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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours 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

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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.

[–] jownz@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Omg.. this comment.. this comment right here πŸ‘†. 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.

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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine using a voice changer to sound deeper and cheating in Outer Wilds of all games

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[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish he’d stop getting any kind of attention at all. He is a fraud.

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours 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 21 points 1 day ago

That attention is the dying embers of the torch he took to his career

[–] krimson@lemmy.world 105 points 1 day ago (14 children)

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.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've 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?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He worked at Blizzard in the same way that Apple store employees work for Apple. They do, but not in the capacity that's been implied.

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 93 points 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (7 children)

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 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 didn't 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 wasn't 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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 23 hours 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.

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[–] jonesy@aussie.zone 176 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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 122 points 1 day ago (7 children)

And if you know anything about what he's 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 111 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

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.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cenzorrll@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago

Pretty sure he uses a wacom

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

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.

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[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 2 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

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.

[–] jonesy@aussie.zone 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Peace of life advice, don't 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 don't 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.

[–] pchela@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's a beautiful sentence at the end of every Rare Earth video: Don't let other people think for you, they can barely think for themselves.

[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 1 points 11 hours ago

There is some really truth to that.

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[–] CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 1 points 14 hours ago

Every good story needs a villain

[–] DragonofKnowledge@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That's a pretty interesting idea. Unfortunately it depends on being somewhere where copyrights ever actually end.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

That's another debate, but if a company ever closed and no one claimed the IP, it could be released early.

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Guys a fucking loser. Needs to get a real job.

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[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 99 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Absolute fucking clown. He's just scared of open sourcing old games because everyone will see how shitty his code is...

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 98 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's completely misguided, because people can see his code anyway (in his streams), and also because he will never finish or release his game

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[–] null@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

But that's not even what Stop Killing Games is about...

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