Untill he had his bass ackwards, factually wrong take on Stop Killing Games, because he watched a few minutes of a couple of Ross’s vids, and then proceeded to draw a bunch of wild conclusions, all on his own, that yes would have been bad if they were actually true… but they weren’t.
Ross had previously gone into much more detail about the things Pirate was confidently saying would happen… and Ross had come up with nuanced and detailed solutions that would not result in the situations Pirate just pulled out of his ass.
What is worse is that some of the things Pirate was worried about happening… some of these alternative solutions were explained by Ross… in videos Pirate was actually clipping to make his SKG response video.
So… in addition to not watching all of Ross’s relevant videos… he also either did not actually watch the entirety of the videos he used in his response…
Or, he massively cherry picked what he responded to, knee jerk built entire narratives on the fly without all the relevant context, and then just pretended his initial take was 100% accurate and correct despite knowing he was strawmanning Ross and SKG.
So yeah that’s a massively disingenuous and badfaith approach to formulating opinions.
…
Untill he joined a hardcore permadeath WoW clan, and fucked up his casting order, wasted mana unnecessarily by using an overpowered spell to kill a random ad, had enough mana to at least cast a minor paralysis or slow effect to aid an ally who was vocalizing a need for help…
… and he instead just curtly says something to the effect of ‘bail’ or ‘retreat’, despite not being the actual shot caller, then runs very far away, telling everyone that he has no mana (which was a lie), proceeds to derogatorily explain that spells have cool downs and mana takes time to recharge, he told them to leave, so its their fault that half of them are now permadead.
He fucked up, panicked, made his own decision to retreat, confidently gaslighting the fuck out of everyone else and blaming the entire mishap on everyone else.
This was all livestreamed, by Pirate, and a good number of people have reviewed this, taken it frame by frame, and concluded he is in fact a narcissistic, lying asshole and a coward.
…
Untill people finally fucking realized that this ‘indie game dev’ doesn’t actually do hardly any game development, and constantly lies about how much game development he does and how much progress he is making…
… because what he actually is is a livestreamer who livestreams nearly fucking constantly.
…
Pirate/Thor is the epitome of your dark triad type personality, he is narcissistic and never wrong unless he sociopathically calculates that he really, really actually has to apologize or defuse some particular bullshit he’s done that too many people are aware of with too much evidence and certainty, he is extremely proficient at basically being a cocky asshole who is always the coolest most talented and knowledgeable snd infallible guy in the room.
And these examples I’ve just given don’t even go into half of the other shit out there, including a whole arc of it being discovered that he kinda sorta has a long history and pattern of manipulating people into doing a fuck ton of work for him, and him making most of the money in a bullshit ‘partnership’ that doesn’t really even need to exist because he does basically nothing… to the point that many people say that whole thing actually qualified as grooming, in at least some sense.
The dude is your stereotypical Type A, aggressively manipulative Alpha chad dudebro techbro you’d find in any position of authority at a large software/gaming firm… but because he didn’t last long at the one he used to worked for, well now he’s actual a genius maverick underdog indie dev!
The dude is a maniacal sociopath and basically a fraud, who, like many other charlatans, is able to gain a following because he is:
charismatic and confident, pretty decent looking for a dude, and also has a deeper voice…
has a basic to intermediate knowledge level of much of the gaming industry and game development… which easily convinces a bunch of people who think they know how games work, or like to imagine themselves as people who know how games work… but in actuality know almost nothing.
I hate to fall back to gendered stereotypes, but he is the male version of the queen of the cliquey and fashionable and better than you girls in high school.
He does exactly the same bullshit but flipped over into the male videogame nerddom space, wooing the insecure, edgy, gamer boy nerds with overly confident and just technical enough hot takes on game design and the business aspects of game development.
… … …
EDIT:
Ok, so… this whole thing with Thor has now just completely blown up, and basically, nearly every single videogame adjacent commentator on youtube is very, very displeased with Thor, as more and more people have seen Ross’s counter to all his bullshit.
And, as I said he would… he has now sociopathically determined that he has yet again done something waaaay too bullshit, that waaay too many people have receipts on, for him to continue being entirely cocky and arrogant…
And is now psuedo backpedalling with… statements that resemble admitting he may have gone a bit too far in some specific aspects or that his tone was too harsh…
…, but largely adamantly remaining steadfast in that he has ‘valid concerns’, continues to reframe aspects of this by leaving out very crucial context, and cast himself as a victim, throw out more red herring statements to try to point out inconsequential, minor factual flaws in some particular person’s critique of him, and then act like that represents the mainstay of why people are angry with him…
… all while making just tons of statements that contradict previous, relatively recent statements of his, with no acknowledgement whatsoever that the primary problem is that he just makes up bullshit on the fly constantly, and has no consistent, stable, understanding of any of this…
…no fundamental apology for or explanation of or even acknowledgement that he has changed a stance because he determined he was wrong, that he’s sorry for being confusing and contradictory, that he now realizes he has no clue what he is talking about.
He knows that if he just actually admits his whole ‘i know stuff about games, actually’ public persona collapses, his career and basically public life is over.
He doesn’t actually care at all about being internally consistent or factually correct, but he knows he is addicted to attention and praise, and those things will go away if he just flat out admits defeat.
This is a narcissistic sociopath self imploding, very publically, under the weight of their galactic levels of hypocrisy, cruelty, pettiness and attention seeking behavior.
I suggest popcorn.
…
In other news, in the last roughly 24 to 48 hrs… the EU SKG initiative has gotten about 50k more signatures… vastly more than the trickle it had died down to… basically every video game adjacent youtuber is both tearing apart Thor’s bullshit, and begging any of their EU/UK viewers to sign the petition.
Maybe, just maybe, this momentum can be sustained sufficiently to breach the million mark, but its not gonna be easy… the EU petition is still about 450k sigs short… it’d need to pull in roughly 11k sigs every day, for each day between now and the July 31 deadline.
Nice work! Does the uncertainty come from error bars in the observed trajectory? I would’ve thought an asteroid’s path is pretty easy to pinpoint with enough information.
Yep, even the best telescopes have a bit of inaccuracy in their measurements, and we haven't been tracking it for long enough to determine its orbit with enough precision to know its exact trajectory.
As someone who doesn’t know or understand any of this math/physics. Would you mind doing a super simple explanation of how the calculation works and why you chose certain factors?
Might be a dumb thing to ask but just curious and want to understand more.
D_nominal, D_min, and D_max represent the most likely, minimum, and maximum (well technically not maximum, just 3 standard deviations from most likely, of which 99.7% of trajectories will fall within) distance 2024 YR4 will pass from the center of the Moon (NOT the surface). They're taken from the linked NASA website. R_moon is the radius of the Moon.
L_impact is length of the impact corridor (the line where 2024 YR4 could impact the Moon). Since it doesn't pass through the center of the Moon, it's not simply 2*R_moon and so we need a simple formula to calculate it from R_moon and D_min.
P(x) is a probability density function; it's the black curve you can see. It shows, for a given trajectory along the line of possible trajectories, how likely 2024 YR4 is to follow that trajectory. It's shifted a bit from the center since the most likely trajectories are not exactly centered on the Moon. P_impact is the area of P(x) that falls within +/- L_impact, AKA the probability that the trajectory will intersect the Moon, AKA the impact probability.
The rest is just some graphing stuff that doesn't matter to the calculation.
AKA the probability that the trajectory will intersect the Moon, AKA the impact probability.
(Disclaimer, I know close to nothing about these) Am I pedantic about a useless detail or does it significantly change the probability if we consider that an object may still impact the moon after “missing it” if it comes close enough to be captured and come back after a semi orbit? Or do the relative speeds makes this extremely unlikely?
Do we know if the Moon will be in the correct phase in it’s orbit when 2024 YR4 comes by? I didn’t notice a term to account for that, but I’m not too familiar with Desmos.
This is super cool! I was kinda hoping it would hit soonish. 2032 feels like it might as well be 3032 with how things are going. Hopefully this doesn’t mess up any of the world’s plans for lunar bases.
Exclude the tag, and after awhile Steam will stop recommending them to you. If you’re seeing a lot of them, it’s because you’re looking at a lot of them.
I don’t like souls like games. I saw black myth wukong was specifically said to not be a souls like game, but guess what? It’s enough of the same combat elements that I still don’t like it. So now I avoid games that are souls like, but also games that people claim they’re not souls like.
There’s lots of different approaches, but I’ve had the same problem.
Steam lets you exclude tags, but they limit how many tags you can exclude so it’s basically a useless feature.
I go to steamDB and it has a ton of sorting options, including being able to exclude “Lovecraftian”, “visual novel”, “dating*”, etc
There’s also a great browser extension for Firefox which is my preferred browser. It enhances the Steam homepage (depending on how you configure it) and lets you do lots of things like quick-sell cards and other stuff.
Based on what the OP said, Cyberpunk 2077 would still pass the filter because it does not use a single instance of the words “dystopia” or “dystopian” anywhere on the store page. 😌
fedia.io
Aktywne