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

[Smithfield Ham]

Only a dumbass nigger would cry about one bully fighting another over a perpetual license issue.

We don't even "own" the shit that the government is trying to regulate here. No one is coming to tell us what cars we can purchase or how many sex dolls we can own. Taking an attempt to reign in grey-area EULA-bullying, and equating it to private property encroachment from the state is a real libertarian brain-dead take.

I think Americans are probably the most vocal opponents of SKG. Which is shocking, because the ones fucking us up the ass here are corporations, not their lapdogs (the government). Make it make sense!

Exactly. It isn't actually "Libertarian" according to their beliefs. Its tactically done only when they think it'll benefit them and ignored with it doesn't. I use the term "Lolbertarian" not as a derogatory term for Libertarians in general, but for the ones who promote untenable and unpersuasive ideas in defense of corporate mega giants. Things like "free speech is secondary to a corporation's ability to run their own platform" etc. The braindead shit that is impossible to take seriously. Mentioning consumer rights to them makes them scratch their heads, but big corpos heavily linked to the government are allowed to do whatever they want all the time.

Businesses have rights, but so do consumers. And consumers have a right to use the means they have available to defend and enforce those rights as they see fit.

A good example, I think, of the industry self-regulating is the ESRB. If politicians like Joe Lieberman had their way, the government would have outlawed "obscene" video games or treated them like contraband ala booze and cigarettes. But because the industry stepped up and made their own solution, they were able to avoid all of that trouble. Big companies could do the same by having some kind of industry-wide archival project dedicated to preserving games, or simply have ESRB regulations for companies to explicitly tell customers about end-of-life plans for games and potential other ways to operate their software.

They have haven't done that because they haven't seen a need. So, the only logical next step is to create a need.

 

[Looney Troons]

If this diva actually got SWATted, he would’ve made a colossal deal out of it. That post will be revised to remove that bit once he realizes that people will actually try to corroborate his claims.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

I wish CS:GO would have become part of this discussion more than The Crew. That game being gone is still a modern tragedy and betrayal of Valve

 

[Vertigo]

I wish CS:GO would have become part of this discussion more than The Crew. That game being gone is still a modern tragedy and betrayal of Valve

It's technically not gone. Under CS2 beta section in the settings you can still choose it and play it. Some things may not work, though.

 

[ZoopZoop]

Played with a Finn in ArmA. Great guy, used to have to pause and go have a dick measuring contest with the Russian army on occasion. Legitimately these smaller nations probably have a higher ratio of hobby gamers (not just phone gatcha bullshit) than people would realize. It helps that there's a high proficiency in English as well, and a good economy.

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As for mald, the reason why him and his pet retards are, well, malding, is because the success of the petition, a million signatures of actual, real people, is something that is beyond any of these people could expect from their own efforts. Heartbound for example seems to have only 100kish sales.

In a single day more people signed the petition then ever bought Malds game.

Be proud of yourselves.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

I really doubt he resigned. Let go or fired more likely.

It's entirely possible he was pressured to resign, to save face. I'm betting it came down to either he leaves or some indie devs stop doing business with them

 

[${Sandy}]

Tacoma washington allows you to request public records. I might make an account on there tomorrow and send in a request to confirm if he was swatted, if Im not too busy.



MALD

 

[Freezing Blue Gnu]

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This faggot uses a classroom analogy to complain about government regulation, because he's probably a fucking minor.

If he wants to use that analogy, then the "industry side" regulation is more like cigarettes. It's fucking cancer and the only way to reign these fuckwads in is by government regulation.

 

[CatharticShitHead]

Mald is either making most of this shit up or he's the biggest retard on the planet. I'm pretty sure the one piece of advice that the police will give to anyone getting swatted no matter the circumstance is to not talk about the incident online. Guess he just can't help himself.

The craziest thing to me personally is that I COULD believe Jason would suffer a logging shit like this. It's not unreasonable with groups like the sharty roaming around. However, he's done this whole song and dance so many fucking times before that it feels like the boy who cried racist. I just don't care anymore because 1) he doesn't show any type of proof of any of it, 2) this is a classic tactic by faggots online who get into controversy AKA "Muh death threats" and 3) You would think that with what happened in his past, Jason would have informed the police that they would receive false reports about this. I guess the world's most smartest defcon haxor blizzard coder can't think of let's see

screenshots
calling the police
or better yet, logging the fuck off of social medias besides whatever he needs to keep making money.

 

[potato sack]

actual industry plant

 

[Measured Kong]

If he wants to use that analogy, then the "industry side" regulation is more like cigarettes. It's fucking cancer and the only way to reign these fuckwads in is by government regulation.

Well, it’s just especially retarded because it compares apples to oranges. The soda companies really don’t benefit much from adding more caffeine to a drink. Video game companies have an obvious incentive to be lazy and not care about end of life plans. This is addressed in Ross’s first video on the subject.
This kind of argument shouldn’t really be given much attention, however. This is exactly like that one image online of the smug looking guy saying “yeah, I may not believe any of these things, but if I play with your principals, maybe I can get you to do what I want.”

 

[Gottahavemysips]

This faggot uses a classroom analogy to complain about government regulation, because he's probably a fucking minor.

God, this is so braindead. They self regulated because they were afraid of the government taking action. They wouldn't bother doing that in a world where the government never takes action. Video games have become unbearable because they constantly push the envelope and are pretty blatantly unafraid of the potential of getting regulated. The closest thing I've seen over the last 15 years is reluctantly lightly changing lootbox mechanics because politicians started looking into that, only to instantly replace those with a battle pass system. I don't really think you can say it's self regulation when, in the absence of potential regulation, they steam on ahead with terms that are stacked against the consumer.

 

[Fats McGee]

Mald is either making most of this shit up or he's the biggest retard on the planet. I'm pretty sure the one piece of advice that the police will give to anyone getting swatted no matter the circumstance is to not talk about the incident online. Guess he just can't help himself.

I don't doubt people are fucking with him in those ways - But he's absolutely a fucking retard. He might be a "gamer internet personality" but I had a feeling from the get-go he had no idea what kind of hornets nest he was kicking. He doesn't really understand the internet despite making a living on it, because his corner of the internet he carved out is a hugbox and he's willingly ignored everything going on outside of it.

When you come out and make a statement like "Eat my whole ass, fuck consumer protection. Corporations deserve to rail you." to a guy as well liked as Ross, that starts an ember. When you Double and triple down on it, it becomes a fire. When you play the victim AFTER doubling down, that pours gasoline on the fire and you're officially in lolcow territory. At that point, if you're lucky, the a-logs will just send you unpaid pizza. If you're not, they'll swat you or vandalize your shit. I don't CONDONE this, mind you

 

[Hillbilly Slim]

A good example, I think, of the industry self-regulating is the ESRB.

Great example. Necessity breeds innovation.

The current live service market will not induce games preservation in the slightest. Live service is so highly lucrative that these publishers cannot resist trying to get some of that pie, scrambling over each other like crack addicts. With the rate that these games are pumped out and abandoned(as well as staff hired and fired) as cheaply as possible, preserving them is not even 1% on the minds of these greedy corpo d-bags.

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actual industry plant

He only says shit like that, because the gubment told him it was wrong to butt-fuck teenagers as a 30 something.

They keep saying Ross hates live service games. Has he ever said that?

Imagine having so few friends, you have to hang out with autistic children in your discord and use them a back patters, because the entire rest of gaming culture thinks you're a fuckwit.

 

[Fats McGee]

They keep saying Ross hates live service games. Has he ever said that?

Even if he did hate live service games, I'd hardly call that irrational. In most cases, there's little to no benefit to making a game live service for the player - Only to the dev. What few benefits the format holds have been far outweighed by the scummy behavior it creates. But I have to remind myself, most people in Mald's discord and in the gaming scene as a whole are young. They barely remember a time before every game had a battle pass and a 2 year roadmap of menial updates to tempt you to come back and spend more money. Nor do they understand how narrow their understanding is. As they say, you don't know what you don't know.

 

[1983 Opel Kadett]

It's entirely possible he was pressured to resign, to save face. I'm betting it came down to either he leaves or some indie devs stop doing business with them

I'd say offbrand games is doomed anyways having another narcissist faggot Ludwig at the helm

 

[Mettaur]

 

[SlyVMan]

Some Malding from the skg-thunderdome room (sorry if some of these have been posted already)

Edit: Didn't know he made a Xitter post T/A



My response:

They're referring to the making of the containment





Response to him leaving Offbrand


No more Open Sauce for Maldy



Or Defcon




So much for being an internet tough guy, huh Mald?





Made a bot command for his dicksucord

Spoiler: The Pinned Posts for the containment channel

 

[Mettaur]

They keep saying Ross hates live service games. Has he ever said that?

It's not irrational to hate live service games. Live service games are a poison on the gaming industry. The game is just a skinner box designed to exploit gambling addicts and children.

 

[The ATF Disliked That]

most people in Mald's discord and in the gaming scene as a whole are young. They barely remember a time before every game had a battle pass and a 2 year roadmap of menial updates to tempt you to come back and spend more money.

It's the only type of industry that they know about. They never experienced the 2000s like 80s and 90s born did. Pop in your game and play it:

The game was as complete as it could be and they had no choice in doing so. Make a complete game that could turn a profit, or lose a shit ton of money and possibly close the studio worst case scenario.

Here's another meme to summarise: