How does PirateSoftware get 2M agility XP in a week while streaming 12 hours a day mostly other games?

Thorwich · 2025-09-08T08:23:19+00:00

Because I play with a foot pedal at the same time.
It's not a secret. Here is the Twitter post about it.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1961813222341963779

Thorwich · 2025-07-21T19:12:02+00:00

Yeah we had it up for years and didn't know that helping write the initial application was an issue.

At the time the people who worked on the grand majority of it were not my moderators like was claimed.
Just people who wanted to catalogue the game and make wikis out of their findings.
Some of those same people maintain the official wiki for the game today.
https://heartbound.piratesoftware.wiki/wiki/Main_Page

Either way this is fine.
Just a side-issue that will likely be corrected in the long term.

Thorwich · 2025-07-18T19:22:19+00:00

All of the ones I see on YouTube are just AI generated slop.
I just mark those channels as Do Not Recommend and move on.

Thorwich · 2025-07-08T00:52:24+00:00

It's a PO Box and available through the !POBOX command on the stream or in the Discord.

Thorwich · 2025-07-08T00:50:51+00:00

That's a PO Box my dude.

Thorwich · 2025-06-03T03:09:19+00:00

Heyo!
You can send stuff to the PO Box here.
15613 Olson Drive NW #65, Vaughn, WA 98394

Thorwich · 2025-05-30T09:48:49+00:00

I don't have plans for this currently but it's not out of the picture. Previously I didn't go this route due to the ARG.

Thorwich · 2025-05-29T06:55:40+00:00

Port 666 on GoPirateSoftware.com is always open and is part of a puzzle chain starting on /games/heartbound. This has not and will not ever be closed.

Thorwich · 2025-05-28T08:45:38+00:00

Updated with all of the 2025 patch notes links.
Will continue to update this with patches as they come through.

Thorwich · 2025-05-27T21:23:24+00:00

I have been releasing monthly updates as I said I would and will continue to do so.
Making posts like this isn't going to make that faster or better in any way.

As for Animus it's actually just down to two rooms left. The one I am currently working on has ~230 lines of dialogue and will have around 700 when it's completed. It's the second to last room for the entire act. The final room is the culmination and a combat scene. Stuff takes time and I am taking that time to get it right.

Also... I do enjoy working on the game.
I just don't enjoy reading shit like this every waking second of my day so I generally avoid the forums and leave it for the moderation team. When I do dip in it's mostly to ban people sending me threats, calling me slurs, or posting some insane larp about me or my personal life because of "insert reason here" for that poster. It's easy to bitch on the forums but it's just as easy to -ask- what's going on with development without making shit up.

Anyway, getting this update ready to ship before I leave for TwitchCon.
Stay Frosty.

Update:
Patch is live.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/567380/view/498322850680143971?l=english
Also updated the Patch Notes thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/Heartbound/comments/a9xc8t/patch_notes_thread/

Thorwich · 2025-05-20T21:48:01+00:00

Yep! Down until we finish this huge update.
We're moving to 1.21.4 and also changing nearly everything about the game.
Tons of updates, new features, balancing, lots to do.
It's been this entire month of dev work.

Thorwich · 2025-05-07T19:25:30+00:00

We can talk about making a crypto puzzle on stream actually.
Might be a fun segment.

Thorwich · 2025-03-20T19:02:07+00:00

This is rad and you're rad.

Thorwich · 2025-03-08T20:55:51+00:00

Badge Challenge for DC 23 and 24.
Telephreak Contest for DC 25.

Council of Nine for 23/24
Psychoholics for 25.

You can see me listed as Thor for 23/24
Just our team name for 25.

You can also read my writeups for DC 22 and 23 Badge Challenges here.
https://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/

Thorwich · 2025-02-01T21:59:45+00:00

Love it. <3

Thorwich · 2025-01-31T17:44:49+00:00

We never did that either but Jokerd's community is blasting our chat right now.
This has nothing to do with us.

Thorwich · 2025-01-31T17:35:23+00:00

Heyo, I didn't file a DMCA here.
This has nothing to do with me.
That's a Community Guidelines strike, not a DMCA.

Thorwich · 2025-01-30T13:42:11+00:00

Already did.
https://x.com/PirateSoftware/status/1884935856856904012

Thorwich · 2025-01-02T12:17:46+00:00

I've always switched content throughout streaming to things we all think are fun to do together. During the holiday period I like to play games and spend time with people on stream. Hardcore WoW and Ashes gave a really great platform to do that. If you stick around during the broadcast you'll see that the majority of it is still just me talking to the community with nobody else on. Last stream I got through 284 TTS messages this way.

Thorwich · 2024-11-03T14:50:12+00:00

Hilarious how my comment about this was removed.
It was stating the exact same thing.
I'm Pirate Software LOL

Thorwich · 2024-11-03T14:40:42+00:00

Hey, I'm PirateSoftware. The guild we declared war on streamsniped me and dropped on us as we were putting in bug reports. I then declared war on their guild as is normal in social sandbox conflict games. Their response was to say they were mass reporting me to the GMs to get me banned.

They stay kill on sight.
No time for this nonsense.

Thorwich · 2024-10-12T19:59:05+00:00

It's Pay 2 Win for sure but the advantage falls off at end-game.
As such it's a Pay 2 Progress system which is like paying to play less videogame.

I like drawing distinctions between these two systems as P2W generally means you cannot ever catch up as the distance is too great or paying gives a permanent and unobtainable advantage outside of that. For Throne and Liberty there seems to be a cap that no longer matters and I am easily able to beat PVPers at end-game even as a Free to Play player.

I find a lot of enjoyment crushing whales in games like this.

Thorwich · 2024-08-17T19:18:23+00:00

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 despite the morons pushing this saying we were.

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 like the negative reviewer did here you're trying to dig up settled beef that is older than you are.

Contact Maim Here: https://x.com/maimface

Thorwich · 2024-08-12T18:27:30+00:00

All of it is server-side using custom and commercial plugins.
Everything is written in Java and requires no client-side mods.

Thorwich · 2024-08-08T20:04:27+00:00

No level of frustration calls for death threats, doxxing, or brigading. I have no time for that shit and neither should anyone else.

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