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- Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
All I’m going to say is that I was a lead developer for Ubisoft at one point; You may imagine how I feel about this news.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
All these guys do is cheat and steal to get their planes, then they get killed in them. This is not rare.
- dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzaEnglish5 days
As Richard Stallman once said: “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone”.
4 daysCan’t argue that. He may not be missed after what he did, but a life is a life.
- 5 days
Ok look, I hate Ubisoft, but this is sad. My condolences to his family. People being happy about this are disgusting.
I am just indifferent.
As I am to any other death I see in the media, newspaper etc. that isnt within my actual family.- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish4 days
It’s so easy to not be a parasite. And yet this person chose to do it anyway.
Not gonna say I’m happy, but I will not shed a tear for the people who are actively making this planet literally unlivable.
- baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish5 days
maybe you should actually look into the kind of human this person was
the world is a better place without him
- 5 days
maybe you should actually look into the kind of human this person was
the world is a better place without him
This is the kind of disgusting behavior that perpetuates people treating each other so horribly.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
You can see how polarized this opinion is. Not speaking ill of the dead is a religious power thing. The idea that all deaths deserve a quiet respect is pushed by a class of elderly people in positions of power.
You can bet that when Donald Trump dies there will be parties. Some humans have no redeeming qualities and that needs to be acknowledged more. Peter Thiel, Elon Musk need to know NOW how people will regard them after death as the cancers of society they were.
- baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish4 days
rich greedy people are going to treat you the same regardless
you are simping for a man that wouldn’t pee on you to put you out if you were on fire
how naive must you to be to think bring nice to them will change their behavior
- 4 days
I am fully aware that trying to be a good human results in bad humans taking advantage of me often. I am not blind to it. But being a good human means that is going to happen for as long as bad humans keep being bad humans.
I will not stoop to being a bad human just because bad humans treat me badly. I want to be a good human, and that means being a good human even to the bad humans. I don’t agree with what they do or think or believe, nor do I think that me being a good human will force anyone to change. Though some bad humans might change and become good humans, I don’t have to become a bad human just because you don’t see things the same way I do. You can live as you want and I will live as I want. And I want to be a good human, so I will try to live that way as best as I can.
As a side note, I am appreciative that hopefully nobody will piss on me, regardless of if I am on fire or not. I would much rather put the fire out myself jumping into nearby water, rolling on the floor, removing burning garments, etc. I really would like to avoid being pissed on, thank you. You may be into that, but I am not.
- baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish4 days
being happy that legitimately bad people are dead by their own actions doesn’t make one bad themselves
claiming some supposed moral high ground by continuously turning the other cheek is a mood for sure
you want to be taken advantage of fine, you do you but i’m annoyed i have to deal with the consequences of people like you burying your head in the ground, because our society is surely crumbling while people like that rich fuck take advantage of us all and people like you do less than nothing
i’m just going to ignore the nonsense in the last paragraph because i can’t tell if this is genuine autism or not
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
I am fully aware that trying to be a good human results in bad humans taking advantage of me often. I am not blind to it. But being a good human means that is going to happen for as long as bad humans keep being bad humans.
Being good to bad people does nkt make you better. It makes you be easier to be used.
- 4 days
Would you say the same for Hitler? There is a line for everyone
- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Dude was a piece of shit. Why are you so eager to defend him?
It’s okay to be happy awful people are dead.
Or you can just accept it as a net gain for humanity and move on.
No need to be either happy or sad.
Let’s keep our dignity and behave nice, but also let’s not pretend this is a tragedy, because it isn’t.
- baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish4 days
it’s 2026 the rich no longer get to expect dignity from the masses
the ‘high road’ is how we got in this mess to begin with
they should be thankful it’s not worse given how bad off we are now
- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Taking a steaming dump on their graves is keeping our dignity.
This man didn’t give a tin shit about me, you, or anyone else while he lived. Why do we owe him decorum and consideration just because he got himself killed?
- Shrouded0603@feddit.orgEnglish4 days
That just Sounds so bitter. Reread your comments later when you’re in a Calmer State of mind
- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
I’m more bitter than a stout, to be sure. That doesn’t mean I’m not calm, though.
- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Miss me with that idiotic “we go high” mentality. That nonsense is what lead us to here.
- 5 days
I never defended him. Just because I am sending his family my condolences doesn’t mean I agree with what he did or believed, it only means that I am trying to be a good human.
- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
I’m sure his family is just fine crying into their piles of money. They don’t need my sympathy or yours.
- sen@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
Awful as in he was responsible for day one DLC and microtransactions or awful as in he raped and murdered children?
There’s a spectrum and I’m not sure which end of it he’s on based on your comments.
- sen@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
Actually yeah, and aside from being co-founder of Ubisoft with his brothers I couldn’t find much. He ran some other audio company. Literally nothing that justifies people talking about shitting on his grave.
- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
I don’t play Ubisoft games. I don’t have a horse in that race.
He’s awful because he was one of the money-addicted ownership class that collectively are ruining our world to fuel their addictions. Everyone in that class is a piece of shit and I don’t find much value in trying to determine the particular vintage of shit we’re dealing with. There are no “good guys” here.
I won’t wish death or harm on any of them, but I’ll certainly not shed a tear if karma gets them.
- sen@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
You need therapy.
I think you and I would agree that billionaires aren’t people, and I long for the day in which we dismember them and feed them to the pigs, but this guy wasn’t a billionaire. He was a successful video game developer who co-founded an awful company.
I’m not saying he was a saint, I don’t mourn his passing, but I’m also not celebrating his death as his crimes pale in comparison to the ruling class.
- baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish4 days
so he’s bad but not evil incarnate so we should not be happy he’s dead?
what kinda snivel is this?
dude was a net negative in the world, go spend your effort caring on someone actually good
- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
He was a member of the ruling class. What the hell are you talking about? He was a board member and co-founder of a corporation with a valuation in the billions of dollars. Yeah, sure, he wasn’t a billionaire but they aren’t the only problem. He certainly had a lot less in common with poors like you and me, especially since the corporation he was part of wasn’t exactly championing labor rights.
And yeah I’m sure I do need therapy. But guess what’s one of many things I can’t afford thanks to rich assholes like this guy?
- kuerbiskernoel@feddit.orgEnglish5 days
What’s wrong with people making money because other people buy their video games? Are they hurting someone?
- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
It’s a matter of scale, and what they do with the money. Wealth hoarding has reached the point where it’s a cause of inflation. The top 1% (and even moreso, the 1% of that 1%) have hoarded ao much wealth, and do nothing but essentially sit on that wealth, that it makes life more expensive for all of us in the working class.
Strictly speaking, yes they absolutely are hurting someone. Wage theft is a significant issue we face today.
- 4 days
Let’s just ignore the recent and rampant suppression of unionization to avoid improving work conditions then
- GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
you’re right.
look at all the good stuff Adolph Hitler gave the world!
Casually comparing a game company founder to a brutal dictator who started a devestating war and an industrialized genocide is as strech to say the least.
- GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
This is the kind of disgusting behavior that perpetuates people treating each other so horribly.
- Iambus@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Lemmy is good at that. Some of the worst examples of humanity are on this site.
- brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
It’s terrible for the health of the Fediverse, too. And probably a legal liability.
- 4 days
And probably a legal liability.
And that’s a giant steaming lie.
There is no legal liability to saying “good riddance” to a billionaire’s death
Why do so many “important” people die in plane crashes in the past couple of decades?
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Andy Cecere (2026 - US Bank)
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Joshua Base (2026 - Capital Factory)
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Christophe de Margerie (2014 - Total energies)
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Petr Kelner (2021 - PPF Group)
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Kobe Bryant (2020)
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Glen de Vries (2021 - Medidata Solutions)
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Gary Knopp ( 2020 - politician)
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Steve Appleton (2012 - Micron CEO)
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Cheryl heinze ( 2012 - politician)
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Alison Des Forges ( 2009 - human right investigator)
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Beverly Eckert (2009 - activist on 9/11 committee)
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wilhemson executives in 2012
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Now the CEO of Ubisoft in 2026
That is just in the US, so many other rich businessmen have also died in plane crashes in other countries. Romania, Italy, Brazil, Russia, etc… Are aircraft crashes just way more common than the companies want us to believe? I was always told that airplanes were statistically safer than cars.
Also why are plane crashes so often surrounded in suspicious circumstances like the IBM plane crash where a ton of executives were killed and immediately following the other IBM execs pivoted the company focus (which kind of led to their downfall in the consumer market).
Because those important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people.
- howrar@lemmy.caEnglish4 days
Commercial planes are constantly coming and going through every major airport. Do these wealthy people really collectively fly more than that?
How often does Bezos end up in a plane? How often are you in a plane?
- howrar@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
That’s the wrong question to ask. “important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people” is valid as a partial explanation only if we assume that all aircrafts have similar crash probabilities and are flown with a similar number of passengers.
The frequency with which I personally fly does not impact how often other people fly. All it does is give you one data point on how often other people in my situation might fly, and we don’t know how many others are in my situation, so that information is also useless.
Let us assume 2 people fly in planes. One of them does so 10 times a month. The other 10 times a year. The risks are higher for the 10 times a month flyer.
- howrar@lemmy.caEnglish2 days
In a world where there are exactly two people who ever fly, that would make sense. Now what if there are 12 people who fly 10 times a year a 1 person who flies 10 times a month? Will it be more likely that someone in the group of 12 dies in a plane crash, or the one person who flies 10 times a month?
I see what you’re saying but it’s splitting hairs. The rich guy uses an airplane more often that others do so he’s more likely to die in a plan crash simply because he’s more likely to be a plane the first place.
You never learn the name of the “unimportant” people that die in air crashes
- howrar@lemmy.caEnglish4 days
We might not learn their names, but we definitely learn about the aircraft and how many people died.
- 3 days
If its of a certain size yes, but the planes that actually crash everyday don’t get reported widely because they’re tiny aircraft
Now that I had ent considered. There’s importance squared. A second layer.
I’m tired of humans. I’m now identify as one of those gay frogs Alex Jones is so strangely passionate about.
- mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Also also. You have a 17 year span of time for 13 people that died in a plane crash. That’s less than one person a year on average. I’d say that’s pretty freaking safe compared to other modes of travel like automobiles or through The Warp.
- mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
God, I hate these arguments.
“Look at all these things that happened! There must be something more to this! It’s too much of a coincidence! CONSPIRACY!”
Did you know shark attacks increase alongside ice cream sales? By that logic, there must be some secret alliance between Big Ice Cream and the shark cabal.
Or maybe both go up because it’s summer and more people are at the beach.
The same thing happens with plane crashes involving wealthy people. Rich people fly far more than the average person, and they often fly private aircraft, which have a higher accident rate than commercial airlines.
Not every cluster of events is evidence of secret black-ops CIA assassinations. Sometimes a correlation is just a correlation, and sometimes a streak of bad luck is just a streak of bad luck.
- 4 days
I own a cat and have never been hit by a meteorite, therefore cats prevent meteor strikes.
- 4 days
Big Ice Cream and Big Shark are definitely working together!
- TheOakTree@lemmy.zipEnglish3 days
This is why baby shark blew up. You know what else babies like? Ice cream.
We’ve blown it wide open. Watch your backs and sleep with one eye open!
- 4 days
Small aircraft got the nicknames “widow makers” and “doctor killers” for a reason.
- remon@ani.socialEnglish4 days
I was always told that airplanes were statistically safer than cars.
Commercial airliners. It’s a very different story for smaller planes. And helicopters are death traps!
- Zink@programming.devEnglish4 days
I have the perfect story for this.
About a decade ago I attended a week-long reliability training held by ASQ (the American Society for Quality). One day heading back to my hotel room I shared an elevator with the then-president-chairman of ASQ.
He was chatting about airliner safety, and how the engineers would do things like test/measure/calculate to find the necessary thickness of a part, and then just triple it for safety because they could. He said he’d never hesitate to ride a commercial airliner.
He then said he would never ride in a helicopter as long as he lived, lol.
- 4 days
Honestly the only helicopters I’d trust are VTOLs that lean more toward the plain side of things, mostly because then they can glide and don’t just rush towards the ground.
- 4 days
I was just reading a story about some sky divers who died in a plane crash shortly after launch.
It said the non commercial airliner stuff isn’t held to the same regulatory standards, and these smaller outfits often fudge or push safety things off and whatever state / agency it was said it couldn’t say these types of services offering flights are safe because of it.
- dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Rich fucks just fly more overall. While flying is very safe. If you do it more, then it is more likely you will be the one in the plane when the rare thing goes wrong. Quirks of privilege.
- early_riser@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Importantly, they tend to fly private aircraft, which I have recently learned are not as safe as commercial airliners. Commercial flights are subject to countless safety checks and have redundancies for days.
The titan sub failed in part because stockton Rush (I couldn’t think of a more posh name if I tried) assumed the similarly impeccable record of submarines was due to something other than scrupulous safety margins.
I can’t imagine people that got rich by exploiting people and cutting corners have the strictest maintenance regime, either.
- Professorozone@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Guess those rich people are just going to have to start buying commercial jets. What a nightmare!
- Professorozone@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
No. I mean like presidents and prime ministers. They’ll still ride alone but on a 737 instead of a Gulfstream.
- Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish4 days
Also very different airplanes
Commercial airplane crashes always make big news and their crashes in the past always caused improved regulations to the point where there is little left to improve
Private airplanes, on the other hand, different story
- Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Yeah, key detail being, if we started listing car crashes from the past month, it would take up the whole thread.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish4 days
wasnt kobe a helicopter accident. and people glossed over the fact that he allegations of SA in the past when he died, the news sure sweeps SA under the rug pretty quick.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish3 days
I live near an airport that has a private aircraft and jet show every summer. Half the booths are about safety, including whole plane parachutes. This is a well known problem.
- placebo@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
Commercial aviation is much safer than cars because there are strict procedures and oversight that applies to everyone involved - not only pilots, but the entire operational chain. It isn’t exactly the same when it comes to small business jets.
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish4 days
It might just be a frequency illusion or something, but it has seemed like airplane crashes in the US have skyrocketed in the past few years (surely it has nothing to do with the Republican party gutting regulation). And looking at where most of the dates in your comment fall, I wonder if it’s just a probability thing.
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- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
I feel bad for the tutor that was teaching him but you won’t see me shedding a single tear that there’s one less c-suite parasite on Earth.
Good riddance.
- Weirdfish@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
I’m sure it was because the windshield was littered with too much HUD.
source?
I’m seeing that they ran a small farming business in a small farming village: https://gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/12/06/ubi-uncensored.aspx
Nice.
(No hate here, just the nice meme for age 69. My condolences to his family.)
- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Link your Ubisoft account, and for only 3000 Ubisoft Connect Points, you can unlock the new Elite Pro Club plane that never crashes!
A lot of you need to reexamine your larcenies.
The Guillemot were slavers. 🖕 slavers.
- TheOakTree@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
So the estimated 8781 people with the Guillemot name and others with the variations “Guilaume, Guillaume, Guilaum, Guillamauax, Guillemot, Guillaumie, Guillaumes, Guillaumaud, Guillaumaut, Guillaumard, Guillaumart, De Guillaume” are all evil slaver beneficiaries?
I just can’t find anything else on the lineage or where the Ubi Guillamot-brothers’ parents’ wealth came from.
