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

[Stoneheart]

This is exactly the type of person Mald was when he was a below minimum wage game tester.

i also bet he had to call tech support to change the batteries in his mouse...

 

[chimpSculpture]

My favorite bit of PirateSoftware lore is that this is literally his dad and I'm not joking.

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He brags about it as if it's a flex. lol

It makes me think it's not true. idk if his dad literally looks like this but I think it's just as likely that the South Park crew just made the character so typical and generic to the stereotype, and that his dad just happens to look like this.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

The fact that his microphone input is going through some kind of signal processing software that modifies his voice is what people are calling a voice changer here.

You and I both know that, but his hope is that other people won't notice the slight of hand. When he says "I don't use a voice changer!" it's a lie by omission. A game of semantics. He doesn't literally use a program labeled as a voice changer so technically it's a true statement -- but saying it in that way gives people the false impression that he's saying "this is my real voice, what I sound like in the real world, and I'm not using anything to make it sound different."

It's the fucking bullshit he does all the time and he's gotten away with it for years because everyone assumed good faith and let him get away with it. It's like when he tells you he was a "developer" at Blizzard, because he was a QA janny and "helped the development." What he's leading people to falsely believe is that he was a programmer or made art assets for the games.

This kind of lying is especially slimy and spineless and you see it all the time, and I fucking hate it.

 

[Cruisin' for a Buzin']

You and I both know that, but his hope is that other people won't notice the slight of hand. When he says "I don't use a voice changer!" it's a lie by omission. A game of semantics. He doesn't literally use a program labeled as a voice changer so technically it's a true statement -- but saying it in that way gives people the false impression that he's saying "this is my real voice, what I sound like in the real world, and I'm not using anything to make it sound different."

It's the fucking bullshit he does all the time and he's gotten away with it for years because everyone assumed good faith and let him get away with it. It's like when he tells you he was a "developer" at Blizzard, because he was a QA janny and "helped the development." What he's leading people to falsely believe is that he was a programmer or made art assets for the games.

This kind of lying is especially slimy and spineless and you see it all the time, and I fucking hate it.

Yeah he reminds me of Tommy Tallerico when it comes to resumé-stuffing and credit-stealing.

 

[p1138]

He brags about it as if it's a flex. lol

It makes me think it's not true. idk if his dad literally looks like this but I think it's just as likely that the South Park crew just made the character so typical and generic to the stereotype, and that his dad just happens to look like this.

They even made sure in other appearances in southpark to include the long hair(it's actually the one thing that cosplay guy from blizzcon got wrong). The stupid part about it, yeah ok it's his dad... it's not Mald. So bragging about it makes no fucking sense as a 37 year old man almost in his 40s who doesn't have his own shit to talk about. Bringing it up once as some weird factoid, ok sure. But he's mentioned it repeatedly and published his own clips from his stream discussing it

 

[Cruisin' for a Buzin']

PirateSoftware is like the evil bizarro Toby Fox who is anything but humble about his (yet-unfinished) Earthbound clone made in Game Maker. And he has the envious gall to shit-talk Toby for shipping his kind of game better 10 years ago, on time, to phenomenal cultural touchstone success.

 

[cigint]

The stupid part about it, yeah ok it's his dad... it's not Mald. So bragging about it makes no fucking sense as a 37 year old man almost in his 40s who doesn't have his own shit to talk about

You just reminded me of the 'Father Call'.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

dextero seems to be setting a narrative of thor good skg bad

link

 

[Neodanthril]

Hey while you are cleaning shit up off the floor I'm going to see if I can fix the load bearing walls

thats not what you did though. you just came in and started complaining that we arent working on the walls. but whatever, nobody is stopping you from going and starting your own thing. but complaining about attempts to do something because it doesn't do it the way YOU want to do it, with no plan or action taken on your part to do what YOU want to do, is really annoying and counterproductive. of course its going to piss people off. even if you did start something right now all that would do is force both things to compete for peoples attention. but we both know you arent going to do anything other than complain so stop pretending.

 

[finnoid retard]

dextero seems to be setting a narrative of thor good skg bad

link

dexerto seems to be getting more retarded by the minute

i dont remember the last time they actually made a good post

 

[Vibe_Guy]

It's someone's attempt at making a Chess game by if-else branching ALL possible moves, which is going to be impossible due to the fact that there are around 10^120 possible chess moves.

There's this obscure indie dev who managed to do it so here's the vid to gain some insight:

 

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

Mald reverts to an insecure college dropout that finished highschool just 2 years ago. Except he's over 30 and that's pathetic.

Maldy feels that way because he did not, in fact, do much with his life. He's past 30 and has done fuckall

Lay off all the hate for guys over 30 who haven’t made it yet

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

dextero seems to be setting a narrative of thor good skg bad

Seeing how corpos are more or less repeating Mald's bullshit, the "strategy" will probably include (attempting to) "redeem" Mald, or at least painting SKG as the ebul GamerGaters. Not surprising, but WTF is "SGF" though? Stop Gangraping Ferrets?

 

[FrogMinutes]

Thats bullshit, because there are youtubers out there pushing the victim narrative about Jason being harassed and swatted despite there being zero evidence of this happening. Only his word.
The word of a known and proven liar. If he was swatted people should encourage him to give out the evidence and work with police to find the criminal that did it.

I never said they have to think mald was wrong in this.
they're still harvesting for content either way.

my point is, these cattle don't have any investment in shit. and you shouldn't put any investment the shit they say. even if you agree with it.
they're not speaking from the heart, they're speaking from "how can I spin this to best benefit me?"
you can get the reasoning from the shit you posted from "well, everyone else is pro ross, I'll stand out and catch his fans if I'm pro mald!"

 

[MrSlongDong]

I'm probably going to get a million stickers for this but there is one particular aspect of the petition which I believe is legally impossible to enforce.

Spoiler: IP rules discussion

This is referring to the ability for customers to run their own servers (i.e., private servers) for a game that a studio wants to shut down. The argument I read here and in related threads is that, the ability to set a private server is a collateral of the ownership right of the customers which we derive from the purchase of the game or a subscription to a server.

I believe this argument to be legally unfounded. Paying for access to the servers, does not mean that we, the customer, purchased the right to run the game on our own servers. Because to do this is unauthorized distribution. When you purchase a product like a video game of a film or any intellectual product, you're not purchasing the IP. You're purchasing a right to enjoy a copy of that thing. This right is not absolute. If you purchase a DVD it still says that you cannot distribute it for commercial reason. You also cannot make copies of a DVD and distribute them for free to everybody in your neighborhood. I'm not saying you shouldn't but it's not "your right" to do so. There are limitations on your ownership and what you can do with the product, because it's an intellectual product. When you purchase a physical copy of Mario Sunshine on the Gamecube, that disk is your property but if you were going to make copies of it and distribute them, you would be infringing the property right of the studio / publisher over the IP.

When you pay a monthly fee to access a server, you do not obtain a right to take that game and go create your own servers for people to play on it. If you want to do that, you need to make your own game, which needs to be legally distinct from the source material. If you don't that, you're then using somebody else's IP and you have no claim over the IP because you didn't buy the actual IP (source code, brand name, assets etc.) or make that product. The game is still the creative product of the studio. If you are able to take your single copy of the game and play it offline (for example, download a local version of the game on your PC), the company cannot retrieve that because you bought that individual copy. The online experience is not something you can copy and run locally.

Think about it, if paying to access the servers gave you a right to set up a private server for that game, then, it doesn't matter if the company still run their own servers or not. Following this logic, the moment you paid to access servers, you have asserted your (alleged) proprietary right over the product and you can set up your own server. When you paid your monthly subscription fee to access a WoW server (15 dollars), your access was valid for that month. If you stopped paying, your access would end. You didn't have a right then to create an alternative server for you and your friend because that would have been unauthorized distribution. You don't have any more of a right to set up a private server after the company took down their server, it's still unauthorized distribution. If the company wants to let you set up your private server after they stop supporting the game, they are giving you a voluntary license to use their IP. Consumer law is unlikely to be used as a tool to obtain that license by force. Or at least, it needs to be understood that this is what's implied.

If you have a game, that can be played with a local multiplayer system, for example, by plugging a cable between two consoles or using bluetooth, then it was the company's decision to let you have that. If a company decides to run their games on servers that need to be online and maintained by the company and you go and run the game on your own server, what you have done is create copies of the game for your own purpose and distribute them. You cannot do that unless the company allows you to do that.

I'm not a fan of copyright law because it restricts intellectual creation by restricting our abilities to copy something good in order to make something better (like they do in China). However, either you have no intellectual property rights at all or you have them. If you have them, then you need to enforce them consistently. In a system where IP right exists, they belong to the creators, not to the people who purchase copies of the thing.

On the other hand, if your game is in effect a purely single player, offline game, and the only reason DRM checks exist is to revoke service arbitrarily, then it is a scam and if that game was remotely de-activated, you should be at least, entitled to a full refund.

I'll take my stickers now.

 

[Elite Kipchak]

I have learned more about coding and game development from this thread than I ever have from Jason's content. at the very least i know exactly what not to do should I ever take it up as a hobby.

 

[RandyMiskatonic]

Lay off all the hate for guys over 30 who haven’t made it yet

No. SUFFAH and Seethe! If you're not a perfect Super-Chad by age 17, you're late to life and an absolutely fucking worthless loser.

Ain't Nobody Ever Gonna Make It!

Thread Tax: Maldavius Figtree is a Nepo-Baby Furfaggot, and nobody should ever have sex with him.

 

[I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!]

> "Hey while you are cleaning shit up off the floor I'm going to see if I can fix the load bearing walls"
>"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU ARE GOING TO UNDERMINE CLEANING THE SHIT OFF OUR FLOOR YOU LIBERTARIAN."

I don't think that trying to antagonize anyone in this situation helps both cleaning the shit off the floor or getting the load bearing walls fixed, and just makes engaging in an bipartisian issue unpleasant.

Because people are trying to set straightforward achievable goals and retards like you are trying to muddy the water by adding something like "IP reform" on top of it which is infinitely more complicated than what SKG is asking for. By doing that you are making it easier for someone like Mald to say that SKG makes ridiculous unachievable demands.
Start your own initiative about IP reform if you want, nothing is stopping you. But don't try to piggyback off of SKG.

 

[Huddinge]

There's this obscure indie dev who managed to do it so here's the vid to gain some insight:
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Hearing Terry laugh like that warms my heart

 

[Not Yet Implemented]

I believe this argument to be legally unfounded.

This is one of the areas where I'm extremely interested to see how it will shake out legally. However, I think the FAQ entry is just talking about whether it's a technical impossibility (which it isn't.) There have been cases such as SimCity 2013, where the ultimately arbitrary always-online requirement was billed as a technical constraint.