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.
>named Pirate Software
>look inside
>anti-piracy
It's like how "Hacker News" is a bunch of corpo bootlickers that wear the dessicated dried husk of punk/rebellion like a cape.
every libertarian thinks they're Luffy when they're Blackbeard down to the fucking bone. truly sickening individuals. repulsive ideology that turns all it touches into unadulterated misery. the only pearly gates they will behold are the ones to the temple on Little St. James 
To such chuds, conservative is the new punk rock and licking billionaire boots is the new hack the planet. 
you don't UNDERSTAND you DONT GET IT it's HIP to PLEDGE FEALTY TO FAANG COMPANIES it's SUBVERSIVE to DO VIGILANTISM ON HOMELESS PEOPLE it's ALT to EXPLOIT DEVELOPING BRAINS FOR MAXIMUM AD REVENUE i'm WITH IT i'm THE COUNTERCULTURE i'm THE DISRUPTOR i'm REBELLING i'M THE REVOLUTION AND I'M THE FUCKING GRIM REAPER! I'M MY OWN KING! I'M MY OWN GOD! DEATH FOR THE MARKET. DEATH FOR ELON. KILL FOR ELON. EVERYONE ELSE AGREES WITH ME, THEY KNOW IT DEEP DOWN. I'M THE VOCAL MINORITY SPEAKING FOR THE SILENT MAJORITY. I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU IF YOU SHARE WITH PEOPLE
For real though, I do think some "soul selling" has been metaphorically been performed by such techbro devotees. They really, really want to escape their worldly burdens, escape into some VR waifu paradise (or wake up from the "simulation" that this one supposedly is to them), and otherwise live forever without human limitations and think that selling out to their corporate overlords is the one shot they have at all of that.
the ideological divide in silicon valley is do you want to put your brain in a hentai apk and live forever in a porn vn (age-of-consent researcher libertarian) or do you want to lock physical women into exoskeleton-size anime-girl mechas so your waifu can sire your children and realize the fourteen words with you (thielite vampire fascist)
If you decided to write dystopian near-future science fiction I might be scared to read it.
Steam, not even once.
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
This is because he was, despite his mythologizing, not very good at his job. He was a nepo hire, and basically got paid to prank people and call it security testing.
In theory, that can help tighten security, but in reality, it only marginally helps, because (and say it with me) the vast majority of leaks and security breachs are internal, from disgruntled employees, and Blizzard was/is a really, really crappy place to work, something that Thor himself literally acknowledges.
And he says this despite also mythologizing the CEO that much of the bad shit happened under, blaming middle management for 'obscuring the vision', as if CEO's aren't also blood-sucking reptiles more than half the time.
Do you have any details about this? It genuinely sounds interesting.
Most of this stuff is in his YouTube shorts, which is where I first ran into him. He has a lot of cute ferret content, but things just started adding up over the way he presented things and his strange takes. If you have the patience to go through his content, it's all there out in the open. He doesn't obfuscate, he just always has good spin on things, and isn't quite able to put it together when he's fucked something up because he has lived an incredibly charmed life.
I will say, one of the things he said that has always stuck with me is that Blizzard usually makes more money on a single WoW mount drop, than they have for the entire existence of SC2. Which explains why WoW is still garbage despite years of tweaks and overhauls.
Edit: He really loves making diagrams, as if it adds an extra layer of truth to whatever he's saying. Probably convincing to a layman or someone who hasn't worked in corporate America for a long time, but it's just like, 'You aren't saying anything complex, you don't need a diagram for it.'
I remember him diagraming his wage for his "this is why Blizzard needs a union" short and he literally just wrote the numbers he just said.
I think he probably does it for the thumbnails. People are more likely to click if they see an inscrutable diagram. I know I am...
It’s easier to follow if your English is not that good tbqh
That's fair, but also probably not why he's doing it
Because everyone in the industry is either a script kiddie or a disenfranchised sysadmin who is in the process of de-technifying their personal lives.
Security wankers are the fucking worst as well.
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 have ~~right-to-repair~~ erm uh ~~emulation~~ uuuuuhhhhh 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 tyranny
Reminds 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.
Sounds like the ultimate 
to me.
as I said last night arriving at a vehement pro-union anti-regulation position is almost the platonic ideal of Labor Aristocracy 
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
I love Ross! His voice is so soothing!!!
Even when he's mad/silly he is weirdly soothing, like when he's talking like a pirate.
Really wish he'd make some more Combine episodes but I understand he enjoys doing his free form essays more and ngl I love them as well
The comments on his videos are even worse
FIND THE MAGIC
FIND THE MAGIC 
You can tell by his face he’s insufferable. Yes I’m breaking out the nerd callipers.
Ross Scott has an excellent 
expression there.
Then again he usually does.
Who the fuck is that 
on the right?
Who the fuck is that
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.
It's Thor from PirateSoftware. He's not just a game dev, he runs his own small indie gaming company. So big conflict of interest in regards to this.
So he's like the (more) computer touching version of that Kurzgesagt cognitohazard maker? 
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)
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)
He doesn't even understand the most basic facts about the legal system in question - he was going on about "b-but what if it sets a bad precedent"... the EU does not use fucking common law (completely, now that the Brits are out). They don't give a shit about precedents (well, at least they give less of a shit than a common law system would)!
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.
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