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mariusafa, do games w Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker'

The real GOATs. See y’all on rin!

krimson, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
@krimson@lemmy.world avatar

I watch this dude sometimes, he says he’s a fulltime game dev but all I see him do is play other games. The game he works on has seen very little progress.

Would be nice if he at least admits he’s a streamer and not a game dev.

Lemminary,

I’ve also noticed this from watching his stream and the more I learn about the guy the less I like him. He seems to misrepresent and oversell himself quite a bit.

Btw did he tell you about the time he worked at Blizzard, for the millionth time?

JoYo,
@JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar

The job he got through nepotism?

echodot,

He worked at Blizzard in the same way that Apple store employees work for Apple. They do, but not in the capacity that’s been implied.

whats_all_this_then,

Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that they’re Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company won’t shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?

echodot,

I know a few people who used to work for Apple. The reason a lot don’t say it though is because if you do people automatically assume you had something to do with whatever feature they don’t personally like, and you get berated about it.

whats_all_this_then,

Ah, that’s completely understandable. Most people don’t realize that in a lot of companies, the decision to make the stupid feature/break your workflow comes from a suit 10 pay grades above your level and despite everyone involved trying to explain that it’s a bad idea.

Also it’s a big fucking company haha

e8d79,
@e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Sounds an awful lot like what YandereDev did when he was still relevant.

burgerpocalyse,

yanderedev is always relevant

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

One of the best cautionary tales for developers

DreamlandLividity,

No joke, YandereDev has been making more progress than Thor on Hartbound and he at least does not pretend to be experienced Blizzard game developer.

frenchfryenjoyer,
@frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world avatar

I remember seeing gameplay of Heartbound in like 2017? maybe earlier. it’s still not finished?

chronicledmonocle,

No it’s not. It’s sad.

MITM0, (edited )
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

I mean isn’t it a Deltarune ripoff ??

EDIT: Undertale it is then

dustyData,

Deltarune didn’t exist yet. It’s an undertale ripoff.

Which is very telling, tobyfox released a whole game on his own. While this " I worked at blizzard, BTW" tool hasn’t with an (allegedly) entire company around him. He’s a grifter, he scams people around him to profit off of other’s work. That’s all he does.

chronicledmonocle,

Given that it didn’t exist yet, more like an Undertale rip off

underscores,

“game dev” is a way to put it

Randomgal,

Yeah but did you know he worked at Blizzard?

kadaverin0,

He’s been working on that game for almost a decade now, too.

reddeadhead, do gaming w New to Linux – Need Help Installing Tekken 7 or Tekken 3 on Fedora KDE (Step-by-Step Guidance Needed)

For tekken 7 if you bought the game through steam there shouldn’t be anything technical needed. Just hit install and launch it through steam should work. You might need to look up how to enable proton if its not enabled by default. I thought they were starting to do that. I’m not sure if you meet the minimum GPU requirements but you should be able to refund if not. For tekken 3 I don’t see a PC port, Your best bet would be setting up a PS1 emulator like duckstation.

Muji1414,
@Muji1414@lemmy.world avatar

Can let me know for tekken 3, that can work well and i will setup and install what ever needed. Kindly let me know in detailes

reddeadhead, (edited )

Okay, Here’s step by step setup.

  1. Go to duckstations github page and grab the latest DuckStation-x64.AppImage github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/…/latest
  2. Get the ps1 bios files, They can be found here psbios.gitlab.io/bios/ps1-bios/It will be in a .zip you will need to extract it afterwards you will have a lot of .bin files.
  3. Get your tekken 3 ROM file, It will usually be in a .rar or .7z so you will need to extract the ISO.
  4. Next you will need to launch duckstation, I’m not sure if your DE will prompt you to mark the appimage executable but if not open a terminal and run " cd Downloads ; chmod +x DuckStation-x64.AppImage " then it should open the installer when you double click it.
  5. During installation you will be asked for a BIOS directory, Click on the PSX folder containing all those .bin files. After that it will ask for game directory, Choose the folder where you placed the .iso for tekken 3.

Beyond that you will need to setup your controller, Any USB controller should work. Graphics settings should be okay at the defaults. That should be the full setup process, Let me know if you got any questions or need more explanation.

Edit: Forgot about .bin/.cue files, These are the same as a .iso but split into multiple files. Make sure to keep them together but it should work the same in duckstation.

vodka, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

Can’t wait for him to see this and claim it was his plan the entire time

lemmy12369,

Only way to get around it…

Nilz,

So that’s why he worked at Blizzard for 7 years and keeps bringing it up.

DogWater,

Full ambercrombie & Fitch mode

2xsaiko, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
@2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Is this a real screenshot of him crying about the initiative reaching 100%?

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Very unlikely. He hasn’t made any content covering the initiative yet.

picnic,

You mean, after the shit he put out that was complete bs?

SaharaMaleikuhm,

He probably still does not understand what it’s about

sommerset, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
@sommerset@thelemmy.club avatar

What u attempt to accomplish? Maintaining games also takes time and effort and server costs and they likely kill them to save costs.

There is no way this petition is gonna do anything

4am,

When games put DRM in them that requires a server

And I buy that game

And then they take away that server

I want my money back

Or for them to latch the game so it works

It’s not fucking hard to figure out

funkless_eck,

then don’t make single player games (or sections of games) require a server.

KingOfTheCouch,

At best we get fresh new EULA’s to click through on our way to play our game.

I’ve signed a lot of petitions over the years, and I’d sign this one too, but it’s pretty naive to think this will actually do anything useful.

HK65,

This is not just a random petition, it has legal force to compel the EU to officially hear the issue.

pupbiru,

you can’t sign away consumer rights in a EULA… they might try and out them in there, but if it were law then they wouldn’t be able to enforce it

deur,

Its okay to stop running the servers. All gamers want is to have the stuff it takes to continue to enjoy the game after the companies are done.

HK65,

It might get the EU to make a law.

psx_crab,

Enable offline mode. That’s the very least they can do. These game, like how EA famously claim that it’s not possible for SimCity to run in offline mode and then soon release an offline mode, should be playable offline.

Enable private server/p2p multiplayer. This would make sure playing with friends is still possible after the server went down.

seralth,

It’s trivial in the grand scheme of things to release a localhost server to let games run offline. For the amount of work that goes into games already this is a drop in the bucket.

It’s also trivial if you know it’s a requirement at the start of the project.

So even if it does nothing for games out now, if it makes it a requirement going forward that alone would be a massive success all by it self.

panicnow, do games w Unexpectedly wholesome exchange after a poor performance from me in Rematch

I often defuse like this by referring to my age. “My reflexes were great when I first started playing video games in the 1970s—now I am just slower and not much I can do about it.”

SandmanXC, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

I’m not proud of it but I really enjoyed the mass dunking on this guy.

bishoponarope,

Be a little proud, as a treat. You deserve it.

echodot, do games w Unexpectedly wholesome exchange after a poor performance from me in Rematch

Is this the weird football but not really game? I saw it advertised a couple of days ago and it didn’t seem to have a really awful camera.

BurgerBaron, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
@BurgerBaron@piefed.social avatar

I'm not relaxing unil it's 1.5 million.

toynbee, (edited )

In Ross’ video, IIRC, he said 110% was good, 120% was pretty safe, and 140% was very safe.

edit: Correct autocorrect.

SaharaMaleikuhm,

200% it shall be!

danekrae, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

Who is this, and why is she so sad?

dumbass,
@dumbass@quokk.au avatar
tja,
@tja@sh.itjust.works avatar

Misgendering people is not funny.

danekrae,
iAmTheTot,

The difference is that 30 Rock is not doing it to be mean spirited.

victorz,

I think the root comment is just memeing? But I see your point, it’s not funny. (Or it shouldn’t be.)

iAmTheTot,

What does “just memeing” mean here?

kamenlady,
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

Oh? You’re approaching me?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c0b03102-260e-4833-a3f5-28abc654af68.png

They memed the joke from the show, while i just copied the part from jojo.

I wanted to lure you into revealing your stand.

Default_Defect,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

No, you don’t understand, misgendering is fine when its someone you don’t like, just like how body shaming is great when its a man.

/s

tja,
@tja@sh.itjust.works avatar

Looking at the upvote/ downvote ratio you might be right

BlackPenguins,

You did not get the 30 Rock quote I see.

StoneyDcrew,

I kinda hate the guy so it’s hard for me to keep the tone neutral but I’ll try my best.

Long story short: He’s a popular streamer that had a few controversies that caused many people labelled him as arrogant or egotistical.

The latest one is his take on the “stop killing games” initiative that he was against. He had a video a few months ago were he misrepresentated the movement and spread misinformation (whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate) and caused a significant drop in the momentum of the movement, refusing to accept any criticism and doubling down on things. That was until recently were the initiative was in the last month and a half before the big deadline at only around 50% of the required signatures, but then huge momentum sprung up with a lot of people marking him as the “villain” of the movement and because of his controversy before it wasn’t long before word spread.

This has obviously led to harassment of the guy(which I feel is too far personally) which he responded to by tripling down on his opinion causing further being labelled as the villain. Eventually the momentum carried it over the finish and people are happy that he didn’t get his way.

MolochAlter,

whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate

It’s not, in his response to the initial controversy he cut out the part of Ross’ video that directly contradicted his misrepresentation, he’s a lying piece of shit.

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?

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