What is the malavia fig tree character?

It's a character used by the speaker in Second Life and other games, openly discussed in streams.

What allegations were made against the speaker in relation to an artist?

The speaker clarified that an artist, known as Wingless Amoto, did not engage in any inappropriate actions, and they've since reconciled.

What was the controversy surrounding Asmongold?

The speaker discussed a game, Ashes of Creation, with Asmongold to counter misinformation about the game being a scam.

What does the speaker say about being a nepo baby?

The speaker claims they achieved their position without nepotism, only assisted in resume preparation by their father.

What is the speaker's response to claims of using a voice changer?

The speaker asserts their voice naturally varies and clarifies their vocal range capabilities.

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TLDRIn this video, the speaker clarifies numerous allegations and controversies about their character usage in games, past collaborations, and public discourse with other creators, particularly focusing on those comments that have circulated in the community and social media. They assert that accusations of misconduct from years ago are baseless, highlight the importance of their conversations with larger content creators for maintaining a truthful dialogue about gaming, and address claims regarding their professional background and voice authenticity. The overarching aim is to provide a consolidated resource for those confused about ongoing narrative surrounding them and ensure that the reader understands the context behind their actions.

Takeaways

🗣️ The speaker addresses multiple allegations and clarifies misinformation.
🎮 Malavia fig tree is a character often used by the speaker, discussed openly.
🧐 Allegations involving Wingless Amoto have been publicly refuted and reconciled.
📺 Engaging with Asmongold was a strategic decision to counter misinformation about a game.
👨‍👦 The speaker denies being a 'nepo baby,' stating they succeeded on their own merit.

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00:00:00 - 00:05:00
The speaker addresses various allegations against them, suggesting that instead of letting misinformation spread, they are compiling a video to clarify everything. By providing a single point of reference, they aim to help their audience share accurate information instead of countless fragmented narratives about them. They clarify that they are not monetizing this video, emphasizing that it's about sharing the truth.
00:05:00 - 00:10:00
The first allegation involves a character named Malavia Fig Tree, which the speaker claims has been misunderstood in online discussions. They explain that this character is not a secret, often mentioned in their streams, and is part of a larger body of work involving avatar creation in the game Second Life. They recount a past conflict with an artist known as Wingless Amoto, explaining their working relationship and setting the record straight about the nature of their past collaboration.
00:10:00 - 00:15:00
The speaker defends a conversation they had with Asmongold about the game Ashes of Creation, which sparked community outrage. They clarify that their reason for speaking with Asmongold was to counter misinformation regarding the game, brought about by another content creator's claims. They emphasize that they did not seek profit but acted to protect the developers from unwarranted negativity, showcasing the importance of community over individual viewpoints.
00:15:00 - 00:20:00
An update about Heartbound reveals that the speaker has been dormant in development for a year but is now committed to providing regular updates. Acknowledging previous miscommunication and the resultant negative feedback, they vow to engage more actively with their community and are now releasing monthly updates to restore trust and excitement about the project. They express regret and take responsibility for past failings in communication with fans.
00:20:00 - 00:25:44
Lastly, the speaker responds to ongoing claims, denying that they use a voice changer, cheat at puzzle games, or were given their career due to nepotism. They share evidence from their gaming history and achievements, explaining how their experiences lend credibility to their abilities. The speaker concludes by hoping their comprehensive clarification will help their community defend against future allegations and misinformation.

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What is the malavia fig tree character?
It's a character used by the speaker in Second Life and other games, openly discussed in streams.
What allegations were made against the speaker in relation to an artist?
The speaker clarified that an artist, known as Wingless Amoto, did not engage in any inappropriate actions, and they've since reconciled.
What was the controversy surrounding Asmongold?
The speaker discussed a game, Ashes of Creation, with Asmongold to counter misinformation about the game being a scam.
What does the speaker say about being a nepo baby?
The speaker claims they achieved their position without nepotism, only assisted in resume preparation by their father.
What is the speaker's response to claims of using a voice changer?
The speaker asserts their voice naturally varies and clarifies their vocal range capabilities.

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Gulir Otomatis:

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hey everybody there's a whole lot of
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weird statements and allegations and
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content nukes and all this kind of stuff
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being levied against me and I've refuted
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those things in many different locations
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on the internet but I thought it'd be
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good to put together this video so you
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guys had it all in one location because
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people are fighting over little pieces
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of information and ones that they hadn't
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heard and all of this kind of stuff
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everywhere that they can so if I put it
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all in one location it's much easier for
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you guys to find everything and then you
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can just divert people to this instead
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much easier and no I'm not going to
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monetize this video I just want to get
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this out there so you guys can actually
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see what the hell is going on on the
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other
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side number one malavia fig tree this is
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the character that everyone's talking
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about you'll actually see this posted
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all over the Internet with people trying
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to use it as some kind of a gotcha
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against me except this character's never
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been secret I talk about it all the time
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on stream and I usually refer to Second
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Life which is where this character
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resides as an adult version of Roblox
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and this character isn't just used in
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Second Life either in fact I've used it
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in other games kill the Moon is a demo
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that I never ended up releasing because
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it kind of sucks it was fun to build
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something kind of a side thing took us
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maybe 2 months to do uh it was a good
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exercise kind of like doing a game Jam
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but there's the character I use him
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everywhere cuz it's my cool old object
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head character and I like that kind of a
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thing with that in mind the allegations
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that were brought against me were pretty
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godamn heavy but they're also not the
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first time they've been brought against
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me the first time was in August of 2024
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where I had to put out this announcement
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that's still up in the news channel on
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our Discord I said apparently some
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people believe that I ripped off an
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underage artist 16 years ago that artist
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went by wingless amoto at the time and
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is now known as Mame face on Twitter
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they were 17 and I was 19 when all of
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this went down and no we never did
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anything sexual together we made avatars
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in Second Life and our work was really
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popular and by really popular I mean we
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were one of like the top three Avatar
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creators at the time the two of us made
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about $5 to $110,000 us every month
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doing this they did all the models and I
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did all the programming in LSL this is
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part of me being a freelancer back in
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the day before my career really took off
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we had a falling out over pay spits and
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wingless open sourced our work wingless
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wanted 8020 our agre was 50/50 when I
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said no wingless took all of our stuff
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sent it out to the entire world with
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full permissions second life has a
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permission system where you can change
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the permissions that the next user has
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and by checking all of the boxes they
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had free reign to distribute modify and
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copy our work infinitely they never got
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fired they quit on their own and did
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this on the way out tabloids at the time
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do what tabloids do we were kind of a
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big deal in the game at the time for the
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avatars we were selling so they made
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Extreme and idiotic statements and took
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the S of just the artist without
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reaching out to me these tabloids still
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exists and people are starting to dig
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them up now that's it this is
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20-year-old drama now here's the
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interesting part May and I made up four
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to 5 years later we've been best friends
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ever since you can actually reach out to
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them and confirm any of this we've been
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talking about them coming on stream to
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stop this tide of idiocy because this
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isn't the first time this isn't even the
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second time this has happened for years
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people try to do it all the time to try
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and take me down and the two of us
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always shut it down together because
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it's wrong it's completely wrong and
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it's using wingless or Mame face as a
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weapon to try to bludgeon me when we're
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friends and if you don't believe me well
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let's just go look at it together here's
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the post by wingless M face I'm wingless
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amoto I really was 17 and nothing sexual
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happened if anything had happened I
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would have added him in 2008 see there's
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the problem they made this post publicly
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on the internet and people didn't care
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in fact they also made this post
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publicly on YouTube on the content nuke
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for this and people didn't care they
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tried to say that wingless was actually
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a sock puppet account of mine except
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Mame Face's account here is from 2013
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and then they tried to say oh well well
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maybe maybe it's him anyway and he's
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just been playing the long game the goal
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posts keep shifting but we keep
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providing evidence from there somebody
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actually did try to impersonate MF face
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with a wingless Emoto YouTube account
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the only account they ever had before
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was wingless Chimera and the reason why
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is because wingless Oto is a second life
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name Emoto is the last name that you
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could choose from a list of names to put
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on your character kind of like mine head
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fig tree and at the time there was no
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way to change this their handle was
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never wingless amoto it was wingless
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Chimera and now Mame face and when the
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internet inevitably brings this up in
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another 3 months to 6 months I'll just
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show them this video because we've
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refuted this time and time again and the
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two of us are still friends after almost
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two decades you're not going to kill
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that and you're not going to kill me
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with these
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allegations now for the second one asmin
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gold I recently went on asmin Gold
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Stream and I talked about a game called
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ashes of creation people feel betrayed
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that I talk to asmin gold in the first
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place because they feel like his ideals
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will somehow seep into our community and
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they're inherently Negative they also
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feel very angry because a lot of people
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in the comments on things like Twitter
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were going and attacking them and they
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feel like like that's somehow a core
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part of our community so let's get into
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that this video came out from a content
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creator called Nar the reason that I had
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the conversation with asmin golden the
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first place is because of this as you
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can see it shows a desert that's kind of
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well drab and empty nar's video talks
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about how he felt betrayed by the
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developers and he felt like the game was
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a scam and he showcased this desert as
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an example of those feelings saying the
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desert had not been completed and that
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there was nothing there he had actually
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misrepresented the content here you see
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this is the very edge of the map in an
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area that's not finished in a very early
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Alpha version of the game and in the
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game today still an alpha it looks like
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this and it's really really cool looking
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by misrepresenting that on asmin Gold
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Stream he actually set the tone to
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50,000 plus people now to understand how
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big of a deal that is ashes of Creations
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primary Discord only has about 100,000
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members our community is about 20,000 of
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those we play this game all the time so
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I'm very invested in want to play this I
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really enjoy this game as do many other
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members of our community and the moment
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those calls went out saying the game was
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a scam asmin Gold's chat started to fill
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up with people echoing that sentiment
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because they had no other information
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right after this asmin gold had on
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Steven sharf the creative director for
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the game and he showed off the desert to
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the best of his ability and refuted the
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claims the problem was some of the
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people in chat were still saying oh
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that's fake that's the developer he's
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lying just to get money so I went on
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reached out to asmin gold and said said
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hey I've had 500 hours in this come and
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talk to me and he had me on we talked
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about it for about an hour and I
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produced this video it's about 35
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minutes long as a result of that and the
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whole thing is me basically talking
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about the game and asmin gold saying
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uh-huh that's kind of the whole thing
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it's like a live react video if you've
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ever seen his content you understand
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what I'm talking about there's nothing
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in here that's inflammatory there's
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nothing in here that promotes hateful
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rhetoric as people have been claiming
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and this is all very mundane so right
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after I put this out a lot of people
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were really angry so I had to put out a
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statement about it I said a lot of
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people are mad that I talked to asmin
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Gold recently about ashes of creation I
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can see all of your comments and
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messages about this through YouTube and
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here on Twitter in this instance another
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Creator made a disparaging video about
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the game and asmin didn't have enough
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game knowledge to talk about it because
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he hasn't had the chance to play it so
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this immediately makes the audience have
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a negative opinion of something with
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nobody there to say otherwise I have
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over 500 hours in the game and refuted
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the video by the other Creator as asin's
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channel was the flasho for this it makes
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sense to talk to him about the situation
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and clear the erir of we did
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this live on Twitch the same day it
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happened in the internet of today if you
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don't say something then the room will
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fill up with people who do I chose to
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help set the record straight on this and
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I'm glad to have done so if you want to
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cancel me for this for talking to him
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that's fine but I would do this again
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given the chance the developers don't
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deserve unwarranted hate and I would do
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this again given the chance the reason
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why is because as many people on the
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internet tried to State I was
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platforming him and his ideals by doing
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this his community is massive compared
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to ours if you have all of those people
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with a negative sentiment about the game
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and they have absolutely no other
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information to refute it they're just
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going to go trash the game and I don't
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think those developers deserve that
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level of hate whatsoever and if I have
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an opportunity to fix that before it
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becomes you know terrible and out of
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hand then why wouldn't I take that
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opportunity for those of you who think
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that I gained money from this or
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anything like that I didn't this was not
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a financially advisable thing to do
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people are pissed about me taking a
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stance on that but I think it's the
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right thing to do if you see something
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that's false say something about it and
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if you don't like that I talk to him
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about it that's fine if you're holding
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entire idea here is to try to take down
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asmin gold and the only way you can
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think to do that is by coming after me
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for having a conversation about a video
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game you're not going to get that
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accomplished and it doesn't make any
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sense from there I've had to put out
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another one and I was kind of pissed
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about it so I originally deleted my
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first post cuz I basically just said
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this is why I did it I do it again it's
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a little crash for me so I deleted the
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comment under those circumstances I
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would have absolutely had that
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conversation again prior to me being on
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with him another Creator was there
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defaming the developers and the game we
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talked about as asmin gold didn't have
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understanding the game he couldn't
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refute the claims it was being bashed to
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50,000 plus people which is a death
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sentence for games of this size and at
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this earliest Alpha stage of development
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and by the way these are the types of
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allegations that have been brought about
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it for years and after we had that talk
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they've all been disappeared we barely
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ever get those types of statements in
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chat anymore it's really nice now that
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that air has been cleared so it had a
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definitive positive effect on the
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sentiment for the game so to reach out
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to asmin as I have 500 hours in this
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this is just a repetition of the same
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stuff but threads like this are just
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filled with people that are bashing me
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for just having the conversation I don't
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think anyone should ever be restricted
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from having a normal conversation about
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normal things I think the idea of going
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after someone for Guilt by association
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is really dangerous you can be mad at me
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for things that are real but if you're
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mad at me because I spoke to someone
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that you disagree with this is going to
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get really out of hand really quickly
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and I don't want that kind of
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environment and our community is
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definitely not that kind of environment
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you can and should be able to speak to
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anyone about anything that you want to
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and if people are going to go off the
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deep end to attack you for that we're
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more cooked than I thought heartbound
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the indie game that I work on people are
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currently review bombing this they're
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very upset and I can understand why in
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some of those cases I haven't worked on
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the game for the last year I could have
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communicated better this entire time
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though and that's completely on me I'm a
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dumbass for not putting out more
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announcement posts and releasing
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information to you guys to let you know
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that was what was going on and I was
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stressed the entire time and acting like
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a fool with that in mind I've started
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putting out updates on this game again
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we actually put the first one out on
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January 19th 2025 I made an announcement
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out to the Discord about this on that
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date saying that we'd be moving to
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monthly update builds everybody was
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really excited about this and they're
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quite happy with it I then put out a
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video talking about what was going on
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and why this all happened people seem to
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really like this it's sitting at 4K
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likes on it it's got about 93,000 views
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and most of the people inside of the
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core Community were really excited about
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the prospect of the game coming out now
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and we have it all listed in timestamps
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for everything that's going on there and
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why we're doing all this kind of stuff
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with that in mind this led to the review
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bomb but it didn't stop me from working
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on it on February 1st I released the
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first patch just like I said I was going
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to we put out the patch notes for it I
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made another announcement on the Discord
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and I plan to make the next patch on
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March 1st in fact I work on it all the
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time I was even showing it off on stream
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earlier this is part of the new
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environment that I'm putting together to
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be able to get this out to the rest of
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the public on March 1st there's a lot of
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dialogue in here and it's the end of a
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chapter so there's a huge amount of
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stuff that I have to do I've also
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updated the heartbound ARG in the
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background which a lot of people don't
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even realize is there but we'll talk
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more about args and puzzle mechanic
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stuff later so with all of that in mind
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if you're still upset at me about this I
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get it for those valid reasons of not
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communicating and not putting out
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information not putting out updates to
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the game I understand and I hear you and
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I'm sorry for that for the other amount
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of posts that are on there there's quite
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a lot of them that you'll find inside of
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those reviews that aren't even about the
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video game they'll put things in there
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like malavia fig tree which we discussed
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from the first part of this video or
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complaining about me talking to asman
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gold or saying Mana gem from World of
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Warcraft because they still haven't let
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that go or all the other that goes
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on in there it's all of the allegations
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all of the time and because of that I
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had to lock down the steam forums to
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stop people from talking about this
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stuff because it's incredibly obnoxious
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not to stop them from giving critique or
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you know saying like oh you did a bad
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thing stopping them from doing things
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like posting my home address and telling
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me to kill myself cuz that's what a lot
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of them were and we reported those to
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steam and I can thank you steam for
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Banning those accounts for doing that if
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you're just a normal player caught in
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the crossfire again I am sorry please
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wait until March 1st and the first of
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every month thereafter for the next
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updates
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now for the next one which is ashes of
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creation ashes of creation is an MMO
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that is in very early Alpha I actually
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talked about it earlier in this video
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during the asmin gold segment something
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that I play quite frequently and I play
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on the lenth server and I am currently
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the mayor of houseon I actually just got
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reelected so thank you glorious
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population with that in mind it's a game
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that is a Social Sandbox and if you've
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never played one of those they're
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usually built on player conflict um
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there's a lot of propaganda that put out
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there's a lot of talking between
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players and things like that very
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similar to Eve online or albon or
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Foxhole if you've ever played hole
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before you know that the wardens eat
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babies as an example of propaganda right
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very simple stuff Collies definitely
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don't though so with that in mind this
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server is Rife with this kind of
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behavior it's very normal and there's a
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lot of tension on the line because we're
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constantly combating each other and
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trying to get the upper hand through
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different resources in one of those
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groups that I was in inside of my own
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Guild I accidentally pulled something
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with a spell called ball lightning and
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you can see it kind of off in the back
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there I thought somebody else in the
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group pulled this and I was really
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pissed off and I blamed the rest of the
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team and the reason why i' had done that
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is because earlier on in the fights
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people just kept pulling random and
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then I accidentally pulled random
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and I looked like a dumbass because I
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was an angry dumbass this was entirely
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my fault and later on when we reviewed
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the footage we realized it was entirely
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my fault and then I apologized to
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everyone involved later on we ended the
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raid and we moved on to other content
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all these people are still in the guild
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and we still run with each other all the
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time so I know people in the internet
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get really agitated about stuff clipped
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out of context but here I was mad and
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then we worked it out outside of that
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the weird narratives that I've somehow
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been kicked from the server are
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completely false as you've seen on my
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earlier part of this video I'm on a
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flying Mount flying mounts are only
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available for Mayors after getting
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reelected by people where they have to
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vote on me we're also the dominant force
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on the server we fight with everyone all
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of the time as we should in any PVP
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focused game and we give a lot of
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reports and reviews and Bug reports to
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the developers all the time we also run
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internal information and have a thriving
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community of about 22,000 people on the
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Discord specifically for this game so
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not going anywhere I haven't been kicked
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out and this wasn't that big of a deal
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even though I was a jackass in it now
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after to the next one where people are
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calling me a nepo baby for those who
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don't understand the term a nepo baby is
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somebody who got their job only through
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nepotism never accomplished anything in
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their career and never did anything to
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deserve the position that they have my
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father was the Cinematic director for
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blizzard for 23 years he worked on
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basically everything going all the way
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back to the death and Return of Superman
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and many other games all the way up
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until now and then he quit he went off
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to jagex and he worked on old school
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RuneScape I believe as a creative
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director of some kind with that mind he
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now streams on twitch under the name of
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your joy people think that I got my job
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at blizzard specifically because of him
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in reality I only had help from him in
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order to do my resume but you're
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probably not going to believe me to say
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that so I'm going to let him say it I
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remember one time he had uh his boss had
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come to me because he came to me to
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apologize that one of his people talked
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to me and I'm like what are you talking
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about he goes well uh J Thor uh came up
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and was talking to you and and I don't
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think that's appropriate and stuff like
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that I'm like okay I go just so you know
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I'm going to keep talking to Thor when
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he comes and talks to me because he's my
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son this was two years after he worked
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for this guy and this guy did not know
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so funny thing here he actually got the
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timeline wrong that was four years into
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my career oh that Thor was my son and
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it's okay for Thor to come talk to me
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you know but it was and it was in public
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it was in uh the quad at work it's just
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I it's like no he can talk to me any
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time just like anybody else at blizzard
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could come talk to me for those who
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don't understand what going on there My
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Own Boss didn't know who my dad was it's
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really hard to be a nepo baby when the
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people who control your career have no
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idea who your connections are aside from
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that for the people who have this
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narrative both myself and my brother
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replied at the same time I got the job
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and my brother didn't where was the
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nepotism for him and now for the next
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one people saying that I'm using a voice
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changer I can actually just control the
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vocal range of my voice just go like
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this and talk all the way down to the
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bottom of your vocal range this isn't
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that hard then you go like this all the
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way up into your nose and talk like this
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amazingly people's voices change over
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time and they do this at different ages
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as you go through life on top of this
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streaming and talking for 12 hours a day
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doesn't make that any easier or better
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outside of this you can actually catch
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me on a bunch of other content creators
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channels I went and did a tailgate party
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with esin in real life I'm going to tell
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you right now dicks is good yeah as you
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can see yeah know people Everyone lines
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up for dick I was in the middle of a
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forest with bow a lot of mushrooms like
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you can only determine what they are by
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touching them or smelling them or
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tasting them I've been in the streamer
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Awards giving speeches since 2016
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actually so like I cut it during that
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cuz I I worked for the government that
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made me cut it and then I just never cut
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it before that either I also got caught
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by nmplol right out there on the street
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Nick my chat when me you say hi hey
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what's up yeah nice to meet you yeah
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they're freaking out you know yeah so
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sorry just have a have a good day
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worries yeah bye and you'll find that my
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voice is just about the same range the
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entire time it goes up when I'm excited
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or nervous it goes down when I'm tired
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or Bo just like everybody else it's
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really weird that people are obsessing
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about each and every little thing but I
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guess that's the nature of internet if
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you don't believe me on this I can't
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really fix this one for you because
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anytime that I'd make something online
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people would just claim it's doctored in
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some way there were even people saying
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that they had hidden a voice changer
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inside of the microphone at the streamer
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Awards or that I got some kind of an
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implant in order to change my voice and
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now for the last one people claiming
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that I cheated in puzzle games
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specifically animal well and outer Wilds
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both of those games are games that I
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played live on stream we had a whole
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blast of fun with it people in the
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community really enjoyed it and they
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were very very long periods of time for
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both games I believe outer Wilds was
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beaten in one sitting but it was a very
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long period of time and animal well I
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think took the better part of a week at
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that point I think it was like 40 hours
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on stream and 80 hours overall most of
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which was just us sitting around trying
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to solve puzzles and do weird on
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stream a lot of people say that I
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cheated because I looked at my phone
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because it was right here why would I
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cheat with my phone when I have a three
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monitor setup it's a pretty easy way to
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talk about this I have one monitor here
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that actually shows broadcast
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information usually using and game
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captur so I could put a guide up here if
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I wanted to in the first place this one
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is just OBS I could put it right next to
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chat there and it'd be really easy to
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hide it CU I'm constantly looking a chat
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anyway or I could put it on the right
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and put it on another one where I put
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all my Social Media stuff it doesn't
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make any sense to use a phone to look at
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a guide while you're running through a
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game like that when you could just look
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at anything else aside from that I have
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a very long history in beating puzzle
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challenges so let's get into it this is
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potato hat security our old team potato
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with a whole bunch of guides for Defcon
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challenges that we've solved throughout
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the years my name on here is Jason Thor
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Hall I go by the middle name of Thor for
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a reason because it is my middle name
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Brett beerhouse is the person that I got
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to go run with he's a good buddy of mine
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back from the blizzard days Defcon 22
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was the first challenge that we actually
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went up against and we didn't win but we
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beat it there was a shitload of puzzles
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that went along through this and we had
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a blast doing this and learned a lot
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about cryptographic methods I didn't
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know anything at the time when I first
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stepped into this Arena back in Defcon
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22 that was back in 2014 after this was
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over I went home and I tried to learn as
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much as I possibly could about
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cryptographic methods hiding information
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and reading books like this one called
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code the hidden language of computer
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hardware and software by Charles petel
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awesome book shitload of methods in it I
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have a ton of books like this now
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because of this and I went home and
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started making my own on a website
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called
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potato. made it with Brett it's actually
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defunct now but it had a ton of our own
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custom puzzle challenges on it then we
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went back to Defcon 23 and we teamed up
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with a team called Council of nine after
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doing really well in the first challenge
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in 22 they wanted to to have us on the
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team and we agreed to join them and we
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won I got to write up this entire write
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up this year as well and we solved a
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bunch of cool together one of the
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ones that I really had a blast working
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on was specifically the audio one where
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I got to dive into DTMF using
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specifically audacity to visualize the
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information I love this these types of
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things are really awesome so whenever I
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play a puzzle game and I know that
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there's going to be cryptographic
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methods involved I eat that up dude
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and if you're wondering if I actually
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did go to that here's the badge for it
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Defcon 23 it's a radioactive badge that
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was actually obtained through winning
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that puzzle challenge that year on the
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back you can see that there's a lenberg
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figure which is hit by plasma to create
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a small lightning configuration across
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it there's also another puzzle on the
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back of this that was sold by crypto K
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on Twitter it's a running key Cipher and
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he built a way of cracking certain
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running key ciphers after that we went
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back at Defcon 24 and we won again
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Defcon 24 we got a robot head this is
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another black badge for winning a Defcon
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challenge that is particularly hard
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Defcon 24 was actually written up on
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Council of 9's website CU I was still
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running with them in the time as well
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but I think they challenge page is
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defunct now unfortunately I wish we
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still had it because I really really
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enjoyed that challenge in doing that
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with them the next year I left and I
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went and joined what is called the
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psychoholic that's a new team that I'm
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on I have a lot of really good friends
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with them and over there and you can
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actually see a number of them show up in
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chat from time to time and I still go to
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Defcon every year at Defcon 25 there was
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no badge challenge the normal
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cryptographic challenges we like usually
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do wasn't present there because lost the
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one who runs those didn't go so we did
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instead a tele freaking challenge which
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which was really really fun and I didn't
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realize it was going to be there there
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was a guy who ran up to me and he threw
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a badge in my lap and he said you
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dropped your badge and ran away and it
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was for the Ellingson mineral
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corporation which you've know hackers
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you know what that's from it had a phone
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number on it I called it and I was like
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wait a minute this is something and I
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brought it back to the team and then we
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started cracking on it we didn't sleep
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for about 72 hours and we won this is
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the black badge for Defcon 25 since L
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wasn't there they made gold coins which
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isn't as aesthetically cool but it is is
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still solid gold so you know kind of rad
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outside of this I don't just solve these
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I build them this right here is actually
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built for the heartbound ARG heartbound
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the game that I work on that I talked
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about earlier in this video has a
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massive cryptographic challenge in it
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and I'll give you an example of one of
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the puzzles that I built for this and
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yes all of these puzzles are built by me
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right here I gave them an image of a
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whole bunch of different squares of
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lettuce I didn't tell them what it is
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there's no other information for them
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it's just images of lettuce if they laid
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them all out in a row it actually
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creates a strip of 0 through 9 squares
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which means this is a grid of numbers
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that grid of numbers doesn't go over 26
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at any time so because of that it
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actually comes out to letters good this
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operation is complete proceed to lettuce
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squares and the next puzzle is lettuce
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squares but there's other harder puzzles
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in this as well if we go up here and we
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find where is it truncated there it is
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truncated was one of the ones that I
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gave them where I just gave them an
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image this image is a picture of a
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zipper and that's it the zipper is
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actually a zip file and inside is a wave
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that wav is called celestial Cal bodies
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if you visualize the spectrogram of that
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of that audio it comes out to all these
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weird symbols celestial bodies is a
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reference to Moon type which is a
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precursor to Braille this is a message
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written in Moon type and it says this
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fragment is lost Among the Stars the
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stars.png on the server is actually this
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image here which is a color shifted
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version of the night sky in the exf data
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for that are these numbers here they had
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to determined that those were D DTMF
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tones as you can see it's got one of
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6971 336 so you go to 697 1336 and
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that's the number two on your phone pad
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whenever you hit a number on your phone
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pad it comes out to two tones dual tone
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multifrequency plays them both at the
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same time the 697 Herz tone and the 1336
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Herz tone so that's a two they had to
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figure out that all of these came out to
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all those numbers and then that comes
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out to the next message which in this
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case was boot record and that brings
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them to next page this is a massive
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series of cryptographic challenges that
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has spanned years and it's something
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that I build in the background so I can
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stay sharp for things like Defcon
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puzzles are my life and it's really
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really absurd to me that people just
00:23:33
gloss over all of this because streamer
00:23:35
looked at phone so now let's look at the
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timing my video for animal well here
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came out on July 27th 2024 except that's
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not when I played it it's also only 7
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hours and 41 minutes long which wasn't
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the full run time as shown on Twitch
00:23:47
tracker you can see that I played it
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from May 11th to May 19th a total of
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39.4 hours on broadcast as shown on
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Steam here you can see that I actually
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played for 83.2 hours cuz I was playing
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both on and off stream trying to
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practice different things and see if
00:24:00
there was different puzzles that I could
00:24:01
solve along the way inside of this you
00:24:03
can also see that the game released on
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May 9th 2024 which was only 2 days
00:24:08
before I actually started playing it
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from there I asked people to send in any
00:24:12
type of uh guides that would contain all
00:24:14
the puzzles that we solved throughout it
00:24:16
and those came out after we stopped
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playing the game May 19th May 22nd and
00:24:21
this one on May 23rd there are likely
00:24:24
other guides that exist out there but I
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don't know about them the people who
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ended up helping us solve this were
00:24:29
people in chat we solved it together as
00:24:31
a community with 13,8 people in the chat
00:24:35
my guess is that there would be a lot of
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people who were there from the puzzle
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solving Community as we did this tons of
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people were working together that was
00:24:42
the point of doing this all of this was
00:24:45
and on top of that I ended up going on
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to go and interview Billy basso who's
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the developer of the game and got the
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physical version of the game which just
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arrived the last few days which we're
00:24:55
planning on beating this together as
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well and that's everything for me now
00:24:59
that everything's in one place it'll be
00:25:01
much easier to just direct people to
00:25:02
something like this so they can choose
00:25:04
which thing they're angry about and they
00:25:05
get extra context for it and if they
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decide to still be angry about it after
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that it's fine with me I would much
00:25:10
rather have this kind of information out
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there so that people have some other
00:25:13
type of voice in the room rather than
00:25:15
all of these different content creators
00:25:16
releasing content nuke and expose videos
00:25:19
without any additional information
00:25:21
especially after they never reached out
00:25:22
to me in the first place to find out
00:25:23
what was true or not I understand the
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idea of anything for views and trying to
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put content out as quickly as possible
00:25:28
possible but you guys could do better
00:25:29
than that honestly to the rest of my
00:25:31
community I'm sorry you're having to go
00:25:32
through this and watch this kind of
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go on every day at least now you have
00:25:36
some kind of ammunition to throw at
00:25:37
people that are causing more drama in
00:25:39
the future anyway I hope you guys all
00:25:40
have a good day and I'll be back on
00:25:42
stream tomorrow see you