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From Marty O' Donnell to Jonathan Blow, Scott Cawthon, and Michal Kovařík. Vavra was here too, before he sold out (still tries to play both sides, though.)

I'll talk about the guy in the image first. Marty O' Donell, joined Bungie ten days prior to the announcement of the Microsoft/Bungie acquisition and was co-composer and audio director of Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), Halo 2 (2004), Halo 3 (2007), Halo 3: ODST (2009), and Halo: Reach (2010). He also wrote the 8 part symphony Music of the Spheres for Destiny (2014) before being pushed out of the company.

Now, at that point, everyone was on his side. He made some great music, Activision washed their hands of it and used their own for Destiny's trailer, he got (reasonably) pissed, was fired without cause, sued, and won. Bungie ended up throwing a hissy fitand withheld Music of the Spheres for about 5 years out of spite till it leaked and they finally released it.

Everyone was rooting for Marty here... until he went public with his right-wing views.

And nowadays, you go on the subreddit for Halo and all you see is how he ruined Halo 3's story, and the true talent behind all of Halo's OST was actually his partner, Michael Salvatori, and he was just a talentless narcissistic scrub getting all the credit.

Martin O'Donnell was not just the co-composer for Halo. He was the audio director. Read about Halo CE's development and you'll see just how fundamental his contributions were to the entire games atmosphere and tone. Half the reason shooting an AR or a Magnum or a shotgun or whatever in Halo is because of the audio design, the punch, the game feel. He also directed the musical tone for each installment, and each Halo OST was critically acclaimed.

And Salvatori and O'Donnell are on great terms. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they share political opinions, leftists tend to get insane when they realize people don't agree with them on every single facet of politics. Salvatori's been on his podcast several times and they joint sued Microsoft over unpaid Halo royalties in 2021. Far from bitter enemies.

Scott Cawthon in 2013 was a Christian indie-game developer and 3D animator who just released a lumberjack game called Chipper & Sons that was panned by critics for creepy looking bears. He experienced a crisis of faith, mentioned suicidal ideation to his doctor, that his life insurance discovered, and then proceeded to cancel on him.

"It was at that point I realized that not only did my life have no value but now even my death had no value."

He began developing the original 2014's Five Night's at Freddy's as a last Hail Mary at game development before packing up and leaving. It blew up.

Fast forward about 7 years and it comes up that he donated money to politicians Reddit doesn't like. Now he's a bumbling incompetent who made his way into success through sheer luck and YouTube star power. No talent, nor skill involved in his success, nuh-uh, look at the mean orange guy he donated to.

I don't want to go into as much detail as I did with O'Donnell but that's obviously blatantly untrue. FNAF, for all it's many faults, nailed certain things, especially the original, those being character design, atmosphere, and audio design. But none of that was worth a damn because of his personal political opinions.

Jonathan Blow, worked on Deus Ex: Invisible War, directed critically acclaimed Braid (2008), and he's making a god damn programming language. But, nope, orange man supporter. Orange man bad. Michal Kovařík, wrote the Factorio engine, ope, reccomended some videos by a great programmer who said sexist things and is against cancel culture, the games own subreddit doesn't like him. Tim Cain, started writing the Fallout (1997) engine in 1994 as a solo project after hours, was shunned by upper management who attempted to shelve the game multiple times, and only suddenly took notice when it flew through the roof at launch and they immediately tried to force his nose back on the grindstone to put out a sequel in thirteen months, to which he left. He's not even publicly right-wing or left-wing, he just said Fallout was never meant to be a critique of capitalism... to which the Fallout subreddit started deleting posts about him saying that.

There are more, but the point I'm trying to make is that leftists can not comprehend the fact that people they disagree with are capable of making art that they like. It breaks their brains, they work in a world in which they are good, the things they like are good, and the people who made them are good, therefore when they realize someone who has different opinions then them is capable of making something they like they can not comprehend it. They can only resort to what-about-ism's, historical revisions, excuses, anything to avoid admitting that the people they disagree with can hold a speck of talent.