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Time of India
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
What did Twitch streamer Pirate Software do: Breaking down all accusations
(Image via YouTube/Pirate Software) Twitch streamer Jason 'Thor' Hall, well-known as Pirate Software, has recently come under fire with some serious accusations surfacing against him online. The accusations began when an X user, Lyric, posted a lengthy thread where she detailed the claims of abuse and exploitation, dating back to 2018. The allegations sparked widespread discussion, with many even demanding accountability from Pirate Software's end. Here is the complete breakdown of all accusations and Pirate Software's response to it. Breaking down allegations against Pirate Software Lyric Twitter thread posted on June 9, 2025, accused Pirate Software of alleged manipulative behavior patterns spanning inappropriate advances and financial pressure. As per the thread, it all started in 2018. It's claimed that Hall, who at that time was 31, used manipulation and pretended to have a romantic interest in her for financial gain after Lyric donated $800 during the game development stream. As per reports, it's claimed that once the donation was made, Hall initiated unprovoked erotic roleplay apart from giving intense pressure for commitment, despite repeated reluctance from Lyric. It's further alleged that Hall's business partner, Shaye, popularly known as RiverMakes, was complicit in silencing them when they tried speaking out. The accusations extend to TwitchCon 2018 scandal, where, as Lyric alleged, Hall arranged the meetup while he was secretly married. As per her, she got to know about his marriage later from Shaye and then silenced them. Lyric also shared the screenshots of the conversations and accused Hall of filing a DMCA strike against her YouTube channel after they tried to attempt a chargeback on donations, labeling them as Scammer. How did Pirate Software respond to Lyric accusations? Days of silence finally came to an end when, a few hours back on June 10, 2025, Hall finally Pirate Software controversy addressed allegations in the fiery Twitter post. He dismissed all claims, calling LARP, and accused Lyric of fabricating the story for the clout. As per him, this is all happening due to his current success. He even accused Lyric of using the donations to gain proximity to Shaye and then making Shaye uncomfortable at the conventions, to the point where they even planned to avoid future events. Further, his post stated that Lyric had previously tried to damage his studio financially. As per Hall's claims, the actions of Lyric were an attempt to cripple his studio. He even cites the warnings he received from the partner of Lyric at the time of said event about the alleged toxicity of Lyric and her behavior. He further characterized the detailed account of Lyric as an unhinged and pathetic years-long effort to build the hit piece. He further vowed that it would not succeed, as he demanded to be left alone. This response frames allegations received from Lyric against Hall as a malicious campaign that's fuelled by resentment. But whether or not it's the same, only time will tell. What would happen next? With the controversy ongoing, the fans are divided. While some believe Lyric's evidence and detailed account to be true, others side with Hall. But this is not the first controversy that surrounds Pirate Software. Earlier this year, he faced a lot of backlash for his behavior during the World of Warcraft Hardcore dungeon run. He there abandoned his teammates, leading to their deaths in-game. The refusal of his to take responsibility at that time has drawn a lot of criticism, with many even calling him egotistical. How Pirate Software Turned Everyone Against Him Currently, neither party has taken any legal action. Jason Hall allegations, too, are unresolved. However, the discussion has impacted Hall's public image. Whether or not this will impact his streaming career or the game development projects remains to be seen. For now, the internet is split, with some demanding accountability while others dismiss accusations, calling them to be exaggerated. But one thing that's certain is that the controversy will not fade away anytime soon.
New York Times
6 days ago
- General
- New York Times
Horse Bits Have Been Used for Thousands of Years. Now They're Being Reconsidered.
As Brendan Wise gallops his horse Villanueva Conrad over towering jumps, he could be any other show jumper in shiny tall boots and a crisply tailored competition jacket, except one thing is missing: Not only are there no reins in his hands, a part of an equestrian kit usually deemed essential for steering a horse, in fact there is no bridle on its head at all. And, most crucially for Wise, no metal bit is in the animal's mouth. To the average rider — for whom steering a horse or controlling its velocity by gently tugging on a piece of metal between its molars is without exception the way horseback riding gets done — Wise's feats with his horse, also known as Lyric, seem an impossibility. How could he possibly control his mount without the metal bar on its gums, which for thousands of years people have used to tell horses what to do? For Wise, the rare rider who has taken bitless riding from its humble status as a circus trick to the highest echelons of equestrian sport, his rides are part of a mission to question accepted practices. 'Do I think bits are bad? No,' Wise said in an interview in May. 'But it does raise the question of: If you can get the same results without it, then why use it?' He and Lyric compete at the Grand Prix level, over jumps as high as 1.40 meters. He steers with only the pressure of his legs on the horse's sides and a circle of rope loosely around the horse's neck that he tugs left, right, or back to tell Lyric to slow down. While Wise is not always the winner, that's not the point. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Vision Together 2025 hosts career fair for Johnstown middle schoolers
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — Vision Together 2025 is continuing to work with the Greater Johnstown School District to host career fairs. On Wednesday, the organization visited the Greater Johnstown Middle School and brought several companies with them, for the 'A Vision Together' Kids Career Fair. The event was designed to introduce students who are middle school-aged to local career opportunities while connecting parents with employment resources. Rob Forcey, Executive Director of Vision Together 2025, spoke about having a career fair for younger students. 'For some kids, it is too soon. I mean, it's going to take a while, and every kid develops differently and stuff like that. But if you give a kid a dream and you give them a goal at the beginning, how they get to that dream is going to be up to them,' Forcey said. Pennsylvania lawmaker proposes changes to Penn State Board of Trustees Lyric and Milan Cohen are sisters and students at the middle school. They attended Wednesday's career fair. Lyric hopes to go into the Air Force or become a Basketball player. Milani wants to pursue a career in the culinary field. They said the career fair gave them ideas and helped to push them in the right direction. 'I learned that you don't always need to choose one option. You have other options,' Angelo Owens, a fifth grader said. Students were also given bags filled with employment resource packets to take home to their parents. It ensures parents have access to valuable job opportunities and career advancement tools within the local workforce. 'We're trying to make it for all three schools so that students have a better awareness, like what skills and abilities are needed and what jobs are available here in the community, and just try to educate our students so that they are able to make a better decision what they want to do with their life, and what they need to do, to be successful,' Eddie Mikesic, College Career & Military Readiness Coordinator at the Greater Johnstown School District said. Forcey said the organization is working to get funding so they can expand to six other school districts in the area and continue the career fairs. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Boston Globe
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
She went from being a scientist to taking the stage. Now she's starring in ‘Hello, Dolly!'
Parent, a celebrated Boston actor and director who also leads the Front Porch Arts Collective, recalls how Doherty captured her character's improvisational personality during her audition, in a scene that unfolds at Dolly's beloved Harmonia Gardens restaurant, where she hasn't been since the death of her husband. With his assistant director Thomas W. Grant (below), director Maurice Emmanuel Parent keeps an eye on rehearsal of "Hello, Dolly!" at the Lyric Stage Boston. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Advertisement 'Every time she did the scene, it was slightly different, and she was playing with different things. I was like, 'That's what Dolly needs to feel like. She's a woman who has a clear end goal, but she's figuring out things in the moment.'' At one point, Parent says, Doherty approached the audition table where Parent and Lyric co-artistic director Courtney O'Connor were sitting and whispered to them with a conspiratorial air, ''Hey, are you two together?' I said 'no,' and she rips off a piece of her [script excerpt] with her number on it, hands it to us and says, 'Call me.' Then she walks away and did the rest of the scene. She was already in character, already matchmaking!' That sealed the deal for Parent. He knew he had found his Dolly. 'I think an actor who makes bold choices informs a director in their choices,' he says. 'And her choice really informed how I'm structuring the piece. There is no fourth wall. So at any moment, it should feel like Dolly could say to an audience member, 'Hey, I have this wonderful person for you. Here's my card.'' Indeed, Parent is leaning on the Lyric's thrust stage setup and playing into the intimacy that can foster. The theater's four aisles and two tunnels will be utilized to full effect with the 16 performers. When Doherty decided to audition for the show, featuring music and lyrics by the legendary Jerry Herman and book by Michael Stewart, she wasn't sure if she was ready to play Dolly yet, but Parent said to show them what she had. Advertisement 'So I went in there and had fun and just aimed for the fences, and it was freeing because I didn't expect that I had much of a shot at it. Those auditions where you can keep the pressure off are usually the ones where you're the most playful, the most loose, and the most free to be yourself.' While Doherty has won two Elliot Norton Awards for her performances in 'On the Town' and 'Into the Woods' and been nominated for several others, her work has hit new heights in recent years. She cites playing 'I gave myself permission to not always be nice and likable. I wanted people to like me all the time, but with [Sally], I just decided that, yeah, she's selfish and childish at times, and people can be that way, and I need to just show it and not worry about alienating the audience. I've got to just trust that they will not give up on her and will still root for her.' Choreographer Ilyse Robbins at rehearsal for "Hello, Dolly!" Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff With Dolly, there's little chance that the audience won't be rooting for and charmed by the people-pleaser from the minute she sashays onstage. She'll also break your heart. In the show, set in 1890s New York City, Dolly is a matchmaker with several other side gigs and chutzpah to spare. She's been mired in grief, her life frozen after the death of her husband Ephraim years before. Her latest job is to find a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder (Joshua Wolf Coleman), a wealthy-but-miserly merchant in Yonkers. But on this day, Dolly has an awakening and decides that she finally has to get off the sidelines of life and join the parade before it passes her by — and schemes to marry Horace herself. Advertisement 'She's always rearranging other people's lives, but what first struck me is how much [Dolly] is stuck herself,' Doherty says. 'She needs to live her life now. She needs to let go of grief and move on and forgive herself for doing that.' Several stories of young love intersect with Dolly's. Horace's wide-eyed shop workers Cornelius (Michael Jennings Mahoney) and Barnaby (Max Connor) head to New York and fall for plucky hat shop proprietor Irene Molloy (Kristian Espiritu) and her assistant, Minnie Fay (Temma Beaudreau). Then there's Horace's overprotected niece Ermengarde (Sophie Shaw) and the young artist, Ambrose (Stephen Caliskan), who she yearns to marry against her uncle's wishes. A "Hello, Dolly!" rehearsal last week at Lyric Stage Boston. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Similar to some of her previous roles, Dolly is what Doherty dubs a 'boss babe.' 'She's very smart, and she's working within the constraints on women's roles at that time and using whatever she's got,' Doherty says. 'And I always gravitate towards those [characters] who are loud and opinionated and a little sexy and unabashedly themselves, but they're working against the system that doesn't believe a lady is supposed to be a business owner or a mover and shaker.' Doherty can relate to Dolly making a leap of faith to transform her life. Growing up in Walpole and Bellingham, Doherty took tap, jazz, and ballet as a kid and did her high school's production of 'Grease,' but never considered studying acting or becoming a performer. After carving out a successful career as an environmental scientist, helping to clean up oil spills and hazardous waste sites, she began doing community theater on the side. Advertisement Aimee Doherty, as Dolly Levi, is lifted by cast members during a dance number. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Then in 2004, she landed a part in a SpeakEasy production of Sondheim's 'Company' — and never looked back. She started acting all around town. A few years later, when she got laid off from her job, she made a permanent transition. 'It was just a happy accident. I don't know that I would've ever had the courage to walk away from a career that I had for 15 years to say, 'I'm just going to dedicate my time and my heart to acting full time.' Parent says that Dolly's vow to 'rejoin the human race' and re-engage with life in a new and hopeful way is an inspiring message that reminds audiences, 'Even when we're down and out, you're still alive and you still have an opportunity to live your dreams and your life to the fullest.' HELLO, DOLLY! Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Michael Stewart. At: The Lyric Stage Company, May 16-June 22. 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The Guardian
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Our New Girl review – Irish nanny triggers mayhem in gruellingly tense domestic noir
Since the premiere of this tightly wound drama of domestic noir in 2012, Nancy Harris has gone on to win acclaim for the television series, The Dry. Her sharp observations and crackling dialogue were evident in her earlier playwriting, too and, in director Rhiann Jeffery's taut new production, feel fresh and current. Striking a note of distress in the opening moments as a small boy raises a knife, tension escalates from there. The unannounced arrival of an Irish nanny to their elegant London home is the catalyst for exposing trouble in the marriage of pregnant ex-lawyer Hazel (Lisa Dwyer Hogg) and her globe-trotting husband Richard (Mark Huberman), a cosmetic surgeon. What ensues is so tense that the audience was audibly inhaling, as the child, Daniel (Milo Payne; alternating with Canice Doran) is drawn into the couple's power games. The initially unflappable nanny, Annie (Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle), finds herself adjudicating between them all. With a single setting of a sleek kitchen designed with sharp geometry by Maree Kearns, a sense of dread is maintained by Garth McConaghie's rumbling sound design and Sarah Jane Shiels' lighting, as the dark stage is framed in flashes of neon. Amid lies and blazing accusations, each of these characters is allowed to be credibly contradictory: both selfish and unselfish. For all her painful childhood experiences, Annie is not a victim. Even Richard, the egotistical doctor who constantly undermines Hazel, has kind, even endearing, aspects in Huberman's nuanced performance. Above all, Dwyer Hogg's characterisation of Hazel as a highly ambitious, clever woman who fears she is not capable of taking care of her son, is sympathetic and complex. With a second child about to be born, she seems to be conducting a risky life experiment. The conflict between parental responsibility and being professionally fulfilled is not resolved here, an inclusiveness that gives the play its heft. At Lyric, Belfast, until 4 May
