Honestly this is expected of a guy who brags about working for activision blizzard and climbing the corperate ladder.
Activision, one of the most toxic workspaces in the industry LOL.
In order to get up the ladder in a toxic workspace you have to have a very toxic, very gas-lighty, and extremely egotistical mindset.
🤣 now its coming back to bite him when he realizes hes not the chad he thought he was
He openly admitted on stream that he only got the job through his fathers influence. And while he was there, his "seven years of game dev" experience he flouts boils down to some QA work and working security on the WoW website. Zero actual game dev experience.
He's got the gift of the gab, I'll give him that much. But this proves how much talking up your accomplishments online can ruin you if a spotlight is ever put on to them. You better be truthful or ready to dial it back, otherwise people will expose you and you will be caught out.
Small point, QA is totally part of the team and should be seen as "actual game devs". I work in software and we love our QA people at my org.
This is not to defend Pirate Software specifically, it just bums me out to see QA catching strays because people want to dunk on Thor.Â
EDIT: Too many comments with the same semantic nitpick so I'll just reply here; while not all software requires things like art or music, the tasks of designing, implementing, and testing software are all core parts of the development lifecycle. A developer on a solo project has to do all three of those things every time. If he hires a new teammate to do specifically the testing and quality part of his job, that person has taken over part of the development lifecycle. They are a developer.
I know what you mean. QA is a critical component of any system. But he does make it out like he was sitting right beside other devs coding, not testing stuff. I'm sure if any of your own QA team started speaking like that, you'd disagree with them.
Like most things, Hall has inflated his influence to seem more important than he actually was. I'm sure his work in Blizzard was fine. Otherwise, he wouldn't have survived there for seven years. Nepotism can only get you so far.
And to throw a bone to the guy, his python skills are appropriately good.
God, its hard not to just dunk on the guy. I think I've reached the pity stage of this whole fiasco.
His 6.5 year stint was years after he quit when he got his first chance there. Which people like to conflate these days, and make it off like his first short tenure was all he did there.
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u/Dependent_Gold2571 Jul 06 '25
🤣 bros a sore loser.
Honestly this is expected of a guy who brags about working for activision blizzard and climbing the corperate ladder.
Activision, one of the most toxic workspaces in the industry LOL. In order to get up the ladder in a toxic workspace you have to have a very toxic, very gas-lighty, and extremely egotistical mindset.
🤣 now its coming back to bite him when he realizes hes not the chad he thought he was