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

[Maeis]

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Even if there is botting, the votes are rolling in at an extreme pace. If the botted votes are 1379 per hour, that's around 33 000 botted votes a day.
Admittedly this number is pulled entirely out of my ass (absolutely insane behaviour dude), but that still makes the margin of error much smaller than we might have suspected. Around 10%, accounting for today and yesterday, and assuming the potential botting will continue. This means that, should the votes keep rolling in, we still have a good chance of making it.
Welcome to the finding out timeline.

What was it I said before? Oh right, NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER!

It's gone up another 1400 votes in the last fourteen minutes. Either the botting is even worse than you suggested, or we're jumping at shadows. Really hope it's the latter.

 

[Left Ass Cheek]

I don't think so, Louis. You’re not going to turn Moldman into Rossmann Junior.

It's fine that Moldman is indulging in this little side quest for video game preservation, but there are things far bigger and more important than consumer rights, or even my hatred for Mald.
For example: new episodes of Game Dungeon and Freeman’s Mind 2.

I hope Ross gets a big boost to his regular viewership when he goes back to making his stuff. He was one of the Machinima OGs and he arguably came out the other end of their big collapse in the best shape when compared to his contemporaries. It would be a bit of a bummer for him to just be known as the guy who BTFO'd Pirate Software from now on because that implies that the roach is even worthy of mention at this point.

 

[Maldavius Figtree]

This is more stupid than I thought

I think Louis is not doing amazingly currently. His ramblings here on the farms have been slightly concerning, and the one-and-a-half 1:1 interactions I had with him last year left me with this low level feeling of bewilderment when you're not sure if the other person is just really stressed, or simply not 100% there anymore.
I stopped watching his videos as well because of this. Often it feels like he has no idea where he's going or forgets halfway through.

 

[Der Fuhrry]

It feels a bit LARPy to me. @the_patch_dev joined twitter June 26 2025. Their github account looks borderline legit, created Sep 27 2024, but all the activity is on private projects. There's a "contrib" to a StopKillingGamesTracker project, but it looks like just a worthless comment in an issue thread:

Spoiler: larping?

 

[MoonState]

It's gone up another 1400 votes in the last fourteen minutes. Either the botting is even worse than you suggested, or we're jumping at shadows. Really hope it's the latter.

If it's not botting or server fuck-ups, the only possible explanation I have is that's it's somehow equalizing and adjusting data from all 5 or so European time zones to Brussels time.

 

[Inspector Rex]

I hope Ross gets a big boost to his regular viewership when he goes back to making his stuff. He was one of the Machinima OGs and he arguably came out the other end of their big collapse

IIRC he still got fucked over by them somehow, I remember him talking about it on some old Q&A.

 

[clever handle]

I wake up hopeful that we could narrowly beat out yesterday's figure only to find out that we doubled it. What a world.

Also, I feel like people are getting a little too worked up over the hearsay of this "bots" thing and scrambling to find ghosts in the data they can interpret to reinforce the one thing they're paying attention to rather than the infinite other possibilities. Just because there's an aberration there's not an easy explanation for doesn't meant it's necessarily the thing you conspiratorially fear. That said, I'm all for overshooting the thing by the largest possible margin just in case, but yeah, just don't get so worked up that we all start convincing each other into a telephone game mass hysteria.

 

[johnny johnny yes papa]

Ross has probably taken quite a big financial hit since this shit started since his video output has decreased substantially. (Although, to be fair, he ever uploaded videos in a very timely manner.)

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

From PatricianTV's stream. Maldo got caught copy/pasting his responses :

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

ok despite my best efforts i wont be able to finish it today
give me a day Internet please!

 

[Rotollo 2]

From PatricianTV's stream. Maldo got caught copy/pasting his responses :
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"Please help me sir I am a FUCKING furry!"
Pajeet-ret Software

 

[SIMON THE PIEMAN]

Ross has probably taken quite a big financial hit since this shit started since his video output has decreased substantially. (Although, to be fair, he ever uploaded videos in a very timely manner.)

Well, money is one of the things people outside EU can do to (sort of indirectly) support the initiative by simply donating to Ross: https://www.accursedfarms.com/donations/

 

[Dopeypal]

Are we sure it’s being botted? There are a lot of technical reasons that it could look like that. They’re even discussing those reasons on the original post in the SKG subreddit.

 

[johnny johnny yes papa]

Are we even sure it’s being botted? There are a lot of technical reasons that it could look like that. They’re even discussing those reasons on the original post in the SKG subreddit.

Guess we'll find out in a few months.

 

[DubyaD4D]

OK, his carnevil one was RUSHED AS FUCK, but I guess it still turned out pretty good considering the circumstances. But he really came off more like an eager livestreamer than a well put together video.

He said in one of his follow ups that he had to spend all night recording Darkspore, as that was shutting down in only a few days when he received the news. So he stayed up 36 hours just to get footage for it. Carnevil was the next one he released and you can tell from that.

Ross wanted to get footage for the Battleforge (not Darkspore) episode before it got shutdown, however his system couldn't handle recording with that game with conventional screen-recording software without dropped frames due to only having harddrives which have limited write-speed, luckily the beta for nvidia shadowplay was announced which would let him record, however the window between the release date and shutdown was only a couple of days or so, however Battleforge shutdown on halloween, meaning he had to rush and record Carnevil in time for the halloween episode, only to then scramble to record Battleforge until the very last second.

Point being that the wanton KILLING of a game is the reason the Carnevil episode was a mess! You just can't hate game destruction enough.

 

[U+200B]

The botting is concerning, but it's really hard to tell how much it actually is. On one hand you can look at the total number and see how fast it rises and on the other you can look at all the countries beating the threshold:
June 24th: 7
July 3rd: 19 (+3 over 90%)

 

[Not Yet Implemented]

Why of all the things did he insult a man who tried to fix a thing he cares about to the best of his ability? Why not talk to Ross about the fundraising efforts ten months ago when you talked to him? Why did he not try to help him with lawyer shit? What the fuck is the reason for this animosity?

Hard agree. Louis is super passionate about consumer rights, it would have been a huge help just to point Ross in the right direction. Ross has the charisma and love for video games to get people behind it, he just needed help with actually running a successful initiative. We could have seen results from SKG years ago if Ross actually knew what people to reach out to.

I'm a bit behind on the thread, so this may have been posted already. Louis' reply to Ross shows that he did in fact coach him a bit:


I haven't finished watching Louis' video either, but I think it would be a shame if people pattern-matched it to Mald's faggotry. Louis is constructive even when he's roasting.

Edit after watching: Louis is spitting facts here.

• Based on his description, getting legislation like that (or likely, any legislation), can be analogized to the Red Queen's race
• Delegation is a force multiplier

I think it could be summed up as: "You have to interact with the game board that is actually there, not the one you want there to be", which is incidentally also how you stop being a scrub at video games. In my personal opinion, there is an asterisk on that: you can also change the game board. I bring this up because I think in a sense that's what Ross actually did to begin with, and nonwithstanding Mald's malding into an own goal, I think that counted a lot towards the feasibility of this whole thing.

 

[clever handle]

ok despite my best efforts i wont be able to finish it today
give me a day Internet please!
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I like this and I think it's really charming, though there's a small aesthetic question - do you think it would benefit from a slightly higher abstraction of Ross's face? That is, removing some of the detail/age lines/wrinkles? It might make him seem a bit more amiable, unless "realistically pleasant dude" is the target.

That said, if that's not comfortable to your style or you merely disagree, totally fair.

 

[Mr. Manchester]

Holy shit, it's almost at 900K. It's up to you Europe, this time you save all of us. Seriously one of the coolest things I've had the honor to watch in real time.

Get fucked ferret boy.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

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It sadly skipped over another funny number
Almost hat 800815 total and 80.08% at the same time.

We may just do it we may make it by the 4th of July. That would be one hell of a fireworks show.

We as a human race have regressed. Over our entire existence we have developed the ability to discern. I can take one look at a person and know if I should avoid them or interact with them. Over thousands of years we've learned how to tell if someone is genuine or if they are a fake. His fan base must be full of retards that lack this ability, because if they can't see through an obvious facade of a human being, then let them be scammed, robbed, and beaten by others that seek to do ill will.

Same with Balldowashers.
Its a den of thieves. People who are guilty of the same things as Rekieta are all that's left.
Pedophiles, retards, child abusers, and drug addicts.
Sometimes all 4 in one.

I'm catching up its been a busy week. Will have to check the thread im about 17 pages behind. But HELL YEAH WE HIT almost 900k
The 4th is looking real.