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Thank you, Thor!
Submitted 8 months ago by Fanfic_Galore@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Misinterpreted the article, made a video about it. Ignored his own comments calling him out on it.
Was overall an asshole “I know more than all of you” through toning and everything.
Then doubled down.
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Business as usual for Thor, sadly
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But in short, PirateSoftware had a fall from grace for narcissism and with his previous opposition to the petition, became a “villain” to unite against.
hector@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I don’t know what happened in details but I really don’t hate him, as a member of the video game industry he has the right to make his voice heard.
I’m still glad consumers won here :)
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Lying and being rude to someone for no reason is not making your voice heard
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 8 months ago
No one’s silencing him, though right? They’re just reacting to what he said, which is consequence. Is this somehow challenging gods right to make his voice heard?
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’m 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 wasn’t 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 don’t 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.
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 8 months ago
If you’re interested in the details: youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo?t=1117
JustTheWind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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 don’t 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 “Stop Killing Games” movement harder if he tried. It really is such poetic justice. It’s a shame that I don’t live in the EU or I would gladly sign the initiate myself. Here’s 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
I’m calling it now: Thor is going to eventually say that this was his plan all along.
JustTheWind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A 5-D Chess move truly beyond comprehension by the mortal mind.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can believe this, if he wasn’t 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 it…
Then he would be a pretty cool guy…
Some of his advice isn’t actually bad though… I watched him for a bit but the more you watch him the more you see him for who he is…
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Imagine using a voice changer to sound deeper and cheating in Outer Wilds of all games
UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I didn’t know about the voice changer and the cheating, am curious now
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
The real voice:
And basically he finished Outer Wilds in his first time loop because he is so much smarter than everyone else
Iambus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To think I actually liked this guy, what an egotistical asshole he really is.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Egotism often translates to charisma and confidence, but falls apart eventually.
Also, a reminder, the “Con” in con-artist is short for confidence.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 months ago
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 can’t 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 I’d like to see in places like Moby Disc and Blockbuster. It’s so comfy and when you find a movie you’ve never heard of before and you bring it home and it’s 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. Didn’t like the direction games were taking. Seems like it is reaching a breaking point finally.
Libraries are so important for culture.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Just remember that we still need more signatures on the EU one, to rule out bot and incorrect signatures.
tetris11@feddit.uk 8 months ago
EU one requires an ID/passport, UK one doesn’t – I’d argue that the EU one is safe and the UK one should get more attention on the validitiy
Ksin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The type of verification depends on the country and some don’t have any verification at signing. I’m Swedish and when I signed I just filled out a form, no checks of any kind.
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ross explained it in his last video - there are reasons to be skeptical and unsure if it’s 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.
SunshineJogger@feddit.org 8 months ago
I actually do not know who that is. Some YouTuber?
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just know he’s someone who wants you to eat his entire ass.
Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Trashy twitch streamer
jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
How about let’s all not talk or make angry memes about the guy. Ross requested that he not be harassed. Something about not wanting negative energy.
mriswith@lemmy.world 8 months ago
One of the big reasons many people are “okay” 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 “Okay, don’t see it that way, but alright”.
waggz@programming.dev 8 months ago
If you’re not familiar with it, check out his classic wow hardcore drama. He’s absolutely incapable of admitting any fault. And he and his mods just ban anyone immediately if they try to have a discussion.
bilb@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Ross is not my dad
jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
yeah but he’s a daddy tho 😘
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m 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.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I doubt he’ll ever use Lemmy to be honest, but I get what you mean.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Since what happens on Lemmy stays on Lemmy, I guess it must be fine.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It’s not about Ross, it’s about sending a message.
gmtom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve never liked the guy, he’s always seemed so full of himself like he thinks he’s smarter than everyone and can never be wrong.
CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 8 months ago
Every good story needs a villain
Phegan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Now that Thor has helped us achieve our goal. Let us never speak of him again.
Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Credit where credit’s due
MITM0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am happy that it’s a Peripeteia developer saying this. The game is a mess (because it’s Early access) & needs a looooot if optimization, but boy it’s something else.
Gives me Ghost in the Shell vibes
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Guys a fucking loser. Needs to get a real job.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Don’t you know he worked for Blizzard /s
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ahh. Starting to see how that company fell to shit now 😂
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
He’ll gladly tell you about how he was hacker/dev whizkid at Blizzard for 7 years. Of course, he’ll 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.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He’s had quite a few “real jobs” lol
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I’m glad that someone I’ve 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.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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 … 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.
tempest@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Any male dominated channel that ever “gives advice” gets shunted into that pipeline by algo pretty consistently.
I like stand up comedy and it’s a full time job keeping Rogan out of my suggestions.
jownz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Omg… this comment… this comment right here 👆. This is what I needed to see because I relate so strongly to it. F’kn guy sucks! But my god, I’m so happy for him.
DragonofKnowledge@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I know it’s 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.
I’m aware there are a lot of cases where games include middleware that’s licensed from 3rd parties that complicate preservation efforts. But if open-sourcing the code is the path taken, there’s a simple solution for that: just release what you can, even if what’s 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 there’s 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.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The original intent of patents was almost exactly that. You’re protected for a handful of years, after that anyone can just use the patent as instructions for recreating it.
… then Disney and other fucking greedy ghouls of corporations got involved and greased the right palms…
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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 wouldn’t complicate things.
DragonofKnowledge@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
That’s a pretty interesting idea. Unfortunately it depends on being somewhere where copyrights ever actually end.
MITM0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yessss.
sleepmode@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wish he’d stop getting any kind of attention at all. He is a fraud.
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
That attention is the dying embers of the torch he took to his career
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
I hate having to hear his obnoxious voice because my sister watches him all the fuckin’ time.
dustyData@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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. He’s all fake.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I’ve seen the video. Fuck PirateSotware but it’s just a bad mic in they video. All audio is distorted.
electric@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My condolences. I don’t even dislike the voice, his attitude just makes him so punchable. You think he’s some kind of expert at first but then it dawns on you that he’s just confidently stupid.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For those who don’t know, this streamer is only tangentially related to the stop killing games petition because he made a comment about it being BS because his 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 didn’t think the petition was going to get enough signature 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I think a lot of people didn’t hear about this guy until about 2 days ago. Personally I didn’t even know about this petition.
I knew about the lawsuit against The Crew, but I didn’t know anything about any more general petition, so I think the greater problem was simply a lack of advertising.
electric@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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 didn’t watch it because my view of him was souring.
From what clips I’ve 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.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Multiple videos.
He made multiple videos.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He may well have done but the only clip I have seen is the one where someone asks about it while he’s streaming games and he responded to that person with misinformation.
krimson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I watch this dude sometimes, he says he’s 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 he’s a streamer and not a game dev.
vodka@feddit.org 8 months ago
Can’t wait for him to see this and claim it was his plan the entire time
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Is this a real screenshot of him crying about the initiative reaching 100%?
sommerset@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
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
SandmanXC@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m not proud of it but I really enjoyed the mass dunking on this guy.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 8 months ago
I'm not relaxing unil it's 1.5 million.
danekrae@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who is she?
jonesy@aussie.zone 8 months ago
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.
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Absolute fucking clown. He’s just scared of open sourcing old games because everyone will see how shitty his code is…
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.