On July 3, 2025, YouTuber and streamer Pirate Software, also known as Thor, officially announced that he would be stepping away from Offbrand Games following th
I’m pretty sure this is the same guy who was ranting about Godot “being woke” last year lol
It seems like a minor influx of recent negative reviews. Most likely they didn’t want his current status in the public perception to work against the marketing push they wanted from him.
Because let’s be real, “director of strategy” doesn’t seem accurate for someone who is obviously just an influencer marketing your game to his large audience.
(the link is for the past week, so will be less and less accurate to the july first start date as the days pass by)
The only two reviews related to the drama are specifically in reaction to the alleged review bombing. The other negative reviews don’t mention anything related to the drama at all, and so the increase is probably just due to the streisand effect.
I’ll list the two drama-related reviews here trimmed down to the drama-relevant parts only (not the full reviews):
“Drumming up fake drama about a review bombing that never happened to artificially inflate your positive review count through fan counteraction is gross.”
— Full Review
“Wasn’t gonna leave a review but Ludwig and Pirate Software cried review bombing so I’m leaving an honest review to combat the non-existent bombing.”
— Full Review
As you can see by these excerpts, both of them were made AFTER the allegations of review bombing. They’re not part of the review bombing itself that was being talked about.
You do understand that on Steam if you have 50% or more negative reviews, it is a “Mostly Negative” and puts people off even trying. Bad reviews can have a serious effect on sales. 10 negative reviews in millions is nothing, 10 negative reviews alongside 10 positive is detrimental. It’s all about the percentage and indie games work at a different scale.
I’m unsure what the point about working for Blizzard means. You’ll have to elaborate.
I don’t like pirate software like any other guy, but I want to put credit where credit is due.
He wasn’t ranting about Godot being woke last year. He was actually actively defending it from all the bigots. One of the very few YouTubers or streamers, I saw.
You have probably mistaken him with Asmongold.
He has long hair too, and he is right wing nutjob pos.
Oh shoot, wasn’t Asmongold censored out of the new bbno$ music video? There was some text at the start that said “I’m sorry, I didn’t know about redacted’s shitty views” and one of the people has a raptor image digitally inserted over his face for the whole video.
Whilst looking around to see if anyone had, or was developing an extension I would find useful…
I discovered ‘Redot’.
Basically, there is a small but very vocal group of people who are very, very angry that a Godot community manager made some pro LGBT, inclusive twitter posts, turned that into a culture war flare up on twitter…
And then forked Godot.
To make the anti-woke version of Godot.
Their youtube channel has, as best I can tell, absolutely no descriptions of any substantial differences from… you know, an actual game engine feature set perspective.
Beyond of course being behind Godot now, lol.
What they do have is a bunch of rants about politics and edrama for their ‘non-political’ game engine.
Also… they pronounce Redot as Re-Dot, hard t.
Godot is Godot as in Waiting for Godot.
Go - Dough. God - Oh.
The t is silent.
… of course these idiots are literally uncultured and have never read the screenplay or seen the stage play, so they have no idea how to pronounce the word.
Could have gone with Re - Do, or Re - Dough, those would have been closer, the first at least an obvious allusion to them being a Godot fork.
Okay, as much as I approve of mocking bigots, I didn’t pronounce “Godot” properly for a few years because I had never heard the name spoken before. I’d only ever read it.
Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it’s an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing. Typically, people receptive to learning will try to correct themselves when it’s pointed out. I’m very self conscious of this because I’m awful at pronouncing words.
But for folks like this, yeah, mock the hell out of them.
Lol grew up reading a lot of books and such, so very similar and I am usually bad at assumed pronunciation, such as godot which I just learned thanks to this thread.
What you’re saying is true, that not knowing how to pronounce aloud a word you’ve only ever read is not some kind of 100% surefire sign you’re a bigot or anything like that.
It just means, as you say, that you’ve never heard it said aloud.
But… that also means you never bothered to look up how it is pronounced (its on wikipedia, the actual Godot devs have videos of them saying it, etc)… and it does also mean you presumably are also unfamiliar with Waiting for Godot.
So I would say you are also ‘uncultured’ in that way, but of course, simply being uncultured doesn’t make one a bigot.
You could just not have the time, money, etc, to have seen the play before.
That by no means say anything else really concrete about you, or any other person, if that’s like… the only single datapoint you know about them.
In all seriousness, I do strongly recommend seeing the actual play, probably you could find a dramatic reading / radio drama version of it somewhere on the net, or even a full video captured performance of it on a forgotten youtube channel or the Internet Archive.
I… don’t know that its ever been adapted as a proper movie, perhaps a film snob can appear and call me uncultured, haja!
I would strongly disagree with not looking up the specific pronunciation of a word being an indicator of being less cultured, as this does paint those who are not able to hear it (or have learning disabilities) as inherently less cultured.
I never looked up the specific pronunciation because I was not aware the name was not pronounced the way it was spelt until my mother told me. Being a high functioning autistic individual, I am generally afraid of using words I don’t already say a lot because I am never sure of the proper pronunciation (which is also subject to variation due to accents and regional dialects).
Personally, I subscribe to the idea of sharing new things with people and teaching if they’re receptive to it, because that’s a lot more constructive in my opinion.
You said the play was worth watching, yes? Is there a particular recording you would recommend recommend?
Well, you’ve got a point with those that are hearing impaired or have a speech impediment, no argument there.
…
But uh, I am also a high functioning autistic… and, maybe I’ve just been around the block a bit more, crafted and worn more masks, maybe I am just older… the way I see it is ‘cultured’ is another malleable, non specific adjective or group description, where… everyone who uses such a term actually has their own specific definition of what it means, but acts like everyone actually has the same definition.
I guess my use of the term is also coming across as… meaning that anyone it applies to is some kind of innately, fundamentally inferior, and I don’t mean it in that way.
There are plenty of exceptional people who have no familiarity with … some subset of all possible media or traditions or cuisine or concievably literally anything that anyone could consider to be a marker of ‘cultured’.
And on its own… there’s no shame in that at all… this seems so obvious to me that I am kind of baffled I’d need to explicitly say it.
If you don’t know how to say a word, there’s no real, serious reason to be embarassed: you never learned, you never had the experiences that could lead to that.
Someone can just say, oh, its actually said this way, (in this case this is rather clear and objective as the people who named it have an official, correct, ‘canon’ way to say it), and then you go ‘oh, ok, thanks!’
…
Anyway:
Im not trying to say that not looking up how to pronounce a word means you are uncultured… that would just mean you never looked up how to pronounce it.
I am trying to say that many people who are familiar with and have read/seen/experienced Beckett… are more likely to get the reference immediately, similar to how an inside joke works.
So if you haven’t seen Waiting for Godot… thats a part of culture you haven’t experienced.
Turns out there is at least this rather low visual quality, but entire Waiting for Godot movie just on a tiny youtube channel…
And it also appears that I am so uncultured to have not realize there have in fact been several cinematic versions of the play!
This one appears to be from 2001, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, produced in Ireland… not sure if it got a showing in theatres, or was made for public TV broadcast.
Seems right to me to go to an Irish production, with Irish cast, for a seminal Irish screenplay… at least as an introduction.
There are evidently at least 8 or 9 film/tv versions of Waiting for Godot, including one directed by Beckett himself, I had no idea haha!
Not that I’m aware of, but if you wanna start one, it might be a good idea to not fill it with fabricated quotes that remove all the surrounding context.
Maybe you could go back to reddit, make a subreddit entirely devoted to shit stirring and drama there?
Review bomb where? On their page they link to Steam, where they have one released game (95% positive) and two demos (one unrated, second 90% positive).
Alright, so no review bombing going on then, as Twitter is full of dumbfucks anyway and can burn to the ground, and who the hell goes on Discord to review a game? It seems like it was about harassment, and not review bombing.
Blizzard’s last good release was Overwatch (2016), which they have subsequently completely ruined (in my opinion) so I wouldn’t be proud of having worked there unless it was a long time ago 😅
You might be right, but I don’t believe you have any frame of reference to determine that he’s not competent. How much of his actual work have you reviewed?
OP is mistaken. PirateSoftware defended Godot official and pointed out the actual perpetrator of hate was a mod of an unofficial fan discord. Someone else posted a clip of it in this thread.
That actually happened, but not from this PirateSoftware guy. The anti-woke godoters made their own fork, Redot, which, as you might have expected, doesn’t do jack shit other than offering cosmetic changes
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The review bombing is another fabrication:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2217000/Rivals_of_Aether_II/?curator_clanid=45028385
It seems like a minor influx of recent negative reviews. Most likely they didn’t want his current status in the public perception to work against the marketing push they wanted from him.
Because let’s be real, “director of strategy” doesn’t seem accurate for someone who is obviously just an influencer marketing your game to his large audience.
Reviews since July first look at least 50% negative which was not seen before so there could be an argument it is happening.
Check the actual reviews.
(the link is for the past week, so will be less and less accurate to the july first start date as the days pass by)
The only two reviews related to the drama are specifically in reaction to the alleged review bombing. The other negative reviews don’t mention anything related to the drama at all, and so the increase is probably just due to the streisand effect.
I’ll list the two drama-related reviews here trimmed down to the drama-relevant parts only (not the full reviews):
As you can see by these excerpts, both of them were made AFTER the allegations of review bombing. They’re not part of the review bombing itself that was being talked about.
Edit: fixed inaccurate -> accurate
More than 0 reviews related to the drama = review bombing
He worked at blizzard for 7 years guys.
You do understand that on Steam if you have 50% or more negative reviews, it is a “Mostly Negative” and puts people off even trying. Bad reviews can have a serious effect on sales. 10 negative reviews in millions is nothing, 10 negative reviews alongside 10 positive is detrimental. It’s all about the percentage and indie games work at a different scale.
I’m unsure what the point about working for Blizzard means. You’ll have to elaborate.
On Steam you can report review bombing events to have the reviews struck from the list so…
And the working at blizzard line is mocking Thor for literally never shutting the fuck up about his nepobaby job.
I don’t like him. Never have, never will.
no idea who he is, should I care?
No.
yeah, same!
“lol,” I said, “lmao”
I don’t like pirate software like any other guy, but I want to put credit where credit is due.
He wasn’t ranting about Godot being woke last year. He was actually actively defending it from all the bigots. One of the very few YouTubers or streamers, I saw.
You have probably mistaken him with Asmongold. He has long hair too, and he is right wing nutjob pos.
Oh shoot, wasn’t Asmongold censored out of the new bbno$ music video? There was some text at the start that said “I’m sorry, I didn’t know about redacted’s shitty views” and one of the people has a raptor image digitally inserted over his face for the whole video.
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Why are you trying to harm anyone associated with stop killing games
Easy on the trigger man.
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Had a look at Offbrand Games’ games and none of them have recent review bombs. I really have no clue what PirateSoftware is talking about.
I’m not surprised he was pushed out for fear of such review bombs, but I’m not seeing any evidence of them actually existing as he alleges.
He’s making shit up, as always.
Drama aside, I’m just glad to read the goal was reached. Hopefully something comes of the effort.
So… I actually tinker around in Godot.
Whilst looking around to see if anyone had, or was developing an extension I would find useful…
I discovered ‘Redot’.
Basically, there is a small but very vocal group of people who are very, very angry that a Godot community manager made some pro LGBT, inclusive twitter posts, turned that into a culture war flare up on twitter…
And then forked Godot.
To make the anti-woke version of Godot.
Their youtube channel has, as best I can tell, absolutely no descriptions of any substantial differences from… you know, an actual game engine feature set perspective.
Beyond of course being behind Godot now, lol.
What they do have is a bunch of rants about politics and edrama for their ‘non-political’ game engine.
Also… they pronounce Redot as Re-Dot, hard t.
Godot is Godot as in Waiting for Godot.
Go - Dough. God - Oh.
The t is silent.
… of course these idiots are literally uncultured and have never read the screenplay or seen the stage play, so they have no idea how to pronounce the word.
Could have gone with Re - Do, or Re - Dough, those would have been closer, the first at least an obvious allusion to them being a Godot fork.
But no. Re Dot.
smdh
Is bigot pronounced “bih-got” or “bih-go?” 🤔
LevioSAH
Redot still exists? I expected it to die off after a month max
Perhaps Thor is Pozzo.
Okay, as much as I approve of mocking bigots, I didn’t pronounce “Godot” properly for a few years because I had never heard the name spoken before. I’d only ever read it.
Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it’s an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing. Typically, people receptive to learning will try to correct themselves when it’s pointed out. I’m very self conscious of this because I’m awful at pronouncing words.
But for folks like this, yeah, mock the hell out of them.
I love when I hear folks do this. It always gives me a little wholesome bump that it’s from reading.
Lol grew up reading a lot of books and such, so very similar and I am usually bad at assumed pronunciation, such as godot which I just learned thanks to this thread.
What you’re saying is true, that not knowing how to pronounce aloud a word you’ve only ever read is not some kind of 100% surefire sign you’re a bigot or anything like that.
It just means, as you say, that you’ve never heard it said aloud.
But… that also means you never bothered to look up how it is pronounced (its on wikipedia, the actual Godot devs have videos of them saying it, etc)… and it does also mean you presumably are also unfamiliar with Waiting for Godot.
So I would say you are also ‘uncultured’ in that way, but of course, simply being uncultured doesn’t make one a bigot.
You could just not have the time, money, etc, to have seen the play before.
That by no means say anything else really concrete about you, or any other person, if that’s like… the only single datapoint you know about them.
In all seriousness, I do strongly recommend seeing the actual play, probably you could find a dramatic reading / radio drama version of it somewhere on the net, or even a full video captured performance of it on a forgotten youtube channel or the Internet Archive.
I… don’t know that its ever been adapted as a proper movie, perhaps a film snob can appear and call me uncultured, haja!
I would strongly disagree with not looking up the specific pronunciation of a word being an indicator of being less cultured, as this does paint those who are not able to hear it (or have learning disabilities) as inherently less cultured.
I never looked up the specific pronunciation because I was not aware the name was not pronounced the way it was spelt until my mother told me. Being a high functioning autistic individual, I am generally afraid of using words I don’t already say a lot because I am never sure of the proper pronunciation (which is also subject to variation due to accents and regional dialects).
Personally, I subscribe to the idea of sharing new things with people and teaching if they’re receptive to it, because that’s a lot more constructive in my opinion.
You said the play was worth watching, yes? Is there a particular recording you would recommend recommend?
derp, looks like i fucked up the last url and made lemmy throw a fit… spaces in urls are problematic
Well, you’ve got a point with those that are hearing impaired or have a speech impediment, no argument there.
…
But uh, I am also a high functioning autistic… and, maybe I’ve just been around the block a bit more, crafted and worn more masks, maybe I am just older… the way I see it is ‘cultured’ is another malleable, non specific adjective or group description, where… everyone who uses such a term actually has their own specific definition of what it means, but acts like everyone actually has the same definition.
I guess my use of the term is also coming across as… meaning that anyone it applies to is some kind of innately, fundamentally inferior, and I don’t mean it in that way.
There are plenty of exceptional people who have no familiarity with … some subset of all possible media or traditions or cuisine or concievably literally anything that anyone could consider to be a marker of ‘cultured’.
And on its own… there’s no shame in that at all… this seems so obvious to me that I am kind of baffled I’d need to explicitly say it.
If you don’t know how to say a word, there’s no real, serious reason to be embarassed: you never learned, you never had the experiences that could lead to that.
Someone can just say, oh, its actually said this way, (in this case this is rather clear and objective as the people who named it have an official, correct, ‘canon’ way to say it), and then you go ‘oh, ok, thanks!’
…
Anyway:
Im not trying to say that not looking up how to pronounce a word means you are uncultured… that would just mean you never looked up how to pronounce it.
I am trying to say that many people who are familiar with and have read/seen/experienced Beckett… are more likely to get the reference immediately, similar to how an inside joke works.
So if you haven’t seen Waiting for Godot… thats a part of culture you haven’t experienced.
Thats what I mean by uncultured.
…
Ok, as for actual recommendations:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=izX5dIzI2RE
Turns out there is at least this rather low visual quality, but entire Waiting for Godot movie just on a tiny youtube channel…
And it also appears that I am so uncultured to have not realize there have in fact been several cinematic versions of the play!
This one appears to be from 2001, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, produced in Ireland… not sure if it got a showing in theatres, or was made for public TV broadcast.
Seems right to me to go to an Irish production, with Irish cast, for a seminal Irish screenplay… at least as an introduction.
There are evidently at least 8 or 9 film/tv versions of Waiting for Godot, including one directed by Beckett himself, I had no idea haha!
www.imdb.com/find/?=waiting for godot
EDIT: bad url, bad! uh yeah, i guess just copy and paste it manually?
Is there a community for Shit Lemmy Says?
Not that I’m aware of, but if you wanna start one, it might be a good idea to not fill it with fabricated quotes that remove all the surrounding context.
Maybe you could go back to reddit, make a subreddit entirely devoted to shit stirring and drama there?
Seems like a better fit to me.
Also, “dot” with a hard T is like super common in programming naming. It’s a pretty reasonable mistake to make.
And the mascot is a robot, it makes sense to assume it rhymes.
Or even “g’dough”, either way the T is always silent.
I’ll say it that way sometimes, haha!
I also have a tendency to shorten ‘good night’ and ‘good morning’ and even ‘good to see you!’ into just basically g’ with a glottal stop, haha.
g’
Most of the folks I’ve heard making tutorials about it pronounce it “guhDOUGH.” To get that FOSS cred the name has to be a dumpster fire.
Ubuntu.
Oo boon too?
Oo bun too?
Pretty sure the correct pronunciation is the first, but a lot of people say it as the second.
… lets just name the next big FOSS thing ‘Uranus’ and watch everyone disagree about how to pronounce that, very loudly.
No, YOUR anus!
There’s an Arduino-based CNC controller firmware called GRBL. Gurble? Gerbil? Garble? GeeArrBeeElle? GuhRuhBuhLuh?
Hah! I’m gonna go with the last one, hahaha!
I use openSUSE, and they made a music video and everything to teach people to pronounce it yet people still get it wrong. Such is life I guess.
I most often hear it pronounced you-bun-too.
But it is oo-boon-too.
Dang, I can’t say I’ve ever heard You Bun Too… thats new to me!
Review bomb where? On their page they link to Steam, where they have one released game (95% positive) and two demos (one unrated, second 90% positive).
“on discord and twitter”
#gasp
Alright, so no review bombing going on then, as Twitter is full of dumbfucks anyway and can burn to the ground, and who the hell goes on Discord to review a game? It seems like it was about harassment, and not review bombing.
Yup
What has this Pirate Software released? I’m not familiar with their games
Really? Most games I played in my life were pirated software.
They got 6, count them SIX, negative reviews in one day. Such review bombing, indeed.
Pretty weird guy, honestly. Seems competent, but spends too much time complaining about other people instead of working on his own stuff.
Woah, how can you say that? Don’t you know he worked for blizzard!
Blizzard’s last good release was Overwatch (2016), which they have subsequently completely ruined (in my opinion) so I wouldn’t be proud of having worked there unless it was a long time ago 😅
He did? Weird, never mentioned it.
Exactly, seems competent. But only seems, he’s a narcissistic nepobaby who just can’t admit he’s in the wrong be it in video games or real life.
I just can’t understand why anyone would follow a piece of shit like him
Are his parents rich?
You might be right, but I don’t believe you have any frame of reference to determine that he’s not competent. How much of his actual work have you reviewed?
Wait, did PirateSoftware rant about wokeness, or are you confusing him with fellow failed game dev Grummz?
Godot being woke? Wtf?
OP is mistaken. PirateSoftware defended Godot official and pointed out the actual perpetrator of hate was a mod of an unofficial fan discord. Someone else posted a clip of it in this thread.
I guess they woke up and made a good open source game engine?
That actually happened, but not from this PirateSoftware guy. The anti-woke godoters made their own fork, Redot, which, as you might have expected, doesn’t do jack shit other than offering cosmetic changes