Comment on Thank you, Thor!

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And if you know anything about what he’s talking about, you quickly realize that in fact he does not know it all.

  Can I be a big time Twitch celebrity too if I doodle a series of completely nondescriptive boxes and link them with little lines in MS Paint as I talk?

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He has literally said that the MS Paint doodles aren’t meant to be super descriptive or helpful. He started doing it in his meetings at Blizzard, because he found that any visual aid was good at keeping executives’ attention. Whenever he had to do a presentation, he’d use MS Paint every few minutes to keep them focused.

    And now he does the same with his viewers. He busts out MS Paint every few minutes, just to refocus the viewers and keep them engaged.

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    • RazgrizOne@piefed.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hate everything about the language used here. Not your fault. Just hate it.

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    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To his credit, at least he admits this. It’s not like he’s hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.

      I’m sick of that excuse. The whole I’m dumb or I don’t know or it’s for the algorithm excuses people make to try and deflect criticism. I give no credit. That itself is an underhanded strategy.

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      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s playing the game by the rules as written. If the Game Master is upset at the players using their own rules against them, that’s the GM’s fault. I can’t begrudge a guy manipulating a mega corporation (in this case, manipulating Google/YouTube’s algorithms) for profit. He needs viewer retention to stay at the top of the algorithm, so that’s what he’s doing.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can I be a big time Twitch celebrity too if I doodle a series of completely nondescriptive boxes and link them with little lines in MS Paint as I talk?

    Definitely. Especially if you have large breasts.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do I have to be a woman also or are the breasts enough?

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      • Funwayguy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The latter works better, then you can go full Lily Tino when called out and ‘attacked’ for the obvious BS.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wings of Redemption makes it work… ok. He doesn’t make it work at all.

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• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  he also cheats in single player puzzle games

  of course there is no way to definitely prove that, which was probably an intentional tactic, but certain puzzles he “solved” in “hours” took a whole community weeks to figure out (brute force was the only way) and there’s no way he’s just happened to guess the right answer

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  • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s funny because it’s not like he’s speed running or anything, he could literally just tell chat he was cheating because the puzzle was too hard and nobody would care.

    But he has to keep up his insufferable smarter than everyone image by “solving” puzzles fast.

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• Coolcoder360@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Agree, the few videos of his that I appreciated were so rare and in every one he reminds me of that guy who is a pain to actually work with and any way other than their way is completely incorrect to them.

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