As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there's been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it's fine to disagree, I'm finding it suspicious that there weren't comments like this posted a week or 2 ago

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dr. K

This one? He sounds like an awesome dude according to his bio, but I've never seen anything by him, I'll check him out.

And I haven't seen any conversations between him and Ross. I did see snippets of his original reaction, where he seemed to completely misunderstand the petition, and his follow-up, unhinged rant, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on the latter because he had apparently gotten a lot of negative attention (swatting attempts, calls for him to leave the publisher he was at, and random negative remarks on his own games), so I think it's quite possible his attack on Ross was an emotional reaction to that negative attention, and not level-headed attack on Ross (I've seen nothing to suggest Ross is anything other than an awesome guy).

So my opinion on PirateSoftware is relatively neutral. He seems to be on the better end of the streamer range, which isn't saying much (lots of popular streamers are pretty toxic). I don't think he's anyone to look up to, and I wish he'd either have Ross on to discuss the petition or thoroughly read and understand it so he can elucidate his opposition to it, both of which I think would be helpful for his audience to form an actual opinion instead of borrowing his. But maybe he's on the worse end of that spectrum, I don't know, since again, I've only watched a few minutes of his content and he seemed like your average streamer who exaggerates their credentials and leans into "content," and I'm not surprised clowning on people is part of that.

I literally had not heard of him a month ago, so I'm missing a ton of context. However, nothing I've seen makes me want to watch more of his content (he's definitely not my style), but nothing makes me think he should be "cancelled" or whatever. Aside from some offensive remarks, I don't think he's really hurting anyone.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The (alleged) swatting didn't happen before "The End Of SKG".
    I also don't think he deserves cancellation, but he has lied so many times, so confidently and so unrepentantly that he deservers very little credibility.

    I understand that some people would feel sympathy for the somewhat excessive negative attention he got (not from me, he lost my sympathy the first time I saw him blatantly lying and lobbing insults) but with the way he ALWAYS behaved, he absolutely had some of it coming.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    excessive negative attention

    Yeah, that's basically what I'm pushing back on. The internet community loves to jump on people and dig up random dirt when they do something unpopular, and a lot of that dirt is exaggerated if not completely fabricated. Look at the response to the Godot tweet about being "woke" for an example of that (which PS rightly defended Godot for).

    He may be a POS, but I don't think he deserves what he got. He deserves to be less popular, sure, but not much more than that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's why I recommended Dr. K's take and Ross', they didn't lean into the drama.
    Though, most of the critiques against Jason I've heard are sound; while it's true that dramatubers search every nook and cranny of his past for slander, they find more stuff than any reasonably sympathetic person should have to be found.

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