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jonesy, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

I blocked this guy from my YouTube suggestions last year after getting heaps of his videos recommended to me, and in every one he comes across as an insufferable know-it-all.

dual_sport_dork,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

And if you know anything about what he’s talking about, you quickly realize that in fact he does not know it all.

Can I be a big time Twitch celebrity too if I doodle a series of completely nondescriptive boxes and link them with little lines in MS Paint as I talk?

mic_check_one_two,

He has literally said that the MS Paint doodles aren’t meant to be super descriptive or helpful. He started doing it in his meetings at Blizzard, because he found that any visual aid was good at keeping executives’ attention. Whenever he had to do a presentation, he’d use MS Paint every few minutes to keep them focused.

And now he does the same with his viewers. He busts out MS Paint every few minutes, just to refocus the viewers and keep them engaged. It’s not to help with whatever he’s describing; it’s just to keep the viewers engaged, so he keeps making money off of them.

To his credit, at least he admits this. It’s not like he’s hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.

RazgrizOne,

I hate everything about the language used here. Not your fault. Just hate it.

Lfrith, (edited )

To his credit, at least he admits this. It’s not like he’s hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.

I’m sick of that excuse. The whole I’m dumb or I don’t know or it’s for the algorithm excuses people make to try and deflect criticism. Guess I’ve just seen to many people of prominence use that excuse one to many times over the years.

mic_check_one_two,

It’s playing the game by the rules as written. If the Game Master is upset at a player for using their own rules against them, that’s the GM’s fault. I can’t begrudge a guy manipulating a mega corporation (in this case, manipulating Google/YouTube’s algorithms) for profit. He needs viewer retention to stay at the top of the algorithm, so that’s what he’s doing.

Lfrith,

I’ve just heard so many of the same excuses for even scummier people over the years of always shifting the blame to justify whatever is necessary to get the bag. The excuses seem ever less convincing.

blanket,

I think you’re confusing ‘excuse’ for ‘reason’ here. no one is excusing his behavior, just pointing out that the reason he does it is because the system allows for this kind of behavior. we can see through the veil, but others are being hooked by it because it’s designed to keep you hooked.

it’s the same with other charismatic always online personalities. they’re really good at spinning their bs and people keep eating it up because it sounds good.

Lfrith,

There’s people who will explain why it is done, and use it as an excuse why it is okay because that’s the rules of the game. Seen it way too many times from apologists. Heck the comment I responded to went about how they give this guy credit and can’t blame the guy for doing it.

That goes from explanation to excuses once they started providing an opinion on the behaviour. So that no one is making excuses isn’t right.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

This is a long-winded way of saying “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.”

janonymous,

The viewers aren’t the game masters, though. I honestly wouldn’t want to participate in a game where I have to retain the attention of people without giving them anything of value. I think at some point those who participate also need to take some responsibility.

Lightor,

It’s possible it’s not an excuse. I’m in software eng. Doodles and on the fly flow charts are made all the time. It’s much easier to follow a complex topic if you have something to point to. Especially when trying to tie together concepts, like interplay between services, timing, DB, APIs, etc.

ggtdbz,

To be fair, I do this at work and while I get funny looks I do get complicated ideas across better when I can provide visual aid.

Frankly I need to improve my MS Paint skills. I need to get my mouse handwriting up to at least 70% of the Khan Academy guy’s level.

cenzorrll,

Pretty sure he uses a wacom

seralth,

Iv always been confused over why he was ever in a meeting with executives when his official job position was QA tester. Not lead, not supervisor. He was a grunt worker.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Can I be a big time Twitch celebrity too if I doodle a series of completely nondescriptive boxes and link them with little lines in MS Paint as I talk?

Definitely. Especially if you have large breasts.

SaharaMaleikuhm,

Do I have to be a woman also or are the breasts enough?

Funwayguy,
@Funwayguy@lemmy.world avatar

The latter works better, then you can go full Lily Tino when called out and ‘attacked’ for the obvious BS.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

“If you’re a big fat man, I’m a titty fan, and I’d love to see yours, too!”

Duamerthrax,

Wings of Redemption makes it work… ok. He doesn’t make it work at all.

Justas,
@Justas@sh.itjust.works avatar

It’s 2025. You can be a big tiddy vtuber no matter what you are in real life.

Coolcoder360,

Agree, the few videos of his that I appreciated were so rare and in every one he reminds me of that guy who is a pain to actually work with and any way other than their way is completely incorrect to them.

janonymous,

There are people with imposter syndrome, who you wish would say more and then there are people with overinflated self confidence, who just won’t shut up.

shneancy,

he also cheats in single player puzzle games

of course there is no way to definitely prove that, which was probably an intentional tactic, but certain puzzles he “solved” in “hours” took a whole community weeks to figure out (brute force was the only way) and there’s no way he’s just happened to guess the right answer

FartMaster69,

It’s funny because it’s not like he’s speed running or anything, he could literally just tell chat he was cheating because the puzzle was too hard and nobody would care.

But he has to keep up his insufferable smarter than everyone image by “solving” puzzles fast.

Newsteinleo,

If you think he is an insufferable know it, you have not met enough insufferable know it alls. He is look warm obnoxious at best.

jonesy,

I don’t know man, I thought he was insufferable then, and after watching this rundown I stand by original opinion of him being an insufferable little gremlin.

Newsteinleo,

Peace of life advice, don’t let other people tell you how to think, form your own opinions based on the things you value and experience.

Thor exist, and so do a lot of people that are a lot worse. He gets at more hate than he deserve when people like Jordan Peterson exist.

Also, you don’t have to watch his videos. You can just ignore him and move on with your life. There are better things to do with your time than to hate someone.

pchela,

There’s a beautiful sentence at the end of every Rare Earth video: Don’t let other people think for you, they can barely think for themselves.

Newsteinleo,

There is some really truth to that.

DragonTypeWyvern,

Oh wow you know so much about this topic and everything else!

Newsteinleo,

All I am saying is that i have met truly insufferable know it alls and he is not one.

Randomgal,

Oh the irony lmao

Newsteinleo,

I am not sure you know meaning of irony

Nangijala,

*lukewarm.

Sorry, I’m not in this fight, but my inner grammar-nazi just couldn’t help herself.

Newsteinleo,

Apology exempted. Just please considered that the person you are correcting may not know English as their first language or by be struggling with dyslexia or some other issue you may know nothing about

Nangijala, (edited )

That’s totally fair. I’m not a native English speaker myself, but some of the English I have learned has been through corrections from friendly souls around the internet so I wanted to pay it forward. I’m not judging or attacking you as I don’t expect anyone to be perfect in any language. Not even their own. Just wanted to help out 🤗

kadaverin0,

I wrote him off as a prick after he practically had a narcissistic meltdown during a stream with a psychiatrist when he was told that he comes off as an arrogant pedant and needs to learn to admit when he’s wrong.

maxwells_daemon, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

Absolute fucking clown. He’s just scared of open sourcing old games because everyone will see how shitty his code is…

AlolanYoda,

That’s completely misguided, because people can see his code anyway (in his streams), and also because he will never finish or release his game

fartsparkles,

Probably little incentive to do so given how much money they’re making from Twitch, YouTube, etc.

lobut,

I mean, he’s said before that shitty code doesn’t make for a good or bad game. He gave examples of lots of successful games that have “bad” code and that it doesn’t matter and people should just make games.

SkaveRat,

Not sure if it’s still the case, but the code of balatro was a single giant file with if cases for every card

Bad code can make great games. But it will also make them very hard to maintain

Ghoelian,

It can alsoake fes that perform way worse than they have anything to. See yandere simulator for example

Feathercrown,

Undertale also has really bad code and it’s a great game

null,

But that’s not even what Stop Killing Games is about…

maxwells_daemon,

It’s one possible solution for one of the problems under the same umbrella. If you can’t or don’t want to run the servers for your online game (eg: Echo VR), just open source the server’s code and let the community keep the game running.

Goodeye8,

But even then it's astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced. Old games will be grandfathered in and it would apply only to future game releases.

Ledivin,

But even then it’s astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced

It’s not unlikely, it’s literally impossible.

null,

You don’t need to open source the code to release the server binaries.

SaharaMaleikuhm,

But you could open source it and have the community figure it out themselves

null,

Of course, but the point is that it isn’t a factor in Thor’s decision.

SolarPunker, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?

Used market is great, and I prefer true console hardware anyway when emulators are not optimized.

rollerbang, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?

Reading, enjoying vacation, …

Drekaridill, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?

I’m sitting in a restaurant waiting for my food

Syrc, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

I don’t know if there’s any other freak sorting their Lemmy homepage to Top Monthly who just found this post, but I’d advise to edit it to let people know that even if the site lists more than 1M signatures the actually valid ones might be less, so signing even now is still a good idea, as the creator said.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w I'm impressed by Rambo III for DOS

The adlib music really sound’s good. Especially the intro music

lorty, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

Let’s plays can be okay for new games, but I’d look into emulating something on your phone. If you crave the pc experience (which I totally get), you can probably get an old laptop for very cheap, slap linux on it and have fun.

Philamand, do gaming w Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode?

Quality mode, as I can’t see the difference between 30 and 60 fps. I think it’s one of these things that only connaisseurs can tell the difference, like for 99% of people Pepsi taste the same as coca cola but for the 1% that drink it daily there is a difference.

pika, do gaming w Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode?

Personally, I use my PS5 for 3D games that look pretty and need the most power, so I play most games on Quality mode, like FFVII Remake and Rebirth, even if it drops the FPS to 30.

30fps feels cinematic to me, which I often prefer in story-driven RPGs.

bjoern_tantau, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Due to Long Covid I can only lay in bed and most games are too intense for me. So I actually do watch let’s plays.

I really like Welonz. She has a really nice mix of indies and big titles, regularly tries out a great variety of games. She is very thorough and while she might not find all the secrets she will go out of her way to show alternate endings and stuff. And she has an interesting voice, so rumor has it that she is actually a ten year old boy.

darkguyman,

While I have no problems with let’s plays, I still feel like they’re kinda subjective. No commentary playthroughs are on the opposite end of the spectrum but I feel really really bored watching them and I can’t say the same for let’s plays.

knokelmaat, do gaming w Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode?

I prefer performance mode if it is decently implemented. For slower games I go for quality mode if the difference is obvious enough. Recent examples that come to mind are Somerville and Forspoken. Forspoken is a strange one, as it is actually a really fast game, but it looked horrible on performance mode and actually worked quite well once I got used to the 30fps. I play on base PS5.

JoeKrogan, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

Working

Ibuthyr, do games w Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become

Please don’t get me wrong. I’m sure you’re a loving parent and just want what’s best for your daughter. But what you’re essentially doing, is giving your kid pocket money to go play slot machines at the local dive bar.

The reason why mobile phone gaming is so bad, is because there are barely any actual games. The reason your daughter thinks it’s fun to play candy crush is not because the game itself is good, it’s because the game makes her addicted to it. This is bad. Really bad. This will have consequences on how her brain handles dopamine. Please, for the love of your family, get her off that shit immediately.

atomicpoet,

I think I know my kid better than you, a random Internet stranger who’s never met her before in her life. And consequently, has no understanding of what her actual needs are.

EncryptKeeper,

Yes the needs of your very special child are so unfathomably different from all the other children in the planet lol

atomicpoet,

Actually, my kid’s needs really are substantially different from others.

My daughter is autistic. She has trouble communicating verbally. But on Roblox, she finds it much easier to socialize.

She has never spent a cent on microtransactions but gets the opportunity to talk to other kids without being bullied.

I’m not taking that away from her just because strangers on the Internet can’t fathom different kids have different needs.

B0NK3RS, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sorry to hear that. Obviously we don’t know your situation but I just want to say that gaming doesn’t have to be expensive so hopefully you’re back to it sooner rather than later.

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