@everyone
The full edited playthrough of Stray is now up on YouTube!
Steets did an awesome job on this and kept it all in a single video for you.
Hope you enjoy. 
#news
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@everyone
There is a job opportunity for something really cool that has come up.
Understand that this is NOT a position for our studio but for a very rad project.
It's also secret so I can't tell you what it's about. FrieNDA too strong.
The job involves working with animation in Unity.
You will not need to be an artist for this but animation background is a huge plus.
You WILL need to know Unity like the back of your hand so keep that in mind.
If you're interested in this send me a Resume and Portfolio of 3 projects you've worked on.
You must be 18 or older to apply for this.
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@everyone
Hey, remember when I said that job was going to be cool?
That job is cool and you should apply for it.
Twitter
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@everyone
Monthly update video is out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPsAou0nJ5c
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@everyone
I've created a new channel for an upcoming game called #1005622823475216498
It honestly looks incredibly fun and a GREAT combination of mechanics.
Imagine Mario Maker, Doom, and Warframe had a baby.
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@everyone
I recently put out a request for people to apply to our Stream Team the Pirate Crew.
Hilariously, 17 of you applied via DMs. I am not able to handle that kind of throughput.
Because of this it's taken a long time and things keep going misplaced.
With that in mind, I made this.
https://form.jotform.com/222205563949157
Please get your applications in here so I can review them without losing anything.
I am also going through and removing inactive members of the team.
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@everyone
FEELS GOOD MAN! 
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1558900261594116096
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@everyone
Corsair gave me a fancy new link.
Now you have this fancy new link.
It's very fancy.
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@everyone
Twitch has dropped it's exclusivity for standard Partnered streamers.
This means I can now stream on any platform at any time.
I cannot multi-cast stream however.
This is a HUGE deal.
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/partner-exclusivity-faq?language=en_US
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@everyone
The mushroom shed album has been updated!
Go click the link to see all the new images.
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@everyone
Our team, the Psychoholics got our trophy for winning the Gold Bug challenge at DEFCON!
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@everyone
I will be finishing off reviews for our stream team tonight.
Unfortunately Twitch has announced that they are removing Host Mode.
This means that in-team hosting is not going to be a thing anymore.
My plan moving forward is to try to group streamers based on timezones.
This way we can raid one another and still help people find cool creators.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1567259549702434816
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@everyone
The August Monthly Dev Update is here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloWQ1zE88I
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@everyone
Our Discord server now has FORUMS channels!
As Discord slowly consumes Guilded like a great Amoeba we will keep getting features like this.
Check out the forum channels as we put them together.
If this works out we may retire some standard channels to clean up clutter!
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@everyone
Updated the mushroom album!
https://imgur.com/a/S43znNJ
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@everyone
The Inscryption video is now live and up on YouTube!
@flat tusk did a massive amount of work on this to make it happen.
Go like and comment on it so he can have vitamins and survive.
If you don't I will have to feed him to Brian. Very sad.
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@everyone
Twitch has announced their new split policies going forward.
This is our official response to their new business model.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1572552311012200449
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@everyone
For those that missed the happenings of the day I have a TL;DR for you.
Now with that out of the way I am off to work on becoming fat.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1572601600224665600
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@everyone
YouTube Members now have access to #pirate-pass and a special <@&1022635474818437211> role.
This is the same level of access as Twitch Subs and Ko-Fi Supporters.
We multi-platform now, lads.
Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/piratesoftware
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@everyone
Humble Bundle has an awesome Unity Dev bundle up.
Tons of cool systems to play with for an absurdly cheap price right now.
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/unity-tools-software?partner=piratesoftware
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@everyone
Monthly update video comes out today at noon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7kOm42plaU
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@everyone
In a massive L reversal Twitch has in-fact not actually removed Hosting.
In fact, they never planned to, they are just morons apparently.
If you add a stream to your Suggested Streamers list it will host ALL OF THEM on your channel when you're offline and they're online.
Check out @molten sky hosting me right now using this feature.
They didn't even change the URL.
The animals.
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@everyone
For this interested in streaming on YouTube I put some knowledge chunks out there.
Hit me up if you have any questions on stuff!
https://mobile.twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1577846810265399297
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@everyone
While Twitch was producing larger and larger L's...
YouTube just made a really awesome play.
This fixes a lot of chat related issues and helps discovery a bit.
You love to see it.
Already got the handle "<@&997190399003217920>Software"
Check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUcxoScgWS4
https://www.youtube.com/handle
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@everyone
The video of me absolutely disrespecting the Paqui One Chip Challenge is now out!
My 5 minute GIMP Thumbnail game is clearly improving. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@flat tusk is a wizard for editing this so fast so thank him!
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@everyone
Cringe Coins are dead... for now.
https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1580343886245146626
https://media.tenor.com/gDDWoO8UKkQAAAAC/casket-grave.gif
Twitter
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@everyone
Math is pretty good stuff, so I did some.
Here are the actual rates streamers receive from your subs and bits.
Protip: Bits and Donos are the best way to support a streamer.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1581905139304366080
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@everyone
I did a dramatic reading of a story written by AI steered by @marble dagger and @torn steeple.
There are a lot of bees and horror involved.
It's spooky and grim, you've been warned.
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@everyone
I've decided to take that Twitch AD money.
But I've also decided to scam them at the same time.
How could I not?
Their offer to me is 2300$ for 4m of ADs per hour.
However, this means I can do something hilarious.
I will be gifting half of every months AD incentive program as subs to the community every 1st of the month.
This means a little over 200 of you will not receive ads for the entire month.
This also means I will get ~39% of those subs back giving me a net increase of ~1700$
200 people without ads and a huge amount of bonus income.
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@everyone
Glorious nerds.
@stray solar has fully released their game Fredom Drive on steam.
This was one of the winners of the last Pirate Software Game Jam.
BEHOLD THE BOUNTY OF STEAM KEYS!
8RH6E-LXN8K-68AWN
HZ3RJ-C8LA5-7ZA03
T04I4-5V295-C8769
JAL30-XP62N-T9P35
J0W9E-Z9GI3-2HZ9A
4G8RV-BCVDI-BFX6Z
0K429-DW6QR-8V5ZY
4JR2B-BZV9P-8MZR9
9G946-MDA9V-3GVNW
RK0DC-4ET3Q-GT6V7
XT4JQ-NPK70-LXFFD
RKC4N-NKHI9-HDM3W
Also if you don't get one in time, go buy the game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2158510/Freedom_Drive/
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@everyone
I've noticed an uptick in people breaking our posted #rules.
I get that the online and real worlds are in turmoil right now.
This is not a place for anyone to make that worse for others.
Moderation will be harsher to help reduce this.
Do not be actual goblins.
Instead listen to Nekrogoblikon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMKOx6fumc
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@everyone
Thanks for all the support on Ko-Fi over the last few months.
Since things have been hectic shipments were paused.
Currently going through all of the payments and getting care packages together!
Hope you guys enjoy the rad stuff coming your way.
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@everyone
Champions of Breakfast has been updated!
Let me know if you find any issues!
https://steamcommunity.com/games/454380/announcements/detail/3405311447056171145
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@everyone
Some of you on stream were super interested in watching me harvest the Shiitake mushrooms.
I couldn't leave the camera on while I did because the spores were INSANE (literally like sticky snow)
However, I snapped some pics which you can see here!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1591611489030647808
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@everyone
Twitch has given me my ad incentive for the month of December.
Normally December is the highest ad revenue month of the year.
However, Twitch has reduced my Ad Incentive from 2300 in November to 900 in December.
This feels like a bait and switch honestly because it doesn't match the month or community size.
I could accept this and do another 50% split into 100 T1 subs.
This would remove pre-rolls but continue the 30 min ad breaks as they have been.
Not accepting means we get pre-rolls back but no ad-breaks.
I'd like to see your guys take on this.
- Take the money.
- Don't take the money.
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@everyone
Glorious Turkeys... I mean pirates... pirate turkeys?
Happy food bird day.
Also don't deep fry frozen food birds.
Instead watch this video about how that makes your kitchen explode.
Not that you would, but it IS fun to watch.
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@everyone
Winter is here.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKKTR0Sg7k
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@everyone
Game Jolt has announced their creator program.
Honestly fantastic to see and it's open to creators of all sizes.
Heartbound was put on the map by this website and I find it to be fantastic.
It's why they are listed on https://develop.games as a launch option.
You can sign up for it through their link here:
https://twitter.com/gamejolt/status/1597938584761368582
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@everyone
Discord has now implemented Server Subscriptions.
This is a direct threat to Twitch and their sub model.
Why, you ask?
Discord is giving a 90/10 split.
That's right, we get 90% and Discord takes 10%
This is absolutely huge for creators.
As such I have just spent the day setting up and enabling subscriptions on the server.
The tiers I put up are for 3$, 5$, and 10$ and I can add more if you guys want me to.
With that in mind a 3$ Discord sub gives 2.70$ to us while a 5.00$ Twitch sub gives ~2.00$ to us.
The split is something I never thought I would see in this business.
The perks are as follows:
- I imported 15 of the emotes from Twitch to these Discord roles and will import the rest tomorrow.
- You get a custom role with a custom chat color per tier.
- You get a little icon next to your name that can be moused over showing your tier.
They really wanted to focus on flair for your support with this.
Honestly, I dig it.
You can find the tiers at the top of the channels if you scroll all the way up.
You can also see a more Patreon/Ko-Fi style page with them here.
https://discord.com/servers/pirate-software-162034058736435201
As always this is an option for you and not a requirement.
You guys rock either way. 
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@everyone
Wanted to say thank you for all the Ko-Fi and Discord Subs.
I'm making an effort to move as many support systems off of Twitch due to their splits.
I want to make sure that if you're spending money you're actually getting something back for it.
Each one of these gives different side rewards and has a different split to us listed in parenthesis.
Each of them also gives access to #pirate-pass and Pirate Hangout (Hidden Voice Chat)
You will need to link your Ko-Fi or Twitch to your Discord account for those ones to work.
Ko-Fi: Higher price but monthly merch packages sent to you. 5$ 10$ 15$ - ( 100% minus merch/shipping costs)
Discord: Cheapest option that gives you emotes to use on Discord. 3$ 5$ 10$ - (90% )
Twitch: Gives you emotes to use on Twitch and Discord. 5$ 10$ 25$ - ( ~40% )
I will be adding more and more stuff to the Discord tier as it's new.
Planning on getting ALL of the Twitch emotes (even the deprecated ones) on it tonight.
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@everyone
Trainwrecks has announced and launched a new streaming platform.
They are proposing a 95% split to creators on subs and 100% on "Kicks" which is basically Bits from Twitch.
This split is unheard of and I want to see how it can possibly be sustainable.
Considering Subs are the lowest income on Twitch it may work.
Kick is owned by Stake a gambling website.
However, all of the gambling streams come with a warning popup sending you to a gambling help site called BeGambleAware.org.
This is legitimately good to see and Twitch shows no warnings whatsoever on gambling content.
To me, the owner is irrelevant if it brings value to other streamers especially with warning lables on addictive content.
The website is literally the same as Twitch.
It's even using Amazon IVS so the stream quality is exactly the same as Twitch.
The big meme right now is that people are calling it "Twitch Green"
Will this platform fail? Maybe.
I'm letting it breathe a bit to find out.
The alternative is living under the single platform nightmare that is Twitch.
I hope we get an alternative even if it isn't Kick.
I made an account over there in case this takes off.
https://kick.com/piratesoftware
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@everyone
The Game Awards are on right now if you aren't watching them!
https://www.twitch.tv/thegameawards
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@everyone
Update on Kick.
It's a meme.
I originally wanted to see if Trainwrecks and his group could make a competitor to Twitch.
With their funding and knowledge this appeared to be possible.
The site was a bit of a mess but things were moving in the right direction.
With that being said they've completely fallen off.
Here are some reasons why.
1. They now promote streaming copyrighted content.
The "Other" Category is now "Other, TV Shows & Movies"
For a little while "Pools, Hot Tubs & Beaches" was "& Movies" instead.
This is obviously idiotic and going to get the site in a ton of trouble.
It also prevents them from getting Advertisers later which destroys the site.
There is no winning on this one.
2. Their admins are completely untrained.
I reported an account that was streaming Breaking Bad.
They also had the recipe for Meth in their about section...
Admin showed up in chat and yelled at the streamer.
Admin had no icon next to his account so they looked like a viewer.
Streamer ignored him and the admin kicked him offline.
This went back and forth a few times.
Eventually the streamer agreed to change his about section.
The stream mods then BANNED the site admin.
The mods then spammed the chat with the Meth recipe.
The guy is still streaming and wasn't banned.
These are frankly absurd situations.
Knowledge of copyright law is paramount for a user content platform.
Trained admins are mandatory for running a site like this as well.
This is bad and Kick is bad.
I'm glad I checked it out but this is not worth it.
We still need a competitor to Twitch.
A real one... not this.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1601688162971299840
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@everyone
Glorious Pirates.
Thank you for a fantastic year.
I started streaming thinking nobody would ever want to watch.
Now we're here with a thriving community, hilarious memories, and a game much closer to release.
I wouldn't be where I am without all of you.
Thank you.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1602771404461834241
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@everyone
Next months ad incentive came in.
It's worse than this months which is expected.
January is a much lower Ad cost month than December.
With that being said Twitch is asking me to run 3, 4 or 6 minutes of ads.
I won't run 6 minutes because it would feel like garbage.
Going to take the 4 minute offer because we have already run that many previously.
As always I will be taking half of it and gifting it to the community as T1 subs.
This means on January 1st we should get 70!
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@everyone
Worked on additional updates to develop.games today.
We now have a section for Marketing!
Next work will be for Streaming information under the second tab.
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@everyone
For those wanting to see the GDC talk about the infinite slot machines today I found the video!
They created the worst possible games... and ads got massive clickthrough rates as a result.
This actually gives a financial incentive to make horrible games.
I hate this timeline.
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@everyone
The 11th Pirate Software Game Jam begins on January 13th 2023.
You can read all of the rules and requirements here! https://develop.games/gamejam
The Theme will be announced on the first day of the jam and not before.
As usual the community will vote on the theme so even I don't know what it is.
Hope you all have fun, good luck!
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@everyone
It is with great sadness that I must inform you of the passing of our first glorious dwarven fortress.
It did not die to the blade of goblins nor the corruption of greed or to the temptations of the deep.
Unfortunately it fell to save file corruption.
The darkest of terrors has won.
This image commemorates our struggles.
Thank you @potent wasp for engraving our history.
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@everyone
Chicken Crimbo one and all.
May all your presents be rad.
In the new year Animus will be finished.
Then we're off to strange and terrible lands.
Also penguins.
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@everyone
The High on Life playthrough has now premiered on YouTube.
You can check it out here or watch it once the premiere is over!
Also, @flat tusk did a massive amount of work to make this possible.
Let him know he's rad for that.
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@everyone
For those who followed Greta Thunberg annihilating Andrew Tate today...
Tate has now been arrested in Romania on human trafficking charges.
They had been trying to find him for a while.
Tates response video had pizza boxes in it.
Pizza boxes from a specific delivery service in Romania.
Romanian authorities then found his location due to that delivery.
They raided his location and arrested him on national TV.
They always make a mistake and you always love to see it.
Literally classic.
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@everyone
Heartbound Monthly Update video is out for November!
It's quite a bit late so expect Decembers within the next week of the new year!
Have a happy new year you glorious madlads. 
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@everyone
Beans got a shot for his adrenal issues.
We're going to wait two weeks and see how he reacts.
If it fixes him then we're going to go ahead with the implant!
Don't worry, the little lad is doing fine.
Also the vet says Beans is INSANELY buff.
Because he is and it is terrifying.
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@everyone
The 11th Pirate Software Game Jam starts on January 13th in SIX DAYS!!!
Make sure to check out the channels set up for it just below the announcements!
#jam-general
#jam-lfg
#1019879196501221396
You can read all about it here:
https://develop.games/gamejam/
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@everyone
The #heartbound-general ARG has been updated.
Good luck and have fun!
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@everyone
Next months ad incentive came in.
It's worse than the last one... again.
We're starting to hit the "This is lame" tier of pay from Twitch.
With the amounts being so low I'm just going to accept the 2 minutes of ads.
Screw having the community watch more if it doesn't even make financial sense to do so.
This would make sense if it aligned with Q1 Ad Rates but it doesn't match there either.
Normally you would see a 1-3% increase in February over January.
Not a 34% decrease LOL
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@everyone
The Pirate Software Discord is now officially a Discord Partner.
I've literally been applying every 3 months or so for like... 3 years.
Waking up to this is SUPREMELY rad.
New Perks:
- Server Banner
- Partner Server Badge (Top Left)
- Vanity URL (Already have this!)
- Custom Invite Splash
- Animated Server Icon (We need to make one.)
- Voice Bitrate increased to 384kbps (Hot DAMN!!!)
You can read all about it here:
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047513451-Partner-Program-Mega-FAQ-
Thank you everyone for being part of this community.
You kick many butts.
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@everyone
With todays update our custom Minecraft server called Blockgame has entered Beta.
Blockgame is an MMORPG built entire in Minecraft and playable on the Vanilla client.
If you are on Java or Bedrock v1.18.2+ you can play on the same server together.
For the last year we've worked on stuff to get it to where it is now.
Custom Java work, tons of configurations, dozens of plugins, and an immense amount of feedback.
There are over 600 crafting recipes, hundreds of items, multiple dungeons, professions and more.
You can also build towns and empires, wage wars, control resources or ignore all of that and be a humble farmer.
It will also never contain any monetization of any kind.
It's fun to work on as a side project and fun to play.
Loot boxes and paid cosmetics have no place here.
Check out the channels found here:
#1071346383384232006
#blockgame-modders
#blockgame-modders
You can read all about Blockgame on the website here:
https://blockgame.info/
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@everyone
Hello!
So this week I played Hogwarts Legacy.
Some of you voiced grievances over the game.
Some of you really enjoyed the playthrough.
Right now I am getting hate messages from both sides of the internet.
Some trans people and allies are claiming I hate trans people or I'm antisemetic.
Some people are claiming I am pushing for trans rights and that it's disgusting.
This has now spiraled out to attempted cancelling on Twitter.
It's also turned into Negative reviews on Heartbound.
Because I played a game.
I don't support the hateful messages.
I've made this MORE than clear on stream.
Let me be very clear with you.
Shaye is trans and Stijn goes by They/Them.
They are insanely important people to me.
The idea that ANYONE would step in here and make these claims is dogshit.
End of.
If you actually think that I'm anti-trans then leave.
If you think this is a community for bigotry or hate then leave.
I will have none of it.
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@everyone
After fighting on the internet for the day I have compiled a list of messages in response to the most common attacks. To be clear I am and always will be an advocate for not bashing groups on the internet no matter how large or small. This kind of behavior hurts people and doesn't win any positive benefits for anyone involved on either side.
There is a lot of mythology about the game due to parroting of incorrect information found on social media. There is also a lot of weird gotcha attacks going on attempting to equate me to all kinds of things. Remember the basic core value. Trust but verify. I see no verification taking place for any of this currently and easy examples disproving many claims.
If you're worried about me, don't be.
I got this and I know many of you understand it as well.
This is the final tweet in the chain and sums up a few points pretty simply.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1624981431255715841
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@everyone
Hello!
I woke up to more Twitter and Discord discourse.
I am more than willing to fight for positive values.
Also learned a lot about attack talking points over the night.
1. Hogwarts Legacy does not contain anti-trans values. It's actually the opposite.
- The character Sirona Ryan is voiced by trans Voice Actress Rebecca Root.
- She clearly states in the game that she was a Wizard and realized that she's actually a Witch.
- Her friends accepted her and everyone refers to her as She and Witch throughout the game.
- Shes not a bit character either as there are hours of content including her.
- Her name is from Sirona the Celtic god of Healing and snakes.
- In Celtic belief snakes are sacred and denoted cunning and transformation.
- Her character model is not named SirWoman or MrGirl in the game files. Both were claimed.
The attacks on this character are literally anti-trans from a small group within the trans community.
It's frankly disgusting.
2. The Goblins in the game are not Antisemitic.
Don't take my word for it. Take the UK's Campaign Against Antisemitism review of the content.
Following Stewart’s comments, the UK’s Campaign Against Antisemitism said in a statement that “the portrayal of the goblins in the Harry Potter series is of a piece with their portrayal in Western literature as a whole” and “is a testament more to centuries of Christendom’s antisemitism than it is to malice by contemporary artists. So it is with JK Rowling, who has proven herself over recent years to be a tireless defender of the Jewish community.”
3. The Horn in the game is not an Antisemitic dog whistle for a Jewish pogrom.
Again, don't take my word for it.
Take this Trans Jewish Cheesemonger's (Yes really) word for it.
This person was literally born for this moment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/10yxqm8/deliberate_antisemitism_in_the_hogwarts_legacy/j81he9u/?context=3
Overall the values in the game are PROtrans and Anti-hate and Bigotry.
This is the best chance this universes content has to break away from JKR.
Yet the internet and some within our community are trying to destroy both me and it.
How absolutely absurd is that.
Seek knowledge.
Denounce hate.
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@everyone
Had a few reports of people getting their machines compromised.
Reminder to everyone, never download software online via a request.
Even if that person is a friend, press them to prove their identity.
If it seems fishy, it probably is.
If you do get compromised make sure <@&362005405901127710> know so we can time out your account.
In the event you get control back we can put the account back in good standing.
As always you can contact Discord support here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us
Stay safe out there!
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@everyone
A new Heartbound patch has been completed in terms of content.
Translators now have the files for their work to begin!
Once they are finished it will go out to you guys.
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@everyone
If you missed the Hogwarts Legacy streams I've got the first one curated up on YouTube now.
It's 20 hours long so get ready for a super long session of nerd goblining.
Timestamps will be up soonish!
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@everyone
Woke up today to Meatball having broken into Shaye's office and destroyed Mojo's enclosure.
Mojo is a Crested Gecko and his tail was found in the broken down house so we thought he was dead.
A few hours later Mojo was found in the living room on the curtains unharmed and alive.
Crested geckos do not regrow their tails unfortunately so he's got Hank Hill butt for the rest of his life.
Mojo now has a new tank that cannot be broken into by a cat being a bastard.
Also, repaired the gate and put my bathroom mirror back up on the wall.
Home repair day was a success and everyone managed to live through the day.
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@everyone
Our award from YoYo Games has finally arrived!
It's super reflective and dense.
Really nice little thing for the shelf.
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@everyone
For those who didn't see the stream announcement the winner of the 11th Pirate Software Game Jam was @quasi yacht
We've been waiting to announce until his steam page is up and you can find it in this Twitter post!
Make sure to Wishlist and Follow it really helps a game get out there.
Twitter
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@everyone
New Monthly Update video is out!
This ones a triple since we didn't release one for a few months!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRYVodYRGQ
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@everyone
Please welcome @restive nexus to the #pirate-crew.
They play video games and don't afraid of anything.
WATCH THE ONSTA, DO IT!!!
https://www.twitch.tv/onsta
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@everyone
Saw a lot of panic over changes to Steams ToS regarding key requests.
People were worried that they would not get keys beyond 5,000 ever on their game.
To test this I put in two requests for 5,000 keys each.
Both were delivered within 24 hours.
I now have 14,200 keys for Heartbound in total.
They just review your requests more rigorously it appears nothing has actually changed.
I would still definitely use Steam as your distribution hub for your games as explained here.
https://develop.games/#nav-launch-steam
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@everyone
A very important announcement about burritos.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1633032815263768576
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The ferret cam is now online!
It's a bit barebones right now but eventually we will have alerts and such setup.
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Twitch has updated the ad-incentive program.
Hilariously it's exactly what I've been saying they should do on stream for months.
Ads should be paying streamers based on viewership metrics not arbitrary locked in amounts.
Also hilariously they communicated it in a way that makes very little sense.
Odd Takeaways:
You will be able to join or take a break at any time.
This was already true.
We've had an opt-out button the entire time.
No idea why this is a new specific call-out.
You’ll see revenue estimates instead of fixed payouts.
The new estimates show wild number ranges and don't have any meaning.
They should be showing an average $/viewer metric to better communicate value.
Even if that value is above/below due to regionality it would make so much more sense for a streamer.
These also cannot be broken down into hourly metrics because there is no hour requirement now.
There is no way a streamer can calculate how much they will potentially earn now.
You’ll be able to adjust your settings outside the recommendations and still earn 55%.
There is no knowing what 55% is because we don't know what 100% is.
They could slap any number to anyone and it would be impossible to know if that is correct.
Neat.
https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/03/09/a-more-flexible-ads-incentive-program-coming-in-april
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Today we hit 2,000,000 views on the YouTube channel.
Thank you for supporting all the weird stuff we do.
You're all rad.
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Glorious pirates, the day has come.
The 12th Pirate Software Game Jam will begin on 4/1/2023.
For those that don't see dates with the power of EAGLES that's April 1st.
Finally, an April Fools Day Jam.
I can't wait to see what you all do.
As always the theme will be chosen on stream.
No I will not reveal the theme before that stream.
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Make sure to check the #jam-general channels to team up with others!
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Awesome Humble Bundle package is up for game devs!
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/game-design-and-ai-featuring-steve-rabin-taylor-francis-books?partner=piratesoftware
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@everyone
Second playthrough video of Hogwarts Legacy is up on YouTube now!
This one is another 12 hours of shooting things with magic.
Definitely not dark magic. Definitely not.
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The new ad incentive program has arrived.
We knew that the AIP had issues but this new iteration is a joke.
I will find a way to keep updating the burrito index using this new "illustrative" math.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1636270717317840897
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The CEO of Twitch Emmett Shear has just stepped down.
Dan Clancy is now the CEO of Twitch.
Yes, the 3am on a Wednesday paycuts Dan Clancy.
The "I relate with creators on Twitch because I was in Highschool drama class" Dan Clancy.
Haha... I'm in danger.
Twitter
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World first kill of a giant horrible thing known as Ashava is now up on YouTube.
Thanks for hanging today/yesterday for the giant 26 hour Diablo stream.
You all rock.
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After complaining about it on stream the FerretSoftware channel has begun gaining AD Revenue.
You guys watching the channel just paid for all their monthly food.
Going to start using this for toys and other supplies as well.
Thanks for watching!
Also, Beans is currently in the hammock as a big floppy blanket.
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A lot of you wanted to see my Diablo 4 build in detail.
Here is an in-depth look at the entire thing and how all the components work together.
Diablo 4 has fantastic systems design which gives a huge amount of build diversity.
Cascading effects like this give a lot of options to the player.
It's a masterclass in design for this portion of the game.
Feels very much like Diablo 2 but amped to a nice peak.
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Twitch has now officially announced what we've been talking about this morning.
They have laid off 400 out of their estimated ~2000 employees.
This is a very big deal and we're waiting to find out the total impact.
https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/03/20/an-update-about-our-workforce
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Heartbound Patch v1.0.9.58 has now launched.
All of the core systems are finished and everything is content now.
We're moving to a monthly release cadence for updates.
The next patch will be on May 1st.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/3712694972145410076
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Twitter has just released the source code for their recommendation algorithm. This is a pretty huge deal and may be super interesting to dig through.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1641876892302073875?t=zi5pcGxkRyl3RbxmknDlew&s=19
Twitter
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I spent nearly 10 years working in Triple A playing that Cat and Mouse game on the defenders side.
This new AI direction is some of the most compelling stuff I've seen in a long time.
Finally a solution that doesn't require Kernel access.
Wild as hell to see.
I'd love to see more of this direction for games.
Waiting to see how the offense side plays out with counter AI.
The biometric model stuff is lame but the rest is awesome.
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@everyone
Come help us fix Twitch. Literally.
This UserVoice is to get better Ad Analytics for everyone on the platform.
It's data that Twitch already has and would use an interface they've already made.
It's a small ask technology wise and a big impact for streamers.
Also it would make both streamers AND Twitch more money.
Just hit Vote and log in using your Twitch info.
https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/924712-creator-dashboard/suggestions/46482214-add-deeper-analytics-for-ad-revenue
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Monthly update video is out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bossFo8a1I
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Go vote on this so Twitch knows we want analytics that don't suck.
We're 1/2 way to first place under the Analytics requests category.
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Update: Good Edition
Twitch is also fixing this for creators in the future as a result of this.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1648426080204910593
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Really sad to make this post.
We found Snails, one of our ferrets, dead tonight.
A few weeks ago she was diagnosed with a heart condition.
Unfortunately this is a common killer in ferrets.
We thought she had a few more years of health in her but apparently that was not to be.
She went in her sleep and both Beef and Beans went over to lay with her when it happened.
Attached a few pictures of her throughout her life.
She was a good bean.
Going to be offline tonight.
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With the FerretSoftware channel so popular it's gotten a lot of income from Ad Revenue. Our entire cost budget for the ferrets is around 300-350$ a month. As of now the channel has raised 1,215$ in a little over a month.
Ferrets are really difficult animals for a lot of people. Shelters won't take them because of this difficulty and expense. Tons of them are bought and then put up for re-homing or abandoned as a result. With the income from the channel we're going to start fixing that in a small way.
We've reached out to University of Washington to let them know we will take any laboratory ferrets they have which is where Loki and Snails originally came from. We've also gone through cragslist for our area and contacted some people with ferrets they need to re-home that are in more dire situations.
With our current setup we can safely care for 12-14 of the little wigglers. With the income from the channel we can easily do that even if the viewership declines by ~50% or more.
Hoping to give more good lives to the little dudes that otherwise wouldn't have them. Expect to see some new faces in the coming weeks to months.
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Please welcome @winter breach as our newest member to the <@&404090978333622272>
She creates 3d models, texture work, rigging, and has a blast doing it.
Definitely check out her content and see the things.
Also rats. You can never have enough rats. 
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Thank you so much for the support on FerretSoftware today.
It's overwhelming as hell and I can't wait to put it to good use.
We've got Mouse in quarantine right now and two new wigglers being picked up tomorrow.
Heading over to the store for supplies and a second quarantine cage.
You all rock, seriously.
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@everyone
Twitch has changed our User Voice to "Investigating"
This hopefully means a quick response!
Make sure to vote on it if you haven't.
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The Evergreen Avian & Exotic Animal Hospital is the vet that does all of the medical care for our ferrets and hundreds of other ferrets around Washington State. They also care for shelter and rescue animals at no cost which is an incredibly kind thing to do. Their facility could use some upgrades and I think as a community we can help make that happen.
With the massive success of the FerretSoftware channel you've put me in a position where I can join in on that. Below you will find a fundraiser to help rally for this cause. To kick this off I have added 1,000$ towards the goal. Your viewership directly resulted in this happening.
Thank you for being awesome.
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You can find the Fundraiser here:
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=5NWNJMMCX4VXN
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The entire Tunic playthrough is now up on YouTube!
Thanks to @flat tusk for the editing magic.
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Pirate Software monthly Studio Update is out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9TSMeIm528
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Twitch has released a 1st party alert system.
Literally able to build alerts right into your Twitch account now.
Runs through OBS via browser source and hooks everything on Twitch.
This just went live, right now.
It even has Brian.
This is actually legit good.
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Meet Your Maker shouted out some absurd mechanic I found.
They also fixed all of the exploits I reported... all of them.
This dev team is kicking butts and making good community moves.
You love to see it.
https://twitter.com/MeetYourMaker/status/1659612380639248400
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Twitch has just increased the cost of Twitch Turbo from 8.99$ to 11.99$ (USA Base)
For those that already have it a new "Manage Turbo" button is on the top right of the page.
Turbo is NOT auto-renewing under the new pricing so if you want to continue it then do so manually.
With this change the value of Turbo is going to be different for a lot of people.
The previous 9$ cost made it better to use Turbo over subbing to 2+ streamers you watch.
Under the new price this changes to 3+ streamers.
There is no extra added value so...?
On streamers end they also updated our UI to show "Ads & Twitch Turbo" as a revenue source instead of just "Ads".
This was always the case as lost ads from Turbo users still counted as watched ads for streamers.
According to Mike Minton they plan to break this out to show us how much Turbo is making us which is good.
Thanks for voting on the User Voice regarding ad analytics.
Without that I don't know if we would have this kind of direction during this change.
https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/924712-creator-dashboard/suggestions/46482214-add-deeper-analytics-for-ad-revenue
The price change here sucks but I'm at least glad they are updating analytics around ads like we have been asking.
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You can now pre-install Diablo IV through the battle.net launcher.
Once the game goes live I will have a community guild set up and we're going to go ham.
If any of you plan to no-life the game in the initial 24 hours send me a DM.
Going to be putting together a party to speed up our progression.
Also, if you have an NVidia card make sure to get the latest Game-Ready drivers.
They just dropped one specifically for Diablo IV.
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Biopsy results came in.
I don't have cancer of any kind.
I also don't have an infection of any discernable kind.
Yet it reacts to anti-biotics. 
Team of docs are stumped.
We're just gonna keep doing what we're doing since it's reducing symptoms.
With luck it will keep going this way and I won't end up in a textbook. 
Either way, no cancer, feels good man.
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Heartbound patch 1.0.9.59 has now launched.
It's a smaller patch so I can test to see if this storyline direction feels good.
It's been tough getting a feel for Sheldon/Shelly but I'm hoping you like what I have here.
Let me know!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/3681175932887328145?l=english
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Twitch has updated their branded content policy today.
It is probably the largest shitshow I have seen from Twitch.
Tons of streamers are planning boycotts and platform switches as a result.
It's rather odd that Twitch would go this direction.
It appears that they want to become a middle-man in negotions between brands and streamers.
By making it more difficult for streamers to engage with brands without Twitch involved they accomplish this goal.
They've since tried to walk it back with non-commital messaging.
Also, no I will not be changing platforms.
Staying the course, making cool stuff, hangin with you nerds.
You can read the new policy here:
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/branded-content-policy?language=en_US
Twitch has stated they were "overly broad" here:
https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1666183149343354881
Quality meme on this:
https://twitter.com/Big_E/status/1666203049788858390
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Twitch has now walked back their branded content policy.
Surprising no one.
Twitter
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Cardboard Cowboy was fully unbanned as was his Lofi channel.
Thank you everyone for bitching about this on social media with me.
Sometimes the best option is to fight idiocy to get things fixed.
You're all rad.
Also, Ludwig spoke about this on his latest Mogul Mail.
You can see it here!
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I rarely if ever accept sponsorships due to the nature of advertising. Most companies just want to sell you a product, energy drink, or garbage game. A big part of being a streamer includes turning down these offers because they don't make sense for the community or for people in general. With that in mind, this month, I accepted an actual sponsor for the stream.
BEHOLD!!!
The sponsor is Oooh, an application for sharing small videos and games with one another. I can make a video and you guys can respond with your own videos in return. In the glorious spirit of THE WORM I created my first Oooh linked below. You can also use the QR code below to download the app.
As you guys make video responses we can go over them on stream, have a laugh, and make more stuff. I really like what they've done here because it gives us a fun way to connect in a simple and silly format. Lets go be internet nerds together!
THE WORMNECK CHALLENGE!!!
https://ooohtv.page.link/iehP
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Both Shaye and I have Covid.
Positive tests all around.
Shaye is doing better but the brunt of it just hit me.
Streams might be offline for a bit while I recover.
Will be in Discord though.
Come hang in Pirate Hangout if you like!
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Today Twitch announced the Partner Plus program.
https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/06/15/introducing-the-partner-plus-program/
What is it?
Partner Plus gives a 70/30 split across the board for all subs.
In order to be eligible for the 70/70/70 split you need have 350 recurring subs on your channel.
Gifted and Prime subs DO NOT count which is kind of a huge kick in the ass honestly.
You must also retain this criteria for 3 months in a row to lock it in for a year.
How many subs do we have now?
As of now we're at 208 recurring subs.
We're also at 775 overall subs.
Why should I help hit the goal?
If we can get the channel to 350+ for the next 3 months I can upgrade the Bit Goal for the next entire year.
Right now the Bitgoal is 10 T3 subs because those give me back 70% of the cost.
If we can unlock the 70/30 split I can do 50 T1 subs instead.
It would also give me many more dollars for burritos.
I do love burritos.
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Happy Fathers Day Everyone!
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For those playing Diablo 4.
There is a cow level... and we're very close to solving the puzzle.
There are three special quest items that we need to find.
Check your inventories to see if you have any of them.
Details here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KRmuFaJRFM
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I got something in the mail.
Will open it on stream.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1671334754988486656
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For those who missed the unboxing today.
This thing was rad as hell.
The new update for Meet Your Maker was a blast too!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1672255852231933955
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Meet Your Maker has some awesome new FREE content launching tomorrow.
Behaviour gave me early access to check out the new Suit, Weapon, Trap, and Guard!
Huge thanks to Behaviour for letting us check this out early.
Also huge thanks to @flat tusk for being a madlad editor.
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Glorious pirates, the day has come.
The 13th Pirate Software Game Jam will begin on <t:1689580800:f> (My Birthday)
As such I have updated the website with details regarding the jam.
Go read them!
As always the theme will be chosen on stream.
No I will not reveal the theme before that stream.
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Make sure to check the #jam-lfg if you need to form a team.
Any questions you may have can go in #jam-general.
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Now that I am over Covid (hopefully forever) I can start making these short videos on **Oooh **again!
If you don't know what **Oooh **is it's a short form video and games platform where we can do stuff together.
The stuff I post on there IS SPONSORED but I also very much enjoy the platform so do check it out.
Also, reply to the video because I wanna see your hobbies!
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Diablo 4 Season 1 drops on July 20th.
We're gonna have a blast. 
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Ha... ha... I'm in danger...
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1681601981629218821
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After pressing Dan Clancy (CEO of Twitch) for information about 6.3
He explained we are absolutely allowed to criticize the platform.
SCAMS ARE BACK ON THE MENU LADS
https://clips.twitch.tv/FantasticCrispyKumquatDancingBanana-z8ePja_WxIaztDGX
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August 1st update is on track!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1684837745129385984
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Ashes of Creations Alpha 2 coming (hopefully) before the end of the year.
Below you will find a referral code to make an account.
Insanely, this financially supports me once the game comes out.
15% of all subs go directly to your referrer in a currency that can be cashed out.
Going to use this money to do awesome events and giveaways centered around the game.
Never seen a game do this and it's wild.
Once the game launches we're going to be building a side-discord for the guild.
This helps organize and manage everything in an easy format.
Same thing I did in EVE Online. Going to have a blast.
Wiki:
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/
Referral Code:
https://ashesofcreation.com/sign-up/r/FHLFSS366YCCE66B
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We now know where my face pain has been coming from but it sucks.
Recap:
1 year ago I started getting pain in my face on the right side.
Went to see a dentist and determined it wasn't a tooth infection.
Sent to an ENT and scoped finding no issues.
Sent to a Neurologist and MRI + MRI Venogram to no findings.
Tongue starts to swell on right side.
Get a Biopsy of the back right of tongue. No cancer.
Biopsy required me to get large amounts of antibiotics via IV.
Pain stops after Biopsy. Clearly this is an infection somewhere.
Go to new Dentist.
New Dentist does a 3d cone scan of my face.
Culprit found.
My last two molars on the right side are so long that the roots penetrate my sinus.
This image shows how far they go into the sinus.
It's kind of absurd.
Basically this is causing mad infections stemming from the area.
Solutions are to take a nasal spray and hope it works.
If this doesn't work then I need to have the tooth pulled and get reconstruction of the bone in my jaw.
Something needs to work either way.
At least I know what it is now.
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For those who don't know my favorite genre of games is Social Sandbox MMOs.
The last one I played heavily was EVE Online where I commanded 1,200+ Players as the Alliance Leader of Stribog Clade.
With Ashes of Creation potentially releasing Alpha 2 before the end of the year I am going all out on it.
I just finished creating a Discord for our guild:
You can find it here: https://discord.gg/4uQ6fkvtjR
This guild is split up into sections to preserve OPSEC and run an efficient machine.
- Different "Ministries" to work with where you can generate wealth while building a name for yourself.
- In-guild ticketing system to create or complete player driven quests.
- System of leadership to allow for a smooth running operation.
- Both internal and external diplomacy systems to maintain our place in the world.
This guild structure is our baseline and will grow/evolve over time.
I've done this before and we're going to have a blast in this game together.
Hope to see you in there.
If you don't know anything about Ashes of Creation check out this primer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s82xJnx1EY
If you don't have an account yet make one here:
https://ashesofcreation.com/sign-up/r/FHLFSS366YCCE66B
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Heartbound Patch v1.0.9.60 is now complete and out!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/3642901042447926076
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September 13th is the final release day for Ashes of Creation Pre-Order Cosmetic Packs.
They said that the Pre-Order packs would cease once Alpha 2 came out.
It's time lads.
If you can't afford the game then that's ok.
It's intentionally prohibitively expensive for the Alpha.
Make an account using this link anyway and join us when the game comes out!
Make sure you make an account here:
https://ashesofcreation.com/sign-up/r/FHLFSS366YCCE66B
Join the Guild Discord here:
https://discord.gg/4uQ6fkvtjR
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Studio Monthly Update video for July is now out!
Thanks to @flat tusk for being a rad editor.
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If you see ANYTHING regarding TwitchVentures DO NOT click it.
This website is not owned by Twitch and is being used to target streamers and viewers.
Download links go to Malware setup to perform an account takeover.
I've seen a few Partners already distributing the link against their will.
The site even looks like a Twitch branded site.
Except all of the links loop inward, are broken, or lead to dubious downloads.
Also it's got broken Russian divs in it hilariously.
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Update from DEF CON.
We're in first place.
I've slept my standard 5 hours.
Time to crack more puzzles!
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DEF CON Update!
We unfortunately ended up losing.
The team has some major complaints so they are talking to con staff about it.
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They locked us out of progressing for a 6 hour period due to their systems not working. They had to completely rewrite a section of the game in order for us to progress. We were miles in front at the time and this allowed everyone to catch up. Nobody else experienced these issues or had to slow down.
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They had a bug that made one of our answers not work for 12 hours. 10 minutes into it and 2 hours into it we submitted the correct answer. They claimed we had the answer the entire time and just needed to try harder. We kept documentation and both Girn and I submitted that answer during that period. This also happened with multiple other passwords throughout the challenge but the 12 hour one was the most egregious.
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They gave blocker hints to every other team besides us which further allowed catchup. Classic Telechallenge to be honest. Was fun until nothing they made worked and they gave advantage to everyone else.
This ends up being a case study on why you should test critical path for your games before release. It also shows a bit of bias by the organizers but the intent on that is hard to prove. That being said I learned a lot about puzzle design, player flow, and competitive solving environments from this. Going to be doubling down on Outwit and the Heartbound ARG for the rest of the year. Expect some neat stuff.
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So apparently you cannot report an account that gifts anonymous subs to offensively named accounts.
Multi-billion dollar company by the way.
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We've had an uptic in accounts advertising over DMs.
Always remember not to engage with this junk.
If someone messages you via DM asking to be a "Graphic Designer" or the like let us know so we can remove the account.
We have an #advertising channel for a reason.
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Twitch has changed the Partner Plus Program. (Yelling at them worked!)
T2 subs are now worth 2 points and T3 are now worth 6 points towards the 350 threshold.
Gifted and Prime are still worth 0 points as is expected.
This means any channel needs 350 points for 3 months in a row to get a 70/30 split on subs for a YEAR.
They also are now recounting everything from July/August as a result.
Right now these are the points for the Pirate Software channel:
July - 324 (Does not count)
August - 315 (Few days left to hit it)
Overall this is a really good news.
More streamers are going to hit 70/30 as a result of this.
https://twitter.com/twitchsupport/status/1696224100866228683?s=46&t=NSsVSAiZiBdvg_0Vk0sVoQ
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Heard reports that a number of channels are missing for people.
Make sure to check the id:browse section at the top and toggle them back on.
It looks like Discord has defaulted this feature on for some of you and hidden channels.
It is not intended for you to be losing any kind of access.
You can fix this by selecting Show All Channels from the server dropdown.
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You glorious lads, you can now see upcoming shorts/videos before anyone else.
YouTube added a new system that lets me schedule a video/short for the public AND release it to you immediately.
This is rad, enjoy.
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@everyone
Discord has re-enabled the masked hyperlinking feature we told them to kill off in the past.
They did this silently so I am hoping it's not intended but guessing it is.
Do not blindly click URLs without mousing over them to ensure you know where they go.
Attached are images showing what this looks like.
Thankfully you are prompted saying what site you're being directed to on click.
However, you can also opt to trust a domain so then ALL links to that domain in the future do not alert you.
This is a bad system and Discord should feel bad.
nova bloom
@everyone
Heartbound has updated to v1.0.9.61!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/3669925906178168583?l=english
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@everyone
Heartbound is now verified for the Steam Deck!
Also, the issue we had was a hardware issue.
It will be fixed in Steam OS Runtime 3.5 as per our report!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1701719138362966090
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@everyone
Lots of you guys are messaging me about the Unity monetization changes right now.
I think a lot of people have forgotten how many heavy weights use this engine.
It's gonna be a fight and I don't think Unity is ready for it.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1701902018758287784
nova bloom
@everyone
Monster Hunter Now from Niantic is now out.
It's PokemonGo but Monster Hunter.
Been waiting for this for ages.
If you wanna come play or already are playing here is my friend/referral code!
nova bloom
@everyone
Monthly update video is out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4iZANKf_nc
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@everyone
In light of Unity pooping in its own hands and clapping...
Humble Bundle has some awesome game dev bundles up for Godot and Unreal.
Happy building ya nerds! 
Unreal:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/game-programming-with-c-unreal-packt-books?partner=piratesoftware
nova bloom
Hi, everybody!
As some of you might know, the site where we currently host our Wikis, (previously Gamepedia and Wikia, now both FANDOM), is becoming aggressive in their delivery of ads to end users, something we have no control over. Recently, the Minecraft community decided to move their knowledge off of FANDOM to combat this, and we're planning to do the same.
We've recently created a brand new in-house wiki system using MediaWiki, which some of you may know as the same open-source system that underpins Wikipedia, where we can maintain tons of information as a community in four distinct sites. There's also been demand for a place where we can maintain info about the memes and inside jokes on the stream, so this serves as a great place for that, too!
- Heartbound: https://heartbound.piratesoftware.wiki
- Community/Stream: https://piratesoftware.wiki
- Champions of Breakfast: https://breakfast.piratesoftware.wiki
- Blockgame: https://blockgame.piratesoftware.wiki
The wikis are all really barebones at the moment, but as we work on expanding their content, we'll be adding custom graphics and layouts to mimic the more polished look of FANDOM, just without the intrusive ads and autoplaying videos.
The <@&387068447973965834> are leading this effort, so if you have any questions about whether something is acceptable to put on the wiki, or if you want to suggest changes to how we're doing things, let them know.
I'm excited to get started and looking forward to this new system.
I hope you will be too!
-@flat tusk
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@everyone
Unity has changed their business model to something more well designed.
It's lost a ton of support, trust, and brand value getting here.
I dislike that this happened and the apology from them is a bit shit honestly.
Throughout this process they had systems to talk to the community and vet changes.
Instead they 404'd their Github that was specifically made to do just that.
In this new model they have kept the runtime fee which is frankly insane.
This doesn't stop any of the security or abuse risks I've talked about this week.
It also allows Unity to define the business models of downstream studios.
They cap this at 2.5% of revenue which means it should just be a revshare model anyway.
Garbage change and as a result I won't be working in Unity at any time.
I've also removed it from https://develop.games and will not be recommending it to others.
nova bloom
@everyone
Champions of Breakfast is part of the Steam SHMUP Fest this year!
The game is 20% off until October 2nd.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/454380/Champions_of_Breakfast/
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@everyone
Wanted to thank all of you for all the subs and bits you've thrown at me this month.
Last month we hit 375/350 for the Partner Plus Program.
This month we're already at 393/350.
One more month to go to get a 70/30 split for 12 months.
Thanks for being rad.
nova bloom
@everyone
One of our own @storm panther had his game featured in Steam Next Fest!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLCg46Q8nY
You can find it here!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2302150/Against_Great_Darkness/
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@everyone
This is the most well put together example of a game trailer I've seen.
A very good mix of Hype, Explanation, and Feature Review at the same time.
Fantastic looking game and I plan to play the hell out of it.
Learn from gems like this.
nova bloom
@everyone
#heartbound-general Patch 1.0.9.62 has now launched!
We're targeting December for the completion of Animus.
Stay tuned everyone!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/3729600409847677116?l=english
nova bloom
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@everyone
Discord is axing the Partner Program.
We're keeping our perks indefinitely however!
nova bloom
@everyone
We have some new moderators!
Each of them has different focuses but all will be moderators on Discord as well.
Thanks for the ridiculous amount of applications (37)
@gilded bison - FerretSoftware
@dusky canyon - WikiSites
@forest hare - PirateSoftware
@potent wasp - PirateSoftware
@cunning wraith - PirateSoftware
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@everyone
You've done it, lads.
Thank you for supporting my weird internet content.
At the end of this month Twitch will change my sub split to 70/30.
It will be like this until October 2024.
Every time we hit 350 3 months in a row again this timer starts anew.
You rock.
nova bloom
@everyone
The much awaited Outer Wilds playthrough is now up on YouTube.
If you'd like to see this thing reach critical mass then ENGAGE with it to FEED THE ALGORITHM.
Seriously though, if you like and comment on it YouTube robots will send it to others.
This game was abdsolutely fantastic and easily in my top 5 of all time.
Also, chat was mad I beat it in the way I did. Enjoy their mad.
nova bloom
@everyone
Twitch is experimenting with a new reward system called Hype Challenge
Looks like we get EXP per bit/sub from November 6th-17th
That EXP unlocks prizes.
EXP Conversions:
1 Bit = 1 EXP
Prime = 500 EXP
T1 = 500 EXP
T2 = 1,000 EXP
T3 = 2,500 EXP
Gift Subs Count
Prize Tiers:
10,000 EXP - 10$ Amazon Card
25,000 EXP - 20$ Steam Wallet Code
50,000 EXP - 40$ DoorDash Gift Card
100,000 EXP - Twitch Backpack & Anker Powerbank
200,000 EXP - Custom Glitch + ID LED Neon Light Sign
300,000 EXP - Nanoleaf Kit
500,000 EXP - Rode NT2-A
650,000 EXP - Front Page Carousel for 3 Hours
800,000 EXP - Custom Bose QuietComfort Headphone
1,000,000 EXP - 500$ Delta Airline Voucher
1,500,000 EXP - Switch OLED 16-bit
3,000,000 EXP - TwitchCon NA ticket x2 + 3 Night Hotel
Not sure I like that this was on such short notice but I'm all signed up for it.
Hopefully they give us better notice on future runs of this if it sticks around.
https://glitch-exp.com/campaign/hype+challenge+us
nova bloom
@everyone
Happy Halloween.
Here is the most horrifying thing I could give you. Me.
It's a pumpkin stencil for all of you.
I'm not sorry.
nova bloom
@everyone
You absolute madlads.
Thank you.
nova bloom
@everyone
War Thunder has open sourced their game engine known as Dagor Engine.
This is a pretty wild move and came out of nowhere.
Interested in seeing what comes out of this!
https://gamefromscratch.com/warthunder-game-engine-dagor-engine-open-sourced/
nova bloom
@everyone
We are now less than 50 subs away from 20,000
You are absolute madlads.
nova bloom
Update:
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@everyone
Ashes of Creation is having a 24h Charity Livestream.
They are giving out Alpha 2 keys throughout this and it just started.
If you're interested in playing with us then go watch the stream!
Make An Account:
https://ashesofcreation.com/sign-up/r/FHLFSS366YCCE66B
nova bloom
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@everyone
YouTube Approved my verification an hour after I applied.
Insane and rad as hell.
Thank you everyone.
nova bloom
@everyone
If you like @next mantle's incredible music then check this out.
This is one of their games from their studio Frog Vibes.
As such Stijn did all of the music for it and it's very charming as usual.
Little 5$ adventure and worth a play.
Game!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2390730/Knight_Trail
It also has a trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPiI8euEee4
nova bloom
@everyone
YouTube had apparently disconnected from the Discord a few months back.
It is now reconnected so your Memberships will grant you access to Sub channels.
Make sure to link your Discord to your YouTube to get access.
Have fun!
nova bloom
@everyone
Seen an uptic in compromised accounts.
If anyone DMs you asking you to "play their game" do not download the game or run it.
We're a game development community primarily so we're uniquely vulnerable to this.
Once an account is compromised in this way they are hitting the users friends list.
Even if it's from a friend, do not run anything given to you in this way.
If you want to share builds of your game definitely do so through Steam using the Developer Branch system.
Otherwise confirm over voice that your 'friend' is who they say they are.
Also, let the moderators know immediately (with screenshots) so we can look into it.
Stay safe ya goblins.
nova bloom
@everyone
Develop.games is now behind Cloud Flare!
This should prevent it from detonating... mostly.
The caching system helps a lot but might need you to Ctrl + F5 to get the CSS on the page the first time.
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@everyone
Since I am offline for the night I have some puzzles for you.
The first one to solve each of these puzzles gets a prize.
Put your answers in #hack-cryptography
Good Luck
This room is pitch black save for a single spotlight illuminating an old man on a chair. When you approach you hear him muttering strange sounds to himself in a rapid tongue. As you move in a circle around him you find that you are always at his back unable to see the mans face. The muttering though unintelligible has a pattern to it and you may be able to understand him with some work.
As you look for more clues you see what appear to be three sets of train tracks encircling the man in the chair.
The engines on each track are all labled car 13.
Curious as this all may be the room offers no additional clues.
GNGGPUZAVUHNNRRJBS
As you pass through a rotting hallway of loose stones you spy a collapsed side passage. Waving your torch near it you see a grim reminder of a failed adventurer that came before you. Their equipment all but tatters you turn to the remains of the poor soul but then you see something amiss... the skull has some kind of... writing?
As you lift the skull to get a better look a loud mechanical whirring goes off all around you. Massive iron bars click into position trapping you with your newly found friend.
As you inspect the skull the symbols seem to warp and shift. They describe some kind of ritual you just can't fully grasp. This must be the key to reverse the mechanism... but what does it mean?
HID ERREUR
ISBN à)ç"("àç)&à)&
ÉPRR IL?P AI:P?ÈVOPO
ÈPRR ÈCP ÉAOIP? !LV
ELV?I A ;ODQ ÈLÈPQ
Your party is walking along a particularly unsteady street when ~OH NO~ you seem to have fallen into a pothole. The sides are slick with mud and impossible to climb. Just when you are about to lose all hope you feel something hard under your feet. Reaching down you find that you're standing on a... puny little boot?
The tongue of the boot has strange writing on it but you have no idea what it means.
"wl8hkq8hxs9h"
The toe has a readable but similarly confusing message.
"What am I wearing?"
There must be some kind of unified answer here...
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@everyone
Talking about localizing our prices for different regions is trending on /r/piracy at the moment.
Really happy that a wider audience is discussing this now.
More price localization means cheaper games for tons of countries.
With enough visibility and proof other companies may follow suit.
Localize your games.
Localize your prices.
Everyone wins.
nova bloom
@everyone
GAME MAKER ONCE AGAIN HAS A ONE TIME PURCHASE LICENSE!!!
100$ one-time for a permanent license, no royalties ever.
God damn amazing. You love to see it.
It is also free for non-commercial use WITH EXPORTS now!
This is a huge deal and you should absolutely take advantage of it.
They have also made all of their asset bundles free as well!
https://gamemaker.io/en/blog/gamemaker-free-platforms
This has the potential to easily change our industry:
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1726959838528446968
Get it here!
https://gamemaker.io/en/get
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@everyone
Heartbound is currently up for the Labor of Love Steam Award!
Make sure to vote on it if you would like to do so!
We've also put it 20% off for the entire Autumn Steam Sale.
One of the achievements this time around is leaving a Review on a game.
If you haven't reviewed Heartbound yet consider doing so. They help us a lot.
Thanks all!
https://steamcommunity.com/games/567380/announcements/detail/3874846483718554360
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@everyone
Heyo!
I've been dealing with thousands of emails all day. A clip of mine went viral and it's me stating I would give a copy of Heartbound to our players in Russia for free as they cannot currently buy the game. While I cannot give them a key currently due to the sanctions I can add their contact information to a list so that when those sanctions drop they will get the game. This is exactly what I am doing for hundreds of people right now.
For those that are upset that our studio is supporting players in Russia.
Nobody chose their spawn point and players should not be punished for that.
Directed racism towards any group of people will never be allowed here.
I don't care what your reasoning is, hate is hate.
We've had Heartbound translated into Russian since the very beginning.
They've been 12% of our player base since long before the war occurred.
I do not break my promises due to geopolitics or conflict.
With that in mind I am also receiving many hundreds of scam requests.
I put together the following email to thwart this and it's given me a lot of great responses.
Heyo!
I am always happy to support our players.
Nobody chose their spawn point and punishing people for that is absurd.
Talk to me a bit about the situation and which game you'd like.
A lot of people try to reach out for keys just to resell them.
Always down to support our players though!
Also, the Russian translation is partially complete.
Our translator lives in Moscow and cannot be paid.
It's a bad situation but we can't do anything about it.
Thanks,
-Thor
I've received hundreds of stories from people in Russia about their lives, what it's like there, and how it feels being cut off.
I have read every one of them and I will continue to do so.
Thank you for sharing your stories.
As always, keep kicking ass and go make games.
-Thor
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@everyone
Hello you glorious goblins.
Today marks the first day of MODSGIVING!
A yearly event that we're starting this year and continuing each year going forward.
From now until January 1st 100% of your donations through Pally.gg will go to the mods.
I take nothing, they get everything.
Support the mods.
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@everyone
My new name is Thar.
You glorious goblins, you.
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1728353930277773501
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@everyone
Until January 1st 2024 we are running an event for the glorious <@&362005405901127710>
All of the money donated through https://pally.gg/tip/piratesoftware is going to the mods.
This is a big thank you to them for keeping this place awesome and I plan to do it every year.
Keep kicking ass.
nova bloom
@everyone
YouTube has resolved the issue with our channel.
They are also fixing the issue for everyone else who reported it.
Always give feedback even to major companies, use data, use analytics, never shut up.
If you have enough information you can turn a big ship.
You can see the exact moment they fixed the issue in this tweet.
Keep kicking ass and thank you for amplifying the signal on this.
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1729371279621583097
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@everyone
Attached is this weeks Cryptographic puzzle challenge.
I make one of these each week for Thorsday! (My day off.)
Feel free to work together in the #hack-cryptography channel!
However, do understand that there can only be ONE winner!
As with last week this challenge is sponsored by Hack The Box!
You can check out their awesome hacking challenges at the following URLs.
The winner of this weeks challenge will receive a 12 Month Silver plan for the HTB Academy.
Affiliate Links:
- Use the following link for HTB: https://affiliate.hackthebox.com/pirate
- Or use the following link for HTB Academy: https://affiliate.hackthebox.com/pirate-academy
- Use code
pirate15at checkout for a 15% discount on Annual subscriptions.
Award Details:
- All modules up to (including) Tier II
- The entire Bug Bounty Hunter job role path
- The entire Penetration Tester job role path
- The entire SOC Analyst job role path
- Unlimited Pwnbox usage
- CPE credits submission
Good Luck and Have Fun!
nova bloom
@everyone
Heyo!
I want everyone to remember that these Thursday challenges are in the spirit of DEF CON.
Whatever you post publicly is OSINT data and may help other teams to win.
Whatever you say to another team in private may leak to a team you're competing with.
All of this is a part of information security and deeply rooted in the hacking community.
If you solve because of the work of others then you solved because they practiced poor OPSec.
This is intended and you're not lesser for getting first to the finish line by doing so.
In fact, you've done exactly what you should. Used OSINT data to succeed.
Research, Refine, and think before acting.
The next challenge goes out next Thursday at the same time.
Well done everyone involved!
nova bloom
@everyone
Modsgiving is cool.
Infinite Modsgiving is cooler.
All Pally.gg donations will now permanently split 100% between the mods.
Thank you for supporting all of us. You're rad as hell.
Also, they didn't know I was going to do this.
Get owned, nerds. <@&362005405901127710>
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@everyone
Heartbound on Steamdeck OLED is having issues.
I had to wait for Valve to ship me one and it just arrived.
If you have a ticket in for OLED problems I can now investigate those!
Should have fixes out quickly for the huge amount of problems on this.
nova bloom
@everyone
I would not play Counter Strike: 2 currently.
There is vulnerability that can be triggered through the client to log IPs and potentially more. This is hot off the presses and exploitable in lobbies meaning any game you play has a potential landmine. Wait until Valve fixes this and wait for an official announcement.
Just give it a day, honestly.
nova bloom
@everyone
Valve has now officially fixed the CS2 HTML Injection vuln that chained into the previously discussed XSS and other vulns.
"Fixed multiple exploits that allowed adding non-text data into UI labels"
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/view/6107508076984030034?l=english
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@everyone
We have now hit 1,000,000 Subscribers on YouTube.
Absolute madlads. Thank you all so much.
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1735601029205708939
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@everyone
Twitch has rolled back their new policy changes.
As such, we have once again lost the Dumpy.
o7 it was nice while it lasted.
Policy Rollback:
https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Sexual-Content-Policy-Update?language=en_US
Emote Policy:
https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Emote-Policy?language=en_US
nova bloom
@everyone
You can now vote to have Twitch allow PG dumpies.
Please be respectful on this post.
Do not spam 7's.
Do not spam 
.
Give them a solid reason why you feel PG Dumpy emotes should exist on the platform.
nova bloom
@everyone
Goblins, the chat is requesting I send this to you.
In the face of other communities attempting to smash your record the goblin council wants to form a plan of attack.
On December 27th Twitch will make all Single Month Gift Subs 25% off.
This will make 100 Subs the same price as 75 subs.
If you actually want to destroy the record again... ᴰᵒⁿ'ᵗ
Then that is the time to do so. ᵀʰᶦˢ ᶦˢ ᵃᵇˢᵘʳᵈ
Also, Bahroo is trying to beat the record on the same day.
If you want to do this, react with 
If you don't then react with 
Either way I am streaming a long time that day.
Thanks for being badasses.
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@everyone
The gameplan is set.
AdmiralBahroo is attempting to beat your Hype Train Record.
Twitch is making Gift Subs 25% off from December 27th to January 2nd.
The 27th is our day to strike and smash the record once and for all.
You voted for this so this is the gameplan.
- I will stream at <t:1703667600:f>
- We will start the train at <t:1703707200:f>
- Do not throw bits or subs before this time.
- Do not throw bits or subs unless we have a hype train running.
- Do not buy Bits/Subs on mobile as they are mad expensive due to extra store fees.
- I will blast this out everywhere when we are good to go.
- ???
- 4th Braincell
HYPE TRAINS WILL BE DISABLED UNTIL THE 27th SO THE GOBLINS DON'T GO MAD.
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@everyone
The TTS Queue on Streams has now been updated.
- All answered messages now appear in #answered-tts with your name, message, and timestamp.
- All un-answered Channel Point redemptions are refunded at the end of the stream.
- All un-answered Superchats are calculated to USD and then added to a Debt value.
- All un-answered Bit Donations are added to a Debt value.
- The Queue is now displayed prominently on Stream.
- The Average Wait Time is now also displayed on Stream.
I will be giving the Debt value in subs to the community the next day.
I didn't like the idea of you not getting something for your donation if it got too busy.
Now you get something regardless of the queue size.
Huge thanks to @warped kelp for helping me out with this!
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@everyone
You can now choose your roles in id:customize.
This is a 1st party integration from Discord so it's much faster and shouldn't implode.
By default everyone can see Announcements but there are toggles for you to hide them.
Dyno just can't keep up with your throughput and was completely DDoS'd.
We wanted some of the features from it but with a community this size it just dies.
nova bloom
@everyone
Took my free hours today to do a write up on how Stream Teams on Twitch can be improved.
Give it a look over, vote if you like it, leave comments to tell Twitch if you want this.
My hope is to make Stream Teams worthwhile again.
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@everyone
In a Rare W the Chinese Government has banned a number of predatory mechanics in games.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-issues-draft-rules-online-game-management-2023-12-22/
Banned Mechanics:
- Daily Log-In bonuses.
- First time purchase discounts and rewards.
- Chained purchase discounts and rewards.
- Gacha mechanics for minors.
This wiped ~80,000,000,000$ off of the chinese market immediately.
The major losses were mostly suffered by NetEase and Tencent.
My hope is that this changes the economy of games and spreads elsewhere.
Predatory mechanics can eat sand.
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@everyone
Roles and sections have been updated.
- We now have roles for <@&1188577753306509425> and <@&997190492750106706>
- The Creative section has been split up.
- Interests has been renamed as Hobbies.
- A Hacking section has been added
- A Hacking Challenges announcement channel has been added.
- A Game Dev section has been added.
Should make things more clear and lead to better channel management!
Go select roles here! id:customize
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@everyone
Tomorrow AdmiralBahroo is attempting to beat your Hype Train Record.
This will be a head to head Hype Train between both of our communities.
Both sides are trying to capture or keep the world record.
At level 55 the train timer stops resetting so it becomes a mad dash.
The record you set is Level 55 - 512%
You voted for this so this is the gameplan.
- I will stream at <t:1703667600:f>
- We will start the train at <t:1703707200:f>
- Do not throw bits or subs before this time.
- Do not throw bits or subs unless we have a hype train running.
- Do not buy Bits/Subs on mobile as they are mad expensive due to extra store fees.
- I will blast this out everywhere when we are good to go.
- ???
- 4th Braincell
HYPE TRAIN WILL BE ACTIVATED AT THE TIME SHOWN IN STEP 2!
TIMERS ARE LOCALIZED SO THATS YOUR TIME!
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@everyone
THE TIME IS NOW GOGOGOGO
THE HYPE TRAIN HAS ARRIVED
THIS IS IT!!!
FOLLOW ALONG IN #1189620537945759825 (If it works,)
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@everyone
This is a huge deal.
Go vote for Software and Game Development.
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1740121676267106358
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@everyone
An automated TikTok account is currently going viral with all of my videos.
It's uploading them the moment they hit my YouTube account even ones that are Members Only.
Help me to shut it down by spamming the hell out of reports against it.
- Go to this URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@piratesoftware.live
- Click the
...button at the top. - Click Report
- Click Report Account
- Click Pretending to Be Someone
- Click Celebrity
- Type in
PirateSoftware - Select my real account from the list.
It will be the one with onlypiratesoftwareas the name and nothing extra.
It should look like the image provided.
If it does, hit submit and nuke this stupid thing.
TikTok doesn't care otherwise.
Also, the piece of shit is deleting my comments. 
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@everyone
The Goblins have once again retaken the World Record Hype Train.
This is outrageous and there is no amount of thanks I can give.
The IRS is rapidly approaching my house at this very moment.
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1740762092746207294
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@everyone
It's like a second christmas.
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1741230862795227260?s=19
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@everyone
TaffyNay has once again been perma-banned by Twitch.
Pretty pissed about this because it likely means others have been banned too.
Taffy has a VIP badge that LETS THEM spam in chat.
It's a system designed by Twitch to specifically allow for that.
Yet Twitch banned them for spamming.
Insane, honestly.
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1741526800348626980
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@everyone
New Years Resolutions are up!
Got a lot planned for this year and I can't wait to hit the ground running.
Let's kick some ass.
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1741668303809155195
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@everyone
A Major Earthquake (7.5-7.6) has just hit Japan.
If you have friends or family out that way reach out to them.
Situation is pretty rough and it's important to make sure they are ok.
Don't get caught up in the doom-porn of this.
It's not appropriate and peoples lives are involved.
More information from Reuters here:
https://www.reuters.com/world/japan/magnitude-74-earthquake-strikes-japan-tsunami-warning-issued-2024-01-01/
nova bloom
@everyone
The Discord Rework is now under way.
Check the id:customize section for new role selections.
I am still moving the new categories around and cleaning things up.
Each new section has areas for commissions, self promotion, and Feedback.
They also have a bunch of areas to talk about different topics within the skillset.
Also split off some individual games into their own sections.
This will be expanded later on as Skills is the more important change atm.
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I signed on with Side Quest Media today.
These guys are going to help me manage business emails.
I have... so many... business emails...
This is going to save me LOADS of time.
Which means more time to answer #1180570345602818139's!
Also they offer sponsorship content and don't make any decisions for me.
If it sucks, I veto it, end of.
Exactly the way I like it.
You can read more about them here:
https://sidequestmedia.com/
Announcement!
https://vxtwitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1742314797843251587
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You can now vote for your favorite streamers of 2023.
Software and Game Development is a category!
They also added a ton of award categories on this.
Try to fill out every one of them if you can!
Go spread the word here:
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1744639571382706211
Go vote here:
https://thestreamerawards.com/nominations
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Hug your neighborhood wrench. It's gonna be a shitty day for them tomorrow.
If you are a wrench... I hope you stay safe and keep a cool head through this. Twitch may be in a rough spot financially but it leads the pack in tech and community. Any other company will snap you up like the solid gold you are.
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A few parents reached out about their kids joining the game jam.
If you'd like to keep their identities secret you do not have to reveal them in any way.
No need to have them join Discord either!
Go have fun and bond while making something rad!
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If you're participating in the Game Jam make sure you get the <@&997189197758734518> role in the id:customize channel.
You need to select the "Compete in Game Jams" button to get it.
Also, I have updated the game jam submissions section to be more clear.
Include your Game Design Document into the Downloadable Files section of your submission.
This will make it public on your jam page and make it easier for judges to find.
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I have been nominated for the Software and Game Development category in the Streamer Awards.
By your powers combined we have to defeat DougDoug, Vedal987, and CodeMiko.
This is one hell of a line up.
Vote Early
Vote Often
Vote PirateSoftware
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Secret Prize Revealed
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1751066183477125243
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Twitch has released plugins to allow community interactions for games made in Unity and Unreal.
This is awesome as hell and I hope it gets support for more engines going forward.
Twitch W.
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We now have a <@&1204020058289082428> role and a section for streamers.
Go select the role in id:customize to get started in there.
Lots of resources, community, and help for you!
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TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY TO VOTE IN THE STREAMER AWARDS
If you want me to win then you have to vote. Competition is FIERCE. 
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1751180452499759571
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RPG Maker XP is currently free on Steam.
Get you some game engine.
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I'm going to be hosting the next Twitch Rivals!
This time we're doing a Palworld achievement hunt.
Should be a blast and you can read all about it here.
I am making sure that the entire event is transparent.
As such, the server settings are all public already.
I don't want there to be even a whisper of a perception of cheating in this.
You can actually follow along and try to beat the streamers on your own world.
https://schedule.twitchrivals.com/events/palworld-showdown-ft-piratesoftware-vB572
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It appears that Twitch has uncapped the Hype Train.
It now shows that our all-time record is level 69 at 87%.
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Twitch has uncapped the Hype Train.
It no longer stops at level 55.
It now continues INFINITELY. (Until integer cap.)
We're going to make a mad dash to retain the world record title.
Your current goal is Level 69 at 87% (Your old record updated!)
This is the gameplan.
- I will stream on <t:1711958400:f>
- We will start the train on <t:1711998000:f>
- Reserve your Bits and Subs for this moment.
- Do not buy Bits/Subs on mobile as they are mad expensive due to extra store fees.
- I will blast this out everywhere when we are good to go.
If you get to level 77 then I will grant you 7 more braincells.
This means chat will have 7 braincells... the horror.
HYPE TRAIN WILL BE ACTIVATED AT THE TIME SHOWN IN STEP 2!
TIMERS ARE LOCALIZED SO THAT'S YOUR LOCAL TIME!
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The 14th Pirate Software Game Jam has concluded.
The next Game Jam will occur in July.
Winners
1st - You Left Us - https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2492174
2nd - Grandma Don't Click That! - https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2490737
3rd - First Break - https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2475835
Honorable Mention - Oru: The Last Light of Rhekari - https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2466888
Runner Ups
https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2492483 - Clown Around
https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2492898 - oxy-gen
https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2492125 - It's Spreading!
https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2490489 - Paintocalypse
https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2492958 - Coloret
https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/2490049 - D. A-V. E.
Go tell everyone!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1762476829011792211
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Doing something really cool for indies through SQM.
If you're going to GDC definitely get in touch with them!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1765979556220203363
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Going to be adding some new Discord roles today.
<@&1216397032282132611> and <@&1216397181771321555>.
Making a section for Helldivers today as the game keeps expanding and getting better.
Also making a section for BitCraft which is an upcoming Survival MMO which looks great.
Go choose the roles here! id:customize
Helldivers:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/553850/HELLDIVERS_2/
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Hello!
Be on the lookout for scam versions of me online.
These are the only real social media accounts.
https://linktr.ee/piratesoftware
Further, this is the only real Discord account for me.
Was given a wild image of an imposter linked below.
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ThePrimeagen and I reviewed all of the current information around the Apex Legends hacks.
We had Mande an Apex Legends Pro Player to weigh in on how the community feels.
Got to reveal a lot of behind the scenes security stuff during this.
Was a fun time all around.
As with anything dealing with evolving information try not to jump to conclusions.
We need to know more about the exploits before we can make conclusions.
Hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1zxjGxpnqA
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Glad we could raise awareness for security teams working in games.
Community perception was at an all-time low within the Apex Legends playerbase.
With the recent streams and talking about this stuff people are much happier to see this.
Good on Respawn for making a public statement.
Communication fixes so much.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1770380276256178424
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Just put out a second video talking to ImperialHal and JohnHammond about the ApexLegends hacks.
We go through Hal's experience and then talk about potentials.
At this point Respawn has the situation handled and we're waiting on their official fix and wrap up.
Hope you all learned a bunch and Apex goes forward a stronger game!
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No stream tonight.
Last night we had to rush Beans to the Emergency Vet.
He had a mass in his abdomen that was very large and painful.
Did imaging and it was Radio Dense meaning X-Rays were blocked by it.
We opted for the surgery to determine what it was (Always will, thanks to all of you.)
It was a hairball.
It's literally the size of my entire thumb.
None of the vets have ever seen anything like this.
Beans made a BeansPearl and it almost killed him.
He gets to live and he's in isolation here at the rescue while he recovers.
It should take about two weeks before he can run around again with everyone.
With that in mind this is why ferret ownership is so dicey.
Anything can go wrong at any time and they are very fragile creatures.
Most households cannot absorb this kind of sudden cost so most often the animal is euthanized.
I can't thank you all enough for helping us continue doing this work.
Insane pictures of the hairball below.
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Twitch has uncapped the Hype Train.
It no longer stops at level 55.
It now continues INFINITELY. (Until integer cap.)
We're going to make a mad dash to retain the world record title.
Your current goal is Level 69 at 87% (Your old record updated!)
This is the gameplan.
- I will stream at <t:1711954800:f>
- We will start the train at <t:1711998000:f>
- Reserve your Bits and Subs for this moment.
- Do not buy Bits/Subs on mobile as they are mad expensive due to extra store fees.
- I will blast this out everywhere when we are good to go.
Twitch is now also giving out new permanent emotes to people in high level trains.
You can check out the announcement here!
https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1772737890017042484
HYPE TRAIN WILL BE ACTIVATED AT THE TIME SHOWN IN STEP 2!
TIMERS ARE LOCALIZED SO THAT'S YOUR LOCAL TIME!
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LEVEL 92
WE'RE GETTING THAT INFINIKAPPA AT 100!
IF YOU HAVE A PRIME IT COUNTS!!!
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While I move the ferret rescue today I'm also going to be at the AbleGamers 2024 Gala.
This is a digital convention meant to raise money for AbleGamers.
If you buy a ticket here it supports them and everything they are doing.
The convention is super unique and has a digital con space where you build an avatar.
This is run entirely through your browser and you can walk around, talk, etc.
Everything is based on distance so it's not global chats the entire time.
Even if you don't show up, supporting these dudes is a good move.
Everything is being run by Steven Spohn found here! https://twitter.com/stevenspohn
You can learn more about Able Gamers here:
https://ablegamers.org/
You can get a ticket here!
https://ablegamers.org/gala-2024/
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It turns out the intended functionality of the Hype Train was to only give you all the TOP emote from the train.
This means if you have more then DidIBreakIt and KappaInfinite it was a bug granting you these emotes.
I, among many, dislike this implementation and feel that it diminishes hypetrains and this new system.
I put together a UserVoice to help get the word out to Twitch.
Go sign in here and add your vote and comment if you like.
Be civil and give reasoning for your feelings on this.
At the end of the day we're alpha testers for a completely new thing Twitch has never done.
Just another game to report bugs and give feedback on.
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So I didn't stream today and tomorrow is Thursday.
I ended up doing physical activity for 14-16hrs today and around 8hrs after stream yesterday.
Grass was touched. I can now never become a VTuber.
In the last two days I...
- Moved a lot of objects from the old house to the new house. (15 trips in total.)
- Met with a lumberjack man about the forest and learned that the trees are 80+ years old. (Core pic included)
- Found out a tree has fallen on our electric fence. (Pic included)
- Built a duck enclosure which required a lot of metal fencing.
- Shredded my wrist on said metal fencing and got a tetanus shot. (Neat)
- Harvested a ton of Morel and Puffball mushrooms.
- Got the new computers for the main stream and ferret stream. (Announcement soon)
- Made stew with Beef, Worcestershire, Garlic, Onion, Potato, Carrot, Salt, Pepper, and Celery.
- Almost forgot to release a Short.
With all of that in mind.
My bones have now escaped my body.
Stream is back on Friday.
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Had a blast in Helldivers with TheSpiffingBrit, @trim python and @frigid summit.
Go check out his video!
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This is what was in the box.
Spoilers: It's full of ferrets.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1779629778431352945
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Incredibly smart response on the side of the mouse.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1782057568632033409
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No stream tomorrow.
It's for a very good reason though. 
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1782220193818984816?s=19
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We're about to go live with the Wired Direct #sponsored stream!
Gonna have a blast checking out all the indies and hidden gem titles.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1781312123165196679
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We have added a new <@&1233705465553227819> role under id:customize.
This will give you access to the HackMUD section of the discord.
We've been having a blast playing it and I plan to for many more streams.
Resources on how to get started are up in that section as well.
No you do not need to be a programmer or hacker to play, you learn!
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/hackmud?partner=piratesoftware
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Our friends making Bitcraft are doing a server stress test.
If you'd like to go smash a server then follow along here!
- Get the game client: https://play.bitcraftonline.com/BitCraft Installer.exe
- Use this code:
BITCRAFT_CRASH_THE_ALPHA - Login and watch the servers cry.
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Did an interview on AI For Humans recently.
We talked about usage of AI in game development and my perspectives on it.
We also talked about CoPilot and its usage in the industry for new programmers.
This was fun to do and I will likely do more of these in the future.
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Broadcast may have issues on Friday due to a Geomagnetic Storm.
This goes both for the main and ferret channels.
Hoping nothing happens but we will see.
Story may be paywalled:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/09/sun-storm-flares-cme-aurora-lights/
Science!
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings
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In the last few days Sony has gone all in on dumbass in a way that I've never seen before.
This is like... pure unadulterated primordial dumbass.
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Sony put out an announcement on Helldivers 2 stating that all players were REQUIRED to bind a PSN account or lose access to the game.
Many people cannot make PSN accounts in their region as it is not available.
Using a VPN has led to PSN account bans for players so that isn't an option. -
Hundreds of thousands of players swarmed Helldivers 2 with negative reviews bringing the game to 13% positive in roughly two days.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/553850/HELLDIVERS_2/#app_reviews_hash -
Sony panicked and dropped the PSN linking requirement.
This caused some players to prematurely change their reviews back to positive.
https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929 -
30 hours before dropping the requirement Sony pushed this change.
https://steamdb.info/changelist/23416542/
This banned Helldivers 2 from being purchased in ALL regions where PSN accounts were unable to be created.
This totals 177 regions. -
Today Sony added Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia to that list making it 180.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1788981046295556606 -
Sony has now also updated Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut with the same treatment.
https://steamdb.info/sub/962153/info/ -
Throughout this the Arrowhead Developers have been fighting Sony to undo this change.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1788842253626273906
This is a pattern of behavior and extremely anti-developer.
It's also disgusting to see in our industry and the greatest advertisement for piracy I have ever seen.
I will not be purchasing or accepting sponsorships for Sony Published games going forward.
I have also removed the Helldivers 2 section of the discord and the emote from the Twitch channel.
The industry deserves better than this.
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AURORA IS OUT!!!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1789175286808056175?s=19
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The Wired Direct video featuring a Long Lemon went out.
Had a bunch of you asking about it since it happened later in the stream.
Hope you enjoy!
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Twitch is unbanning Dumpy's.
RayApollo has confirmed it on Twitter.
will return the moment the announcement goes out.
Thank you for giving your feedback on the UserVoice since December.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1790843869711437867
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June is going to be a wild month.
June 6-8 I will be gone for a SECRET ANNOUNCEMENT.
June 14-17 I will be at Open Sauce where I will be opening various sauces and talking about gamedev.
June 27 - July 1st I will be at Twitchcon EU in Rotterdam so come say hello!
Here is a calendar for our non-cult activities.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1796370087118823550
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Absolutely wild.
Thank you everyone.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1797772283869876336
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The 15th Pirate Software Game Jam has been announced!
This jam will start on <t:1721221200:f> which is in your local time.
This time around you will be REQUIRED to have your game run in the browser.
This will reduce a lot of the strain on judges and make sure we can get through them on time.
Make sure to get the <@&997189197758734518> role in id:customize to see more updates!
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There is something in this page you're going to want to see.
https://www.ign.com/articles/ign-live-2024-schedule-full-details-revealed
See you all tomorrow at 6:30pm PT. 
Local Time: <t:1717810224:f>
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/ign
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To start with, none of this changes anything about the stream schedule or my other obligations to Pirate Software or our games. This is something I have wanted to do for a very long time and now have the opportunity to do so in-addition to my regular work. Basically I'm a mutant, work 19 hours a day, and love it. No ChatMD will stop me.
With all of that in mind I've accepted a position as the Director of Strategy for offbrand games. I'm going to help manage the relationship between developers and us to make sure there is mutual benefit for both sides. This means coming up with solutions for development or launch issues, pitching and testing localization pricing options, helping rework steam or other platform pages, reviewing and judging pitched games, or structuring contracts during negotiations.
It also means that offbrand games is sponsoring our next game jam. Any of the winning teams will be able to talk to and get feedback on your game from a publishing perspective. This is entirely no strings attached and should give you a ton of insight into the process and how everything works. Understand that many of you will not need a publisher but in the cases where you do I want you to be ready for it and be able to get the best deal possible.
I've seen far too many instances of publisher over-reach and I've wanted to do something about it for close to a decade. This is a chance to help push our industry in a better direction and I am super happy to do it. It doesn't mean every agreement will go perfectly but it does mean we're going to try. Thanks for supporting the things I've done for all this time. Wouldn't be able to do this without all of you.
Go make games.
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Going to be hosting a Dev Tourney and Q/A for Rivals of Aether 2 at <t:1719003600:f>
I've also created a <@&1250846866640212000> role you can get in id:customize.
This should give you access to #1253071258069893230 channel.
Planning to expand that as the launch gets closer.
Wishlist the game here:
https://obp.gg/rivals_ps
Announcement:
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1803509508771291546
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Tons of news today!
Also, no stream tomorrow.
It's been a wild day.
**1. Had dinner out for the first time in... oh man...**My bones are now meats.
I am now meats.
Meats.
**2. Blockgame outage continues.**Unfortunately this is host side.
They are working on it though!
https://status.shockbyte.com/?utm_source=embed
**3. Getting ready for TwitchCon EU!**10 Hour flight on the 27th is gonna be a thing.
However, I can't wait to meet many of you there!
See you all in Rotterdam!
**4. Heartbound writing is finished for the final area of Animus.**This is roughly 500 lines of dialogue and I'm quite happy with it.
Translation work will likely begin after TwitchCon EU.
**5. Internet man has put in the WORK ORDER for the fiber install.**This means it MAY be done before I get home from TwitchCon EU!!!
No more commute means NO MORE MISSED DAYS!!!
The commute is currently 3 hours a day and I need 5 hours of sleep to function.
This is going to be so damn nice.
**6. I'm getting a 3d printer.**This was a gift from PRUSA during Open Sauce.
Send me your weird lore drenched models to print.
I promise to print them badly and display them proudly.
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I have updated the description of the Heartbound OST on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/776560/Heartbound__OST/
The intention is and always will be for you to be able to use our OST in your Twitch/YouTube/etc videos/streams.
Not to use them in relation to advertisements or inside of your games.
For the person putting our music in your game trailer... don't.
DMCA filed, hope you take it down before Steam gets to you.
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I have returned!
Streams will start back up tomorrow.
Can't wait to hang out and show stuff from the trip.
You're all rad. ❤️
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Happy 4th of July everyone!
As an American I would be grilling something and blowing something else up but...
The con sickness has come for me.
Going out for covid test.
Fever, Slime, Cough, Tired, Aches.
By their powers combined I am going to bed.
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I am out of action for a bit.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1809052712207855657?s=19
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The 15th Pirate Software Game Jam will start at <t:1721221200:f>
Join the <@&997189197758734518> role in id:customize to stay up to date.
Yes you SHOULD join if you've never worked on a game before!
Make sure to sign up with your entire team!
https://itch.io/jam/pirate
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Lots of people falling for a Discord scam lately.
If you receive a message from a friend claiming to have a giftcard for you, don't click it.
This is a session hijack attack that gets access to your OAuth token for that login.
The attack then escalates and locks you out of your account.
The reason this attack works is because attackers can change the visuals of a link using Discord Markdown.
I have no idea why Discord thought it was a good idea to implement this but here we are.
You can make a link look like it goes to a legitimate website and it then actually goes to a hijack link and redirects you after.
Steps to Handle:
- Always mouse over links and see if they ACTUALLY go where they say they do.
- Report accounts to moderation using #mod-ticket if you receive a fraud message like this.
- Let your friend know through another contact method that their Discord has been compromised.
Remember, it's very unlikely the compromise goes outside of the Discord account.
The only way we know it can currently is if you have your password/credentials in a Discord convo.
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Just chatted with the Devs and Community Manager of Once Human.
Here is all the stuff we talked about and my takes on it all.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1811557089086701817
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We reached out to and hired the editor behind Daily Dose of Thor.
His name is Sunder and he kicks many butts.
All of his videos will be migrated over to the primary YouTube channel.
Also, we're calling these Pants since they are Long Shorts.
Shadelock does all the Shorts.
Sunder does all the Pants.
First video is out now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9E9fjCFwXs
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I put a challenge coin up for CDawgs charity auction.
There are only 50 of these and no new ones will ever be made.
Also I'm bidding on it, get owned.
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Chat is currently demanding I tell you this.
At <t:1721242800:f> the community wants to start another GIGATRAIN.
Their goal is to beat their own record of Level 106 by getting to 110.
This is absurd and you should not do this but I cannot stop you.
Also, I'm streaming 24 hours that day and will likely be playing FFXIV.
See you nerds there!
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See you all in 12 hours. 
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1813291728935506303
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The GIGATRAIN will begin in ONE HOUR.
To board the GIGATRAIN you need 100 bits, a T1 T2 or T3 sub, a Prime sub, or a Gifted sub.
This must be thrown DURING the GIGATRAIN.
Chat is rabid, cannot tell time, and thinks the train has already left.
It has not.
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Thank you all.
More than you will ever know.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1813677773892018498
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In light of the global outage caused by Crowdstrike we have some work around steps for you and your business.
Crowdstrike put these out but they are behind a login panel, which is idiotic at best.
These steps should be on their public blog and we have a contact we're talking to and pushing for that to happen.
Monitor that situation here: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/
In terms of impact, this is Billions to Trillions of dollars in damage.
Systems globally are down including airports, grocery stores, all kinds of things.
It's a VERY big deal and a massive failure.
Remediation Steps:
Summary
CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor.
Details
* Symptoms include hosts experiencing a bugcheck\blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor.
* This issue is not impacting Mac- or Linux-based hosts
* Channel file "C-00000291*.sys" with timestamp of 0527 UTC or later is the reverted (good) version.
Current Action
* CrowdStrike Engineering has identified a content deployment related to this issue and reverted those changes.
* If hosts are still crashing and unable to stay online to receive the Channel File Changes, the following steps can be used to workaround this issue:
Workaround Steps for individual hosts:
* Reboot the host to give it an opportunity to download the reverted channel file. If the host crashes again, then:
* Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment
* Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
* Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.
* Boot the host normally.
Note: Bitlocker-encrypted hosts may require a recovery key.
Workaround Steps for public cloud or similar environment:
* Detach the operating system disk volume from the impacted virtual server
* Create a snapshot or backup of the disk volume before proceeding further as a precaution against unintended changes
* Attach/mount the volume to to a new virtual server
* Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
* Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.
* Detach the volume from the new virtual server
* Reattach the fixed volume to the impacted virtual server
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@everyone
We've done it lads.
I now possess the Skull of William Osman and the Screaming Roomba of Michael Reeves.
With these powers combined our glorious creation will be unstoppable.
Not even Jerma can stop us now.
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@everyone
You have single handledly changed google trends.
The goblins have too much power.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today 5-y&q=Pirate Software
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@everyone
If you want to help support Godot Game Engine they have a cute plush out!
They're already ~1500% funded so you're guaranteed to get one if you hop in.
https://www.makeship.com/products/godot-robot-plush
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@everyone
The entire playthrough of Animal Well has been edited and released!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF4ijyCBARU
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@everyone
We're currently opening applications for Translators for Italian, Chinese, and German localizations.
This position will cover both Pirate Software and Offbrand Games.
Please read over everything when applying!
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@everyone
Meet Your Maker is one of my favorite games of all time and I found this morning that it was not doing well.
Decided to play it on stream to show more people that it exists because it's in a VERY good state right now.
The devs showed up and have just released a Free Demo for the game as a result.
If you've never heard of MYM it's basically Mario Maker meets Quake.
All of the levels are made by players and it is insanely fun.
Go play it.
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@everyone
Itch.io is known for having last minute submission entries for Game Jams.
DO NOT WAIT FOR THE FINAL 30 MINUTES
GET YOUR ENTRIES IN!
We have 17 hours to go!
https://itch.io/jam/pirate
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@everyone
We won.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1822710722054570015
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@everyone
Oh hai, I'm back from vacation.
The house is apparently slightly on fire.
Apparently some people believe that I "ripped off" an underage artist 16 years ago.
That artist went by Wingless Emoto at the time and is now known as MaimFace on Twitter.
They were 17 and I was 19 when all of this went down and no we never did anything sexual together.
We made avatars in Second Life and our work was really popular.
They did all the models and I did all the programming in LSL.
We had a falling out over pay splits and Wingless open sourced our work.
They were never "fired", they quit on their own and did this on the way out.
Tabloids at the time did what tabloids do. They made extreme and idiotic statements.
Those tabloids still exist and people are digging them up now.
Maim and I made up like 4-5 years later.
We've been best friends for a VERY long time.
You can reach out to them to confirm any of this.
We've actually been talking about having them on stream to stop this tide of idiocy.
If you've been engaging in this you're trying to dig up settled beef that is older than you are.
For those that bitched on socials, lashed out at me, or left negative reviews on our work over this.
Eat shit. I have no respect for you whatsoever.
Contact Maim Here:
https://x.com/maimface
Twitter
For those wondering about the source of this shit.
Enjoy
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@everyone
Now that this is out of the way... DEFCON AND UPDATES
= Fiber Internet =
In the next hour -fingers crossed- the fiber man will be here and hooking up the net.
If that happens on time I will need to spend the rest of the day setting up our internal network.
I have an insane router already setup but we need to do network range tests for the wifi.
If that works I need to go get my computer from the stream setup, bring it here, and transfer everything over.
Gonna be a day.
= DEFCON =
I had a BLAST at the convention.
As a team the Psychoholics competed in "Goldbug" and "PhreakMe" and won both.
We also ran "Crash and Compile" and "Tinfoil Hat Contest" in which someone got the new handle of "Kaboose".
Goldbug is a huge series of cryptographic puzzles that you can still work on right now.
Think the Heartbound ARG but many different split up puzzles that have a common narrative.
Loved the hell out of it and can't wait to both compete and run a contest myself next year.
I will also be doing a writeup live on stream showing off the puzzles we did.
Goldbug Puzzles:
https://bbs.goldbug.cryptovillage.org/puzzles.html
Twitter Post:
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1822825832186081288
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@everyone
If you haven't heard the news all SSN's in the United States have leaked.
This is not the end of the world but it is immensely annoying.
A simple defense measure is to lock your credit to prevent others from creating cards/loans/etc in your name.
You can learn more about how to do this here:
https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze
You can also read more about the breach here:
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-13/hacker-claims-theft-of-every-american-social-security-number
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@everyone
We've selected the winners of the 15th Pirate Software Game Jam!
Each of these games brought something incredibly unique to the table.
If you're not on the list, don't despair!
You did a fantastic job and I hope you learned something through this.
The road of any creative is long and full of half implemented ideas.
Keep going and you'll end up making amazing things.
If for any reason you did not receive feedback for your submission please reach out with a #mod-ticket.
Some of the judges didn't know that they needed to hit save to make sure you got your feedback!
It happens, don't worry, nobody ignored you!
We have another jam coming up in Jamuary 2025.
I can't wait to see what you all make next.
https://itch.io/jam/pirate <--- NEXT JAM!!!
Winners List:
- Henry Super Brain - https://devnix.itch.io/henry-super-brain
- The Shattered Knight of Elaria - https://lazyteastudios.itch.io/theshatteredknightofelaria
- The Alchemy Between Us - https://st4ng.itch.io/the-alchemy-between-us
- The Good, The Bad and The Alchemist - https://lurlichs.itch.io/the-good-the-bad-and-the-alchemist
- All the Better to Date You With! - https://theflavorzone.itch.io/all-the-better-to-date-you-with
- Elements of Espionage - https://celestialscholar.itch.io/elementsofespionage
- Homunculus Secret Fight Club - https://13kiddoz.itch.io/homunculus-secret-fight-club
- Owlchemist - https://fifthedgestudios.itch.io/owlchemist
- Lights Out - https://dl4e.itch.io/lightsout
- Garbage Out - https://teessegames.itch.io/garbage-out
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As we wind down towards the end of the year Discord session hijacks will be on the rise.
If you see links like the following, do NOT click them.
This is a session hijack exploit and the attacker will gain access to your account.
2FA does not protect against this as you are already fully authenticated for that session.
If you see any friend sending you messages like this contact them in a different way to confirm their identity.
Further, you can mouse over a link and see if it is actually going where it says it is.
Shoutout to Discord for allowing Markdown on URLs like this.
Fantastic advantage for the attackers, good job, we're all very proud.
Example: www.google.com
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Need your help to shut down a scam account impersonating me on Instagram.
These people went so far as to follow all of my friends for extra realism.
They've uploaded every short we've ever made as well.
How To Report:
- Hit the three dots at the top ...
- Click Report
- Report Account
- It's pretending to be someone else
- Someone I follow
- Type in "pirate_software" which is my REAL instagram account.
Account to Report:
https://www.instagram.com/piratesoftware1/
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@everyone
Need your help to shut down a scam account impersonating me on Instag...
The account has now been taken down.
I will be putting shorts up on Instagram going forward.
You can follow here:
https://www.instagram.com/pirate_software/
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@everyone
A moron is going around PAX claiming he works for us.
He does not. Only @modest pelican and @potent wasp are there currently.
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@everyone
I wanted to thank you all for watching during the WoW streams this last week. Due to you we were the largest and most watched WoW content in the world during this launch.
Humbling as hell.
You all rock.
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@everyone
We now have roles for World of Warcraft <@&1277997315352957021> and <@&1277997696111611904>
We also have roles for Meet Your Maker <@&1279356598468218880>
You can access these roles and their channels through id:customize
Have fun and go play some games together!
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@everyone
Hey <@&1277997315352957021> goblins. We've got a friendly rivalry with <@&1277997696111611904> 's.
The intention is to banter, make clever jokes, and build up the silliness that faction rivalry offers.
If you're taking this farther into insults, spawn camping, or treating Alliance focused creators badly you're going to be banned.
Don't be a jerkface is a pretty longstanding rule here. If you see this kind of behavior definitely put in a #mod-ticket
Warmode is definitely still consent for pvp.
So no crying over random battles here and there either.
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Hey, look at what dropped today.
We're gonna have a blast.
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We now have a new section of the discord under the <@&1281880361915125760> role.
This is for Information Technology and should help a lot of our infra people network.
It's also for asking why the computer isn't running and how to fix the printer. 
You can find the new role in id:customize
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@everyone
Thank You!
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1833738689081753776
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@everyone
There is now a new role in id:customize for our Warhammer fans.
You can become <@&1282727155150753883> for the Emperor and get access to a number of new channels.
We have stuff in there for minis, different games, and lore for both original and 40k.
You can find this role as "Warhammer" under the "What games do you want to play with us?"
The old Warhammer channel under Games is now war-general inside of this new section as well.
Have fun!
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@everyone
Months ago I removed Unity from https://develop.games as their new business model was untested and unstable.
Today they have once again modified their business model which was expected to happen as the runtime fee made no sense.
They have now completely dropped the runtime fee for Pro/Enterprise and increased the subscription cost by 8%/25% respectively.
They have also raised the ceiling for Pro being required over Personal from $100,000 to $200,000 which is where it was previously.
Overall this appears to be a win for indie developers that are just starting out and a larger burden on studios that have had any commercial success.
It's definitely a better model for monthly/yearly financial planning for studios but may be a larger bill in some cases.
Restarting the timer to add them back to develop.games and giving it another 6 months to cook.
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Got a bit of a grim update today.
Might not turn out grim though!
Finn and Felix are two rescue ferrets that came to us a few months ago.
Both are around 7 years in age and Felix is in particularly poor health.
Finn has heart disease, lymphoid hyperplasia in his neck, and dental issues.
We're not sure what the cause of the LH is but it's effectively a big lymph node in his neck and it wasn't responding to antibiotics.
Felix has heart disease, adrenal carcinoma on his right gland impinging on his Vena Cava, and a severely enlarged spleen.
Bit of a recipe for disaster but he was doing just fine.
A few days ago we found both of them suffering from Hyperthermia.
In easier terms they had overheated and were in the middle of dying from heat stroke.
We triaged them and found that they were spiraling out so we rushed them to an Emergency Vet that we've worked with in the past.
We've had some ups and downs the last couple of days and Finn was doing better but Felix was not.
When ferrets suffer heat stroke the internal lining of their digestive system sloughs off and it's a hell of a fight for them to get back to healthy.
This isn't going to be easy.
Today we did a final meeting to determine if Euthanasia would be a more humane option for Felix as he was in pain and his levels were crashing.
We opted for final blood work before making a permanent decision and found that his levels are moving in the right direction now and by a significant amount.
He may look really rough but if his system is recovering then there is a chance he makes it.
During this meeting Finn started coughing and was immediately put on oxygen. Both get to stay at the vet for now.
Now to investigate how this happened.
Firstly they were in the enclosure displayed below.
This is a minimal setup with low bedding and a large bin for them to use which is easier for elder ferrets like this.
They were checked 5 hours prior and their thermometer was reading and responding correctly.
This setup may seem sparse and small but it's the correct setup for ferrets during their sleeping hours.
Their playtime is in the main room that you see on stream and has a very large open space to run and play in with a number of toys and enrichment zones.
The room is temperature controlled by a primary AC system and a backup AC system to keep it at ~60-65F at all times.
Ferrets have trouble regulating their body temperature above ~80F so this is essential for keeping them alive and happy especially with older ones like this.
This system was functioning normally during this.
Bringing all of this up to the veterinary her feeling is that Felix likely suffered from a seizure either due to his enormous spleen or a potential undetected insulinoma case.
We do check Glucose levels monthly for all of the rescues but insulinoma is still possible as it can onset at any time.
A seizure will absolutely set a ferret to a dangerous temperature and in an environment where they are cuddling or have bedding this is a possible outcome.
Considering that and the setup we have we feel this is the most likely cause.
We don't really have a system change in mind to avoid this in the future if it was caused by a seizure there isn't much we can do.
The best option here is to setup more video monitoring in the rescue going forward so that's the plan for now.
Might take a bit to get it all working but it may help identify things like this before it goes sideways.
With all of that in mind right now the two little ones are fighting for their lives and we're hoping they make it through.
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@everyone
Got some updates on Finn and Felix.
Finn will be coming home today but he has a cough and breathing issues at times.
We will be monitoring him as much as possible.
Felix will be staying in the ICU as he's built up a lot of fluid and now needs to be given diuretics.
His kidney values are strong enough to take this next step.
After speaking with the vet it's still likely that Felix had a seizure which caused this in the first place.
Anecdotally we've seen other owners reporting the same thing.
As a way to catch this earlier in the future we're getting a FLIR camera that will show live temperatures of the oldies cage.
This should let us know if one of them reaches critical temperatures even if the room is correctly cooled.
If we do see another seizure related spike in temperature the vet wants the footage as well as something can be learned from it and hopefully help other ferrets in the future.
More data, better care.
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@everyone
Rivals of Aether 2 is having a Playtest coming up!
You can request access through the Steam Page now.
Just click the Request Access button if you're interested.
I have my gamecube controller ready so I can lose in style.
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@everyone
Nintendo has sued Pocket Pair for Patent Infringement on as of yet undisclosed grounds.
As everyone is asking me my take on it I put this out on Twitter.
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@everyone
If you are in Florida and under an evacuation order, evacuate.
You are facing the 4th largest hurricane in history.
Stubborn disregard of danger is not worth your life.
https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-milton-helene-florida-557c5c512135e0a8661b298e45e17c92
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There have been a lot of requests for me to continue gameplay of Metaphor.
However, we also had a lot of people leave the stream due to potential spoilers during the gameplay.
I love Atlus games and will DEFINITELY be continuing my playthrough.
However, to prevent spoiling people I am going to wait one month before continuing the run on stream.
This way we can still enjoy it all together and you don't have to be spoiled.
November is gonna be rad.
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@everyone
You can now vote for categories for the Streamer Awards.
This will only be up for THREE DAYS so go vote now!
SOFTWARE AND GAME DEV HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I also added these into the write-in.
Make sure to fill it all out!
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We just launched Rivals of Aether II a little bit early.
This is the first game I have worked on in a publishing capacity.
Really excited to see you all go ham on it.
If you have any questions at all feel free to ask me.
A big part of what I worked on was the monetization.
As such, the store has been setup to avoid Hotdog vs Hotdog Bun issues.
When you buy premium currency you -should- always be able to use it all.
This might fall apart with smaller purchases but the intention is to never leave you feeling like you -have- to buy more.
Also, everything in the store will remain in the store forever. No FOMO at all.
Bundles may change way further down the road but individual items will always be there.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2217000/Rivals_of_Aether_II/
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@everyone
We are now the top selling game in the world on Steam.
This is absolutely wild.
https://bsky.app/profile/piratesoftware.live/post/3l77qlxen462q
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No stream tonight.
I went to Maddie's wedding!
Here is a video of the location.
It was really a beautiful event.
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@everyone
It's time for the Streamer Awards!
Go vote for your favorites in any of the following categories.
I will be voting for mine on stream tomorrow!
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@everyone
GO VOTE ON THE STREAMER AWARDS!!!!
HERE ARE MY VOTES!!!
The community demanded I vote for myself for Best Breakout Streamer.
They are also voting for me for Variety Streamer if you'd like to do that as well.
If you want me to win that you should too!
https://thestreamerawards.com/nominations
Best Creative Arts Streamer - DoigSwift
Best RolePlay Streamer - EsfandTV
Best MOBA Streamer -
Hidden Gem - NicoleBelafonte
Best Battle Royale Streamer -
Best Fighting Games Streamer - Maximilian_DOOD
Best Speedrun Streamer - SimpleFlips
Best Sports Streamer - MidnightSumo
Best Fortnite Streamer -
Best FPS Streamer - Shroud
Best Strategy Game Streamer - FrostPrime
Best IRL Streamer - CDawgVA
Stream Game of the Year - Space Marine 2
Best Content Organization - Offbrand
Best International Streamer - Bajo
Best Streamed Collab - CDawg RV Stream
Best Streamed Event - Ironmouse Subathon
Best Marathon Stream - Ironmouse
Best VTuber - Ironmouse
Best Variety Streamer - PremierTwo
Best Just Chatting Streamer - Kitboga
Rising Star Award - uwoslab
Best Breakout Streamer - PirateSoftware
League of their Own - AlveusSanctuary
The Sapphire Award - Ironmouse
Gamer of the Year - AdmiralBahroo
Streamer of the Year - Ironmouse
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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE!!!
GOGOGOGOGOGO!!!
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@everyone
Discord is very smart.
So smart in-fact that they now randomly hide the id:customize section if you have "Show All Channels" checked in your options for the server.
If you uncheck this box you then get to see it... for whatever reason and only for some people!
If you cannot find this channel that's why.
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@everyone
Today marks exactly one year since the start of our community explosion.
A year ago we had 400 average viewers on Twitch and ~13,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Today we're in the top 100 on Twitch with 10,000-15,000 viewers on every stream.
The YouTube channel is about to hit 2,500,000 subscribers as well.
Our Discord went from ~5,000 to ~205,000 members.
With all of that support this has absolutely changed my life.
Here is everything that has happened since then.
We started a Corporation and hired in all of our support staff.
Everyone is on full-time salary with medical/dental/vision coverage.
I can't do all of this without them so this makes the most sense.
People claimed we would go bankrupt within a few months due to this.
I gave everyone a raise back in August, thanks to you.
We were able to increase the size of our ferret rescue Snails House.
This is going to become the largest ferret rescue and sanctuary in the united states this next year.
We're working with some awesome groups to build a custom facility for all of this.
The goal is to have a capacity for ~250 animals and more full-time staff members to cover it all.
The rescue and the employees that maintain it are funded entirely off of Ad Revenue through the streams.
You can always catch them here. https://ferrets.live
We now hold the record for all-time highest Hype Train on Twitch.
On April 1st the community banded together to literally break Twitch.
Twitch also made a global emote called DidIBreakIt for anyone who was there.
We hit level 106 and nobody has broken our record thus-far.
Absolute madlads.
You voted for me to win the Software and Game Development Streamer Award.
This was an incredibly humbling experience for me.
I managed to not shit and cry on stage as well.
That's a win.
We've given $56,805 to charity this year.
Any time you put in TTS messages they go into a queue.
If I don't answer your message by the end of the stream it goes to charity instead of me.
This system lets us support tons of awesome causes around the world.
All of the receipts can be found in the #debt-tracker channel on our discord. https://discord.gg/piratesoftware
I now own William Osmans skull because of this. Shoutout to CDawg.
We've run two of our largest Game Jams ever.
Pirate Jam 14 and 15 saw tens of thousands of competitors.
It's incredible to see how many awesome projects have come out of these.
Keep being rad and keep making games.
We released a bunch of updates to our community Minecraft server called Blockgame.
This has been a side project for the last two years or so.
It's a fun way to test systems design and dork around in a shared space.
Blockgame is a Social Sandbox MMO using Minecraft as a game engine.
I finally finished the grand majority of writing needed for Animus in Heartbound
This has been a pretty tough one for me as I am not that strong of a writer.
All of my experience before this has been writing for DnD Campaigns so this is a huge step up.
Happy with where it is now though and can't wait for you to experience it.
I was hired on to be Director of Strategy for Offbrand Games.
After seeing so much damage being caused by bad publishers in our space I wanted to fix it.
I was either going to sign on with another publisher or start my own and either would be fine.
Offbrand has been awesome to work for and I am really happy we've had such an impact.
We just released Rivals of Aether II and it's been really well received which feels great.
We live in a time where it easier than ever before to self-publish.
You definitely don't need a publisher to find success.
Go make games.
I got a dog.
His name is Spaghetti.
He acts like Spaghetti.
Meatball the cat dislikes him.
We've got a lot more planned for this next year.
Thanks for such an insane adventure.
Not stopping any time soon.
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Social posts in two different flavors.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1853402648227316222
https://bsky.app/profile/piratesoftware.live/post/3la4nluu33p2v
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@everyone
STREAMER AWARDS VOTING IS NOW OPEN!!!
Not the nominations, the ACTUAL voting!
You've all nominated me for TWO categories.
Both League of Their Own and** Streamer of the Year**.
This is... not what I ever expected.
League of Their Own is filled with awesome people that have done incredibly unique things.
It's very humbling to know that you've all loved what we've done so much.
It's taken the entire team to make this all possible and none of us can do it without you.
Thank you for changing mine and many others lives.
Streamer of the Year is definitely not a small deal either.
The people in this category are absolutely amazing at what they all do.
The idea that you've voted me to be along side them is unreal.
Thank you, truly.
I will wear only the finest of wigs.
https://thestreamerawards.com/vote
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Glorious goblins of Brazil.
I have an announcement.
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The Ashes of Creation interview video is now live!
Sunder put it together and kept chat so you can see how everyone is reacting.
Hope you enjoy and learn some new stuff about the game!
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@everyone
The burrito index has been updated.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1859000236028686508
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@everyone
Today is the last day to vote for the Streamer Awards!
I wanted to thank you all for a fantastic and wild year.
Best damn community I could ask for. ❤️
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@everyone
The 16th #PirateJam will be starting on <t:1737122400:f>.
Our last jam had 15,000 developers and this one already has ~7,000 prior to this official announcement.
There is no cover charge or money involved in any way.
My hope is that this like all of our other jams is a springboard for you to learn and grow as a dev.
Just make games, have fun, learn some stuff, and kick some butts.
If you want to spread the word you can do so here.
Twitter: https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1862007912320897256
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/piratesoftware.live/post/3lbydyuvv2s2t
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@everyone
Spiffing Brit is currently running a charity event on YouTube for Jingle Jam.
Donating 35£ or more gives you a whole slew of games.
His stream is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fky3OfKM33k
Donations go here!
https://tilt.fyi/TIejfSewxn
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@everyone
We now have a Beans Plush available.
100% of the revenue from this is going towards the ferret rescue.
We've got more info about the build coming during the Humane Society charity event in January.
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@everyone
Today is @gray kelp's birthday.
Tell her how good a mod she is in #streamchat.
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@everyone
vedal987 has beaten our world Hype Train Record.
The previous record was Level 106 at 47%.
Vedals new record is Level 111 at 55%.
In terms of stats.
Our Record: 54,380 Subs - 8,225,386 Bits
Vedals Record: 84,904 Subs - 1,201,225 Bits
The goblins have a goal.
For the entire month of March I will have Hype Trains disabled.
On <t:1743526800:R> we will strike like a tide of... goblins.
This timestamp is local to you so no need for maths.
If you would like to take part remember the following.
- 100 Bits or more counts.
- Prime subs do count.
- T3 Subs count for more progress than T1.
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Round 2
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1878931891015110894
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@everyone
The 16th PirateJam will start at <t:1737122400:f> (Your Local Time).
Hoping to see all the rad stuff you guys make this time around.
We're currently at ~13,500 people signed up.
X
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@everyone
Today is also apparently our 7 year partner anniversary on Twitch.
Thank you for supporting me all of these years.
You're the best damn community anyone could ask for.
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@everyone
The community is about to vote on the Game Jam themes.
Come cast your vote!
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Power surge just hit the house.
The PoE Injector for the ferret setup has been fried.
All other electronics survived due to surge protection.
This circuit got overwhelmed entirely and bricked it.
New one will arrive on Tuesday.
Ferret streams are offline unless I can rig something up before that arrives.
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@everyone
Had a spare older PoE.
Streams back up.
New one still arriving on Tuesday and will swap if there is an issue.
Backup hardware saves the day.
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@everyone
YOU HAVE 4 HOURS TO SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE GAME JAM!!!
DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST SECOND AS IT HAS BROKEN BEFORE AND WILL BREAK AGAIN
GOGOGOGO
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The 16th Pirate Software Game Jam has just ended.
We had a total of 1,796 entries from contestants over the last 14 days.
Regardless of if you completed your entry I hope you learned something and had fun.
Judges will begin the process of reviewing everything and we should have our winners on February 14th!
Hang tight until then!
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Updates Out.
Please put in bug reports here: #heartbound-ticket
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/508445172204307048
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Absolutely sick of this shit.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1889641667424043110?s=19
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And now all of you have ammo for the inevitable tide of dipshits attacking me over this. God damn the internet gets dumber every day.
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The person who posted the video has deleted their comment on Twitter.
The video is still up on YouTube so I expect this to have a slow burn of people who just believe it out of hand.
If any of you all encounter people trying to say that shit is real please refer them to these posts.
Both MaimFace (Wingless) and I are sick of these idiots trying to push this narrative every few months.
My Post:
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1889641667424043110?s=19
Maims Post:
https://x.com/MaimFace/status/1889646473601589569?s=19
Also, bonus gif of my old Secondlife character.
Which is also the main character of Kill The Moon.
Once Heartbound is done Shaye and I want to revisit that game and try to make it fun.
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The 16th Pirate Software Game Jam has now completed.
Each of you have received feedback on your respective games.
We will be announcing winners on <t:1739887200:f> (Your local time)
I want to thank each and every one of you for putting yourselves out there creatively.
It's a very difficult thing to do this and you've all been stellar.
If you didn't finish, that's ok.
My hope is that you learned something through this process and continue to create things.
Keep pushing to make more weird stuff and eventually you'll get there.
Don't stop making games or anything else.
A huge thanks to @velvet oriole for handling all of the organization for this jam.
It was really well executed and controlled throughout.
And especially huge thanks to all of our judges.
You guys knocked it out of the park.
How to see your judges feedback
- Go to the itch page for your game
- Press on the "Submission to Pirate Software - Game Jam 16" link on the right edge of the page
- Your page url should now be something like https://itch.io/jam/pirate/rate/12345
- You should see your judges feedback in the middle of the page
See you all in Pirate Jam 17.
https://itch.io/jam/pirate
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We're about to announce the winners of the 16th Pirate Software Game Jam!
We've got a ton of runner-ups and 10 winners to go through.
Hope you all had a great time during this one!
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The winners of the 16th Pirate Software Game Jam have been announced!
Hope you all had fun and learned a ton of stuff.
Go play these!
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Lots of narratives on the internet.
Time to put them to rest and get back to doing cool shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1dh49O6LNM
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PIrateJam 16 video is now up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCzUUtrWsw
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I can survive 24 hours before this launches... right?
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1894834651153473879
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Heartbound has updated on the Primary Branch.
This build merges in the Monthly Update build and adds additional storyline.
Please put bugs in #heartbound-ticket
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/498314610455086707?l=english
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We now have a new Monster Hunter specific section of the Discord.
You can access it under id:customize by choosing the <@&1345906320204890123> role there.
It is found under the games section.
These games rock and Wilds is awesome.
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The glory of Rik Spek has been revealed.
Enjoy this video from BonteAvond.
By the end Six Packs will be meaningless to you.
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The yearly GigaTrain will begin on <t:1743512400:f>.
Our previous record in 2024 was Level 106 at 47%.
Vedal beat it on January 1st with a Level 111 at 55% train.
If you would like to take part in this I will see you there!
I also have a surprise that I have been keeping from the team until now.
Over the last couple of months we've had to deal with an insane amount of moderation work.
What the team does allows this place to be as cool as it is and I want to recognize that this year.
50% of the GigaTrain will be given as a bonus to all of the staff members outside of myself.
For those that don't know the moderators and other staff members are full time salaried employees.
They also receive medical, vision, dental, and life insurances.
This bonus is in addition to their base pay.
Thank you all for an amazing year and I hope to see you on this glorious April Fools Day! 
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The GigaTrain will begin in about 15 minutes.
If you want to take part in this come join us!
You can read about it on the post above.
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The GigaTrain ended at level 70 - 71% which is far higher than I anticipated.
You're all amazing, thank you for everything you do for us.
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Behold, ferret rescue updates:
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1909792782652510626
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Got all the numbers in for the GigaTrain!
You guys amassed a total of $75,000 it was slightly less so I rounded it up.
Half of the GigaTrain comes out to $37,500
We currently have a staff size of 15 not counting me.
This split evenly for all staff members comes out to $2,500
This bonus will be applied to everyone in the org outside of myself.
The payments will go out at the end of this month.
For the other $37,500 it will be applied towards the ferret rescue.
I'm putting together all of the cash to make sure we have enough for construction.
Still waiting on the contractors and county to come to terms.
Thanks for everything you do. 
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The podcast between The Primeagen and myself is now live.
Videos will be launched every day at 12pm Noon for the next week.
After that we are switching to a weekly cadence.
First video goes live tomorrow!
You can see them here:
https://www.youtube.com/@HackAndStache
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There is now an <@&1361600004057464872> role for those of you interested in Dune: Awakening.
You can select this role from id:customize and get access to that section of channels.
I've got it all hooked up to the official announcements and it has areas for lore discussion and...
You've already filled the general chat with sand.
Why are you like this?
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For the next several days we will be running a Charity Event for Open Sauce and Gameheads.
They will be sending a number of students in the tech and gaming fields to Open Sauce this year.
This kind of activity is huge for young people to get into these spaces and will hopefully give them a lot of opportunities.
All of their travel, lodging, tickets, etc are paid for through this event.
We also have a number of other announcements that will be coming out during the day!
If you'd like to support it you can find the donation system where my sub button normally is on stream.
This is right below the stream on the right!
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Sorry for not going live last night!
Ghost, one of the ferrets in our rescue, was recently diagnosed with heart disease. It was severe and the chances of her surviving much longer were really slim. This last week we got some good news that the medication regiment we put her on was working and her heart size had reduced down to a sustainable level. When ferrets get heart disease their hearts expand into a balloon and it makes it harder for them to continue pumping normally. Size reduction like this is the best possible outcome.
With that being said her wet cough and labored breathing didn't go away. At the same time her lymph nodes up by her neck have grown in size at an alarming rate. At the clinic they took a sample and found that the likeliest diagnosis is a rare and extremely aggressive lymphoma. For those that don't know this is a very fast moving cancer and is likely to kill her quickly.
Last night Ghost lost her ability to use her back legs and didn't want to move around to use her litter bin or eat/drink. Today we planned to take her in for euthanasia as her quality of life is horrible at this point. The only other options were to excise a lymph node to confirm the diagnosis or start her on chemo without enough information. Neither of these sounded like good options at the time due to her condition.
Shaye put Ghost on some Gabapentin last night and today Ghost is up, bright, eating/drinking, and moving around just fine. Gabapentin is a pain management drug and widely used for both people and animals. This 180 in behavior and quality of life caused us to call it off. She is scheduled to get the lymph node excised tomorrow and we're going to explore chemo options should the initial diagnosis be correct.
Thank you for supporting the streams and the rescue. We wouldn't be able to give the level of care we do without that support and it means a lot to more than just the staff here.
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Ghost had the lymph node excised and is home recovering. Took her a few hours to wake up and she's sluggish but she seems to be recovering. This whole thing is rough and it will take a few weeks to get results back from this.
Sad stuff aside she isn't coughing and is hungry so that's all positive.
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Stream unfortunately over.
Power outtage over a massive area.
If we can get back up and running we will.
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50,000 homes without power.
No known cause yet.
This is gonna suck.
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Ghost did not make it. The cancer was extremely aggressive and spread through her lungs. There was no path to recovery that could be achieved.
This one hurts a lot. I picked her up from an abusive household. She was covered in feces, fleas, and ear mites. No carrier just handed to me. She was always super afraid of other ferrets so her only enrichment time was with me or Shaye. I spent time with her every day and I'm going to miss her greatly.
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Got the results back from the excised Lymph Node from Ghost.
The vet put it in as an emergency order to see if we could get it back in time for her.
We did not get it in time but the results show it wouldn't have mattered.
Ghost had Hodgkin-like lymphoma.
This kind of cancer is rare and extremely aggressive.
It brought her from healthy to dead in about two weeks.
It started around her heart and lungs which complicated things further.
There was nothing we could have done to treat it in that time.
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I recently took a sponsorship from Bungie to play the game Marathon.
It came out today that a huge amount of art for the game was stolen from an online creator.
The creators work has been posted online for nearly a decade and we've been digging through it all.
Tons of assets including their unique logo, partially modified images, wholesale images, and iconography were directly included in the game.
None of this was credited and the artist was never notified until they saw it in game during the Alpha launch.
This is disgusting and I will not be working with them going forward.
Original Artist:
https://x.com/4nt1r34l/status/1923067988871147605
My Thread:
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1923126093990723801
More Evidence:
https://x.com/Billain/status/1923099052087865741
Come on man...
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1923160832948482341
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Bungie has made a public announcement.
From a side account, with no golden checkmark, or link to the main account outside of a single tweet.
It's also got less than 10,000 followers.
Very cool, Bungie.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1923229241216266726
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Getting on a large metal sky tube to go to the land of Greggs.
Streams will return once TwitchCon EU is over.
Dune Soon 
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If you are not at Twitchcon, Thor is doing good, has (surprisingly) had enough sleep, and is having a great time. We’re both looking to being back and seeing you all on THURSDAY 5th June for the launch of Dune: Awakening (and my first stream 
) where Thor will likely stream for AT LEAST 24 hours!
For those of you at TwitchCon EU who were not able to get a meet and greet slot, I have committed some Calendar Wizardry to allow for some more walk-in meet&greet slots 🙂 feel free to stop by if you’re at Twitchcon! We’re at lane 5 until just before 2pm local time, far end of the hall away from the stage 
Enjoy your Sunday @everyone
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That's a wrap!
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1929285847699820553
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The 17th Pirate Software Game Jam will start in July!
The Theme will be announced the day of the Jam.
You can also join the <@&997189197758734518> role in id:customize!
Go sign up here!
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The ferrets now have their own YouTube channel!
We wanted to split the streams off and leave room for new videos and shorts only about them.
All of this is now live and running!
You can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/@ferretslive/live
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An announcement is now out about this with proper links to everything.
The YouTube is now also live and has tracking so we can monitor it correctly.
Nightbot is now hooked up and all listed commands -should- work and many have been updated.
Please spread this post across the internet!
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For Open Sauce this year we're going to run a special short term game jam for the con.
You don't need to attend the convention to be a part of this so don't worry about that!
This game jam will be completely accessible to anyone even if you have no previous skills.
You don't need to be an artist, writer, programmer, or musician to take part in this.
This is a time to learn cool shit and not worry about being perfect.
Sign Up!
https://itch.io/jam/secretsauce
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The pope can dive.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1933602609098789139
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Hytale has unfortunately been cancelled.
We had been working with their community manager to do some collaboration stuff later on.
The plan was to port Blockgame into it and have a better future for the game as a result.
With this being cancelled we're going to increase our efforts in making Blockgame work well in Java MC at least for now.
With the cancelling of Hytale the studio building it has also shut down.
Hypixel Studios was the game dev wing for non-MC development it seems.
If you're in the industry please seek out devs and see if you can help them land on their feet.
It's a great opportunity to do good and get some great people if your company is looking.
You can read their statement here:
https://hytale.com/news/2025/6/a-difficult-update-about-hytale
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Game Jam 17 begins in about 14 days.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1940617308709572807
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I will be shutting down the #1390077365496840222 channel in about 72 hours.
See you all on stream tomorrow.
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@wild comet is in my home and I am teaching him to cook. We can fix him, Chat.
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We fixed him.
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Massive flooding has hit Texas and damaged Alveus Sanctuary.
Thankfully everyone is ok but their road is out until they can get it repaired.
This sanctuary is awesome, run by Maya Higa, and does a HUGE amount of good for the animals there.
If you can help them out and feel comfortable doing so please do.
Damage Video:
https://x.com/mayahiga/status/1941601293358760357
Donation Link:
https://www.alveussanctuary.org/donate
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Too many people spamming about Heartbounds codebase.
Update out tomorrow with Ferns new dialogue.
Tidbits of architecture philosophy reasoning here for the Goblins (and Kobolds) so you don't get overwhelmed by people spouting nonsense.
Bedtime now.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1945259082430259380?s=19
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Game Jam 17
15 hours to go and we're over 3,000 participants.
Good luck everyone and the theme will be announced tomorrow.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1945601261140939165
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Thank you for the birthday wishes.
I made this for all of you.
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Context: A content creator called Quintheo is continuously farming ad revenue by making false claims and drama content about me. Recently he claimed that Khronos broke ToS by giving Bits/Subs to the Gigatrain in April. Khronos used his own money to do this and can do what he likes with that money. Below is some information with receipts about all of that to refute the false claims about the situation. This creator has changed his entire brand into PirateSoftware hate content for profit as shown in Image_4.
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Prior to this years April 1st Gigatrain going live I made the announcement that I would be receiving 0% of the profits. Of the profits from the train 50% would be going to the moderation team and 50% would be given to the ferret rescue. This announcement was made on March 29th, 2025 so the community was well informed of this. You can find this attached as Image_1.
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The total income from the Gigatrain was $75,000 rounded up to the nearest thousand. This means that half of the train was $37,500 and that amount was then split 15 ways to all of the staff besides myself. This means each staff member received $2,500. This was announced to the community on April 9th, 2025. You can find this attached as Image_2.
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Khronos threw 75,000 bits, 100 T1 Subs, and 40 T3 Subs during the Gigatrain at around level 60+. He bought all of these in GBP which came out to £2085.70 or $2815.75 after conversions. You can find these transactions attached as Image_3.
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Further, Subs are not a 1:1 conversion and neither are bits. Subs come out to about 68% of the overall contribution coming through and bits normally are 82% when purchased in USD. However, doing this through GBP makes the conversion much worse. This means you are spending £295.70 or $399.20 to get $250 in bits which is a 62% conversion rate. So in total khronos spent $2815.75 to add ~$1,830.23 if we assume a generous 65% conversion. Which means in total Khronos spent $2815.75 to add $1,830.23 to the value of the Gigatrain which was then cut in half to $915.11 because half was given to the rescue and split 15 ways to all staff members as $61.00. All staff are paid in USD and must convert to their own currency which is another loss on top of this. Each conversion reduces the total income of any staff member that wishes to do this.
TL;DR - No Khronos was not directed to do this. No he was not compensated for this. Yes he lost money doing this. No the Twitch ToS was not broken. No matter how many people try to claim otherwise you now have the receipts and math to prove this. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Now for the one-two punch against this bullshit.
Quintheo's Discord has people actively doxxing me in it.
His moderation team is aware of this and has been encouraging it as shown in the images.
They have also been digging into Shaye and her job as a secondary attack vector.
In Image_1 "Shelf Related" who is a mod asks for doxxing info directly.
We've forwarded all of this to Discord Trust and Safety as a result.
We've also banned all of the users that were taking part of this from our Discord.
Screenshots below with the images blocked out.
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No Quintheo.
My address is not public information.
And your users are distributing it on your discord while the mods encourage it.
They didn't just go after me and Shaye either, they went after our moderation team too a shown here.
You cannot bullshit this away.
Leave me and my team the fuck alone.
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Power is out with no ETA on being back up.
Crews are working on it.
Been down like 3 hours already.
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Power is back up but the fiber line is still down. No ETA on that but hoping soon.
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Going to take a week or two off for a much needed vacation which is something I haven't done in years.
Just going to watch anime, write, chill out, and enjoy myself.
Looking forward to what you all make in the game jam for when I get back.
Take care of yourselves you absolute madlads. 💜💛
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The 17th Pirate Software Game Jam is about to come to a close. Don't wait til the last second to submit or to test your games. Get them in now and focus on ensuring all of your submission materials are correct.
Even if you didn't complete your submission don't despair. This is about learning, getting better at your craft, and applying that new knowledge to future projects.
I hope you all learned something during this and you continue to be creative regardless. The winners will be announced in a few weeks and the next jam will begin in January.
Good job everyone.
https://itch.io/jam/pirate
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Competed remotely at DEFCON this year with my team the Psychoholics.
We got second place in the Goldbug challenge with a gap of only 10 minutes.
Insanely close race but I had a lot of fun hangin with my buds and solving stuff.
Will show off some of the work I got to do when streams start back up.
If you'd like to try the challenges yourself you can find them here:
https://goldbug.cryptovillage.org/puzzles.html
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Saw some videos claiming I never accomplished anything during my time at Blizzard and was carried by my peers.
Here are some of the awards I was given for my work and conduct as detailed by those peers.
I have redacted names and signatures to avoid people going after them.
Receipts matter and now you have them.
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We're going to start launching videos on the Ferret YouTube starting tomorrow at Noon PST.
That channel is not yet monetized as it needs 3,000 watched hours to reach it and Live Streams do not count.
Starting off I am cross-posting the Rescue, Insulinoma, and a new video about Henry over to it.
Should be ramping up more as we go forward with the rescue building.
Thanks for supporting the work we do.
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I went through and cleaned up a bunch of channels in Discord.
Also made some significant changes as shown below.
**1. Game Jams have now been merged into the GameDev role and section.**There was a 94% crossover between these roles. No sense in keeping them separated.
**2. Runescape has been added as a role and now has its own section.**Learned a lot playing this game so far.
Blockgame is about to get some weird updates as a result.
Having fun playing with the community as well
Select this new role in id:customize
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Thank you all for everything you've done.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1970832916990370182
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You guys can now create your own shorts of my streams and put them on YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok.
Submitting these clips to Twitch will earn you in-chat Twitch badges based on the viewership you get on those clips.
Feel free to monetize these videos as you see fit and have fun with it.
This is also enabled for the FerretSoftware stream.
Make sure to link back to spread awareness of the rescue and our work.
As always you must make your own clips.
Do not just reupload the ones I already released.
Submit your uploaded videos here:
https://www.twitch.tv/drops/social-badge
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We now have new roles for <@&1430790056909733949> and <@&1430789962332373083>.
I like both of these games quite a bit and will be playing them long term.
You can get these roles and gain access to their sections in id:customize
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New World has been shut down.
Posted my thoughts on this as people keep asking.
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50,000,000 Achieved.
Goblins are the most powerful state of matter.
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Today is the last day to vote for nominations in the Streamer Awards!
Go make sure to vote for people, I just did it live.
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We have detoured back onto the good timeline.
Nintendo takes an L for once.
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Jagex did a fantastic writeup on the DDoS attacks they suffered.
It was a terabit per second which is wild to see.
All of the technical details of their defense strategy going forward are in here too!
https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/spudworks-ddos-protection--security?oldschool=true
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The community just hit top 100 in Folding@Home.
Hell yeah!
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Cloudflare is down.
Please don't report the wiki being down due to this.
A lot of the internet is down not just us.
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Vermintide 2 is 100% free to keep on Steam right now.
This is absurd, the game is amazing, go get it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/552500/Warhammer_Vermintide_2/
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This December we're going to start something new.
Introducing the Indiecember Games Show!
Unlike traditional Games Shows we're going to be playing all of these games live over the entire month of December.
We're also going to have developer interviews so you can get to know the people behind the pixels.
This gives us a really good overview of the games, their direction, and what drove the devs to make them.
My hope is to build something that showcases how awesome the indie space really is without money being an issue.
Too often smaller studios can't engage in these kinds of events due to funding barriers.
Because of that all of the indies we showcase are being shown for free.
You fund the event with your viewership and we have a few sponsors to help out as well.
If this model works we will do it again every year.
If you're an indie and want to take part reach out to us here.
We still have some slots available so make sure to hit us up!
Pirate@SideQuestMedia.com
Thanks for being the best community around.
Let's make this awesome.
Social Post:
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1992617960226402759
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Put up a video for Indiecember stuff.
Go share this around!
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I'm not sorry.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1994084580207546735
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You are all amazing.
Thank you, truly.
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We now have all of the covered Indiecember games in one place.
As the month goes on I will be updating this and adding what we play.
Go check em out and share this to help those devs reach more audience!
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Hytale pre-orders drop today in about 6 hours.
When you purchase your copy if you'd like to support what we do you can use a code at checkout.
Code: PIRATE
The devs are rad as hell and set everything up for us.
We will begin the porting process of Blockgame into Hytale starting January 13th.
This will take a -long time- and be filled with discovery and bug reports.
Going to be a regular thing on stream that we get to do together.
If you don't know what Blockgame is check out the #blockgame channels by getting the <@&1186543336652283954> role in id:customize.
Thanks for being awesome everyone!
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A number of people are not receiving YouTube video announcements and wanted me to fix that.
I have now made the #videos channel where I will post shorts/videos as they come out.
If you don't want to see these you can get the <@&1452398733244370954> role from id:customize.
This way you only see them if you want to!
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Merry Christmas!
I hope you all had an amazing year.
Even if you didn't I'm glad you're still here.
Heres to a fantastic 2026 and +20lbs from holiday foods.
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Indiecember is done!
This event was a MASSIVE success.
Huge amount of details inside:
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/2006685743788503324
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It is currently the Partner Anniversary for the Ferret Stream.
The community is going wild with a treasure train right now.
Thank you all so much for supporting the rescue.
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The 18th PirateJam begins in 6 days.
Make sure to get the <@&997190492750106706> role from id:customize to participate here.
You also need to sign up for the jam on the website.
You can help the jam by spreading awareness of it and telling others.
If you are afraid to participate DONT BE!!!
This is the time to make mistakes, learn skills, and progress your craft.
No matter what kind of work you do it will be work that improves your abilities.
GO MAKE GAMES!!!
https://develop.games/jam
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It is @grave void's Birthday.
You can send her weird stuff here:
15613 Olson Drive NW #65, Vaughn, WA 98394
Do not send chainsaws.
You have already sent so many.
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We are currently voting on the 18th PirateJam theme!
Come join in if you'd like to cast your lot!
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Theme Chosen
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!
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We are doing the yearly Humane World For Animals Fundraiser starting today!
100% of the revenue from this goes to them and none of it touches our accounts at all.
This time you can pickup a shirt to support them or donate on Twitch through the Giving Fund.
This replaces the Sub button on the channel so it's easy to find!
Twitch:
https://piratesoftware.live
Shirt:
https://shop.humaneworld.org/en-usd/products/pirate-software-x-humane-world-for-animals-t-shirt
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There was an error with Itch.io for this game jam.
It didn't display the submission criteria for your guys games.
If you have submitted early please immediately resubmit!
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@everyone
12 hours before final cutoff!
Get your games in and make sure you've tested everything you can!
DON'T MAKE LAST MINUTE CHANGES!!!
WE DON'T PUSH TO PROD ON A FRIDAY AT 6PM!!!
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@everyone
Ashes of Creation has been shut down.
Here is my statement on all of it and my negative review on Steam from before it fell.
For those that don't know I actually quit the game three days ago due to terrible moderation.
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Wanted to thank you all for your charitable donations and shirt purchases over January.
In total we raised $10,454.08 for Humane World for Animals and sold a whopping 311 shirts on top of that.
This is awesome to see and I can't thank you enough for it.
Just like last year we will continue to do this every year.
Best damn community I could ask for.
Twitter:
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/2019517612028490190
Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/piratesoftware.live/post/3me5c7akpks2h
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I've updated the Ferret Rescue website with recent developments on our build project.
This includes a picture from the recent Geotechnical Survey.
Website:
https://ferrets.live/#nav-projects
Twitter:
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/2020984386070643036
Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/piratesoftware.live/post/3mehhttghh226
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Twitch has released a new type of Hype Train.
It gives out Emotes to the community whenever it levels up.
It looks like it capped at 578 emotes but people are saying they keep getting them.
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@everyone
Voting on the Game Jam is now finished and I will announce the winners during the stream tomorrow.
Ignore the rankings automatically assigned to submissions by itch.io.
The system ranked everything by individual categories instead of overall score.
Go look through the entries and have some fun!
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Important reminder.
https://x.com/i/status/2027856962692780337
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Heartbound has been updated to v1.0.9.651
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/532124583945306929
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So Division 2 is $3 right now and they are bringing back Winter Survival from Div 1.
The only game that keeps my Ubisoft launcher installed is unironically becoming good again.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxnUH9dSm4
Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2221490/Tom_Clancys_The_Division_2/
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We have 55mph winds and the powers out.
Living the dream.
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I recently had a talk with ToadPHD about the changes Kick has been implementing over the last half year. I also spoke to a number of other streamers over DMs to try to get a feel for how it is for smaller creators as well. Overall things seem to be moving in the right direction on Kick which is not what I expected at all.
With that in mind I have setup a FerretSoftware stream over on Kick. They don't have ads currently and they pay per viewer throughout the stream as if you had watched ads. They also give 95% of a sub to the streamer which is absurd and offer Kicks, which are their version of Bits, for cheaper than Twitch. None of these things are sustainable for the platform but they definitely help the rescue for as long as they are offered.
To be clear we are not planning to shut down the Twitch or YouTube streams at all. Multi-Streaming is definitely the play for live streamed content overall. For the Twitch viewers I also added a ton of new emotes and duplicated those emotes over to Kick as well.
I will let you all know how well this experiment goes in a week or so. I think it's important to test this kind of stuff so we can make sure the rescue is as strong as it can be.
ToadPHD Video for Context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiSN69N4tT0
Stream:
https://ferrets.live/kick
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We just got our first payment in from the Kick Partner Program and I promised to share the deets with you guys.
This was done under their Multi-Streaming option which cuts the KPP income by 50%.
On Twitch side this is for running 8 minutes of Ads per hour in the Animals category which is very advertiser friendly.
Both streams were disrupted due to the weather so this is a snapshot of 33.5 hours.
Both streams auto-reset every 48 hours as they use the same backend systems from Amazon IVS.
Twitch = $0.072 per hour per viewer
Kick = $0.123 per hour per viewer
Kick absolutely clears Twitch during Q1 so far.
As the year progresses Ad Revenue increases so this may not always be the case.
Overall this was incredibly surprising to see and will help the rescue a ton.
Going to keep the multi-stream up indefinitely.
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April 1st will be a 24 hour stream.
Best damn day of the year.
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Mocha goes to surgery in a little over an hour.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/2038581069071708449
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Mocha is home and we have a big update post.
TL;DR the boy is doin good.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/2039080399138345115
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Heartbound has been updated to v1.0.9.652
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/533253650845270060
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After 9 years of streaming I've decided to make the very difficult decision to keep streaming.
I know how upsetting this may be for all of you.
Full Statement Here:
https://piratesoftware.live/forever
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Thank you everyone for the insane April Fools Day stream yesterday.
I have now awoken and the time of man has ended.
See you all tonight.
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@everyone
Mocha has unfortunately been diagnosed with Lymphoma.
We're going to start treatment once his chemo is sent out.
We're also doing genomic analysis on his removedlymph node to tailor a more specific treatment.
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Mocha passed during the night.
I wish there was better news to announce here.
I'm fucking devastated and need to bury myself for a bit.
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@everyone
The owners of Kick have created a Twitter-Like social platform.
I made an account to lock in my name and added it to the link-tree.
Not a fake account! Sorry to worry those who reached out!
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The Develop Games website has been completely rebuilt.
There is now also a button for show.games which is a new domain for the Indiecember/Indiesummer shows.
Those shows are now called Pirate Indie Games Show or PIGS so we can have a fun piglet mascot.
Go check it all out!
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The next Pirate Indie Games Show is now announced.
Go tell your favorite devs to sign up!
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Wanted to let you all know that we're changing around the moderation team. I'm not as large of a creator as I was last year and I had to let people go due to it. This isn't what I wanted to happen but it's important to get things stabilized and move forward.
The primary cause of all of this is me more than anyone else. I took a stance on things I believe in and as a result the studio makes less income and I had to cut staff to keep things afloat. After that cut two more moderators resigned which I don't blame them for at all. Please respect their privacy and let them handle this in the way they need to. I hold no ill-will toward any of them and their HR channels are still open should they need anything.
To the community I am sorry that I didn't say something about this sooner. We were trying to keep things running for as long as possible without this being the outcome. It was not meant as a deception just trying to keep everyone happy with all of these spinning plates at once proved to be impossible.
The entire moderation staff was paid either as contractors in the EU or full-time employees in the USA. All moderators in the USA received coverage for medical, dental, vision, and life insurance as part of their employment. I have been working with some of them to extend their coverage as our state allows for mini-cobra. For EU contractors they received payments via invoice equivalent to the USA staff ensuring everyone was paid equally regardless of where they worked.
A few months ago I started moderating the streams and YouTube myself and it's been largely manageable. The Discord is where most of the moderators time is spent now due to tickets and botting activity. I am working on some automated solutions to help out here as most of these seem to be porn links and Mr. Beast crypto scams.
I am opening up positions for community moderators to help out which is pretty standard. You can find these new moderators under the tag <@&1489742543662092439> and they can time people out and remove posts. These are not employees and have no obligation to be here outside of their interest in doing so. Full <@&362005405901127710> are under NDA, can answer tickets, ban people, and kick people just as before. This should help with coverage and keep this place as good as it has been.
Unpaid moderators never sat right with me. It's a personal conflict to have someone working for me and not be compensated in some way. As such I started working with a third party that is developing a tool to help here. I will be setting up tip links that automatically split all income between these community mods. It will never touch my account and will only go to them. This gives them at least something for their efforts and makes it a little more acceptable to me. This is planned to go live in June.
If you have any other questions hit me up.
Thanks,
-Thor
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The Pirate Indie Games Show emails will start going out this week.
Looking forward to showing off some awesome games in June.
I've got a -lot- of communications to send.
If you know a dev who hasn't signed up there is still time do so.
https://show.games
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I have the analytics in for the Kick exclusive stream from the other day.
All of these numbers are based on a per user basis so the amount of viewership is irrelevant.
This was on a channel playing Diablo 4 and running 4 minutes of ads per hour.
This is a Mature video game and reduces ad revenue by 30-50% as a result.
On the Kick side this was an exclusive stream so the full normal Partner payment is applied.
Per Viewer
Twitch = $0.0119 hr
Kick = $0.2371 /hr
With this in mind a Kick viewer makes 19.92x more revenue than a Twitch viewer.
This does not include bits, subs, kicks, etc. This is only Twitch Ads, Twitch Turbo, and the Kick Partner Program.
I will be doing this on Thursdays going forward. This helps keep the rescue stable and lets me plan for new staff when the building is up.
Thank you for supporting us in what we do.
Keep being rad.
Discord now has announcement channels.
Swapping all of our stuff over to this one momentarily.
You can read more about them here!
https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032008192-Announcement-Channels-
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Hey, we were in the news!
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/director-funded-pax-10-game-heartbound-live-streaming-development-process/
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Since Twitch has blocked my cards for over a month now we have to change some stuff with the Bit Goal. From now on I will be setting it to 30,000 and giving out 10 T3 subs each time it hits capacity. This is to overcome the processing fees I have to pay on top of the sub prices to still give out Bit Goal subs.
Twitch hasn't fixed this issue and support hasn't been any help. They have no idea why my cards are blocked and my bank states that everything is fine on their end. The processing fees come from using the XSOLLA payment processor which is the only way I can buy subs now.
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Twitch has a bonus bits event going on right now! If you give SubBits then it increases them by 10% for free.
Also it makes the bits into subway sandwiches. Which is truly horrifying.
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Heartbound Unstable build has been updated with a ton of changes.
Go check it out. ESMX translation is in there for testing.
The password for the Unstable build is "CheeseAndWhiskers" without the quotes.
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Hey look. I updated Heartbound.
The unstable build is now the live build.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/567380/partnerevents/view/1606018739988554493
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Alright, which of you nerds did this.
Let me know so I can set the subreddit up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/killthemoon/
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Hey all! So we're in talks to get some more merch made and I wanted to pass a few things by you for ideas.
Mark this post with the number that you want made the most. (You can vote for all of them if you like.)
- Joe Regular coffee mug.
- New pin designs.
- New shirt designs.
- Heartbound OST Vinyls (Curated songs on the vinyl and it comes with the whole OST)
- Heartbound Art Book (This would be at launch)
- Heartbound Physical Collectors Edition (This would be at launch)
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Go add Kill The Moon to your wishlist.
We're working on getting the game build out to them today for review.
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Kill The Moon's game build has now been submitted to Steam.
We need to wait a few days before it gets approved.
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Kill The Moon's demo is now on the steam store.
It's a sad small button on the right side of the screen!
Just updated it.
The game now goes 10 floors, not 1
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We are off to TwitchCon 2019 tomorrow and will be back online on October 1st.
You can always reach Shaye or I on Discord the entire time so don't hesitate to ping either of us!
Hope you all have a great time while we're gone!
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This is why I don't sleep at night.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1178029538220986368?s=19
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In about a week I am going to announce the rules and regulations for the Second First-Annual Pirate Software Game-Jam.
You need no prior experience, skills, or funds of any kind to compete in this.
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You guys got me an instant pot so we're making 60 hardboiled eggs in 15 minutes. You can't even fathom this level of power.
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We now have a PO box!
Send me weird things!
Not too weird.
PO Box 111469 Tacoma, WA 98411
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So far in the BoycottBlizzard chain of events I have a recap and the following to say.
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A player used a Hearthstone e-sports event hosted by Blizzard to portray a political message for his home country of Hong Kong which is in the middle of a human rights crisis.
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This is directly against section 6 of the rulebook the player agreed to when joining the competition. The penalties for breaking this rule section are clearly stated in section 6.1.a of the tournament ruleset as reducing the prize money to and not below 0$.
6.0 -http://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/page_media/px/PXYB9IHSRQLF1564507343607.pdf
6.1.a -https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/page_media/w4/W4NWIBHB74T31564507077190.pdf -
Blizzard enacted their ruleset and reduced the players prize pool to 0$ and banned him from tournament play for one year.
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The internet exploded stating that Blizzard is a communist puppet of China for following the rules laid out in this competition as it's seen as Chinese censorship invading a US company.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905181/blizzard-hearthstone-player-ban-marco-rubio-ron-wyden-china-hong-kong-protests-blitzchung -
There was outrage for two of the casters being removed after seemingly being uninvolved. The casters were involved, laughed, and hid during the event as seen on this video. They are not blameless bystanders.
https://twitter.com/InvenGlobal/status/1180954142396710912 -
Since then many dozens of players have posted that they are deleting their Blizzard accounts and #BoycottBlizzard has been trending on Twitter. Other groups are also co-opting Blizzards character Mei from Overwatch as the new face of the Hong Kong protests in an attempt to get China to ban Overwatch.
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As I worked for Blizzard for 7 years from 2009-2016 a lot of people have asked me for my opinion on this.
TL;DR
This doesn't help Hong Kong.
It just hurts Blizzard and I think it's an inappropriate way to handle this.
While the world is dogpiling on Blizzard I am not going to join in and I completely agree with their decision on this. At the same time I feel truly terrible for the people of Hong Kong and what China is doing to them is absolutely not ok.
With that out of the way let me explain why.
Blizzard is not a political entity. The player putting them in this situation leaves Blizzard with no way out without being badly damaged in either a massive global market or in public perception. This was not the players platform to do this on, it was Blizzards. The player deserves the ban and prize pool removal for breaking the ruleset they agreed to. I would expect the same to happen to me if I broke Twitch's rules and got banned on Twitch as a result.
The bandwagoning that has happened after this is quite frankly disgusting. The news is focusing specifically on any of the negative aspects of this without talking about the reality of the situation for a company like Blizzard. As a company you rarely if ever want to join in political discourse. Much like at thanksgiving dinner nobody wins in these situations. What the player did here put Blizzard in danger and Blizzard reacted as they should have.
The other side of this coin is that all of this boycotting Blizzard is misplaced white-knightery on the internet. They're not hurting China. They're not helping Hong Kong. They're playing Kony2012 in 2019. Their likes, account deletions, and online rage are not solving anything. They are distracting from the actual issue and wasting time for people in actual danger. If you want to help with the situation then talk to your representatives, send letters, and if possible send aid.
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If anyone is running the new Mac Catalina OS Update please message me.
We need to do some tests and see if Heartbound still runs on it.
Free copy of Heartbound in it for you if you don't already have one.
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@everyone
We now have an Instagram.
If whoever is camping the GoPirateSoftware name stops then we can swap to that!
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We now have Channel Points on Twitch.
As such I will be turning off the Streamlabs Hearts system in one week.
Use your Hearts now and get ready to swap over to Channel Points fully.
Here is a rundown for you!
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/channel-points-guide?language=en_US
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Steets got a bunch of Champions of Breakfast game keys and I have no idea how to give the rest of these out.
FREE FOR ALL GOGOGOGO
USE THEM BEFORE SOMEONE TRIES TO RESELL THEM ON G2A
YDFPK-NT0Q3-8Q2Q8
CNX82-YBCZI-PBNHZ
LMD0A-KBQVN-Y7Y98
KB8G4-0A43R-ZD2KV
5A9EX-W2K9V-RHE5E
XA9ZG-24T4B-DVY0K
7TX0T-T52F4-070N3
FI2BC-VYWEC-QK8JN
3V7E7-MY2FR-E8BZ5
KTRMW-V8NHR-VLR25
3FLCF-TNYZ6-7MGFH
A8EFM-M7ZC6-M7W7L
TPK98-DFQZX-JEMFE
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I am turning off Streamlabs Hearts system at the end of the stream today.
I don't want to wait another day on this, the system is mad annoying.
You've been warned!
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Heartbound will now be updated weekly,
These updates will only contain the English and all other languages will be updated once the chapter is finished.
The unstable build will be discontinued going forward as it's not needed anymore.
A large portion of Emelio's storyline has been added to the game. Have fun!
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@everyone
Heartbound is sitting at 496 reviews and needs to hit 500 to become "Overwhelmingly Positive"
Please go review the game if you haven't already!
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We're raising money for the Seattle Children's Hospital through Bungies Game2Give Charity Event!
If you donate to this you get exclusive in-game rewards for Destiny 2.
100% of donations go to the charity so don't worry, Bungie isn't skimming anything here!
All of this is hosted through Extra Life and our donation page can be found here.
https://www.helpmakemiracles.org/participant/PirateSoftware
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You all managed to raise 500$ for kids in need in just 24 hours.
I've extended our goal to 1,000$.
This is awesome and you're awesome.
Thank you!
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@everyone I got a 57 pound pumpkin. I also hurt everywhere as it was a tough battle and the pumpkin used a lot of dirty tricks. I will be on tomorrow to discuss the pumpkin and game jam.
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Whoever sent me old people candy, a hotdog drawing, and a Heartbound heart... THANK YOU!
Thanks for using the PO Box and sending something not horrifying.
Also I love old people candy.
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A glorious steam sale has arrived!
Champions of Breakfast is currently 50% off at $1.50
https://store.steampowered.com/app/454380/Champions_of_Breakfast/
Heartbound's OST is currently 50% off at $2.50
https://store.steampowered.com/app/776560/Heartbound__OST/
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Heartbound Update
The grand majority of Emelio's storyline path is now finished.
Animus can now be played up to and including Mines level 2.
There are display bugs but nothing should crash.
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Leadwerks game engine is currently 20$ down from 100$ on Humble Bundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/leadwerks-game-engine?partner=piratesoftware
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Game Maker: Studio is also 20%
Praise be Humble Bundle.
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/gamemaker-studio-2-desktop?partner=piratesoftware
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OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN
Twitch implemented the feature I gave feedback on.
Starting in December you will unlock PERMANENT EMOTES based on your Bit Tiers on our channel.
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Steam is bugged out at the moment so we can't make our normal announcement page.
However, you can still vote for Heartbound in the Steam Awards!
Make sure to select "Outstanding Story-Rich Game" for your vote!
If we all band together we might be able to get a nomination!
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Hey look I found a work around for the Steam Awards announcement!
GO VOTE ON HEARTBOUND!
https://steamcommunity.com/games/567380/partnerevents/view/1711860855749363255
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@everyone
TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY YOU CAN VOTE!
GO VOTE ON HEARTBOUND FOR THE “OUTSTANDING STORY-RICH GAME” AWARD
https://steamcommunity.com/games/567380/partnerevents/view/1711860855749363255
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Twitch has given us access to Watch Parties which is a rad new feature where we can all watch movies together.
There are some restrictions that come with this however.
- We can only watch videos from Amazon Prime (I get a big list of them, there is a ton.)
- You must be inside the US to view the stream.
- You must have Twitch Prime to view the stream.
AMAZON PRIME IS TWITCH PRIME
LINK YOUR ACCOUNTS!
I have no control over the restrictions but for those who can attend I will be setting one of these up for this Sunday.
We're going to watch Spaceballs. It's glorious.
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I'm not sorry.
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Tis the season for DOG
For the rest of the month the Baron Plush will be 20% off and all of the pins will be about 40% off.
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I restructured the discord to have a bunch of channels for games we play as a community.
Have fun!
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@everyone
A good friend of mine, Kennedy (many of you may know him as Robbinswallows on Twitch) got into a devastating car crash about two weeks ago. The injuries are insane and he's very lucky to be alive. He's got a gofundme up so if any of you can help him out it would be a really great christmas thing to do.
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@everyone
If you want to receive merch before christmas you -must- get it in the next 24 hours.
This is for anyone in the US. Outside of the US I can't guarantee shipping times either way.
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@everyone
Hey look, all our stuff is on sale for the Steam Winter Sale!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/9808/Pirate_Software__Ultimate_Booty_Bundle/
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@everyone
Aseprite (The tool we use to make all the art in Heartbound) is on sale for 30% off right now!
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/aseprite?partner=piratesoftware
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We're going to be at DreamHack Anaheim from February 20th to 22nd in 2020.
Going to be showing off Heartbound, allow early play of Animus, and have a rad time doing it.
If you're thinking about going here is all the information for the convention!
https://dreamhack.com/anaheim/
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@everyone
3dbuzz is closing down and giving away hundreds of tutorials for free.
https://www.3dbuzz.com/
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@everyone
By now you may have heard about a security vulnerability with the Discord QR code login.
We just tested it on stream and it works and bypasses authenticator allowing an attacker full access to your account.
The only way this attack works is if you scan a phishing QR code using the Discord app on your phone.
Don't do this. Pretty simple really.
Again, do not scan QR codes using the Discord app on your phone.
Proof of concept:
https://clips.twitch.tv/AthleticHedonisticDragonflyCorgiDerp
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@everyone
Heartbound patch 1.0.90 is now out.
Patch Notes Here!
https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791458518140/announcements/detail/1708487055426412924
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@everyone
You can feed me as a fish on Twitch.
I don't know why but it's hilarious.
Feed me emotes until it explodes.
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That slow realization that...
- Twitch is actually a fish bowl.
- I am a fish trying to grow.
- You all feed me to keep me alive.
This game is too real, Twitch.
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@everyone
- Heartbound is not currently working on Mac. (Codesigning issue)
- If you want to play WoW here is a fancy recruitment link. https://battle.net/recruit/5RZ6G9VQCG
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@everyone
Pushed out a minor build update to fix some translation issues.
Will be starting implementation of Fern/Rhode mini-games on Wednesday.
Hope you guys like them!
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@everyone
Welcome to J.P. Shillingtons buy my stuff emporium.
Today I'm going to shill our glorious OST to you at 50% off.
Buy it so that @next mantle can continue to live in lavish luxury in the mountains of the Netherlands.
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@everyone
New clips video by all of you and edited by @flat tusk is up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXIhu4oMzTc
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@everyone
Stream soon, he's arrived.
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This is an important moment.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1222672716412538881
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@everyone
We've officially partnered with Fangamer to make some awesome merch.
Should have some stuff out on their site in March of this year.
Here are is a sneak peek at an upcoming shirt if you haven't seen it on stream yet!
@everyone
The weekly clip montage curated by @flat tusk is now live!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k5cpB66wmQ
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@everyone
My graphics card is dying.
NVidia cards sometimes get a death sentence where they put space invader type shapes all over the screen.
Example picture from someone dealing with the same issue is down below.
I need to get a new graphics card and replace this glorious yet dying thing.
My machine could stop working at any time.
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@everyone
Thank you for everything you guys do for me and the rest of the team.
Today was amazing, you're amazing.
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@everyone
My CPU fan just died and is making a glorious sound.
They only cost 11$ and Amazon does same day shipping.
Moving a case fan to my CPU fan in the meantime.
New fan arrives 5-7pm
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@everyone
New CPU fan obtained and installed.
CPU temp dropped from 70c to 35c
Streams will return tomorrow.
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@everyone
The Shed people turned out to be one person.
A scam artist who is wanted on drug charges in my state.
I have filed a police report and they will be coming over to take my information and go after her.
No stream today while I handle this.
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@everyone
The saga of the shed has come to the worst conclusion.
Chase is unwilling to work on the issue further as they say the Square fulfilled its obligation of transferring the money.
Square is unwilling to work on the issue further as they say the only one who can request a chargeback or reversal is Chase.
All of the financial institutions are -technically correct- which is the worst kind of correct.
The fraudster is wanted by the police and I need to talk to the acting detective on Monday.
Suing the fraudster in small claims court just gets me $150 in court fees and no guarantee of returned money.
As it stands I won't be getting my money back.
I have been up for 30 hours handling this, didn't sleep, talked to Chase, went to the bank, talked to police, talked to Square.
My favorite part was the banker asking me "Why are you still banking with Chase?"
Absolute clownery abounds.
Goodnight all, hopefully up in time to go to SOBA.
Regular streams no longer interrupted by idiocy will start back up tomorrow. (Monday)
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@everyone
The mod shuffle will be happening today after stream.
A number of older mods that are less active will be rotated out and new potential moderators will be contacted.
Send me a PM if you are interested in being a mod.
No it does not mean you will -get- to be a mod just because you're interested.
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@everyone
Going to be moving my druid Bear over to the Illidan server.
I have a mythic progression guild that wants to bring me in as a main tank.
Super nice guys, the dudes I did Heroic 11/12 with on stream last week.
Going to transfer ownership of the guild over to my mage Mordenkainen.
This doesn't change anything and I can still play with all of you on my druid.
Everything in WoW is cross server and these servers are connected.
For Mythic raiding you all have to be on the same server unfortunately.
It's the only real restriction.
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@everyone
Latest community clips video curated and edited by @flat tusk has been posted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76g2R3AzoNo
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@everyone
And we're off to Dreamhack!
Doing final checks and packing stuff up.
See you all in a week! (Most likely the 25th)
Thanks for being the best community you possibly can.
Can't wait to get home and get back to streaming.
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@everyone
Really nice set of tools for painters and effects artists out on Humble Bundle right now!
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/natural-digital-painting-kit-software?partner=piratesoftware
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@everyone
Legend of FJALLBO
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@everyone
Weird Al is my spirit animal.
https://twitter.com/alyankovic/status/1236149194953338881?s=19
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@everyone
I am still very sick. Been sleeping 14+ hours a day trying to get better.
In a world of failing stocks, illness, and general angst... take care of yourselves and have fun. I will be back on track when this is over with.
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@everyone
Gadget woke me up and was constantly trying to use the bathroom but couldn't. At the emergency vet now. Will keep you all posted.
Have this silly dog poster from the lobby.
Update: Gadget has a thick bladder as per an ultrasound. She's getting antibiotics and a painkiller.
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@everyone
Just got word from the doctor.
I don't have Covid19 I just have pneumonia.
Still not going outside.
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@everyone
Went back to urgent care. Pneumonia was incorrectly diagnosed. I have severe bronchitis. Given nebulizer treatment, an inhaler, and PredniSONE.
I can breathe for the first time in 20 days but the nebulizer made me shaky.
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@everyone
Still a bit sick.
Taking it easy today and letting my lungs heal.
I get a bit worse if I talk all day so I'm going to chill until I'm fully better.
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@everyone
If you have friends or family on vacation/visitation outside of the united states I would advise trying to get them home immediately.
There is a very good chance travel will soon be shut down or severely limited based on the statements made by the Department of State on their official Twitter.
Stay safe.
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@everyone
Humble Bundle is doing a massive bundle of 1071$ of games and e-books for 30$.
All of the proceeds go to helping fight Covid-19.
Get it, seriously.
None of this goes to us as Humble Partners and all of it goes to the charity.
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@everyone
Streams are offline again.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1247280646453489665?s=19
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@everyone
Looks like I'm doing better overall.
Going to restart streams tomorrow!
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@everyone
We're taking the day off to handle errands now that I'm better. Going to get shipments of merch out too!
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@everyone
Shaye is making some Laurels for prior winners of the Pirate Software Game Jam.
Once these are finished I will kick off the 1st 2nd Annual Pirate Software Game Jam.
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HELLO!
The 1st 2nd Annual Pirate Software Game Jam begins tomorrow on 4/13/2020 at 6pm PST.
The theme will be announced at that moment and not before.
This game jam will not require any technical knowledge, software, or prior experience making games.
You can compete in this jam having never made a game before even if you have no idea where to start.
Trust me, you will be able to do this.
Take the next 16 hours to do the following.
- Form up into teams.
- Come up with a team name.
- Communicate over the #699153365765980210 channel listed under the Pirate Software Games section.
- Review the rules.
Rules
- No teams of more than 5 people.
- You will be at a severe disadvantage without a team.
- You must register your team by emailing GoPirateSoftware+Jam@Gmail.com with your team name and members.
- Your submissions must be turned in by 6pm on 4/20/2020 by emailing GoPirateSoftware+Jam@Gmail.com
- Include your members Discord handles in both emails.
- Themes and restrictions will be announced on 4/13/2020.
- Be cool to eachother.
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Here are the restrictions and goals for the 1st 2nd Annual Pirate Software Game Jam.
As I said previously you will not need to know any programming languages of any kind.
Phase 1:
- You and your team must create a game that can be played in real life inside the home.
- As an example this may include card games, miniatures games, board games, pen and paper games, etc.
- A standard set of playing cards, dice, or other supplements may be used to play your game.
- The game needs to be able to support up to 5 players.
- The game cannot include gambling of any kind.
- You cannot use a pre-existing system to make your game. (No DnD campaigns)
- Your submissions must be turned in by 6pm on 4/20/2020 by emailing GoPirateSoftware+Jam@Gmail.com
- If you need to change team members please reply to your initial team submission email to change them out.
Your submission must include the following.
- Ruleset pamphlet (Teach people how to play your game)
- Examples of any physical pieces needed. (Game board, cards, etc)
- Everything must be printable. (If you use models in your game they must be able to be replaced with game tokens/cutouts/etc.)
Phase 2:
- Details to be announced.
- This phase begins on 4/21/2020 at 6pm PST
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@everyone
Upcoming Studio Updates!
- Revamping the Patreon
We have a ton of content on here but the reward structure is pretty flat and boring. Considering how much content we make every month I think we can jazz this up a bit and rebuild it in a way that both makes sense for us and is fun for you guys. This includes the following.
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Reward Tiers
More tiers means more cool stuff.
There is just one tier right now and that isn't very fun or engaging. In this case I want to make a few higher priced tiers where we can send physical items as rewards every month. -
Higher Quality Posts
Right now we just use the Patreon as a dumping ground for all of our assets. This isn't very interesting and can spam pretty hard. Going forward I want to change this to be more deep dives into specific characters or areas of our games. This content can then be used to help build The ARTifact for Heartbound or future projects.
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Changing the stream page layout.
I've had the same buttons for a very long time. I will be reviewing it all this week and changing stuff around to make more sense. Sections will include About Us, Sponsors, and Support Us, and Social Media. -
Better Thanks
For all you absolute madlads donating to the stream I will be putting all of your names on the poster board Today 4/15/2020 at the start of the stream. It may take a little while to get through them all but I've cleaned off my desk and have everything ready. Thanks for everything you've done for me and the rest of the team. Seriously.
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@everyone
Patreon Revamp is completed!
https://www.patreon.com/PirateSoftware
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@everyone
Get all your game jam submissions in ASAP!
GoPirateSoftware+Jam@Gmail.com
REPLY TO YOUR ORIGINAL EMAIL WITH THE SUBMISSION
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@everyone
Your submissions should now be in!
Remember you need to REPLY TO YOUR ORIGINAL EMAIL with your submission.
That being said, tomorrow I will be announcing phase 2 of the Game Jam.
Phase 2 will also last 7 days.
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@everyone
You can now use the discount code PIRATE when buying anything from Corsair through their website.
You'll get 10% or more off on literally everything.
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@everyone
Phase 2 of the Game Jam begins now.
First, you must take all of the pieces of your project and put them in a zip and store them somewhere. (Google Drive is a great place)
This stored version of your project will not be touched until the end of phase 2 and serves as a record of your work until this point.
Second, you must now give a copy of this to a person who has never seen your game and ask them to play it with you.
You can do this online, with a family member at home, etc. DO NOT BREAK QUARANTINE TO PLAY YOUR GAME.
You need to get feedback from these players and make changes to your game based on if you agree with that feedback or not.
Store all of the feedback you receive, ask them to write it out if possible.
Submissions are due on 4/27/2020 by 6pm PST
Submission Requirements
- Zip of all of your phase 1 project work.
- Feedback from at least 3 players not associated with your project.
- Changes or lack of changes made to your phase 1 project based on those three players feedback.
- Document explaining why the feedback was helpful or incorrect.
- Email your submission in reply to your Phase 1 submission email.
Remember this.
All feedback matters.
Not all feedback is correct.
GOOD LUCK!
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@everyone
Aside from this day of general madness a bit of super awesome positive news.
The stickers were NOT delayed!
These will be available in the Patreon physical rewards pack and eventually on the merch store after a long delay.
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@everyone
30 minutes left to submit your game jam projects! Good luck all!
Submissions are due on 4/27/2020 by 6pm PST
Submission Requirements
- Zip of all of your phase 1 project work.
- Feedback from at least 3 players not associated with your project.
- Changes or lack of changes made to your phase 1 project based on those three players feedback.
- Document explaining why the feedback was helpful or incorrect.
- Email your submission in reply to your Phase 1 submission email.
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Review will start tomorrow.
Don't stress, get me whatever you have even if you feel it's not enough.
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@everyone
Here are the winners of the 1st 2nd annual Pirate Software Game Jam!
Each of the listed teams will be added to specific roles and get their own secret channels.
They also will be sent laurels for winning the jam so they can show them off!
If your game did not appear in this list don't worry!
I went through and saw every single submission (even incomplete ones).
Keep playing your games and expanding on them.
We need more games like this now more than ever with the lockdowns in place
1st Place
Team Spyder Muffins - Cards of Legend
- @abstract badge
- @subtle stag
- @supple nymph
https://cardsoflegend.walrusware.net/
Runner Up
The Clowns Downtown - The Cards of the Castle
- @fervent breach
- @mighty daggerd#1337
- @Syn2?!#5472
Runner Up
ThereWillBeMistakes - Hack and Heist
- @somber citrus
- @gilded vine
- @astral rock
- @snow cedar
Runner Up
Salty Stuff - Leave The Party
- @digital loom
- @severe finch
- @toad#3425
- @fiery girder
- @vale harbor
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@everyone
A bunch of people have been asking me about the Star Trek phone game I've been playing.
Come be a huge nerd with me and fight things in space.
Also: Raid Shadow Legends is a terrible game and nobody should play it.
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@everyone
The new Patreon rewards will be shipping tomorrow.
Thank you to everyone who pledged!
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@barren oarryone
Patreon rewards have now shipped.
Game Keys:
These have been sent to the email you have listed on your Patreon account.
All emails will be from Humble Bundle so check your spam folder!
Physical Rewards:
These are now being packaged and will be shipped tonight.
Watch your email over the next hour for shipping information.
Credits:
Your Patreon account name will be added to the credits under a specific category based on your pledge.
If you'd like to change this please message me INSIDE PATREON using the messaging tool.
Thanks everyone!
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@everyone
Sorry for no stream today.
We had a break in.
Someone smashed the lock off the shed and stole some stuff my roomate had in there. Filed a police report. Got it all handled.
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@everyone
There is now an official Pirate Software Terraria Server!
This is all hosted and setup by @flat tusk so give him a big thanks!
Host: terraria.gopiratesoftware.com
Port: 7190
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Someone on the Terraria server blew up well... -everything-
Going to be working with @flat tusk to see what we can do to fix this and I'm not sure what's possible.
If anyone has a screenshot of this happening with the player responsible that would be great.
Do not go on weird witch hunts trying to blame people with similar names.
In the future I may password lock the server or find ways to lock certain areas to be indestructible to prevent this kind of thing.
I put together this server with Steets for the community to enjoy.
Play nice or leave.
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@everyone
Couple announcements!
=Terraria Server=
The Terraria server is back online with more protective measures in place.
Should be good now but if you notice anything odd please let me or @flat tusk know immediately.
=Patreon=
The stickers have been ordered for this months physical rewards package.
We're also including some extra special stuff with them this time!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/37318366
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@everyone
In 4 hours the first manned SpaceX mission will launch.
Here is the live video stream of this incredible feat of science.
Hoping it all goes well!
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@everyone
If you'd like to add my Microsoft account so we can play Minecraft Dungeons together here is my account! "Thorwich5791"
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Patreon rewards have shipped.
Patreon Game Keys have been sent out.
Also last months super rad Joe Regular stickers are now up on the merch store!
https://gopiratesoftware.com/merch/
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@everyone
I have now beaten WoW: BFA.
I'm the 63rd Guardian Druid in US/EU to accomplish this.
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@everyone
Sorry about the stream cutting short!
Going to be starting back up once I get a snack.
Figured out what happened and fixed it.
- Windows attempted to update mid-stream.
- Windows was denied by my settings but updated my audio drivers without my permission.
- This broke... EVERYTHING
- Upon restarting it had switched my audio routing from MME to WDM without my knowledge.
- This prevented any other program from using my speakers. GG
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@everyone
Go checkout the upcoming Fangamer merch images here!
Make sure to reply to the tweet to give them your 
!
Feedback for them really goes a long way.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1271813572398444548
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Wanted to make sure everyone knew they were allowed to stream Heartbound.
I get this question a lot and with the recent Twitch crackdown this seems rather important.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1272509007840722944
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There is a massive bundle on Humble Bundle right now!
Over 1,200$ worth of games for around 30$ is a pretty good deal.
All the money for this goes to a good cause as well!
https://www.humblebundle.com/fight-for-racial-justice-bundle?partner=piratesoftware
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@everyone
I've seen a lot of hot takes about this post by Bob Fitch. He's actually a personal friend of mine and one of the most passionate people when it comes to helping those that are just starting out in the games industry. I learned a lot from him and it's part of the reason I talk about games and the industry in the way that I do. I really dislike this kind of twisting of narratives to fabricate an enemy out of an ally.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1277151491116040197
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@everyone
Python package up on Humble Bundle!
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/python-programming-software?partner=piratesoftware
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@everyone
Patreon Shipping is going out now!
Turns out Patreon double-added everyone to the shipping list.
This was a nightmare and has now been fixed on our end!
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@everyone
I recently started getting back in EVE online, a game I have played pretty heavily for the past 13 years.
I set up a corporation (like a guild) and want to invite all of you to come explode in space with me.
For those that don't know what EVE is, it's like highstakes DnD in space.
Roleplay with people, scam them, be a pirate, be a miner, ransom a guy, blow up in space, etc.
Players can and will scam you, GMs will not prevent this and it's a major part of the game.
Trust no one, welcome to space.
Also, you gain experience over time (even when the game is not being played) so it's great for intermittent players.
It's also FREE TO PLAY and has upgrades for your account if you do subscribe.
Use this link to make an account:
https://www.eveonline.com/signup?invc=86e73868-e645-4fdf-a840-8e1e2fc73fe1
Follow the image below to join the corp:
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@everyone
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1283204579765755908
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Thank you for the awesome birthday.
You're all rad.
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Hey look, super rad Fangamer stuff is out there and now I have a pretty link for it.
http://gopiratesoftware.com/fangamer
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Heartbound v1.0.91 has been launched.
Behold the glory of the patchnotes old god.
https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/567380/view/4339732990394243950
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@everyone
Apparently Reddit has banned our /r/KillTheMoon subreddit for reasons unknown.
They state that the subreddit promoted "Harassing Content" and didn't communicate to us at all before shutting it down.
Except, the subreddit had no harassing content.
Our best idea is that because it contained the word "kill" a bot auto-moderated our subreddit off the site.
Go retweet and spam this post to see if we can get traction to catch Reddits attention and hopefully fix this.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1290862017058725891
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@everyone
We beat badge challenge this year!
Still working on the other crypto puzzles!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1292227579458412544
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It's become increasingly common for people to mix up Heartbeat and Heartbound. Unfortunately the developers of Heartbeat have been saying some rather horrible things about the trans community for around a year now. Every few weeks I have to dive into Twitter and help salvage our reputation when people think it's us instead of them.
Please retweet this message to help us fight this big dumb.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1293530010414809092
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@everyone
Was going to stream more but I got caught up working on the PSPC.
Hope you guys dig the results when you see them!
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@everyone
Hello!
The ongoing changes to shipping prices and times have forced us into a really weird spot. Going forward I'm going to be pausing all monthly payments through Patreon. You won't lose anything but we can't keep charging for stuff if we can't properly ship it.
I've reached out to Patreon to get our account switched over to "Pay Per Creation" mode as we apparently don't have the option. That way we can charge when things are actually able to be shipped if they help us out.
Sorry about this!
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@everyone
Game Maker: Studio is currently 25% off on Humble Bundle.
This is cheaper than the normal 20% off deal they have from time to time.
Definitely a good chance to pick it up!
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/gamemaker-studio-2-desktop?partner=piratesoftware
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I hate Patreon, all my homies hate Patreon.
Ko-Fi is my new best friend.
Problem:
We can no longer ship merchandise that is designed, manufactured, and shipped within the same month. The Patreon 25$ tier is specifically geared towards this so that super sucks. This is due to Covid19 issues on the manufacturing side and USPS issues on the shipping side. Changing shipping methods would fix part of this but also inflate shipping cost by roughly 400%
Attempted Solution:
Patreon has a "Pay Per Creation" option that would make our payments happen each time we launch stuff instead of monthly. This would allow us to design, manufacture, and ship items at whatever pace is needed while only charging you when we shipped stuff.
In many subscription systems if you pay on the 17th of the month you will then pay every 17th thereafter. With Patreon you do not pay until the 1st of the NEXT month but you gain access to all content immediately. This is stupid and leaves content creators open to abuse.
In an attempt to fix this, Patreon created a new system called "Pay Up Front". This system charges Patrons immediately, but also charges them again on the 1st of every month. This means that people who join at the end of the month get double charged and I have to manually refund them. It was a necessary evil to stop us from getting scammed so I went for it. Unfortunately, by doing so our account is now PERMANENTLY unable to switch to "Pay Per Creation".
With "Pay Per Creation" not being an option I'm left with pausing the Patreon, unlaunching our Patreon, turning off the 25$ tier, or creating a new Patreon.
When I attempted to Pause the Patreon it informed me that it would automatically unpause every month and keep charging Patrons if I forgot to re-pause it. There is no real business reason to do this unless Patreon is hoping Creators will forget to re-pause the Patreon. If I don't re-pause every month it will fraudulently charge all of our Patrons. Gross.
Unlaunching our Patreon makes it no longer publically viewable and removes our Founder status permanently. Founder status gives us better payment processing rates and helps to keep costs down. Unlaunching is not a very good option as it permanently damages our ability to keep low costs on the platform. If we ever re-launched it would be harder to make money and give out cool rewards.
Removing the 25$ tier removes the grand majority of our Patrons and effectively kills the Patreon. I would really rather not do this as the entire point of the Patreon is to drive new physical and digital content for the community.
Creating a new Patreon loses our name and our Founder status at the same time. Extra gross.
This basically puts us into a position where we have no great options and Patreon isn't willing to work with us.
Actual Solution:
Patreon is stupid.
We're switching to Ko-Fi.
Everyone who has paid this month on Patreon will still get stuff as usual.
If you're in the 10$ tier you'll get the normal stuff for the tier.
If you're in the 25$ tier you'll get something extra cool in the mail.
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Patreon game keys have just been sent out and both the Captain and Boatswain titles have been added to the next build of Heartbound.
For those that were at the 25$ tier on Patreon your merch will ship tonight/tomorrow but it may take a long time to get there.
You will have tracking as usual.
And with that, our Patreon is officially dead.
Long live Ko-Fi.
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@everyone
Sorry for the missing stream day.
Gadget isn't taking well to her new meds so I spent the day taking care of her.
She's doing alright now but I haven't slept and it's 7:45 am so that's a thing.
Going to bed!
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@everyone
The time has come for roomate hunting.
If you have someone that is looking for a place in Washington State please send them over my way.
We live down in Tacoma which is about 20 min outside of Seattle.
Some deets for them.
- 800$/mo
- Room is 11' x 11.5'
- Closet is 7.5' x 3'
- No Cats/Dogs other pets are ok. (We have a cat)
- No Utility Costs
- 1 Gig Fiber Internet
- Washer/Dryer
- Full Kitchen
- Everyone in the house cooks stuff.
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@everyone
HELLO!
The 4th Pirate Software Game Jam begins today on 9/16/2020 at 6pm PST.
The theme will be announced at that moment and not before.
This game jam will not require any pre-existing skill or understanding of tools.
You can compete in this jam having never made a game before even if you have no idea where to start.
Trust me, you will be able to do this.
Take the next 12 hours to do the following.
- Form up into teams.
- Come up with a team name.
- Communicate over the #755753014962290779 channel listed under the Pirate Software Games section.
- Review the rules.
Rules
- No teams of more than 5 people.
- You will be at a severe disadvantage without a team.
- You must register your team by emailing GoPirateSoftware+Jam@Gmail.com with your team name and members.
- Include your members Discord handles in both emails.
- Themes and restrictions will be announced on 9/16/2020 at 6pm PST.
- Be cool to eachother.
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Sorry about the delay.
Here is your game jam theme.
WELCOME TO RETRO REMIX JAM!!!
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You must, as a team, go find and play an old school arcade game. Examples include pacman, space invaders, or missile command.
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You must design a game that has similar gameplay concepts to that arcade game but with a unique twist that makes it your own.
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You must create a design document for your game. Design documents can include imagery, music, and writing to really sell your idea.
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You must build a very small playable demo of your game. You can use any technology or tools to accomplish this.
This includes physical media so don't think you absolutely need a programmer for this. -
Submissions must be sent to GoPirateSoftware+Jam@gmail.com by September 24th at midnight PST.
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5.5 hours left on the Game Jam!
Gonna spend tonight reviewing submissions.
Should have a winner announced by Monday.
You've all done fantastic.
Be proud!
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@everyone
30 minutes left to submit!
GOGOGO!!!
GoPirateSoftware+Jam@gmail.com
GoPirateSoftware+Jam@gmail.com
GoPirateSoftware+Jam@gmail.com
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@everyone
Thank you all for your submissions.
Shaye and I are going to take the day to start going through them all.
In total we received 47 game submissions from you all!
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@everyone
My ceiling is leaking tub water again. Plumber arrives in 1-5 hours. The nightmare is real.
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So it appears that the ceiling was the least of my issues.
The prior plumber did not put in a Pee Trap or Vent under the tub.
This is a requirement of plumbing code and would not have passed inspection originally.
So they either lied about hiring an inspector or the inspector lied about doing his job.
Instead of putting this critical plumbing portion in they... filled it all up with expanding foam.
No joke, it was like a cubic meter of expanding foam in there.
The repairs for this include knocking out all of the drywall, installing all the plumbing, and signing off on it.
The total cost is around 7,000$ so I will be contacting the realtor and seeing if I can take legal action against the prior owners.
This was right over Shaye's desk so he had to completely move out of the office while it gets handled.
This sucks, big fat amounts.
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The plumbing has been fixed.
They charged me 4,000$ instead of 7,000$
I now need to fix all the drywall so i'm going to head over to home depot and do all that today.
Then we have to move Shaye's desk back into the office.
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We have reviewed all of your games.
Winners will be announced on Friday!
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I'm at a friends house and they have a dog. I needed this. Gonna announce the game jam winners late tonight or very early tomorrow.
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You've all done a fantastic job on the 4th Pirate Software Game Jam.
Out of 47 total submissions here are your winners.
**1st Place - Project Star Shot - @fervent breach **
This is a wickedly cool bullet hell scroller with buyable upgrades.
Definitely check it out and watch for more.
https://aizin.itch.io/project-star-shot
2nd Place - DeFrogger - @hybrid thunder
An awesome re-imagining of Frogger where you play as the cars instead of the frogs.
Planned multiplayer and already fun feeling gameplay really make this shine.
https://davidapparently.itch.io/defrogger
3rd Place - Spacewar Chaos Cascade - @molten coral
Take Asteroids and set it around an ever growing blackhole of wickedly cool looking particles.
Really a huge amount of fun and very simplistic at the same time.
https://foldster.itch.io/spacewar-chaos-cascade
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Happy Halloween you glorious pirates!
I'm spending the night in with a good round of X-Files and weird YouTube videos.
Also going to build a table and setup the rice bin for Loki and Snails.
Have a great night and go watch something spooky!
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Let the hype begin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrGPaVUMBl4&feature=emb_logo
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Hey, thanks Steam!
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WoW: Shadowlands launches in 23 hours. I will be streaming it for 24 hours straight starting at 3pm PST.
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The Steam Awards have returned!
Vote for Heartbound under the "Labor of Love" award!
https://www.gopiratesoftware.com/games/Heartbound/SteamAwards
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Heck yeah Japan!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-space-agency-retrieves-capsule-of-asteroid-dust-11607220531
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Thanks for coming today!
We were the first guild on our server to kill Artificer Xy'mox - Heroic during the stream today.
Hell of a fight, really enjoying these encounters.
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Back is wonky gonna rest it today. That being said I checked out Cyberpunk 2077 last night and determined a few things.
- The epilepsy inducing scene has been patched out.
- You can turn off most nudity.
- You can turn off all music subject to DMCA forcing the game to only play royalty free tracks.
- The game is a garbage fire of hilarious bugs including t-posing and throwing grenades into the back of your own head.
I'm going to play Cyberpunk 2077 on stream and we're going to make fun of it MST3K style.
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@everyone
Got a new processor and MOBO coming for my computer tonight.
Stream will be after I get it all installed and setup!
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We have moved our merch shop over to Big Cartel!
You guys can find all our new merch through here.
https://piratesoftware.bigcartel.com/
Also, use the code NEWSTORE this week for a 10% discount on anything you buy.
Also, also, the signed posters are back until January 1st!
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@everyone
Stream schedule will be updated and put on the channel January 1st.
Will have properly locked down times.
New year, more Thor.
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Starting January 1st we're going back to our old schedule.
This means every day from 4pm-Midnight PST I will be streaming.
Tuesday/Thursday will be WoW Raid days and end in gamedev.
Sundays will be indie/mainstream game days to explore other titles.
All other days will be gamedev.
I finally feel well enough to get all of this back on track.
Hope to see you there ❤️
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Happy New Year!
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HELLO!
The 5th Pirate Software Game Jam begins next month 2/15/2021 at 6pm PST.
The theme will be announced at that moment and not before.
This game jam will not require any pre-existing skill or understanding of tools.
You can compete in this jam having never made a game before even if you have no idea where to start.
Trust me, you will be able to do this.
Take the next month to do the following.
- Form up into teams.
- Come up with a team name.
- Communicate over the #755753014962290779 channel listed under the Pirate Software Games section.
- Review the rules.
Rules
- No teams of more than 5 people.
- You will be at a severe disadvantage without a team.
- You must register your team by emailing GoPirateSoftware+Jam@Gmail.com with your team name and members.
- Include your members Discord handles in both emails.
- If you need to change your team members please REPLY to the original registration email.
- Be cool to eachother.
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Twitch implemented a new feature that allows you to use channel points to push our stream to the Front Page.
Looks like it's capped at 2,000 per viewer so make sure to pitch in if you can!
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/boost-this-stream?language=en_US
UPDATE: We hit the goal in a few minutes. You're all madlads.
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With all of the news circling around the madness that is Stonks you can follow along and watch them in real time using Robinhood. You can trade yourself or just watch the meme that is the stockmarket unfurl like a sad old rug. I just got an account on it and they gave me a fancy affiliate link.
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BEHOLD!!!
Chapter nameplates coming in the next build.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1354713026104942598
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Hey look.
https://piratesoftware.bigcartel.com/product/lore-acrylic-charm
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Hey everyone!
We've seen a recent uptic in Discord DM scamming.
This is the same scam we've seen time and again on Steam.
If anyone ever messages you with a message like the one below let <@&362005405901127710> or <@&235859139547365378> know immediately.
That way we can ban them from the server.
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I reduced the price of Heartbound for the following currencies.
Israeli New Shekel
Australian Dollar
Swiss Franc
These were outliers and up to 25% higher than the US price which is kind of lame.
Now no region should cost more than a few cents over US pricing at most.
https://steamdb.info/app/567380/
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Today is Indie Sunday.
If you'd like me to play Spiritfarer react with 
If you'd like me to work on Heartbound react with 
EDIT: THE STONKS WIN IT!!!
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Go tell the internet about this.
Seriously, this is the last stand on it.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1361911034219425792
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Our call to bring back the Game Development category on Twitch is at nearly 700 likes on Twitter.
Comment on it, retweet it, blot out the sun.
Give it your energy you glorious pirates.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1361911034219425792
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Go upvote this so we can get a game development category.
Twitch apparently uses this tool instead of social media.
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I woke up to us being the second top request in Categories for Twitch.
We need like 20 more votes to be the top request. GOGOGOGO
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Making Game Development a category on Twitch is now the top request under Categories
It's also the 4th highest request -ever- on the site.
In only 48 hours.
You're all glorious madlads.
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Sorry about this week! Streams are returning Monday.
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Our EVE war has ended and everything is good in spaceland.
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I handled stuff with my grandma and I'm alright.
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Going to relax and do the BSIDES CTF with my hackerfriends today.
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I have reverted the attempted fix for the performance issues in Heartbound. If Heartbound is running slowly on your machine (45 fps instead of 60 fps) I need you to get in touch with me immediately. We're going to try to figure this nightmare out and put together a real fix.
To see the FPS in a game go to Steam > Settings > In-Game > Set In-Game FPS Counter to "Top-left"
Make sure to download the latest version of the game to test this.
Really need your guys help on this one.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1377511118340419586
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A very special announcement.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1377866919013806081
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I have a tentative patch fix for Heartbound.
I'm going to be increasing the Sleep Margin to 15 inside of the game files without recompiling the game.
This means I can update the demo without having to rebuild it under the new system.
If I went the sync method people with refresh rates of 144 would run the game at 144fps.
No bueno.
From here it's time to face the hardest obstacle.
We have to update to Game Maker: Studio v2
It's the only way to move past this issue in a way that doesn't permanent impact performance.
When I get back on streams we will be doing this together.
It's gonna be messy but we will have fun with it.
Thanks for being patient while I figure this out.
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I have updated both Heartbound and the Heartbound Demo to change the sync method. This isn't the best fix but it's the only one we have available since apparently the Sleep Margin fix doesn't actually work outside of the engine run version of the game.
Until the GMS2 version is ready the only issue we should see is increased CPU usage and incorrect frame rates on monitors above 60hz. If you experience any problems please let me know.
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So I started blasting.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/567380/announcements/detail/3113651356105733525
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Got the Moderna Covid Vaccine yesterday.
My everything hurts, no stream until my everything recovers.
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No stream today.
I spent several hours 5v1 debating a bunch of EVE Online CSM members and CSM candidates.
All of this was about Triglavian content in EVE Online and how the recent changes impacted players.
I loved it, but by the compiler was it a lot to do.
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Going to be live on https://www.twitch.tv/dtm135 in a moment doing an EVE debate.
You can vote other people off the island as we debate so I can last as long as possible.
Or vote me off for the meme (plz don't)
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I am getting my second Covid shot on Wednesday.
Sorry for the lack of streams, been dealing with GMS2 and covid side effects.
I'm doing ok though but wednesday is definitely going to knock me out.
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Streams will return on Thursday
Took a bit of recovery time due to covid vaxx shots
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I put up the Game Development category submission as I said I would.
IGDB admins deleted the submission despite it having an itch.io page link.
Shaye created a new category image for it as well so I've sent that along to Twitch.
GG I guess
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Twitch has implemented a new "Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches" category.
Yes, you read that right.
They created a category for hot tub streams while ignoring the Game Development community.
I cannot explain to you how supremely disappointed I am right now.
Being ghosted by Twitch while sitting in this broken Science & Technology category is not what I expected as a partner.
I also didn't expect to be ignored when sending mails to partner support or rallying the community to change this.
All of this just comes across as Game Devs not being wanted on Twitch.
As such, I am going to start reaching out to other streaming platforms to see what our options are.
No, this is not going to happen overnight but yes I am looking elsewhere.
I wanted a partnership and that's what I applied for, not this.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1395674850602086409
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My official CSM campaign video for EVE Online is now finished.
This was built by Sharin Nidar from my EVE alliance and @flat tusk the notorious fridge hacker.
Like absolute madlads they pulled it off in 24 hours to reach the developers deadline.
If you have an EVE Online account with Omega status you can vote for me once voting opens.
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It looks like there is a bug with the Linux version of Heartbound.
Something has changed with the Steam platform where it's no longer running the run.sh.
This prevents Heartbound from running on Linux unless you run that file manually.
Weird, but this is the workaround until I can determine what changed.
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About to be on DTM135's stream running for SPACE PRESIDENT
MAKE SURE TO VOTE FOR ME SO I DON'T GET DROPPED OFF!!!
LIVE GOGOGO
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Been doing a lot of research into Ashes of Creation.
Really liking what I'm seeing from both the development studios direction and their community interaction.
This is shaping up to be a very well made game so I'm putting out a referral link for it.
If everything goes as well as it's looking I will make us a community guild when it comes out.
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Heartbound has now been fully updated to Game Maker Studio v2.3. I will be putting out a new build in the next few days.
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You can now vote for me to become space president.
- If you have an Omega account on EVE Online go to the link below.
- Log in to the website.
- Drag and drop the below characters into the proper slots.
- ???
- MAKE MALDAVIUS SPACE PRESIDENT
Stribog Clade's Official Ballot
1. Maldavius
2. Brisc Rubal
3. Xeromus Plague
4. Micromancer
5. Broodin
6. Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci
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Behold, Heartbound patch 1.0.9.5
GMS 2.3 is now finally finished.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/3019082105883313721
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Watched an Ashes of Creation development stream today.
Really digging what they are doing with their community and game direction.
Here is a referral link for the game.
I will absolutely be playing this on stream when it's available.
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@everyone
We evac'd the house as the heat wave just hit peak temperatures. It's currently fluctuating between 110-114F outside. Got the ferrets in the car with us as they cannot survive temperatures over 90F. Gadget is in the basement with icepacks and is ok. She stresses out in the car so this is better for her since the temp down there is 90ish.
We should be ok in the car and return home when the heat passes.
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The heatwave is over!
We're down to 71 degrees today and OH MY SCIENCE is it comfortable.
My hope is it doesn't come back but we have an in-window AC unit coming on July 7th just in case.
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@everyone
YoYoGames has made the Free Trial of Game Maker Studio an unlimited trial.
This means you can work on personal projects without exporting them -forever- without paying.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1410233455535820805
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It's been 84 years. Twitch please.
Give us a Game Development Category.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1411022545629810689
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Twitch has finally responded to my Partner Support request about the Game Development category.
This came on the heels of other streamers talking about the issue on our behalf so thank you for signal boosting this!
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@everyone
With Ashes of Creation now dropping it's streaming NDA I will soon be playing the game.
Make sure to make an account and set everything up using this link so we can play together when the time comes!
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For anyone playing New World tomorrow for the Beta release.
I will be playing on "NA East - Yama" with the rest of the streaming community.
If the server is jampacked and a nightmare we will have a fallback server to go to.
Hope the game is rad!
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Server exploded.
Moving to US East - Muspelheim
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How to join our New World company.
- Get on US East - Muspelheim
- Play the game until you can pick a faction.
- Pick Syndicate. The purple lads.
- Hit escape and click the Twitch icon when I'm online.
- Join my session.
- Receive company invite.
- Chop Wood
- Feel Good
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I read through all of the allegations against Blizzard put forth by California State.
I've got quite a few of my own and I'm glad these things are coming to light now.
I'm also glad it's not some Twitter post or cancel attempt that would amount to nothing.
It's the government of California hitting them after a multi-year investigation.
I want to express to all of you that you shouldn't ever blast employees of Blizzard for the actions of a few.
The culture there was bad for many reasons but not every employee was to blame.
Many of them were and are still my friends and great non-shitty people.
Don't forget that when you're out there on the wilds of the internet.
Going to take the day off streaming but I will be here on Discord.
Let's have some fun in New World together.
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For everyone who is going to play New World at launch.
Please react to this post to help us better set up our community there.
If you want us in US West react with 🇼
If you want us in US East react with 🇪
If you are going to play the game react with
If you are NOT going to play the game react with 
Don't react with conflicting options, we need some accurate numbers here.
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@everyone
Hey look, it's a cursed plkaythrough of Pikuniku.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAQqPKSSqSg
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@everyone
Just launched a mini-patch for Heartbound.
Tons of bug fixes!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/3019082105883313721
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We now have our Steam stuff up on the Steam Points shop.
You can get Backgrounds, Emotes, and Avatars there.
Going to be adding more neat stuff going forward!
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New World has been delayed to September 28th.
They are taking extra time to make the game even better.
A+ decision and glad to see it.
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Working on setting up a Patreon style Tier system for Ko-Fi.
If you're interested in chatting about the tiers and what they should include come hop in Hangout chat.
Planning on setting up all our new merch through this pipeline so supporters will get it all first.
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I found myself playing a lot more Pokemon Go lately while waiting for New World.
If you play Pokemon Go you can add me with this QR code or Friend Code:
0865 0304 8388
If you're not playing or haven't in a long time use this referral code for 100 Pokeballs.
FPYW8JMR2
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Twitch has responded live on stream to our request to make a game dev category. It was pretty uninterested and non-commital but hey it's somethin.
https://clips.twitch.tv/TalentedRenownedShieldBlargNaut-ltMbMzNve-JM7qYN
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Hey, go like and spread this.
TwitchDev responded and it's time to double down on getting this category made.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1425995140208873472
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Glorious Pirates,
Today we become the change we want to see.
Today we engage in glorious pirate battle.
Today we retake Science & Technology from the cursed 24/7 cams.
Follow This Guide:
- Go to https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Science %26 Technology
- Find any 24/7 animal or plant growing stream you can find.
- Click the three dots under the stream.
- Report the channel with the following selections
- Report
- In a live stream, video, or clip
- Their content is misclassified (wrong category or tags)
- Write a description stating that this channel is not in the right category.
- Repeat until you have purged our home of invaders.
Understand that this is not in violation of "Mass Reporting" guidelines.
We are specifically reporting channels that are in violation of TOS by streaming in the wrong category.
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For those who didn't hear...
Twitch let us know they are discussing creating the categories of Game Development and Programming.
We don't know if they will go forward with it in the end but we've got their attention.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1427077901694869508
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We've finished setting stuff up for the return of Patreon style subscriptions.
We're running everything through Ko-Fi this time which is a much better platform!
Hope you guys like these tiers, let me know if you want us to add or remove anything!
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Twitch has done a super big win.
Your subscription prices are now localized.
Check over this sheet to see new pricing for every region!
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/local-sub-price-countries?language=en_US
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Hey, thank you.
The new monitors are in and the rig is online.
With the now non-blue/red monitors I can see that everything looks TOTALLY FINE.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1429368780593893381
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Don't get owned by Discord scams my dudes.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1429557439892914179
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I found the perfect toy for Bajo.
The internet provides the best things.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1429986812466929686
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Today at 10:30 PST or 1:30 EST there will be an announcement stream about New World.
If you tune in you get a cosmetic armor skin set called Verdant Trapper.
No idea what they are announcing but I'm going to be watching.
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New World Beta 2 has been announced.
It is an open beta and will be available to everyone.
September 9-12th we're going to play it as a community and have some fun.
Launch is still schedule for September 28th.
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Today is the last day to join the Ko-Fi tiers before this months shipment of cool things.
Make sure to get in before we work on sending stuff out tomorrow or you'll miss it!
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EVGA released a statement on GPUs dying when playing New World.
As expected, the game is not at fault.
Interestingly enough they are saying the fan controller is also not at fault despite initial reports of the cards trying to ramp to 500,000 RPM. This incorrect reading was apparently due to an issue with the i2c bus and not actually pulling the power for the action which would have blown the cards up.
The culprit?
"Poor Workmanship" with the cards being at fault.
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Holy hot damn we won.
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Software and Game Development
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The new domain we bought now goes to the new Game Dev category on Twitch.
Thank you everyone for being a part of this.
We did it.
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Our glorious new category is trending on Reddit.
Go thank Twitch on this thread!
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You can currently sign up for the New World open beta.
Go to this steam page and request access.
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New World - Server News
Amazon moved Muspelheim to Central EU.
We will be playing on US EAST - Valhalla
Why? BECAUSE VALHALLA
New World starts at 7am PST 9/9/2021
Make sure you signed up in the announcement above.
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Change of plans, Amazon is a meme.
They opened the servers already.
US East - Eden is where we are going.
Stream shortly, gonna brush my teeth.
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Twitch has sued two users responsible for the hate raids.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22666953/twitch-sues-alleged-hate-raiders-harassment-streamers
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We're currently opening a position for an ESMX translator for Heartbound.
If you are a master of dad humor, a native speaker, and willing to learn to use github then send me a DM!
You must be over 18 and yes this is absolutely a paid position.
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A long while back I played through Deltarune Chapter 1.
I couldn't enjoy it at the time.
There were so many people claiming Heartbound was a clone or ripoff of Undertale that it just couldn't sit right with me.
It's nice to revisit it without that kind of jaded feeling now.
It's a great game.
Go play it.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1439320650783465472
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The official Pirate Software Game Dev guide is now up.
I will be adding categories and information in the coming weeks.
Also going to be building out the streaming section next.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1439853522007199744
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If you haven't left a review on Heartbound please do!
They mean a lot, I read them all, and they help people to find the game.
Also, SHILL SHILL SHILL
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There are a couple of massive packs of assets for unity developers currently on Humble Bundle.
If you want to snag these use this link and it will help our studio.
FPS Bundle:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/unity-fps-games-and-game-dev-assets-software?partner=piratesoftware
Fantasy Bundle:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/unity-fantasy-games-dev-assets-software?partner=piratesoftware
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I solved a New World related puzzle and found an upcoming sweepstakes for a free PC.
Definitely check this out and see if we can win it for one of our community members.
https://map.newworld.com/en-us/article/the-azoth-tree-comes-to-life
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If you are using Game Maker Studio v2 you might want to check this bug out.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1441315864800743424
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I woke up and chose giga-violence.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1441455665109618693
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We're putting the entire OST on YouTube.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1441472134472036367
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We've seen a recent uptic in people passing executables around via DMs.
A few of these have stated it's their "personal game project" despite being in the server for a few minutes.
Running any random executable online is generally not a great idea.
If someone wants to show you their game have them screenshare to show it off.
Rather not have any of you guys get owned.
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For the next 7 days I will be playing New World on stream.
It's important to not just cram work every once in a while and I am really looking forward to this.
Tomorrow I will be doing a 24 hour stream for the launch and then we will go for normal hours from there.
I will still be working on Heartbound off stream and finishing off this patch.
No I am not abandoning Heartbound.
No I am not dead.
Stop that.
Also here is your IMPORTANT NEW WORLD INFORMATION
SERVER: US East - Tritonis
FACTION: Syndicate (PURPLE BOYS)
YOU CAN ALREADY GO DOWNLOAD THE GAME ON STEAM
GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063730/New_World/
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Due to the queues for New World I actually haven't lost any development time during my GAMER VACATION.
Making combat encounters is a breeze now after a system rework.
With this change implemented I am way more likely to build combat sequences throughout the game.
Especially after we launch a chapter and need to add more secret areas.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1443297562341957634
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Today is the last day of the month to sign up for physical rewards through Ko-Fi.
We've got stickers, prints, and some other goodies this time around.
Hope you guys like them!
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@everyone
I have one final key to give away for New World.
It comes with a catch... a cursed one.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1443636975093706752
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Final 10 minutes!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1443636975093706752
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I'm going to bed now.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1444151717491216396
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Reddit fears my Lumberjack power.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1444452240798863361
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The Twitch source code was just leaked.
This includes creator payouts, encrypted passwords, and every commit going back to the beginning.
I will not be streaming tonight as this is a garbage fire and needs to be handled.
Go change your passwords.
Go reset your stream tokens.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/
nova bloom
@everyone
Here is your "Twitch got totally owned today" survival guide.
-
Change your password.
This will automatically remove all OAuth connections.
Do this and also change your password on any other site where you used the same password.
Note: Stop using the same password in multiple places ya nerd. -
Remove and Re-Add 2 Factor.
The server side keys for these are assumed compromised.
You must remove and then re-add this in order to renew the key.
If you don't have 2 Factor enabled you are bad and should feel bad. -
Change your stream key.
Your stream keys are assumed compromised.
Change this to stop people streaming on your channel.
Be safe out there!
nova bloom
@everyone
Twitch just reset everyones stream keys.
Make sure to reset password AND 2FA still.
Also watch this blog, they are doing updates here.
https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/10/06/updates-on-the-twitch-security-incident/
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@everyone
Tree dungeon video just dropped.
Secret dungeon in New World that required me to get 175 logging to enter.
WORLD FIRRRRRSST!
nova bloom
@everyone
Shipping rates in the US have ballooned up to astronomical amounts.
It now costs us 50$ to ship a baron plush or pin to Australia or Europe.
Yes, that's real and horrifying.
As such I am going to be changing all of our non-sticker shipping to be US only.
Stickers can still be shipped internationally at normal non-insane rates so that will be fine.
This also changes our Ko-Fi tiers as they are now ever increasing sizes of sticker packs, prints, and fun flat additions.
The tiers have been rebalanced to 5$, 10$, and 15$ down from a maximum of 25$.
Each tier will now include physical rewards but in different amounts.
We have to adapt to the nightmare that is shipping.
Hope you guys dig the changes.
nova bloom
@everyone
Glorious Pirates!
This Hallows Eve we will be holding a costume contest.
Restrictions and rules are listed below.
Rules:
- You must have your parents permission to compete in this competition.
- Your costume must be of a Heartbound character or Heartbound fan character.
- There are no restrictions on style or effort put into the costume. Be creative and go all in!
- You must turn in a picture of you in your costume to "GoPirateSoftware+Spooky@Gmail.com" by 10:00PM PST on Halloween.
Rewards:
- 5 copies of Heartbound and the Heartbound OST.
- A Pirate Software official challenge coin.
Get out there and get spooky!
ᴼʳ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᴵ'ᵐ ᵃⁿ ᵃⁿⁿᵒᵘⁿᶜᵉᵐᵉⁿᵗ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵃ ᶜᵒᵖ
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@everyone
I will be streaming on Sunday this week but not today on Saturday.
We're going to our friends house for delicious HOT POT.
Also, totally unrelated, clearly, go play One Shot.
nova bloom
@everyone
And a great en-nerdening was had by all.
nova bloom
@everyone
If you get a "Free Gift" from a friend and the domain is "discordc" don't click it.
Obvious phishing attempt is obvious but I've already received a few of them from people in our discord.
nova bloom
@everyone
Heartbound is very close to 1,000 reviews.
If you haven't reviewed the game please do so.
Those reviews help us get the word out and show other people it's worth playing.
nova bloom
@everyone
@flat tusk has an announcement for all of you.
If you're interested in helping with the Heartbound wiki read below!
With a big new update in the works for Heartbound, I wanted to reach out ahead of the release to find some new people to assist with the wiki. Recently, wiki membership has fallen off, and we're trying to get some more interest in it before the next content patch. To be clear, this would not automatically grant you the rank of Wiki Warrior — we're just trying to gauge interest in helping to document the game. We're looking for people who are good at writing, game analysis/decompilation, pixel art editing/stitching, and more. If you're interested, please fill out the survey below or DM the lead Wiki Warrior. -Steets
nova bloom
@everyone
Enjoy this cautionary tale about working with one of the most predatory music publishers for indie games.
Materia Collective is a parasite and damages everyone they touch.
Some gems from this:
"Don't worry, they can't afford to sue us."
"They haven't made enough for it to be worth it to sue us."
"I've made sure that the big players have been paid."
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1453840220068012032
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@everyone
Two in one day.
What a world.
YoYoGames has made some weird statements about additional features for "Subscribers".
Please help me signal boost this to find out if they include permanent licenses in this update scheme.
If not, it's going to be very not great.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1454014752389099529
nova bloom
@everyone
Diablo Immortal launched into Beta in Australia.
Need to kill demons INTENSIFYING.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1454127979240452102
nova bloom
@everyone
Tomorrow is the last day for this months Ko-Fi drop!
If you want cool rewards then make sure to sign up here.
We now have 5$, 10$, and 15$ tiers all with physical rewards attached.
nova bloom
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@everyone
If you missed the full playthrough of @next mantle's new awesome game Here Comes Niko then you can watch it here on YouTube.
Also, go buy the game.
Do it.
Do it or I will fill your house with frogs.
You will not like it if that happens.
This is a curse.
A frog curse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCKCi7MRLqA
https://store.steampowered.com/app/925950/Here_Comes_Niko/
nova bloom
@everyone
AGS put out a very good patch today in v1.0.5 for New World.
They also put up a great Dev Blog shown below.
This appears to be the HOPIUM patch in which they start turning the ship around.
You love to see it.
https://forums.newworld.com/t/dev-blog-update-on-current-issues/504297
nova bloom
@everyone
With New World going back in the right direction our company has started pushing on new territories.
We now own Windsward and Cutlass Keys which gives us a sizeable income on the server.
This means we can run dungeon content, control the markets, and help get you to level 60 quickly.
If you are in the company and haven't signed on, do so.
Starting 24 hours from now I will be purging inactive players as we just hit the 100 player company cap.
If you need help leveling up then message @nova bloom or @trim python to get set up.
There are a variety of ways you can do so now and not all of them require mindlessly killing boars.
My name in-game is Mordenkainen and you can find me on US-EAST - Tritonis
nova bloom
@everyone
YoYoGames put out a survey for feedback on Game Maker Studio.
I filled mine with sections talking about the recent Subscription Model release.
Make sure to fill this out and let them know how you feel.
nova bloom
@everyone
Hey look!
New World will now have a PTR.
Really glad to see them going this direction.
Also super glad to see this huge amount of upcoming content.
VOID GAUNTLET HYPE
nova bloom
@everyone
Gonna be a potato for a bit.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1458920543277629466
nova bloom
@everyone
New community clips video is out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LibIyCjHuo
nova bloom
@everyone
Please welcome @stiff sky to the <@&404090978333622272>
She's currently working on a 3rd person action adventure indie game!
Prior to this she worked as a Senior Environment Artist on New World.
Definitely make sure to check her out here!
https://www.twitch.tv/laerahwind
nova bloom
@everyone
Amazon Games Studios has once again turned off the economy in New World due to a duping exploit.
I detailed a few alternative solutions that they should be taking to rectify this instead of nuking the game for everyone.
Have a looksie
nova bloom
@everyone
We are now hosting a lot of our community stuff over on Guilded.
It's a different platform and a competitor to Discord.
https://gopiratesoftware.com/guilded
1. Why Guilded?
Guilded has most of the same features as Discord but adds in a lot of new channel types, better organization for large communities, and integrated support systems akin to Patreon. Bluntly stated, it kicks Discords butt in a lot of ways for communities like ours.
2. Does this mean you're abandoning Discord?
No. It means that we will be running a community on both platforms but Guilded will be the most curated one for the time being. If either platform dies then we will only be on the surviving platform.
3. I don't want to download a new platform! >:[
Guilded has all the same application downloads as Discord. It also takes roughly 10% less resources when running than Discord does. If you still don't want to download it... then perish. :V
4. Do they have 2-Factor?
Yes. Enable it.
5. What are all these buttons along the left side?
Unlike Discord those are individual interest groups and not different servers. Everything you see when joining the guilded is in-fact part of the Pirate Software guilded server.
6. The feature I like isn't available on Guilded.
In the Pirate Software home section of our Guilded server you can put a post under "Guilded Feature Requests". The devs routinely talk to us and can see all of those requests. If you want it then other people most likely also want it too.
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@everyone
Hey all, spread this as far as you can.
Like it, comment on it, raise the banner.
This is absolutely atrocious and needs to be blasted out.
nova bloom
@everyone
After 3,500 upvotes and 600+ comments AGS has now permanently banned the guy who did this.
All of the information we have on the guy has been sent to my local PD.
Everything's coming up Millhouse.
Thanks everyone.
nova bloom
@everyone
Heartbound is up for the Labor of Love award on Steam!
RALLY THE PIRATES AND CAST YER VOTES!!!
Also, make sure to like/retweet/comment on this thing so the Twitter algorithm gods smile upon us.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1463610415481380865
nova bloom
@everyone
Champions of Breakfast is currently 50% off.
This means it's 1.50$
It costs less than most sandwiches.
Buy it... or don't... I'm an announcement not your dad.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/454380/Champions_of_Breakfast/
nova bloom
@everyone
We now have Canadian and International shipping on our merch store.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1464269470944296963
nova bloom
@everyone
Today is the last day for this months Ko-Fi bundle!
This month we're trying to reset the timeline to line up with all future holidays.
That means you get DOUBLE stuff this month.
Stuff for TURKEY DAY and STUFF FOR PRESENTS DAY.
nova bloom
@everyone
For those wondering what the postcards will be this month from the Ko-Fi here are two WIPs from Shaye!
nova bloom
@everyone
Twitch gave me 4 more emote slots for T1 emotes.
Enjoy the return of these cursed faces.
They are no longer locked behind T3.
@everyone
With this PTR update AGS seems to have finally figured out what will be good for New World.
It's well communicated, has a proper direction, and aligns with things the players want.
All in all 11/10 not what I expected considering the current direction of the game.
You love to see it. (If it goes as planned.)
Some TL;DRs from this...
- Crafting now goes above 200 infinitely and gives you rewards for EXP breakpoints. (Hell Yes)
- Watermark is now named Expertise, shows on your char sheet, and you can craft targeted drops from special resources. (Double Hell Yes)
- Yeti looks dope and wants to eat your lunch.
https://www.newworld.com/en-us/news/articles/december-ptr-announcement
nova bloom
@everyone
Spent some time on the PTR for New World.
It's incredibly compelling, fun, and engaging.
They've done a great job and I didn't expect them to.
nova bloom
@everyone
The latest Community Clips video has now launched.
Go watch it, or don't, I'm an announcement not your dad.
nova bloom
@everyone
Humble Bundle is doing a rad hacker book bundle!
Go check it out here!
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-by-no-starch-press-books?partner=piratesoftware
nova bloom
@everyone
Corsair sent me a keyboard because my last one turned into cursed sadness.
Go look at it and my beautiful hands here.
Also a bonus video.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1469813114438762498
nova bloom
@everyone
Twitch just added a Creative Directory to help creative streams have more discoverability.
This includes Software and Game Development!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1470609451409297409
nova bloom
@everyone
Heartbound has updated to patch 1.0.9.55.
This is a major one and the patchnotes can be found here.
Thanks for being rad enough to let me keep making games.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/3137317539644041460
@everyone
Go poke this post on social media to make it explode all over the internet.
Comment/Like/Retweet/Potato etc
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1471091364897038340
nova bloom
@everyone
While I'm in recovery I can't do much other than be a potato.
Thankfully the latest New World patch finally came out and it's just as fun as the PTR was.
They really did a great job this time and I am getting heavy infinite farming Runescape feels.
If you want to come play with us we're on US-East - Tritonis.
If you're worried about ping don't be, I play from the West Coast fine and Khronos plays from the UK.
Come hang with us!
nova bloom
@everyone
Ko-Fi stuff for November and December is now being shipped out this week.
Sorry for the delay but I hope you enjoy the double blast of cool stuff!
nova bloom
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@everyone
Heartbound is going to be 20% off for the winter steam sale.
Happy Holidays everyone!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1473650537102905346
nova bloom
@everyone
Please welcome @leaden lagoon to the <@&404090978333622272>!
He is a giant nerd and does things in the minecraft and game dev.
You can check his streams out here!
nova bloom
@everyone
We gave the ferrets a plate of snow from outside.
Look at these absolute nerds.
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@everyone
Humble Bundle has a sale on a package of game development resources!
This stuff is centered around 3d design with blender, landscaping, and some other tidbits thrown in.
It's a pretty huge pack and set as "Pay What You Want" so you can get it super cheaply.
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/learn-create-game-art-blender-software?partner=piratesoftware
nova bloom
@everyone
For those of you wondering about american healthcare... I just got my bill for the hiatal hernia surgery.
It would have been $94,605.75 without insurance.
My insurance paid $17,982.07 of this amount.
The remaining $76,623.68 is paid by... NOBODY
The insurance company talks the price down and the provider gains the unpaid amount as a tax benefit.
My total bill was $130.
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@everyone
Ko-Fi has plans to start integrating stream alerts into their toolset.
This is awesome to see and means they will start competing with Streamlabs and Stream Elements.
Something to keep an eye on as they grow the feature set out.
nova bloom
@everyone
Pyrocinical put Extra Avocado in his latest video.
Check out my comment on it and upvote so he sees it.
The song starts at 15:22!
nova bloom
@everyone
Got another couple scammer spotlights to send out.
Stay safe out there and never give out free keys.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1480799333603631104
nova bloom
@everyone
Experiment Time
- Go to Twitch.
- Click the Gift Sub button.
- See if you can gift T2 or T3 subs to "The Community" not to a "Specific Viewer".
- Respond to this message with if you can or if you can't.
For context:
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1481266811689586690
nova bloom
@everyone
Which one of you did this?
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1482076078772346881
nova bloom
@everyone
Going to start putting out YouTube Shorts going forward.
Let me know what you think! 
nova bloom
@everyone
How many of you remember when I was a turnip that evaded taxes?
Well we got it on video...
Don't tell the IRS.
nova bloom
@everyone
The 7th Pirate Software Game Jam starts in two days.
You can read about it all here!
nova bloom
@everyone
Heartbound hit 97% positive today.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1484828284198141953
nova bloom
@everyone
We're hiring!
Pirate Software is looking for a new Russian translator to work on Heartbound.
Our current translator, @vast lintel is stepping down to focus on family and other projects.
For those interested we pay the international standard rate of $0.10 per word.
There are a lot of puns and jokes in Heartbound so an understanding of Russian culture and humor is required.
All of our work passes through GitHub which is super simple to learn.
You must be 18 or over to apply.
No you cannot work for us for free.
DM @nova bloom if you'd like to interview for the position!
Thanks!
nova bloom
@everyone
I'm not sorry.
https://piratesoftware.bigcartel.com/product/cursed-magic-mug
nova bloom
@everyone
Heartbound is on sale for 20% off for the Steam Lunar Festival!
YEAR OF THE TIGER GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
nova bloom
@everyone
First teeth... now DUCKS?!
nova bloom
@everyone
Got our shipping room online.
Ko-Fi stuff is going out today/tomorrow.
Shaye is printing the prints today!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1488578948459941890
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@everyone
You absolute madlads...
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1489988178039635972
nova bloom
@everyone
As promised here is the first monthly update video for Heartbound.
Going to be making these every month going forward to make sure everyone stays in the loop.
nova bloom
@everyone
For everyone who will be joining the Lost Ark soft launch tomorrow I've got some news for you!
1. We will be on the server US-West Mari.
This gives us a good medium population server without massive server queues.
It also means we won't be on a sad dead server full of sadness.
2. The guild name will be Actual Pirates.
As is tradition.
3. I will be playing a Paladin.
I like supporting and shooting magic out of my face.
I will do both of these things as a Paladin.
4. I will be creating a new section for Lost Ark on the Guilded server.
All of our guild activities will be done there because it's just so much easier.
https://guilded.gg/piratesoftware
5. For those that didn't pre-order you are free to join us on the 11th when it fully launches.
Also the game is free to play and doesn't have Pay To Win features in the NA release.
6. Unlike New World this is a tried and tested MMO from Korea and Russia that is just now entering the rest of the world.
With so many current players I expect everything after launch to go super smoothly.
Hoping that it kicks large butts and we enjoy ourselves.
See you there!
nova bloom
@everyone
Scamming is on the rise!
If you receive either of the following messages from people in this Discord please alert the <@&362005405901127710> immediately.
1. I accidentally reported your steam account and the admins said they are going to ban it.
This is a pretty obvious lie but people keep falling for it.
No 'admin' would ever say what an account action would be.
This person wants you to download a program to talk to the 'admin'.
Alternatively they may want you to go to a website to talk to the 'admin'.
Your Discord and Steam accounts then both get owned and the scam spreads.
2. I just made this game, can you play it?
Do not run EXE's off the internet.
Ever.
At all.
Don't.
I've personally had a handful of close friends get owned by this.
I make fun of them nearly daily.
Don't be them.
Let us know about either of these and we can remove the accounts from the discord immediately.
nova bloom
@everyone
The new Community Clips video is now live!
Myla made this one, can you tell?
nova bloom
@everyone
We've put all of the Heartbound pins in the store on sale for 20% off until March 1st!
Just use the code "PIRATE" at checkout to get the discount!
You can check them all out here.
nova bloom
@everyone
For those trying to play together in Lost Ark.
They currently have character creation turned off on US-West Mari which is our home server.
It sucks but they are working on it and I'm hoping they unlock us soon.
Don't worry, when it's finally open the guild is ready for you and we've already established ourselves here!
nova bloom
@everyone
Friendly reminder.
Yes, I do have sand.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1492532636559892486
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@everyone
They have now opened US-West Mari for new character creation in Lost Ark.
If you want to join us make a character there and use the !LostArk command anywhere in Discord!
nova bloom
@everyone
You can get some pretty awesome stuff for exploration.
I am now flexing with this large beetle.
FLEXING
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1493763501986181125
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@everyone
Had to take Shaye to the ER tonight for his progressing back/leg issues. They refused to give him an MRI first stating that insurance wouldn't cover it. I offered to pay out of pocket. They then stated that they can't order an MRI from the emergency room since this isn't an emergency.
Shaye had an x-ray done 6 days ago with a 2-3 day wait time on delivery. His doctor is not responding to email or calls so we went to the ER as a last resort.
For clarity, Shaye cannot walk without a cane and has all of the symptoms of Sciatica. We can't start fixing the issue without an MRI and the medical system is absolutely failing him right now.
I haven't been streaming because I'm taking care of him during all of this. I don't know how long this will go on for but we're doing everything we can to fix it.
I can't be anything but mad right now, honestly.
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@everyone
Going to the ER was productive. Shayes doctor called today and set everything up after seeing he went to the ER. It sucks we had to go this route to get anything done but at least it's getting done. He has appointments both tomorrow and on Friday. Frustrating for sure but this is good news.
nova bloom
@everyone
Shaye had a meeting with the Electro Diagnosis doctors today. They were surprised and mad that he hasn't had an MRI yet and are trying to get one scheduled ASAP. His primary doctor got one for March 11th but that is absurdly far away.
This specialist really seems to understand the severity of the situation and is pushing to get this moved in the right direction.
nova bloom
@everyone
If you missed the awesome questline in last nights Lost Ark stream we've got it up on YouTube now!
As always, @flat tusk is a madlad and busted it out immediately after stream.
nova bloom
@everyone
With the recent conflict in Ukraine I wanted to make sure you all know what to expect from us and what I expect from the community. Below are a few guidelines to follow in this and any other situation like this going forward. If anyone violates these I will remove them from the discord immediately. Don't be that guy.
- We are not here to discuss politics or who is -right- in this.
- We are here to support our community members regardless of where they are from or where they live.
- Labels on any people on any side of this conflict are not allowed.
We're here to make games, celebrate games, and be creative together. There are real people on both sides of this conflict and many of them are in the community around you. They're your friends, awesome people, and share the same love of games that you do. If any of you need to vent or talk about it just come chat to me in a DM. I'm always around.
-Thor
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@everyone
Just found out that a shipment of merch in late January was stolen by package thieves.
This shipment may have included Ko-Fi rewards but we're unsure.
If you are missing merchandise from anything you ordered around that time please DM me.
nova bloom
@everyone
It is to laugh.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1497395934677770242
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@everyone
The corporate overlords have graced us with another awesome keyboard.
It's pretty clicky... and dare I say... clacky.
I gave it to the raccoon.
This is clearly a good idea.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1497597637981196296
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@everyone
Scamming is on the rise!
If you receive either of the following messages from people in this Discord please alert the <@&362005405901127710> immediately.
Just had a few more community members get knocked over from these kinds of attacks.
1. I accidentally reported your steam account and the admins said they are going to ban it.
This is a pretty obvious lie but people keep falling for it.
No 'admin' would ever say what an account action would be.
This person wants you to download a program to talk to the 'admin'.
Alternatively they may want you to go to a website to talk to the 'admin'.
Your Discord and Steam accounts then both get owned and the scam spreads.
2. I just made this game, can you play it?
Do not run EXE's off the internet.
Ever.
At all.
Don't.
I've personally had a handful of close friends get owned by this.
I make fun of them nearly daily.
Don't be them.
Let us know about either of these and we can remove the accounts from the discord immediately.
nova bloom
@everyone
Scam just went out across the discord.
If you received this message don't click it. (Obviously)
Seems more than a few peoples accounts are compromised and spreading it.
Update: None of the people who got hit had 2FA enabled.
- All of you go change your passwords immediately.
- Go put 2FA on your accounts.
High likelihood that Discord passwords just leaked or did so recently.
nova bloom
@everyone
I will be off to the dentist in 5 hours.
Hopefully easy fix and then I can go back to not being punched in the face hourly.
A good time will be had by all.
nova bloom
@everyone
The February Ko-Fi rewards have been ordered and will be sent out ASAP.
We ended up getting all the March rewards in the same order so a ton of stuff is coming!
nova bloom
@everyone
YoYoGames has in-fact broken steam functionality.
The legends were true and sad.
Spread this around so they stop pooping in their hands and clapping with each release.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1499722158196490243
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@everyone
I have found a fix for YoYoMemes latest fail.
The engine was reading the old settings that are no longer accessible as the UI has been removed.
I had to revert the engine, change the filepath to the new steam dist, and then update the engine.
Revert GMS > Change Redist Target in UI to Steamworks 1.53a > Re-Update
This could all be avoidable if YoYoGames followed standard software procedure and had a period of Deprecation for this feature.
Shifting it over immediately with no time to update or learn about the new system is absurd.
I stated as much to the head of Game Maker here:
https://twitter.com/RussellKay/status/1499768937118109698
Twitter
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@everyone
Monthly update video is now out!
Updates on Heartbound, our studio, and our global community.
This month has been tough for a lot of people.
You got this, don't worry.
nova bloom
@everyone
Good News!
My tooth is not infected and I don't need a root canal.
Bad News!
The dentist thinks this is an extreme sinus infection and now I need an ENT to figure out the actual problem.
Human bodies are trash.
Pour me into a computer.
nova bloom
@everyone
A massive patch for Lost Ark is taking place tonight.
Tons of new content, a new guardian, login bonuses, PVP season... this is rad as hell.
As always you can find the guild on US-West Mari and my in-game name is Thorwich!
Also the game is FREE TO PLAY on Steam and runs on a potato so don't wait on playing it!
https://www.playlostark.com/en-us/news/articles/march-2022-release-notes
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@everyone
I did the new Grand Prix event in Lost Ark.
Steets put it together as a video today so if you missed it here you go!
nova bloom
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Shaye survived getting his tonsils removed.
He is in many pain and drugged.
They didn't let him keep the tonsils.
They used FREAKIN LASERS to cut them out.
Shaye survived what the Storm Troopers never could.
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We're at the ER.
Shayes tonsil wounds popped open and he was bleeding everywhere. Ran here, got him stabilized, waiting on more from the doc now.
They gave him a catch bag for all the blood and it looks like a horse feed bag. I let him know that he is now a horse vampire. This was his face after receiving that knowledge.
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We are performing a stress test on the new Pirate SMP Minecraft server.
Log in using 1.18.2 Java Edition at the address mc.piratesoftware.live
GO HAM LADS
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You blew it up!
Nice job!
Working with our host to improve it now.
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@everyone
We now have the barest of bones set up for the Pirate SMP Minecraft server.
Note: This is not the server run by Steets and GMan.
Log in using 1.18.2 Java Edition at the address mc.piratesoftware.live
The ADDRESS of the MC server is mc.piratesoftware.live it's not a website... yet.
Once we finish the stuff in the Upcoming Features we will enter Beta and hit a wider audience.
Completed Features:
- Claimable land using the Towny system in a permanent non-resetting worldset called Midgard.
- Special loot off monsters that increases in value as their difficulty goes up.
- mcMMO skills for Mining, Axes, Taming, Fishing, Repair, Unarmed, Archery, Woodcutting, Alchemy, Swords, Excavation, and Herbalism
- Jobs system that includes Alchemist, Miner, Excavator, Hunter, Assassin, Blacksmith, Farmer, Fisherman, Lumberjack, Enchanter
- Totally new custom recipes not found in vanilla.
- A Resource worldset that refreshes on a weekly timer for infinite exploration.
- Chests are instanced so everyone gets their own personal loot.
- World bosses that appear randomly and give epic loot.
- In-game economy that is entirely player driven. Use /ah to access the auction house!
Upcoming Features:
- A tutorial world to get people better setup. (Ask people how to do things if you get stuck right now.)
- The first open-world dungeon for farming and loot.
- More world bosses and unique spawns.
- Gems to fit into socketed gear.
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We are about to reset the Resource World for the first time.
At 5am PST in 45 minutes this world will reset.
Get all your stuff out now!
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@everyone
The Pirate SMP Minecraft server is almost ready for beta.
We just released our first dungeon and community event to open it.
We also have a bare bones tutorial set up that will get better as time goes on.
Hope you guys enjoy it!
How to play:
Log in using 1.18.2 Java Edition at the address mc.piratesoftware.live
The ADDRESS of the MC server is mc.piratesoftware.live it's not a website... yet.
Completed Features:
- Claimable land using the Towny system in a permanent non-resetting world called Midgard.
- Special loot off monsters that increases in value as their difficulty goes up.
- mcMMO skills for Mining, Axes, Taming, Fishing, Repair, Unarmed, Archery, Woodcutting, Alchemy, Swords, Excavation, and Herbalism
- Jobs system that includes Alchemist, Miner, Excavator, Hunter, Assassin, Blacksmith, Farmer, Fisherman, Lumberjack, Enchanter
- Totally new custom recipes not found in vanilla.
- A Resource worldset that refreshes on a weekly timer for infinite exploration.
- Chests are instanced so everyone gets their own personal loot.
- World bosses that appear randomly and give epic loot.
- In-game economy that is entirely player driven. Use /ah to access the auction house!
- An open world dungeon that requires teamwork to unlock for the server.
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@everyone
Someone started making a Heartbound heart on r/place.
Go help EXPAND IT!!!
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@everyone
My glorious sponsor Corsair has given me an upgrade.
As a most gracious overlord, and more humble than even @trim python I can pass benefits on to you.
BEHOLD!!! PIRATE DISCOUNTS!!!
Code: PIRATE
https://go.corsair.com/pirate
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@everyone
Wanted to let you guys know what was up because I haven't been streaming much lately.
- Shaye is doing well now with the Tonsil removal and is almost totally healed up
- Thankfully no more immense bleeding from the face.
- Shaye's back is still kind of messed up.
- MRI revealed nothing. was physically wrong.
- Doc appointment today to discuss nerve tests.
- My sinus infection has been diagnosed as "Cysts or Polyps" in the Maxillary Sinus via CT scan.
- I need to talk to my doc and figure out what to do next.
- Best case it's a bunch of garbage and they surgery it out easily.
- Worst case I have gigacancer and turn into a sad egg.
- Either way it hurts like a punch in the face all the time and I'm on meds to help with that.
With all this junk going on I have thrown myself at building the Pirate SMP minecraft server.
It's been a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed making this thing with you guys.
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This was a pretty big deal today.
Let Twitch know how much it meant to you on this tweet.
I really hope they do more of this for the creative community.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1517622879742922752
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KOFI rewards for the month are being sent out tonight!
Thanks for all the support this last month you glorious pirates!
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It's @next mantle's birthday today!
Wish our musical overlord a happy one!
If you don't then it's 10,000 years of bad music.
That's a pretty steep price.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1521828389006446594
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@everyone
The full 45 minute Twitch Fridge spot is now up on YouTube.
If you ever wanted to make games and don't know how... this is for you!
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@everyone
The OST has been updated and we've got a new track up on YouTube.
That brings us to 97 songs as we reach the final steps of Animus.
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Twitch is madness confirmed.
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1527055866326708224
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Hello!
We're currently opening moderation positions primarily for the Twitch channel.
This also comes with the Discord role of moderator for easier communication and planning.
Stream times are 1am-6am PST every day except Sundays.
There is no expectation that you make every stream so don't worry about that!
DM @nova bloom and let me know your experience in moderation and why you want to join up.
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Tonight at midnight PST we will be playing the Ni No Kuni MMO that is coming out.
You heard that right, a Ni No Kuni MMO... and it's FREE TO PLAY!
It's kind of a wild direction for the series but the game looks incredibly fun.
Also, all of the art was done by Studio Ghibli so it looks AMAZING!
Our planned community server is "Onyx Leo"
Based on region locking you may not see this server on the mobile pre-download client.
We're waiting to see if region locks can be worked around via the PC client.
The PC client won't launch until midnight so stay tuned until then!
Here is a video with some of the available end-game content.
I plan on playing an Engineer which is a ranged DPS and Healer class!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yny_0EmH7kw
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@everyone
Mod applications will be responded to today!
Thanks for sending them over and good luck to all of you!
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@everyone
Heartbound Dev Update - May Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmG257hAbCo
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Go tell everyone about the Game Jam!
This is a big one and I want you guys to learn as much as possible!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1534005772635426816
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The big announcement is here!
Heartbound is up for an award and you guys can vote to help us win!
YoYoGames has put us as a finalist for the Most Anticipated game on Game Maker Studio.
VOTE HERE!!!
https://gamemaker.io/en/blog/awards-2022-vote
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@everyone
Got a phishing alert for you guys!
Attackers have a new method for trying to fool you.
They are using fake indie games to steal Discord login tokens.
This sucks extra for us since we're a community of game devs.
Be on the look out for anything named Space-Aware.
It's using Unity as an attack platform to snag your Discord login.
They have a number of legit looking websites for it.
They also previously tried to put this up on itch.io
The games name and delivery method will change over time.
Just don't run programs from people on the internet.
Further, if a friend suddenly offers you their "cool new game" don't play it.
Compromised accounts routinely attack everyone on their friends list.
Below is an image of their website.
Dudes are going all out to fool you now.
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@everyone
Heartbound has updated.
Spread the news!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1536471892915195905
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Just pushed a bug fix patch for Heartbound.
You can read the details here under "Fixed After Launch"
The new download is about 1mb so go have fun!
https://steamcommunity.com/games/567380/announcements/detail/3325359222326571978
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Remember to Vote on Heartbound for the Game Maker Awards!
If we band together I'm sure we can win this!
Best Game: **Webbed **- Stijn worked on this!
Most Anticipated: Heartbound
https://opr.as/GMA-Vote2022
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Sitting here adding new YouTube Shorts when...
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1538278520563982336
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Heartbound is 20% off on Steam for the Summer Sale!
However, Discord is dumb and isn't making the below link look pretty.
Thanks Discord!
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It's the final day to vote on Heartbound for the Game Maker awards.
If you already voted then tell your friends by liking and retweeting this!
If you didn't already vote then please do so!
https://twitter.com/PirateSoftware/status/1541257335909150722
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Heartbound has updated!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/3319730991336430363
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BEHOLD!!! The latest Discord scam.
If you get a message in this format from ANYONE do not click the link.
It will take you to a Discord that requests you verify by QR code.
If you use your Discord app to scan the QR code you lose your account.
You know, the vulnerability I reported two years ago. Thanks Discord!
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@everyone
There is currently a VERY nice Humble Bundle package up for Game Developers!
Check it out!
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@everyone
Happy Sky Explosions Day!
I am very close to a lot of sky bombs.
It is a good night.
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@everyone
Heartbound has won the 2022 GameMaker award for "Most Anticipated" game!
Thank you everyone for voting to make this possible.
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Heartbound Monthly Update - June Edition is now out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MULJwFMERs
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The Deltarune playthrough I did is now up on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d8UPnIxrXc
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Behold, the mushroom shed is entering its final form.
Click the link to see the entire set of images!
