Oh my god I hate that pirate software guy. He started popping up on my youtube and he is the most annoying know it all I have ever seen on there (i'm being dramatic) and his takes are so bad. He is seemingly very pro drm and pro live service games.
BECAUSE HE PUBLISHES THOSE GAMES.
I really can't stand the guy.
Rant over.
I will pirate his games simply out of spite. Won’t even dignify it by launching it
Just a heads up, a lot of his anti-piracy measures in his games are things like using the achievement system in steam to track your progress and stuff like that. So if you pirate them it checks for your achievements for that game, which you are unable to get, and then fucks with your ability to progress in the game.
Pirate Software? Yes, I think I will
i saw a short of this guy saying he hates mr robot because apparently the production team stole his code without crediting him to use in one of the episodes, weird story
To be fair, and I fucking hate the guy, they took information from a cryptography write-up about Defcon that included someone's personal phone number, which resulted in the guy getting flooded with calls
Now why the fuck a "security analyst" like Thor didn't think to sanitze his fucking text is another question entirely
I've only ever seen him promote the Blizzard union, good to know that's basically the only thing he's good on
I first encountered him through a HealthyGamerGG stream and I thought he was an insufferable tech bro dork
Guy who is the director of strategy for a publisher that only has thus far worked on a live-service game:
guys pleaaase don’t regulate live-service
we need a totally-deregulated industry for uhh innovation and stuff
do you want politicians telling you what games to play
this will kill the cash flow
what if people do sabotage to accelerate end-of-life to get private servers
please do not consider whether or not this is more likely or better than a studio just killing their own servers and litigating against people who try to preserve the game
its totally unsustainable to haveright-to-repairerm uhemulationuuuuuhhhhh sorry post-end-of-life preservation
it’s disrespectful to holy IP praise be
you had the game for ten years already
who really cares about art preservation anyways
this is tyrannyReminds me of how one of the dudes on Extra Credits channel was a consultant for like DLC and microtransactions and the channel kept making arguments why they're not inherently bad.
So glad Dan left them. He's a chill guy, and they've only gotten more blatant since he left.
Literally a
pure reddit in human form
Glad to see I'm not the only Ross Game Dungeon enjoyer, also yeah Thor is fucking insufferable
I love Ross! His voice is so soothing!!!
Edit: I should add, he's also one of the few VG YouTubers that isn't
And I love learning about old games
The comments on his videos are even worse
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also does Thor seriously think that the game companies won’t advocate for their case to the EU legislature once the initiative is raised into parliament??? Does he think that direct democracy exists like that at this very moment? The law is just enshrined from the initiative itself immediately? no process, no consultation, no bureaucracy, nothing??? Thor. Buddy. I’m giving you all the respect I can physically muster and am going to put aside your blatant conflict of interest and assume you genuinely believe this and genuinely worry outside of your own benefit here—are you fucking five years old? Do you have any idea of how government works? Do you pay attention to anything at all?
For someone who is supposedly a fierce union advocate, this tantrum betrays a toddler’s understanding of how actual corporate-subject bargaining works. It is the responsibility of the party adversarial to the status quo to present a radical view of change that puts the entrenched entity on the backfoot.
If you were to do what Thor says and present an ironed-out compromise plan as your first card, you’re sacrificing your queen to capture an undeveloped pawn. You absolutely do not know ball. They’ll kill you. What about the past three decades of Democratic Party strategy has convinced you that compromising at the start is a way to affect change??? You create the conditions for a compromise plan by getting those benefiting from a lack of change worried that they’ll face significant material consequences that would make their current mode of profit unsustainable, and then you negotiate with their brokers.
This is the same fucking repulsive logic that has radlibs scolding people for using their vote as a bargaining chip and not pledging fealty immediately to the Nothing Will Fundamentally Change Train after the Great Vibe Shift. You don’t get anything from capitalists and power brokers unless they’re scared. You have to scare them.
I generally enjoy Thor’s content but I was about to go insane watching his videos on this. The examples only work if you presume that this proposal would somehow replace both copyright and cyber crime legislation, it’s fucking insane. And like you said, as if this wouldn’t be challenged and changed when it actually becomes some kind of legislation proposition. You don’t start a bargain by cutting back your own demands, it’s so goddam stupid.
if you move your goal to the half, the midfield shifts to their fourth. it's not hard to grasp. either he doesn't see this as a negotiation (in which case he has a middle-school understanding of civics and should get the fuck off his high horse about it) or he's intentionally fearmongering to snuff out the demand for change (in which case he's a bad actor and is acting on his conflict of interest and thus loses every ounce of credibility he's mustered as a sort-of everyman game dev)
It is the responsibility of the party adversarial to the status quo to present a radical view of change that puts the entrenched entity on the backfoot.
If you were to do what Thor says and present an ironed-out compromise plan as your first card, you’re sacrificing your queen to capture an undeveloped pawn. You absolutely do not know ball. They’ll kill you.
I admittedly have no personal experience with these kinds of negotiations, but this is something that worried me about Ross' recent Q&A video. I think the intention was to assuage people that think the proposal is too extreme (misguided, IMO, since literally any regulation is viewed as extreme by his real opponents), but he gave his personal minimum non-negotiables that would be compromises from the currently stated position. He qualified this by saying that it's his own personal views and doesn't reflect the views of the movement as a whole, but surely you've got to show a united front on this, right? My immediate thought was that the EU software association negotiators would be kicking their lips, since that should establishing a ceiling for what they'd accept and they'd obviously go down from there.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
You can tell by his face he’s insufferable. Yes I’m breaking out the nerd callipers.
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Who the fuck is that
on the right?A guy who uses tricks to manipulate the algorithms of short form content sites (YouTube shorts and tik-tok) so his content always appears on the front page, which is then used to promote his stream. The advice and content he presents is not bad, just bland and obvious, well except for this caee. In this case he's a game developer himself so there's an obvious conflict of interest, which is why is opinion on the matter is so bad.
PirateSoftware
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Anyone that makes their money scamming kids on YouTube isn’t worth listening too.
Drafting full legal documents covering every edge case seems to be main idea for a legislation in EU, and then liberast dorks complain there is way too much legislation going. Then again there was the case where EU had to add that ALL the cows they give subsidies for need to be real and alive because some guys in Romania i think got few years worth of subsidies for a thriving cow farm which was 95% virtual.
isn't this person's whole shtick making shitty takes so they can farm views on youtube and redirect people to their stream?
Make it simple: release everything to the government to be hosted forever or face summary execution
