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

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Which will happen first?

  • Jason Hall finishes developing his game

    Votes: 33 0.8%

  • YandereDev finishes developing his game

    Votes: 412 9.7%

  • Grummz finishes developing his game

    Votes: 117 2.7%

  • Chris Roberts finishes developing his game

    Votes: 143 3.3%

  • Cold fusion

    Votes: 1,638 38.4%

  • The inevitable heat death of the universe

    Votes: 1,926 45.1%
  • Total voters
    4,269
Black Willow Lurker said:
Also, if anyone's insane enough to try and archive all his streams, JewTube cuts off the VODs at ~12 hours, so anything longer than that would have to be pulled from Twitch, which means gigantic files (the VOD above lists 720p/1080p only at 60FPS, with files being ~13G/23G), and no subs for anything after the 12 hour mark.
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Pulling from twitch isn't the hardest part since yt-dlp likely has routes for it. Failing that there's this little project I found on github: lay295/TwitchDownloader but I haven't used it personally so your mileage may vary. It includes chat downloading and rendering too. No auto subtitles sadly.

To make the files themselves palatable for local uploads use a software like handbrake which is old but gold. The command line inclined can use their choice of ffmpeg spin or wrapper. Clipping can be done with your preferred software. I'll put out Kdenlive and DaVinci Resolve as free video editing options.

Some general pointers for people looking to archive full streams and lower their quality:
  • Drop the resolution to 720p at maximum. Resolution is a huge contributor to file size. Very little of the text he puts on screen is worth preserving in full HD so 480p might be the happy medium between readability and file size.
  • Experiment with the bitrate. A lot of Jason's clipped streams just have him moving in front of a static IDE or MS Paint. 2500kbps is likely more than enough for this case specifically and won't cause too much compression artifacting. At a rough guess 1600kbps would be serviceable for code streams. Gaming streams require higher bitrates to maintain the image and contribute to a higher file size.
  • Use an efficient encoder and file type. MP4 can always be tweaked to trend size:quality ratio downward. WebM is the gold standard for size:quality ratio but it is a long and resource intensive rendering process from experience. Better for smaller clips.
  • H.264/265 MP4s are likely the best bang for buck here. You can also shave excess file size by re encoding the audio to 180-120kbps or lower without losing much clarity. The only thing relevant to archive is his voice anyway.
I'd like to invite other kiwis to add to this with their preferred values and best practices for video archives. These are fairly generic pointers for anybody interested in archiving and re encoding video.

Keeping the full raw streams would be nice but extremely impractical. Even the most dedicated kiwi would be giving up hundreds of gigabytes of space just to house Jason's shitty streams. Storage is cheaper and more plentiful than it used to be but that's still wasted space. With proper tuning the quality loss will be negligible compared to the storage gains.
 
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d like to invite other kiwis to add to this with their preferred values and best practices for video archives. These are fairly generic pointers for anybody interested in archiving and re encoding video.
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Bitrate is something complex to add. I can say that if you're using vp9, 90% of the time you can get great results with a 2 pass encoding with 300-500kbps for 720p and slow preset on ffmpeg. Some videos with a lot of fast move, flashing and more(like AMV) you will ended up with blocking but any youtube documentary style video is more than fine.

Also, use VBR(Variable BitRate), when you use VBR the encoding uses the best option but set the average video to that bitrate(constrain the filesize to that bitrate), for example, on VBR an 3 seconds white screen won't use 500kbps but almost nothing as it's the same, and leave more bitrate to the rest and a screen with more things will have extra bitrate left(it can use more than 500).

For audio I would go to opus. An 64kbps opus can be equivalent to an 128+kbps acc.

Also, for better filesize and quality, use software encoding aka do not use nvenc/QSC. While it's almost real-time, you rely on the hardware implementation of the algorithm so you can't optimize as good as with software, the disadvantage is that it's very slow.

Hardware encoding is great for recording the screen/app, converting videos and stuff when the filesize isn't a problem but the speed

This above is for when you want to get the best quality for a filesize, constrain to filesize, if you want to constrain by quality, you should use CRF(Constant Rate Factor) instead with 2 pass. This will get the best filesize for the quality(CRF)

You can read a bit more about this autism here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/VP9
 
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Musashi's Son said:
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@buying gf You were faster than me with this one, so I will try to add more to the info :)

Here is the whole reply he gave to the question of games preservation. This is from 8+ months ago when his channel really exploded. I recorded the whole reply from his stream. He starts to answer and then continues after the ads (I skipped the ads). The whole answer is pure chef's kiss that should be somehow tattooed to his forehead so he can never forget it.



BUT if you want to hear ANOTHER war story where he beat everyone in the Blizzard office, here is the timestamp where it all begins:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Fd5oZDQ3tZE?t=24525s

The war story is told during the ad break.
 

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Panzekampfwagen Einz said:
The whole answer is pure chef's kiss that should be somehow tattooed to his forehead so he can never forget it.
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Jason when one of his games gets criticized: "WE NEED GAME PRESERVATION"
Jason when somebody else does something about game preservation: "FUCK YOU, WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT A 5 PLAYER MMO?"
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More context which makes it even funnier:
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The chatter mentioned Ubisoft (which was the basis for Ross's campaign) and Jason responded by saying "WE NEED GAME PRESERVATION" back in Dec 2023. The irony.
 
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Musashi's Son said:
Jason when one of his games gets criticized: "WE NEED GAME PRESERVATION"
Jason when somebody else does something about game preservation: "FUCK YOU, WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT A 5 PLAYER MMO?"
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The chatter mentioned Ubisoft (which was the basis for Ross's campaign) and Jason responded by saying "WE NEED GAME PRESERVATION" back in Dec 2023. The irony.
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Goddamnit, thanks to discussion across 3 or so threads i lost this one quote from someone about this that i really liked, but the gist of it is that maybe Thor was so offended by Ross' wording of giving politicians an easy win because it shows that politics arent like he possibly wants them to believe they are if he is just standard libtard no.345224

Im starting to believe that is one of the main sources of his seethe at this point
 
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Macintosh Love said:
Jesus. How did you even find this.
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I googled his email and some interesting results came up:
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Doxbin mega doxed him

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(https://archive.fo/c3Jf1)
He filed to start a company in WA on Feb 2024.

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Looking up the name of the company in Washington's State Department of Revenue confirms this.

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If you go to Washington's Secretary of State website, you get more details about his company.

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I have attached all of the available documents

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Musashi's Son said:
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I googled his email and some interesting results came up:
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Doxbin mega doxed him

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He filed to start a company in WA on Feb 2024.

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Looking up the name of the company in Washington's State Department of Revenue confirms this.

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If you go to Washington's Secretary of State website, you get more details about his company.

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I have attached all of the available documents

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Ain't no way he's running the business out of his house :story:.Washington isn't the absolute worst state to run a company out of, but he should really consult with a tax professional on what is the best corporate structure for his company.
 
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Oh shit, I still have his 714 number on my Skype. Time to delete that shit. He's going to have to update his new address sooner or later.

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So I found his new address. I was sperging out about being a "leet haxor" and "finding persons information
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Looks like he purchased it in March.
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EDIT: The Property that he purchased has a sign "Driftwood Ranch" between the wooden poles. Looks like he's finally reached the point of starting his own "Furry Commune" with more than enough space to fuck plenty of ferrets and horses. If you were me - you'd feel the same way I do. Disgusted. Now knowing how he got there by shilling to uninformed and unexperienced children to sell an unfinished game pretending to be "Good Daddy hacker" has me disgusted beyond words.

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EDIT 2: So - his 2 hour commute was basically because he had to drive from Tacoma where his one house is - to his mansion because "Bad internet". Ah, first world 1%er problems.
 

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I like how the dead grass forms a visible property line.
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So, you're telling me that he purchased a house for quarter of a million in 2012 (Tax and deed documents said just shy of 300k), he shit it up, made it smell of ferret piss and shit, and killed the grass, shrubbery and totalled the irrigation, and now he's buying a 1.2 Million dollar property RANCH to fuck up equally bad and turn into a FIRE HAZARD just 30 miles from there in the "Forest" down the road. The guy who rescues ferrets and is known for sucking furry cock on line and selling an unfinished RPG to children?
What. The. Fuck?
 
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So, you're telling me that he purchased a house for quarter of a million in 2012 (Tax and deed documents said just shy of 300k), he shit it up, made it smell of ferret piss and shit, and killed the grass, shrubbery and totalled the irrigation, and now he's buying a 1.2 Million dollar property RANCH to fuck up equally bad and turn into a FIRE HAZARD just 30 miles from there in the "Forest" down the road. The guy who rescues ferrets and is known for sucking furry cock on line and selling an unfinished RPG to children?
What. The. Fuck?
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According to the dox provided by Musashi's Son, it appears that he moved there sometime in 2019. The first photo was from 2022.

However there is a trend with him being shit at yardwork and leaving trash bins out in front of his house for everyone to enjoy. Lazybones.

Before Jason (2012):
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Joe Headroom said:
According to the dox provided by Musashi's Son, it appears that he moved there sometime in 2019. The first photo was from 2022.

However there is a trend with him being shit at yardwork and leaving trash bins out in front of his house for everyone to enjoy. Lazybones.

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Does this guy salt his grass?

Panzekampfwagen Einz said:
@buying gf You were faster than me with this one, so I will try to add more to the info :)

Here is the whole reply he gave to the question of games preservation. This is from 8+ months ago when his channel really exploded. I recorded the whole reply from his stream. He starts to answer and then continues after the ads (I skipped the ads). The whole answer is pure chef's kiss that should be somehow tattooed to his forehead so he can never forget it.

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BUT if you want to hear ANOTHER war story where he beat everyone in the Blizzard office, here is the timestamp where it all begins:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Fd5oZDQ3tZE?t=24525s

The war story is told during the ad break.
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Jason in the winter of 2023: "Video game preservation is really really important."
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Jason in the summer of 2024: "I guess video game preservation is nice and all, unless the EULA says otherwise, or the player base isn't big enough, or if any effort is required by devs and publishers."
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This, in and of itself, makes it clear as day that Jason Hall is a grifter with opinions as firm as his jelly spine.
 
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