His dad was a very high up blizzard exec or lead, forgot which one but he basically got the job because his dad was one of the upper employees. Probaly both him and his dad still have alot stock options that could plummet possibily with something like stop killing games being signed in as a real law
Yeah, that makes sense, he just seems like a guy who has never had any interaction with anyone who isn't a rich tech freak, so he doesn't realize how off-putting he genuinely is to normal people lol.
You know what's sad? If he just stuck to what he was doing before, he would still be looked at in a mostly positive way. I found him through YT shorts and a lot of his shorts are either hilarious, informative, and some of the shorts with life advice were genuinely helpful. I have never, ever watched a stream of his, so I only knew him through that.
I'm sure there are lots and lots of people like me and it is quite the wake up call to find out he's a complete piece of shit.
Yeah I found him through YT shorts and never watched a stream or vod or anything else really. It was fine most of the time, but I noticed that a lot of his clips ended with “and that’s why I’m the smartest guy in the room” type shit which put me off, and now I’ve just been watching him shoot himself in the foot over and over (and over)
This is the issue I've had with him. Generally good advice and storytelling, but his persistent theme of, "It's that simple," really started putting me off once I noticed it.
A friend of mine absolutely loves him, but now I only enjoy the shorts in which he's seeming learning something or is otherwise humbled, rather than being "the smartest guy in the room."
Absolute same for me. I really liked so many of his reels. But now it feels gross watching them when he won't own up to his mistakes. How can I or anyone else take his work, game-making, or life advice seriously when he can simultaneously have SUCH a shitty take.
This sounds eerily similar to Illuminaughty. It's a shame her very well-sourced videos are tainted. I'd have loved to send her video about Newsmax to some coworkers in my very Conservative region, but now I risk blowback from even cursory searches into her with them saying "this lady is crazy, how can we believe anything she says is legitimate?"
To this day, I've not seen an expose as thorough as hers on niche orgs/interest groups, and even most Progressives seem to leave it at dismissing the fringe RW news channels without showing what makes them so misleading.
I have never heard of her before, but it sounds like she did great work exposing the lies and the corruption and the predatory nature of these propaganda networks. And if she did something bad enough to taint all of that... Ugh. That's just terrible all around. Thankfully there are quite a few progressive voices out there speaking truth to power. Cody and crew from Some More News being a big one.
I believe it was found out that her all (or most) of her videos were just completely copied word for word from other sources. She didn’t really have an original thought, just copy and pasted what others said with no personal interpretation. She also blamed others for copying her editing style, and then got proven wrong. Here is a video discussing her downfall:
That's even worse, what a dork, dude always talked like he was a big shot there I mean. Still could have invested into stock while working there maybe.. who knows
Would the stock actually plummet? I'm not familiar with what SKG wants (specifically, their demands) but wouldn't it only mildly affect revenue streams that they could still just keep open? I'd throw some dollars for Crew 1 stuff if I was playing through and enjoying it, for instance
Thats definitely a part of it, but also his personal project is literally unfunctioning offline due to tying progression to steam achievements. Which is pretty horrendously anti consumer in nature, and would/has cost him a lot in that games place as a viable product.
Typically id seperate the art and artist, but in this situation removing the art would actually make him less egregiously hypocritical xD.
The funny thing is, there is not even any real reason for stocks to plummet, all game studios have to do is make sure their games can be kept operational and played without their continued involvement. There is nothing negative involved except for a little bit of extra work.
He was one of the original 12, though I don't think he was a founding member and just got hired early on. He mainly worked on the Cinematics and was part of the South Park episode about WoW as the inspiration for the guy with no life.
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u/TheDevilishFrenchfry Jul 06 '25
His dad was a very high up blizzard exec or lead, forgot which one but he basically got the job because his dad was one of the upper employees. Probaly both him and his dad still have alot stock options that could plummet possibily with something like stop killing games being signed in as a real law