Not only is Notch 2nd place on the list, he has one of the highest "absolutely" to "never" vote ratio of the entire list. That Mohammed Morsi dude, who has the most "absolutely" votes, has almost the same amount of "never" votes.
If you only count the spread, the difference between "absolutely" and "never" votes, Notch is the winner by many thousands of votes.
Guys. Are you actually insane? Notch might have made a fun and entertaining video game, but its hardly been a major influential life changing event for the 10 million people who play it. To most, its an amusing distraction to our lives. On that Time poll is people like Pope Francis, who is the first EVER pope from the Americas. That is far more influential to the 1.2 BILLION Catholics in the world. Yet Notch has a 90% approval for a spot on the poll, and the second most amount of votes, while Pope Francis won't even make the list at this rate. He's not alone... people like Obama, Nieto, or Angela Merkel, Xinping, who lead actual countries in this world, are FAR behind the votes for Notch. Its actually just ridiculous. I'm not knocking Notch, but if he's half as smart as I think he is he knows himself that he's nowhere near as influential as some of the names on the list. Maybe he deserves a spot on that list somewhere, but in my mind he shouldn't even be close to the top. The fact that he is second is honestly ludicrous.
Bill Gates? Yes. "Apple People"? Nah.. well, they influenced me to be very careful of what computer I buy, not much else. bill gated people? WTF?
Notch creates jobs, made MANY people happy, and donated and did SOOOOO much for charity. He kind of does deserve votes saying he made a big influence...
I will agree with that to some degree, do you know of a man named Corporal M. Johnson? Served in the US Marine Corps for 8 years. Jumped on a grenade to save his squad mate, Was killed because of doing so. No one knows of Corporal Johnson because no one cares. Why should a guy who sat in a chair all day programming a game, deserve anymore? You talk about jobs and happy people. Do you know the feeling (happy) of knowing someone saved your life by sacrificing theirs? I do. Corporal Johnson was my squad mate. Notch is a good person but Notch (nor do most of them IMO) does not deserve a title like that when we could be looking past our controllers to remember how it is we enjoy these freedoms. Its a sad day when we honor a programmer and forget the fallen. But I am bias to some degree as I've watched that ultimate sacrifice. So take it for what it's worth. Certainly don't mean to disrespect anyone.
How is Piers Morgan, probably my favorite British celebrity in the United Kingdom, in a lower ranking than Notch? I mean, Notch is great and all, but we're talking about PIERS MORGAN here. Seriously!
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. -Mel Brooks
"Notch isn't very influential"
I think you guys are forgetting the millions of dollars he's donated to charities right out of his own pocket...All that revenue generated just from a sandbox game, now in the hands of people who need it most. Yes, he is very influential and deserves the award.
NO ONE CLICK N THE "click here to vote" LINK!
it sent me to so Fartex bank website or something which then tried to open a java and an adobe program. I denyd it and closed the tab, but by the time I did my laptop started shutting down! seriousely scared the SHIIST outta me. but thankfull I just logged back in and things so far SEEM to be ok.
EDIT: 3 seconds after makeing this post I got a windows defenderalert about an unwanted and harmful progem. some kind of trojan virus. I just attempted to remove it.
Guys. Are you actually insane? Notch might have made a fun and entertaining video game, but its hardly been a major influential life changing event for the 10 million people who play it. To most, its an amusing distraction to our lives.
http://en.wikipedia..../Markus_Persson
[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=small]Please do some research before making yourself sound like an idiot.[/size][/font][/color]
And you need to correlate facts better. The majority of those games are just stuff he made overnight for a challenge (Which doesn't count), 0x10c is vaporware in which he lost interest, Scrolls... Fine, i'll give him that, but it's not finished yet (Besides, who honestly cares about Scrolls?), and Minecraft... He didn't make the game
"Notch isn't very influential"
I think you guys are forgetting the millions of dollars he's donated to charities right out of his own pocket...All that revenue generated just from a sandbox game, now in the hands of people who need it most. Yes, he is very influential and deserves the award.
Please. It's not like his budget even feels that. Heck, I'd give to the poor too if i earned that much cash.
NO ONE CLICK N THE "click here to vote" LINK!
it sent me to so Fartex bank website or something which then tried to open a java and an adobe program. I denyd it and closed the tab, but by the time I did my laptop started shutting down! seriousely scared the SHIIST outta me. but thankfull I just logged back in and things so far SEEM to be ok.
EDIT: 3 seconds after makeing this post I got a windows defenderalert about an unwanted and harmful progem. some kind of trojan virus. I just attempted to remove it.
You need an anti-virus. Don't depend on windows defender.
And you need to correlate facts better. The majority of those games are just stuff he made overnight for a challenge (Which doesn't count), 0x10c is vaporware in which he lost interest, Scrolls... Fine, i'll give him that, but it's not finished yet (Besides, who honestly cares about Scrolls?), and Minecraft... He didn't make the game
Please. It's not like his budget even feels that. Heck, I'd give to the poor too if i earned that much cash.
You're just a plain moron. HE MADE MINECRAFT. Infiniminer didn't make Minecraft. NOTCH DID (With jeb anyway). He didn't lose interest in 0x10c as it's still in development. And FYI, not everyone is rich. You may have a kind and caring heart but not every rich person wants to just give their money away.
And you need to correlate facts better. The majority of those games are just stuff he made overnight for a challenge (Which doesn't count), 0x10c is vaporware in which he lost interest, Scrolls... Fine, i'll give him that, but it's not finished yet (Besides, who honestly cares about Scrolls?), and Minecraft... He didn't make the game
That wonderful link you sent me to was infiniminer, while I believe this forum was about the discussion of Minecraft.
Notch deserves the vote, he inspired me to learn coding bukkit
But, he's better than what I've looked at so far. *cough*Psy*cough*
If you only count the spread, the difference between "absolutely" and "never" votes, Notch is the winner by many thousands of votes.
I will agree with that to some degree, do you know of a man named Corporal M. Johnson? Served in the US Marine Corps for 8 years. Jumped on a grenade to save his squad mate, Was killed because of doing so. No one knows of Corporal Johnson because no one cares. Why should a guy who sat in a chair all day programming a game, deserve anymore? You talk about jobs and happy people. Do you know the feeling (happy) of knowing someone saved your life by sacrificing theirs? I do. Corporal Johnson was my squad mate. Notch is a good person but Notch (nor do most of them IMO) does not deserve a title like that when we could be looking past our controllers to remember how it is we enjoy these freedoms. Its a sad day when we honor a programmer and forget the fallen. But I am bias to some degree as I've watched that ultimate sacrifice. So take it for what it's worth. Certainly don't mean to disrespect anyone.
I agree, hes a great guy, but really there are people out there who are better deserving of this award
I think you guys are forgetting the millions of dollars he's donated to charities right out of his own pocket...All that revenue generated just from a sandbox game, now in the hands of people who need it most. Yes, he is very influential and deserves the award.
Someone else noticed!
it sent me to so Fartex bank website or something which then tried to open a java and an adobe program. I denyd it and closed the tab, but by the time I did my laptop started shutting down! seriousely scared the SHIIST outta me. but thankfull I just logged back in and things so far SEEM to be ok.
EDIT: 3 seconds after makeing this post I got a windows defenderalert about an unwanted and harmful progem. some kind of trojan virus. I just attempted to remove it.
Thank you
And you need to correlate facts better. The majority of those games are just stuff he made overnight for a challenge (Which doesn't count), 0x10c is vaporware in which he lost interest, Scrolls... Fine, i'll give him that, but it's not finished yet (Besides, who honestly cares about Scrolls?), and Minecraft... He didn't make the game
Please. It's not like his budget even feels that. Heck, I'd give to the poor too if i earned that much cash.
...But that's just my opinion.
My DeviantART, requests welcome.
B14 - My Texture Pack!
Need textures for your mod? Inquire within, just read the rules.
You're just a plain moron. HE MADE MINECRAFT. Infiniminer didn't make Minecraft. NOTCH DID (With jeb anyway). He didn't lose interest in 0x10c as it's still in development. And FYI, not everyone is rich. You may have a kind and caring heart but not every rich person wants to just give their money away.
That wonderful link you sent me to was infiniminer, while I believe this forum was about the discussion of Minecraft.