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Comment by thomasz | Hacker News Reader

He got incredibly lonely, lost all his friend, and got ostracized over posting some alt right and Q shit on twitter.

That's the story of the people who are mad at him on Twitter. It's not what he says, he says he's happy and has kept saying things like how getting out of Mojang was the best thing he did.

It seems to me he's reasonably happy, especially considering his circumstances were far from happy before Minecraft - his parents were ex-addicts, he had himself dropped out of school, his father had a mood disorder and relapsed into drug use and killed himself just weeks after the first big Minecon.

I thought he went deep in with the far left crazies. Must have happened after that.

In other words, he finally grew up and, instead of dealing it in his 20s, is dealing with it in his 30s. He'll come around.

What a strange thing to say.

Most of us don't lose all our friends, or go in the deep end alt-right in our 20's...

My point is that he's in a shared melodramatic phase. It seems bad now, no doubt. But time heals all wounds. He'll find his friends again. He'll realize that Twitter isn't the right forum for posting batshit crazy stuff if you're sensitive to criticism. He'll repair things. He'll find his peace. Or he'll go insane. I'm hoping the former as a fellow human.

Well, he also has all the money in the world to be distracted and surrounded by people who are in for the wrong reasons. So, let's see.

Most of us don't become overnight billionaires.

He was almost 40 when he sold Minecraft.

35 isn't really almost 40. plus he hasn't been the lead designer since he was 32.

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