Killed the greatest gamer initiative out there for content

This guy is such a dumbass and so arrogant that he can’t fathom he could be wrong with anything. I watched his stuff when he exploded thanks to YouTube shorts, but quickly changed my view of him. If you ever worked with a know it all but not really type of guy, you see through their BS early.

I didn't even know who this person was. So, after reading some comments:

Goes by thor/pirate software on youtube, has a channel and also streams
Is a narcissistic asshole who cannot be wrong, ever
Apparently has developed some games, including one "impossible to pirate"
Was respected until he decided to talk bullshit about Stop Killing Games (that's the SKG), dunking on Louis Rossman
Already had some pretty shitty takes before that

I’ve also seen it said that he is “my uncle works at Nintendo” credentials personified. But I can’t be assed to verify it. Just another streamer people shouldn’t even know the name of to me
- He used to work at Blizzard.
  He caught flak for something that happened while streaming hardcore WoW. People accused him of not using frost magic to help others escape a botched raid. A lot of people made jokes "what you fail to understand is that Thor didn't need to cast Blizzard because he worked there for 8 years."
And apparently he played a match if WoW where he goofed up and let a bunch of his team mates die and then got defensive about it to a foolish degree when called out instead of just saying yeah I made a mistake and laughing it off
Thanks for the recommendaion to block this shit goblin.

You truly believe piratesoftware is the only reason a million Europeans didn't sign a petition on game preservation? You truly believe, if not for him, the EU would have passed legislation to regulate the video games industry. You might as well be mad at Gawr Gura for increasing the price of rice in Japan.

He spawned a bunch of misinformation that people are repeating to this day every time the petition is mentioned. He was by far the largest negative influence on the campaign. Even if it was always doomed to fail, who would you have OP clown on if not him?
- I was pointing out elsewhere that I hadn't heard of this guy before today, but Chet Faliszek, who you may know from indie hits like... let's see... Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2 and Portal 2, seems to not be on board for very similar reasons.
  https://bsky.app/profile/chetsucks.com/post/3lsd7rsd3j22n https://bsky.app/profile/chetsucks.com/post/3lsf4vxbtls2p
  I don't fully agree with either of them, but targeting a specific guy just because he happens to be the one that got into a call/response thread with the figurehead of the thing you support is pretty toxic interneting, and I don't like it.
- who would you have OP clown on if not him?
  Nobody? Why start a hate campaign against a person because a petition didn't get enough signatures? The vast majority of petitions don't get enough signatures. It's nobody's fault. Stuff like this just makes me think supporters of SKG are entitled man children.
When will Gawr Gura address these allegations?
Truth is that most people don’t really care about this. Game preservation is niche. This petition failed because there isn’t enough interest.
The type of people that would watch videos about this are also the type of people that are already invested in this topic. People that didn’t sign the petition are people that don’t even know, or care, about this.
That said, piratesoftware did misrepresent the movement, and I’ll take that into account if someday one of his videos pops up in my feed
- Everyone is too busy getting in their "Pirate Software bad" to actually give a shit about the Initiative.
  Can anyone name someone of consequence from the EU that has talked about SGK? I genuinely want to know. SKG is a good thing that seemingly only people in the US and Canada seem to care to rally their audiences for.
I only learned of the petition, because of the backlash to piratesoftware. Which obviously means if it succeeds it's due to them!
- Maybe that was the plan all along! 4D chess over there.

My sister watches this Thor dude, and I don't know why because the guy is an insufferable jackass. I absolutely hate hearing his stupid fucking voice, bitching about the stupidest shit for the stupidest reasons. Hell, I don't even want to play his games because I constantly hear the stupid bullshit he does just to stop the players he doesn't like from having fun since they are playing his game "wrong." Not breaking rules, just not playing the way he thinks they should.

He’s literally an industry plant. In the most literal sense

The first pirate software video I saw, was claiming he made an unpiratable game because it used Steam achievements to track progress.

I'm no expert, but I think that if it wasn't pirated, it's just cause the pirates didn't give a damn. And it sounds like it could cause a lot of problems like bad syncing, or making the game unreplayable w/o steam achievement manager.

Also, if the game isnt exactly something like oneshot where you literally only have one shot, steam achievements are just totally stupid since you cant replay the game
Also you cant even really save gamedata on there, only your progress
- If it wasn't obvious already, it would appear that he and I have very different takes on what makes games fun. Has he ever played a video game before always on internet connections? Well, he worked for Blizzard, so we can assume some disconnect between him and what players want.
Surely making a local only implementation for tracking Steam achievements is about as hard as cracking some DRM?
- There's literally tools to arbitrarily set and change Steam achievements

This dude often has super good takes.

This dude often has deeply misinformed takes.

This dude often doubles down on misinformed takes.

Stop being drawn to confidence.

I like him for being bold and more often right than he is wrong.

I wish he were more philosophical and open to being wrong.

I wish that ideal of him could positively affect all of the gaming community and wider society.

He is often wrong and uses his following to bully people. Then it turns out his following is shit at games and gets them killed on sight ingame for it, so he quits the game leaving a guild of a few thousands of people that is at war with everyone else.
The dude is an egomaniac that thinks he is smarter than other people.

My head: Sperbal Kace Grogram

ITT: We HaVe tO KeEp kIlLiNg gAmEs bEcAuSe wE’Ve nEvEr oWnEd sOfTwArE.

Ngl, I fell for the PirateSoftware take as well. I would not be surprised if others did because of how respected he is in the gaming sphere.

https://youtu.be/6sJpTCitKqw

https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo

how respected he was.
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Untill he had his bass ackwards, factually wrong take on Stop Killing Games, because he watched a few minutes of a couple of Ross's vids, and then proceeded to draw a bunch of wild conclusions, all on his own, that yes would have been bad if they were actually true... but they weren't.
Ross had previously gone into much more detail about the things Pirate was confidently saying would happen... and Ross had come up with nuanced and detailed solutions that would not result in the situations Pirate just pulled out of his ass.
What is worse is that some of the things Pirate was worried about happening... some of these alternative solutions were explained by Ross... in videos Pirate was actually clipping to make his SKG response video.
So... in addition to not watching all of Ross's relevant videos... he also either did not actually watch the entirety of the videos he used in his response...
Or, he massively cherry picked what he responded to, knee jerk built entire narratives on the fly without all the relevant context, and then just pretended his initial take was 100% accurate and correct despite knowing he was strawmanning Ross and SKG.
So yeah that's a massively disingenuous and badfaith approach to formulating opinions.
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Untill he joined a hardcore permadeath WoW clan, and fucked up his casting order, wasted mana unnecessarily by using an overpowered spell to kill a random ad, had enough mana to at least cast a minor paralysis or slow effect to aid an ally who was vocalizing a need for help...
... and he instead just curtly says something to the effect of 'bail' or 'retreat', despite not being the actual shot caller, then runs very far away, telling everyone that he has no mana (which was a lie), proceeds to derogatorily explain that spells have cool downs and mana takes time to recharge, he told them to leave, so its their fault that half of them are now permadead.
He fucked up, panicked, made his own decision to retreat, confidently gaslighting the fuck out of everyone else and blaming the entire mishap on everyone else.
This was all livestreamed, by Pirate, and a good number of people have reviewed this, taken it frame by frame, and concluded he is in fact a narcissistic, lying asshole and a coward.
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Untill people finally fucking realized that this 'indie game dev' doesn't actually do hardly any game development, and constantly lies about how much game development he does and how much progress he is making...
... because what he actually is is a livestreamer who livestreams nearly fucking constantly.
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Pirate/Thor is the epitome of your dark triad type personality, he is narcissistic and never wrong unless he sociopathically calculates that he really, really actually has to apologize or defuse some particular bullshit he's done that too many people are aware of with too much evidence and certainty, he is extremely proficient at basically being a cocky asshole who is always the coolest most talented and knowledgeable snd infallible guy in the room.
And these examples I've just given don't even go into half of the other shit out there, including a whole arc of it being discovered that he kinda sorta has a long history and pattern of manipulating people into doing a fuck ton of work for him, and him making most of the money in a bullshit 'partnership' that doesn't really even need to exist because he does basically nothing... to the point that many people say that whole thing actually qualified as grooming, in at least some sense.
The dude is your stereotypical Type A, aggressively manipulative Alpha chad dudebro techbro you'd find in any position of authority at a large software/gaming firm... but because he didn't last long at the one he used to worked for, well now he's actual a genius maverick underdog indie dev!
The dude is a maniacal sociopath and basically a fraud, who, like many other charlatans, is able to gain a following because he is:
charismatic and confident, pretty decent looking for a dude, and also has a deeper voice...
has a basic to intermediate knowledge level of much of the gaming industry and game development... which easily convinces a bunch of people who think they know how games work, or like to imagine themselves as people who know how games work... but in actuality know almost nothing.
I hate to fall back to gendered stereotypes, but he is the male version of the queen of the cliquey and fashionable and better than you girls in high school.
He does exactly the same bullshit but flipped over into the male videogame nerddom space, wooing the insecure, edgy, gamer boy nerds with overly confident and just technical enough hot takes on game design and the business aspects of game development.
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EDIT:
Ok, so... this whole thing with Thor has now just completely blown up, and basically, nearly every single videogame adjacent commentator on youtube is very, very displeased with Thor, as more and more people have seen Ross's counter to all his bullshit.
And, as I said he would... he has now sociopathically determined that he has yet again done something waaaay too bullshit, that waaay too many people have receipts on, for him to continue being entirely cocky and arrogant...
And is now psuedo backpedalling with... statements that resemble admitting he may have gone a bit too far in some specific aspects or that his tone was too harsh...
..., but largely adamantly remaining steadfast in that he has 'valid concerns', continues to reframe aspects of this by leaving out very crucial context, and cast himself as a victim, throw out more red herring statements to try to point out inconsequential, minor factual flaws in some particular person's critique of him, and then act like that represents the mainstay of why people are angry with him....
... all while making just tons of statements that contradict previous, relatively recent statements of his, with no acknowledgement whatsoever that the primary problem is that he just makes up bullshit on the fly constantly, and has no consistent, stable, understanding of any of this...
...no fundamental apology for or explanation of or even acknowledgement that he has changed a stance because he determined he was wrong, that he's sorry for being confusing and contradictory, that he now realizes he has no clue what he is talking about.
He knows that if he just actually admits his whole 'i know stuff about games, actually' public persona collapses, his career and basically public life is over.
He doesn't actually care at all about being internally consistent or factually correct, but he knows he is addicted to attention and praise, and those things will go away if he just flat out admits defeat.
This is a narcissistic sociopath self imploding, very publically, under the weight of their galactic levels of hypocrisy, cruelty, pettiness and attention seeking behavior.
I suggest popcorn.
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In other news, in the last roughly 24 to 48 hrs... the EU SKG initiative has gotten about 50k more signatures... vastly more than the trickle it had died down to... basically every video game adjacent youtuber is both tearing apart Thor's bullshit, and begging any of their EU/UK viewers to sign the petition.
Maybe, just maybe, this momentum can be sustained sufficiently to breach the million mark, but its not gonna be easy... the EU petition is still about 450k sigs short... it'd need to pull in roughly 11k sigs every day, for each day between now and the July 31 deadline.
You would have had to hear of the before you could respect his opinion

piratesoftware talking out his ass?

Say it an't so!!

YOU CANT BLAME THOR FOR RUINING THIS CAMPAIGN SINGLE HANDED

Is this all his fault alone? No, but if someone starts spewing bullshit excuses and makes up lies about my objectives to his millions of followers, I feel like it is important to correct him, and call him a doo doo head.

Too little too late, but his onlyfangs(or whatever it's called) drama really cut into his CCV. He tried beating Neuro-sama's hype train on twitch, failed, and made a bunch of petty excuses. He can't maintain his facade anymore.

dudes a turd

his dad worked at blizzard and basically created world of Warcraft /s

~~change my mind~~

can't change my mind