I mean, heās said before that shitty code doesnāt make for a good or bad game. He gave examples of lots of successful games that have ābadā code and that it doesnāt matter and people should just make games.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
on 04 Jul 20:11
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Not sure if itās still the case, but the code of balatro was a single giant file with if cases for every card
Bad code can make great games. But it will also make them very hard to maintain
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 04 Jul 22:46
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It can alsoake fes that perform way worse than they have anything to. See yandere simulator for example
But thatās not even what Stop Killing Games is aboutā¦
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 21:28
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Itās one possible solution for one of the problems under the same umbrella. If you canāt or donāt want to run the servers for your online game (eg: Echo VR), just open source the serverās code and let the community keep the game running.
Goodeye8@piefed.social
on 04 Jul 22:21
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But even then it's astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced. Old games will be grandfathered in and it would apply only to future game releases.
I blocked this guy from my YouTube suggestions last year after getting heaps of his videos recommended to me, and in every one he comes across as an insufferable know-it-all.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 16:29
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And if you know anything about what heās talking about, you quickly realize that in fact he does not know it all.
Can I be a big time Twitch celebrity too if I doodle a series of completely nondescriptive boxes and link them with little lines in MS Paint as I talk?
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 04 Jul 16:34
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He has literally said that the MS Paint doodles arenāt meant to be super descriptive or helpful. He started doing it in his meetings at Blizzard, because he found that any visual aid was good at keeping executivesā attention. Whenever he had to do a presentation, heād use MS Paint every few minutes to keep them focused.
And now he does the same with his viewers. He busts out MS Paint every few minutes, just to refocus the viewers and keep them engaged. Itās not to help with whatever heās describing; itās just to keep the viewers engaged, so he keeps making money off of them.
To his credit, at least he admits this. Itās not like heās hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.
RazgrizOne@piefed.zip
on 04 Jul 17:12
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To his credit, at least he admits this. Itās not like heās hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.
Iām sick of that excuse. The whole Iām dumb or I donāt know or itās for the algorithm excuses people make to try and deflect criticism. Guess Iāve just seen to many people of prominence use that excuse one to many times over the years.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 04 Jul 18:50
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Itās playing the game by the rules as written. If the Game Master is upset at a player for using their own rules against them, thatās the GMās fault. I canāt begrudge a guy manipulating a mega corporation (in this case, manipulating Google/YouTubeās algorithms) for profit. He needs viewer retention to stay at the top of the algorithm, so thatās what heās doing.
Iāve just heard so many of the same excuses for even scummier people over the years of always shifting the blame to justify whatever is necessary to get the bag. The excuses seem ever less convincing.
I think youāre confusing āexcuseā for āreasonā here. no one is excusing his behavior, just pointing out that the reason he does it is because the system allows for this kind of behavior. we can see through the veil, but others are being hooked by it because itās designed to keep you hooked.
itās the same with other charismatic always online personalities. theyāre really good at spinning their bs and people keep eating it up because it sounds good.
Thereās people who will explain why it is done, and use it as an excuse why it is okay because thatās the rules of the game. Seen it way too many times from apologists. Heck the comment I responded to went about how they give this guy credit and canāt blame the guy for doing it.
That goes from explanation to excuses once they started providing an opinion on the behaviour. So that no one is making excuses isnāt right.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 05 Jul 06:23
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This is a long-winded way of saying āDonāt hate the player, hate the game.ā
The viewers arenāt the game masters, though. I honestly wouldnāt want to participate in a game where I have to retain the attention of people without giving them anything of value. I think at some point those who participate also need to take some responsibility.
Itās possible itās not an excuse. Iām in software eng. Doodles and on the fly flow charts are made all the time. Itās much easier to follow a complex topic if you have something to point to. Especially when trying to tie together concepts, like interplay between services, timing, DB, APIs, etc.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 05 Jul 08:52
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To be fair, I do this at work and while I get funny looks I do get complicated ideas across better when I can provide visual aid.
Frankly I need to improve my MS Paint skills. I need to get my mouse handwriting up to at least 70% of the Khan Academy guyās level.
Iv always been confused over why he was ever in a meeting with executives when his official job position was QA tester. Not lead, not supervisor. He was a grunt worker.
Can I be a big time Twitch celebrity too if I doodle a series of completely nondescriptive boxes and link them with little lines in MS Paint as I talk?
Definitely. Especially if you have large breasts.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
on 04 Jul 22:43
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Do I have to be a woman also or are the breasts enough?
Funwayguy@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 23:00
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The latter works better, then you can go full Lily Tino when called out and āattackedā for the obvious BS.
Itās 2025. You can be a big tiddy vtuber no matter what you are in real life.
Coolcoder360@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 16:29
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Agree, the few videos of his that I appreciated were so rare and in every one he reminds me of that guy who is a pain to actually work with and any way other than their way is completely incorrect to them.
There are people with imposter syndrome, who you wish would say more and then there are people with overinflated self confidence, who just wonāt shut up.
of course there is no way to definitely prove that, which was probably an intentional tactic, but certain puzzles he āsolvedā in āhoursā took a whole community weeks to figure out (brute force was the only way) and thereās no way heās just happened to guess the right answer
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 04 Jul 21:21
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Itās funny because itās not like heās speed running or anything, he could literally just tell chat he was cheating because the puzzle was too hard and nobody would care.
But he has to keep up his insufferable smarter than everyone image by āsolvingā puzzles fast.
Newsteinleo@midwest.social
on 05 Jul 11:59
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If you think he is an insufferable know it, you have not met enough insufferable know it alls. He is look warm obnoxious at best.
I donāt know man, I thought he was insufferable then, and after watching this rundown I stand by original opinion of him being an insufferable little gremlin.
Newsteinleo@midwest.social
on 05 Jul 13:28
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Peace of life advice, donāt let other people tell you how to think, form your own opinions based on the things you value and experience.
Thor exist, and so do a lot of people that are a lot worse. He gets at more hate than he deserve when people like Jordan Peterson exist.
Also, you donāt have to watch his videos. You can just ignore him and move on with your life. There are better things to do with your time than to hate someone.
Sorry, Iām not in this fight, but my inner grammar-nazi just couldnāt help herself.
Newsteinleo@midwest.social
on 05 Jul 17:57
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Apology exempted. Just please considered that the person you are correcting may not know English as their first language or by be struggling with dyslexia or some other issue you may know nothing about
Thatās totally fair. Iām not a native English speaker myself, but some of the English I have learned has been through corrections from friendly souls around the internet so I wanted to pay it forward. Iām not judging or attacking you as I donāt expect anyone to be perfect in any language. Not even their own. Just wanted to help out š¤
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 05 Jul 20:51
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I wrote him off as a prick after he practically had a narcissistic meltdown during a stream with a psychiatrist when he was told that he comes off as an arrogant pedant and needs to learn to admit when heās wrong.
I kinda hate the guy so itās hard for me to keep the tone neutral but Iāll try my best.
Long story short: Heās a popular streamer that had a few controversies that caused many people labelled him as arrogant or egotistical.
The latest one is his take on the āstop killing gamesā initiative that he was against. He had a video a few months ago were he misrepresentated the movement and spread misinformation (whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate) and caused a significant drop in the momentum of the movement, refusing to accept any criticism and doubling down on things. That was until recently were the initiative was in the last month and a half before the big deadline at only around 50% of the required signatures, but then huge momentum sprung up with a lot of people marking him as the āvillainā of the movement and because of his controversy before it wasnāt long before word spread.
This has obviously led to harassment of the guy(which I feel is too far personally) which he responded to by tripling down on his opinion causing further being labelled as the villain. Eventually the momentum carried it over the finish and people are happy that he didnāt get his way.
whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate
Itās not, in his response to the initial controversy he cut out the part of Rossā video that directly contradicted his misrepresentation, heās a lying piece of shit.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social
on 04 Jul 16:41
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Enable offline mode. Thatās the very least they can do. These game, like how EA famously claim that itās not possible for SimCity to run in offline mode and then soon release an offline mode, should be playable offline.
Enable private server/p2p multiplayer. This would make sure playing with friends is still possible after the server went down.
Itās trivial in the grand scheme of things to release a localhost server to let games run offline. For the amount of work that goes into games already this is a drop in the bucket.
Itās also trivial if you know itās a requirement at the start of the project.
So even if it does nothing for games out now, if it makes it a requirement going forward that alone would be a massive success all by it self.
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
on 04 Jul 18:26
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Is this a real screenshot of him crying about the initiative reaching 100%?
I watch this dude sometimes, he says heās a fulltime game dev but all I see him do is play other games. The game he works on has seen very little progress.
Would be nice if he at least admits heās a streamer and not a game dev.
Lemminary@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 19:53
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Iāve also noticed this from watching his stream and the more I learn about the guy the less I like him. He seems to misrepresent and oversell himself quite a bit.
Btw did he tell you about the time he worked at Blizzard, for the millionth time?
He worked at Blizzard in the same way that Apple store employees work for Apple. They do, but not in the capacity thatās been implied.
whats_all_this_then@programming.dev
on 05 Jul 19:39
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Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that theyāre Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company wonāt shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?
I know a few people who used to work for Apple. The reason a lot donāt say it though is because if you do people automatically assume you had something to do with whatever feature they donāt personally like, and you get berated about it.
whats_all_this_then@programming.dev
on 06 Jul 10:03
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Ah, thatās completely understandable. Most people donāt realize that in a lot of companies, even if you are involved, the decision to make the stupid feature/break your workflow comes from a suit 10 pay grades above your level and despite everyone involved trying to explain that itās a bad idea.
Also itās a big fucking company haha
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
on 04 Jul 20:29
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Sounds an awful lot like what YandereDev did when he was still relevant.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 23:02
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yanderedev is always relevant
ICastFist@programming.dev
on 05 Jul 12:44
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dustyData@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 13:06
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Deltarune didnāt exist yet. Itās an undertale ripoff.
Which is very telling, tobyfox released a whole game on his own. While this " I worked at blizzard, BTW" tool hasnāt with an (allegedly) entire company around him. Heās a grifter, he scams people around him to profit off of otherās work. Thatās all he does.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 13:07
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Given that it didnāt exist yet, more like an Undertale rip off
underscores@lemmy.zip
on 05 Jul 00:23
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kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 05 Jul 18:51
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Heās been working on that game for almost a decade now, too.
atrielienz@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 19:48
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For those who donāt know, this streamer is only tangentially related to the stop killing games petition because he made a comment about it being BS because he misinterpreted what it was supposed to do. He used his misinterpretation to spread false information about this petition leading to it not getting the support it initially should have.
When the guy behind the petition made a statement saying he didnāt think the petition was going to get enough signatures in part because of the misinformation being spread about it, PirateSoftware doubled down on his false claims and all of this lead to people doing the research they should have done in the first place and deciding to support the petition after all.
What we should probably be learning from this is that we should do our own research, and find out things instead of taking the word of random people online.
Edit: electric has brought to my attention that it wasnāt just one clip, but in fact a whole video dedicated to spreading misinformation that was made by Thor from PirateSoftware. Just wanted to be clear about that.
A comment? Am I misreading your comment or is this just ignorance of the situation? Because PirateSoftware made a whole ass video on the subject way back (the one allegedly rife with misinformation). I remember it on my feed when the campaign was getting traction, but didnāt watch it because my view of him was souring.
From what clips Iāve seen*, PirateSoftware misinterprets the majority of what he addressed. Either maliciously or unknowingly, which is why he was blamed for tanking momentum since that video did get a ton of views (before people wised up to him being a total cunt).
*Yes I know the irony of what I just said there after reading your last paragraph. I believe these terminally online streamers because I would not put it past PirateSoftware to be this awful after watching his videos for a small period and then the subsequent controversies coming out.
atrielienz@lemmy.world
on 04 Jul 21:47
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He may well have done but the only clip I have seen is the one where someone asks about it while heās streaming games and he responded to that person with misinformation.
Ah. Makes sense. I caught a stream once and he pretty much just did discussions with the chat. A lot of his videos were just cuts from his streams when someone asked.
I think a lot of people didnāt hear about this guy until about 2 days ago. Personally I didnāt even know about this petition.
I knew about the lawsuit against The Crew, but I didnāt know anything about any more general petition, so I think the greater problem was simply a lack of advertising.
My condolences. I donāt even dislike the voice, his attitude just makes him so punchable. You think heās some kind of expert at first but then it dawns on you that heās just confidently stupid.
His obnoxious voice is fake, just as him. There are videos of him outside the streaming. His voice is artificially lowered for streams and videos. Heās all fake.
That attention is the dying embers of the torch he took to his career
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 08:00
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Dude had entirely disappeared from my timelines before every youtuber and lemmy poster seemingly felt the need to tell me about how naughty he is.
DragonofKnowledge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 05 Jul 00:10
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I know itās not going to happen, but I would love it if legislation could go as far as requiring companies to open-source their engines and servers after maybe a period of time, or on ending support for the game. It could be done ID-style where the company retains full rights of the content and trademarks, which would still require players to buy the game to legally play it.
Iām aware there are a lot of cases where games include middleware thatās licensed from 3rd parties that complicate preservation efforts. But if open-sourcing the code is the path taken, thereās a simple solution for that: just release what you can, even if whatās released is in an unplayable state without the middleware. It then becomes the responsibility of any volunteers to take that code and bring it back to a usable state however they choose.
This drama highlights that thereās still a great need for better computer literacy. Anyone with even a basic education in how software, source-code, and software licensing works can tell PirateSoftware is full of shit pretty much immediately. That is, anyone educated who are themselves not grifters.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 13:28
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You should only be granted copyright protections if you can guarantee the copyrighted material can become public domain after the time period ends. This would involve giving the government a copy of all source code and assets to preserve securely. This should be a flat policy for all copyrighted material, so 3rd party involvement wouldnāt complicate things.
DragonofKnowledge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 05 Jul 13:50
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Thatās a pretty interesting idea. Unfortunately it depends on being somewhere where copyrights ever actually end.
The original intent of patents was almost exactly that. Youāre protected for a handful of years, after that anyone can just use the patent as instructions for recreating it.
ā¦ then Disney and other fucking greedy ghouls of corporations got involved and greased the right palmsā¦
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 05 Jul 00:44
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Iām glad that someone Iāve personally disliked for various reasons is finally having a lot of people see them for who they really are.
Omgā¦ this commentā¦ this comment right here š. This is what I needed to see because I relate so strongly to it. Fākn guy sucks! (By guy sucks, I mean coworker of my nightmares that leans on me like a cancer). But my god, Iām so happy for him.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 12:50
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I came to PS through YouTube shorts and his streams were cut to ribbons and repatched into something resembling a zeitgeist-appealing view.
Then I watched a couple of his long form videos and was like ā¦ eh. If anything it taught me more about the danger of using shorts as an onboard to any big vtuber. Much like movie trailers and their movies, they tend to overpromise and underdeliver.
This became undeniably apparent when YouTube started shoving Jordan Petersen into my feed. Much like the thousand monkeys at their typewriters, you can take the words of anyone who talks at length almost daily on a subject and edit them into something that sounds reasonable and appealing.
I already knew that JP was a right wing rhetoric Markov chain posing as an expert/pundit before YT started promoting him, but it really did cement the point.
Any male dominated channel that ever āgives adviceā gets shunted into that pipeline by algo pretty consistently.
I like stand up comedy and itās a full time job keeping Rogan out of my suggestions.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 14:39
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Yeah, for real. YouTube is essentially placing infinite bets that it can drive you into the rabbit hole. Watched a short of Dillahunty give Peterson a verbal wedgy? You must like big words, so hereās more Peterson! Watched a short of Joey Swoll telling people to be polite, because it rolled on automatically? Hereās an Andrew Tate wannabe with shrivelled nuts to subtly criticise you about your dad bod.
Obsession and radicalisation are one and the same to the algorithm, and both turn a targeted individual into a money printer. And fuck the consequences right? Because Google got theirs.
Even Hitler out of context sounds good. Context is paramount. Never trust a good speaker with the extra time to edit himself in post with out the context of the original or their history.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 14:42
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Itās often not the speaker doing the editing, there are thousands of channels built around creating and releasing these cast-a-wide-net shorts to subtly drive you towards their goal of obsessively watching right wing vtubers saying things that compel you to be a selfish narcissist.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
on 05 Jul 16:02
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Nowadays its also quite common to design speeches around short form videos, so that you can then edit as much as possible into short little segments that are optimised for short form content. The right wingers do it a lot and, at least in Germany, our leftist party realised that this is a strategy to not miss out on.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 01:49
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Guys a fucking loser. Needs to get a real job.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 16:26
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Heās had quite a few āreal jobsā lol
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 05 Jul 18:49
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Heāll gladly tell you about how he was hacker/dev whizkid at Blizzard for 7 years. Of course, heāll leave out the fact that he was only a QA tester and a web security drone who got the job because his father is a big wig there.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
on 05 Jul 19:54
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I am happy that itās a Peripeteia developer saying this.
The game is a mess (because itās Early access) & needs a looooot if optimization, but boy itās something else.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 16:31
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Iām not gonna go out of my way to review bomb his game or send him messages or at him on twitter. But I am not gonna stop calling him a narcisistic idiot whenever the topic comes up. People should know. That is not harassment, that is countering misinformation, at least IMO. A meme like this is not harassment in my book either. He is a public figure.
One of the big reasons many people are āokayā with making fun of him. Is that he could basically make it all go away if he just admitted he was wrong.
The whole thing stems from him being so full of himself that he cannot admit any fault, ever. He has been objectively proven wrong many times on several different topics, there are a lot of situations that heavily indicate misconduct, etc. And he literally went on a stream with a licensed psychiatrist who tried to explain some of his faults. To which he laughed and said āOkay, donāt see it that way, but alrightā.
At the end of the day, he seems almost incapable of admitting that he ever did or said anything wrong. So people keep making fun of him, since heās objectively proven wrong repeatedly.
If youāre not familiar with it, check out his classic wow hardcore drama. Heās absolutely incapable of admitting any fault. And he and his mods just ban anyone immediately if they try to have a discussion.
SunshineJogger@feddit.org
on 05 Jul 15:55
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I actually do not know who that is. Some YouTuber?
Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 05 Jul 16:08
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Trashy twitch streamer with a massive ego problem
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 22:20
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Just know heās someone who wants you to eat his entire ass.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 05 Jul 16:21
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Just remember that we still need more signatures on the EU one, to rule out bot and incorrect signatures.
EU one requires an ID/passport, UK one doesnāt ā Iād argue that the EU one is safe and the UK one should get more attention on the validitiy
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 18:38
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Ross explained it in his last video - there are reasons to be skeptical and unsure if itās truly there until at least 1.4 mil signatures. And more votes is never bad. So both need more attention. If it reaches people in the EU it will also reach those in the UK.
Thereās always just people that mess up on the form. But they also monitor the sign rate and saw some periods of higher than normal signing in the middle of the night in the EU - indicating someone might have ran a bot to sign with invalid information. The EU only validates the signatures once the petition is closed, so they need a safe margin where even with a significant amount of invalid signatures, they still make it. Afaik 1.2 mil is about what they would expect for a normal vote of this size to be safe, and 1.4 mil is basically more than enough to compensate for any bad actors.
The type of verification depends on the country and some donāt have any verification at signing. Iām Swedish and when I signed I just filled out a form, no checks of any kind.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 05 Jul 20:52
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I feel like a tourist on a safari trip with this whole saga. A colleague of mine told me about this situation and now I canāt look away.
When all is said and done, I definitely think it would be a good idea to have game libraries both physical and digital where people can play old games as they stop being profitable to developers.
I have vague memory of there already being such consumer made game libraries for old Gameboy titles back in the 2000s but those sites were taken down. It would be great to have some sort of system in place because this licensing bullshit is exactly why I ended up completely leaving streaming as a whole (for movies and shows) and went back to physical media in january/February of this year. I borrow dvds at the library now. It is fucking fantastic. I had forgotten how much I missed going looking for movies Iād like to see in places like Moby Disc and Blockbuster. Itās so comfy and when you find a movie youāve never heard of before and you bring it home and itās really good, it just feels so special.
I think games should have that too. I stopped playing games in 2015 because I just saw no end to having to fork out money all the time to keep up with the tech and getting new titles and gradually seeing how it was more and more an online thing instead of a physical thing so I just stopped. Didnāt like the direction games were taking. Seems like it is reaching a breaking point finally.
And basically he finished Outer Wilds in his first time loop because he is so much smarter than everyone else
JustTheWind@lemmy.world
on 05 Jul 20:21
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It actually is the most hilarious of ironies that despite what very real harm Thor might have inflicted upon the early stages of the movement through misinformation/mischaracterization; The fact is, I donāt think this movement would have come near to exploding the way that it has recently if not for the perfect Rube Goldberg machine of drama surrounding this man in the past 6 months.
Seriously. He could not have Barbara Streisand effected the āStop Killing Gamesā movement harder if he tried. It really is such poetic justice. Itās a shame that I donāt live in the EU or I would gladly sign the initiate myself. Hereās to hoping that another EU regulation can have sweeping effects for the US. As a reluctant and very jaded US citizen myself, I harbor no illusions about any real and meaningful consumer protection regulations to ever make it over here. Mega-corpos have simply spent far too much money buying out every level of government, legislature, and regulatory bodies that exist.
Europe really is like a strange beacon of hope for US consumers, as odd as that sounds. Fight the good fight for us as well, brothers.
I can believe this, if he wasnāt such a narcissist or such a lying douche bag who always has to be right and has something to say about absolutely everything while having a story to go with itā¦
Then he would be a pretty cool guyā¦
Some of his advice isnāt actually bad thoughā¦ I watched him for a bit but the more you watch him the more you see him for who he isā¦
A 5-D Chess move truly beyond comprehension by the mortal mind.
hector@sh.itjust.works
on 05 Jul 20:21
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I donāt know what happened in details but I really donāt hate him, as a member of the video game industry he has the right to make his voice heard.
Iām still glad consumers won here :)
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today
on 05 Jul 22:25
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Atomic@sh.itjust.works
on 05 Jul 22:45
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Iām not saying you should hate him. And he absolutely have the right to his own opinion. But what he did is the equivalent of reading a news title, and then go trash talk it in the comments about how awful it is, when the article wasnāt about what you were mad about, at all.
Basically this;
Title: Denmark shuts down 60% of their wind-power
Article: Denmark shuts down 60% of their wind-power, pending an investigation as 1 million birds have died in them over the past 3 months, they are currently assessing the situation and investigating why this change in bird migration route has occurred and how to prevent more deaths. According to local expert, they will use the time to perform maintenance and test various methods of scaring birds away.
PirateSoftware: Denmark are the fucking worst, they shut down tons of wind farms, they are anti renewable, they donāt want wind farms, they realized that they can get cheaper gas, if they import more, and the difference will offset the cost of running and maintaining these wind farms. Where are they getting this gas? Probably Norway, possibly even Russia dude! They can eat my ass, the entire thing. Dried shit in my ass hairs and all.
Eggyhead@lemmings.world
on 06 Jul 06:50
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No oneās silencing him, though right? Theyāre just reacting to what he said, which is consequence. Is this somehow challenging his right to make his voice heard?
But in short, PirateSoftware had a fall from grace for narcissism and with his previous opposition to the petition, became a āvillainā to unite against.
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world
on 06 Jul 00:19
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My only real experience with this guy was that he helped fund a mario 64 romhacking competition that I entered. So I got some money from him because of it. Funny how that works out.
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Absolute fucking clown. Heās just scared of open sourcing old games because everyone will see how shitty his code isā¦
Thatās completely misguided, because people can see his code anyway (in his streams), and also because he will never finish or release his game
Probably little incentive to do so given how much money theyāre making from Twitch, YouTube, etc.
I mean, heās said before that shitty code doesnāt make for a good or bad game. He gave examples of lots of successful games that have ābadā code and that it doesnāt matter and people should just make games.
Not sure if itās still the case, but the code of balatro was a single giant file with if cases for every card
Bad code can make great games. But it will also make them very hard to maintain
It can alsoake fes that perform way worse than they have anything to. See yandere simulator for example
Undertale also has really bad code and itās a great game
But thatās not even what Stop Killing Games is aboutā¦
Itās one possible solution for one of the problems under the same umbrella. If you canāt or donāt want to run the servers for your online game (eg: Echo VR), just open source the serverās code and let the community keep the game running.
But even then it's astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced. Old games will be grandfathered in and it would apply only to future game releases.
Itās not unlikely, itās literally impossible.
You donāt need to open source the code to release the server binaries.
But you could open source it and have the community figure it out themselves
Of course, but the point is that it isnāt a factor in Thorās decision.
I blocked this guy from my YouTube suggestions last year after getting heaps of his videos recommended to me, and in every one he comes across as an insufferable know-it-all.
And if you know anything about what heās talking about, you quickly realize that in fact he does not know it all.
Can I be a big time Twitch celebrity too if I doodle a series of completely nondescriptive boxes and link them with little lines in MS Paint as I talk?
He has literally said that the MS Paint doodles arenāt meant to be super descriptive or helpful. He started doing it in his meetings at Blizzard, because he found that any visual aid was good at keeping executivesā attention. Whenever he had to do a presentation, heād use MS Paint every few minutes to keep them focused.
And now he does the same with his viewers. He busts out MS Paint every few minutes, just to refocus the viewers and keep them engaged. Itās not to help with whatever heās describing; itās just to keep the viewers engaged, so he keeps making money off of them.
To his credit, at least he admits this. Itās not like heās hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.
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Iām sick of that excuse. The whole Iām dumb or I donāt know or itās for the algorithm excuses people make to try and deflect criticism. Guess Iāve just seen to many people of prominence use that excuse one to many times over the years.
Itās playing the game by the rules as written. If the Game Master is upset at a player for using their own rules against them, thatās the GMās fault. I canāt begrudge a guy manipulating a mega corporation (in this case, manipulating Google/YouTubeās algorithms) for profit. He needs viewer retention to stay at the top of the algorithm, so thatās what heās doing.
Iāve just heard so many of the same excuses for even scummier people over the years of always shifting the blame to justify whatever is necessary to get the bag. The excuses seem ever less convincing.
I think youāre confusing āexcuseā for āreasonā here. no one is excusing his behavior, just pointing out that the reason he does it is because the system allows for this kind of behavior. we can see through the veil, but others are being hooked by it because itās designed to keep you hooked.
itās the same with other charismatic always online personalities. theyāre really good at spinning their bs and people keep eating it up because it sounds good.
Thereās people who will explain why it is done, and use it as an excuse why it is okay because thatās the rules of the game. Seen it way too many times from apologists. Heck the comment I responded to went about how they give this guy credit and canāt blame the guy for doing it.
That goes from explanation to excuses once they started providing an opinion on the behaviour. So that no one is making excuses isnāt right.
This is a long-winded way of saying āDonāt hate the player, hate the game.ā
The viewers arenāt the game masters, though. I honestly wouldnāt want to participate in a game where I have to retain the attention of people without giving them anything of value. I think at some point those who participate also need to take some responsibility.
Itās possible itās not an excuse. Iām in software eng. Doodles and on the fly flow charts are made all the time. Itās much easier to follow a complex topic if you have something to point to. Especially when trying to tie together concepts, like interplay between services, timing, DB, APIs, etc.
To be fair, I do this at work and while I get funny looks I do get complicated ideas across better when I can provide visual aid.
Frankly I need to improve my MS Paint skills. I need to get my mouse handwriting up to at least 70% of the Khan Academy guyās level.
Pretty sure he uses a wacom
Iv always been confused over why he was ever in a meeting with executives when his official job position was QA tester. Not lead, not supervisor. He was a grunt worker.
Definitely. Especially if you have large breasts.
Do I have to be a woman also or are the breasts enough?
The latter works better, then you can go full Lily Tino when called out and āattackedā for the obvious BS.
āIf youāre a big fat man, Iām a titty fan, and Iād love to see yours, too!ā
Wings of Redemption makes it workā¦ ok. He doesnāt make it work at all.
Itās 2025. You can be a big tiddy vtuber no matter what you are in real life.
Agree, the few videos of his that I appreciated were so rare and in every one he reminds me of that guy who is a pain to actually work with and any way other than their way is completely incorrect to them.
There are people with imposter syndrome, who you wish would say more and then there are people with overinflated self confidence, who just wonāt shut up.
he also cheats in single player puzzle games
of course there is no way to definitely prove that, which was probably an intentional tactic, but certain puzzles he āsolvedā in āhoursā took a whole community weeks to figure out (brute force was the only way) and thereās no way heās just happened to guess the right answer
Itās funny because itās not like heās speed running or anything, he could literally just tell chat he was cheating because the puzzle was too hard and nobody would care.
But he has to keep up his insufferable smarter than everyone image by āsolvingā puzzles fast.
If you think he is an insufferable know it, you have not met enough insufferable know it alls. He is look warm obnoxious at best.
I donāt know man, I thought he was insufferable then, and after watching this rundown I stand by original opinion of him being an insufferable little gremlin.
Peace of life advice, donāt let other people tell you how to think, form your own opinions based on the things you value and experience.
Thor exist, and so do a lot of people that are a lot worse. He gets at more hate than he deserve when people like Jordan Peterson exist.
Also, you donāt have to watch his videos. You can just ignore him and move on with your life. There are better things to do with your time than to hate someone.
Thereās a beautiful sentence at the end of every Rare Earth video: Donāt let other people think for you, they can barely think for themselves.
There is some really truth to that.
Oh wow you know so much about this topic and everything else!
All I am saying is that i have met truly insufferable know it alls and he is not one.
Oh the irony lmao
I am not sure you know meaning of irony
*lukewarm.
Sorry, Iām not in this fight, but my inner grammar-nazi just couldnāt help herself.
Apology exempted. Just please considered that the person you are correcting may not know English as their first language or by be struggling with dyslexia or some other issue you may know nothing about
Thatās totally fair. Iām not a native English speaker myself, but some of the English I have learned has been through corrections from friendly souls around the internet so I wanted to pay it forward. Iām not judging or attacking you as I donāt expect anyone to be perfect in any language. Not even their own. Just wanted to help out š¤
I wrote him off as a prick after he practically had a narcissistic meltdown during a stream with a psychiatrist when he was told that he comes off as an arrogant pedant and needs to learn to admit when heās wrong.
Who is this, and why is she so sad?
This dudes son.
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Misgendering people is not funny.
According to 30 rock it is.
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The difference is that 30 Rock is not doing it to be mean spirited.
I think the root comment is just memeing? But I see your point, itās not funny. (Or it shouldnāt be.)
What does ājust memeingā mean here?
Oh? Youāre approaching me?
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They memed the joke from the show, while i just copied the part from jojo.
I wanted to lure you into revealing your stand.
No, you donāt understand, misgendering is fine when its someone you donāt like, just like how body shaming is great when its a man.
/s
Looking at the upvote/ downvote ratio you might be right
You did not get the 30 Rock quote I see.
I kinda hate the guy so itās hard for me to keep the tone neutral but Iāll try my best.
Long story short: Heās a popular streamer that had a few controversies that caused many people labelled him as arrogant or egotistical.
The latest one is his take on the āstop killing gamesā initiative that he was against. He had a video a few months ago were he misrepresentated the movement and spread misinformation (whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate) and caused a significant drop in the momentum of the movement, refusing to accept any criticism and doubling down on things. That was until recently were the initiative was in the last month and a half before the big deadline at only around 50% of the required signatures, but then huge momentum sprung up with a lot of people marking him as the āvillainā of the movement and because of his controversy before it wasnāt long before word spread.
This has obviously led to harassment of the guy(which I feel is too far personally) which he responded to by tripling down on his opinion causing further being labelled as the villain. Eventually the momentum carried it over the finish and people are happy that he didnāt get his way.
Itās not, in his response to the initial controversy he cut out the part of Rossā video that directly contradicted his misrepresentation, heās a lying piece of shit.
I'm not relaxing unil it's 1.5 million.
In Rossā video, IIRC, he said 110% was good, 120% was pretty safe, and 140% was very safe.
edit: Correct autocorrect.
200% it shall be!
Iām not proud of it but I really enjoyed the mass dunking on this guy.
Be a little proud, as a treat. You deserve it.
What u attempt to accomplish? Maintaining games also takes time and effort and server costs and they likely kill them to save costs.
There is no way this petition is gonna do anything
When games put DRM in them that requires a server
And I buy that game
And then they take away that server
I want my money back
Or for them to patch the game so it works
Itās not fucking hard to figure out
then donāt make single player games (or sections of games) require a server.
At best we get fresh new EULAās to click through on our way to play our game.
Iāve signed a lot of petitions over the years, and Iād sign this one too, but itās pretty naive to think this will actually do anything useful.
This is not just a random petition, it has legal force to compel the EU to officially hear the issue.
you canāt sign away consumer rights in a EULAā¦ they might try and out them in there, but if it were law then they wouldnāt be able to enforce it
Its okay to stop running the servers. All gamers want is to have the stuff it takes to continue to enjoy the game after the companies are done.
It might get the EU to make a law.
Enable offline mode. Thatās the very least they can do. These game, like how EA famously claim that itās not possible for SimCity to run in offline mode and then soon release an offline mode, should be playable offline.
Enable private server/p2p multiplayer. This would make sure playing with friends is still possible after the server went down.
Itās trivial in the grand scheme of things to release a localhost server to let games run offline. For the amount of work that goes into games already this is a drop in the bucket.
Itās also trivial if you know itās a requirement at the start of the project.
So even if it does nothing for games out now, if it makes it a requirement going forward that alone would be a massive success all by it self.
Is this a real screenshot of him crying about the initiative reaching 100%?
Very unlikely. He hasnāt made any content covering the initiative yet.
You mean, after the shit he put out that was complete bs?
He probably still does not understand what itās about
Canāt wait for him to see this and claim it was his plan the entire time
Only way to get around itā¦
So thatās why he worked at Blizzard for 7 years and keeps bringing it up.
Full ambercrombie & Fitch mode
I watch this dude sometimes, he says heās a fulltime game dev but all I see him do is play other games. The game he works on has seen very little progress.
Would be nice if he at least admits heās a streamer and not a game dev.
Iāve also noticed this from watching his stream and the more I learn about the guy the less I like him. He seems to misrepresent and oversell himself quite a bit.
Btw did he tell you about the time he worked at Blizzard, for the millionth time?
The job he got through nepotism?
He worked at Blizzard in the same way that Apple store employees work for Apple. They do, but not in the capacity thatās been implied.
Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that theyāre Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company wonāt shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?
I know a few people who used to work for Apple. The reason a lot donāt say it though is because if you do people automatically assume you had something to do with whatever feature they donāt personally like, and you get berated about it.
Ah, thatās completely understandable. Most people donāt realize that in a lot of companies, even if you are involved, the decision to make the stupid feature/break your workflow comes from a suit 10 pay grades above your level and despite everyone involved trying to explain that itās a bad idea.
Also itās a big fucking company haha
Sounds an awful lot like what YandereDev did when he was still relevant.
yanderedev is always relevant
One of the best cautionary tales for developers
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No joke, YandereDev has been making more progress than Thor on Hartbound and he at least does not pretend to be experienced Blizzard game developer.
I remember seeing gameplay of Heartbound in like 2017? maybe earlier. itās still not finished?
No itās not. Itās sad.
I mean isnāt it a Deltarune ripoff ??
EDIT: Undertale it is then
Deltarune didnāt exist yet. Itās an undertale ripoff.
Which is very telling, tobyfox released a whole game on his own. While this " I worked at blizzard, BTW" tool hasnāt with an (allegedly) entire company around him. Heās a grifter, he scams people around him to profit off of otherās work. Thatās all he does.
Given that it didnāt exist yet, more like an Undertale rip off
āgame devā is a way to put it
Yeah but did you know he worked at Blizzard?
Heās been working on that game for almost a decade now, too.
For those who donāt know, this streamer is only tangentially related to the stop killing games petition because he made a comment about it being BS because he misinterpreted what it was supposed to do. He used his misinterpretation to spread false information about this petition leading to it not getting the support it initially should have.
When the guy behind the petition made a statement saying he didnāt think the petition was going to get enough signatures in part because of the misinformation being spread about it, PirateSoftware doubled down on his false claims and all of this lead to people doing the research they should have done in the first place and deciding to support the petition after all.
What we should probably be learning from this is that we should do our own research, and find out things instead of taking the word of random people online.
Edit: electric has brought to my attention that it wasnāt just one clip, but in fact a whole video dedicated to spreading misinformation that was made by Thor from PirateSoftware. Just wanted to be clear about that.
A comment? Am I misreading your comment or is this just ignorance of the situation? Because PirateSoftware made a whole ass video on the subject way back (the one allegedly rife with misinformation). I remember it on my feed when the campaign was getting traction, but didnāt watch it because my view of him was souring.
From what clips Iāve seen*, PirateSoftware misinterprets the majority of what he addressed. Either maliciously or unknowingly, which is why he was blamed for tanking momentum since that video did get a ton of views (before people wised up to him being a total cunt).
*Yes I know the irony of what I just said there after reading your last paragraph. I believe these terminally online streamers because I would not put it past PirateSoftware to be this awful after watching his videos for a small period and then the subsequent controversies coming out.
He may well have done but the only clip I have seen is the one where someone asks about it while heās streaming games and he responded to that person with misinformation.
Ah. Makes sense. I caught a stream once and he pretty much just did discussions with the chat. A lot of his videos were just cuts from his streams when someone asked.
āNot only Iām not gonna support it, I gonna actively tell people to not support it. Because this is stupid. This is shit. Eat my ass.ā
ā Thor āPirateSoftwareā Hall, on the Stop Killing Games proposal.
Yes. That clip.
Multiple videos.
He made multiple videos.
I think a lot of people didnāt hear about this guy until about 2 days ago. Personally I didnāt even know about this petition.
I knew about the lawsuit against The Crew, but I didnāt know anything about any more general petition, so I think the greater problem was simply a lack of advertising.
I hate having to hear his obnoxious voice because my sister watches him all the fuckinā time.
My condolences. I donāt even dislike the voice, his attitude just makes him so punchable. You think heās some kind of expert at first but then it dawns on you that heās just confidently stupid.
His obnoxious voice is fake, just as him. There are videos of him outside the streaming. His voice is artificially lowered for streams and videos. Heās all fake.
Iāve seen the video. Fuck PirateSotware but itās just a bad mic in they video. All audio is distorted.
I wish heād stop getting any kind of attention at all. He is a fraud.
That attention is the dying embers of the torch he took to his career
Dude had entirely disappeared from my timelines before every youtuber and lemmy poster seemingly felt the need to tell me about how naughty he is.
I know itās not going to happen, but I would love it if legislation could go as far as requiring companies to open-source their engines and servers after maybe a period of time, or on ending support for the game. It could be done ID-style where the company retains full rights of the content and trademarks, which would still require players to buy the game to legally play it.
Iām aware there are a lot of cases where games include middleware thatās licensed from 3rd parties that complicate preservation efforts. But if open-sourcing the code is the path taken, thereās a simple solution for that: just release what you can, even if whatās released is in an unplayable state without the middleware. It then becomes the responsibility of any volunteers to take that code and bring it back to a usable state however they choose.
This drama highlights that thereās still a great need for better computer literacy. Anyone with even a basic education in how software, source-code, and software licensing works can tell PirateSoftware is full of shit pretty much immediately. That is, anyone educated who are themselves not grifters.
Yessss.
You should only be granted copyright protections if you can guarantee the copyrighted material can become public domain after the time period ends. This would involve giving the government a copy of all source code and assets to preserve securely. This should be a flat policy for all copyrighted material, so 3rd party involvement wouldnāt complicate things.
Thatās a pretty interesting idea. Unfortunately it depends on being somewhere where copyrights ever actually end.
Thatās another debate, but if a company ever closed and no one claimed the IP, it could be released early.
The original intent of patents was almost exactly that. Youāre protected for a handful of years, after that anyone can just use the patent as instructions for recreating it.
ā¦ then Disney and other fucking greedy ghouls of corporations got involved and greased the right palmsā¦
Iām glad that someone Iāve personally disliked for various reasons is finally having a lot of people see them for who they really are.
Man this dude is a total nepobaby tool.
Omgā¦ this commentā¦ this comment right here š. This is what I needed to see because I relate so strongly to it. Fākn guy sucks! (By guy sucks, I mean coworker of my nightmares that leans on me like a cancer). But my god, Iām so happy for him.
I came to PS through YouTube shorts and his streams were cut to ribbons and repatched into something resembling a zeitgeist-appealing view.
Then I watched a couple of his long form videos and was like ā¦ eh. If anything it taught me more about the danger of using shorts as an onboard to any big vtuber. Much like movie trailers and their movies, they tend to overpromise and underdeliver.
This became undeniably apparent when YouTube started shoving Jordan Petersen into my feed. Much like the thousand monkeys at their typewriters, you can take the words of anyone who talks at length almost daily on a subject and edit them into something that sounds reasonable and appealing.
I already knew that JP was a right wing rhetoric Markov chain posing as an expert/pundit before YT started promoting him, but it really did cement the point.
Any male dominated channel that ever āgives adviceā gets shunted into that pipeline by algo pretty consistently.
I like stand up comedy and itās a full time job keeping Rogan out of my suggestions.
Yeah, for real. YouTube is essentially placing infinite bets that it can drive you into the rabbit hole. Watched a short of Dillahunty give Peterson a verbal wedgy? You must like big words, so hereās more Peterson! Watched a short of Joey Swoll telling people to be polite, because it rolled on automatically? Hereās an Andrew Tate wannabe with shrivelled nuts to subtly criticise you about your dad bod.
Obsession and radicalisation are one and the same to the algorithm, and both turn a targeted individual into a money printer. And fuck the consequences right? Because Google got theirs.
Even Hitler out of context sounds good. Context is paramount. Never trust a good speaker with the extra time to edit himself in post with out the context of the original or their history.
Itās often not the speaker doing the editing, there are thousands of channels built around creating and releasing these cast-a-wide-net shorts to subtly drive you towards their goal of obsessively watching right wing vtubers saying things that compel you to be a selfish narcissist.
Nowadays its also quite common to design speeches around short form videos, so that you can then edit as much as possible into short little segments that are optimised for short form content. The right wingers do it a lot and, at least in Germany, our leftist party realised that this is a strategy to not miss out on.
Absolutely. For example:
seralth@lemmy.world said:
Guys a fucking loser. Needs to get a real job.
Heās had quite a few āreal jobsā lol
Heāll gladly tell you about how he was hacker/dev whizkid at Blizzard for 7 years. Of course, heāll leave out the fact that he was only a QA tester and a web security drone who got the job because his father is a big wig there.
Donāt you know he worked for Blizzard /s
Ahh. Starting to see how that company fell to shit now š
I am happy that itās a Peripeteia developer saying this. The game is a mess (because itās Early access) & needs a looooot if optimization, but boy itās something else.
Gives me Ghost in the Shell vibes
Credit where creditās due
Now that Thor has helped us achieve our goal. Let us never speak of him again.
Every good story needs a villain
Iāve never liked the guy, heās always seemed so full of himself like he thinks heās smarter than everyone and can never be wrong.
How about letās all not talk or make angry memes about the guy. Ross requested that he not be harassed. Something about not wanting negative energy.
Itās not about Ross, itās about sending a message.
I doubt heāll ever use Lemmy to be honest, but I get what you mean.
Since what happens on Lemmy stays on Lemmy, I guess it must be fine.
I said I get what you mean.
Iām not gonna go out of my way to review bomb his game or send him messages or at him on twitter. But I am not gonna stop calling him a narcisistic idiot whenever the topic comes up. People should know. That is not harassment, that is countering misinformation, at least IMO. A meme like this is not harassment in my book either. He is a public figure.
Ross is not my dad
yeah but heās a daddy tho š
One of the big reasons many people are āokayā with making fun of him. Is that he could basically make it all go away if he just admitted he was wrong.
The whole thing stems from him being so full of himself that he cannot admit any fault, ever. He has been objectively proven wrong many times on several different topics, there are a lot of situations that heavily indicate misconduct, etc. And he literally went on a stream with a licensed psychiatrist who tried to explain some of his faults. To which he laughed and said āOkay, donāt see it that way, but alrightā.
At the end of the day, he seems almost incapable of admitting that he ever did or said anything wrong. So people keep making fun of him, since heās objectively proven wrong repeatedly.
If youāre not familiar with it, check out his classic wow hardcore drama. Heās absolutely incapable of admitting any fault. And he and his mods just ban anyone immediately if they try to have a discussion.
I actually do not know who that is. Some YouTuber?
Trashy twitch streamer with a massive ego problem
Just know heās someone who wants you to eat his entire ass.
Just remember that we still need more signatures on the EU one, to rule out bot and incorrect signatures.
EU one requires an ID/passport, UK one doesnāt ā Iād argue that the EU one is safe and the UK one should get more attention on the validitiy
Ross explained it in his last video - there are reasons to be skeptical and unsure if itās truly there until at least 1.4 mil signatures. And more votes is never bad. So both need more attention. If it reaches people in the EU it will also reach those in the UK.
gotta summary? I donāt wanna watch a vid
Thereās always just people that mess up on the form. But they also monitor the sign rate and saw some periods of higher than normal signing in the middle of the night in the EU - indicating someone might have ran a bot to sign with invalid information. The EU only validates the signatures once the petition is closed, so they need a safe margin where even with a significant amount of invalid signatures, they still make it. Afaik 1.2 mil is about what they would expect for a normal vote of this size to be safe, and 1.4 mil is basically more than enough to compensate for any bad actors.
Ah, makes sense - thanks for this
The type of verification depends on the country and some donāt have any verification at signing. Iām Swedish and when I signed I just filled out a form, no checks of any kind.
Time for the EU to adopt FrejaID
EU is actively working on the EU Wallet and certain sources tell me it is getting there.
I feel like a tourist on a safari trip with this whole saga. A colleague of mine told me about this situation and now I canāt look away.
When all is said and done, I definitely think it would be a good idea to have game libraries both physical and digital where people can play old games as they stop being profitable to developers.
I have vague memory of there already being such consumer made game libraries for old Gameboy titles back in the 2000s but those sites were taken down. It would be great to have some sort of system in place because this licensing bullshit is exactly why I ended up completely leaving streaming as a whole (for movies and shows) and went back to physical media in january/February of this year. I borrow dvds at the library now. It is fucking fantastic. I had forgotten how much I missed going looking for movies Iād like to see in places like Moby Disc and Blockbuster. Itās so comfy and when you find a movie youāve never heard of before and you bring it home and itās really good, it just feels so special.
I think games should have that too. I stopped playing games in 2015 because I just saw no end to having to fork out money all the time to keep up with the tech and getting new titles and gradually seeing how it was more and more an online thing instead of a physical thing so I just stopped. Didnāt like the direction games were taking. Seems like it is reaching a breaking point finally.
Libraries are so important for culture.
To think I actually liked this guy, what an egotistical asshole he really is.
Egotism often translates to charisma and confidence, but falls apart eventually.
Also, a reminder, the āConā in con-artist is short for confidence.
Imagine using a voice changer to sound deeper and cheating in Outer Wilds of all games
I didnāt know about the voice changer and the cheating, am curious now
The real voice:
youtu.be/atuglRrItr4
And basically he finished Outer Wilds in his first time loop because he is so much smarter than everyone else
It actually is the most hilarious of ironies that despite what very real harm Thor might have inflicted upon the early stages of the movement through misinformation/mischaracterization; The fact is, I donāt think this movement would have come near to exploding the way that it has recently if not for the perfect Rube Goldberg machine of drama surrounding this man in the past 6 months.
Seriously. He could not have Barbara Streisand effected the āStop Killing Gamesā movement harder if he tried. It really is such poetic justice. Itās a shame that I donāt live in the EU or I would gladly sign the initiate myself. Hereās to hoping that another EU regulation can have sweeping effects for the US. As a reluctant and very jaded US citizen myself, I harbor no illusions about any real and meaningful consumer protection regulations to ever make it over here. Mega-corpos have simply spent far too much money buying out every level of government, legislature, and regulatory bodies that exist.
Europe really is like a strange beacon of hope for US consumers, as odd as that sounds. Fight the good fight for us as well, brothers.
Iām calling it now: Thor is going to eventually say that this was his plan all along.
I can believe this, if he wasnāt such a narcissist or such a lying douche bag who always has to be right and has something to say about absolutely everything while having a story to go with itā¦
Then he would be a pretty cool guyā¦
Some of his advice isnāt actually bad thoughā¦ I watched him for a bit but the more you watch him the more you see him for who he isā¦
A 5-D Chess move truly beyond comprehension by the mortal mind.
I donāt know what happened in details but I really donāt hate him, as a member of the video game industry he has the right to make his voice heard.
Iām still glad consumers won here :)
If youāre interested in the details: youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo?t=1117
Iām not saying you should hate him. And he absolutely have the right to his own opinion. But what he did is the equivalent of reading a news title, and then go trash talk it in the comments about how awful it is, when the article wasnāt about what you were mad about, at all.
Basically this;
Title: Denmark shuts down 60% of their wind-power
Article: Denmark shuts down 60% of their wind-power, pending an investigation as 1 million birds have died in them over the past 3 months, they are currently assessing the situation and investigating why this change in bird migration route has occurred and how to prevent more deaths. According to local expert, they will use the time to perform maintenance and test various methods of scaring birds away.
PirateSoftware: Denmark are the fucking worst, they shut down tons of wind farms, they are anti renewable, they donāt want wind farms, they realized that they can get cheaper gas, if they import more, and the difference will offset the cost of running and maintaining these wind farms. Where are they getting this gas? Probably Norway, possibly even Russia dude! They can eat my ass, the entire thing. Dried shit in my ass hairs and all.
No oneās silencing him, though right? Theyāre just reacting to what he said, which is consequence. Is this somehow challenging his right to make his voice heard?
Lying and being rude to someone for no reason is not making your voice heard
Can someone explain just what exactly he did?
I tend to avoid social media drama like the plague.
17 minutes.
But in short, PirateSoftware had a fall from grace for narcissism and with his previous opposition to the petition, became a āvillainā to unite against.
Misinterpreted the article, made a video about it. Ignored his own comments calling him out on it.
Was overall an asshole āI know more than all of youā through, tone and everything.
Then doubled down.
Business as usual for Thor, sadly
My only real experience with this guy was that he helped fund a mario 64 romhacking competition that I entered. So I got some money from him because of it. Funny how that works out.