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FallingStar7669
I bought Minecraft when it was first released. They promised I'd be "grandfathered in" and would never have to buy it again. Still have it.
AnonOmis1000
God im so tired of seeing people I've seen in passing that i thought were pretty cool turning out to be jerks.
RedSkizzers
This is shaping up to be gamer gate v2.0. Notch is a freak btw
Xenarion
While he does have his faults, he is at least consistent on that. OG Minecraft is the perfect example of how an online game should be in the "Stop Killing Games" mentality: Anyone can make and host a server themselves, all the code is available. Heck, you can even set it up to not require authentification, allowing people to pirate the game easily.
apLundell
Even a stopped clock, etc.
DisgruntledFerret
I feel like Notch is on the right side of this one purely by accident, but a good take by a bad person is still a good take.
Xenarion
Depends on what you mean by accident, because he is at least consistent with how Minecraft was made, with the server code being publicly available.
zFUBARz
And there are hundreds if not thousands of minecraft clones out there that don't really seem to face legal consequences even since MS bought Mojang.
talldean
Notch is also just a turd of a human.
Qualtagh
I miss when Notch was the enigmatic guy who I only knew through funny update notes
zFUBARz
And Palmer Luckey wasn't a complete fuckhead working to build new inventive weapons for republicans (Trump specifically) It was a nicer time back then.
Qualtagh
Dammit, hadn't heard about him. I guess I'm glad I went with an Index.
zFUBARz
Yeah, he was just a quirky VR advocate and developer once upon a time.
Kilo11
100% fuck this new gaming system
freezingpilot
I'm out here still playing SidMeir Alpha Centauri, Battlezone, Freespace 2, etc. Reject modernity, embrace tradition. GOG has what you need.
ywmqm
GOG is amazing
FallingStar7669
On the other hand, this is only going to make indy game devs even more attractive. AAA game devs shooting themselves in the foot.
Banhammer72
Oddly enough as I understand the issue Piratesoftware is not against the idea of "Stop Killing Games" just said that the way they are going about it isn't going to help (in his opinion) That was when those still salty over the guild of toxic wow players fiasco once again popped up and started sabre rattling!
VosperOfAntarctica
heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a valid point
-The Onion
Moose79
Notch is the worst person you know?
CloseupCaptionReaction
Still don't have to like them, even if they get something right in their life. It doesn't erase their history of remarks and ideology.
ccashman
Yeah, it's very much a "a stopped clock is still right twice a day" sort of thing.
SinStar87
It's a problem of holding up famous people like authority more than anything.
Hatsodoom
Fuck man, I always forget Notch is a good guy.
apLundell
I recommend forgetting again.
SandyTentaclez
Notch lost his shit and then went down the deep end before his hateful conspiracy garbage got him shot out of the communities proverbial canonen. The fuck you talking about...
Mirrormancer
This same Notch?
https://web.archive.org/web/20190430104624/https:/twitter.com/notch/status/22330335379333120
TresusIbor
Not a good guy, but never miss an opportunity to turn fans of one asshole against fans of another asshole
GravyEducation
Sun Tzu said that
SinStar87
Mhmm, DIrect quote iirc, novel as an english speaker in ancient china. :P
LuminoZero
And I'd say he knows a little more than fighting than you do, buddy!
Xenarion
And I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it!
JStengah
He is pro qanon and anti trans so no, he's not a good guy.
JStengah
Still a transphobic asshole though.
SquirrelWithATophat
One thing I've learned in my nearly 40 years of life is that you should always look for ways to use the words of toxic people against them and other toxic people. It hurts them way more than most things you or anyone else can come up with because then they can't defend themselves without hurting their own self image. Toxic people tend to have an inflated self image and dismiss anything said by others that doesn't flatter them as worthless, but their own words carry much more weight to them.
CrossEyedPigeonToed
::cough:: JK Rowling ::cough::
Mirrormancer
Case-in-point: https://web.archive.org/web/20190430104624/https:/twitter.com/notch/status/22330335379333120
emu314159127001
I didn't play Minecraft, i have plenty of memories of actually playing 8bit games, but i get retro. Never followed the creator. I'm guessing he was trying for some edgy metacommentary by using the n word, but still didn't clear the threshold for white people using it personally, which is basically never. Tarantino can play a character that says it, but he works with people like Samuel L. Jackson who are quick to vouch for him not being racist at all. That's still not dropping n bombs in discour
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alaest0r
Both are transphobic because the second one is a non-issue talking point made up by transphobes with no basis in reality. If this was a real issue, and there was any high-significance data indicating trans-women having an advantage, I'd be totally on board with talking about alternative systems or barring from leagues. But it isn't, and there aren't, so I'm not.
RayneOfSalt
Funny you have that metric, because Patricio Manuel is a trans man boxer who's been fucking up cishet dudes for a while now. So a "born-woman" (btw, it's WOMAN, not 'female' you fuckin' Ferengi) is proving you wrong.
Freak0zoid
Estrogen causes muscle loss. AMAB people transitioning to female have no extras or bonuses over AFAB people.
alaest0r
Literally this. For how tiny the transfem athlete population is, there have been a (proportionately) crazy amount of studies done on this, and every time the findings are either no advantage or it's statistically negligible. Of course there are many different sports and brackets, and this could be followed up endlessly; but what little we know indicates this is a non-issue. Unsurprisingly, given how often anecdotal claims made to support it being an issue are almost always end up being bullshit
DatDarthCaedus
Well, he said that anyone supporting transgender people is evil, and that all transgender people are deluded and mentally ill. Also spread a bunch of disinformation.
Couple of years before that, he also tried to start a straight pride holiday and said that anyone who opposed that "deserve to be shot". When criticized, he doubled down on claiming he was a victim and not allowed to be who he is.
Then there's ofc also the racism, misogyny, support of QAnon and Pizzagate, etc.
Sdogofdoom
I have yet to hear a "realistic" transphobic comment. Trans athletes are a MASSIVE minority, and have yet to do anything like stomp a woman's competition. You have to think about these things by quantity and quality. How often it happens, and the degree to which it harms others. A handful of trans athletes, and male to female Trans athletes doing marginally better in their new division. Lia Thomas got like 8th and 5th in her swimming divisions. Who fucking cares.
FullMetalJack
I mean that’s just untrue, I can’t remember her name but there was a trans women in college wrestling and she absolutely destroyed everyone, she was built like captain America and none of the other contestants stood a chance against her, it was like that episode in south park where macho man joins a women’s sports event and murders, just because there the minority of a minority doesn’t mean they simply don’t exist, though none of this will matter when we ascend and use robot bodies in sports.
elfowl
Are you talking about Mack Beggs, the trans *man* (female to male) who was *forced* to compete in women's wrestling by transphobic regulations? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/25/transgender-wrestler-mack-beggs-wins-texas-girls-title
Sdogofdoom
A Trans woman in college wrestling who you don't remember the name of eh?
elfowl
most likely talking about Mack Beggs a trans *man* https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/25/transgender-wrestler-mack-beggs-wins-texas-girls-title
CasionProjects
Trans women athletes have standards they have to meet in order to be eligible to compete in women’s competition. The amount of trans women is tiny, the amount of trans women athletes even smaller, and the amount of trans women champions is almost nonexistent. What you will see is plenty of trans women not even placing on the podium.
Look into the lia thomas story and see that it was wildly overblown. Before she started hrt she was in the top five in the men’s division, by the time she left 500
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CasionProjects
No, what hurts “our” cause is people who don’t understand what they’re talking about, repeating bigoted propaganda. Lia has been the big herring argument of a “man” who couldn’t compete in the men’s division transitioning and placing 5th, when the reality is she demonstrates exactly how much changes in performance trans athletes go through due to hrt.
Instead of arguing with you, I’ll tell you that the olympic games have years old regulations for trans athletes. If they don’t have data 1/2
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CasionProjects
to justify excluding trans women, where is your argument coming from? Because the arbiters of fair sports competition using all data they have at hand disagree with you
NaughtButOne
Clout is a hell of a drug. All Thor had to do was say, "I misunderstood. Sorry," because when he's explained his stance, he agrees with 99% of what SKG's goals. All his arguments against it are slippery slopes. But his "community" gasses him up, tells him he's right in all things, and there's no one at his ear to tell him he's just a man.
I don't really like all the hate being thrown his way, or being called a 'nepo baby'. He has legit skills all his own. But doubling, tripling down is... Yeah.
machine9
Thor is literally incapable of admitting any mistake. Just as he is incapable of actually doing work on his kickstarted game~
LoonyBoBdammitwhotookmyname
He got famous for having some good takes and started thinking that meant all his takes were good, but it turns out that they were not. Classic internet.
NappaTheFriendlyGhost
Used to feel this way till he showed his true colors with the onlyfangs fiasco. Thor made an honest (but VERY costly mistake) and instead of owning it he went off on a pretty embarrassing tirade insisting that he did nothing wrong and calling out the others involved despite it happening live and plenty of footage to prove him wrong. Long story short a bunch of max level characters on a perma death server died because he screwed up. 100s of hours wasted per person.
Dascari
While running away he wasted his mana so he could use the excuse that he was out and couldn't do anything. He also had mana restoration pots in his inventory and hotbar so that excuse was full bullshit.
He did something similar in Ashes of Creation. His party wiped after someone drew extra aggro and he RANTED about how it was unacceptable and threatened to kick the person who did it from the guild. His own video showed he did it and he just dropped it when he reviewed it on stream.
Alozar
Lol does he have legit skills though? He's consistently lied about all of his work experience and never actually worked in a dev role. His entire image is crafted to inflate his ego. He has been ran out of every community he has ever been in for being an asshole. His father is practically a founding member of Blizzard yet he claims he was hired on merit. Dude doesn't even use his real name because "Thor" sounds cooler. "20 years experience" yet literally no work to show for it anywhere.
wraith203
There's an old clip where he literally says he was a "Nepo hire" at Blizzard.
If he now claims it was a merit hire, that is a full 180.
Alozar
I've seen said clip. He says that he was hired in 2004 to do QA/play testing or something on WoW, and that's where he admits nepotism. He then said he quit that because he was bad at it and reapplied years later "on his own merits" and somehow got hired without nepotism. His father was one of the longest tenured employees at blizzard at that point and founder/director of the entire cinematic department. It's literally impossible for him to have NOT been hired out of nepotism.
wraith203
Ah okay, thanks.
Does he not know that it's SIGNIFICANTLY easier to go back to a company that you left on good terms? And that's without any Nepo.
Even if the dad didn't directly do anything, people will know they're related. What hiring manager wants to have a conversation with an executive (or higher up) that goes like "I want to discuss, why you didn't hire my son"
Alozar
Whether he knows that or not I can't say, but the reality is that his entire MO is about grossly misrepresenting his accomplishments to seem smarter and more successful than he is and pass himself off as some kind of guru. His primary work background is in social engineering and he is using that to full effect with his online image. Many people online have already exposed all his lies and embellishments to far greater effect than I can here. It's incredible how deep it goes.
Redbaron1079
Not that I've seen his license but he claims Thor is his real given birth middle name. He is Jason "Thor" Hall, so he just uses his middle name as a conveniently "built-in" online handle
Alozar
It's not really his online handle, though. His online handle is "Maldavius", or "Pirate Software". In every credit he has had he is listed as "Jason". Interviews he did in the past, "Jason". "Thor" may be his middle name, but the point is that he wants people to think that is what he is called, because it seems cooler than "Jason". It's consistent with his entire strategy with his brand, which is misrepresenting information about himself to look cooler and more knowledgeable. It's marketing.
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viva93
whats wrong with using an alias online, is your birth name alozar?
Alozar
You'd be surprised how many people think it is, despite the fact that's obviously a stupid name for a child. If you don't see the inherent narcissism in somebody constantly comparing themselves to well known/great educators and convincing their audience to refer to them by the same name as a mythical deity, can't help you there.
NaughtButOne
https://github.com/DefconParrot/Black-Badge-Winners?tab=readme-ov-file#nners">https://github.com/DefconParrot/Black-Badge-Winne">def-c">nners">https://github.com/DefconParrot/Black-Badge-Winners?tab=readme-ov-file#def-con-23-black-badge-winners // https://www.mobygames.com/game/47486/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty/credits/windows/ // https://www.mobygames.com/game/79170/overwatch/credits/windows/ // This stuff is easily searchable. "Special Thanks" on WoW 2004, up to security engineer on Overwatch 2016 and others. Awards from DefCon. That's not nothing.
Alozar
Newsflash: That IS nothing. He doesn't have ANY dev roles in his entire career. Almost all of his security work was social engineering, which doesn't require coding. He may have worked for various companies but he has only ever developed one game and that was champions of breakfast under his own label. The fact that he doesn't have any sort of GitHub entry over 13 years on his account speaks volumes to his lack of experience as a dev. Security engineer is not at all game dev.
NaughtButOne
... "Devs" is short for developers. It's the entire crew. Everyone who works on a game. This is basic parlance.
viva93
I'm quickly getting a sense that it won't matter what you say, that guys made his mind up and is willingly throwing away years of experience for any justification and misunderstanding because thors experience as a dev wasn't specifically always as a game developer. I don't even like Thor but I'm not tossing away his experience. The dude your talking to immediately respected to ad hominem because how dare someone use their middle name for streaming.
twsx
I'm gonna need some help here. Who's "Pirate Software" and what is their "ridiculous stance"?
IconicM
He's a streamer who spends a lot of time encouraging people to make video games. Recently he criticized the Stop Killing Games movement so now a bunch of gamers are attacking him for it. I'm not saying he's right, but the reaction seems far out of line (remember Gamers Gate?) There's a rumor he just got Swatted over it.
Clifton
If you don't know, better to just ignore the whole thing. It does not matter. The whole thing is just a huge mess of internet haters ragebaiting and dramafarming. Trying to cancel a guy for having a differing opinion to theirs, by attacking his person, his career and his associates. Vile stuff.
owlfart
Actually this isn’t true. Most people are upset that he scammed people on a game that he sold them 8 years ago and still hasn’t completed then says he has no time to work on the game while streaming for 14 hours per day playing warcraft and other games.He has banned people for asking for updates on when they can play the game they purchased. Then people looked at some of his code to see what is taking so long and it is trash, but supposedly he is a ex-Blizzard employee who claims to be an expert
NappaTheFriendlyGhost
Thor (AKA Pirate Software on youtube/twitch) is an ex blizzard employee and indie game developer that rose to fame giving behind the scenes looks at game development topics, particularly anti-cheating methods. He was also a very popular Warcraft streamer. Recently he has shown his colors as a raging narcissist and no one wants to play with him. He is VERY anti-piracy and pro DRM (explained in reply) despite his alias. Micromanaged the crap out of his own game's steam discussions to hide flaws1/2
makesense
Completely mischaracterize Thor's position, which was more in the vein of 'why would any company give you control of their game when they decided not to support it or continue running a server for it'. Whether or not you KEEP the software you purchased had nothing to do with his stance.
xizar
To expand on "ex-blizz" and his other IT experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jGrBXrftDg (i.e., sus.)
IconicM
Except he's stated he's against DRM and he thinks if you price the game appropriately people will just choose to buy it. He gives an example of lowering the price of his game in Brazil and getting more sales because of it.
IconicM
Case in point: https://youtube.com/shorts/xmuOXLgNwKI?si=qcXYvHqAhT_gkaRq
NappaTheFriendlyGhost
DRM is an anti piracy tool that helps no one and hurts a lot of people. It often forces even single player games to be played online and adds arbitrary crap like "game can only be played on 5 total systems". Actual pirates take around a day to circumvent these measures and create DRMless versions. For the customers this means the game is unplayable without internet access, game often crashes if internet is bad, and the game has a definite shelf life where it ceases to function when servers do.
HumansArePrettyNeat
To back up your point. I often play both paid and pirated games, often the pirated ones I play have the same DRM as the paid ones.
twsx
Thanks!
LordofSadFace
And those are Best Case scenarios. There have been many cases where such DRM protections cause serious performance issues, or even block mods from performing.
RuthlessRuben
And also an incentive to give donations to piracy groups who release anti-DRM tools that allow me such exotic things as "playing the game I paid for".
Zalm
Incentive isn't forced though. There is also incentive to donate to mod creators on nexus mods and other places. Doesn't mean you have to.
dailyhappythougths
He's this guy that Youtube has been pushing lately that I ignore because he comes off as that guy that everyone knows. You know, the one who has the only opinion that matters and he states it loudly without letting anyone else get a word in edgewise. If you happen to disagree with him, he cuts you off or blocks you and convinces a bunch of people that YOU'RE the asshole. That is who he is.
emu314159127001
I really hate meandering bullshit, so gladly i never get recommended stuff like this. I like cuddle buddies and the dodo, or Ian mccollum
IUpvoteEveryNicholasCageGIF
Yeah, for some reason Youtube keeps advertising this guy to me, I saw the first few seconds of his video when I accidentally clicked in and his intro was "as a former Blizzard employee" I was like, eugh, no.
IconicM
He did QA for Blizzard back when they were actually better, and criticizes several of their policies. Like, just watch his shorts he seems like a pretty chill dude.
twsx
Okay cool. You have not given me any additional information though.
Alozar
Twitch streamer. Brands himself as the "Bob Ross" of coding and as some kind of game dev guru. Constantly flaunts his 20 years of experience, 7 years at blizzard (where his father was practically a founding employee, hence "nepo baby"), and experience as a hacker. Huge ego, narcissist, never admits wrongdoing. Had some horrible takes on a popular movement and refuses to admit fault, people have since discovered he has greatly inflated his experience and is a shit coder and was never a dev.
twsx
Thanks!
Alozar
That's as much of a summation as I can give, if you go on YouTube EVERYONE in the gaming space is covering him right now and there's plenty of more drama to go around like his behavior as a toxic guild leader in ashes of creation, his ego tripping in World of Warcraft where he abandoned fellow streamers to their deaths (hardcore server), his falsified dev background, his narcissistic personality (Dr k interview), and his horrible takes on the "Stop Killing Games' movement. Look it up
LordofSadFace
Dude worked at Blizzard. Thats already a red flag big enough there.
Alozar
Seriously! The guy constantly flaunts his 7 years of experience working for Blizzard as if he didn't work there at the worst and most controversial time on the company's history. Even if he were being honest and actually was doing game dev there I'd be suspect of that alone. It's not something to brag about.