• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The worst part is that this are far from the only two events. He has been kicked from several other guilds, for exactly the same narcissistic and egoistic behavior. If everywhere you go it smells like shit, at some point you have to start checking your own shoes. He is just always adamant that it’s other people’s fault that it smells like shit, when he has full diaper.

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      Yep.

      There’s the whole… apparently when Thor was essentially high school to post high school age, he managed to cajole a younger SecondLife user, who was actually decently talented at creating like clothes and custom player models…

      So in SecondLife, you can actually make real money that way, you can cash out the SecondLife currency for actual realworld money.

      Yeah SecondLife was actually quite a pioneer in a lot of ways, from a technical and just ‘what even is a video game’ standpoint, lets say uh ‘eccentric’ community and reputation aside.

      And Thor basically convinced this other SL user, who was like 5 years younger than him… that he could make them both more money as a sort of salesman, promoter, of this other persons user made content… if they profit share.

      I may have some details wrong here, but basically… Thor did basically nothing in terms of promotion, yet he made a significant chunk of change off of this other person.

      Because … SL just has basically a universal market you can list things in.

      Like uh, Escape from Tarkov, or FF14’s auction house or what not, fully built into the game… but even more so as it actually allows you to cash out to real world money.

      its not like you’d have to do some kind of technical wizardry to enable sales, its not like Thor whipped up some kind of gray/black market system / payment processor way back when PayPal was still a fairly new idea.

      Alongside that, there were allegations of basically ERP going waaay too far.

      Now, this other person has I think entirely denied any kind of ERP abuse, sexual or just normal relationship abuse, says everything was fine…

      But a good number of people seem to think that the essentially digital labor theft Thor did, basically amounts to its own kind of grooming, exploitation.

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        Don’t call him Thor call him what he is, a loser. Sullying the good name of Norse gods.

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          … As best I can tell…

          He actually, legally changed his first name to Thor.

          And he has gone by Thor for… at least 5 years?.. in his Twitch streaming career.

          I fully agree this is an insult to the old Gods, but … Thor is apparently literally his actual name.

          His older username / online handle was ‘Maldavius Figtree’ or something like that, can’t say I am aware of his actual birth name.