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

[ratnoid]

I feel really bad for Ross, he doesn't deserve any of this. Jason's weird dissection of the "politicians like easy wins" line really fucking bothers me because it refuses to engage with reality as it exists. He seems to have this strange just-world delusion that because a certain conception of something is "right", that it's also the only solution worth pursuing. That sort of inflexibility and inability to understand the game of politics and the behavioral inclinations of people is one of the biggest reasons we have a lot of the legislative deadlocking we do right now.

Even if we assume he's not acting duplicitously and in bad faith, it's a classic case of a hyper-idealist caring more about projecting a sense of virtuousness than actually getting anything fucking done. Wanting to be the captain of the sinking ship, and all that.

Nepo baby moment. Will never ever ever ever have any real opinion on anything because whenever there is a challenge his parents will handle it for him.

 

[Bogliacci]

Man, I'm not watching this. I love Ross and his content, but this shit will just make me depressed probably.

Had to tap out when he started using clips of mald, cant stand him even when being criticized

 

[culk]

Ross made a thirty minute long response to PirateSoftware as a part of his most recent report on his campaign.


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Edit: Local copy of his 30 minute rant about PirateSoftware only.

it hurts me to see ross having to care about stupid drama but i can't help but love him blasting roaches ass out

 

[Mr. Manchester]

This thread is over 500 pages long and only a year old. I've been sleeping on this guy.

Free my nigga Ross.

 

[Boybortion]

Ross made a thirty minute long response to PirateSoftware as a part of his most recent report on his campaign.


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Edit: Local copy of his 30 minute rant about PirateSoftware only.

Oh this made me sad.

 

[Neodanthril]

can someone point me to a post explaining the mald wow drama? i have heard about it but i dont know the details.

This thread is over 500 pages long and only a year old. I've been sleeping on this guy.

Free my nigga Ross.

a lot of it is mald jannies running FUD campagians.

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note that ross does not refer to mald as a developer in the beginning of that segment. that is educated disrespect and i like it.

 

[I mean I'm just saying]

I like the video, though I feel it's a bit too long and overpacked and that may turn off a significant amount of people who aren't really invested.

Ross mentions he regretted not leaning into the drama aspect, and it makes me wonder if the significant PirateSoftware section was built to help distribute the information through the drama slop pipeline. Whether intentional or not, I hope it works. Even if this specific campaign fails, getting many eyes on the issue and its specifics is at least a step in the right direction.

can someone point me to a post explaining the mald wow drama? i have heard about it but i dont know the details.

Looks like this post broke the news of the roach heard 'round the world:

I don't have a lot of knowledge regarding this guy, but there's currently a lot of drama in the streamer hardcore classic world of warcraft guild and all associated places due to him refusing to help his group in a dire situation. To add further context, hardcore in world of warcraft means that your character has one life and once you die you have to relevel a new character which takes at least 100h if you're not familiar with the game. He did absolutely nothing to help, ran away to save himself (referred to as a roach or roaching out) and refused to admit any fault. Other streamers, especially the guy in the first clip called YamatosDeath are upset while Pirate is in full damage control mode - refusing to take even a modicum of accountability.

 

[Mr. Manchester]

Ross mentions he regretted not leaning into the drama aspect

He doesn't have that in him. I mentioned like two days ago in Rekieta's thread that Ross got visibly uncomfortable in his interview with Nick when Nick started sperging about Ron Toye. This sort of thing is entirely out of his wheelhouse.

Probably because he's a normal person and is nice or something.

 

[GhastlyGhost]

can someone point me to a post explaining the mald wow drama? i have heard about it but i dont know the details.


a lot of it is mald jannies running FUD campagians.


note that ross does not refer to mald as a developer in the beginning of that segment. that is educated disrespect and i like it.

Maldy had resources he could have spent to try and salvage a failed raid run, but chose to run like a little bitch instead.

 

[The Unoffical Exar Kun]

I love Ross. It sucks what happened with SKG. This guy always seems to get the shit end of the stick, I still remember how insane those mold updates were.

 

[neger psykolog]

I like the video, though I feel it's a bit too long and overpacked and that may turn off a significant amount of people who aren't really invested.

Had to tap out when he started using clips of mald, cant stand him even when being criticized

Man, I'm not watching this. I love Ross and his content, but this shit will just make me depressed probably.

Ross made a thirty minute long response to PirateSoftware as a part of his most recent report on his campaign.

Bullet point summary based on YouTube subtitles/captions for people who don't want to watch the whole thing or hear the emotions of it all (pretty understandable - I love Ross but can't stomach hearing how the guys honest, publicly beneficial initiative getting shat on like this by a faggot like Maldavius Faggot)

Here's a distilled summary of the key points from the Stop Killing Games campaign update in 25 concise bullet points:

1. Stop Killing Games is a consumer movement to prevent video game publishers from destroying games they've sold.
2. The campaign has already accomplished many things and received broad support, but this may be its final push.
3. Two remaining actions: a UK petition (stalled by bureaucracy) and the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI).
4. The ECI could have changed gaming history, but it's failing due to insufficient signatures (needs 1 million, got under half).
5. The lack of signatures is blamed on widespread apathy, not just among gamers but people in general.
6. Many gamers misunderstand the initiative, assuming it asks publishers to support games forever — it doesn’t.
7. Legally, EU law might already protect consumers from unfair game termination clauses, but enforcement is murky.
8. Without legal standards, consumer expectation is that games should last indefinitely, like physical games.
9. The initiative calls for mandatory end-of-life plans for games — not perpetual support.
10. Efforts were made to raise awareness: press coverage, interviews, YouTube outreach, even help from developers and politicians.
11. Despite amateur status, the organizer worked 12–14 hour days, burned savings, and ran outreach with no formal team.
12. Reddit often removed posts about the initiative or was openly hostile.
13. A Discord was launched to enable independent organizing outside the creator’s bottleneck.
14. Attempts to use non-English gaming channels for outreach were made late in the campaign via sponsor messages.
15. Many suggestions for improvement (shorts, more videos, streaming) were tried or considered but yielded minimal results.
16. A critical blow came from YouTuber Pirate Software (Thor), who misrepresented the initiative repeatedly.
17. Thor falsely claimed the campaign was about forcing single-player or converting MMOs to offline games — it’s not.
18. His videos gained wide traction and misled gamers, killing momentum and discouraging larger influencers from joining.
19. The organizer tried to correct Thor and offered dialogue — Thor declined and continued misinformation.
20. The core goal is consumer rights: that purchases shouldn't disappear without warning or recourse.
21. Criticisms of the initiative often targeted things it didn’t say or problems it explicitly accounted for.
22. The creator won’t relaunch the initiative or campaign again — this was their one shot.
23. The movement may still yield results via legal agencies in France, Germany, Australia, and possibly others.
24. It already saved two Ubisoft games (Crew 2 and Motorfest) from shutdown via end-of-life plans — a small victory.
25. Final message: even if the initiative fails, the movement exposed the absurdity of the system and pushed the conversation — but it shouldn't have taken this much just to protect basic ownership rights.

Let me know if you'd like a version tailored for presentation slides or a more compact summary.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

Thor is so fucking retarded and hostile
Truly the dimwittiest midwit in the space
Posterchild of Dunning-Kruger if I've ever seen one

As a bonus, here's my based (cf. ChatGPT thread) ChatGPT's take on Ross vs. Thor in that video:

Spoiler

Thor (Pirate Software) did something worse than just misunderstanding Ross Scott’s campaign—he committed the sin of being loudly ignorant while posturing as if he were the voice of reason. And because he commands a large audience of mostly sympathetic gamers, this intellectual laziness did measurable harm.

He presented himself as someone who had “looked into it,” but what followed was a barrage of superficial objections that had either already been addressed or revealed he hadn’t understood the campaign’s purpose. He attacked a strawman—imagining the petition demanded developers support games forever or open-source proprietary code—and then reassured his audience that this was “unrealistic” or “impractical.” That’s not skepticism, that’s malpractice. The actual petition explicitly accommodated such concerns, proposing minimal obligations: that companies merely provide a way to keep a game operational if they choose to kill it—nothing more. His framing made it sound like Ross was trying to nationalize Steam.

What’s really galling is Thor’s posture of humble reluctance: “I don’t want to misrepresent this, but…” followed by blatant misrepresentation. He didn’t direct viewers to the source. He didn’t platform Ross. He didn’t ask clarifying questions. He just emitted a half-baked take and moved on, muddying the waters for thousands of viewers. The damage was done.

Ross, for his part, gave Thor far more credit than was deserved, responding patiently and assuming good faith. That’s noble—but misplaced. When you have a massive platform and people listen to you, you don’t get to be cavalier. You either take the time to understand what you're talking about, or you shut up and let people who do understand speak. Thor didn't. And that’s not just lazy—it’s destructive.

In a world where companies have no market or legal obligation to let you keep what you buy, a project like Ross's is a rare act of pushback. The least a so-called ally of gamers could do is not piss all over it out of sheer unwillingness to read.

 

[Chug Smuckle]

Ross needs to stop being so charitable to Mald. It's not that Mald doesn't understand, he does.

 

[Aidan]

can someone point me to a post explaining the mald wow drama? i have heard about it but i dont know the details.

I can't find a single good post that covers it, I'm sure one of the highlights is great but.. yeah.

1. Mald was in a Hardcore WoW streamer guild which means if you die you lose your character which is a serious time investment and indirectly money for the streamers involved.
2. A raid went sideways and Mald's role should have been to help everyone get a clean escape but instead he roached out and wasted his mana, saying he couldn't do anything, which was a lie.
3. Some guild mates died as a result, losing their characters and Mald had no regard for them. He said, "I did everything right," and "What did you want me to do?" when everyone knows he could have likely saved them.
4. Mald had previously made fun of someone for flubbing a similar situation and bragged about how he'd handle it epic style, which was a lie.
   1. Mald also likes to brag about having worked at Blizzard for 7 years (nepo baby and not a dev or anything special) as an appeal to authority on the game but it turns out he's not exceptional at WoW at all.
5. This led to people dissecting the whole raid and where it went wrong from all angles and Mald never admitted any fault.
6. This led to older stuff resurfacing and newer flubs being scrutinized by more people now interested in Mald's chronic, comical lies.

Basically, everything Mald says is bullshit and as far as he's concerned he's always right and you're a stupid moron and should get banned for not worshiping him. All of this behavior goes back over a decade spanning multiple games and communities.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

Ross needs to stop being so charitable to Mald. It's not that Mald doesn't understand, he does.

ross is a gentle soul that doesn't get that people now will go far out of their way just to not be cool

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

Scott has always come across as a very genuine person. I started watching him back during the Freemans Mind/Civil Protection days. He's not really changed all that much, just a nerdy guy sharing his passion for nerdy stuff.
Seeing him putting all this effort in and then getting derailed makes me sad. I think Scott did very well for what was mostly a one man campaign, he clearly went well out of his comfort zone.
God bless Scott, I hope he gets to take some time off after this and just do some stuff he enjoys.

 

[Tingle]

Mold man from the top rope, fuck Thor the hack fraud.

Mold>Mald

I know you're reading this, Thor(n). Get bent.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Always has been stop killing games that everyone should really hate Mald.
30 minutes of shitting on him.
He should have done this from the start.

E: Ross is WAY too generous with with Mald and treating it like he's just dumb. No this is pure malicious.

 

[neger psykolog]

Ross needs to stop being so charitable to Mald. It's not that Mald doesn't understand, he does.

I haven't watched the video just yet but I would rather he keeps his composure about this and says just enough to show Mald if a faggot and leaves it up to people to decide how to react to that information than to poison the very innocent and reliable kind of content that he makes. There's enough sperg YouTubers who ruin their entire channels going on vendettas over stupid shit.

 

[NoReturn]

Ross made a thirty minute long response to PirateSoftware as a part of his most recent report on his campaign.


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Edit: Local copy of his 30 minute rant about PirateSoftware only.

PreserveTube, Ghost Archive, local:
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Thor is so fucking retarded and hostile
Truly the dimwittiest midwit in the space
Posterchild of Dunning-Kruger if I've ever seen one

This video gave me a lot more respect for Ross, but he's got my sympathy.
Thor's smugness was actually kind of triggering. His condescension reminds me of the type of people who insist eggs are "dairy" because they're in the same section as the milk.