Thank you, Thor! 🥳
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He has literally said that the MS Paint doodles aren’t 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 executives’ attention. Whenever he had to do a presentation, he’d 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. It’s not to help with whatever he’s describing; it’s just to keep the viewers engaged, so he keeps making money off of them.
To his credit, at least he admits this. It’s not like he’s hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.
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 guy’s level.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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! (By guy sucks, I mean coworker of my nightmares that leans on me like a cancer). But my god, I'm so happy for him. -
No it's not. It's sad.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I mean isn't it a Deltarune ripoff ??
EDIT: Undertale it is then
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Misgendering people is not funny.
No, you don't understand, misgendering is fine when its someone you don't like, just like how body shaming is great when its a man.
/s
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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
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Can't wait for him to see this and claim it was his plan the entire time
Full ambercrombie & Fitch mode
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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.
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.
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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 don't 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.
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Do I have to be a woman also or are the breasts enough?
It's 2025. You can be a big tiddy vtuber no matter what you are in real life.
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yanderedev is always relevant
One of the best cautionary tales for developers
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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.
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.
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I mean isn't it a Deltarune ripoff ??
EDIT: Undertale it is then
Deltarune didn't exist yet. It's an undertale ripoff.
Which is very telling, tobyfox released a whole game on his own. While this " I worked at blizzard, BTW" tool hasn't with an (allegedly) entire company around him. He's a grifter, he scams people around him to profit off of other's work. That's all he does.
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I mean isn't it a Deltarune ripoff ??
EDIT: Undertale it is then
Given that it didn't exist yet, more like an Undertale rip off
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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 he's streaming games and he responded to that person with misinformation.
"Not only I'm not gonna support it, I gonna actively tell people to not support it. Because this is stupid. This is shit. Eat my ass."
— Thor "PirateSoftware" Hall, on the Stop Killing Games proposal.
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I hate having to hear his obnoxious voice because my sister watches him all the fuckin' time.
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.
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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.
But even then it's astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced
It's not unlikely, it's literally impossible.
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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.
Oh wow you know so much about this topic and everything else!
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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 ... 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 "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.
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Credit where credit's due
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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.
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.
