The (alleged) swatting didn't happen before "The End Of SKG".
I also don't think he deserves cancellation, but he has lied so many times, so confidently and so unrepentantly that he deservers very little credibility.
I understand that some people would feel sympathy for the somewhat excessive negative attention he got (not from me, he lost my sympathy the first time I saw him blatantly lying and lobbing insults) but with the way he ALWAYS behaved, he absolutely had some of it coming.
From the 5-10 min of his videos
There's the problem: you won't get evidence of a murder if you ask the murderer for it.
He streams a lot, so the things he says or does are spread out, especially if you're only looking for noticeably damning stuff like the rim job related rant against SKG.
His confidence and speechcraft makes him very good at steering conversations by lying or deflecting, as long as you trust what he says.
Good places to start looking may be his conversation with Dr. K or Ross' "The end of Stop Killing Games" on Youtube, both are hosted by level headed people;
I can only assume you haven't seen the latter, because at the very least it makes it very apparent why people dislike him.
I searched the official Discord (blegh) community not too long ago, and there doesn't seem to be any indication of EOL plans or their opinion(s) on SKG.
Some of them may be invalidated, keep dispensing them people!
I don't share the feeling. I'll gladly tie a M$ shareholder to a chair, force them to watch me play Perfect Dark, and say "man I love these AI settings, I wish they made AI like they used to".
The term "Artificial Intelligence" has been around for a long time, 25 years ago AI was an acceptable name for NPC logic in videogames. Arguably that's still the case, and personally I vastly prefer "Artificial Intelligence" to "Broad Simulation Of Common Sense Powered By Von Neumann Machines".
In defense of people who say LLMs are not intelligent: they probably mean to say they are not sapient, and I think they're loosely correct if you consider the literal word "intelligent" to have a different meaning from the denotative "Intelligence" in the context of Artificial Intelligence.
I'm not sure about impracticality, I wasn't aware the HMG ever had a 1200RPM option but I imagine it would be pretty satisfying to mag-dump an entire HMG into a bile titan in 0.3s and just fuckin' GMod–toolgun–delete it.
~~0.4889 / 7 chance of failure, naively accounting for Windows' market share and assuming the user is sufficiently privileged~~ (according to LostXOR's comment, I stand corrected)
There's also the content I actually couldn't get into at all, because they decided to just pull it from the game *_*
I haven't played FFXIV (perhaps one day I will), so no comment there; I did play Warframe for quite some time (forgor 💀), and... fair enough (I still feel like HD2 has a higher mass/volume ratio, in a way).
But... Destiny 2? The two seasons I've been through had me considerably less hooked on what was going on, compared to the very first change of pace HD2 had since I enlisted, despite the difference in (production_value / event) if that makes sense.
A D2 season was basically a small storyline gated by chores; on the other hand, my pre–lvl150unlockedeverythingthegamehastooffer HD2 experience was "hey I'm directly part of this neat event I can participate in right away" rather than "I need to play for 2h every evening to get my level up so that EVENTUALLY I can get to the stuff that was paid for (unless I take too long, in which case lol sucker)".
Hell, I grew up on Bungie's Halo, so if I wasn't aware of the studios' full history (which I wasn't) brand loyalty alone would've had me favor my time with D2 over HD2. But it wasn't enough.
Think of the relationship between "optimism", "pessimism" and "realism":
generally, those words are respectively interpreted as "focusing on the good things", "focusing on the bad things" and "ignoring (or trying to ignore) personal biases on the topic at hand".
In a way that makes sense, the universe defines our perception on things, not the other way around.
However, let's suppose you just had a reality check, at least as my terminally online ass knows the term as.
That means something happened to you, that forced you to realize something about yourself - be it your body, your psyche, your knowledge about anything.
A realization so undeniable, that, despite your lizard brain's psychological self-defense mechanisms' censorship attempts, made you realize you've been wrong about something.
The reality check brings your mood down in the short term, and possibly pushes you to improve yourself (or, alternatively, to [concoct a workaround to the tyrannical laws of the universe]) in the long run, but... that's not truly neutral, is it?
It may be a "bad" feeling possibly followed by a good outcome (see: cognitive dissonance), but it is never a GOOD feeling followed by a possibly bad outcome. The latter case is a confimation bias, if anything - the opposite of a reality check.
Going back to the first paragraph: if someone says "I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist" you may conflate that person for an pessimist, but not an optimist.
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The single game I "played" on Windows was Helldivers 2, when I Steam Family'd it from a friend before trying it out through Proton.
... hold on, "players are unable to emote when flying through the air"?
Is that currently possible or is it supposed to be? Either way I have questions.
That's why I recommended Dr. K's take and Ross', they didn't lean into the drama.
Though, most of the critiques against Jason I've heard are sound; while it's true that dramatubers search every nook and cranny of his past for slander, they find more stuff than any reasonably sympathetic person should have to be found.