I’m pretty sure this is the same guy who was ranting about Godot “being woke” last year lol
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.
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.
Let’s brigade people more for speaking and thinking differently. There should only be one correct opinion and anyone who disagrees should be shunned.
You mean “lets have people say whatever they want without any consequences or repercussions, no matter how wrong or hurtful they are”?
your takeaway from individual people being unhappy after everything that has come to light about an individual popular person is missing the actual situation/thing that is happening right in front of you? quite a bit more went on than “differing opinion” and even then people are luckily allowed to be upset and it is even easy to understand when it is an influential person, welcome to the internet.
So I’m confused what exactly did he dislike about the movement? Seems like a solid one to me.
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
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
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.
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.
Just a heads up, your two clips are linking to the same vid
Oh thanks, the second clip is actually here. I’ll fix it in parent in a minute.
Why do you people care?
Why do you care about people caring?
Curiosity
There you go.
That doesn’t make sense
I don’t like pirate software like any other guy, but I want to put credit where credit is due.
He wasn’t ranting about Godot being woke last year. He was actually actively defending it from all the bigots. One of the very few YouTubers or streamers, I saw.
You have probably mistaken him with Asmongold. He has long hair too, and he is right wing nutjob pos.
Wait, did PirateSoftware rant about wokeness, or are you confusing him with fellow failed game dev Grummz?
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.
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.
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.
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.
…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.
No. Everything he said about this initiative was wrong
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.
He pretended like this would force studios to publish sourcecode and that they have to give up on drm. I am not shure if he or someone else said this but someone also pretendet like new laws would somehow retroactivly apply to all games and now sstudios would have to give up server code that propably has thrid party software in it that they dont have the right license to just release it.( this is also a point i read alot from comments everywwhere and its stupid.) First, anny new law will take a ton of time untill it iss written then passed and then goes into effect. If this law passes studios will know way in advanced that upcoming releases in the eu would be under this new law and therefore can take this into account when builsing their infrastructure for online play/drm like in case of the crew.
Also anyone who is active in piracy forums where devs work on stuffk ows that they dont need aourcecode to get it running. People will chow through assembly if they want to make a game work, some decompiled lego island over the course of a year to preserve it.
Thank you for the good faith response.
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”
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.
“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.
“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.
It was said during streams, but yes, I did find a video that captured it, the clips of the quotes end at about 7 min and start from where I linked.
https://youtu.be/GuTp4Am51i0?t=371
Yes. People can disagree, disagreeing doesn’t mean someone must be wrong or mistaken. But in this case. He very much was wrong and mistaken.
And you don’t have to try and strawman this. I have neither harassed, swated, or made any threats, at all, against him. Nor have I ever advocated for it. I have also not claimed anyone deserves that treatment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Godot being woke? Wtf?
OP is mistaken. PirateSoftware defended Godot official and pointed out the actual perpetrator of hate was a mod of an unofficial fan discord. Someone else posted a clip of it in this thread.
That actually happened, but not from this PirateSoftware guy. The anti-woke godoters made their own fork, Redot, which, as you might have expected, doesn’t do jack shit other than offering cosmetic changes
I guess they woke up and made a good open source game engine?
They got 6, count them SIX, negative reviews in one day. Such review bombing, indeed.
So… I actually tinker around in Godot.
Whilst looking around to see if anyone had, or was developing an extension I would find useful…
I discovered ‘Redot’.
Basically, there is a small but very vocal group of people who are very, very angry that a Godot community manager made some pro LGBT, inclusive twitter posts, turned that into a culture war flare up on twitter…
And then forked Godot.
To make the anti-woke version of Godot.
Their youtube channel has, as best I can tell, absolutely no descriptions of any substantial differences from… you know, an actual game engine feature set perspective.
Beyond of course being behind Godot now, lol.
What they do have is a bunch of rants about politics and edrama for their ‘non-political’ game engine.
Also… they pronounce Redot as Re-Dot, hard t.
Godot is Godot as in Waiting for Godot.
Go - Dough. God - Oh.
The t is silent.
… of course these idiots are literally uncultured and have never read the screenplay or seen the stage play, so they have no idea how to pronounce the word.
Could have gone with Re - Do, or Re - Dough, those would have been closer, the first at least an obvious allusion to them being a Godot fork.
But no. Re Dot.
smdh
Perhaps Thor is Pozzo.
Is bigot pronounced “bih-got” or “bih-go?” 🤔
LevioSAH
Okay, as much as I approve of mocking bigots, I didn’t pronounce “Godot” properly for a few years because I had never heard the name spoken before. I’d only ever read it.
Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it’s an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing. Typically, people receptive to learning will try to correct themselves when it’s pointed out. I’m very self conscious of this because I’m awful at pronouncing words.
But for folks like this, yeah, mock the hell out of them.
Also, “dot” with a hard T is like super common in programming naming. It’s a pretty reasonable mistake to make.
Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it’s an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing
I love when I hear folks do this. It always gives me a little wholesome bump that it’s from reading.
Lol grew up reading a lot of books and such, so very similar and I am usually bad at assumed pronunciation, such as godot which I just learned thanks to this thread.
What you’re saying is true, that not knowing how to pronounce aloud a word you’ve only ever read is not some kind of 100% surefire sign you’re a bigot or anything like that.
It just means, as you say, that you’ve never heard it said aloud.
But… that also means you never bothered to look up how it is pronounced (its on wikipedia, the actual Godot devs have videos of them saying it, etc)… and it does also mean you presumably are also unfamiliar with Waiting for Godot.
So I would say you are also ‘uncultured’ in that way, but of course, simply being uncultured doesn’t make one a bigot.
You could just not have the time, money, etc, to have seen the play before.
That by no means say anything else really concrete about you, or any other person, if that’s like… the only single datapoint you know about them.
In all seriousness, I do strongly recommend seeing the actual play, probably you could find a dramatic reading / radio drama version of it somewhere on the net, or even a full video captured performance of it on a forgotten youtube channel or the Internet Archive.
I… don’t know that its ever been adapted as a proper movie, perhaps a film snob can appear and call me uncultured, haja!
I would strongly disagree with not looking up the specific pronunciation of a word being an indicator of being less cultured, as this does paint those who are not able to hear it (or have learning disabilities) as inherently less cultured.
I never looked up the specific pronunciation because I was not aware the name was not pronounced the way it was spelt until my mother told me. Being a high functioning autistic individual, I am generally afraid of using words I don’t already say a lot because I am never sure of the proper pronunciation (which is also subject to variation due to accents and regional dialects).
Personally, I subscribe to the idea of sharing new things with people and teaching if they’re receptive to it, because that’s a lot more constructive in my opinion.
You said the play was worth watching, yes? Is there a particular recording you would recommend recommend?
derp, looks like i fucked up the last url and made lemmy throw a fit… spaces in urls are problematic
Well, you’ve got a point with those that are hearing impaired or have a speech impediment, no argument there.
…
But uh, I am also a high functioning autistic… and, maybe I’ve just been around the block a bit more, crafted and worn more masks, maybe I am just older… the way I see it is ‘cultured’ is another malleable, non specific adjective or group description, where… everyone who uses such a term actually has their own specific definition of what it means, but acts like everyone actually has the same definition.
I guess my use of the term is also coming across as… meaning that anyone it applies to is some kind of innately, fundamentally inferior, and I don’t mean it in that way.
There are plenty of exceptional people who have no familiarity with … some subset of all possible media or traditions or cuisine or concievably literally anything that anyone could consider to be a marker of ‘cultured’.
And on its own… there’s no shame in that at all… this seems so obvious to me that I am kind of baffled I’d need to explicitly say it.
If you don’t know how to say a word, there’s no real, serious reason to be embarassed: you never learned, you never had the experiences that could lead to that.
Someone can just say, oh, its actually said this way, (in this case this is rather clear and objective as the people who named it have an official, correct, ‘canon’ way to say it), and then you go ‘oh, ok, thanks!’
…
Anyway:
Im not trying to say that not looking up how to pronounce a word means you are uncultured… that would just mean you never looked up how to pronounce it.
I am trying to say that many people who are familiar with and have read/seen/experienced Beckett… are more likely to get the reference immediately, similar to how an inside joke works.
So if you haven’t seen Waiting for Godot… thats a part of culture you haven’t experienced.
Thats what I mean by uncultured.
…
Ok, as for actual recommendations:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=izX5dIzI2RE
Turns out there is at least this rather low visual quality, but entire Waiting for Godot movie just on a tiny youtube channel…
And it also appears that I am so uncultured to have not realize there have in fact been several cinematic versions of the play!
This one appears to be from 2001, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, produced in Ireland… not sure if it got a showing in theatres, or was made for public TV broadcast.
Seems right to me to go to an Irish production, with Irish cast, for a seminal Irish screenplay… at least as an introduction.
There are evidently at least 8 or 9 film/tv versions of Waiting for Godot, including one directed by Beckett himself, I had no idea haha!
www.imdb.com/find/?=waiting for godot
EDIT: bad url, bad! uh yeah, i guess just copy and paste it manually?
not reading / watching a play by Beckett means you’re uncultured
Is there a community for Shit Lemmy Says?
Not that I’m aware of, but if you wanna start one, it might be a good idea to not fill it with fabricated quotes that remove all the surrounding context.
Maybe you could go back to reddit, make a subreddit entirely devoted to shit stirring and drama there?
Seems like a better fit to me.
Go - Dough. God - Oh.
Or even “g’dough”, either way the T is always silent.
Most of the folks I’ve heard making tutorials about it pronounce it “guhDOUGH.” To get that FOSS cred the name has to be a dumpster fire.
Ubuntu.
Oo boon too?
Oo bun too?
Pretty sure the correct pronunciation is the first, but a lot of people say it as the second.
… lets just name the next big FOSS thing ‘Uranus’ and watch everyone disagree about how to pronounce that, very loudly.
There’s an Arduino-based CNC controller firmware called GRBL. Gurble? Gerbil? Garble? GeeArrBeeElle? GuhRuhBuhLuh?
Hah! I’m gonna go with the last one, hahaha!
I most often hear it pronounced you-bun-too.
But it is oo-boon-too.
Dang, I can’t say I’ve ever heard You Bun Too… thats new to me!
No, YOUR anus!
I’ll say it that way sometimes, haha!
I also have a tendency to shorten ‘good night’ and ‘good morning’ and even ‘good to see you!’ into just basically g’ with a glottal stop, haha.
Redot still exists? I expected it to die off after a month max
Pretty weird guy, honestly. Seems competent, but spends too much time complaining about other people instead of working on his own stuff.
Exactly, seems competent. But only seems, he’s a narcissistic nepobaby who just can’t admit he’s in the wrong be it in video games or real life.
I just can’t understand why anyone would follow a piece of shit like him
You might be right, but I don’t believe you have any frame of reference to determine that he’s not competent. How much of his actual work have you reviewed?
Woah, how can you say that? Don’t you know he worked for blizzard!
Blizzard’s last good release was Overwatch (2016), which they have subsequently completely ruined (in my opinion) so I wouldn’t be proud of having worked there unless it was a long time ago 😅
He did? Weird, never mentioned it.
The review bombing is another fabrication:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2217000/Rivals_of_Aether_II/?curator_clanid=45028385
It seems like a minor influx of recent negative reviews. Most likely they didn’t want his current status in the public perception to work against the marketing push they wanted from him.
Because let’s be real, “director of strategy” doesn’t seem accurate for someone who is obviously just an influencer marketing your game to his large audience.
Reviews since July first look at least 50% negative which was not seen before so there could be an argument it is happening.
(the link is for the past week, so will be less and less inaccurate to the july first start date as the days pass by)
The only two reviews related to the drama are specifically in reaction to the alleged review bombing. The other negative reviews don’t mention anything related to the drama at all, and so the increase is probably just due to the streisand effect.
I’ll list the two drama-related reviews here trimmed down to the drama-relevant parts only (not the full reviews):
“Drumming up fake drama about a review bombing that never happened to artificially inflate your positive review count through fan counteraction is gross.” — Full Review
“Wasn’t gonna leave a review but Ludwig and Pirate Software cried review bombing so I’m leaving an honest review to combat the non-existent bombing.” — Full Review
As you can see by these excerpts, both of them were made AFTER the allegations of review bombing. They’re not part of the review bombing itself that was being talked about.
More than 0 reviews related to the drama = review bombing
He worked at blizzard for 7 years guys.
You do understand that on Steam if you have 50% or more negative reviews, it is a “Mostly Negative” and puts people off even trying. Bad reviews can have a serious effect on sales. 10 negative reviews in millions is nothing, 10 negative reviews alongside 10 positive is detrimental. It’s all about the percentage and indie games work at a different scale.
I’m unsure what the point about working for Blizzard means. You’ll have to elaborate.
On Steam you can report review bombing events to have the reviews struck from the list so…
And the working at blizzard line is mocking Thor for literally never shutting the fuck up about his nepobaby job.
