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I'm pretty sure this is the same guy who was ranting about Godot "being woke" last year lol

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (11 children)

The YouTuber noted that his opinion on the initiative has led players to review-bomb the company's new releases. To avoid further harm to their reputation, he's terminated the partnership indefinitely. "I am no longer working at Offbrand Games,"

The damage is done now. He isn't likable, took a big loss on his part, almost took down his collabs with himself.

Let this be a lesson in being humble about your public appearence. He's essentially being featured in some questionable forums, I believe. This was absolutely not worth it for him.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Honestly, very smart and humble move, he certainly got hit with a ton of bad press for his opposition to the petition and that would have impacted the game studio's sales.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So I’m confused what exactly did he dislike about the movement? Seems like a solid one to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Basically he is not happy with the wording of the initiative. He had a 10 minute follow up video after he had a knee jerk reaction and went to into personal attacks against the guy that thought of the movement.

I'm going to get to roasted for this but watching his video I see what he's worried about. I agree that this industry has scummy practices but this bill is going to be a monkeys paw scenario.

I would love for this bill to go through in a perfect world but as of now companies are doing layoffs and closing and adding in more red tap and financial burden will mean more projects will be cancelled or won't be released in certain areas because it's not going to be financially viable.

I'm open to have my mind changed as I don't have any insight on what happens behind the scenes in these operations but I think people looked at a PowerPoint that said "gamers are getting fucked over" (which is true when live service games close) and signed something that COULD make studios rally around their legal team and financial departments to make things worse.

Pirate also didn't do himself favors by being not media trained and careful with his words but now he's dealing with SWATing, death threats, harassment, and losing his job over an opinion that's honestly from a perspective of someone that has worked in that industry for a long while vs a community know for being miserable and ready with pitchforks over stupid shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Please stop felatioing the game companies. The issue everyone had on his hot take is that by the very same logic no regulation on any company is warranted, and that is insane. Its just more of a bad industry wanting to have their cake and eat it as well.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

its difficult to know why he did what he did because he apparently misinterpreted what the point of the petition is and then spiraled right down a toilet from there

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why do you care about people caring?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago

That doesn’t make sense

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

As far as I've seen, the only thing PirateSoftware did "wrong" was point out some unintentional consequences that would fall on indie developers given the language used in SKG as written, and get a bit personal in his criticism of Ross Scott, and everyone has lost their minds on the dude. Idgaf about personal beef between creators and I agree with his concerns for indie developers even though I still support the idea of SKG (there is a happy medium place to be found here). Even if I didn't, he's said nothing so inflammatory to the cause as to earn all this stupid drama. Chill the fuck out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So "eat my entire ass" is not inflammatory now? Good to know.

Even of he did not say that, if he really wanted to give positive criticism he wouldn't advocate against it entirely. Your happy medium is correct, he was 100% against it from the beginning.

Not coming from anger or anything like that, just pointing out that you implied he was in the happy medium when he isn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So "eat my entire ass" is not inflammatory now?

Do you have the clip/video source of this quote? I didn't see him say that in his critique videos I watched. I need context to judge it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He did say that in his first video, but came out with a more reflective video which you probably saw.

Regardless, the fact he's dealing with such fall out over an opinion in an industry he's active in and getting ousted is dumb. Everyone is losing their minds over this but like everything people will move on to something else in a month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

...he’s dealing with such fall out over an opinion in an industry he’s active in...

Congrats to him, he is now the poster child of everything everyone hates about the industry. And its all due to his own ego centred actions.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No. Everything he said about this initiative was wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Care to elaborate on what he said and how it was wrong? Or....

Edit: down voting someone asking for clarification does not make your side look better or more right, you know, guys. The guy essentially said "nuh uh" like that was a strong argument, and I said "because?". Seriously, chill out.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So he said it would force MPs to be able to be played single player. Which, is wrong.

In the stream/video he is on a page that litterly says "this is what its not about" and he says "so this is all what its about"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Ok, I'll look more into that to better understand if that is the case. But even if he was wrong about everything, why is such a misunderstanding worth the drama and backlash? Everybody is truly up in arms over what seems like pretty mild criticism even if that criticism is all mistaken. Especially if it is all mistaken, really. People are acting like he said "fuck gamers/consumers and their rights", which is clearly not what happened. Disagreement isn't the same as disparagment or conflict. Reasonable minds can differ.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Not only do I not support this, I will go out of my way to tell people not to"

"This initiative can eat my ass, the whole thing. It can eat my entire ass"

That's not mild criticism in my world. About something that he did not even understand in the first place as many things he complained about was things the initiative literally said they were NOT trying to do.

But hey. Sometimes people can be wrong. We make mistakes. But when someone refuses to acknowledge they were mistaken and instead double down.

That's when people get upset.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (7 children)

"This initiative can eat my ass, the whole thing. It can eat my entire ass"

Do you have the clip/video source of this quote? I didn't see him say that in his critique videos I watched. I need context to judge it.

But at face value, I would still call that within the realms of normal criticism yes. He disagrees with the basis of the initiative. And disagreement doesn't mean that one or the other party is necessarily mistaken or that they are maliciously refusing to admit their mistake if unconvinced. They can just disagree. And even if they were being malicious or ignorant or too embarassed to admit their mistake, so what? Just don't engage, or argue in good faith. No need to swat the guy, make death threats, make weird personal attacks against him, or drag his name through the dirt across the entire internet because he is wrong or doesn't suck it up and tell you that you are right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This initiative can eat my ass, the whole thing. It can eat my entire ass

https://youtu.be/GuTp4Am51i0?t=395

Its like the most used clip in almost any coverage of this, I don't get why you keep asking as if its not a well documented thing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You act like I'm living in the same rage mill you all are. Clearly I'm not. I'm familiar with PirateSoftware, but I dont follow all this shit. It is rage that has apparently been festering over a year and I am only just learning about it over the last week or two as the petition was hitting its goal, much of which I spent 16+ days working in the family fireworks stores. I am also at work now, about to leave. I googled the quote on my lunch break and couldn't find the video. Forgive me for asking for a source so I could see for myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Rage mill? The only one here that seems to be getting upset is you.

This is likely the end of pirate software (at least as he was), there is no rational reason to try and pick fights over this.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am also trying to figure it out, but the link you linked specifically contains quotes taken out of context entirely, choppily edited together. Personally I never trust shit like that. If you quote someone and don't give a link to full context, it's either because you don't care or because you're hiding something, and neither is good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not in the slightest in this case. He very much did say that live and also still stands by what was said. The idea that you need someone to walk you though it to such a degree is odd and likely is because you are looking for a particular reality that you can agree with.

Like I could understand if we were talking about some event that had opposing claims here, but in this case the man in question does not even deny that was what he said. And if you want "the context" more then what was on that clip, the live stream was just that he was made aware of the campaign and this is how he reacted.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

People pointed out in his comments section but he did not apologize or mention for 10 months. When the video came out saying he was wrong he doubled down and said he is actually right. And then kept doubling down.

He also lied and said community is attacking him to see if that will hurt the movement. Community in fact did not attack him.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Again, not taking the "he's definitely wrong" stance at face value. I'll decide for myself. Reasonable people can disagree and both br "right" from their perspectives. Regardless, who gives a fuck if one person is wrong and doubles down on being wrong when they have no authority to stop this movement (clearly, as it has been quite successful regardless of his opinion). That shit happens 1 million times a day on the internet, and often from big names too. The facts is that, generally, he is an ally to the gaming community, particularly for indie gaming, and this is in-fighting bullshit.

He also lied and said community is attacking him to see if that will hurt the movement. Community in fact did not attack him.

They are attacking him now, here, publically dragging him through the dirt, and I've seen it elsewhere as well for the last week or two. What are you talking about? Why are we talking about him now if not becuase people are pissed off and hating on him? I read that someone even Swatted him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah people take accountability tho. He did not say "oh sorry I did not read the slides where it specifically said the movement is NOT about what I thought." He just insisted he is right.

Also for the attacking part I wad referring to the accused reviewbombing of his studio/publisher. Sorry for not being clear.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you or someone share those slides, becuase I'm not seeing that either. I looked at the English language initiative text on the website on my lunch break and did not see them.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

People have been out for him since the WoW drama where he as a self proclaimed genius and WoW god did everything wrong and left his mates out to die.

They dug into him and found that he's a master at bullshitting and pretending to find solutions to puzzles, that he obviously did google.

He might be a furry and also changes his voice to sound more masculine. He claimed to have received tens of thousands of death threats after the wow drama, which is highly unlikely.

He never admit fault but always doubles down.

All of that combined brought out the biggest of hate boners in people.

It's definitely easy and justified to dislike him, but he's not Hitler or something. He's just unlikable for bullshitting all day, but doesn’t deserve real hate.

People don't do themselves a favour by having such a low bar for literally hating someone. They will just get controlled by their hate.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

His defense of Godot and his stance on the attacks, seem very reasonable and correct: Clip 1, Clip 2. Nothing like what you remember, OP.

Separating from Off Brand Games to protect them of the fallout of his opinions and public exposure also seems like a correct decision.

Edit: fixed second link

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just a heads up, your two clips are linking to the same vid

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Oh thanks, the second clip is actually here. I'll fix it in parent in a minute.

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