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

[Illuminati Order Official]

This faggot should decide if the government is bad and shouldn't be trusted or the government is a literal god and SKG wasn't respectful enough to its divine authority.

 

[Ted's Cabin]

that's why something as simple looking like game 'The Witness' i think comes off as fucking amazing because it's a game where you drag a damn dot across a little board and holy shit is it rewarding when you figure out where you put the stupid dot, even if it's the 500th time ( and you can usually easily ignore the pretentiousness of the game ), also that game continued to receive updates years later lol.

What parts of the game are pretentious? Was it the MP3 players that dumped exposition? I remember the developer expressed regret for even including them, but I have no idea why he thought they were a good idea to add in the first place.

I noticed his claims that he was some hacker for the Department of Energy

It's on his linkedin page. Eagle search group is apparently out of business now and the website is gone. I'd like to give Jason credit for that, but it's more likely they were just not doing anything useful and died after the government money ran out. I think that was recent because I remember reading about them getting some sort of grant from the department of labor for a period of time for god knows what. These grants are all public if anyone is in the mood to research and archive it before it falls off the map.

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_1605DC17T00012_1605_DOLJ139E34441_1605

 

[bremer]

>"develop.games"
>reality
>do not develop games
>make an arg instead
>???
>profit(?)

the G in ARG stands for "game". insane behavior dude. welcome to the finding out timeline *stretches*. I hope it was worth it bud.

ARGs being used for a videogame's publicity can work out just great if the people behind the game aren't retarded and are actually passionate about what they're doing, see the Portal ARG for instance, that worked out just fine for Valve and the community had tons of fun solving it.

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth was supposed to have a single unlockable character behind an ARG, but (according to Edmund) a bunch of other content was also commented out by accident and he kept the ARG "wall" up because he didn't know. So people were yelling at him for having less than half of the promised content but he was just like "wait it out bro trust me" because he thought it was only Keeper's stuff.
ARGs being used for marketing and publicity can be great and engaging, but a single fuckup can sour it for everyone. Isaac's community was on Ed's neck for a good year at least after this happened.

 

[The Secret Sauce]

This faggot should decide if the government is bad and shouldn't be trusted or the government is a literal god and SKG wasn't respectful enough to its divine authority.

Government is useless. Government can't run anything. Government does not belong in games. Government should be kept far away from gaming. But don't you DARE tease Maldy in your game, because he will immediately file a DMCA and leverage the government's power to get your game deleted, then sue your ass for hurting his feelings.

 

[Adam Copium]

ARG's are a great idea.

It's especially great if you plan to have it before your game is actually done.

The YouTube mashup High Quality Rip channel named SiIvaGunner was the first thing that came to my mind when I think of ARGs. The team over there killed it

 

[Spooky Dogwood]

It's so funny how he is now constantly repeating just how much he works on the game when it is apparent no work is being done at all, you've got plenty of other actual game dev creators putting out more in a month than this guy has put out in years.

Notice how despite touting how much he cares about the game dev community, Mald has never once really interacted with any game dev creators? He barely follows any on his socials either. He is unsurprisingly most active in tech bro circles where those guys aren't actual game devs and can't see through his grift.

I just wonder if the lack of progress is due to being lazy or if it's because he's hit a roadblock and can't figure it out.

 

[tarzor]

What parts of the game are pretentious? Was it the MP3 players that dumped exposition? I remember the developer expressed regret for even including them, but I have no idea why he thought they were a good idea to add in the first place.

me personally i didnt mind the mp3s too much because they were at least skippable if i wasn't in the mood, but it sometimes was confusing if it was supposed to be part of a story to the game or if it's literally all just standalone quotes and im not an enlightened smarty pants to get it... some of the mp3s are so fucking long and winded and are either wicked verbose or super vague talking about politics and religion ( yea im not smart enough to get it, also i think there's mp3s towards the end of the game you get to that wraps up the entire idea of the audio logs, which you can say is either redeeming or pretentiousness fucking squared ).

Spoiler: extra garbanzo

i did like finding the movies and the movies themselves being a part of a puzzle piece so to speak, i guess i was sort of projecting how i see others perceive jonathan blow over the years ( 15 years lol ) as pretentious, but could be the haters not liking that he's not a lovey dovey type when you ask him questions, or that he isn't self hating enough.

there is one audio puzzle with birds that was objectively analyzed through a spectrogram and found to be incorrect to the solution, jon blow refused outright to conceded he made any mistake and that everyone's wrong.

he also didnt like the parody of his game even though it's clear as day the creator of the parody loved the witness, so lack of self awareness doesn't help either.

at the end of the day i'd listen to jblow over 99% of people when it comes to systems programming and game development ( he even has good words about life advice sometimes ) even though i probably couldn't be friends with him.

 

[Joe Headroom]

It's on his linkedin page. Eagle search group is apparently out of business now and the website is gone. I'd like to give Jason credit for that, but it's more likely they were just not doing anything useful and died after the government money ran out.

Jason mentioned in some earlier video in this thread that everyone on the testing team went off to form their own company. Jason never mentioned if he got an offer to come along with them, but judging from Jason's ego, he'd love to tell people he declined a job offer, and instead went off to make video games. So I imagine the team fled after figuring out they could split his salary amongst themselves.

 

[Baldavius Dicktree]

I just wonder if the lack of progress is due to being lazy or if it's because he's hit a roadblock and can't figure it out.

Neither, it's been stated many times in this thread that there is no real reason for Mald to ever finish his game. He is financially incentivized to keep it in development forever, it keeps his community thinking he is an epic indie game dev while he rakes in a ton of money streaming the dune mmo for 12 hours a day instead of actually working on his game.

 

[Nintoddler]

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The pointiest of points?

EDIT : YongYea is ALSO covering this and malds retardation.

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=NicoDq-5qV8

Not even Mald dunking can make me click on a YongYea video though.

 

[CrunkLord420]

I noticed his claims that he was some hacker for the Department of Energy

90% chance he did simulated phishing campaigns, essentially data entry work. Finger wagging at office staff for opening up his sneaky links. It's very eye rolling to imagine a no-coder, no-experience, no-certificate midwit like Jason doing anything all that interesting. He has no stories, oh no he can't tell you, he was a "red teamer" don't ya know.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

Not even Mald dunking can make me click on a YongYea video though.

Thats fine, I just GENUINELY enjoy archiving as many 100k + youtubers shitting on him...which he is, so, it does the job.

How else do you think this beauty was made?

 

[Fagliacci]

Speaking of his minecraft MMO, a mana gem from it has just hit the figtree.

Pretty sure that post is referencing this incident, there are discord screenshots but no clips. The K from the Reddit post seems to line up with KanashiMachine from Mald's discord message.

Jason publicly shames Minecraft players for exploiting on his server

Looking through his stream from the days in question I couldn't find him talking about any of the incidents mentioned, however I did find these clips.

Here he is taking immense pleasure out of kicking a player from his server for fucking around with a spawn zone. His chat even calls him out for abusing his admin powers. He then manages to be shocked that people who play Minecraft, a sandbox game limited only by your own imagination, like to explore the limits of the game using their imagination.

Spoiler: Minecraft Players Finding Out

Now this one's really good, he complains about how many emails he's getting and how that is stopping yandere simulator development, or wait no that's the other guy, Fagtree was complaining about how banning people takes up too much of his time that he can't get development done. Absolutely fucking shocked that 15 hoppers is able to "mess up the server" I genuinely cannot comprehend this.

Spoiler: 23 Hours of Development — 6 Hours of Banning

 

[Fat Nigga Fella]

No, you don't get it, this masterpiece would nave totally succeeded and changed the gaming industry™ if not for *checks notes* Enter the Gungeon:

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Wait, he says "Well, it started to and then... I believe Enter The Gungeon came out"

Enter The Gungeon release date: April 5, 2016

Champions of Breakfast release date: June 23, 2016

This nigga can't stop lying man.

 

[The ATF Disliked That]

Pretty sure that post is referencing this incident, there are discord screenshots but no clips. The K from the Reddit post seems to line up with KanashiMachine from Mald's discord message.

Looking through his stream from the days in question I couldn't find him talking about any of the incidents mentioned, however I did find these clips.

Here he is taking immense pleasure out of kicking a player from his server for fucking around with a spawn zone. His chat even calls him out for abusing his admin powers. He then manages to be shocked that people who play Minecraft, a sandbox game limited only by your own imagination, like to explore the limits of the game using their imagination.

Spoiler: Minecraft Players Finding Out

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Now this one's really good, he complains about how many emails he's getting and how that is stopping yandere simulator development, or wait no that's the other guy, Fagtree was complaining about how banning people takes up too much of his time that he can't get development done. Absolutely fucking shocked that 15 hoppers is able to "mess up the server" I genuinely cannot comprehend this.

Spoiler: 23 Hours of Development — 6 Hours of Banning

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Remember, when he was on AoC. He said he likes to hold people to a "standard of etiquette" on MMOs. I.e. He's a control furfag freak.

 

[liam dees]

btw we are close to 1,300,000 and have 22 more days
hard to believe that it was all hopeless 2 weeks ago
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Everything happens for a reason. I am no coder but I know this for sure, the greatest coder ever is God. He coded for this to happen. I'm sure of it.

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

Fagtree was complaining about how banning people takes up too much of his time that he can't get development done.

Maybe he shouldn't follow people around on his gay "MMO" server like a fucking creeper:

 

[Maldavius Figtree]

>the worst fucking button I've ever fucking seen holy shit

I was about to tell you to stop being a pretentious faggot because we've all written quick one off code and nobody really cares about HTML, BUT LMAO THAT BUTTON GOT ME. Is it 1999 again?

Notch CONFIRMED he was indeed shit talking pirate soft, and indeed 100% supports SKG.

I bought Minecraft around 10 times (myself, gf, kids, friends of kids) many years ago, I believe right when the multiplayer combat code was released. Then Mojang sold Minecraft to Microsoft; Microsoft demanded all Mojang accounts be converted to Microsoft accounts, MS account creation was bugged as hell and wanted phone verification for every account, the deadline passed, all non-migrated accounts were deleted... and now I own Minecraft 1x despite having bought it 10x.

Shut the fuck up, Notch.

 

[Fat Nigga Fella]

>the worst fucking button I've ever fucking seen holy shit

I was about to tell you to stop being a pretentious faggot because we've all written quick one off code and nobody really cares about HTML, BUT LMAO THAT BUTTON GOT ME. Is it 1999 again?

I just realized, he's using GIFs for his buttons. Using WebP? Using CSS? That's insane behavior, dude.

 

[俺たちファームズでノッテる]

This nigger really out here showing the entire section of Mald of Mold's video in his without any fucking commentary. God do I hate YongYea, keep reading out those tweets and giving your shitty easy-pleasing takes.

I fucking hated him the moment he would cover any form of negative news about crypto and act like an authority on it. Drove me up the wall.