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Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Dremor@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-plane-crash-2000708648
Comments
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
simple@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
you don’t get it mate I don’t like the games ubisoft makes so making fun of someone who burned to death in a freak accident is totally justified
also his ancestors ran from the french revolution over 200 years ago. this is relevant because… uh…….
early_riser@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is why I hate Lemmy sometimes.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The Guillemont brothers were/are not nice people, maybe that’s triggering those horrible comments like “Ah ok, anyways…”
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Way to skip over all the documented recent reasons people are posting.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, yeah, and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.
Fuck off.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
How do those boots taste?
Fuck billionaires and fuck nobility. Trying to tone police everyone else doesn’t hide the harm that they’ve done to society. Would you do the same if Putin was assassinated tomorrow and lead to the end of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The fact that you would equate the invasion of a sovereign nation and war crimes committed against civilians bordering on genocide with making bad games with bad monetization shows that you don’t possess the moral integrity and intelligence of a well-adjusted adult. Have a horrible day.
EvaUnit02@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
The hoops these folks jump through to justify cheering the death of someone is terrifying.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why do I need to justify being happy a rotten person ain’t fucking up the world anymore? Can’t I just be happy that the wicked witch is dead?
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You’ll probably want to stay away from the Internet when Trump dies then.
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why is everything an all or nothing deal with you people?
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
yea i’m always amazed at the amount of dick riding random people with 2dollars to their name will do for rich people that literally wouldn’t spit on them to put them out if they were on fire
but none of this new and the studies already exist
i much prefer the colloquial ‘temporary embarrassed millionaires’
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think scientists started that study but most of the team committed suicide. A study to find out why they killed themselves is not yet underway.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s monstrous, it shows who the piece of shit in the story is and it wasn’t the victim.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Keep licking those boots
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Only 4 left to unlock a unique loot box.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol, damn. Going to hell for that.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
What will you tell him when you meet him down there?
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
At that point you are poor, if you survive that long.
dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 2 weeks ago
As Richard Stallman once said: “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone”.
Dremor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can’t argue that. He may not be missed after what he did, but a life is a life.
Krudler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
lemmyng@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh no…anyway
x00z@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Karma.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m not saying he was a good guy, but he ain’t a war criminal and was maybe really nice for all we know so I don’t really understand how you can be happy about such news.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
He and his brothers still maintain control of Ubisoft (even though an attempted hostile takeover). It’s been shown in documents that management have known about but ignored the pervasive sexual misconduct there (in fact promoting the abusers) as well as extensive union busting, employee abuse, on top of the numerous lawsuits for selling/mismanaging customer data, rug pulls with games, and more. Claude Guillemot was an active founding member of the company and maintained his involvement throughout.
Those alone I believe earn the ire thrown at them. I personally add the moral failings of their early overenthusiastic adoption of NFTs and AI.
They very much are a part of the abusive wealthy class treating the world as their personal misogynistic playground.
To argue he was “maybe really nice” is to straight up ignore his hand in all of that. Try again.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
we know he stole the value of people’s labor.
0li0li@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Clearly not a monster, but he does not sound that nice to me in this whole thing. I guess we’ll never know for sure.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why try to qualify this? Your moral compass is calibrated to “not a war criminal”? Is that your line where “evil” and “they’re ok I guess” is?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
And Hitler loved dogs
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Link your Ubisoft account, and for only 3000 Ubisoft Connect Points, you can unlock the new Elite Pro Club plane that never crashes!
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sure it was because the windshield was littered with too much HUD.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I heard he was flying around looking for collectibles.
Nytefyre@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Oh, COME ON, people! Are we seriously going to get morally conflicted over someone who did shitty things? I’m sorry he’s not Donald Trump (then again, lets be honest, you would be one of those people shedding tears over him despite what he’s done to collectively fuck over everyone and everything.)
A shitty person was taken off the face of the earth, that’s a freaking win. If you’re this morally conflicted, then you’re the reason why these kinds of shitty people get away with what they get away with.
Dremor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d have agreed with you if he was the direct cause of some people death, like that asshole that got Luigi-ed, but he is not. He sure took decisions that ended up making subpart games, fucked over devs, and all.
He’s a capitalist shark like there are thousands of others, bit does that warrant death?
People like you are the cause why fascism is on the rise. No humanity, no regrets, no actions taken, until it affects you personally.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Few billionaires are direct causes of anyone dying. However, they’re always indirect causes of lots of people dying, by their own choice.
Is there a valuable difference between shooting somebody and poisoning the food and water of 10 random people? Maybe. Maybe not. Ultimately, you’re choosing to take people’s lives, knowing the outcome.
I don’t think people care about whether you’re a ‘direct’ cause, as much as they care about whether or not you’re a deliberate cause.
All of us will probably cause some deaths as we go about our lives. But at no point do most of us make a decision to end someone’s life. Whereas billionaires do make the decisions, and they do it completely voluntarily, seeking profit. They often seem happy about the decisions too.
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
what the fuck kinda apologist bullshit is blaming fascism on people angry about capitalism excess and not the actual fascist
the fucking mental gymnastics
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It doesn’t warrant death, no. But people can cheer the death of an awful person without saying “hey we should keep the streak going!”
And what are you talking about? Our current case of fascism is a direct result of unregulated capitalism, courtesy of neoliberalism.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agreed…
It’s crazy it’s so controversial. Don’t dance on peoples graves.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
if he was the direct cause of some people death, like that asshole that got Luigi-ed, but he is not.
Just an FYI, this is literally how every single one of them justifies their evil to themselves.
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
there is a subset of humanity that worships wealth and they are about as intelligent as you would expect them to be
arguing with them is about as useful as doing so with maga
Dremor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’d be surprised how some of those irredeemable people can, in fact be reasoned with, en even can change their views.
I remember the story of a black man befriending a bunch of klansmen and making them leave the organization.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
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).
remon@ani.social 2 weeks ago
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.dev 2 weeks ago
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.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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 standards, and whatever state / agency it was said it couldn’t say these types of planes are safe because of it.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I own a cat and have never been hit by a meteorite, therefore cats prevent meteor strikes.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Big Ice Cream and Big Shark are definitely working together!
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.world 2 weeks ago
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.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, key detail being, if we started listing car crashes from the past month, it would take up the whole thread.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Because those important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people.
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Commercial planes are constantly coming and going through every major airport. Do these wealthy people really collectively fly more than that?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
You never learn the name of the “unimportant” people that die in air crashes
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
placebo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.zone 2 weeks ago
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.
larcohex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Some are helicopter crashes
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Small aircraft got the nicknames “widow makers” and “doctor killers” for a reason.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
wasnt kobe a helicopter accident. and people glossed over the fact that he allegations of SA in the past when he died.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
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calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good riddance
Yliaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did we have another Luigi or something?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
All these guys do is cheat and steal to get their planes, then they get killed in them. This is not rare.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Nice.
(No hate here, just the nice meme for age 69. My condolences to his family.)
rursta@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
A lot of you need to reexamine your larcenies.
The Guillemot were slavers. 🖕 slavers.
Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
🦀🦀
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well I didn’t expect that today
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 weeks ago
You’re a big guy…
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
im guess thier propaganda show on apple tv+ wasnt enough.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ok look, I hate Ubisoft, but this is sad. My condolences to his family. People being happy about this are disgusting.
Dremor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I agree.
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
maybe you should actually look into the kind of human this person was
the world is a better place without him
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the kind of disgusting behavior that perpetuates people treating each other so horribly.
Aatube@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
What kind of human was he?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
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.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I am juat indifferent.
As I am to any other death I see in the media, newspaper etc. that isnt within my actual family.