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So, this is different from the intention of the topic, but I see the trend of the posts here and think this is probably more interesting anyway.

That struggle of balancing the art and the artist is fair as a consumer, I get it. I'm never going back to watch an old Chris Benoit match despite him winning at WrestleMania once being my favorite wrestling moment. I've given up on Kanye West's old music despite seeing him live and thinking his first decade of music was a legendary run (used to have his new music on a one-month delay but don't know what his latest stuff even is anymore). I haven't bothered with Dave Chappelle's latest special from earlier this year despite it being well over my one-month time-out I keep in mind for him too -- dude used to be on my bucket list of people to see live but his last two specials minimum before The Dreamer have him being a lot less thoughtful both in general and for communities I care about.

All of these performers have very different problems -- nothing equal here, right, Chappelle didn't murder his family like Benoit for example, just recognizing decisions I have made in the past about people I was once a huge fan of and some of my own behavioral changes as they drifted down paths I didn't respect.

It's a weird mix of colliding philosophies at this point then: is it "there are pros and cons to everyone," or is it "the world is big enough not to support people with different values?" Both are true and I believe in both, but also like how are you going to live your life and when do you care about the exceptions you make? I feel that battle as a consumer and also as an artist sometimes.

To bring it back on-topic: I think some of this has been ignorance on my part of how problematic Blow has been for some people, I'll own that part from before I purchased the game and I could stand to better learn his other problems. The other side of the coin here is I don't know how many other people are doing what Blow is doing -- it's harder when they feel less replaceable. There are PLENTY of other game developers, sure, but in my mind he's 2/2 for masterpieces -- not just for fun in games but for uniquely adding to the industry in ways I feel like I have grown from his games...and now he's teaching about how he made Braid in a way that up to this point has not added anything off-topic from Braid or what have you, and it's encouraging others to make these kinds of games besides him in the future.

It's weird, is all. I wanna be careful about both sides'ing this...just recognizing a new dilemma in art VS artist since it comes up sometimes.