What are you hoping to defend about Jason? That he's in the right for defending Stop Killing Games while blatantly hiding the fact he co-owns a publishing firm for a live service game, the thing SKGamers are rallying to keep alive once publishers abandon them?
That he's seemingly okay with saying racial slurs around his minority friends, who have now come back to call him out for it? That he lied about his experience in gaming and is now grifting off an unfinished RPGMaker earthbound clone number 193781?
Hello,
I've given my "Good, Bad, Ugly" take in a post that is waiting for moderator approval.
Without being redundant I can say I've not seen as blatant racism beyond normal banter but I was not in his classes with him as I was a Jr and Sr running a club when he was a Freshman and Sophomore.
I was introduced to Jason years after we graduated so I only know him after his in-school interactions as I was busy with my own life.
I remember lots of soft "a"s being dropped in a very Eminem fashion but no hard "R"s because I know it would anger the Insane Clown Posse friends we had but there were some people that I know Jason and others were very tight lipped around the group.
I spent some time reading up on the SKG movement and as someone with a free version of their IP out there in addition to a draft release for free I actually have to side with the movement. This might be counter to Jason's stance but for a short while there Jason was all about "Having his own WoW Server" and was a huge proponent of "Preserving games" through emulation.
I even have the SNESX Emulator he gave to me 15 years ago on in a folder on my HD in addition to a ton of roms that he linked me too and a Seiken Densetsu "Official Music Release Website" since we shared admiration for the work and composure.
I see that his stance has changed or has been made to change due to the title or part-ownership at a company that offers "Games as a Service" through exclusively digital authoring and with online access only may have forced him to change his tune but this is a "Conflict of Interest" if I've ever saw one.
I believe that this would either be from cognitive dissonance or some form of adhering to a status quo established with his position.
I'm genuinely confused with who Jason has become. This is a guy who once said to me something poignantly thoughtful about someone's redemption only to hear what that someone else tried to do and changed his mind with a "Forget that person" quite passionately sticking to a very straight and narrow standard.
I can't speak for Video Game Design as the most I've done is a few flash games in 2000-2003 with simple UIs, Layers, If-this-then variables but nothing special. 3 years is "A Dying Property" as per my friends in the industry you only have so many years to strike while the iron is hot.
I think he has to finish his game to prove his majority detractors wrong even if it takes him far longer than anticipated and even if it does get finished he'll have an army of people modding the game to actually make it "Pirated Software" and dunking on it because people are only willing to tolerate so much.
I have never actually seen Jason hack anything. I did take him to the Santa Ana Computer Fair multiple times and even bought him a collection of "Hacker Tools" CDs for one of his birthdays but I have seen him call a Dominos Pizza and pretend to be a regional manager after spending the time to find out who the regional manager was and demand 2 more pizzas after we had already got two.
It's not "Social Engineering" or "non-computer hacks" as much as it is lying and defrauding a company until they blacklisted him and he moved to another pizza shop at least that's what he told me. They had a pile of pizza boxes in their attached garage.
I think Jason has found a niche as a talking head and a method of earning a lot more through sponsorships or "Affiliate Sales" on whatever property he directs his followers towards.
When I look back over the pages of disclosure content I've had to turn blinders on to specific contributors because I know who they're talking about I don't have first person accounts of it.
Thanks for your time.
