I forgot to give a disclaimer, but thankfully my lawyer reminded me in comments: I'm not a Doctor. Any advice I give is not legal advice. I've never worked at Blizzard, and I've played less than 83 hours of Animal Well. In other words, I'm not one to listen to.
Listen, man. He worked 7 years at Blizzard, and his dad worked there, too. His dad was also the guy from the WOW episode. He also hit a 2nd puberty at 30 and DOES NOT use a voice changer because that would be something an insecure weirdo would do. This dude is on another level from us mere mortals.
@@Austin-sw3mf I don't think he uses a voice changer unless he forced event hosts to implement one specifically for him, like the streamer awards thing. What I do believe he's doing is changing his voice manually like Tay Zonday does with his singing voice.
Ironically, Einsteins first wife, Mileva Maric, was known to be more gifted in mathematics and even physics than Einstein and curiously all his best work came from the time he was married to her. So this joke might not be that far off.
@@veritas4698 I'm sure they had intriguing scientific discussions either way, but I'm also sure Maldavius would have been able to come up with Lorentz invariance without looking at the chat (or listening to TTS)
For example 6:28 "(That) wont' work. You can read chat and I can't." What would "won't work" refer to? Who is "you" here? He's not talking to himself. He's clearly reading chat or at least is in a group somewhere that's following his playthrough, whether that'd discord or somewhere else. Maybe that group/app is on his phone so rather than looking at a guide he is looking at live help/suggestions. [Which is still definitely cheating.] The "golden path" thing sounds like it's straight from a guide though.
In his defense he did say that he was only reading chat messages from people he recognized and knew wouldn’t spoil stuff. He had donation TTS off. Not saying he didn’t read chat and get spoiled, but it isn’t unthinkable that he would avoid reading certain messages in of chat.
@@paulzetterberg8081 unless you're at a 2nd grade reading level, you can read entire sentences at a glance. if he's looking at chat with spoilers in it, he's going to notice them far before he's able to select a certain person's message to read.
I don't know how it is in other countries. In France if a math question is 4 points there will be 3 points to present the problem, quote the applied rule or formula, do the calculation with the steps. And 1 point for writing the correct answer. We consider that having the right answer is not the most important thing, it is not dramatic to make a calculation error if the whole process is good.
he always gains a weird amount of confidence he figured it out BEFORE even trying it, not a doubt in his mind it might not work, and low and behold, it always works
Lmao to be fair he definitely said that and was wrong a BUNCH in the original stream. He was constantly like "ah i understand now" and he would be miles off from figuring it out 😭
If the dude had even a sprinkle of self awareness and humility this would have all been over after a day. He's actively turning himself into a huge heel and lolcow over the smallest shit of all time. He went from mostly respected shorts guy to Steven Seagal of gaming for nothing.
He's built so much of his reputation and persona on being some kind of smart guy who knows everything, which is why I think this particular game instance is so funny. No one in the whole world would care if he just didn't get a puzzle in a video game, but he just... CAN'T let people know that he's not a smart guy who knows everything. He HAS to be the smartest and the most thing knowingest guy of all time. So he cheats at something THAT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER, because he just can't let himself for a second come across as someone who might not be the smartest ever.
@@PineappleFlau "I'm a dumbass that has made some mistakes as my channel has grown. I need to be more accountable for my actions and how I treat people, and I need to not let my insecurities get me to do silly shit in gaming. I'm sorry and look forward to bettering my channel and conduct". Then not only would it have gone away, he would have gotten even more positive attention.
Someone told me about this, and I was like "Pirate Software seems like a smart guy, totally possible he just figured it out" And that's exactly what Pirate wants people to think about him.
I've seen two instances that make it basically certain. First is in his Tunic playthrough. In it he slipped up and called a puzzle "Golden...[path]" as it is known in the community. Then he immediately corrected himself and called it "wall puzzle". Only way he would know to call it "Golden Path" would be if he looked up the solution. Second is his map poster incident in Animal Well. Because he "solved it" by seeing it having a four block line at the top. And he connected it to one of the three codes he has collected up to that point. Problem is, that four symbol line was actually a 2x2 block. Upon recieving it he immediately broke it up and correctly assembled it into the line. Again, the only way he would know to do that right away is if he looked up the solution.
That's interesting, I played tunic but didn't catch the fact he called it the golden path beforehand. Weird if he does this so many times why not just ask chat for help when he really needs it, it's just a game.
Tunic's Golden Path was the exact moment I questioned his playthroughs myself as well. He definitely did alot of it a bit "too well" compared to someone doing it for the first time. Is he cheating on all of it, probably not. But he's definitely not doing it without help or looking at answers to get him in the right direction. Hints are definitely being used. Like his Animal Well playthrough being 83 hours AND includes chat help. Also, his reactions are so disingenuous and forced.
@@wintersmonologue not chat help, there wasn't much hints in chat he picked up as far as I've seen. He obviously looked up the guide on that secret ending.
@@aranyak1881 because when he brushed so much (nonexistent) value on himself, asking for help is basically signing up that you are not so smart in the end. And he wants to stay smart at everything in the eyes of the audience.
@@wintersmonologue I watched the whole AW stream live. It was quite a lot of "wait a minute!" a few moments after chat have discussed solutions. Jason of course pretended to eureka the whole game
Back when this came out, I was actively following him and decided to finish the game myself before watching his playthrough. Once I did, I was a bit let down by how he approached it, he skipped a lot of the story and the way he rushed through puzzles and conclusions felt too fast. I felt detached. His gameplay felt more like a cold rush to the end, skipping a lot of the story and emotional depth that made the game so engaging for me.
Completely agree. I watched Pirates's playthrough recently, right before the drama, and felt exactly the same. But yeah..treat yourself to the Grapps playthrough. It's absolutely amazing and unique!
Agreed, the regular game playthrough felt really disappointing, but my lord watching him do the DLC actually made me mad and I think is WAY more blatant than anything in the normal game. He was solving puzzles that weren't even presented as puzzles yet.
Is this game really worth playing? I can't figure out what the hell kinda game it is. I got to the part where he says the explosion is a right of passage and I paused the video thinking shit am I fucking up my potential experience of this game? This is prolly the 3rd time I've seriously contemplated playing. People were recommending it on the comments of this guy's playthrough of the case of the golden idol. I made the mistake of watching someone else play that game all the way through and I regret not just playing it for myself haha Maybe by the time I finally get the game I'll have forgotten about this video haha
The title says "GrappLr Reacts", but really it's more like "GrappLr Investigates". I was expecting a reaction video to a reaction video, but nope, the man actually does the investigation himself. This is good stuff
Whats even crazier is that the quantum tower is barely even a puzzle, it's more of a tutorial showing you how things work... and he needed to look up how to do it...
Its a narcissism tell. Its not enough to solve it unbelievably fast, and correctly, he also needs to say the answer is stupid. Even if you were to match him in speed and correctness, you might feel smart for it; but he wouldnt as the answer is below him. It minds me of a psychiatrist talking about narcissism in a video I watched long ago. He talked about the main character in the movie Airplane exemplifying a textbook narcissist fantasy. The pilots are unconcious so a random passanger (main character) needs to land the plane. But that is not enough of a feat alone and the character is a real maverick, so there are scenes where the air traffic controller says "you cant do that! you will crash the plane!" and the main character - who never has flown a jet - shouts at him, insults him, does the impossible, risky maneouvres and lands the plane. It wasnt enough to save every life, he had to do it completely alone and out expert the experts and do the opposite of what they said and make them look stupid and inferior.
@@couragefoxI think it's also partially because he has no reason to do the thing that he's about to do several times, as he hasn't learned it and it's one of those things that's pretty confusing even if you know what you're supposed to do (like the electric jellyfish), so he also has to make it somehow makes sense that he's doing this
Kinda sad when your ego prevents you from properly experiencing a unique game like this and it's just an opportunity to demonstrate your superior intellect. There are comments on the video from when it was uploaded, saying how strange his playthrough was and how he just skipped a bunch of important steps. He looked things up 100%.
I watched it when it first came out and I can tell you it is the most infuriating play through I’ve ever seen. It is so obvious that he looked up “ash twin tower puzzle” and then happened upon the solution to an entirely different puzzle. The logic to do that only makes sense when you a) know the ATP exists fully sealed in the ash twin, b) the towers each coorespond to an astral body’s alignment point, c) know that the alignment point for ash twin is in between ash and ember twin and finally d) the towers do not have to be perfectly alligned (such that you can wait out the sand) he did not know c,d and arguably b. The chain of logic of “I think I need to run into a sandstorm because I am a sheer dumbass” doesn’t check out. I’d like to also point out information on how he 100% pulled the exact same thing in the DLC at least 2 times (most probably 3 time) which I have not seen posted yet, but frankly to anyone that saw the blatant sequence break that is that entire play through it doesn’t really require much room for speculation.
Pirate Software is doing everyone a favor by having such a giant ego. He single handily took every gamer’s ego and turned into a super villain so all of our egos wouldn’t run rampant. Thor is gamer Jesus.
@@picklechinazzboi2991the dlc is a good point. I remember how he was at a part that I already finished and he fken, magically did some shit and something happened. It was weird af for him to do it. But obv even weirder that if fken worked. But there was no rhyme or reason and he broke a sequence I didn't even know about yet. It was crazy. I stopped watching right then and there. He didn't even act surprised. As if it's the most normal thing he had to do. Hell nah
This is the saddest part about this one. Outer Wilds puzzle isn't even hard. Once you discovered the clues, the solution is pretty much spelled out for you. It's the journey and stories you discovered along with the clue that made Outer Wilds special.
If anyone on Earth tried the sandstorm thing once and it didn't work , YOU WOULD HAVE NO REASON TO IMMEDIATELY TRY IT AGAIN unless you KNEW for sure it was the solution . It's so blatantly obvious
To be fair, there are a lot of moments in games where you try a move, it says it doesn't work but then you do it again and now it works. Kinda like the ending to earthbound. Still though literally everything else in the recording is super suspicious.
This 1000%. It took me so long to figure this out due to that exact reason. I tried standing on it during the sandstorm and it didn't work. I tried all the rest again and then just left the planet and went around solving other planets until I couldn't find anything else to do except for that. Only then did I try the sandstorm again in different ways, 20-30+ hours after the first time I tried it and it failed.
@@Игорь-щ4г2з Pretty sure he Googled some of those answers to classroom questions in Persona. Or maybe the typing sound between him seeing and him answering the questions was just him playing Monster Hunter Now.
Him deleting the timestamps is a clear indicator that something’s not right. He doesn’t want these timestamps referenced. What could be the only logical solution for that?
I agree. He bans like crazy anyone asking about it on Twitch too because they're "spreading hate". There are also several accounts of him copyright striking and reporting videos criticizing him. Dude wants to keep his audience clueless and the echo chamber strong.
Having watched a few dozen Outer Wilds playthroughs, it's so obvious he's looking up solutions. I can't believe I thought he was just a genius when I watched the longplay. But no, that fucking solution to the ATP was 100% looked up. I believe he didn't even go to the black hole forge, thus not knowing both twins share a teleporter, and that there is a few second window for the warp. Thanks for your input on this, great explanation for non-players.
I wasn't able to figure out the warp to the Ash Twin core, and I had alll the information I needed. Knew how the teleporters worked, alignment, the Ash Twin Project, everything. It just didn't click for me that I could also Ember Twin for alignment to warp to both Ember Twin and Ash Twin. So when I looked it up the reason made sense. So watching the way Pirate does it is... curious.
I feel the exact same way! This is my favorite game and I've watched so many playthroughs. When I first watched Pirate's I was really confused and also disappointed that he felt the need to brute force everything and miss the whole story. He barely even read anything... Looking back it is so obvious he looked stuff up
@@Scarletite1SAME! It just could not click for me for some reason especially because of the falling sand. And I know the thing there's that much shame in like looking up a hint to a puzzle that you're struggling with and clearly that's the next step it's just not clicking in your brain. The problem is that he doesn't have the humility to actually admit that he's stumped
The problem with his struggle in the quantum object "puzzle" is that it's not meant to be a puzzle as much as a lesson. You use the logic that the puzzle and hint give you to apply it to other objects, specifically the "endgame" scenario. Anyone who played it legitimately would have had a eureka moment in that tower, not because they figured out the archways but that they figured out how to land on the moon without it disappearing. In other words, he should be more excited about being able to visit the disappearing moon rather than solving this simple lesson.
The problem is that his eureka moment is so fake. Normal people think a lot faster than they can speak. So if he suddenly thought "images, wait theres a camera in this game, maybe I can use that" then a normal person would have explained it backwards. They would say "chat, we have this camera, camera take pictures, if we take a picture we can use this image in this puzzle maybe". His reaction just doesnt seem normal to me.
@@reilysmith5187 yeah and all he cares about is solving that single puzzle, like the first comment said, when you get the eureka, you immediately think where else can i use this mechanic. But he just doesnt
i feel like no one has looked at his dlc play-through yet, but to me that one is even more suspicious. he solves all three major puzzles without finding the areas that give you the answers.
To me the most blatant case of faking not knowing the answer to an Outer Wilds puzzle was at the start of Echoes of the Eye. ua-cam.com/video/Dg5iPFLWAjk/v-deo.html Context: The game has only told him that there is something new in the observatory, which is the first clue to start the DLC. He walks in and looks around, but completely misses the giant "New Exhibit" sign so he never gets the clue. Instead, he just seems to randomly decide that he wants to go explore Timber Hearth and leaves the observatory. He proceeds to go directly to the radio tower, the exact thing that the new exhibit was supposed to point to. Given the size of the solar system and how many things he skipped in his playthrough of the base game, the odds of doing this through pure chance are almost 0%. He doesn't go for his phone like in the base game clips, but he could easily have just prepared by reading a guide in advance. That's what I would do if I was already down the rabbit hole of faking puzzle solving for content and wanted to get around the tell of looking at a phone sometimes. He then learns a mechanic that was not needed in the base game but is needed in the DLC (Sleeping) for no obvious reason, and then spends a long time struggling on the relatively easy puzzle of finding the stranger. The rest of the playthrough follows the same trend. Skipping hints, randomly doing the exact solution to a puzzle with no trial-and-error, then getting stuck on something that was easy enough for a guide to gloss over it. The only possible options I can see are that he either read a guide in advance, was reading chat while saying he wasn't, had someone else walking him through it (direct messages on a second monitor or something) or spent 6 hours being both the luckiest and stupidest man on the planet as he repeatedly does things that make no sense for no reason but just happen to be exactly correct.
@@GrappLrPlease do man. Also, you could try doing a recap video of the main story. I'm fairly sure 1-2 important details, about what was going on, slipped through your conclusion.
@@GrappLr I used to watch your legends of runeterra content for ages, life caught up to me and ive not been watching for a loong time, this drama made me find your channel again! I would love to watch that playthrough i highly recommend the dlc!
@ Fair enough. I'll have to check that out, since I really like watching people play Outer Wilds. I very much respect that you'd take steps to avoid spoilers. I can give a non-spoiler version, but I totally get it if you want to skip it as well. ..................... Game tells player to go to point A to find the first hint (This happens automatically when starting the game after downloading the DLC). Pirate goes to Point A, but only spends a couple minutes looking and does not see the hint which suggests going to Point B. Pirate opens his map, muses about all the places he didn't explore in his main game playthrough, and then out of all of them 'randomly' decides to leave Point A and just go directly to Point B.
yeah, i watched his outer wilds stuff abt half a year ago, when i had a relatively positive opinion of him and i was pretty impressed how much he figured out on his own in the base game but the DLC playthrough was just rly shit he basically skipped 90% of the story. in the main game he didnt even find feldspar in dark bramble which like the first thing u do involving that area kinda, and the character that helps u figure out how to get into the core of giants deep. but i think he also just randomly figured out how to get into the core of giants deep. never rly suspected a thing but in hindsight its so obvious, especially in the dlc.
And anyone who probably pointed it out that he cheated looking at his phone seconds before solving those puzzles was instantly banned from his chat, to secure any suspicious from his godly brain, thus preventing drama from happening during all this time. Securing a legacy based on lies.
I can't believe how blatant it is. Of course he's using a guide and faking it. I don't understand how people didn't understand it the first time he streamed this? It's so blatant.
He pulls out his phone after getting stuck, then magically not only solves the puzzle. But skips steps into a puzzle that require knowledge he hasnt aquired yet.
None of this would have been an issue if Thor said something like "Guys, I'm at a loss at this puzzle. While I would like to continue going through this game with as little outside assistance as possible, I'm going to ask one of my mods to help me out/look up the solution for me so we can get through this section and continue on with the game as normal. I understand that some of you may be disapointed with this outcome, but this would be better than watching me run around in circles for the next half hour." Instead he continues to inflate his already incredibly large ego by denying any wrong doing and completely ignoring any critism regarding him. It's just sad behavior...
7:08 - I don't think him ignoring the supernova is weird, when I played I got like that when you know a run is over and you're just waiting on the reset. I'm not defending him, I believe he's a fraud at this point, but that specific thing isn't weird. If it were an explosion in the environment near him, sure, but the supernova becomes 'background noise' at a point, especially when you're in a room and can't see it coming.
The game literally gives him the solution in outer wilds and he can't solve it but we're expected to believe he solves the wingdings in Animal Well immediately... lol
yes! he cant solve so many things w obvious hints and the game telling him what to do (quantum tower) and other times he magically knows how to solve things with little to no info, with no experimentation on his first try. its so obvious hes using outside help lol
Keep an eye out for every time he does a weird half stretch. It's always accompanied by something uncomfortable happening, like a weird chat message. Big stretch followed up usually by a dismissal of the message received, calling it "insane shit" or other mannerisms he has. That's a tell you can use to see where he is nervous in other places and It shows up a lot in the animal well video.
sound like one of those cringe ass crime videos. "You can tell he's guilty because he fidgets around in his chair" and then another video "He fidgets around in his chair, because of course, any innocent person would be worried and start to fidget around."
@ I didnt say anything about guilt. It's a nervous self soothing movement to calm anxiety and nervousness. Guilty people show it but so do socially awkward or people about to be in a confrontation etc. its a tell but its not proof of guild. dont twist my words
The single fact that he didn't get the quantum object picture puzzle within 5 seconds of reading the word "image", tells me Jason is not good at puzzles. Also: 6:30 reads chat, says he can't read chat????
@@forgetfulstranger I'm being very generous to Jason, words I'd use IRL are not allowed on here. Let's just say that even my 92 year old partially demented grandpa would have solved it within the same time.
I don't know if he's being lazy or genuinely can't figure these puzzles out. Problem solving should be like second nature to him if he's been a game developer for over 20 years as well as a cybersecurity expert.
Has anyone actually checked if he ever uses the photo mode of the scout launcher before that? I watched his longplay a long time ago but Im remembering thinking, 'you never investigated your controls and this is the price you pay, you idiot'. Which made me all the more suspicious of like how does he suddenly think to use the Scout? Now granted, the longplay is cut up, so its hard to say for sure, but man oh man. It was one of the VERY FEW playthroughs that rubbed me the wrong way, of which Ive seen many (Praise Eelis our lord and savior)
His ego has always been such a big thing like he had occasional drama that never really boiled past the UA-cam shorts much when he would just say something wrong or controversial and continuously double down on it no matter what. He's not allowed to be wrong ever
I'm not sure what the truth is. But 8:33 that coming to a conclusion sounded so fake. Like someone acting and trying to frame something a certain way. Not a genuine realization.
I brought this game yesterday because of the pirate controversy. Game looked good so I thought I would at least give it a try. It’s one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever experienced and I can’t wrap my head around WHY pirate would cheat like this. I did everything in this game without looking stuff up (except those ships in the gravity launchers… still haven’t figured that out lol) and you are literally told how to do that puzzle in the tower with the quantum gate. Ofc pirate is cheating so he isn’t properly learning a lot or crucial learning steps you experience when not cheating so he gets stumped which results in him cheating even more. It’s so depressing he destroyed what would have been a once in a lifetime experience.
it's a clear behavior pattern at this point, absolutely not someone to trust a word they say - especially not if it just happens to make him look good.
There's definitely an aspect of that to it ("in this house we solve puzzles"). I think he has some narcissistic tendencies, and he probably would be embarrassed/view it as an affront to have to ask chat or admit he was looking it up, but also... it seems like Outer Wilds and Animal Well are both games where the fans *very* strongly hold the view that new players are not to spoil themselves - you absolutely mustn't get outside help. Which means when you stream these games, most of your audience wants to see you solve these puzzles without outside help. Even without any afront to his magnificent genius, I think there's a lot of pressure on streamers to be seen playing these games "correctly". You can't ask chat without letting the audience down, but you're an entertainer, so you also can't just sit there being stumped by a puzzle for an hour without letting the audience down in a different way. What is one to do in that position? Well, let's just say I doubt PirateSoftware is unique among streamers in having looked stuff up on the sly and put on a little show for the viewers about "figuring it out".
Dude looks like he played WoW 19 hours a day but for some reason people have convinced themselves he's some super genius... lol. I don't get it. I shoved dudes like this in lockers
His ego is too big to worry about that. He actually thinks people buys this nonsense. His 2nd puberty voice is a gift from God and who are we to second guess the chosen one? Oh, and, you're on the list.
i am just sad that he basically destroyed his enjoyment of the game by looking up guides. I was stumped by the quantum puzzle because the first time i found it on the ashen twins, not the quantum tower lmao
Dude, I had such a blast in the game. Took us over 30 hours to finish it on stream. If you're interested, we have the playthrough as a series here on the channel, it's edited down to remove boring downtime as well.
Besides not using his camera, his complete confusion about quantum objects is baffling for this stage in the game. Outer Wilds beautifully introduces mechanics and slowly builds on them, yet Pirate seems to have never encountered a quantum object before. While I understand not immediately getting the clue and taking a picture, he should already know that there is no pattern to quantum objects, no way to brute force them.
Couldn't figure out an obvious thing that literally tells you in text, yet figured out a random poster was a map in 5 seconds. Okay son. He tries too hard to have "eureka" moments after cheating, watched too many episodes of House MD.
The Quantum Tower is enough for me tbh. After 10 minutes of being completely lost he goes through the phone for a minute and solves it instantly. He didn't even need to go to the room again and he didn't even question his solution like "Maybe taking a photo would work?", he just knows for sure that it will work. And by the way, this is not even a puzzle. The game is straight up telling you how quantum objects work so you can investigate other places. The fact that he needed 10 mins and, most likely, to look up the answer is insane and makes it crystal clear that he's terrible at puzzles.
Is there someone who can go through his stream logs of this and see if someone actually commented on his voice? It would be wild to find out that no one ever said that. It's at 12:49 on this video, when he's 'thinking' about the sandstorm.
its like when i went to take a test and i took out my phone and the teacher be like "no phones!" "my mom texted me, i'm just replying to her text" yeah i'm totally not looking up the answers lmao /s
The funniest part is that it's not even a big deal that he's looking stuff up. Had he told chat "Okay, I'm genuinely stumped, I will look this up. But only for this specific puzzle", he would've been fine. Yes, people would've preferred for him to discover it on his own, but still. People like transparency far more. And when he found out how simple the puzzle was (at least the first one), he would've laughed at himself, and it would've been a funny clip for him and his viewers. But no. He made the world think of him as a wise genius, thus his image has to stay as of that infallible, wise genius. Thus making him seem far worse and worse than he ever could've seemed like. Just... disappointing. (Assuming this is all true, and not just us jumping the gun ofc :^D )
The more I see of him the more I just don’t like him, seems like a bit of a twat to the point where he lies about solving a puzzle to protect his whole ‘super smart above all’ image. Not a hateful person at all but he really isn’t helping himself with the way he reacts to everything.
I know people play games and solve problems in different ways, but it's weird to think that this guy's ego drove him to have to like capital S Solve problems when first encountering it. My favorite part of Outer Wilds was that things in the are just little clockwork phenomena that you bounce off of or don't understand until you run into another bit of clockwork phenomena later. There were plenty of times I observed something and then it just kind of clicked a couple hours later when I was doing something else. Or I gained a new understanding by playing around and dying for a few cycles. I don't even think I did the quantum tower thing he's doing on Giant's Deep because the planet terrified me. I spent as little time there as possible, so all of my quantum understanding came from playing with the rock in the museum, some alien bones and a rock I found in a cave, and from repeated attempts to crash into the quantum moon without any luck. Outer Wilds is such a unique experience and to ruin it by looking up stuff due to the urge to SOLVE everything is a shame.
This video made me discover your channel. I then proceeded to bingewatch your Outer Wilds entire playthrough. I'm not a huge fan of watching card games, which seems to be your main focus, but I will definitely tune in for your variety playthrough. Hopefully you'll upload an edited version of the OW DLC. Anyway, you seem like a honest, grounded and pretty wholesome gamer (unlike others..), so I hope to see more from you!
Absolutely 0 problem with getting stuck, and looking up a guide. If he addresses this I expect him to do the same as before “people are mad at me for being bad at playing wow” “People are mad because I’m bad at playing outwilds” When absolutely not, they are mad because you are being narcissistic, “I have an idea”, you can’t appear to ever need help or be not good at something.
As an old man, I have seen people like pirate many times. And your gut feeling is right. I have never seen that personality, not try and cheat in the perception other people have of them. It usually boils down to some kind of competency cheat.
@Naveication I made that comment more in the sense that I would prefer to experience it alongside a blind playthrough. I haven't actually played it yet as I only recently received it. It's just my mindset going in, since I know all that there is to know in the base game. If you recommend it regardless, then I will trust your opinion.
You could probably go through this guy's videos and streams and find this kind of behaviour everywhere. Kinda like when a long time speedrunner is outed as a long time cheater, all you need is that 1 slip up and you'll see what look like obvious signs of cheating everywhere.
The Quantum moon is very sus as well. He lands and goes into the tower, then directly after he tries to go to the north pole for some reason(we know why, but he shouldn't). A pole only matter on the interloper and perhaps brittle hollow. Why does he want to go there before even looking around the area? Anyway he keeps glancing down on his phone, but what he doesn't do is try to climb above a barrier(Most people will accidently leave the moon the first time visiting, he even says he doesn't want to leave the "gravity well") So then he accidentally recalls a shuttle to the gravity cannon and later dies. When he goes back to his ship after dying he only checks the computer entry for the gravity cannon and not for the quantum moon. Because that's the new information he hadn't read about. So he goes back again and claims he wants to go to the north pole because of the Solanums diary mentioning the moon welcoming visitors in the south, but it was already the first thing he tried when he got to the moon. Quantum tower is also sus with him reading on his phone and solving it while hovering beside the tower.
This is almost unbelievable the timing on this. I played Outer Wilds a few weeks ago and then began to watch his playthrough, which was my first I had watched. I honestly didn’t even really think anything of his playthrough (partially I guess because I hadn’t watched any others) and I kind of just ignored all of the other stuff coming out about him as I was watching because this playthrough came out literally 3 years ago. Welp, turns out even this is sus! I’d say the Ash Twin Project one is the most convincing to me. That was literally the LAST puzzle I solved in the entire game after I spent nearly 2 1/2 hours banging my head against the wall exploring Ash Twin and other planets trying to find any clues about how to get into the core because I assumed the teleporter was just broken and I’d have to find an alternate route in (a la statue island on Giant’s Deep). I only figured it out after I got frustrated and looked up a slight hint in a very helpful Steam Community guide. Really hard to believe that he would just figure it out like it’s nothing.
Never played outer wilds but other puzzle games. Most people would try out their toolkit to see if something in the puzzle would advance. Pirate never did that.
The most common excuse cheaters use is to reassure their viewers that they are just choosing a dumb or random strategy and then (when it obviously works) they just claim they got lucky. Every. Single. Time.
That's also actually how cheaters sometimes get caught too. I remember there was a Civilization player who got caught cheating in multiplayer matches at tournaments on analysis of the games he played, his strategies were consistently terrible if he didn't already know everything underneath fog of war. Basically if you didn't already know the map by plugging the autosave at the start of the match into an analysis tool (that wasn't intended for cheating and I think later added in measures to prevent cheating) you would effectively be in most cases completely fucked, playing in a way that would be just horrendous and would therefore be extremely lucky if he consistently did it
The whole game is literally knowledge based and in game you literally look stuff up to solve the mysteries, ironic to believe that for this specific game
been a while since i played this, but don't the game teach you about using camera to "freeze" quantum objects before you get to this part? Im pretty sure it was a tutorials about this somewhere. Obviously Jason newer seen those.
I'm pretty sure that's the only part that explicitly teaches that. It does teach you elsewhere that if you're looking at a quantum object it stays in one place. I think I figured out the photo thing separately from the tower though. I went in once, ran out of time, then went to do other stuff in the solar system. Then I figured it out, did more stuff, then came back to the tower by accident because I had forgotten what was there lol
@@HedgehogGolf I think you get a hint of in the uhm, lighthouse? or what ever that place is, where there is a lot of stuff on display. Then again, i dont really remember that much of the game
16:00 as he says "Seems fine" He's fidgeting and fixing up his hair after/while talking about this, Grooming gestures(adjusting hair, clothes, fussing with jewelry, etc) is a common tell when lying or making something up on the spot. From what I understand of the theory, it's basically due to your brain trying to buy time to make shit up by seeming preoccupied with the abrupt grooming ritual while also giving the opportunity to break eye contact and delaying an interruption from the other party, among other things. Tells like this aren't an exact science, And he Could just be doing this at this exact moment he's potentially lying, by chance or bad timing, but... Based on the entire series of events in this, animal well, other games, and all the other stuff that has come out about him lately... To me, it seems doubtful. This reads as him lying, to me. It stood out to me the moment I saw him start grooming while trying to explain away what was about to happen.
Its very obvious as someone who can judge character extremely well, i can tell because he's spoken on my works subject matter once before and was extremely light on and wrong but was acting like he knew 100% but that could be the voice/persona. This is why he was a consultant this personality thrives in that space.
Small clarification at 3:55, he would've seen portals of the exact same design in the previous puzzle of the tower of quantum trials, meaning he should absolutely know that it'd be quantum. I think he just forgot about the scout launcher until he searched for the solution.
my gf made me play outer wilds just recently, what an experience. The ending would have not felt the same if I looked up guides to anything. The most I did was ask my gf for cryptic hints. Also, fuck the Ash twin project for no specific reason.
This whole thing actually kinda bothers me, because Outer Wilds is a great game, and discovering the first mechanic is one of the big "OH" moments while playing the game. Legit, it's one of my favorite games ever, and not enough people play it. But this is the first exposure to the game, so people who haven't played it yet are getting one of the big twists for them ruined. The same with the other clip. It's legit one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had in a game, it's something truly unique and special. It almost sort of feels like "oh, he looked up who keyser soze was and didn't figure it out normally." I've had a few friends who were interested in the Pirate drama who haven't gotten around to playing it yet, and I told them to steer clear of this stuff, or it'll ruin their playthrough
Damn shame to see hes potentially ruined the experience for himself instead of just admitting to being stumped a few times and looking at the many spoiler free guides. I think you covered these examples well
On my perspective what I think we have here is that Pirate always had an image kinda of being a very smart and sharp-witted guy, who has youtube shorts with W takes and seemed very composed. I think that he knows that and this fact boosted his selfconfidence a bit too much, to a point where basically it ate him. On that position, his mind is like "If I don't solve puzzles right away, I'm going to look not THAT smart", and ended up cheating to keep this image of being super clever. I might be wrong but it is my take on it.
I normally love watching playthroughs of Outer Wilds specifically because of the authentic "Aha!" moment that people get when they solve puzzles. Normally the longer they struggle at something, the more the scale of that reaction. His playthrough felt hollow to me, and then he did the DLC too and it felt like an even greater let down but I could never quite put my finger on why. I didn't investigate at the time, but I feel a bit of retribution in this evidence since it fully justifies that gut feeling I was having. Thanks for the video, I'll make sure to watch your own playthrough when I get the time.
I hope you enjoy it. We did some absolutely insane things (landed on sun station before teleporting to it, by orbiting the sun in our space suit, and skydiving onto it). Among other ideas xD Was a very long playthrough because my ideas are kinda stupid xD
@@GrappLr That's the beauty of a great playthrough. I definitely look forward to these ideas you mention. When I first played I genuinely didn't realise you could teleport to the sun station so I landed on it. I did it first try so was confused when people told me that wasn't the right approach, and when I tried to show a friend how easy it was, I failed 10+ times in a row.
I just finished the game, only thing I struggled with was solving the final hint with an ash tower for bs reasons. The game has the kind of puzzle story that you'll know if the person looked it up beforehand. It's impossible to have a eureka moment until you explore and discover the clue(s) needed to find a solution. Really he already solved the game with the wiki, but he only beaten it as fast as I did. You really don't have to pretend to be smart. He cheated. I know that simply because I spent a good portion of the time grinding through the rumor logs trying to piece together the plot and exploring the leads, something he didn't have to do because he magically already knew the answer. He also never met Feldspar, who was very important to solving the riddle of the gas planet that he already somehow deduced.
PirateSoftware: _"What? Woah!!"_ PirateSoftware: _"It totally was a different portal the phone was right!"_ Chat: _"The what..?"_ PirateSoftware: _"I was right.."_ Chat: _"We heard phone"_ PirateSoftware: _"You must have heard wrong cause I worked at Blizzard for 7 years"_
The sand teleporter from what I remember was the most difficult thing for me to get. I think there's a whole 1 log in the entire game that tells you to do that and at that point you are so full of information and ideas about what to do next - it's very easy to miss a clue like that. But hearing how he breeezed through all of the DLC in a short time was hard for me to accept, that DLC's surface exploration alone takes hours, let alone figuring out the puzzles.
travelling to the dlc alone takes up a lot of time and then fully exploring it is kinda difficult because of that timelimit on each cycle, its crazy he apparently did that in just 6 hours? he must have an IQ of like a 1000.
I've actually had to look up ATP teleport, I'm embarrassed by it, but I am not afraid to admit it. I was just so convinced there's gotta be other way around that teleport because actual solution felt like hack, like brute force solution that was not intended.
@@Игорь-щ4г2з Nobody blames you, it's a hard puzzle game. And nobody would have blamed Thor if he said 'look guys, can you give me a hint? I've been at it for 4 hours, I don't think this is making for a good stream'. It's the need to seem so smart that bothers me. Hell - even if you are smart, solving such puzzles can take a long time just because of how they combine elements of investigation, exploration, information tracking and application and finally experimentation. I guess we all have our vices, but to see someone so positive to new devs be this vane is disappointing.
@@ThatDjinn people watch Joseph Anderson trying to land on sun station for hours going "this time for sure" so there's that. Pirate just has a giant ego that he's incapable of admitting he can't do something or he's wrong. That's why he refused to talk to Ross Scott about stop killing games - because he knew that in debate he won't be able to defend his position because it's based on lies and misrepresentation of what stop killing games is. That's why he refused to talk to his wow raid party members for more than couple of minutes and just dropped the call when he ran out of arguments. He can't admit that he's wrong.
I forgot to give a disclaimer, but thankfully my lawyer reminded me in comments: I'm not a Doctor. Any advice I give is not legal advice. I've never worked at Blizzard, and I've played less than 83 hours of Animal Well. In other words, I'm not one to listen to.
Listen, man. He worked 7 years at Blizzard, and his dad worked there, too. His dad was also the guy from the WOW episode. He also hit a 2nd puberty at 30 and DOES NOT use a voice changer because that would be something an insecure weirdo would do. This dude is on another level from us mere mortals.
@@Austin-sw3mf I don't think he uses a voice changer unless he forced event hosts to implement one specifically for him, like the streamer awards thing.
What I do believe he's doing is changing his voice manually like Tay Zonday does with his singing voice.
Hahahaha, awesome
More importantly, did you know he worked at Blizzard for 7 years?
But did your dad work at Blizzard?
Do you know what Albert Einstein said right before inventing relativity?
"Waaaait a minute...."
LOL
Ironically, Einsteins first wife, Mileva Maric, was known to be more gifted in mathematics and even physics than Einstein and curiously all his best work came from the time he was married to her. So this joke might not be that far off.
@@veritas4698 I'm sure they had intriguing scientific discussions either way, but I'm also sure Maldavius would have been able to come up with Lorentz invariance without looking at the chat (or listening to TTS)
“It’s the lengths!”
@@seanduncan9310 🤣😂🤣
Every time he is about to do some crappy acting he says "Wait a minute", that's definitely his tell
Lol the acting is so bad.
reminds me of Limit Max during the FFXIV raids "wait a minute" "hold up" like a magic epiphany
You're on the list.
EUREKA!
URETHRA!!!
'I cant read chat"
Pirate: literally reads chat multiple times out loud.
That reminded me so hard of when you caught your kid barehanded eating all the cookies 😂😂
For example 6:28 "(That) wont' work. You can read chat and I can't."
What would "won't work" refer to? Who is "you" here? He's not talking to himself.
He's clearly reading chat or at least is in a group somewhere that's following his playthrough, whether that'd discord or somewhere else.
Maybe that group/app is on his phone so rather than looking at a guide he is looking at live help/suggestions. [Which is still definitely cheating.]
The "golden path" thing sounds like it's straight from a guide though.
In his defense he did say that he was only reading chat messages from people he recognized and knew wouldn’t spoil stuff. He had donation TTS off. Not saying he didn’t read chat and get spoiled, but it isn’t unthinkable that he would avoid reading certain messages in of chat.
@@paulzetterberg8081 unless you're at a 2nd grade reading level, you can read entire sentences at a glance. if he's looking at chat with spoilers in it, he's going to notice them far before he's able to select a certain person's message to read.
That’s why he’s the GOAT!
Math test: "Solve X and show your process"
PS: Writes "wait a minute..." and cheats off his neighbour
I have a great story about something like this. If ur ever on steam just ask
I don't know how it is in other countries. In France if a math question is 4 points there will be 3 points to present the problem, quote the applied rule or formula, do the calculation with the steps. And 1 point for writing the correct answer.
We consider that having the right answer is not the most important thing, it is not dramatic to make a calculation error if the whole process is good.
In grade school I got marked down because I didn't like showing my work
Actually caused me to laugh out loud! 😂 Yours was one of the funniest comments I've heard yet. 👌
he always gains a weird amount of confidence he figured it out BEFORE even trying it, not a doubt in his mind it might not work, and low and behold, it always works
He's just on another level
To be fair though, he worked at Blizzard for 7 years and his dad was the Warcraft South Park guy.
@@CardinalDXMP Fair enough
Lmao to be fair he definitely said that and was wrong a BUNCH in the original stream.
He was constantly like "ah i understand now" and he would be miles off from figuring it out 😭
Someone needs to compile a dossier on this suspect and send it over to Karl Jobst.
*Heisenberg voice*
Karl IS the one who dossiers
But jokes aside would love that video
he should start with that dude real user name, which is Maldavius Figtree
Hello, you ABSOLUTE legends
He tweeted he is already working on it
@@whell from the little investigation i did, he definitely hiding more stuff
If the dude had even a sprinkle of self awareness and humility this would have all been over after a day. He's actively turning himself into a huge heel and lolcow over the smallest shit of all time. He went from mostly respected shorts guy to Steven Seagal of gaming for nothing.
Bro brought in Steven Seagal. That's awesome.
He even kind of looks like Steven but a skinny version lol
He's built so much of his reputation and persona on being some kind of smart guy who knows everything, which is why I think this particular game instance is so funny. No one in the whole world would care if he just didn't get a puzzle in a video game, but he just... CAN'T let people know that he's not a smart guy who knows everything. He HAS to be the smartest and the most thing knowingest guy of all time. So he cheats at something THAT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER, because he just can't let himself for a second come across as someone who might not be the smartest ever.
@@PineappleFlau "I'm a dumbass that has made some mistakes as my channel has grown. I need to be more accountable for my actions and how I treat people, and I need to not let my insecurities get me to do silly shit in gaming. I'm sorry and look forward to bettering my channel and conduct". Then not only would it have gone away, he would have gotten even more positive attention.
@@GrappLrThe Steven Seagal crown is currently disputed between Thor and Elon Musk 😂
Someone told me about this, and I was like "Pirate Software seems like a smart guy, totally possible he just figured it out"
And that's exactly what Pirate wants people to think about him.
I've seen two instances that make it basically certain.
First is in his Tunic playthrough. In it he slipped up and called a puzzle "Golden...[path]" as it is known in the community. Then he immediately corrected himself and called it "wall puzzle". Only way he would know to call it "Golden Path" would be if he looked up the solution.
Second is his map poster incident in Animal Well. Because he "solved it" by seeing it having a four block line at the top. And he connected it to one of the three codes he has collected up to that point.
Problem is, that four symbol line was actually a 2x2 block. Upon recieving it he immediately broke it up and correctly assembled it into the line. Again, the only way he would know to do that right away is if he looked up the solution.
That's interesting, I played tunic but didn't catch the fact he called it the golden path beforehand. Weird if he does this so many times why not just ask chat for help when he really needs it, it's just a game.
Tunic's Golden Path was the exact moment I questioned his playthroughs myself as well. He definitely did alot of it a bit "too well" compared to someone doing it for the first time. Is he cheating on all of it, probably not. But he's definitely not doing it without help or looking at answers to get him in the right direction. Hints are definitely being used. Like his Animal Well playthrough being 83 hours AND includes chat help. Also, his reactions are so disingenuous and forced.
@@wintersmonologue not chat help, there wasn't much hints in chat he picked up as far as I've seen. He obviously looked up the guide on that secret ending.
@@aranyak1881 because when he brushed so much (nonexistent) value on himself, asking for help is basically signing up that you are not so smart in the end. And he wants to stay smart at everything in the eyes of the audience.
@@wintersmonologue I watched the whole AW stream live. It was quite a lot of "wait a minute!" a few moments after chat have discussed solutions. Jason of course pretended to eureka the whole game
"In this house we solve puzzles"
*Literally brags about winning the defcon puzzle thing by pretending to not participate and having people tell him their answers
@@phelimkennedy6653 Got a link to when he said this? First I've ever heard of it.
@@TwiNaga dropped frames ep396 from the 32 minute mark
Back when this came out, I was actively following him and decided to finish the game myself before watching his playthrough. Once I did, I was a bit let down by how he approached it, he skipped a lot of the story and the way he rushed through puzzles and conclusions felt too fast. I felt detached. His gameplay felt more like a cold rush to the end, skipping a lot of the story and emotional depth that made the game so engaging for me.
Check mine out if you want another perspective, it’s on my YT
Completely agree. I watched Pirates's playthrough recently, right before the drama, and felt exactly the same.
But yeah..treat yourself to the Grapps playthrough. It's absolutely amazing and unique!
@@felipejorge4852 I certainly will!
Agreed, the regular game playthrough felt really disappointing, but my lord watching him do the DLC actually made me mad and I think is WAY more blatant than anything in the normal game. He was solving puzzles that weren't even presented as puzzles yet.
Is this game really worth playing? I can't figure out what the hell kinda game it is. I got to the part where he says the explosion is a right of passage and I paused the video thinking shit am I fucking up my potential experience of this game? This is prolly the 3rd time I've seriously contemplated playing. People were recommending it on the comments of this guy's playthrough of the case of the golden idol. I made the mistake of watching someone else play that game all the way through and I regret not just playing it for myself haha Maybe by the time I finally get the game I'll have forgotten about this video haha
7 years of space exploration
Did you know his dad worked in space exploration company?
lol
The title says "GrappLr Reacts", but really it's more like "GrappLr Investigates". I was expecting a reaction video to a reaction video, but nope, the man actually does the investigation himself. This is good stuff
Maybe I should have put that!
@@GrappLr wholesome channel ngl
Whats even crazier is that the quantum tower is barely even a puzzle, it's more of a tutorial showing you how things work... and he needed to look up how to do it...
"i have a really stupid idea" and yet its the correct solution every single time he says that
Translation: I just looked it up 😂
Its a narcissism tell. Its not enough to solve it unbelievably fast, and correctly, he also needs to say the answer is stupid. Even if you were to match him in speed and correctness, you might feel smart for it; but he wouldnt as the answer is below him.
It minds me of a psychiatrist talking about narcissism in a video I watched long ago. He talked about the main character in the movie Airplane exemplifying a textbook narcissist fantasy. The pilots are unconcious so a random passanger (main character) needs to land the plane. But that is not enough of a feat alone and the character is a real maverick, so there are scenes where the air traffic controller says "you cant do that! you will crash the plane!" and the main character - who never has flown a jet - shouts at him, insults him, does the impossible, risky maneouvres and lands the plane. It wasnt enough to save every life, he had to do it completely alone and out expert the experts and do the opposite of what they said and make them look stupid and inferior.
@@feluto7172 "what happens if I do this" - does solution.
@@couragefoxI think it's also partially because he has no reason to do the thing that he's about to do several times, as he hasn't learned it and it's one of those things that's pretty confusing even if you know what you're supposed to do (like the electric jellyfish), so he also has to make it somehow makes sense that he's doing this
Kinda sad when your ego prevents you from properly experiencing a unique game like this and it's just an opportunity to demonstrate your superior intellect. There are comments on the video from when it was uploaded, saying how strange his playthrough was and how he just skipped a bunch of important steps. He looked things up 100%.
I watched it when it first came out and I can tell you it is the most infuriating play through I’ve ever seen. It is so obvious that he looked up “ash twin tower puzzle” and then happened upon the solution to an entirely different puzzle. The logic to do that only makes sense when you a) know the ATP exists fully sealed in the ash twin, b) the towers each coorespond to an astral body’s alignment point, c) know that the alignment point for ash twin is in between ash and ember twin and finally d) the towers do not have to be perfectly alligned (such that you can wait out the sand) he did not know c,d and arguably b. The chain of logic of “I think I need to run into a sandstorm because I am a sheer dumbass” doesn’t check out.
I’d like to also point out information on how he 100% pulled the exact same thing in the DLC at least 2 times (most probably 3 time) which I have not seen posted yet, but frankly to anyone that saw the blatant sequence break that is that entire play through it doesn’t really require much room for speculation.
Pirate Software is doing everyone a favor by having such a giant ego. He single handily took every gamer’s ego and turned into a super villain so all of our egos wouldn’t run rampant. Thor is gamer Jesus.
@@picklechinazzboi2991the dlc is a good point. I remember how he was at a part that I already finished and he fken, magically did some shit and something happened. It was weird af for him to do it. But obv even weirder that if fken worked. But there was no rhyme or reason and he broke a sequence I didn't even know about yet. It was crazy. I stopped watching right then and there. He didn't even act surprised. As if it's the most normal thing he had to do. Hell nah
This is the saddest part about this one. Outer Wilds puzzle isn't even hard. Once you discovered the clues, the solution is pretty much spelled out for you.
It's the journey and stories you discovered along with the clue that made Outer Wilds special.
If anyone on Earth tried the sandstorm thing once and it didn't work , YOU WOULD HAVE NO REASON TO IMMEDIATELY TRY IT AGAIN unless you KNEW for sure it was the solution . It's so blatantly obvious
Yeah, pretty weird.
To be fair, there are a lot of moments in games where you try a move, it says it doesn't work but then you do it again and now it works. Kinda like the ending to earthbound. Still though literally everything else in the recording is super suspicious.
This 1000%. It took me so long to figure this out due to that exact reason. I tried standing on it during the sandstorm and it didn't work. I tried all the rest again and then just left the planet and went around solving other planets until I couldn't find anything else to do except for that. Only then did I try the sandstorm again in different ways, 20-30+ hours after the first time I tried it and it failed.
Unless you're Joseph Anderson and you just brute force everything for hours
@@Игорь-щ4г2з Pretty sure he Googled some of those answers to classroom questions in Persona. Or maybe the typing sound between him seeing and him answering the questions was just him playing Monster Hunter Now.
Yeah, his "waaaait a minute" is such an obvious tell of his. Literally every time he seems to use a solution he's read from the Net he says it.
Him deleting the timestamps is a clear indicator that something’s not right. He doesn’t want these timestamps referenced. What could be the only logical solution for that?
I agree. He bans like crazy anyone asking about it on Twitch too because they're "spreading hate". There are also several accounts of him copyright striking and reporting videos criticizing him. Dude wants to keep his audience clueless and the echo chamber strong.
@@Yx-lc5vx yeah i asked him in his chat why he didnt use his mana gem, and i got banned.
@@teunvanderwal646 yeah I mean what kind of streamer would ban someone for bringing up old drama
@@EmanS117 Valid question.
Waaaaiiiiit a minute....
Having watched a few dozen Outer Wilds playthroughs, it's so obvious he's looking up solutions. I can't believe I thought he was just a genius when I watched the longplay. But no, that fucking solution to the ATP was 100% looked up. I believe he didn't even go to the black hole forge, thus not knowing both twins share a teleporter, and that there is a few second window for the warp. Thanks for your input on this, great explanation for non-players.
I wasn't able to figure out the warp to the Ash Twin core, and I had alll the information I needed. Knew how the teleporters worked, alignment, the Ash Twin Project, everything. It just didn't click for me that I could also Ember Twin for alignment to warp to both Ember Twin and Ash Twin. So when I looked it up the reason made sense.
So watching the way Pirate does it is... curious.
I feel the exact same way! This is my favorite game and I've watched so many playthroughs. When I first watched Pirate's I was really confused and also disappointed that he felt the need to brute force everything and miss the whole story. He barely even read anything... Looking back it is so obvious he looked stuff up
@@Scarletite1 yes it was similar for me in my playthrough. I believe I even asked a friend to help me out, so it really is not that easy of a puzzle
@@Scarletite1SAME! It just could not click for me for some reason especially because of the falling sand. And I know the thing there's that much shame in like looking up a hint to a puzzle that you're struggling with and clearly that's the next step it's just not clicking in your brain. The problem is that he doesn't have the humility to actually admit that he's stumped
your certainty he is cheating only being 70% is hilarious
The problem with his struggle in the quantum object "puzzle" is that it's not meant to be a puzzle as much as a lesson. You use the logic that the puzzle and hint give you to apply it to other objects, specifically the "endgame" scenario.
Anyone who played it legitimately would have had a eureka moment in that tower, not because they figured out the archways but that they figured out how to land on the moon without it disappearing.
In other words, he should be more excited about being able to visit the disappearing moon rather than solving this simple lesson.
His moon thing was quite weird too. But not weird enough to include
The problem is that his eureka moment is so fake. Normal people think a lot faster than they can speak. So if he suddenly thought "images, wait theres a camera in this game, maybe I can use that" then a normal person would have explained it backwards. They would say "chat, we have this camera, camera take pictures, if we take a picture we can use this image in this puzzle maybe". His reaction just doesnt seem normal to me.
@@reilysmith5187 yeah and all he cares about is solving that single puzzle, like the first comment said, when you get the eureka, you immediately think where else can i use this mechanic. But he just doesnt
i feel like no one has looked at his dlc play-through yet, but to me that one is even more suspicious. he solves all three major puzzles without finding the areas that give you the answers.
you just cant get his logic without working for blizzard 7 years
To me the most blatant case of faking not knowing the answer to an Outer Wilds puzzle was at the start of Echoes of the Eye.
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Context: The game has only told him that there is something new in the observatory, which is the first clue to start the DLC. He walks in and looks around, but completely misses the giant "New Exhibit" sign so he never gets the clue. Instead, he just seems to randomly decide that he wants to go explore Timber Hearth and leaves the observatory. He proceeds to go directly to the radio tower, the exact thing that the new exhibit was supposed to point to.
Given the size of the solar system and how many things he skipped in his playthrough of the base game, the odds of doing this through pure chance are almost 0%. He doesn't go for his phone like in the base game clips, but he could easily have just prepared by reading a guide in advance. That's what I would do if I was already down the rabbit hole of faking puzzle solving for content and wanted to get around the tell of looking at a phone sometimes.
He then learns a mechanic that was not needed in the base game but is needed in the DLC (Sleeping) for no obvious reason, and then spends a long time struggling on the relatively easy puzzle of finding the stranger. The rest of the playthrough follows the same trend. Skipping hints, randomly doing the exact solution to a puzzle with no trial-and-error, then getting stuck on something that was easy enough for a guide to gloss over it.
The only possible options I can see are that he either read a guide in advance, was reading chat while saying he wasn't, had someone else walking him through it (direct messages on a second monitor or something) or spent 6 hours being both the luckiest and stupidest man on the planet as he repeatedly does things that make no sense for no reason but just happen to be exactly correct.
I can’t read this as I’ve not played the DLC and plan to do it soon on stream
@@GrappLrPlease do man. Also, you could try doing a recap video of the main story. I'm fairly sure 1-2 important details, about what was going on, slipped through your conclusion.
@@GrappLr I used to watch your legends of runeterra content for ages, life caught up to me and ive not been watching for a loong time,
this drama made me find your channel again! I would love to watch that playthrough i highly recommend the dlc!
@ Fair enough. I'll have to check that out, since I really like watching people play Outer Wilds. I very much respect that you'd take steps to avoid spoilers. I can give a non-spoiler version, but I totally get it if you want to skip it as well.
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Game tells player to go to point A to find the first hint (This happens automatically when starting the game after downloading the DLC).
Pirate goes to Point A, but only spends a couple minutes looking and does not see the hint which suggests going to Point B.
Pirate opens his map, muses about all the places he didn't explore in his main game playthrough, and then out of all of them 'randomly' decides to leave Point A and just go directly to Point B.
yeah, i watched his outer wilds stuff abt half a year ago, when i had a relatively positive opinion of him and i was pretty impressed how much he figured out on his own in the base game but the DLC playthrough was just rly shit he basically skipped 90% of the story. in the main game he didnt even find feldspar in dark bramble which like the first thing u do involving that area kinda, and the character that helps u figure out how to get into the core of giants deep. but i think he also just randomly figured out how to get into the core of giants deep. never rly suspected a thing but in hindsight its so obvious, especially in the dlc.
And anyone who probably pointed it out that he cheated looking at his phone seconds before solving those puzzles was instantly banned from his chat, to secure any suspicious from his godly brain, thus preventing drama from happening during all this time. Securing a legacy based on lies.
That, is how an RBMK reactor explodes
I can't believe how blatant it is. Of course he's using a guide and faking it.
I don't understand how people didn't understand it the first time he streamed this? It's so blatant.
He pulls out his phone after getting stuck, then magically not only solves the puzzle. But skips steps into a puzzle that require knowledge he hasnt aquired yet.
His gameplay from the DLC was much more sus. Nobody would know how to just do some of the things he did.
"wait a minute".. *boosts up bass meter even more*... "chat,..waaait a minute"
None of this would have been an issue if Thor said something like "Guys, I'm at a loss at this puzzle. While I would like to continue going through this game with as little outside assistance as possible, I'm going to ask one of my mods to help me out/look up the solution for me so we can get through this section and continue on with the game as normal. I understand that some of you may be disapointed with this outcome, but this would be better than watching me run around in circles for the next half hour."
Instead he continues to inflate his already incredibly large ego by denying any wrong doing and completely ignoring any critism regarding him. It's just sad behavior...
his ego probably: "Ex blizzard gigachad employee can't solve a silly puzzle? can't let that happen"
7:08 - I don't think him ignoring the supernova is weird, when I played I got like that when you know a run is over and you're just waiting on the reset. I'm not defending him, I believe he's a fraud at this point, but that specific thing isn't weird. If it were an explosion in the environment near him, sure, but the supernova becomes 'background noise' at a point, especially when you're in a room and can't see it coming.
The game literally gives him the solution in outer wilds and he can't solve it but we're expected to believe he solves the wingdings in Animal Well immediately... lol
yes! he cant solve so many things w obvious hints and the game telling him what to do (quantum tower) and other times he magically knows how to solve things with little to no info, with no experimentation on his first try. its so obvious hes using outside help lol
his guilty body language is funny to watch, the way he fixes his glasses and then goes to mess with his hair 😭
Keep an eye out for every time he does a weird half stretch. It's always accompanied by something uncomfortable happening, like a weird chat message. Big stretch followed up usually by a dismissal of the message received, calling it "insane shit" or other mannerisms he has.
That's a tell you can use to see where he is nervous in other places and It shows up a lot in the animal well video.
sound like one of those cringe ass crime videos. "You can tell he's guilty because he fidgets around in his chair" and then another video "He fidgets around in his chair, because of course, any innocent person would be worried and start to fidget around."
@ only this isn't crime, he isn't being interrogated, he's in the comfort of his own home, the riding is crazy
@ I didnt say anything about guilt. It's a nervous self soothing movement to calm anxiety and nervousness. Guilty people show it but so do socially awkward or people about to be in a confrontation etc. its a tell but its not proof of guild. dont twist my words
@ i didnt twist your words i used mine and was replying to the other guy XD?
I have no mana, what you want me to do for you?
The single fact that he didn't get the quantum object picture puzzle within 5 seconds of reading the word "image", tells me Jason is not good at puzzles.
Also: 6:30 reads chat, says he can't read chat????
It's not even a puzzle, it's literally giving you the path out of the room lol
@@forgetfulstranger I'm being very generous to Jason, words I'd use IRL are not allowed on here. Let's just say that even my 92 year old partially demented grandpa would have solved it within the same time.
I don't know if he's being lazy or genuinely can't figure these puzzles out.
Problem solving should be like second nature to him if he's been a game developer for over 20 years as well as a cybersecurity expert.
Has anyone actually checked if he ever uses the photo mode of the scout launcher before that? I watched his longplay a long time ago but Im remembering thinking, 'you never investigated your controls and this is the price you pay, you idiot'. Which made me all the more suspicious of like how does he suddenly think to use the Scout?
Now granted, the longplay is cut up, so its hard to say for sure, but man oh man. It was one of the VERY FEW playthroughs that rubbed me the wrong way, of which Ive seen many (Praise Eelis our lord and savior)
I would have tried defending Thor but gotta say, you make a convincing argument.
It's so obvious he's cheating, his acting makes me cringe 🤣
"wooaaoaoahhh- WOAAoooaoAHHH it totally was a different portal" Tommy Wiseasu said
Yeah, he's obviously reading a guide.. No doubt
Why is he being so weird about looking up an answer? It's just ego! He could just own up to getting help every so often..
His ego has always been such a big thing like he had occasional drama that never really boiled past the UA-cam shorts much when he would just say something wrong or controversial and continuously double down on it no matter what. He's not allowed to be wrong ever
I'm not sure what the truth is. But 8:33 that coming to a conclusion sounded so fake. Like someone acting and trying to frame something a certain way. Not a genuine realization.
I brought this game yesterday because of the pirate controversy. Game looked good so I thought I would at least give it a try. It’s one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever experienced and I can’t wrap my head around WHY pirate would cheat like this.
I did everything in this game without looking stuff up (except those ships in the gravity launchers… still haven’t figured that out lol) and you are literally told how to do that puzzle in the tower with the quantum gate. Ofc pirate is cheating so he isn’t properly learning a lot or crucial learning steps you experience when not cheating so he gets stumped which results in him cheating even more.
It’s so depressing he destroyed what would have been a once in a lifetime experience.
Yeah, I loved that game. Genuinely sad his need to be "good" seem to get in the way of him just enjoying figuring it out.
-“You seem to take criticism well.”
-“You seem like you wanna talk to me about it in the unban request.”
You can tell he worked at blizzard, doesn’t take community feedback well
wait he worked at BLIZZARD?????
it's a clear behavior pattern at this point, absolutely not someone to trust a word they say - especially not if it just happens to make him look good.
Whys he so embarrassed to get help from chat or admit to looking it up? Is it an afront to his genius?
You're on the list. Hope it was worth it.
you would have to had worked at blizzard for 7 years to understand
There's definitely an aspect of that to it ("in this house we solve puzzles"). I think he has some narcissistic tendencies, and he probably would be embarrassed/view it as an affront to have to ask chat or admit he was looking it up, but also... it seems like Outer Wilds and Animal Well are both games where the fans *very* strongly hold the view that new players are not to spoil themselves - you absolutely mustn't get outside help.
Which means when you stream these games, most of your audience wants to see you solve these puzzles without outside help. Even without any afront to his magnificent genius, I think there's a lot of pressure on streamers to be seen playing these games "correctly". You can't ask chat without letting the audience down, but you're an entertainer, so you also can't just sit there being stumped by a puzzle for an hour without letting the audience down in a different way. What is one to do in that position? Well, let's just say I doubt PirateSoftware is unique among streamers in having looked stuff up on the sly and put on a little show for the viewers about "figuring it out".
Dude looks like he played WoW 19 hours a day but for some reason people have convinced themselves he's some super genius... lol. I don't get it. I shoved dudes like this in lockers
8:38 - clearly he forgot to learn some acting skills in the School of how to tell Unconvincing Lies lmao
His ego is too big to worry about that. He actually thinks people buys this nonsense.
His 2nd puberty voice is a gift from God and who are we to second guess the chosen one?
Oh, and, you're on the list.
i am just sad that he basically destroyed his enjoyment of the game by looking up guides. I was stumped by the quantum puzzle because the first time i found it on the ashen twins, not the quantum tower lmao
Dude, I had such a blast in the game. Took us over 30 hours to finish it on stream. If you're interested, we have the playthrough as a series here on the channel, it's edited down to remove boring downtime as well.
@@GrappLrBest playthrough EVER. Sun Station LMAO
DEFINITELY going to watch!! I also spent almost 25 hours playing it haha.
Besides not using his camera, his complete confusion about quantum objects is baffling for this stage in the game. Outer Wilds beautifully introduces mechanics and slowly builds on them, yet Pirate seems to have never encountered a quantum object before. While I understand not immediately getting the clue and taking a picture, he should already know that there is no pattern to quantum objects, no way to brute force them.
Couldn't figure out an obvious thing that literally tells you in text, yet figured out a random poster was a map in 5 seconds. Okay son. He tries too hard to have "eureka" moments after cheating, watched too many episodes of House MD.
The obvious one was too obvious. He excels only at high level puzzles.
That guy is so Weird and cringe ;-)
Doesn't get much more obvious than this except for actual evidence obviously
The Quantum Tower is enough for me tbh. After 10 minutes of being completely lost he goes through the phone for a minute and solves it instantly. He didn't even need to go to the room again and he didn't even question his solution like "Maybe taking a photo would work?", he just knows for sure that it will work.
And by the way, this is not even a puzzle. The game is straight up telling you how quantum objects work so you can investigate other places. The fact that he needed 10 mins and, most likely, to look up the answer is insane and makes it crystal clear that he's terrible at puzzles.
He also fakes conversation with his chat to mask looking at his phone.
Exactly it's a diversion to make us less suspicious. It's to fill time we would otherwise be looking at him reading from his phone
Is there someone who can go through his stream logs of this and see if someone actually commented on his voice? It would be wild to find out that no one ever said that.
It's at 12:49 on this video, when he's 'thinking' about the sandstorm.
@@bomb447 I think he gets the admins to send fake messages fitting his narrative.
its like when i went to take a test and i took out my phone and the teacher be like "no phones!"
"my mom texted me, i'm just replying to her text"
yeah i'm totally not looking up the answers lmao /s
The funniest part is that it's not even a big deal that he's looking stuff up.
Had he told chat "Okay, I'm genuinely stumped, I will look this up. But only for this specific puzzle", he would've been fine. Yes, people would've preferred for him to discover it on his own, but still. People like transparency far more. And when he found out how simple the puzzle was (at least the first one), he would've laughed at himself, and it would've been a funny clip for him and his viewers.
But no. He made the world think of him as a wise genius, thus his image has to stay as of that infallible, wise genius. Thus making him seem far worse and worse than he ever could've seemed like.
Just... disappointing.
(Assuming this is all true, and not just us jumping the gun ofc :^D )
The more I see of him the more I just don’t like him, seems like a bit of a twat to the point where he lies about solving a puzzle to protect his whole ‘super smart above all’ image.
Not a hateful person at all but he really isn’t helping himself with the way he reacts to everything.
This man has greater deduction skills than Arnold in that movie where he fights the devil … “CHRISTINE YORK….MAYBE THAT MEANS CHRIST IN NEW YORK!”
He has over 20+ years of gamedev experience and two defcon badges he is an expert at solving puzzles and at keeping his team alive in MMOs.
I'll never reach such heights, but maybe, if I work really hard, my future children can have a chance to follow those footsteps.
@@GrappLr you need to be from that WOW episode to that to happend
you forget to start this with a "Wait a minute"
he's also the original creator of mr. robot but they stole it from him
@@cyberb4ss no way he actually said this
I know people play games and solve problems in different ways, but it's weird to think that this guy's ego drove him to have to like capital S Solve problems when first encountering it. My favorite part of Outer Wilds was that things in the are just little clockwork phenomena that you bounce off of or don't understand until you run into another bit of clockwork phenomena later. There were plenty of times I observed something and then it just kind of clicked a couple hours later when I was doing something else. Or I gained a new understanding by playing around and dying for a few cycles.
I don't even think I did the quantum tower thing he's doing on Giant's Deep because the planet terrified me. I spent as little time there as possible, so all of my quantum understanding came from playing with the rock in the museum, some alien bones and a rock I found in a cave, and from repeated attempts to crash into the quantum moon without any luck.
Outer Wilds is such a unique experience and to ruin it by looking up stuff due to the urge to SOLVE everything is a shame.
This video made me discover your channel. I then proceeded to bingewatch your Outer Wilds entire playthrough. I'm not a huge fan of watching card games, which seems to be your main focus, but I will definitely tune in for your variety playthrough. Hopefully you'll upload an edited version of the OW DLC. Anyway, you seem like a honest, grounded and pretty wholesome gamer (unlike others..), so I hope to see more from you!
Thanks for the kind words, and glad you enjoyed it! My main card game died, so I’m doing tons of variety lately. Welcome to the channel!
Absolutely 0 problem with getting stuck, and looking up a guide.
If he addresses this I expect him to do the same as before “people are mad at me for being bad at playing wow”
“People are mad because I’m bad at playing outwilds”
When absolutely not, they are mad because you are being narcissistic, “I have an idea”, you can’t appear to ever need help or be not good at something.
As an old man, I have seen people like pirate many times. And your gut feeling is right. I have never seen that personality, not try and cheat in the perception other people have of them. It usually boils down to some kind of competency cheat.
The coffeezilla of gaming. I'm here for it. I have arrived.
He said he wasn’t reading chat but when you skip to the second puzzle he is reading chat
I wish I could erase my memory of Outer Wilds so I can play it again fresh.
I’ll be doing the DLC probably in the near future.
Same. I was gifted the DLC but it feels cheapened not having played both at once.
@@GrappLr looking forward to it greatly
@@goatmagnum does it? Imo the dlc is uniquely designed in a way it doesn't matter when you play it. That's what makes it amazing
@Naveication I made that comment more in the sense that I would prefer to experience it alongside a blind playthrough. I haven't actually played it yet as I only recently received it. It's just my mindset going in, since I know all that there is to know in the base game.
If you recommend it regardless, then I will trust your opinion.
You could probably go through this guy's videos and streams and find this kind of behaviour everywhere.
Kinda like when a long time speedrunner is outed as a long time cheater, all you need is that 1 slip up and you'll see what look like obvious signs of cheating everywhere.
The Quantum moon is very sus as well.
He lands and goes into the tower, then directly after he tries to go to the north pole for some reason(we know why, but he shouldn't). A pole only matter on the interloper and perhaps brittle hollow. Why does he want to go there before even looking around the area?
Anyway he keeps glancing down on his phone, but what he doesn't do is try to climb above a barrier(Most people will accidently leave the moon the first time visiting, he even says he doesn't want to leave the "gravity well")
So then he accidentally recalls a shuttle to the gravity cannon and later dies. When he goes back to his ship after dying he only checks the computer entry for the gravity cannon and not for the quantum moon. Because that's the new information he hadn't read about.
So he goes back again and claims he wants to go to the north pole because of the Solanums diary mentioning the moon welcoming visitors in the south, but it was already the first thing he tried when he got to the moon.
Quantum tower is also sus with him reading on his phone and solving it while hovering beside the tower.
This is almost unbelievable the timing on this. I played Outer Wilds a few weeks ago and then began to watch his playthrough, which was my first I had watched. I honestly didn’t even really think anything of his playthrough (partially I guess because I hadn’t watched any others) and I kind of just ignored all of the other stuff coming out about him as I was watching because this playthrough came out literally 3 years ago. Welp, turns out even this is sus!
I’d say the Ash Twin Project one is the most convincing to me. That was literally the LAST puzzle I solved in the entire game after I spent nearly 2 1/2 hours banging my head against the wall exploring Ash Twin and other planets trying to find any clues about how to get into the core because I assumed the teleporter was just broken and I’d have to find an alternate route in (a la statue island on Giant’s Deep). I only figured it out after I got frustrated and looked up a slight hint in a very helpful Steam Community guide. Really hard to believe that he would just figure it out like it’s nothing.
Wait a minute, I have a crazy idea chat
The rabbit hole seems bottomless at this point. 😂
edit: That phone grab was definitely an impulse grab. I do that exact thing when I'm stuck and CBA.
Cover the DLC! There is a significant proof of repeat offending 😭
Gotta play it first
Never played outer wilds but other puzzle games. Most people would try out their toolkit to see if something in the puzzle would advance. Pirate never did that.
7 years in Blizzard
Please don’t ever stop these videos 😅
Content has kinda run dry on Pirate. We'll see what happens in the future.
@ lol I know that’s why I’m pleading you find more stuff to dig up, I don’t want this to ever end lol 😂
The most common excuse cheaters use is to reassure their viewers that they are just choosing a dumb or random strategy and then (when it obviously works) they just claim they got lucky. Every. Single. Time.
That's also actually how cheaters sometimes get caught too. I remember there was a Civilization player who got caught cheating in multiplayer matches at tournaments on analysis of the games he played, his strategies were consistently terrible if he didn't already know everything underneath fog of war. Basically if you didn't already know the map by plugging the autosave at the start of the match into an analysis tool (that wasn't intended for cheating and I think later added in measures to prevent cheating) you would effectively be in most cases completely fucked, playing in a way that would be just horrendous and would therefore be extremely lucky if he consistently did it
Looking shit up for Outer Wilds is a cardinal sin. Just don't finish the game if you can't.
The whole game is literally knowledge based and in game you literally look stuff up to solve the mysteries, ironic to believe that for this specific game
This dude has been getting lambasted for weeks and I can't watch all of the videos fast enough to keep up I LOVE THIS
if I remember correctly he acts that way because earlier on in the vod he triggered the twins warp already, thats why he mentions it happening before
been a while since i played this, but don't the game teach you about using camera to "freeze" quantum objects before you get to this part? Im pretty sure it was a tutorials about this somewhere. Obviously Jason newer seen those.
I'm pretty sure that's the only part that explicitly teaches that. It does teach you elsewhere that if you're looking at a quantum object it stays in one place. I think I figured out the photo thing separately from the tower though. I went in once, ran out of time, then went to do other stuff in the solar system. Then I figured it out, did more stuff, then came back to the tower by accident because I had forgotten what was there lol
@@HedgehogGolf I think you get a hint of in the uhm, lighthouse? or what ever that place is, where there is a lot of stuff on display. Then again, i dont really remember that much of the game
16:00 as he says "Seems fine" He's fidgeting and fixing up his hair after/while talking about this, Grooming gestures(adjusting hair, clothes, fussing with jewelry, etc) is a common tell when lying or making something up on the spot. From what I understand of the theory, it's basically due to your brain trying to buy time to make shit up by seeming preoccupied with the abrupt grooming ritual while also giving the opportunity to break eye contact and delaying an interruption from the other party, among other things.
Tells like this aren't an exact science, And he Could just be doing this at this exact moment he's potentially lying, by chance or bad timing, but... Based on the entire series of events in this, animal well, other games, and all the other stuff that has come out about him lately... To me, it seems doubtful. This reads as him lying, to me. It stood out to me the moment I saw him start grooming while trying to explain away what was about to happen.
Its very obvious as someone who can judge character extremely well, i can tell because he's spoken on my works subject matter once before and was extremely light on and wrong but was acting like he knew 100% but that could be the voice/persona. This is why he was a consultant this personality thrives in that space.
Small clarification at 3:55, he would've seen portals of the exact same design in the previous puzzle of the tower of quantum trials, meaning he should absolutely know that it'd be quantum. I think he just forgot about the scout launcher until he searched for the solution.
my gf made me play outer wilds just recently, what an experience. The ending would have not felt the same if I looked up guides to anything. The most I did was ask my gf for cryptic hints. Also, fuck the Ash twin project for no specific reason.
It’s a great game
I never would have had the amazing revelation at the sun station if I was looking at everything, it's just a terrible idea yeah
This whole thing actually kinda bothers me, because Outer Wilds is a great game, and discovering the first mechanic is one of the big "OH" moments while playing the game. Legit, it's one of my favorite games ever, and not enough people play it. But this is the first exposure to the game, so people who haven't played it yet are getting one of the big twists for them ruined. The same with the other clip. It's legit one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had in a game, it's something truly unique and special. It almost sort of feels like "oh, he looked up who keyser soze was and didn't figure it out normally." I've had a few friends who were interested in the Pirate drama who haven't gotten around to playing it yet, and I told them to steer clear of this stuff, or it'll ruin their playthrough
The way he talks when he fakes a genius moment is so cringe.
Damn shame to see hes potentially ruined the experience for himself instead of just admitting to being stumped a few times and looking at the many spoiler free guides.
I think you covered these examples well
The farm going crazy lol
On my perspective what I think we have here is that Pirate always had an image kinda of being a very smart and sharp-witted guy, who has youtube shorts with W takes and seemed very composed.
I think that he knows that and this fact boosted his selfconfidence a bit too much, to a point where basically it ate him. On that position, his mind is like "If I don't solve puzzles right away, I'm going to look not THAT smart", and ended up cheating to keep this image of being super clever.
I might be wrong but it is my take on it.
Could be
How did he even know the sand was going to pass over that teleporter and suck him away? He knew that would be an issue before even attempting it.
“ Wait a minute “ gonna become a meme now isn’t it?
YES
I normally love watching playthroughs of Outer Wilds specifically because of the authentic "Aha!" moment that people get when they solve puzzles. Normally the longer they struggle at something, the more the scale of that reaction. His playthrough felt hollow to me, and then he did the DLC too and it felt like an even greater let down but I could never quite put my finger on why. I didn't investigate at the time, but I feel a bit of retribution in this evidence since it fully justifies that gut feeling I was having.
Thanks for the video, I'll make sure to watch your own playthrough when I get the time.
I hope you enjoy it. We did some absolutely insane things (landed on sun station before teleporting to it, by orbiting the sun in our space suit, and skydiving onto it). Among other ideas xD
Was a very long playthrough because my ideas are kinda stupid xD
@@GrappLr That's the beauty of a great playthrough. I definitely look forward to these ideas you mention.
When I first played I genuinely didn't realise you could teleport to the sun station so I landed on it. I did it first try so was confused when people told me that wasn't the right approach, and when I tried to show a friend how easy it was, I failed 10+ times in a row.
100% this. I remember watching it and he didn't even bother to talk to anyone at the campfire and I was actually offended.
He's me when I have my phone on my monitor during a Proctor U test and I'm trying to subtly type in a question without triggering anything.
I just finished the game, only thing I struggled with was solving the final hint with an ash tower for bs reasons.
The game has the kind of puzzle story that you'll know if the person looked it up beforehand. It's impossible to have a eureka moment until you explore and discover the clue(s) needed to find a solution.
Really he already solved the game with the wiki, but he only beaten it as fast as I did. You really don't have to pretend to be smart.
He cheated. I know that simply because I spent a good portion of the time grinding through the rumor logs trying to piece together the plot and exploring the leads, something he didn't have to do because he magically already knew the answer. He also never met Feldspar, who was very important to solving the riddle of the gas planet that he already somehow deduced.
PirateSoftware: _"What? Woah!!"_
PirateSoftware: _"It totally was a different portal the phone was right!"_
Chat: _"The what..?"_
PirateSoftware: _"I was right.."_
Chat: _"We heard phone"_
PirateSoftware: _"You must have heard wrong cause I worked at Blizzard for 7 years"_
In this house, we solve puzzles, and we don't look up the answers. Because where's the... wait a minute...!
The sand teleporter from what I remember was the most difficult thing for me to get. I think there's a whole 1 log in the entire game that tells you to do that and at that point you are so full of information and ideas about what to do next - it's very easy to miss a clue like that. But hearing how he breeezed through all of the DLC in a short time was hard for me to accept, that DLC's surface exploration alone takes hours, let alone figuring out the puzzles.
travelling to the dlc alone takes up a lot of time and then fully exploring it is kinda difficult because of that timelimit on each cycle, its crazy he apparently did that in just 6 hours? he must have an IQ of like a 1000.
I've actually had to look up ATP teleport, I'm embarrassed by it, but I am not afraid to admit it. I was just so convinced there's gotta be other way around that teleport because actual solution felt like hack, like brute force solution that was not intended.
@@Игорь-щ4г2з Nobody blames you, it's a hard puzzle game. And nobody would have blamed Thor if he said 'look guys, can you give me a hint? I've been at it for 4 hours, I don't think this is making for a good stream'. It's the need to seem so smart that bothers me. Hell - even if you are smart, solving such puzzles can take a long time just because of how they combine elements of investigation, exploration, information tracking and application and finally experimentation. I guess we all have our vices, but to see someone so positive to new devs be this vane is disappointing.
@@ThatDjinn people watch Joseph Anderson trying to land on sun station for hours going "this time for sure" so there's that. Pirate just has a giant ego that he's incapable of admitting he can't do something or he's wrong. That's why he refused to talk to Ross Scott about stop killing games - because he knew that in debate he won't be able to defend his position because it's based on lies and misrepresentation of what stop killing games is. That's why he refused to talk to his wow raid party members for more than couple of minutes and just dropped the call when he ran out of arguments. He can't admit that he's wrong.
what is the disturbing sculpture behind you??