I read his take more like: "the game is edgy, offensive, and gross anyway. If you are offended by someone we had do 3 minutes of meows who turned out to be a terrible person, you probably can't handle other content in the game." And "it'd be cool if we get a bunch of people that had a big influence on internet culture in the last 20 years do a cameo"

It felt more like an apolitical take than a centrist take. For me, that's fine. I understand your perspective also and generally I agree.

"yeah this is kind of fucked up after everything that's happened, let's cut these out before release"

I mostly agree. I think there's a couple reasons why it didn't happen though. First one is he just didn't know. He was probably more focused on other things than if some of the cameos in are from problematic people. The other reason is that if he did remove them he would anticipate a headline like "McMillen removes cameo from Conservative Internet personality in new game" and he wanted to game to stay apolitical.

I'm really enjoying the game. And think McMillen could have done better. But if I stopped playing/reading/watching/using every piece of media from someone I disagree with a little then I wouldn't be able to do anything ever.

That's surprising, I bought it but found I didn't really care for the humor and all that so I returned it. Maybe I'll pick it up again someday if I feel in the mood for what it was

Eh, I would prefer that they weren't in, but there's 100+ voice actors in it and their only contributions is literally meowing. It's such a microscopic part of a phenomenal game, I can look past it.

I mean that is what Edmund McMillan started as, up until the remake of Binding of Isaac really

Well that makes a lot of sense then! Haha.

There is a functional difference, though. Roguelikes start you from Zero everytime. Roguelites give you meta progression that you can bring into your next run.

I know theres a difference. I didnt say roguelike is the correct term for roguelites, but it has been and is used synonymously by many if not most people. Just like people call every electronic music with a rhythmic bassline techno even if it is progressive funk house.

Watched Cohh play it, it's a pass for me. The gameplay loop isn't my style. But it was fun watching someone go from 'this game is so good!' to just anger, lol. Some of the music is kind of catchy.