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

[Macintosh Love]

I really appreciate this thread. I enjoy reading about game dev spergs and seeing knowledgeable people tear them apart. Kiwi game devs rise up.

I want to beat this nigger's dysgenic octagon head in for using nested branches and multidimensional arrays so much. That shit is the epitome of "look at me I'm a smart programmer". That shit is hard to reason about and I am foaming at the mouth just thinking about working that way. I want to inflict pain on this ferret-fucking freak. I'm not really a sadist, so I'll just seed one of his shitty games.

Too bad I'll never get to pirate Heartbound. It's never, EVER going to be finished. Jason's the type to be cognizant of that and laugh about it in private, I think. He is a grifter through and through. Too bad that's what his faggot neckbeard dad passed down instead of the actual programming skills. I don't think anyone has shared the clip of him talking about his dad being the neckbeard from the WoW episode of South Park. This faggot is the failson of the South Park WoW neckbeard. That's low.

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reposting from the SKG thread

Two faced Jason the game preservation enthusiast

"one of us, one of us"

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Attention, Jason is deleting SKG drama related content, don't forget to archive.

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So I saw another short pop up - Jason was one of the Tankies who Co-Opted the NUKING of Helldivers 2 and taught thousands of people to demand a refund for over a hundred thousand dollars worth of chargebacks and a "Loophole" for after the Steam 3 Hour Standard under a false anti-trust claim.

That would mean Jason is complicit with corporate sabotage of a company that made a game that he "Played over 500 hours of" over a fumble of Sony Playstation account integration? Isn't that a bit hypocritical after he failed to deliver updates on his own property for 3 years after contracting "Long Covid" (which he told everyone to get vaxxed by the way then contradicted his times of getting sick, posted he only had a cold, then pneumonia, then bronchitis, then 3 instances of negative COVID, then Long Covid without verification) - and forced everyone to wait a whole 7 years after the declared launch day to only deliver 1/2 or 1/3rd of a game?

The more I look into this, outside of my own experience, the more I feel like I'm being gaslit and actively losing my fucking mind. The cognitive dissonance is is so whip-lashy I honestly think this goes beyond narcissist and into full blown psychopathy. None of his "Social Circle" are people from more than 5 years ago beyond his transboy wife and a few furfags so it seems like he's surrounding himself with "Like minded people (degenerates)".

Edit: Looks like Muta is a Kiwifarmer.

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This always comes to mind when people live on social media

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Can you, or someone archive this for me on preservetube? I tried but it just just loops me back to the archive not found, archive me button.
Mald is asked a question about piracy in relation to end-of-life consoles (3DS) shutting down e-shop services.

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If the video is under 15 minutes and when PreserveTube doesn't work use Ghost Archive. Also, it's best to host videos as a local archive on the site.

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This guy if DFE'ing hard.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

While I appreciate the zealous backing up (seriously its refreshing) I think backing up a game trailer for something barely related (Intravenous, which is great game, so I dont mind) is a little excessive. Not even upset, but it did amuse me.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Do not use placeholders because QA will report them as bugs even if you're early on in development. If you then say "we're using placeholders early on, please don't report that as a bug", QA will do a heckin' r/maliciouscompliance and not report the placeholders even when getting closer to release.

Minor PL Time. I hate to do it but this annoys me too much.
Different work field, but I work in an industry that has a huge QA branch. The ticketing system they use we access on our end too.

To cut to it, The program is Topic Name you fill out, and drop down fields you select that fit it, with an option for descriptions, pictures, various settings, etc...
QA goes in, reports the bug files it with a set name, set field, etc... It gets its own unique ticket number... You can see the names of everyone who has touched and edited it with a tracking history and so forth.
While they type in the name or the problem it runs a search and pulls up ANY and ALL related tickets. So they can easily stub or flag their ticket under that one and not generate open tickets. In a popup window that gives a ticket summary they can click on and then attach it to that ticket. Simple shit.

We've had this software for the better part of a decade now I want to say. That feature has always been there since at least 2010.
You can even have Agents flag it and add notes for QA so they know the issue is aware and open.
QA can SEE its open and you're aware of it.
Priorities can be set. from like 1-5 with 1 being absolute low priority to 5 being Critical failure call the head honcho, we need to get this fixed.

This is blizzard we're talking about here. I can't imagine they weren't using something for Ticketing similar in nature.
I can't imagine halting a project until everything is finished up to a certain point.

 

[Macintosh Love]

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He was born in 1987 + 33 = 2020. So in 2020 he went through his second puberty (which is also convenient because he claims that he got "permanent" lung damage from his COVID during that year)? Ok here is a 5 min voice sample from his Pikuniku play through from Aug 2021:

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Another voice sample from The Streamer Awards back in Feb 2024:
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Here is a recent voice sample from Aug 2024:
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Make your own conclusions.

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Here's something you don't see every day:

I'm no expert in steganography, but I doubt it's possible to store precise data such as passwords in a JPEG, which is a lossy format.

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Maldavius shows up in another youtuber's short.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M_Dz2-1IJhA

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Local copy already in post just not added correctly.

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Get a load of this bozo; they can't even embed their video correctly.

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Mutahar is just your average ladder-climbing 90 IQ pajeet. I am predicting now that when Jason is inevitably pegged to the wall on something really heinous (child or ferret molestation) Mutahar will be one of the first in line to make a video with an inflammatory anti-Jason headline where he mumbles for 30 minutes and shows some screenshots he found on Discord, saying nothing one way or the other. Never forget that Mutahar sweeps it up for trannies and did a podcast with a pedophile until the faintest winds of pushback began to blow.

Links ignored. Mutahar not Jason

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[Chris Konon]

This is blizzard we're talking about here. I can't imagine they weren't using something for Ticketing similar in nature.
I can't imagine halting a project until everything is finished up to a certain point.

Yeah that's why I called bullshit on his story.
If Blizzard had such bad QA culture, it would have much more fuckups, and I only remember issues with their server infrastructure (e.g. Diablo III launch) which is a different thing.

 

[Battlefield42]

Holy fucking shit these mac fag posts make it hard to see other actual posts. I appreciate the effort but make those posts smaller or use more spoilers.

 

[Macintosh Love]

Holy fucking shit these mac fag posts make it hard to see other actual posts. I appreciate the effort but make those posts smaller or use more spoilers.

Or I could put everything under one spoiler. Now we're cooking!
EDIT: It works, but the formatting looks messed up. If it makes the site load faster, then so be it.

 

[oopsallcocks]

While I appreciate the zealous backing up (seriously its refreshing) I think backing up a game trailer for something barely related is a little excessive. Not even upset, but it did amuse me.

Kiwi Farms: The largest repository for Pirate Software on the internet.

 

[Kheapathic]

So is this "20 years of gamedev experience" fag suggesting to hold development until all assets are ready? No wonder his shitty game takes so long to release.

Also, I call bullshit on this story. Give me the name of this game, faggot.

It seems he's saying not to use any placeholders that could conceivably be let into production, but it doesn't get across because he's either purposefully or accidentally saying it in an incredibly obtuse way.

This dude has no idea about doing work up front, then going in and filling in when the unprepared shit is ready. Typing up documents, if something isn't ready and is something to be filled in; I'll have red brackets with what should go there and 2-4 font points larger to make it explicitly obvious that something should go here. I'm not hot on how to do that in Game Maker or whatever, but that's where personal creativity should be a thing. Find a way to have it stand out and be like [THIS SHOULDN'T BE HERE].

This is blizzard we're talking about here. I can't imagine they weren't using something for Ticketing similar in nature.
I can't imagine halting a project until everything is finished up to a certain point.

I browse job postings, just to know what's out there from time to time. I can't say for certain back then, but per some postings that were less than a year old, they use the Jira stack. For all intents and purposes, I was reading your description and thinking this dude's a Jira master; hopefully he's not a time wasting SCRUM Master too.

 

[Macintosh Love]

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Only true and honest 1337 h4XX0rZ, of course. What, have you never used social engineering to h4x someone, you computer-illiterate pleb? Get on Mald's level. Getting somebody arrested would be a good start, too, I guess:
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Watching this faggot's streams is actually physically painful. Not only is it boring, but the audio itself is fucked too. I don't know why I did this to myself.

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Ignored.

You would be mistaken for thinking he isn't a boring windows machine kind of guy.

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There's also the YMS way of eating food

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I don't know who this guy is either way. Local copy available.
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Even if we made a situation where he streams to multiple platforms.

Instagram

• Video bitrate range: 2,250–6,000 Kbps

Kick

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Facebook

Note: The maximum recommended bitrate is 15 Mbps.

Twitch

Bitrate: 6000 kbps

Youtube

4K / 2160p @60fps Maximum Bitrate setting (Mbps) AV1 and H.265 40 Mbps

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Couldn't find any official documentation outlining max bitrate so this is the next best thing

Tiktok
Video & Audio bitrate limitations:

• Max Video bitrate: 10Mbps

So in total if we add up all the maximum bitrates from different services it would be 79 Mbps and to be gratuitious I'm gonna allow every stream to have 1Mbps for audio.

85Mbps as the worst case scenario.

If we are to believe this tweet. His internet would be really fast. Tweet Archive.
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85Mbps would be about 3% of his 2850Mbps upload speed.

TLDR Jason is probably a liar.

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That's assuming it actually happened. I did find a clip where he talks about it, and the whole story sounds like a fanfic. Either that, or everyone involved is extremely retarded.
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"I think they gave me a challenge coin for that, I think I got a FBI challenge coin for that" -Jason Maldavius Figtree

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So, seems like Maldavius is done with SKG for good (from Aug 14 stream):
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Or is he (Aug 17):
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Seems like he's trying to STFU about it, but just can't help himself.

On another note, turns out RTFM is actually very useful. yt-dlp can download auto generated subs, so there's no need to suffer through hours of Mald (trying to) edit some YAML files: yt-dlp --skip-download --write-auto-subs --sub-lang='en'.

Mentioned livestreams. Not going to be archiving his livestreams. One can only take so much brain damage

Anyway, this is funny because FemtoCells became a really popular topic when they appeared in the hacker show Mr Robot, where a modified FemtoCell is used to eavesdrop on the FBI. Jason has strong opinions on the show Mr Robot:

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A short (of course) from July 25, 2024 where he "elaborates":

Some "interesting" things:

1. What he shows on screen is this post, which is a "walkthrough" for DEFCON 22, not 24. (Edit: 24 was only mentioned in regards to the FBI story, so not important here).
2. "(251) 273-2738" is directly listed as the solution for "Part 1".
3. The Xeet he shows also has a "Thor" (who could that be, I wonder?) linking to the puzzle solution.

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Ignored. @Musashi's Son already posted local source and archive links.

Maldavius' contribution to CDawgVA's Charity Auction, where his "official PirateSoftware challenge coin" was auctioned off to him.

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[Nicholas II of Russia]

I think this moron is aware of this thread now LMAO Not so subtle, Jason-boy.

I can already picture him making a video about the farms in the future, talking about how tawxic we truly are and how we are slandering him. That is, if he's willing to admit about his furry garbage lol That would be a fun shitshow.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

hopefully he's not a time wasting SCRUM Master too.

I think they tried and push that shit in 2012 but that requires everyone to actually do shit and be responsible.

Find a way to have it stand out and be like [THIS SHOULDN'T BE HERE].

If I remember in a few old games you'd encounter pink checkerboards in Valve games.
Or the occasional bald dev smiling at you face on a cube.

 

[Macintosh Love]

Taking a break. Ghost Archive seems to have exploded on my end.

 

[itogi]

If I remember in a few old games you'd encounter pink checkerboards in Valve games.

Pink checkerboard texture appears more on things that were scrapped, developer textures are used instead for prototyping:

 

[pooptergriffin]

The really infuriating part of mald is that people who enjoy his content refuse to see what he actually does. They tote around his defcon badge, being a government hacker, and a successful game dev. Even if you show them proof of him bass boosting his mic they will say that his voice is actually that deep. I give him credit with the social engineering stuff because he has like hard convinced people on all his exaggerations and lies.

 

[U+200B]

The really infuriating part of mald is that people who enjoy his content refuse to see what he actually does. They tote around his defcon badge, being a government hacker, and a successful game dev. Even if you show them proof of him bass boosting his mic they will say that his voice is actually that deep. I give him credit with the social engineering stuff because he has like hard convinced people on all his exaggerations and lies.

The amount of dick sucking I see under anything related to him is insane. I thought Dream was bad in this aspect, but I think currently this guy could almost get away with grooming or more.
I'm not saying, that his "empire" won't fall apart, but I don't see it happening right now. No matter what happens.

 

[pooptergriffin]

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Archive of the short where Jason talks about Adobe.

Am I retarded or does that part of the terms just confirm the use for generative ai? It explicitly says that content received will only be used for purposes of operating or improving software so they aren't stealing your work for some evil malicious reason.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

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Do not use placeholders because QA will report them as bugs even if you're early on in development. If you then say "we're using placeholders early on, please don't report that as a bug", QA will do a heckin' r/maliciouscompliance and not report the placeholders even when getting closer to release.

This video seems particularly catty behavior and off-smelling advice, even to the average viewer. Surely this one specific scenario with loading screens doesn't mean all placeholder assets are a bad idea.

It seems we also have some comments with similar thoughts:

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If zaferoph here is correct and there's context immediately after which says "use a simple placeholder which can't be mistaken for production", it's be nice to include it in the actual short. It's only 47 seconds long, you've got some time to work with.

If his experience is with QA and he acted like that, because that bit about malicious compliance sounds in line with his autistic petiness, then im not not surprised most game devs spend the bare minimum in humoring QA monkeys if they're that smug about reporting shit

 

[Macintosh Love]

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Following that thread I decided to do a quick search to see if OBS can do any kind of sidechaining or audio ducking. The second result in the search engine is a 5 minute video explaining exactly that with what can only be described as trivially easy setup.

Skipped. It's just an OBS instructional video

The grift must go on.

Step 1) Subtle manipulation of the audience by publishing this short only a week+ after you didn't listen to your own advice.
Step 2) Don't forget to pat yourself on the back by telling some of your many, "amazing" war stories
Step 3) Profit???

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I might be misremembering, but New World had some pretty big issues caused by them doing too much client-side (ironic, considering Jason's whole client-server spiel, and him being a "security expert"), and frying some NVIDIA GPUs.

Edit: added video links. Not worth wasting time on, but yeah, NW is (was?) a shitshow.

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Hearty Joker chuckle

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Original video is private, I wonder why. Edit: lifted from here. Mald doesn't talk about his own game for obvious reasons, still funny though.

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React video Stored locally along with archive links.

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The COVID video was also taken down. Very convenient. Here is a local archive:

The video was posted earlier in the thread. Here is the PreserveTube archive though

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Another clip where Jason talks about Star Citizen.

I'm a retard. @Musashi's Son already archived it along with local source.
Also archived another react streamer with same video Preserve Tube Ghost Archive just in case Maldson finds a way to delete the other ones. However I'm not making local copy because it would be redundant.

The link points to a Twitch VOD where Mald talks about hiring the guy (and malds about "people reuploading his shit"). I'm guessing the private'ing part was done because someone finally found the thread (hi, Mald).

Spent way too long trying to make this. Ignore the first 15–20 seconds; it's scuffed.

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Does anyone have a full archive of the channel? There were 32 videos on it. Preserve Tube has 10 videos from that channel

Don't have full archive.

Doesn't seem like this video was posted on this thread:

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Fully archived both locally and with links. No action needed.

 

[The Tall Man]

The amount of dick sucking I see under anything related to him is insane. I thought Dream was bad in this aspect, but I think currently this guy could almost get away with grooming or more.
I'm not saying, that his "empire" won't fall apart, but I don't see it happening right now. No matter what happens.

It's the guru grift, people who follow him have turned his lies into an integral part of their thinking. You are attacking their identity when you attack their guru.