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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
If you have 7tv with moderator logs checked on Twitch, you can see the bans still by leaving a tab open with his stream paused. He's doing about 100 permabans an hour this stream so far. I admire his mission to ban the planet! Oh, and I got gifted a sub even though I don't even follow his channel and have the stream paused. Hilarious!
Second time that I glimpsed at his face in a thumbnail in my reccomended and I thought it was Keffals before I looked a second time. To doofensmirtz quote, Wow, if I had a nickel for every time I mistook this guy for Keffals I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice!
Mald's dad just said on his stream that he was in mald's chat earlier and said "happy birthday" 3 times before mald noticed.
Said he has tried to raid him multiple times but mald ends his stream every time.
Then said "no he's a good kid I'm glad we kept him *laughs*".
edit: he's wearing a FATHOR t-shirt
Mald's dad just said on his stream that he was in mald's chat earlier and said "happy birthday" 3 times before mald noticed.
Said he has tried to raid him multiple times but mald ends his stream every time.
Then said "no he's a good kid I'm glad we kept him *laughs*".
So funny that his dad actually develops on stream. Someone that was just a Cinematic director (an excellent one) and not a dev.
I hope he doesn't get too much shit from all of these, he looks like a nice guy, he's just a shitty parent. (or maybe I'm wrong and it's like father like son)
Mald's dad just said on his stream that he was in mald's chat earlier and said "happy birthday" 3 times before mald noticed.
Said he has tried to raid him multiple times but mald ends his stream every time.
Then said "no he's a good kid I'm glad we kept him *laughs*".
edit: he's wearing a FATHOR t-shirt
is mald's grandmother rich? and is she dying? if both are true then he isn't lying because he probably wants the inheritance too bigger his ferret harem.
edit: forgot too quote
I just watched Harmful Opinions' playthrough and Mald's game is such a boring slog. It's one of those dime-a-dozen RPGMaker-style pixel walking simulators with loads and loads of dialogue and very little gameplay.
Apologies if this has already been said, I've been skimming the highlights.
So, you have to save your talking dog and kill the monster that you assume was responsible for kidnapping him, but oh noes, it turns out the dog IS the monster! You can kill the monster or you can purposefully fail the final attack to spare it, but it doesn't matter because in the end it gets split into 3 pieces by a sentient book and each piece gets sent to a different realm.
The forest realm is Animus and it's populated by furries. Several of these furries immediately ask to hang out with you within 5 minutes of meeting you, and if you refuse the game treats you like you're a vile and ungrateful asshole. There's a cougar furry that literally fucking disintegrates if you tell her no and you later have to fight her vengeful spirit. There's something immensely interesting about a furfag making a game where the furries go "accept us without question or we'll kill you and/or ourselves".
The ghost realm is the Tower and it's where I started mentally tuning out because it's SO. DAMN. BORING. The entire level consists of doing menial office tasks and acting as the errand boy for some ghost crocodile supervisor. It's like Mald put all of his pent-up hatred of working at Blizzard in this level and wanted you to feel as miserable as he did. At the end of it you get treated to a showing of his mommy issues. Not even joking, it's just him complaining that his mom was against his father coddling him.
The ice realm is currently unfinished and you can't get past the introduction. It's named Niflheim, just so you get that this was made by Jason THOR Hall.
This thing's a boring 3deep5me walking simulator that will never be complete, but you know what? It's quite interesting as a dive into Mald's mind.
I actually played the first demo just to see if sparing the dog monster made a difference (it didn't) and holy shit the movement speed is so unbearably slow.
A big chunk of the plot is you walking around while the schizo voices in your head tell you you're worthless.
The morality boils down to two dialogue choices: one where you're a sycophant who agrees with everyone and one where you're an antagonistic asshole for no reason (except in the furry bit where being an "antagonistic asshole" is saying no).
Like HO pointed out, every time you choose the "evil" option the game wags its finger and reminds you that your actions have consequences like it's SammyClassicSonicFan.
The boss fights are WarioWare minigames that go on long after they stopped being fun because the bosses have too much damn health.
Mald is shit at names, we've got such brilliant names as Lore the protagonist, Baron the talking dog, Binder the librarian and G8r the ghost gator.
Most of Lore's portraits show him crying, it gets pretty pathetic after a while.
The music is very repetitive and the art is standard bubbly troon pixel art (which iirc was made by a pooner, so no surprises there).
Edit: I almost forgot, there are collectible socks scattered across the game. Yes, socks. The more you collect, the more they pile up in your room when you choose to rest after saving.
Don't eat the flowers.
And ease up with the ellipses ffs. Also, this is him trying to describe what his dog is to him after being asked if he's a friend.
Mald showing off his family issues for all the world to see. Also his parents are black.
This is genuinely textbook material on how NOT to make a game, especially when you check under the hood and look at the butchery of code Maldavius shat out. I really want to see an actual, professional game dev pick this game apart.
So this confirms Shaye wasn't paid upfront for Shartbound's art which is arguably the best part of the game, and I'm pretty sure she's not getting paid to be the Head Ferretwrangler. Lord knows she's not getting paid anything now at the rate the game is selling. Remember that 30 minute straight haranguing Jason gave her over a pixel sign not being the dimensions he wanted? Publicly, too. I wonder if she's getting commissioned on the side because I have no idea how she could be sustaining herself financially.
Then gets told by his chat that mald's voice is fake, doesn't believe it, gets linked to 3 videos and is convinced that mald at least beefs up the reverb setting on his mic
Audio engineering autist here, I feel obligated to point out that reverb would not have that effect. The most convincing argument I've seen is the user here who pitched his voice up by 1 semitone and it sounded exactly like the interview footage seen in this video. Others have pointed out the proximity effect, which is absolutely a real phenomenon that sounds like bass boosting via EQ, but I firmly believe that he's using software to pitch it down a half-step. It is just subtle enough to not sound totally unnatural (dramatically altered pitch on a voice results in the sibilance and harmonics sounding obviously unnatural to our ears), except we can tell it's unnatural due to footage of him sounding like a nasally dork being on the internet. Based on my experience mixing/editing audio, I believe the most likely scenario is that it's a combination of pitching down a half-step, proximity effect leading to boosted bass in the signal, and voice training.
Paying his jannies is going to be his final downfall, they are so zealous and effective at their job of banning fucking everyone that by next month there will be nobody left watching him. All the bits gone, like tears in the wind.
Take notes people, this is why you pay janitors $0.
