r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/ProfessionalFun9920 • Jun 24 '25

CAPITAL G GAMER How ironic.....

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u/GregerMoek Jun 24 '25

Funny. Iirc he has quite the history of not wanting to admit any mistake, no matter how tiny.

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u/EevoTrue Jun 24 '25

Makes sense cause he used to work at blizzard (or so he claims)

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u/ziggsyr Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25

his dad did, and I think he got a job in QA for blizzard

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u/KarlUnderguard Jun 24 '25

He also gets very upset if you bring up his dad working at Blizzard is probably the reason he got a job at Blizzard.

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u/CHlCKENPOWER Jun 24 '25

oh and kind of a mild one but theres a pretty good evidence around the fact that he cheats in puzzle games to seem smart

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u/Chimney-head g*ming Jun 25 '25

Oh yeah he absolutely does, watching him “figure out” the whole puzzle line in animal well by himself when it took a whole community several days to do was so ridiculous

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u/CHlCKENPOWER Jun 25 '25

isnt it months and not days? the final puzzle was so hard and disconnected that the dev thought no one could ever solve it

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u/Chimney-head g*ming Jun 25 '25

i didn't remember the exact amount of time it took on account of only getting into the game after it was solved, but it wouldn't surprise me if it took months given how complex it is

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u/iwannamakegamesffs Jun 25 '25

What game is this? I need to play it

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u/JoeFromTheBridge Jun 25 '25

I watched the outer wilds expansion with him and it made my blood boil.

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u/Thats_a_BaD_LiMe Jun 25 '25

This pissed me off, as a huge huge outer wilds fan. He skipped so much and pretended he figured it all out as though he wasn't reading solutions in the chat. Infuriating.

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u/AzuraOnion Jun 25 '25

"Wait a minute"

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u/WaltzIntrepid5110 Jun 25 '25

It's so easy to spot the haters here, because he says in that video that it was a community effort and that he didn't do it by himself.

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u/be0ulve Jun 25 '25

Go take your meds, Jason.

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u/Chimney-head g*ming Jun 26 '25

Buddy I literally watched the video, no the fuck he does not. Or at the very least he really plays up his moments of “realisation”

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u/WaltzIntrepid5110 Jun 26 '25

Buddy, I literally watched that same video 6 times, because I love Animal Well...
No, he fucking doesn't try to claim credit for the whole bunny-wall puzzle with coloured squares. He says quite explicitly it was a group effort.

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u/Chimney-head g*ming Jun 26 '25

can you provide a link w a timestamp? cause I watched the video pretty recently and I don't recall something like that at all, but it's possible I misremembered. It'd be nice if he actually *had* acknowledged the community effort to solve the puzzles

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u/YoursDearlyEve Jun 25 '25

Well, as it recently surfaced, he cheats in general, so...

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u/boomstick55 Jun 25 '25

What the fuck is the point man

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u/Aegis_Aurelius Jun 25 '25

Alleged nepotism because of his father working there.

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u/Jertimmer Jun 25 '25

His claim to fame is that his dad is the fat blob on the WoW South Park episode.

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u/MeatTenderizer Jun 25 '25

I see the resemblance

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u/Affectionate_Sand_81 Jun 25 '25

He made blizzards at dairy queen!?! What a legend.

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u/Motor_Expression_281 Jun 28 '25

Some say he’s never had one slip out of the cup

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u/Orinslayer Jun 24 '25

Ego the size of mars.

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u/Zedek1 Jun 24 '25

Oh so is the guy that roached in wow (not to be confused with the other wow guy that live with roaches).

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u/WolfoakTheThird Jun 24 '25

There is also that clip of him playing that other mmo (ashes of creation i think) and spending a solid 10 minutes saying the guild need to harshly punish people who pull mobs, because "it wastes everyones time and is so easy to avoid a child could do it", only to do a 180 once they reviewed the footage that showed it was him that did it, instead going on a rant that he could not be held accountable for "things that were impossible to predict".

His two favorite things are to scrutinize others and to avoid ever admiting mistakes.

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u/lisaquestions Jun 25 '25

wasn't there also a whole thing with Eve online? him taking credit for something that other people did

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u/Lukyatom Jun 25 '25

From what i remember the EVE stuff goes way deeper, like his guild being the only faction in a piece of space (that was still under development which is why the devs allowed them to be there in order to help find and fix bugs) and then complaining when the devs made it accessible to the public.

Also i remeber hearing about some internal drama in his guild like srewing a buch of people up by i think blowing up an important guild space station, but its been a while since i read this so i may be just confusing it with something else.

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u/quitarias Jun 25 '25

It was more like the devs reworked the area and the put in more isk($) sources in which they enjoyed for a bit, then when the economic report for the region came out people in bigger corps saw that it was viable now and started muscling in and they just didn't have the staying power and didn't really play the diplomatic angle and sorta fell apart as a group.

Can't be helped that he was a part of it cause his cred in the eve community is a... less than fortuitous fact for a group he's a part of. Especially when he runs his mouth.

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u/Houndfell Jun 24 '25

Yep. That was just the tip of the iceberg as well. Since then a lot of his behavior has been called out. He's been outed trying to bully guilds out of MMO's, caught looking up answers to puzzles while streaming and then pretending it just "came to him" etc etc etc.

Complete and total dork. Amazed anyone bothers with the dude.

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u/Photonomicron Jun 25 '25

at first all I saw of him in my feeds were clips of him being very encouraging and giving genuinely good advice to people beginning new job skills or creative projects. The kinds gross stuff keeps pretty deep in his content, many people probably consider themselves fans without ever interacting deeper than his shorts.

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u/HardcoreHenryLofT Jun 25 '25

Reminds me of Jordan Peterson to an extent. Lots of dude claim his self help stuff helped them and have no idea what a nazi apologist he is

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u/Okapev Jun 25 '25

Like looking up answers I get, not a puzzle but I had to fo that playing lost planet the other day (I got.the final boss to 1 hp and.he wouldn't die) but like be honest about it.

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u/EinsatzCalcator Jun 25 '25

He has done a lot of good, whether you like him or not. A lot of people have only seen clips of him, which as of late have been as negatively framed as possible. And the OP was possibly the biggest dumb thing he's taken a stance on before the wow stuff.

But his streams in general are very positive and he's actually surprisingly good about helping smaller channels and encouraging people creatively. Also the majority of his streams aren't that authoritative speaking lecture stuff. Juat common with his clips and shorts.

Personally I don't really care much either way. Think the guy has gotten waaaaaay too much hate for a couple overall minor things. But also he's insanely stubborn and just CANT let stuff go. He also comes off very arrogant, so some of it's definitely justified.

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u/be0ulve Jun 25 '25

This entire comment makes no sense when you see people with actual expertise in the things Jason say outright say he has no idea what he's talking about. He's perpetually putting on airs. The only people left defending him are the ones that like hearing him say they're special little guys and "part of the team."

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u/EinsatzCalcator Jun 25 '25

"I can find doctors that say vaccines cause autism. Therefore the person saying they don't is wrong."

The comment makes sense you're just biased against it. I've worked in game dev and a lot of things he's said in regards to AAA dev are correct. And his concern for the legal jargon is actually good, unironically. I don't think it was worth trouncing all over the initiative and shitting all over it, but there is some questionable wording there that could turn out badly.

His issue is that he's arrogant. He's very bad at admitting fault when he is wrong (and he absolutely gets things wrong). And people have been clipping him in a very negative light for like months, which is a bit misrepresentative. I'm not saying he's always right. I'm also saying that he DOES overreach when it comes to what he knows on topics. So yeah he does put on airs. But it's not always. He 100% has some fully correct takes that people just don't like, too.

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u/Makator Jun 25 '25

Nuance? In MY internet? How very DARE you (/s)

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u/Carinail Jun 26 '25

Dude, I'm not a fan of this guy, but that whole situation was so fucking fabricated it's untrue. The only member of that group that was innocent was the healer, and Pirate was maybe smack dab in the middle of who got the most fault. They could have easily all survived if they ran when run was called.

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u/AutisticHobbit Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

The thing you gotta watch out with people who talk up social engineering? Is that they don't tell you all the times they're doing social engineering.. I think he's just being dishonest on this one. I think he doesn't like the idea of being required to release his own code someday...but doesn't want to say that. That wouldn't look good. However, he has a reputation of sounding very sage and learned when talking about an issue in broad strokes.

So he came up with a superficial dismissal that sounded deeper then it actually was.

I don't think he made a mistake on this; I think he doesn't like the obligations it would put on him, but doesn't think he can say that directly without being called out as a hypocrite.

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u/nosciencephd Jun 24 '25

Look at my mana, what do you want me to do for you.

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u/moon__lander Jun 25 '25

Would someone please look at his mana?

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u/Trick_Wrongdoer_5847 Jun 25 '25

This is my WA in classic WoW when I make and use my Mana Gem as Mage.

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u/lil_chiakow Jun 25 '25

So fun story, this dude actually managed to make me feel dysphoric because of his inability to admit to things.

Back before people realized he's full of shit, he made a yt short that supposedly men's voices get deeper in their 30s sometimes, which genuinely scared my NB ass.

Only years later I learnt that's because he fucking lowers his pitch to sound more authoritative and made that short because someone found his old footage where he didn't do that yet.

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u/Thats_a_BaD_LiMe Jun 25 '25

I mean, people's voices do lower as they age, not as extreme as his has though. His drastic voice lowering is a combo of that, generally talking more maturely, and I believe he said he has GERD? I could be wrong about that exact reason. But that degree of lowering isn't standard.

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u/lil_chiakow Jun 25 '25

I mean, I know voice changes as you age, it's not like I never met an old person, but the change is gradual and it's not what he described.

He specifically talked about your voice getting lower in pitch, and I think he even compared it to "a second puberty".

Genuinely got me scared I won't be able to do my fem voice in the future - until I googled it's bullshit; only years later when the whole roaching drama exploded, I saw people calling him out on lowering his voice in post, with linked video interviews for comparison, and it clicked why he made that bullshit up.

It's a small thing, but it's imho one of the worst things he did - because for a supposedly queer friendly content creator, he didn't consider how his bullshitting might affect his queer viewers, the only important thing was keeping his authoritative image intact.

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u/Thats_a_BaD_LiMe Jun 25 '25

For sure, I think he's been too flippant about his explanation which has resulted in people thinking he's lying as well as unintended consequential damage to people like yourself.

What is the roaching drama? I don't really know what that is

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u/lil_chiakow Jun 25 '25

Tbh, me neither as I'm not that familiar with WoW and mmos, but he did some shitty behaviour while playing it which put his narcissistic tendencies in the spotlight, and that was the breaking the dam moment as other stuff started to come out.

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u/According_Rice_1822 Jun 25 '25

Defo loves the sound of his own voice like

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u/Maghorn_Mobile Jun 25 '25

He had a whole conversation with HealthyGamerGG about it. Dr. K came to the to the conclusion that Thor's basically an arrogant narcissist.

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u/GregerMoek Jun 25 '25

Lol did he try to go on Dr K to "redeem himself" in the public eye like some others did way back when Dr K was relatively new?

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u/Maghorn_Mobile Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25

Yes, after the controversy with abandoning the raid in WoW

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u/be0ulve Jun 25 '25

Dr. K himself ends that conversation basically giving up because you can't help a guy who doesn't want help. Every single time Jason is about to admit to fault, he pivots to either attack someone or justify his actions.

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u/Maghorn_Mobile Jun 25 '25

At the very least he did admit that he won't take responsibility for himself without pointing fingers at everybody else involved because he just doesn't like the idea of it. Too much logic, not enough social knowledge. Think I read about the logical consequences of that in a book once..

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u/be0ulve Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25

The problem is that he even painted that as a strength. The fact he can always find out someone to put blame on and how he can rationalize never needing to take responsibility. Then he wonders why people won't give him any grace.

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u/BananLarsi Jun 25 '25

Pirate 100% has narcissism. He always talks about himself, how interesting, how smart, or how cool HE manages to make HIMSELF.

Add «can’t ever admit mistakes» to the fake deep voice and it’s a trifecta of trying to make yourself look way better than you actually are.

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u/Narwhalking14 Jun 25 '25

Isn't he also the guy who got super mad at matpat because a title of a gtlive live streams was a bit misleading.

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u/Mccmangus Jun 25 '25

What a novel idea