I blocked this guy from my YouTube suggestions last year after getting heaps of his videos recommended to me, and in every one he comes across as an insufferable know-it-all.
Thank you, Thor!
Submitted 6 hours ago by Fanfic_Galore@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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jonesy@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 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?
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour 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.
Coolcoder360@lemmy.world 5 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.
shneancy@lemmy.world 5 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
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 minutes 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.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
For those who don’t know, this streamer is only tangentially related to the stop killing games petition because he made a comment about it being BS because his misinterpreted what it was supposed to do. He used his misinterpretation to spread false information about this petition leading to it not getting the support it initially should have.
When the guy behind the petition made a statement saying he didn’t think the petition was going to get enough signature in part because of the misinformation being spread about it, PirateSoftware doubled down on his false claims and all of this lead to people doing the research they should have done in the first place and deciding to support the petition after all.
What we should probably be learning from this is that we should do our own research, and find out things instead of taking the word of random people online.
electric@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
A comment? Am I misreading your comment or is this just ignorance of the situation? Because PirateSoftware made a whole ass video on the subject way back (the one allegedly rife with misinformation). I remember it on my feed when the campaign was getting traction, but didn’t watch it because my view of him was souring.
From what clips I’ve seen*, PirateSoftware misinterprets the majority of what he addressed. Either maliciously or unknowingly, which is why he was blamed for tanking momentum since that video did get a ton of views (before people wised up to him being a total cunt).
*Yes I know the irony of what I just said there after reading your last paragraph. I believe these terminally online streamers because I would not put it past PirateSoftware to be this awful after watching his videos for a small period and then the subsequent controversies coming out.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 32 minutes ago
He may well have done but the only clip I have seen is the one where someone asks about it while he’s streaming games and he responded to that person with misinformation.
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Absolute fucking clown. He’s just scared of open sourcing old games because everyone will see how shitty his code is…
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
That’s completely misguided, because people can see his code anyway (in his streams), and also because he will never finish or release his game
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Probably little incentive to do so given how much money they’re making from Twitch, YouTube, etc.
null@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
But that’s not even what Stop Killing Games is about…
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 51 minutes ago
It’s one possible solution for one of the problems under the same umbrella. If you can’t or don’t want to run the servers for your online game (eg: Echo VR), just open source the server’s code and let the community keep the game running.
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I mean, he’s said before that shitty code doesn’t make for a good or bad game. He gave examples of lots of successful games that have “bad” code and that it doesn’t matter and people should just make games.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Not sure if it’s still the case, but the code of balatro was a single giant file with if cases for every card
Bad code can make great games. But it will also make them very hard to maintain
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
I hate having to hear his obnoxious voice because my sister watches him all the fuckin’ time.
electric@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
My condolences. I don’t even dislike the voice, his attitude just makes him so punchable. You think he’s some kind of expert at first but then it dawns on you that he’s just confidently stupid.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I'm not relaxing unil it's 1.5 million.
toynbee@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
In Ross’s video, iirc, he said 110% was good, 120% was pretty safe, and 140% was very safe.
vodka@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Can’t wait for him to see this and claim it was his plan the entire time
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
So that’s why he worked at Blizzard for 7 years and keeps bringing it up.
lemmy12369@midwest.social 2 hours ago
Only way to get around it…
danekrae@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Who is she?
StoneyDcrew@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I kinda hate the guy so it’s hard for me to keep the tone neutral but I’ll try my best.
Long story short: He’s a popular streamer that had a few controversies that caused many people labelled him as arrogant or egotistical.
The latest one is his take on the “stop killing games” initiative that he was against. He had a video a few months ago were he misrepresentated the movement and spread misinformation (whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate) and caused a significant drop in the momentum of the movement, refusing to accept any criticism and doubling down on things. That was until recently were the initiative was in the last month and a half before the big deadline at only around 50% of the required signatures, but then huge momentum sprung up with a lot of people marking him as the “villain” of the movement and because of his controversy before it wasn’t long before word spread.
This has obviously led to harassment of the guy(which I feel is too far personally) which he responded to by tripling down on his opinion causing further being labelled as the villain.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 44 minutes ago
whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate
It’s not, in his response to the initial controversy he cut out the part of Ross’ video that directly contradicted his misrepresentation, he’s a lying piece of shit.
dumbass@quokk.au 5 hours ago
SandmanXC@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m not proud of it but I really enjoyed the mass dunking on this guy.
bishoponarope@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Be a little proud, as a treat. You deserve it.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 4 hours ago
What u attempt to accomplish? Maintaining games also takes time and effort and server costs and they likely kill them to save costs.
There is no way this petition is gonna do anything
4am@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
When games put DRM in them that requires a server
And I buy that game
And then they take away that server
I want my money back
Or for them to latch the game so it works
It’s not fucking hard to figure out
deur@feddit.nl 2 hours ago
Its okay to stop running the servers. All gamers want is to have the stuff it takes to continue to enjoy the game after the companies are done.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
then don’t make single player games (or sections of games) require a server.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
It might get the EU to make a law.
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
At best we get fresh new EULA’s to click through on our way to play our game.
I’ve signed a lot of petitions over the years, and I’d sign this one too, but it’s pretty naive to think this will actually do anything useful.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
This is not just a random petition, it has legal force to compel the EU to officially hear the issue.
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Is this a real screenshot of him crying about the initiative reaching 100%?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Very unlikely. He hasn’t made any content covering the initiative yet.
krimson@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I watch this dude sometimes, he says he’s a fulltime game dev but all I see him do is play other games. The game he works on has seen very little progress.
Would be nice if he at least admits he’s a streamer and not a game dev.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’ve also noticed this from watching his stream and the more I learn about the guy the less I like him. He seems to misrepresent and oversell himself quite a bit.
Btw did he tell you about the time he worked at Blizzard, for the millionth time?
JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
The job he got through nepotism?
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 hour ago
I remember seeing gameplay of Heartbound in like 2017? maybe earlier. it’s still not finished?
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
Sounds an awful lot like what YandereDev did when he was still relevant.