subscribe to him vs other studio bosses. I've never heard of him post anything industry related, it's always just ranting like this.
true gamer moment
Tax those rich snobs
I think Musk and the Tim swine wants to be banned so they can cry about…
When he ports Fortnite to Linux, that's when I'll listen to his director, Epic.😆😆😆
Thats how little they think of women and children. Respect is something foreign to them
I feel so good I left Epic Games Store and deleted my profile and asked to delete all my data last year!
They definitely deleted all that data, too.
I know, but at least I asked.
So he's politicising child abuse material now, and associating it with the political right. He's not entirely incorrect, but it seems like he needs to think before he opens his idiot mouth.
no, hes saying banning child porn is equivalent to "Censoring" political opponents=right wingers violating TOs.
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Maybe something happens to this guy. Maybe he retires to a beachfront property.
Stop listening or giving CEOs a place to spread their rhetoric. They have one goal in mind and it has nothing to do with making the world better.
Okay, what's this law he's talking about? Some proposal to ban Xitter from app stores?
Wow, that's not a concerning thing to say at all, nope...
Well yes. And “political oponents” are nazis.
What about banning Roblox too?, it's where pedos prey for kids.
so, he's a rock spider?
"Listen, I'm not saying Fortnite is a haven for pedophiles, but-"
This is a CEO who shares opinions on many things he is truly uninformed on.
His argument is that he can't read notes, so people who can read notes shouldn't
Username checks out.
Is it just me, or does his surname work perfectly as a slang for small dick?
I don't know if people are just not recognizing the metric fuckton of nuance with this situation, or they're being willfully ignorant. Either way, not my monkeys, not my circus.
Check his hard drives.