Jason Thor Hall / PirateSoftware / Maldavius Figtree / DarkSphere Creations / Maldavius / Thorwich / Witness X / @PotatoSec - Incompetent Furry Programmer, Blizzard Nepo Baby, Lies about almost every thing in his life, Industry Shill, Carried by his father, Hate boner against Ross Scott of Accursed Farms, False Flagger

[Musashi's Son]

The code looks about as professional too.

Yandere Dev


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[PositiveHatred]

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June 2024: I lost 2 years because of COVID

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Sep 2021: I only lost 9 months to COVID


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How does it take someone 9 months to get over covid? It took me a week. And he couldn't sit on his ass and code those 9 months? Ridiculous

 

[Chick in Jockey]

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Imagine using a hardcoded array for all of your dialogue. Like Wuthering Waves copying every Genshin oversight, Thor is copying Undertale's code to a T.

Can't you use a database or an Excel sheet for your dialogue, and then just parse that file?

 

[Ducks Sorted in a Row]

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He's gonna lose his fucking mind when he finds out about enums

Can't you use a database or an Excel sheet for your dialogue, and then just parse that file?

Not quite, because it's a proprietary format. You could use the OpenOffice spreadsheet format but it's not really a stable format, and is quite complex (with formulas and that). You'd be better off using something like a CSV (multiple games do this) or just a txt file encoding a table (Diablo 2 does this). Generally it's preferred to use some kind of custom binary table format to load things faster (for example, WoW uses a table format called DBC to store clientside tables - things like projectile and particle definitions and whatnot), but if you don't care, you can use JSON or XML as well.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

This guy has to be the most astroturfed dev i've seen, he came out of nowhere and everyone seems to laud him as some all knowledgeable dev. His games look like trash that would have been free on newgrounds in 2000. Why do people think hes some authority?

 

[Deus Exica]

How does it take someone 9 months to get over covid? It took me a week. And he couldn't sit on his ass and code those 9 months? Ridiculous

I got the bad Covid and I was sick for about two-three months with lingering effects for about four or five in total. The first two months were hellish but I still had to go to work somewhat consistently and it was a lot harder than sitting on my ass programing every day.

This happens all the time with internet personalities who want to get lazy. They get burnt out and because they don't have to get something done they just don't, so they pull out one of many excuses.

I had covid, I have AIDS, my computer broke, my mental health, a pack of feral monkeys broke my shins, muh arthritis.

It's always something but never just "I got lazy."

Thor is copying Undertale's code to a T.

Not just the code but the entire aesthetic as well. Heartbound is such a blatant Undertale rip that if I was Toby I'd have sued this nigger into Oblivion.

Why do people think hes some authority?

Literally just "He has a deep voice." And "Worked at Blizzard." (as QA).

 

[daddydeath42069]

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Thanks for helping me with the leg work there. This guy has been contradicting himself for a while.

 

[Chick in Jockey]

Not quite, because it's a proprietary format. You could use the OpenOffice spreadsheet format but it's not really a stable format, and is quite complex (with formulas and that). You'd be better off using something like a CSV (multiple games do this) or just a txt file encoding a table (Diablo 2 does this).

Thanks, yeah a CSV file was what I was thinking about. I remember messing around with a dialogue system using CSV files (of course I'd do that in Excel and then export it as a CSV) that could be imported in Unreal, and I also remember dabbling around with converting to CSVs and then back to locres files when I was messing around with fan translation stuff.

Generally it's preferred to use some kind of custom binary table format to load things faster (for example, WoW uses a table format called DBC to store clientside tables - things like projectile and particle definitions and whatnot), but if you don't care, you can use JSON or XML as well.

This is useful to know.

Literally just "He has a deep voice." And "Worked at Blizzard." (as QA).

Yeah I think Thor is actually a fraud and playing up a character. Interestingly, Frost Giant, the ex-blizzard dev development studio made a spiritual successor to StarCraft called Stormgate has a load of issues, has unappealing characters, and is uninspired from the start. They were claiming the animated unit portraits in StarCraft II costed a lot as a justification for cutting them when they literally animated a bunch of cutscenes, and Unreal (the engine they're using) has pretty flexible support for render targets (think of them like separate cameras you can render to a texture with to be accessed elsewhere like on materials or UI elements).

Add Mark Kern into the mix, and I think that Blizzard's games are lightning in a bottle, a set of perfect circumstances. Given the fact that not even Blizzard or the employees that left can recreate their magic of old. I'm completely disillusioned by them.

Maybe there is some truth to the imposter syndrome thing that's apparently widespread in the gaming industry now.

It's only a matter of time until Thor pulls a overpriced marketing bus move like what Mark Kern did with Firefall.

 

[daddydeath42069]

Imagine using a hardcoded array for all of your dialogue. Like Wuthering Waves copying every Genshin oversight, Thor is copying Undertale's code to a T.

Can't you use a database or an Excel sheet for your dialogue, and then just parse that file?

Here's his philosophy on programming and probably the reason why it looks like complete dogshit
"You don't have to learn a whole language, just look up what you need as you need it."

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=1tog8kvcawI

If you already have a "solution" why would you bother doing the more convenient, optimized option. If I didn't go out of my way to learn the full language first I'd still be doing the entirety of exception handling with loops and print statements. This guy's advice is going to lead to a lot of spaghetti code in the years to come.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Literally just "He has a deep voice." And "Worked at Blizzard." (as QA).

Blizzard QA Explains why his games and opinions are shit.

 

[Musashi's Son]

How does it take someone 9 months to get over covid? It took me a week. And he couldn't sit on his ass and code those 9 months? Ridiculous

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So this dude claims that he got COVID in Feb 2020 and had to stop development for 9 months (February - November) to recover but in Jul 27th 2020 said that he was able to work on things properly again?

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Also, if his COVID was so bad and he got lung damage from it, why did he continue to stream in 2020?

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[BarberFerdinand]

The game is never coming out. I played it back when it released and the part he was working on(ch 3) was half finished, and its still being worked on. 7 years and no real progress.

 

[GhastlyGhost]

Imagine trying to justify your shitty position by arguing that someone might do something that's illegal.

 

[Sexy Potoo]

Imagine trying to justify your shitty position by arguing that someone might do something that's illegal.
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[Chick in Jockey]

Imagine trying to justify your shitty position by arguing that someone might do something that's illegal.

This is REALLY fucking bold coming from the guy that deletes comments and will only talk to Louis Rossman because he has more subs than Thor.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, but in the case of ex-Blizzard developers, it's fucking both. This ego is gonna kill his career quicker than Mr. Beast. He's almost as much of a disingenuous manipulative and gaslighting prick as that youtuber Noodle.

Finally, someone with a brain. Even if a publicly traded company had an incentive to keep their games hacker free (So we can retire the muh private company excuse for Valve), they usually don't. Look at EA with Titanfall 2, or the fact that Black Ops III is still an insecure stuttering mess with RCE exploits on PC. You literally need a third-party launcher to fix those issues.

 

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"Hundreds of devs thanked me - privately, so they don't get fired, of course."
Absolute fucking horseshit. He lies as easily as he breathes. The average dev does not give a fuck about if someone gets server binaries, the only people who'd get hot under the collar over it are publishers and corporate fellateurs.

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

What argument? A hypothetical scenario in which some nefarious entity would go around intentionally destroying game studios (most, if not all of which would have to be giant AAA behemoths, because these are the primary producers of GaaS shit), avoiding any legal repercussions in the process, to then somehow monetize dead games? Despite the fact the server software would be made available to use by literally anyone, for free? Or the "lol nobody plays it anymore, why do you care"? Some unnamed "developers" contacting him anonymously (because "developer abuse, woe is me") to tell him how cool and correct he is? I hope he can come up with something better after his little Vegas trip (poor girlboy is tired), because this is weak.

 

[I've Seen Some More Shit]

A hypothetical scenario in which some nefarious entity

It's presently hypothetical, but the nefarious entity itself is not. What he just did was make a very implicit threat, remember this is the same skeezball who used to relish in fucking up EVE Online and has been coordinating to do the same in Ashes of Creation to the chagrin of its already forming community. He'll probably try such an attack the minute anything seems to go in the favorite of Stop Killing Games either the direct attempt to shanghai server binaries to monetize other studios' games himself, or just making private servers absolutely insufferable as a spite move.
Remember, he didn't just conjure that idea out of the ether. He has a precedent of exploiting multiplayer games, and he is demonstrating what he'd like to do in the event things don't go his way.

 

[Chick in Jockey]

Wow, you really have to fuck up really hard to have r/GamingCirclejerk call you out for being a groomer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirc...r_jus_a_fledgling_gaming_utuber_tryna_get_by/
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedra..._piratesoftware_posts_a_response_to_the_stop/

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

It's presently hypothetical, but the nefarious entity itself is not.

I feel like he was assuming that his niggercattle followers would back him unconditionally, so the first response is all he'd have to do, and when it backfired, he wasn't prepared for it, so now he's scrambling to come up with *something* even remotely reasonable. At this point, the only thing that can possibly save this trashfire is his coked-up buddy Ludwig assembling his team of "influencers" to zerg rush Ross into oblivion, but considering the damage that the "Director of Strategy" done to his company, he might not be too keen on doing that.