Stardock Entertainment recently announced that Hollywood actor Adam Baldwin will be joining the voice cast for Star Control: Origins. The announcement came courtesy of a blog post over on the official Stardock website.
As noted on the website…
”Adam [Baldwin] will be portraying a rogue mercenary commander of the Menkmack who pursues the player on behalf of a mysterious client.”
Baldwin is famous for having starred in shows like Firefly and The Last Ship. His upcoming appearance in Star Control: Origins set off the Social Justice Warriors who hate that a Conservative like Baldwin – who also coined the GamerGate hashtag back in 2014 to expose corruption in media journalism – would be appearing in Star Control.
This triggered journalists, such as former GameJournoPros member Adam Rosenberg, who works as a senior reporter at Mashable.
That sure is a loud dog whistle. I have fond memories of playing the original Star Control, but this is where I check out. pic.twitter.com/4QVXYXffQV
— Adam Rosenberg (@geminibros) August 14, 2018
There are plenty of games in this world that don’t feature openly toxic individuals, and plenty of publishers that understand why this shouldn’t be a hype-worthy hire. I’ll focus on those instead.
— Adam Rosenberg (@geminibros) August 14, 2018
The simple mechanics of siccing a hate mob on someone in 2018 are remarkable. I can’t report the shitheap CEO of Stardock because of the way he shared my tweet, but I now have to deal with the fallout of his private hate brigade. Probably for the next couple days.
— Adam Rosenberg (@geminibros) August 14, 2018
In conclusion, fuck @twitter. This is a terrible, hate-filled platform, @jack, and you are absolutely complicit in making it that way. I use it because I have to for work, but I will happily celebrate the day a competitor comes along and finally wipes it out.
— Adam Rosenberg (@geminibros) August 14, 2018
As recounted by journalist Brad Glasgow, Adam Rosenberg spent the whole afternoon raging at this development, like a homeless coyote under a moonlit night.
PC World writer Hayden Dingman forfeited the opportunity to rage, and instead decided to impart upon his followers indignant snark.
Company with problematic views hires actor with problematic views. Shocked. pic.twitter.com/xflrJ07wAh
— Hayden Dingman (@haydencd) August 14, 2018
Dingman’s fellow cohort, Jason Cross from Mac World, chimed in as well to express his disapproval of Baldwin, as if responding to some soundless chime sensitive only to the ears of a select few.
God damnit. I love Star Control II and was really interested in what they were doing with this sequel.
Now my enthusiasm is practically gone.— Jason Cross (@JasonCross00) August 14, 2018
The golden boy of Kotaku, and the reason #GamerGate even became thing, Nathan Grayson, couldn’t help but snidely do a drive-by snipe at the news before slinking back into the shadows to avoid burying Kotaku any deeper than he already has.
Bad Company Finds Innovative New Way To Be Bad pic.twitter.com/WFlbelRADY
— nathan grayson (@Vahn16) August 14, 2018
And PC Gamer and Polygon’s Mitch Bowman decided to directly address the CEO of Stardock Entertainment, Brad Wardell, offering his churlishness in response to the news.
And for that matter, what problematic views you think @AdamBaldwin has.
— Brad Wardell (@draginol) August 14, 2018
Through vast, continual, business success. How about you?
— Brad Wardell (@draginol) August 14, 2018
Even lower tier game critics decided to virtue signal on social media about their displeasure of Stardock hiring in Adam Baldwin.
Hiring Adam Baldwin for Star Control Origins was a great reminder for me to unsubscribe from the Stardock PR mailing list.
— Duckols (@Duckols) August 14, 2018
And like clockwork, ResetEra cooked up a thread filled with the kind of supercilious polemics one would expect from the hive of social justice hornets.
Member Matt Wilson introduced the ResetEra community to Brad Wardell and Adam Baldwin by unironically writing…
“He’s a small man with a pathetic vendetta, on top of being known for sexual harassment allegations, and bringing bees into the workplace knowing employees were allergic. He’s a real piece of work. And yes, he still supports GamerGate.
“Adam Baldwin, Serenity actor and general piece of shit, is known as the person who came up with the GamerGate hashtag, and has been directly involved in harassment and circulation of doxxing material of harassment victims including Zoe Quinn.
“Just a reminder that GamerGate is not just people in a dark basement or “anonymous internet jerks”, but also real ass people WITHIN THE GAME INDUSTRY.”
Yes, these real people are working on a game that they hope will sell well, unlike all the other propaganda-filled games that game journalists have been promoting to the high heavens, most of which haven’t been selling well, or have been put on ice or forced the studios to close down because the developers decided to get woke and go broke.
(Thanks for the news tip Blaugast)