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

[CEO of Pickles]

Common Shinigami Eyes user.

 

[nukebot]

So this guy which had 4 years of experience and released a game in 2 years out shined Jason who has "20 years of experience" and who is working on his game for 7 years.

This guy has over 12,000 "Preregistered Ashes of Creation" leads.

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So - they'll be giving him THOUSANDS of dollars a month for affiliate referrals. He shows his PYRAMID SCHEME calling it his "Organizational system" where he is the top - raking in the referral cash. He mentions in the following video that he will "Get paid for some quick cash". There is no reason for him to work on/finish Heartbound. There is no doubt in my mind that the guys making Ashes of Creation are going to offer him a share of that 12+k memberships ($180,000 MONTHLY). That would be nearly ($27,000) of "Intrepid Bucks". Do you see where I'm going with this? At that point it would benefit the company MORE to prorate and cape his "Intrepid Bucks" and provide him real cash-money. There is no reason to work on his "Magnum Opus" - as he has found a grift far greater than the 600k in 8 years of development by leveraging his social media influence to huckster up all his braindead drones to mass-subscribe to a game he has nothing more to do than establish himself as the primary referral of all those accounts. In the video he even talks about "Incentivising Players" with real money. He couldn't make money off Eve Online because the referral program train was long fixed by the time he started his grift so now he's got one that will pay him for real.

At this point - he could stop working on HB and say "I'm just too caught up in Ashes (Because I make more money shilling it you stupid faggots - games as a service is my LIFE you dumb BITCHES) AHAHAH!" and take a tiny hit then claim the game is just that good. Shitty coding be damned. Finishing a game be damned. Caring about artistic integrity or ethical ramifications of the psychosocial exploitation of his followers be damned. This furfag is going full-bore balls to the wall scorched Earth when he has the money to and he's going to do it with Intrepid's dime.

This was brought to my attention by an old mutual. No "LARPing" no, no dialog, just a somber "This is the reality we are living in." and it makes me sick.

 

[The Tall Man]

Found some other stuff looking around, I found a short addressing his changed voice where he claims that a doctor told him "in your early thirties, your voice can change" and that he had a "second puberty" and he seems to go with this story a lot.

https://youtube.com/shorts/vtAM3zMuyZ0

I don't know nothing about voice coaching but this just sounds like he has taught himself to use his chest voice.
This 'second puberty' is probably a voice coach.

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

The "20 years in the industry game dev"

To be fair to Mald, the "game" is "2.5D" so it's harder to do lighting correctly. Even 3D is more straightforward, while here you'd have to hack around the fact that all you got is a bunch of sprites, so there's just not enough data. Although the problem is entirely self-inflicted.

second puberty

Sounds like bullshit from the get-go, but looking around, the term seems to be used mostly by women. Stuff is pretty funny, though:

While the term “second-puberty” is not recognized as a medical term, it does help explain the developmental changes that continue to take place in the body after puberty. One in their 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s will experience different changes in the body as hormone levels decline. Those who are taking hormonal therapy and testosterone treatment will notice changes like those experienced during puberty such as hair and voice changes and mood changes.

And here's the Brave search summary:


Troon arc incoming?

 

[archive regret]

As silly as it is, this one misinformed take on one of my special interests is where my opinion of him went from vaguely positive to negative.

I don't think that's silly. Spot-checking is a useful tool for estimating the validity of a source, even if it wasn't exactly intentional.

Spoiler: Thoughts on trustworthiness and knowledge acquisition

The massive competitive advantage of language is that humans can share knowledge. Directly verifying knowledge oneself is very time consuming, so there is value in trusting others. So much value that it is necessary.

My favorite example of this is heliocentrism. The general populace knows the earth orbits the sun, but how do they know that? Well because (1) when they were six authoritative Mrs. Teacher said it was true and (2) everybody agrees on it and (3) the primary disagreement comes from flat-earthers who are weird social outcasts. All of those are social arguments, not arguments about physical reality. And yet they're still correct and they came to the correct conclusion without spending the time to learn math, physics, and astronomy to really prove it. They got similar knowledge with vastly less expense.

The problem, of course, is that other humans can be wrong (even maliciously so). That's the tradeoff: personally verifying information is much more expensive, but trusting others comes with the risk of bad info.

What do? First, personal verification is on a scale, so always personally verify anything to the degree that it's important (and while at it, it's worth keeping track of how verified any piece of knowledge is). But the other thing is to try to estimate the validity of a source. People do this all the time instinctually, but those instincts are imperfect and exploitable** and the modern grift-war economy of attention is making things worse by increasing the the relative incentives for appearing trustworthy faster than those for being trustworthy. (For content creators, real life isn't as divergent, and even for content creators being untrustworthy can catch up to them eventually.)

Spot checking is one method for estimating a source's validity: find where a source speaks about something you have personally verified and see what and how they say it: are they confidently wrong? If so then they're probably a bad source. If they're unconfidently wrong and confidently right, then that might be a point in their favor.

In conclusion, spot checking is one valid tool for estimating trustworthiness, which is important because getting information from others is a necessary tool in itself.

**Jason illustrates some examples of ways to appear trustworthy. He's relatively articulate. He constantly talks about being an industry insider to talk up his credentials and give himself authority (same with defcon). He deepens his voice, including bass boosting. He always speaks as though from a position of authority and certainty. He deletes criticism and mentions of past bad behavior to keep his audience from seeing most of it.

 

[ChromaQuack]

And this again is why Jason loses all credibility. He immediately acted like anything Ross did was murder his family, piss on their graves, and salt the land.
Ross: "Well you're an expert lets talk it out explain things and make it a better bill."
Jason: "YOU MONSTER."

Let's be honest, we all know why he reacted like this.

Ross unwittingly put him in the worst position you could possibly put a narcissistic bullshit artist on, one where he has to stand at the center of attention and make an absolute fool of himself by demonstrating he is full of hot air and nothing else, Ross asking Jason to elaborate on his points and help him make a better bill would put just how much of a know-nothing do-nothing hack Jason really is on full blast.

In Jason's eyes, Ross might as well have read his KF thread on livestream.

 

[archive regret]

While I think that Steam tax is high, there's no way in hell that I wouldn't publish or complain from selling the game there, even more that I can sell it on other places for cheaper(if is not activated on steam) and profit more

He talks about how you can generate infinite steam keys to sell elsewhere with no tax from steam...

I'll go link, embed, local archive, discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwoAmifo9r0

This is either a decent take, or deeply disingenuous, and it hinges on a single question: Can you list your game for $50 on Steam while listing it for $30 on Epic (or $30 on Xbox)?

If you can do that then fine. But if you can't then his talking about steam keys is disingenuous dodging of the actual anti-competitive behavior of Steam by diverting into a separate issue entirely.

 

[GhastlyGhost]

I'll go link, embed, local archive, discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwoAmifo9r0

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This is either a decent take, or deeply disingenuous, and it hinges on a single question: Can you list your game for $50 on Steam while listing it for $30 on Epic (or $30 on Xbox)?

If you can do that then fine. But if you can't then his talking about steam keys is disingenuous dodging of the actual anti-competitive behavior of Steam by diverting into a separate issue entirely.

Without also selling Steam keys on those platforms, categorically yes.
Steam enforces price parity if a Steam key is sold.

 

[daddydeath42069]

Thor is right. Video games are for children. If you are so concerned about playing a game pirate it don't support some cringe initiative for some EU bureaucrat to try and bully Americans.

If games are for kids, why the fuck are you ok with kids getting scammed out of shit they own? Take your wef ass the fuck out of here, nobody likes you.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Let's be honest, we all know why he reacted like this.

Ross unwittingly put him in the worst position you could possibly put a narcissistic bullshit artist on, one where he has to stand at the center of attention and make an absolute fool of himself by demonstrating he is full of hot air and nothing else, Ross asking Jason to elaborate on his points and help him make a better bill would put just how much of a know-nothing do-nothing hack Jason really is on full blast.

In Jason's eyes, Ross might as well have read his KF thread on livestream.

Its going to be fun seeing how long will it take for his mask of smuggery to slip, he intentionally very cleverly placed himself as a source of wisdom and knowledge to a bunch of zoomers and millenials without parental figures, but the moment an actual well put together adult calls him out he retreats back into his hugbox

 

[Nabeshin]

Can you list your game for $50 on Steam while listing i

Yes.

Steam only forces price parity if you're selling an steam key(that they don't charge to generate), there's some cases like charity(humble bundle for example) that this doesn't apply but it's very specific cases

 

[Pizdec]

The only way he actually grows up would be for his life to crumble around him completely, opening up the chance for him to re-evaluate his behavior, apologize, and move on.

Except, that HAS happend, I'm trying to find it, but Jason was at one point in his life homeless for over a year, and it sounds like it had something to do with his SL business going to shit. He never saved a dollar, and instantly went to sleep in his car because of it.

 

[complete freak]

I hope to god he uses a voice changer, it would be funny as shit. I imagine that one day, his wife or some other woman in his life will come into his room unexpectedly to talk to him, then because of the voice changer they'll sound like some chain-smoking war-brooding orc warlord.

 

[M.O.D.O.K.]

Did he just say in this short from 2022 that his game has been only 4 years in development? It shouldn't be at that point 6 years?
By the way, this is one of the worst opinions I have heard.
He says that an RPG is hard to made, with is probably true (I'm not a gamedev) but he didn' t say something reasonable like the combat system,no,he says that the hardest thing are the CUTSCENES:
1. He implies that they are only in RPG( this man never saw COD?)
2. According to him, he can only use them once, never reusing elements. I could understand it if it was a Game like FF, but boy you are making a cheap knock-off of Undertale, you can for sure reuse animations.

Sorry for the insert, but I have never posted and I don't know how to put it well

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Did he just say in this short from 2022 that his game has been only 4 years in development? It shouldn't be at that point 6 years?
By the way, this is one of the worst opinions I have heard.
He says that an RPG is hard to made, with is probably true (I'm not a gamedev) but he didn' t say something reasonable like the combat system,no,he says that the hardest thing are the CUTSCENES:
1. He implies that they are only in RPG( this man never saw COD?)
2. According to him, he can only use them once, never reusing elements. I could understand it if it was a Game like FF, but boy you are making a cheap knock-off of Undertale, you can for sure reuse animations.

Sorry for the insert, but I have never posted and I don't know how to put it well

Almost every JRPG under the sun uses a set of generic cutscene animations for semi crucial events, even high budget 3d ones like Persona 5 have sets of animations they use on most events even if they're plot related alongside their bespoke per cutscene ones.

But thats a 3D JRPG with more traditional cutscenes even in dialouge heavy scenes, 2d ones dont get much use out of any particulatly unique angles and such.
Even very high budget 2.5D HD titles like Triangle Strategy dont do heavily unique cutscenes, or neither do games that have 2D Art used as sprites like a Vanillaware game.


Tl;dr you're making shit harder by making every cutscene unique in a fucking 2D JRPG, it sounds mental even for high budget 3d JRPGs.

 

[Love me not]

I hope to god he uses a voice changer, it would be funny as shit. I imagine that one day, his wife or some other woman in his life will come into his room unexpectedly to talk to him, then because of the voice changer they'll sound like some chain-smoking war-brooding orc warlord.

RiverMakes aka f1shb0nes, goes by Shaye, is the illustrator for Heartbound, is an exotic veterinarian, a furry pooner, Jason's current roommate and sexual partner.

Don't worry! His "Boyfriend" will already sound like a man. It's all in the plan!

 

[The Taste Of Cum Fungus]

he says that the hardest thing are the CUTSCENES

Him saying this gets even more dumb if you see his game. There is not a single cutscene I can remember from the game that had anything more unique than a sprite rotating across the screen. I am not entirely sure what is considered a "cutscene" but from the parts I'm pretty sure count as one, its not much more than just normal text boxes and static world sprites.

Spoiler: Jason is beyond lazy

There's a little cutscene that plays when entering a world, where the kid is falling and rotating through the void as a book rotates around him spewing generic "u r bad because I said so" bullshit. The text each time is different, but the animation is reused each time. And, randomly throughout the game, the dog appears out of nowhere to give some super duper positive reddit uplifting shit. The animation is just him walking to the middle of the screen, it is the same every time. Nearly every single time a unique animation should play, it doesn't. The worst offender so far is the "fight" with "mom". It starts out with her in a chair, facing away from you, and the chair rotates to face you, and the mom character appears in the chair after its facing you to avoid having to make more sprites for her. Then, she walks through her desk, the desk vanishes with a movie maker wipe effect instead of being pushed out of the way, or broken in half. The "fight" starts and immediately it's stopped, going from a combat encounter to a quiz on what you have done in the game so far with the only interaction being selecting text options. There is 1 unique animation throughout this interaction where dad appears in front of mom and gets slapped across the room. Other than that, both characters stand in front of each other doing nothing aside from mom switching to an enraged sprite occasionally, and the view going to black and white versions of scenes you have already been to, which don't have anything more than idle animations. Jason is incredibly lazy.

Speaking of fights, there is only 2 actual fights in the game so far, both of them are the same enemy, with the same 5 attacks, and the first fight is cut off a third of the way through. So much for the "unique combat system" that was advertised.

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

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Troon arc incoming?

It's funny you say that, the only ever time I saw the term "second puberty" was from some absolute schizo tripfag on 4chan's /lgbt/ who claimed that estrogen causes your brain to go through a second puberty increasing your IQ and that trans people are on average smarter than the rest of the population as a result. This person did successfully perform and write a paper documenting a self-orchiectomy (yes it's as horrifying as it sounds) so clearly had to have some exceptional intelligence but presumably more of an insane savant variety.

Though if Jason was going to transition, I do not know why he would be artificially making his voice more masculine

 

[Burnt Effigy]

The world is an objectively better place if I do it. - Jason Thor Hall, a narcissist

So for instance, if I, if I decided to get very deeply into an aspect of something that I don't know anything about right now, it'd be very hard to make a difference inside of a, like, that area.

The reason why is because, there would be a perception that I'm not an expert in that area.

The perception from the general public means that it's much harder for you to ch- make a change there, make a difference, a real difference.

By... going down this route and showing all this stuff with ferrets and doing everything that I have and having this entire... all this information and all these things that I'm doing, it makes it much easier to make a difference because, now, we have something that is widely seen as being a positive force inside that area.

Now I can actually make a difference.

But if it's an area that I'm starting from scratch on?
There's all these pieces that have to fall into place first before people trust you, enough, before you can make a difference, if that makes sense. - Jason Thor Hall, a neglected kid that needs to prove himself to everyone

My Geiger Counter is Off the Charts, but when I talk to you about it, it doesn't seem... accurate. - Alok Kanojia, a Psychologist.

 

[Chick in Jockey]

If games are for kids, why the fuck are you ok with kids getting scammed out of shit they own?

According to their assumption, random lootbox micro-transactions in E rated games is "perfectly fine" which anyone with a brain would realize is so far off any sense of ethics or morality that it makes them look like human garbage.