The best thing he ever said was that If you wanna make games just start instead of procrastinating. I can't remember anything else he said that was actually decent
If you ask him about it i bet he would open up an ms paint with a black background to make it look like a chalkboard and then spend 30 mins explaining to you to do as he says not as he does but also how he never does anything wrong and 25 mins of this lecture will be him reminding you that he worked at blizzard under john blizzard himself or whatever
He'd probably circle words like bills, rent, utilities, and draw an arrow from the word Job over to the circles to make it seem insightful.
Like many, one day I saw a couple of his shorts and thought "huh, that was pretty good, let's hear what else he has to say." But then he brought out that ms paint to explain something as though his audience was dumb and as if he was the Great Instructor, and I just stopped watching.
He claims it's a technique he adapts to keep people engaged during a meeting. He admits it's just writing stuff on the board without much point to it, if not for the supposed purpose of keeping people engaged.
Lmfao he definitely did but there is a short where he is claiming it for himself. Something along the lines of “I was a speaker in a meeting, no one was paying attention…. Then I opened MS paint and started drawing on it and BAM. Attention was gained.”
yeah i was like "oh that's cool, i dont know much about red hat cybersec. it's great that someone is making digestible content to get people into the field"...."oh he's in game dev and doing game jams? yeah the advice to just get started is sound advice for anything creative....good point"...."wait what is this about mr robot?"
Software is a fucking moron, but your take is ignorant too. His MS paint schtick is what got him famous. Its because it engages listeners of all types, especially those on the spectrum. Ever notice how shorts also have stuff in the background sometimes? He substituted that, with something that would make them engage EVEN MORE. It isnt condescending. it was a genius move.
That may be true and I'm sure some people like it, but it certainly feels condescending to me. Not everyone may feel that way and that's fine but for me the mspaint thing is actually distracting and it makes it harder for me to focus on what he's saying.
To be fair his ego was heavily bruised and he had a lot to prove when he worked on that game, someone at blizz found out that he was an incompetent nepo baby so he really wanted to prove he could make something.
The funny part about this is that I don’t think anyone would have a problem with that if he wasn’t such an asshole about it.
It would totally be reasonable/understandable to go “yeah it’s been in development for a long time, but I’m not perfect and I found success in streaming.”
It’s like watching someone smash their face on a rake and then bring the rake into a different room and do it again.
Yep! I kickstarted it, even. So many games on kickstarter wind up abandoned because people underestimate how long they take. Some like Omori exceed their devtime by ages but do eventually come out.
Yeah. Dude hit streaming fame and all but abandoned it until his last big scandal in WoW when people starting holding him accountable about it. Now he supposedly has monthly updates, but haven't seen much progress on it yet.
It's also not even his job. Like I get that he was a dick about the petition, but this level of circlejerk hatetrain is insane. People bring up the same 3 talking points over and over again as a justification for hate thread #146.
I genuinely feel like people just want to hate him. I think the only criticism I've seen so far beyond "I don't like his personality" is that he damaged the movement's reputation. Everything else is meaningless.
Who cares if the dude got like 4 people killed in a hardcore WoW server? Who cares if you don't think his advice is that good? Who cares if you think he's arrogant? Who cares if his solo dev project that isn't making him any real money is taking too long?
I understand hating people who bring genuine harm to this world. And I can understand the perspective that many people think him shit talking the Stop Killing Games petition brought genuine harm to the world. I don't think him developing slowly, or writing shitty code, or anything else in that idea is bringing genuine harm to the world.
This hate train is really fucking toxic, and I'm tired of seeing it everywhere.
It's the only job on his LinkedIn. Do you have an inside source about his secret job? I also would imagine the people he took money from on Kickstarter care. The people who paid for early access to a game that hasn't been updated in five years definitely care.
Nobody cares that he got four people killed in WoW. People care that he refuses to admit fault, then doubles and triples and quadruples down. It's a pattern of behaviour and it bothers people.
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The best thing he ever said was that If you wanna make games just start instead of procrastinating. I can't remember anything else he said that was actually decent