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

[Hooked on phobics]

Oooofff
any changes or suggestions before i ship it?
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Unsure how hard it would be, but a "stop killing games" text somewhere would help.

 

[Pippa's Greasy KB]

Received Pronunciation and its consequences have been disastrous for all mankind.
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It's a mode of speaking specifically meant to hide the speaker's regional accent to help with clarity. It may help you understand him easier, but it allows you to understand how much of a cunt he is in turn.

America had its own version too for cinema.
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But yeah, that "posh" accent is more or less learnt rather than natural. I'm unsure if you use it long enough it just becomes your default or what, but it's like permanently erasing a part of yourself just to sound like some posh pretentious prick. Maybe there's some effect on the psyche by doing that. Mald changed his voice to sound more masculine and authoritative so he genuinely believes that. Same for how adopting RP makes Hayes thinks he's smarter than he actually is.

No wonder he's defensive of mald. Fake accent recognizes fake voice

 

[numetalborder]

Ross posted an update Q/A video if anyone missed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z4w_h2-UkM

Those reddit jannies working overtime to stop SKG, I knew they were stupid but I don't know why they would be against it. I thought Reddit heckin' loved vidya gaems.

Although to be fair to them, I've heard Reddit is largely on board with SKG so maybe it's just jannies being jannies.

 

[Tingle]

Oooofff
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Haven't been keeping up with the thread 24/7 but did you consider adding the name of the campaign anywhere on it? Either under "Petition" or as larger text somewhere above/below the image, maybe stylized as white to go with the controller logo?

 

[twinArmageddons]

Oooofff
any changes or suggestions before i ship it?
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for some reason i feel like his head is kinda too big (mald) when compared but thats probably cause you started on the head first but this is just the gut feeling i could be wrong

 

[GarbanzoBeans]

His hijinks seem to be making it back to the InfoSec community. He responds trying to explain malware to one of the industry leaders on malware research and archiving.

Original Thread:

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1939260445137027209

My favorite part though:

https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1939390454333866022

You can read about them on Wikipedia of all places.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vx-underground

 

[p1138]

Timecodes can be seen along the bottom of the screenshots. Notice how there are these huge holes in the mid-range, but only when it's maldy who is talking?

Natural sound simply doesn't work like this. He can't really claim this is some noise filtering setup, since you can see he lets the high-end hiss from his S and H sounds bleed through, leaving this big notch filter-like hole. If anything, his audio has the most high frequency (noise range) content out of anyone on the panel.

The hard cutoff around 15k you see is from lossy compression and isn't anything he did himself.

Now that you've brought this up, I can't not hear it. Especially from that clip. It's as if he didn't do anything for sibilance and made it worse by notching out the entire mid range, so all you get is his bass bullshit and then a bunch of crunchy noise at the top.

There was an instance a few months back with clips, where his audio plugins or drivers had shit the bed, and his normal voice did indeed come through without him noticing because he wasn't monitoring the outbound audio. Wish I could find it.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

for some reason i feel like his head is kinda too big (mald) when compared but thats probably cause you started on the head first but this is just the gut feeling i could be wrong

nah its definitely too big but i noticed it too late so i say this is a style decision

maybe a blood splatter on the board?
or a speech bubble with "please sing my petition?"

 

[clever handle]

nah its definitely too big but i noticed it too late so i say this is a style decision
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maybe a blood splatter on the board?
or a speech bubble with "please sing my petition?"

How much do we want this to be making Ross seem like a violent badass, exactly? Isn't part of his brand that he's a nice dude and that vitriol is more of Mald's thing?

 

[Hooked on phobics]

maybe a blood splatter on the board?

I like it. Also his right side of his facial hair looks more...bald? I know ross doesn't have IMMACULATE facial hair but it seems a little TOO spotty. fill in between the chin and cheek

OR make the other side look good.

And if you feel like an extra, maybe draw a small gravestone on the right blank side saying "THE CREW"

 

[y a t s]

Now that you've brought this up, I can't not hear it. Especially from that clip. It's as if he didn't do anything for sibilance and made it worse by notching out the entire mid range, so all you get is his bass bullshit and then a bunch of crunchy noise at the top.

Doing production work, I have trained my ear to listen for holes and shelves in the spectrum. Since the filter cutoff never changes, it's plain as day when he gets fired up, since his natural pitch goes well above this cutoff and his voice loses all body whatsoever.

Having a good ear is a blessing at times, but a curse when listening to podcasts.

 

[Nothing Is Written]

Oooofff
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Good art but I feel there's too much going on with the text. Maybe put the "do your part" inside a transparent black box?

maybe a blood splatter on the board?
or a speech bubble with "please sing my petition?"

Don't do this, it's already a noisy design.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Natural sound simply doesn't work like this. He can't really claim this is some noise filtering setup, since you can see he lets the high-end hiss from his S and H sounds bleed through, leaving this big notch filter-like hole. If anything, his audio has the most high frequency (noise range) content out of anyone on the panel.

I went through some snippets featuring him talking and it sounds about right when I unhook and put the audio pitch at 115%.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

Maybe put the "do your part" inside a transparent black box?

not sure about it

 

[Maeis]

not sure about it
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nah it's hard to read SKG

 

[Lie Eater]

Anyone that has been here already knows this but for the lurkers.
The likelihood that mald reads this thread is almost guaranteed and i can bring up a few good reasons. There is the obvious {RETARD FILTER} that lets us know when any malders come in that has raised with every incident. There is also the fact that he addressed in one of his youtube videos the second life shit but did so awkwardly through twitter posts yet when he brought up maldavius figtree he showed the tv head version alongside more of his usual badfaith interpretations. Yet those are KF elements.
But more than anything is that this fucker cannot go a second without responding to any and all criticism even on 9 year old videos and several idiots have already mentioned in his grooming server that there is a KF thread about him. So he is aware but has the intelligence of a teen to know better than to mention adult websites like KF to his parents. The mention of SA also just exemplifies that hes aware of it but knows how absolute the danger KF brings is. had he not been who he is and mentioned early on that there was misinformation spearheaded by KF and just simply admitted he was a furry/wrong then this never would have happened but thankfully cows cannot do anything aside make milk.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

not sure about it

I agree. Ew.

Plus it obscures the "stop killing games" which is already barely visible. I'd almost say extend it upward with a text bubble saying "STOP KILLING GAMES" in bigger letters like the "do your part" bit. Just because autists with a low attention span might miss the small text. Clear communication is important in the 5 second attention span of twitter.

POSSIBLY a QR code to the EU petition itself in lower left.


Also despite the criticisms, your work IS APPRECIATED

 

[Nothing Is Written]

not sure about it
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Yeah... or make the text borders thicker? Either way 10/10

 

[clever handle]

I agree. Ew.

Plus it obscures the "stop killing games" which is already barely visible. I'd almost say extend it upward with a text bubble saying "STOP KILLING GAMES" in bigger letters like the "do your part" bit. Just because autists with a low attention span might miss the small text. Clear communication is important in the 5 second attention span of twitter.

POSSIBLY a QR code to the EU petition itself in lower left.


Also despite the criticisms, your work IS APPRECIATED

Yeah, I think the QR code is a really smart idea, and if it isn't, maybe a stopkillinggames.com URL somewhere is. I wonder if the Stop Killing Games line might not need to be asserted more strongly if you just remove the "peititon" at the top of the clipboard and size up the "Stop Killing Games" text? I think it's implicitly understood by the rest of the context that it's a petition, and that'd let that aspect of the art also communicate the idea.

Edit: the picture is larger than I thought, it's probably fine even if you don't do that. But yeah, I think the black box is a bit noisy.

 

[A Deer In Headlights]

not sure about it
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If you're in photoshop you could do a light drop shadow on the text. that will help to give it a bit more depth while being subtle