Wow... guess I really cut Vectorman's moment in the spotlight short there, huh... Anyways, update on what's going on: I'll be out for a week at a minimum, but probably longer than that. Yes, I know it's bad marketing to drop a brand-new AtGames out of nowhere and then to disapear as soon as requests open up, but to be fair, I was so excited to get Ecco out there that I had to push myself to get the rest of the backlog out before then- I wouldn't be able to manage the wait.
Anyways, why I'll be gone: I have a vacation. A good, peaceful, familly vacation. I probably won't have anything more than my phone on me for communicating with the outside world, let alone the technology to do anything substantial on YouTube beyond maybe replying to a few comments. But that's not all- I'm also moving, so I've been spending the past week preparing things like insurance and lease documents, all while also doing this AtGames work (and watching/helping a good Gain Ground PS2 Speedrunner; go check them out). And as soon as I'm back from vacation, I have to move all my stuff to my new place (including picking up things I've bought for the new place that I don't have yet, namely a new bed), and then return to work the next day.
Needless to say, I'm very tired. But I'm not a man to regret; every action I take makes me who I am in the long run- so I'd say it's worth it. My only regret right now is that I've been so focused on everything else, I have no time to prep anything for #FixTF2, which is on June 3rd, right in the middle of my vacation.
Long and short if you don't know what the Team Fortress 2 Bot Crisis is: a group of degenerate trolls with nothing better to do in their lives got together and decided to host a good several (ten?) thousand(s) of Team Fortress 2 accounts run by self-operating computer programs simultaneously for the past five or so years. These accounts, controled by a central computer(s) like the Battle Droids of Star Wars, join lobies in hordes and disrupt games by using the class that has the power to insta-kill if you can land headshots (Snpier) and aimbot such that on the first frame they draw a line to your head, they'll shoot. And that's somehow the least offensive thing they do to the TF2 community- they're racist, they dox people who speak out against them, they use AI voices to impersonate people they don't like and make them say vulgar shit over TF2's chats, they publicly insulted one of the game's beloved voice actors who survived throat cancer but died to COVID a few years back- one YouTuber even got SWATted since the bot hosters didn’t like that he was trying to help the community develop a public anti-cheat since Valve wasn't doing squat.
Feel free to check out my video on the bot crisis from two years ago when we tried to get help the first time- nothing's really changed since then, so you should get a feel for how HORRENDUS things are rather quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9HyM... If you thought AtGames sounded bad, you ain't heard SQUAT 'till you've watched that video. I personally recommend Match 10b: Altitude for the barbershop quartet of bots.
So if you read this far and want to thank me, then help us in the TF2 community to get Valve to do something about their rampant bot crisis by signing the official petition at save.tf (as soon as they un-crash the site; it's been so popular that it broke itself in its confusion and only registered 1/5th of the incoming signatures) or by simply giving us upvotes across all social medias on the 3rd.
Anyways: Sorry to rant about TF2 there for so long; it's just really sad and the community deserves better. So in short: No AtGames for a week or longer- even once I'm fully settled in and ready to get back into things, it'll also take time to record new stuff since I drained the backlog for this last burst. Feel free to pile up all the requests I've missed thus far under this post if you'd like (and any games like 3D Blast that people have requested before that I denied but can now do); it'll help me organize a plan/vote once I get back- just don't expect me to respond to a lot of it until I'm back in full.
damn i'm tired; thank y'all for readin; enjoy the GIF I threw together in the last 15 minutes
AtGames Arial
Wow... guess I really cut Vectorman's moment in the spotlight short there, huh...
Anyways, update on what's going on: I'll be out for a week at a minimum, but probably longer than that. Yes, I know it's bad marketing to drop a brand-new AtGames out of nowhere and then to disapear as soon as requests open up, but to be fair, I was so excited to get Ecco out there that I had to push myself to get the rest of the backlog out before then- I wouldn't be able to manage the wait.
Anyways, why I'll be gone: I have a vacation. A good, peaceful, familly vacation. I probably won't have anything more than my phone on me for communicating with the outside world, let alone the technology to do anything substantial on YouTube beyond maybe replying to a few comments. But that's not all- I'm also moving, so I've been spending the past week preparing things like insurance and lease documents, all while also doing this AtGames work (and watching/helping a good Gain Ground PS2 Speedrunner; go check them out). And as soon as I'm back from vacation, I have to move all my stuff to my new place (including picking up things I've bought for the new place that I don't have yet, namely a new bed), and then return to work the next day.
Needless to say, I'm very tired. But I'm not a man to regret; every action I take makes me who I am in the long run- so I'd say it's worth it. My only regret right now is that I've been so focused on everything else, I have no time to prep anything for #FixTF2, which is on June 3rd, right in the middle of my vacation.
Long and short if you don't know what the Team Fortress 2 Bot Crisis is: a group of degenerate trolls with nothing better to do in their lives got together and decided to host a good several (ten?) thousand(s) of Team Fortress 2 accounts run by self-operating computer programs simultaneously for the past five or so years. These accounts, controled by a central computer(s) like the Battle Droids of Star Wars, join lobies in hordes and disrupt games by using the class that has the power to insta-kill if you can land headshots (Snpier) and aimbot such that on the first frame they draw a line to your head, they'll shoot. And that's somehow the least offensive thing they do to the TF2 community- they're racist, they dox people who speak out against them, they use AI voices to impersonate people they don't like and make them say vulgar shit over TF2's chats, they publicly insulted one of the game's beloved voice actors who survived throat cancer but died to COVID a few years back- one YouTuber even got SWATted since the bot hosters didn’t like that he was trying to help the community develop a public anti-cheat since Valve wasn't doing squat.
Feel free to check out my video on the bot crisis from two years ago when we tried to get help the first time- nothing's really changed since then, so you should get a feel for how HORRENDUS things are rather quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9HyM...
If you thought AtGames sounded bad, you ain't heard SQUAT 'till you've watched that video. I personally recommend Match 10b: Altitude for the barbershop quartet of bots.
So if you read this far and want to thank me, then help us in the TF2 community to get Valve to do something about their rampant bot crisis by signing the official petition at save.tf (as soon as they un-crash the site; it's been so popular that it broke itself in its confusion and only registered 1/5th of the incoming signatures) or by simply giving us upvotes across all social medias on the 3rd.
Anyways: Sorry to rant about TF2 there for so long; it's just really sad and the community deserves better. So in short: No AtGames for a week or longer- even once I'm fully settled in and ready to get back into things, it'll also take time to record new stuff since I drained the backlog for this last burst. Feel free to pile up all the requests I've missed thus far under this post if you'd like (and any games like 3D Blast that people have requested before that I denied but can now do); it'll help me organize a plan/vote once I get back- just don't expect me to respond to a lot of it until I'm back in full.
damn i'm tired; thank y'all for readin; enjoy the GIF I threw together in the last 15 minutes
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