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He's some apparently famous YouTuber who reckons that he's a programming genius even though I'm the better programmer than him.
Occasionally he does something stupid and pops up on everyone's radar for a while and then the rest of the internet goes back to forgetting about him.
I guess he's kicked off again.
I heard he worked for Blizzard. But it definitely wasn't nepotism
Really? He never mentioned it.
The most notable thing about Thor I know is that his dad is the literal World of Warcraft guy from that one episode of South Park. Like, not that he looks similar; he was the actual inspiration for the character after Trey and Matt met him while touring Blizzard's offices.
He also did some hacking work.
He's actually been doing stupid shit for ages, it just didn't get widespread attention until the SKG thing blew up. Actually the wow roach might've been before that, but either way SKG is what basically ended him.
Is that true? I've seen a lot of his shorts and he's always been like: "just make games" -- "stop worrying about code quality, some amazing games have shit code"
He also threw a massive tantrum when somebody reviewed his code and said it wasn't the quality of somebody who works in the industry, which he claims to have done.
I saw a clip of Primeagen saying that Casey Muratori said that Pirate's stuff was fine?
Like, I hate Thor's stance on SKG for sure. However, I steered largely away from this drama because I think a lot of criticisms feels unrelated. I didn't see the tantrum but people were going after him quite a lot and if you told him you don't think he belongs in the industry maybe that's a reason to throw one?
I generally don't care. I have a few friends in the industry and they say a lot of the code is shit in general for games -- so I don't particularly care. If Pirate was a guy saying that you need to follow clean code and all that jazz then that'd make sense, I suppose. Which is why I'm on Uncle Bob's case :P but I'm not jumping on the bandwagon for this one against Thor.