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

[Beard_Chan]

 

[Forklift Certified]

Jason has 17 employees like he has 20 years of gamedev experience. This is just another bullshit angle to explain why he can't complete his game. "These review bombing trolls don't realize I would be starving 17 families if I finished my game." That many salaried employees would cost around a million dollars a year. If anything, he's including anyone he's ever paid for stuff related to his stream/business. Including janny contractors and a pooner that Jason doesn't let have a bank account and keeps in the basement.

Nope that is true... Hi has a vidya about it when he announced the restart of his game development,(I think around the february heartbound Update) he has 1 general assistant, 2 ferret nanny, and 12 moderator

 

[bremer]

How many ferrets are in need of rescue(except the ones in his possession)? I always thought they were pretty niche pets, but they are apparently so popular that they require a million dollar rescue industry.

As far as I'm aware, ferrets are domestic animals and do not exist in the wild. Most rescues (after a google search) seem to be "living off" of ferrets surrendered to them and caring for them/rehoming them, not strays. I'd assume there's a big number of ferret exclusive rescues because they're really difficult to care for and people often buy one because "haha funny reddit fursnake" then realize they're stinky and need a lot of attention and care to be happy and would get rid of them.

 

[kiwifarms net]

12 moderator

The ego protection squad. Incredible. Imagine being one of the people in that discord server giving Jason Hall some silly little donations, only for the fun police they inadvertently funded to ban them for a milquetoast question that accidentally bruised Seethetree's narcissism.

Also, regarding the 17 total employees. So he has 1 assistant/2 ferret corpse cleaners/12 mods, but that leaves 2 more. I guess those would be Heartbound's artists?

 

[Glowie]

The funniest part about that is the languages he chose to translate.
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Brazillian-Portuguese? Latin-American Spanish? No German? No Chinese? Languages that would actually benefit any amount of non-native speakers because they don't/can't learn English? Like, Germans hate not speaking their own language so much where they dub every single piece of media they get their stinky little hands on. I know he probably uses volunteers or Actual Indians for it that just help out out of the "goodness of their own heart" or whatever. It just seems like such a waste of time doing it DURING development. Have your gigantic dick-ass list of dialogue complete and ready and then do your weird-ass translations after, akin to every single translation ever created by man ever. Just fucking padding your "dev"-time.

Any bets he either uses AI or a fiver hire to translating oh so riveting and deep dialogue?

 

[ArisenShitman]

Any bets he either uses AI or a fiver hire to translating oh so riveting and deep dialogue?

I doubt it, he seems like the type of faggot that would attract people that would translate it for free. It's pretty common among indie games really, you'll get lots of volunteers to translate it to their native tongue for you and they'll even do it free of charge. Wouldn't be hard for someone with the clout he previously built up to find people to do this properly and on the cheap. When you're that popular you tend to get the type of people that just offer you things for free.

I'm more surprised that he pays 12 moderators, why would you need such an amount and why would you pay them? You can easily moderate a chat with 1 or 2. Being generous, one more for the Steam forum and I guess one for his discord? But 12? I don't get it.

 

[Ted's Cabin]

I'm more surprised that he pays 12 moderators, why would you need such an amount and why would you pay them? You can easily moderate a chat with 1 or 2. Being generous, one more for the Steam forum and I guess one for his discord? But 12? I don't get it.

This is the legendary "employing your friends" strategy which I genuinely respect. If I had the money I'd also hire retards just to entertain me full time.

 

[p1138]

One of the first things that pops up when I search for Social Blade is Pirate Software.

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So I took a look at his Social Blade and damn the retards at Clownfish TV weren't lying this shithead really did lose 100k subscribers.

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Yeah, we've known. He's also lost 50,000 twitch followers in the last month, along with his active switch subs falling off a bit as well.

https://twitchtracker.com/piratesoftware

I doubt it, he seems like the type of faggot that would attract people that would translate it for free. It's pretty common among indie games really, you'll get lots of volunteers to translate it to their native tongue for you and they'll even do it free of charge. Wouldn't be hard for someone with the clout he previously built up to find people to do this properly and on the cheap. When you're that popular you tend to get the type of people that just offer you things for free.

I'm more surprised that he pays 12 moderators, why would you need such an amount and why would you pay them? You can easily moderate a chat with 1 or 2. Being generous, one more for the Steam forum and I guess one for his discord? But 12? I don't get it.

Apparently he was paying some dude in russia to translate that version, but because of the mess with russia and ukraine hasn't been able to pay them to do anything for him in ages. Of course why he would bother trickling out work to translators instead of just getting the whole thing done in one shot is beyond me, especially since context could change how translations are done later on compared to the earlier stages... not to mention it should also cost less to just do in one go instead of piecemeal.

But he's a fucking idiot.

Regarding the moderators, don't forget he's also super proud of his ban bots, which do work for him already anyway. They're probably also discord mods, so really you would actually want a handful to cover the different hours of the day for activity basically in shifts, but no that definitely doesn't require a dozen fucking mods.

edit: It's now Friday the 11th, and still no heartbound update due on the first day/week/full week/whatever of every month.

 

[Luecke]

is it possible to check if mald fakes his charity donations? I think his receipts are only pictures on his discord

 

[Forklift Certified]

@limbdiction @kiwifarms net
15 is self reported already +2 I think his ego bleeding trough his statement, I dönt tink he hired More people...

https://youtu.be/G5Q0dpU_zU0?si=4R_vWlumoEwW1Xf7

Start at 0:25 (already cliped and archieved around 200-300 pages)

 

[blargenheimer]

How and why does he have 17 employees holy shit. Also why is his business model to scam people in to buying a game forever in early access
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So he admits he's shitting on his actual paying customers and the game he's wasted several years not-developing and his entire goddamn company and brand are afterthoughts and not profitable, instead grifting his stream audience which he also treats like shit by refusing to apologize even at the expense of those viewers.

Insane behavior, dude.

I live super frugally and prefer it that way.

Three months later he closes on a $1.3 million 3000sqft home on top of his first property. If he needed a facility, he could have just bought land, or leased an existing facility.

In reality, he's probably not smart enough to consider that his massive income stream was/is in dire need of management. If he had the humility to listen to a professional and take their advice, he wouldn't be in his current situation. Maybe, if he had invested in help at/near his peak of popularity, he could have diversified his income streams to something other than a "minimum wage" position at Offbrand and a "game publishing studio" that doesn't publish any games.

House of cards.

How many ferrets are in need of rescue(except the ones in his possession)? I always thought they were pretty niche pets, but they are apparently so popular that they require a million dollar rescue industry.

Hard to say. Wikipedia claims over 5 million across the US, but they're not typically found in shelters compared to how common they are in pet stores. Knowing their high costs and how much they fucking smell, as well as not being able to breed keeping their population in check, probably helps keep them in proper interested homes.

 

[itogi]

PreserveTube, local:

 

[Maldavius Figtree]

and they think its all okay, because they're better than you.

No, they think it's okay because gamers are such retarded dopamine addicted goy cattle they will just continue buying the worst trash while whining about it. Memes about horse armor DLC and overpriced Nintendo ROM wrappers don't matter if people keep buying this shit.

 

[solidslug]

PreserveTube, local:
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is he so egotistical that its impossible for him to stop talking abt stopkillinggames..? or is there something im missing

 

[Not Yet Implemented]

I was thinking about "everything you asked for and nothing you wanted." He's obviously invoking genies interpreting your wishes literally. Sometimes this is how programming works, but I can't see how law would work that way. First of all, natural languages are much less standardized. Even if a term has a strict legal definition, there's bound to be room for interpretation. Interpreting the law is one of the functions of judges. Also policymaking, especially European policymaking, is consensus-based, (and you could be snarky and say American policymaking is based on lobbying power.) Either way, when you don't get what you want, it's not because you badly specified your intent, but because there are other interests pushing in a different direction. Very much not like a genie interpreting your words exactly.

For an extreme version of this confusion, you can look to sovereign citizens. He's either revealing that he thinks it works like a compiler, or more likely, he's just saying what he thinks makes him seem wise.

 

[The ATF Disliked That]

Three months later he closes on a $1.3 million 3000sqft home on top of his first property. If he needed a facility, he could have just bought land, or leased an existing facility.

I might be late, but: This has to be a reason why he doesn't register his "rescue" properly. All the money from both his "studio," subs/ad-revenus, and ferret donations can be clumped (which has been theorized before) to pay for this building as a mortgage, property taxes and insurance. There would be no other way for a "rescue" to justify buying this type of building instead of finding a lease as you said.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

I guess those would be Heartbound's artists?

so wait, DOES HE even make his art / music??!?

..... if he doesn't even do that...

 

[itogi]

so wait, DOES HE even make his art / music??!?

Art is made by Bradie Shaye Rehmel, music is by Stijn van Wakeren. Everything else (programming, story, etc.) is made by Jason.

 

[The ATF Disliked That]

so wait, DOES HE even make his art / music??!?

..... if he doesn't even do that...

Art is made by Shaye, music is by Stijn van Wakeren. Everything else (programming, story, etc.) is made by Jason.

Yup. mald is the guy in the group project that doesn't do any of the fucking work he's supposed to be doing, then bitches and cries whenever he's called out for it. Then demands he gets a good grade for his shitty work that deserves nothing.

 

[N1bbaN3rd]

There is a caveat, though. Maldavious was hired and let go within one federal pay session. He may have been fired, or his clearance may have been denied.

Call me optimistic if you like, but I like to think that a background check found all of his furfaggotry and they just went "NOPE!"