#Like I am NOT the person to ask in terms of game dev

[seeyouguyslater]

I think suggesting a different software on just short notice is alot to ask for with game devs

Tbf.. I know y'all mean well with suggesting and saying one thing is better but well

It's too late for that now isnt it.

I hope I did not cause the posters any more stress

[raincoatpng]

nobody asked but here is my take on Yona because I need to get it out somehow.

This is a pro-Yona rant from a sidlink fan, addressed to people who enjoy media analysis. Because I don't think it's necessary to pretend a whole character doesn't exist in order to enjoy a ship, if you can learn to look deeper. I am not claiming to know the universal truth, this is just my opinion and my read on things.

I don't want to spend too much time on this first point, but a lot of people seem to be of the opinion that Yona's existence in Tears of the Kingdom was a ploy from Nintendo to bury sidlink. I personally don't think that's the case, firstly because I think it's overestimating the reach of sidlink to assume that Big Nintendo would care to go out of their way to sink the ship, and secondly, a lot of things just do not make sense if that indeed was their intention.

Now, I can't claim to know what every writer and game dev involved in TOTK was thinking, but from a purely logical standpoint, why would they include so many gay ass scenes if their intention was to destroy the ship? I'm thinking first and foremost about the scene where Sidon gets on one knee and gives Link a ring as "proof of his vow." There's just no way that not a single person in the writers room saw the implication there, let's be honest. Why on earth would they put this scene in there if they cared at all about killing off sidlink? It's like using oil to put out a fire. Like I said, it simply makes no sense.

Onto the topic of Yona herself, and the reason I'm posting this in the first place, I don't think I'm the only one who noticed the lack of chemistry between her and Sidon. We know the TOTK writers were capable of writing good chemistry because they did it with Rauru and Sonia, and through just a couple cutscenes at that. So I don't think it's a coincidence that Sidon and Yona don't have that between them.

If you've not read the new zora stone tablets written by Sidon scattered around Lanayru, there is one where Sidon describes how he had once seen Yona as a sister and how he admired her just as he did Mipha. Yes, granted, it is written in the past tense, but why on earth would they include this in the first place? why not say they were merely childhood friends, why precise that they viewed each other as siblings (or that Sidon did at least)? As for the part where he says his feelings have grown harder to describe with time, that is such a vague line it could literally be interpreted any way you like. I have no clue if this is unique to the english translation, so if anybody reads japanese and has read the tablets, please let me know if this was originally intended.

Regardless, Sidon also mentions that Dorephan informed him that Yona would be his bride, implying in no uncertain terms that this was an arranged marriage. The lack of agency in this relationship doesn't exactly scream romance, now, does it?

LASTLY!! the most significant on screen interaction between Sidon and Yona by far is the scene where Yona scolds him (rather sisterly behaviour I might add) for refusing to go to the Water Temple with Link and let her help with the sludge. She accuses him of projecting his grief over losing Mipha onto her and letting himself be paralysed with the fear of losing a loved one again. Similarly, the most significant interaction Yona has with Link is when she fixes his Zora armour up for him – the very armour that Mipha had made for him. I'm gonna say this straight up, it is odd how much the game directs our attention to the parallel between Sidon's supposed love interest and his sister. That is, unless, there is in fact no romance between him and Yona.

So. Rather than writing off Yona entirely as many people are quick to do, I invite you to think deeper on her role in the game. Yes she's very underdeveloped as Sidon's love interest, but ask yourself if that even is the most interesting way to view her. I know a lot of people don't care to think about sibling relationships, even less so chosen family, but for those of you who do, I'm asking you to try to revisit Yona and Sidon's relationship in that light.

Consider the tragedy of losing one sister to war and another to politics, of growing apart from someone you considered family and be robbed of the opportunity to rekindle that bond because you are now betrothed to them. Imagine suddenly being nobody's brother, nobody's sister.

Even if that interpretation isn't as compelling to you as it is to me, at the very least, I'm tired of seeing unwarranted hate for a character that is nothing but helpful and kind. You are perfectly allowed to like or dislike any character, you are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to misogyny. If your only reason for hating a female character is that she "gets in the way" of a ship, you are being sexist. Full stop.

[askagamedev]

Do you think you personally put out better games, better art, under pressure? Some people put out masterpieces that only took the shape they did because they were under harsh constraints, cheifly low dev time. How about you? And is there a dichotomy between comfort and pressure to product quality that you find interesting?

That's an excellent question. You may remember the term [Decision Paralysis] used before on this blog. It's when a decisionmaker is presented with so many choices that they refuse to make (or put off making) a choice out of fear of making a mistake. Decision Paralysis affects everyone, including game developers like me. We can get so wrapped up in finding the perfect solution that we never commit to any one, for fear of that's solution's drawbacks... even though any solution that we commit to will have drawbacks regardless. This lack of commitment has side effects down the line - because we can't commit to something, we're afraid of our work being wasted or thrown out so we won't commit our best effort to it.

As such, pressure like a deadline naturally pushes us towards what I've taken to calling decision commitment - when we are willing to lock down a choice and accept all the benefits and tradeoffs that choice entails, rather than continuing to circle the options and never commit. It is closely related to what Mark Darrah likes to call completion urgency - the pressure to finish what we're working on. Decision commitment is necessary to make actual progress. Without any pressure to commit to a decision, dev teams can (and do) burn indefinite amounts of dev time and resources going in circles and end up with very little to show for it. When we've got a hard deadline, we know we have to buckle down and commit. That pushes us to give our best because we know it won't be wasted.

Lack of (or late) decision commitment really hurts craftsmanship and quality because we aren't actually committing to what we're building. If we are always keeping the back door open to drop whatever it is we're working on and changing our minds on the direction we're going, it always feels like a potential waste to do our best work. The quickest way to burnout is to feel like your work doesn't matter and your effort was wasted. Why polish, optimize, and improve if we're going to go a different way next week and throw this work out? No one likes to feel that way, so we naturally hedge our efforts with the minimum viable effort if we aren't sure whether it will be used.

This is all a long-winded way of saying "Yes, I absolutely do better quality work when I'm under pressure. Since I am confident we're doing this thing, I can give it my all." Without the pressure to deliver, the back door is always open and it's extremely hard to commit to the decision and give my best. If I know that we're absolutely committing to what I'm working on, I will build the best feature and content that I can. I believe that many other devs share this feeling for similar reasons.

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[noelle666]

Pathologic VN/DateSim - Burakovsky and Stamatins

I think I need to share some thoughts on those routes cause even though for Daniil my favourite route is and will be Block's I tried the other two. It's not that "painful" to say "no" to Alexander although... yeah. And in case of Artemy - sorry, but Rubiruspex is the one and only option for me, I physically can't chose someone else but Stakh.

Basic info about the project - click me.

Note: English translation of the game is made by a group of enthusiasts and not by game devs, as far as I know. Day 4 is not translated. So I think you can try to contact dev team (see the original post with links, the link to it is at the beginning of this post) and ask them about those enthusiasts if you wish to help this project to be know amongst English speaking fans of Pathologic.

So, let's start with classics - Burakovsky/Burda WARNING! Spoilers below.

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Basically, it is what it is, what you can expect from this romance: Cub (or Bear in Russian, I prefer this term more) is warm, caring, simple guy, he is honest (well, you know who he is), single father of two which is, of course, used in this route. It's pretty cozy story: for example, when you see interaction of Daniil and Murky you feel they can become great family, he reads a book for her making up a story (since the book in written in Steppe language) - the man has a great fantasy, I must say.

On Day 1, if I remember correctly, Daniil finds an amulet which looks different from those he saw during the plague days. He tries to give it to Artemy but he refuses cause "it arrived to your hands" and Daniil is searching for the meaning of this amulet. Turns out the amulet is a "love confession" (Sticky tells about its true meaning), so Daniil gives it to Artemy on Day 4 again now knowing what this will mean and knowing what he feels towards Burakh (they have a very sweet dance scene). But the Haruspex refuses to accept it again saying they need to wait until Tailagan (some steppe holiday which will take place on Day 5) and then if Daniil offers it again Artemy accepts it. So... I think technically they will marry each other. =)

I liked that route even though Burda is not my No1 ship but it's very very warm.

So, and now the twins.

I would say at some point I like it more than Artemy's route. Maybe because interaction with Peter was emotionally stronger in my taste. Let's just say it have some prons and cons to me personally.

General information: twins "scream" "sex drugs and rock-n-roll". Well, mostly "sex" considering the writers decided to portrait their story with Farkhad as a story of three lovers, plus twins also sleep with each other (I am neautral towards it, I've seen beautiful pieces of art with Andrey and Peter being together and I just think it's an obvious thing which can be used in their situation. But in my fanfic I wrote them without this feature, to me they are brothers and that's it but enought about me).

Pros: as I said above, the scene with Peter on Day 4 (and I personally feel more love towards him. Sorry, Andrey, I love you too but...). Daniil and Peter draw together and use it as a therapy to release their pain and struggle (mostly towards the loss of Polyhedron), to put them out of their hearts and heads on a paper. Very enotional episode.

Cons: I don't really like how Andrey acts towards Peter sometimes, it feels like he, the elder brother, is depending on Peter, not vise versa. He finishes Peter's phrases, he tries too hard to be with him. At the same time when we talk to Peter, he tells us he wanted to be more independent at the beginning of his career. So... this relationships looks a bit painful for both of them. And another thing which I didn't like (but it can be treated as a "historical accurate" detail): at the end of Day 4 when three agreed to have sex together (which will happen on Day 5, I'm sure) Daniil offers to bring morphine with him. Why is it historically accurate? At the beginning of XX century many medical doctors were taking morphine, so technically Daniil could be one of them. Still, thankfully, Andrey refused - they already have too much of an alcohole.

But in any case, let us wait for Day 5.

[maverick-werewolf]

Werewolf Article - (Play As A) Werewolf Video Games

The results of the poll for this month on my Patreon are in, and the winner is an opinionated article on werewolf video games! Apologies in advance if any of my opinions here anger you. I was asked for opinionated, so I went opinionated and did not hold back.

For clarity's sake: this will be a relatively concise list of SOME video games in which you can or do play as a werewolf. It will NOT include every single game in which you can or do play as a werewolf, nor will it include certain kinds of playable werewolves that exist in gaming, for the sake of brevity. You'll notice some missing and then want to be first to tell me I left out [thing], but I assure you I am aware of those too. I am also not going to list games in which you can play as a werewolf but it requires either user-made mods or else playing in a custom campaign/tileset/server (like Neverwinter Nights <3), only games wherein you can play as a werewolf as part of base game or expansion pack mechanics.

This IS a tiered list. It is tiered based on the werewolf gameplay mechanics and elements in the game.

Let's get started. I will begin at #9, go to #1, and then I will close with some words on some other games that didn't make the numbered list.

9. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Note: your player character will never have torn-up clothing or use his claws like in this artwork/like the enemy worgen do

I'm just going to list Cataclysm here because, frankly, I don't even want to discuss WoW at Shadowlands and beyond... even if discussing the model update will reach into that era of content. Obviously, I don't play WoW anymore and haven't in quite a while, but yeah, I used to really enjoy it. Played it for many, many years. Probably too many.

Cataclysm was a pretty outright bad expansion, but it did add playable worgen (something I obviously wanted from day 1 after seeing the worgen mobs running around), and they can even turn into human form, which is a must for me in terms of actually being a werewolf instead of just a wolf-person, which I wouldn't even roll. That was a nice touch I didn't actually expect from the devs.

Unfortunately, the model update turned them into something far "cuter" and more cuddly than I liked, not to mention adding preposterous fur options like stripes and merle, but the human form customization was nice. Still, the model update drove me toward playing different races, like maining my kul'tiran and night elf instead of the worgen I was always ultimately pretty disappointed in, given his wearing fine armor and wielding giant weapons. Anyway, the entire game took a huge nosedive not long after the model change, so it's a moot point for me regardless.

As for the deeper worgen lore beyond "they are werewolves with a funny name": I hate it with all my heart. I did my best to ignore every scrap of that and how they are just self-parodies, to delete the Gilneas/worgen starting zone quests from my entire brain, and especially to ignore the fact that they were all preposterously British despite England being one of the last places historically to even have many werewolf legends of its own. I have an article about that here if you are interested in the topic. The game made all of these things very difficult, especially how hard they wanted to drive home that the worgen are silly posh British parody dog-people strutting around in waistcoats and tophats instead of being fearsome cursed werewolves. So I won't bother going into all that.

The mechanics are fun except for the fact that you have to wear armor and use weapons, so ultimately you just look like a beast-person instead of a werewolf, especially after the model change making them far more appealing to a certain demographic. If Blizzard had wanted to put in effort, they would have made your gear look tattered and would have made you swap to claws when you turn, but that would've been a lot of work. They could have at least added a specialized class or something and then also given it to some Horde races to make the precious Horde players happy. I don't know. I just think werewolves wearing fine clothes and armor and wielding weapons is immensely silly. They're supposed to be werewolves.

So while they are extremely far from perfect, the worgen are at least relatively fun in that, if nothing else, you can go between werewolf and human forms and run on all fours as fast as the fastest ground mount, and I am deeply surprised they did either. I immensely enjoyed both of those things during my time playing a worgen, and they helped mitigate the great disappointment otherwise in many other regards - though not enough to keep me from maining other races, especially later on. But, in the end, WoW sucks now and it's unrecoverable, and WoW Classic is a joke, so I'll never be playing a worgen again anyway.

8. Diablo II

I'm sure you were looking for this one - the werewolf druid in Diablo II (preemptive sidebar: I am not going to talk about Diablo IV). I love his design and gameplay mechanics. He's fantastic. However, he is of course yet another instance of "the werewolf must be a druid," which I personally find a little tiresome after so much of it. But hey, this was one of the earlier games to do that, so it predated a lot of the craze.

At any rate, the Druid class in Diablo II obviously gets a werewolf form. It also gets a requisite werebear because werewolves can almost never just be werewolves, but at least the werewolf does not completely suck. You can also summon wolves, which is a bonus.

While I'm not really that big on Diablo-type gameplay - I prefer either third-person or else a proper isometric, party-based RPG - so Diablo II didn't really hold my interest a lot, the werewolf druid is very fun and a very cool werewolf, the setting is great, and the werewolf suits the dark Gothic feeling and look of the game that is enjoyable and well conveyed in the first place. The werewolf druid is a great addition that I am glad they added.

7. Baldur's Gate II

Let me make something perfectly clear: Baldur's Gate II is, in my opinion, the best game ever made (only Uncharted 2: Among Thieves also makes this rank for me). Combined with BG1 to create the Baldur's Gate Saga, it is one of the best stories ever told and also my favorite game mechanics-wise, again alongside Uncharted 2 even if yes, I know that those games could almost not be farther apart in terms of mechanics. I absolutely love BG2 beyond words. Please note I am talking about the original Baldur's Gate II, as released in 2000, not the "Enhanced Edition," which is a disgrace to the game, the entire series, and a piece of garbage. It's shamefully difficult to find the original game anymore, but it's worth it over playing the EE; trust me. I'll try to spare you any further ranting on this topic, as the original Baldur's Gate Saga is something very close to my heart.

Anyway, the werewolf in BG2 is - once again - a druid, specifically a druid subclass called Shapeshifter. It doesn't really have any werewolf gameplay mechanics in that you are not treated differently for it, nor do you transform out of your own control. In fact you will be spending the majority of your time in werewolf form, which can get quite tiresome. I'm not the biggest fan of a werewolf holding normal conversations with NPCs, etc. But regardless, it's there, and I love it, and it looks awesome, and that's more than I can say for so many games. Plus, you get cool bonuses and stuff. The power of it varies over time and with the progression of your character. I will not go too deeply into it, as I am actually an insane D&D video game nerd and even today I can spend far too much time building characters and tweaking numbers and doing ridiculous tricks in D&D games to powergame. If you want just one of my credentials I beat BG2 on the hardest difficulty with Ascension and no other gameplay mods. Long story short, the Greater Werewolf is quite powerful, and it shouldn't be a detriment to your party to either be one or bring along Cernd, one of my favorite companions.

So don't listen to the people down on the Shapeshifter in BG2. You can get mods that make them overpowered, anyway. Also don't listen to my complaints about it not feeling werewolfish enough because that's nearly impossible to come by anyway if you're not playing the #1 game on this list. Go try one out. It's fun! Plus, BG2 is the best game ever made.

6. Altered Beast

What are some of Mav's favorite things? Ancient Greece, hoplites, hot men, werewolves, dragons, tigers...

When I found out Altered Beast exists and is a game wherein you play as an awesome hoplite dude and turn into a werewolf, a green dragon, a tiger-man, and ultimately a werewolf is still the most powerful of all his forms, I was ecstatic. I had to play it immediately.

I wasn't disappointed. It's a fun, unforgiving game, because it was made before video games started becoming what I think we're supposed to call accessible today. I don't know what else there is to say about the game if what I've already said hasn't convinced you to play it. The werewolf form is your first transformation, and your most powerful is a golden werewolf. Me being me, I appreciate that a werewolf form is still the best in the end instead of being outshone by other creatures, and even the other forms available are all very cool.

As I said, I really don't know what more one could ask for of this setting and gameplay. I've never been picky about genre; I play a very wide variety of video games and have plenty of fun, and I certainly had fun with this one.

(Note: I'm not going to talk about that 2005 Altered Beast remake, I like to pretend it never happened)

5. Werewolf the Apocalypse: Earthblood

I'll be the first to admit I'm far from the biggest World of Darkness fan ever, as has brought many insults my way already, but I was pleasantly surprised by the mechanics of the werewolf form in Earthblood. I will not call it the "crinos form," as that terminology is so immensely silly that I could no longer take it seriously if I did. So anyway, the gameplay actually lets you feel like a werewolf, and you even get two stances you can swap between for different combat styles instead of anchoring werewolves down to just doing one thing. I'm not going to wax on about the lore, the story, etc. - but man the werewolf mechanics really are fun. It is, of course, the main draw of the whole deal, and they didn't slouch on that element.

It's important to me that a werewolf feel powerful and also violent. Werewolves should not be cuddly, or else they are no longer werewolves. Painting hallways with the blood of my enemies as if I'm recreating the Ninja lead-up in Metal Gear Solid while in werewolf form is cathartic and a good way to give the player a sense of being a werewolf instead of just an animal-headed person. This is a very solid "play as a werewolf" game, and one of the few games that exist with the primary purpose of letting you really play as a werewolf, whether you are a predetermined character or not. Be warned, the game is notoriously janky, but if you're like me, you're enjoying the werewolf mechanics enough that you don't care - or you can be even more like me and not give a toss about "jankiness" in a game in the first place.

4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

While a significant and crushing downgrade from the werewolves in certain other Elder Scrolls entries - more on that momentarily - at least Skyrim let you become a werewolf in the base game. No waiting for an expansion pack and no waiting forever until you move on (thanks, Oblivion). However, the differences between the mechanics of werewolves in past entries and the Skyrim werewolves are many and tragic. I confess I did not play Skyrim much, partially as a result of these exact elements, and partially because I just don't spend much time playing video games anymore, among other things.

In Skyrim, being a werewolf becomes what is colloquially called an "awesome button," letting you turn into a big, strong, cool werewolf that can eat people to extend your werewolf timer. It's great and enjoyable, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't actually feel as if you are truly cursed with lycanthropy or smelly lupus or whatever silly name Elder Scrolls gave it (yes, I know the name, but that doesn't make it less silly). You have no real disadvantages to being a werewolf, such as having to worry about when you will transform outside your own control - because you never will, which is an immense downgrade in terms of feeling werewolfish and adding appropriate challenge and downside to being a werewolf. You also don't have to worry about being forced to devour a civilized race in order to sate your accursed hunger. Instead, you're doing that on purpose to turn out of werewolf form again, because the more you eat, the longer you stay transformed. Still, the werewolves in Skyrim are good - they just don't compare to previous entries. But I certainly appreciate them and the fact that they are present in the base game.

3. The Sims 3

Trust me, they do look better in game, but I couldn't find any of my own screenshots because it's been a hot minute since I played this.

You probably think I'm trolling you, but the werewolves in The Sims have always been pretty fun; I remember when the ones in 2 first came out, I enjoyed them like crazy. The ones in 3 rocked and were easily the best variant; too bad the game is relatively difficult to get running properly, and many aspects of the werewolves are delicate and easy to glitch, including your entire Sim's werewolf form design. I am not going to talk about those abominations that were added to The Sims 4, because they are some of the worst things I have ever had the misfortune of seeing and are not werewolves by any metric.

Sims 3 changed the aspects of Sims 2 werewolves that I didn't like, such as how being a werewolf altered your sim's entire personality over time and how the werewolf form always looked the same. They made the system much more robust. Frankly, the Sims 3 werewolves are some of the better werewolves in gaming, especially for the kind of game that The Sims is (expect assorted dog jokes, for example, given it's The Sims, yet it still isn't half as bad as it could be). I also love the wolf-man design; it works much better with Sims than something bigger and more wolfish. Certainly far better than whatever the hell is in Sims 4, which again, I will try my best not to talk about.

Anyway, I absolutely recommend Sims 3 if you enjoy Sims games and werewolves and want to have some werewolf fun. I'd probably still be occasionally blowing my finite amount of time on this earth playing it if I had it properly running on my current PC.

2. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

Bet you didn't expect to see this one, did you? You thought I was gonna say Skyrim as #2, right? Actually, I bet you thought I was going to say that one as #1.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is a game many would consider unapproachable today. I enjoyed it. Obviously, I played it for the playable werewolf, and I had fun! They work similarly to the ones in Bloodmoon, but, in my opinion, they still aren't as fantastic as the Bloodmoon ones. But the game does force you to actually live and behave as a werewolf - I love the werewolf hunter[s] mechanic - which, again... it's almost the only one of its kind other than Bloodmoon. For that, it gets #2 on this list.

And that means you know what makes #1, untouched in its glory, undimmed by time...

1. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - Bloodmoon

Alright. Have I ever talked about how this is the single greatest werewolf game ever made? I think I have, but let's get into it again.

I like Morrowind in the first place. I think it's hands down the best of the Elder Scrolls series and, frankly, the only one really worth dedicating much time to (forgive me). I played it when it first came out, and while I have never been the kind of person to pour hours into any ES or even any other open world game, Morrowind held my attention even as a kid - before I knew about "open world" and before it was such a buzzword - whereas other games before and after it struggled to do so or else failed entirely. Morrowind was groundbreaking for its time in many ways. And then they announced the expansion pack called Bloodmoon that would let you play as a werewolf. I was so excited I could hardly stand it, and even with my extreme werewolf pickiness, I was not disappointed. At all.

This is a game wherein the werewolves are treated as a serious threat, they are insanely rare to encounter in the wild in any capacity (I actually became a werewolf through a random encounter because I ran around on Solstheim obsessively every night rather than just becoming one through the story - it took me many nights, IRL, to encounter one), and when you do run into them, they are likely to destroy you. You are insanely, over the top powerful when you turn into a werewolf, yourself. Some would even call it stupid. I would not. You run at the speed of light and your jump turns into borderline flight. It's basically gliding. You're also preposterously powerful in general. I love it.

Most importantly of all, however, is that you are actually forced to roleplay as a werewolf. You will turn each night, and you must consume 1 victim NPC of any of the playable races. Solstheim is full of assorted enemies that will work for this, but when you go back to Vvardenfell, it can be harder to find a nightly meal while avoiding devouring any quest NPCs. Plus, you have to manage your gear before and after transformations, and you have to be sure you are never witnessed transforming. The entire system is in-depth and very awesome, making you actually feel like a cursed being that has to worry when the sun starts to set, forcing you to run far from civilization.

I cannot put into words how much I adore this game's werewolf system. Nothing compares. This is a real werewolf system, instead of "play as a wolf-person" or "hit the awesome button to become a werewolf for a little while with 0 consequences" like basically every other werewolf game out there.

So long story short, if you claim to love werewolves and want to play as one in a video game, and you haven't played Bloodmoon, then you're lying to yourself and the whole world. Shame on you.

And now for things that didn't make the list...

10. Assorted Acknowledgements

This category is for ones I don't even really have a lot to say about, but I figured I would mention them.

Terraria - You can get an item that lets you turn into a werewolf when night falls. It's pretty fun! I like the mechanics of it, plus it has a neat werewolf design, to boot. I dock serious points in this game for straight-up replacing the zombies with hordes of werewolves in hard mode, though. "Werewolf infestations" and werewolves being zombie stand-ins these days is preposterous and overdone. But I had a lot of fun running around as a werewolf and exploring, so it's absolutely top of the non-tiered list especially as far as werewolf mechanics go.

Pillars of Eternity - The "werewolf" in this game is one of several animal-person forms the druid can get, continuing the common theme in gaming of druid werewolves. The wolf is decidedly the worst of the lot, less useful even than the prey animals available. Put bluntly: they are basically terrible, and you're an idiot to ever use this form when there are so many build options available. There are also lots of other RPG options available. As in other games out there in the world. You should play those instead.

Guild Wars 2 - You cannot actually play as a werewolf in Guild Wars 2, but I figured I would mention it because lots of people do. If you want to roll one of the Norn giant race, either as a pretty giant woman who is the mommy stepping on you from some men's dreams or as the ugly tiny-headed cartoon men, you can get an ability to turn into a werewolf for like 30 seconds; it's far from exciting. And like so many werewolf abilities today, it comes with the option to also turn into other humanoid animals with different abilities. I've heard that, of them, only the cat and bear are useful, which is not a shocker as video game logic goes (game devs think wolves straight up suck at everything lol). I didn't play a Norn during my stint with Guild Wars 2 - I played a male human. He's Nolan North, so he's obviously the only choice and also why I played the game as much as I did.

The Elder Scrolls Online - This disgraceful abomination of a "game" is terrible in every way and could not have been a bigger disappointment on the promise of an "Elder Scrolls but MMORPG" concept even from the very beginning. It was never good, it only ever got worse, and I am happy to say I abandoned it long ago (I am not happy to say I was playing it in early closed beta because of the promise of werewolves - and I played it far more than I should have, so I am not coming at this from ignorance). It is a game with designs so ugly and unremarkable that you want to quit and walk through the woods just to remind yourself beauty still exists in the world. ESO clearly had no idea what direction to take itself in from the moment it dropped, and it certainly was never created with the pretense of playing like an Elder Scrolls game but being massively multiplayer. It has no sense of mood or atmosphere whatsoever and possesses writing that will make you long for the riveting tales in other low-rent, low-thought MMORPGs. You can play as a hideous weird sad werewolf model that is absurdly small (most likely smaller than the race you are playing as, which means you actually shrink when you transform) and should have been left in beta, which functions like a worse awesome button werewolf than the ones in Skyrim, because you also suck gameplay-wise especially depending on the dev's mood with the meta. It is terrible, as is everything about the game. ESO also went out of its way to completely wreck all previous Elder Scrolls werewolf lore that was actually really good. Anyway, don't play this. Your time is worth more than that, even if you don't think it is.

That covers some of the best! Requisite apologies if I didn't include your favorite.

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[exhausted-archivist]

The Veilguard Preorders, Phyical Games, and Merch

So I am a physical game person, always have been and always will be so long as digital platforms can just rip away the game you paid for under the guise of you "renting" the rights to play. Anyway, I've been digging to figure out what is going on with the bundles and preorders.

Here's what I've found:

There are four main sets: - The Standard Edition (just the game) - The Deluxe Edition (transmog cosmetics - meaning skins, you put over other armor) - The Vyrantium Set (Steel case, metal print, notebook, collector's box) [No Game] - The Rook's Coffer (Lyrium Dagger, Thedas Map with Quiver Tube, Rook’s Deck, Potion Flask, Enchanted Die) [No Game]

It depends on where you are. Some regions, like Australia, do have the physical game with sets like the Vyrantium Set

Some retailers like Gamestop do include the digital version of the game with Rook's Coffer.

Some Gamestops in certain area are saying the deluxe version comes with the Vyrantium Set, but the website listing does not echo this.

The Vyrantium Set is next to impossible to track down a retailer providing it. The BioWare store at one point listed it for sale, but has since taken down the listing.

Whether you preorder or not is up to you, I am not going to entertain the conversation on whether you should or shouldn't preorder aside to note three things I've seen about crunch, strike, and the firings.

They took steps and effort to reduce the amount of crunch for the project. It is important to note that any project, creative or otherwise, will always have a degree of crunch. Not all crunch is bad, but there is bad crunch. BioWare devs have commented on steps taken to reduce this.

The SAG-AFTRA strike for video game voice actors has not called for a boycott as of 08/16/2024. There is nothing, as of now saying that purchasing the games is crossing the picket line. You can check the Video Game Strike FAQ for Fans to see what they are asking for with regard to support for the strike.

As of now, the devs fired have not called for us to boycott the game in terms of not preordering or even buying in general. Please be mindful some of these devs are in a lawsuit with BioWare last we heard.

I understand the sentiment and support for these three topics. But for the last two of these we need to listen to those involved, boycotting in support of them can actively cause harm to their causes.

Other than that, I personally do not like how messy of a roll-out these preorders have been nor how hard they are pushing for digital game purchases. BG3 set a precedent of selling collectors separate from the game, which I do think has its place in terms of digital game buyers. However, we need to be mindful of how companies go forward with this. I think this could have been handled much better, and am frustrated and disappointed by this and their pricing.

[dw-flagler]

Eureka! Investigative Urban Fantasy... spoilers? (can you spoil a ttrpg?) below? basically if you haven't read the eureka rulebook yet don't read this. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

okay? okay.

I think you could make spider-man into a Eureka! vampire. I think you could do it and it would work really well. It came to me in a dream.

I'm serious. don't look at me like that. I'm serious!

Okay, so last night i had a dream about spider-man fighting benito mussolini, who was a vampire for some reason and also had an army of gargoyles. Not... totally sure what the, uh, point of that dream was. but that's not the important part. the important part is that partway through the dream i realized that there's a weird amount of similarities between spider-man and vampires according to the Eureka! Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook.

These can't have been intentional. Seriously, think about it! Spider man:

can stick to walls and ceilings, that's like his #1 super power.

is far stronger than a human should be, but still not, like. the hulk. (it varies a lot writer-to-writer, but usually his limit is a car, or if it's not he has to strain a lot to lift more)

Is highly resilient to physical injury, able to take incredible amounts of punishment before finally giving up the ghost. (there's some wiggly bits but it mostly works)

One time he did canonically die, after... a lot. I won't get into it but he was, like, the Wound Man by the end of it. But most importantly, he came back to life after a while and showed up a year later (I guess he was out of eureka points). That particular issue wasn't actually good but let me have this okay

can be sneaky if he so chooses to be, despite the bright red onesie. Like weirdly common that spider-man is very good at moving around undetected.

"appears animated," "choppy framerate" SPIDERVERSE!?

Vampires don't have spider-sense, but neither do several iterations of spider-man! The first one that comes to mind is spider-man 2099, who just has "enhanced senses!" He also had sharp teeth and people thought he was a vampire.

you might think "oh but he wouldn't have webs" but no! usually the webs are a thing he invented irrespective of the super powers! so that's not a point against it!

Okay there's not actually a lot here but i have to make this work. please. it's destroying me

But the biggest thing for me was that basically everyone around him seems to suffer horribly all the time, sometimes specifically because he's spider-man and sometimes randomly, what is seemingly just cosmic happenstance punishing them for their mere proximity to him! There must always be a wound!!!

i sent the devs at a.n.i.m. an ask about this but they ignored it. possibly because i sound like a raving lunatic grasping at straws.[1]

[1 off to the side in the final formatting] possibly because i am a raving lunatic grasping at straws...

Something else you have to consider is that the backstory fits, too. Literally the only thing you have to change about the standard spider-man backstory is that the spider wasn't radioactive or genetically engineered or part of a super soldier program, it was just a normal-ass venomous spider and it just like. kilt him! or her--there's spider-women! (personally my favorite is silk, but. ... well she's a problematic fave) but anyway the point is that most of those backstories involve being Bitten by a Somehow Special Spider, or injected with Special Spider Venom, or, like, Spiderified(?) So just have it kill them! Which is what should happen in real life if a strange spider bites you. Anyway we have a religious* kid from new yawk, dying tragically at a young age.

Also, at least with the (original) ultimate spider-man series (my favorite spider-man comic series), you could totally read norman osborn** as being an older more advanced vampire and his green goblin transformation as being the vampire beast form! It even "drives him insane" or in the terms of the game it does a bunch of composure damage! The point being that being in that form is a huge drain on his stability and makes him prone to delusions of grandeur, perhaps like he was given a mission from god to kill spider-man! (which did actually happen, he did think that if i remember correctly)

Honestly there's only really one big problem with this. It is pretty big though: spider-man goes out in the sun literally all the time. Like all the time. Sure, he wears a spandex onesie that covers his entire body, which would mitigate the effects a lot, but like. The book explicitly says "only a full body radiation suit can completely negate the effects" and it's not a full body radiation suit. well some of the suits he's used are, but like the most popular one is not, it's just lycra. So if you wanted to make spider-man a vampire you'd have to work around that I think, by either making him wear a more protective suit (which has its own problems) or just not having him go out during the day unless he absolutely had to, which doesn't really work super well thematically at first glance... I mean you could do a 2099 and make the story take place in, like, gotham, or something. Maybe the sun went out? Shut up there's ways around it! You can make it work!!!

Look you can make spider-man a vampire okay. it can work. It's not a pepe silvia okay this can work okay? don't look at me like that! This is reasonable! there's a chain of logic! You can totally do it!

[kidelder]

making this post as i am extremely upset and i don't think people, esp western players on international servers realize just how harmful and racist, or more specifically sinophobic it is with how they constantly try to assign any other nationalities to the lads LIs. this is blatant whitewashing that we're seeing right now. bear with me because this will be a long post but i need y'all to read everything and think.

so recently there have been so many posts that i mainly see on x/twitter that are speculating and analyzing the LIs' nationalities, with some users even uploading LIs pics onto those nationalities analyze websites and all that, just to prove that the LIs are not Chinese. and this is where the problem starts and i don't think there's enough people that are not chinese players now that realize why this is such a harmful and offensive thing to do because these posts and these analyzed results from the websites usually state the LIs are anything but Chinese. with some users even saying caleb xia yizhou are like korean-american, and how rafayel qi yu is more japanese than anything else. a very few posts that they only see zayne li shen as chinese bc he looks chinese. now, bonus question, why do you think they see zayne as chinese? you got it right, because he has rather narrowed eyes and black hair (though they did mention he doesn't look that chinese either because he has golden-green eyes and chinese ppl only have black/brown eyes). from here, so many posts start popping up as how they see the LIs actually are. "oh i see him as russian/persian" "he looks so korean and japanese to me!" "he's definitely a white!"

some of these posts are still acknowledging the LIs as east asian, but never chinese.

keep in mind that this is a chinese game, made by a chinese gaming development company, based in china. the game has made a handful of collaborations with official departments to promote and share about chinese's intangible cultural heritage and this is likely to continue. the game devs wished the players happy chinese new year continuously for three days. now before you go all "it's lunar new year!!", i beg you to look at this post first because it's always been chinese new year, and not lunar new year as it is the wrong term to use (not because only chinese celebrate chinese new year lol). some of the irl pics that appear in LIs' moments posts are taken near the company headquarter building in shanghai, china (like the black cat with white feet pic in zayne li's moment post one time). the game talks about hongbao (red packets), yuanxiao, qixi (chinese valentine's day) and so many more that i can't list all right now and all of these are chinese cultural elements that we still keep and celebrate until this very day!!

now i ask you, i'm begging you all to answer this question: is it now not offensive anymore to be assuming someone's ethnicity just by how they look? we're coming full circle back onto where we started. you see an east asian person on the street and you ask where they're from, they say they're from china and you're like "oh you're so pretty, you don't look chinese to me!" ??

like answer me this, are you sure you're not just being racist and sinophobic? it's almost like you can't admit anything good could come from china, be it a chinese game with attractive LIs.

now before you ask why do they all have colored eyes and colored hair and even english names (and other names that fit the other locales). first of all, the LIs are not even normal humans ? one of them is literally a sea god, and he has a tail like fucking mermaids. the other is a dragon. the other is a prince from another planet and dare i say, an alien. and you want to put hair color and eye color stereotypes to this ? china has 56 ethnic groups (only 1 of them is the dominant Han chinese) and you want to tell me not one 56 ethnic groups would have tall nose bridges ? have you actually looked at chinese people or do you only think all we have are just monolids ? for example, look at celebrities from xinjiang, china. to name one of the most iconic top stars in china right now: dilraba dilmurat. (EDIT: speaking of han chinese, here's a few other celebs with such strong and beautiful features that you may think they do not fit your han chinese stereotypes: zhang linghe, fan bingbing, gao weiguang, wang churan, zhang yuxi, cheng xiao, chen zheyuan, song weilong, zhou ye, meng ziyi and so, so many more, and this list is mainly to tell you that this is why your argument of the LIs look white / other ethnicities do not stand as chinese people's looks vary significantly.)

the game devs could have done better and just standardize with using chinese names through all servers. but how many of y'all have actually tried to pronounce chinese names correctly? so many chinese who live abroad got mocked because of these 'weird' names that are 'so hard to pronounce'. it's the same kind of people who want us to stay true to our heritage and culture and use our given chinese names, but also the same kind of people who mispronounce it every time. so we adopt english names for convenience, and now you're blaming us for not staying true to our culture and we shouldn't cater because this is what happens if we cater too much. so everything becomes our fault again.

with these posts that keep denying to acknowledge the very chinese aspects of these LIs, it's just extremely offensive to watch all of this unfold as a chinese myself, because it's like you're basically saying with all these fancy cultural things, or with their extremely good looks and attractive personalities, they can be anything but chinese. it's almost like you're denying that chinese people can be good, and you're denying that you just like a chinese game's chinese coded characters?

is this just not sinophobia?

[mcjeetus0133]

Hey I'm actually friends with Krimson Graey and I just want to let you know that you're defending a fake fallout modder and a fake fallout fan and a fake gamer. AshfallDude/The Dude is not a real fallout fan, he's a parasite who sexually abused Krimson for no reason.

The Mod Author who cried "Woke"

The definitive edition of a tragic tale on Allout Monte's Icarus Complex.

Today... has not been a very good week, I'm not gonna lie. Maybe a little worse than how they usually go that also goes far beyond botched scheduling. I could go on with what the last couple of days would've looked like, originally trapped in a doomer realm. But thanks for the said last couple of days and a snap back, I can say that I definitely have a much bigger outlook on this whole ordeal because unlike him, I at least get to solve more problems that don't end with schizo alts, AI alts, and impersonation alts.

Now, of course, I am talking about Allout Monte.

Which agreeably, has been an eyesore for the last couple of days, but an eyesore worth having sacrificed because Allout Monte has been my personal crash course on to how Schizophrenic is as Schizophrenic gets. So much so of an eyesore that even Tumblr kinda had to agree with it as a specific group who definitely isn't illegally impersonating a Mod Project dead and defunct by their own hands and definitely not owned by Allout Monte, mass report all of my stuff and then proceed to stalk, dox, and even blackmail into "submission." Which is totally fun by the way.

(that is most definitely sarcasm, there are literal much more ways worse than stalking doxing and blackmail that I'd rather wish upon.)

Now, if you are a newfound newcomer who now has the honorable dishonor of seeing the words "Allout Monte" on the screen being read to you by a voice who is also not as thrilled about this as you are... today's your lucky day. Because this will mark the release of the definitive edition of Allout Monte, what you need to know, what he has done, what he can do, what he stole, and why never listening to him will be the best thing in anyone's life right now actually whether it'd be fans or regs. So if you're down for that great, if not, this is your one and only warning that cringe is coming. As we put together the ultimate timeline of Allout Monte and bring together the unfortunate self reporting narrative of the goofy goober who cried "Woke!"

So, in terms of the chronological order ranked by the need to knows and catch up games this is what happened:

It first starts off with the Fallout: New Vegas Mod "Fallout: Ashfall" a work in progress originally in the hands of several other people that did get salad tossed around by a handful of founders and creators for varying reasons. It eventually got to a group lead by AshfallDude and a bundle of other people participating. One day, Allout Monte who was the former member alongside one or two other people come together to try and make promotionals... for a mod that was not even prepped for previewing yet. It was heavily frowned upon at that time and despite it being such, they released it anyways, got in trouble, greatly ratio'd for it- because obviously, the dumbest thing you can do with an unfinished product is start promotionals over development while simultaniously misleading your audience.

For actual normal people this is where it would usually end, but no, we're not talking about normal people here. Monte was kicked for inactivity on top of the insubordination and instead of asking himself when and where "This action will have consequences" started showing... Allout Monte threw a temper tantrum, started an entire Hate Campaign one sided, and directed all of that towards AshfallDude- albeit such said one-sided hate campaign was partially successful since AshfallDude did end up stepping down during this process, however, did not come at such great costs. One example provided being Fallout: Ashfall purely dead in the water as the devs and leads dodge the responsibilty of enabling the situation in the first place, and cringefully convincing themselves that keeping this flop going with drama clout is the sole thing keeping Fallout: Ashfall alive.

Thank you for that bit, Cellblock Psycho.

On top of unwittingly killing off their own project, Allout Monte himself would later be exposed and found out to be running an entire alternative account that uses AI and AI Generated Content to make all these pieces regarding AshfallDude and the Fallout: Ashfall Group. He was in fact, so exposed, that he had forgotten livestreams existed.

Ever since then he had gotten on to schizo rant, on to schizo rant, upon schizo alts, upon schizo alts. Swearing up and down the Vatican that Allout Monte (the schizo alts) was the hero of the story and is in no way the aggravator, culprit, criminal any of that.

Despite every other person that's been within 50 miles of his stank aura for longer than 4 seconds telling you otherwise.

So that's the summary/basics of the thing, but this is where the definitive documentary starts.

Because today, I want to give you the full history, the true story of Allout Monte. (and to some extent, Krimson Graey.)

Every theft.

Every threat.

Every lie.

Every flaw and downfall.

Every. Canon Event that made Allout Monte, Allout Monte. And just wrap up the series finale of Allout Monte with this special episode. For those willing to stay to hear all of that, let us begin.

Rigged from the start

Normally, this would not be my place to bring up something like this, but considering one of the recent set of unfortunate events involved Allout and his gang who stalked and doxed an Archive Channel's Co-Worker, it's only fair that we start off with a punishment that fits the crime. And that's discovering the bitter reality that I always had a hunch was true long before the hate campaign for Ashfall started, and even longer before. And that starts off with personal life.

Originally, I had no idea about Allout's personal life. I had no intentions of ever seeing if I could discover some semblance of it, (or a realistic lack thereof,) and even in the offchance that I end up seeing it, I've always had this nagging sensation in the back of my head that it wasn't going to be pretty. Because a part of me always felt like that the life Allout Monte had lead since day one was something that always has been the most prominent establishing piece onto the whole foundation of Allout Monte. And as we know in my last coverage on Monte. Not only did the demand for of happen, I was also right.

One of my conversations with my anonymous source / "old friend" of Mr. Monte let out that, not only he was a part of a series of unfortunate events that we will be talking about in the next two chapters, but the confirmation that Allout's lifestyle he lived was deeply rooted since day one. And that's talking about the Arcade Shop.

In Allout's home town, there lies a specific Arcade Shop that is as far as I know pretty popular over there. And one of the things that he would say about to his "old friend" is that he runs the place. Which on face value would probably give you the idea that he is a self made man, however, this "old friend" found out that it was a lie and the Arcade Shop was a matter of fact, owned by his father. Making this the worst form of stolen valor and content theft you can commit imaginable. To your own father.

Now, I originally wanted to give a little bit of doubt benefits, because a part of me thought this information was too good to be true on all accounts that I was getting this kind of shit from someone who simply stumbled upon my works. So out of due diligence and to say that it wasn't a fluke, I decided to look for myself using the name drops that the source had given me... and it turned out it is true. There does exist, a Arcade Shop in a town that is Allout's Hometown, and this bit of information was right in my hands. Unlike him, I think it'll be amusing if everybody else figured it out on their own to test my bluff that this is infact real. But of course, this is one part of the whole reason of bringing this up at the beginning.

Not when stolen valor and content theft is in the question. Which those two alone would heinous enough especially in the environment of family business. But that isn't enough to dismiss the unfortunate elephant in this brand new room: the implications.

Because again, I only know now about this Arcade ownership ordeal, but I still know next to nothing about the personal life of these people running it. Let alone their wellbeing. Because if it ends up being true that his dad is dead, and he is claiming that he owned and founded the place that is a much bigger disrespect compared to if he is alive and well and probably had lived his best life by now. Just by the concept that this type of valor and credit is being stolen by your own father who runs the place. Because if he is deceased and you did all of this, Holy Christ, Allout. But this has also been as I said a stark reminder and confirmation that was once again confirmed. That this whole thing he put himself in was deeply rooted from the start. That this was something that everybody who had met, talked, and hanged about with Allout Monte was always the predetermined factor of just finding out of much a trashy human Allout Monte is. And what he will continue to show himself to be in the next few chapters we will be covering.

The Interview that overdid the ego

So we start off with the main event and the true beginning of Monte's claim to fame. And that event was none other than the fated interview with the former Fallout 2 and New Vegas Writer Chris Avellone. And the good news is that this was something that actually happened.

The good news, is that this the one thing that actually happened, that Allout Monte will ever admit, and the only thing that he will use to virtue signal, gaslight, dick measure in a dick measuring contest, and mald with in the offchance you ever wanted to question, criticize, and/or ratio this manchild.

The shitty news is that this is the only thing that happened in IRL and not in fan-fictions.

Unfortunately, whether not not this was through this exact moment, (or by safe assumption he was like this when god knows when,) this would essentially be the beginning of a mordibly ergrigous superiority complex he would have throughout the entirety of this career. From start to finsh, everything that happens now, later, and ongoing can be traced back here to this one interview. That was not only so prominent in some of these events we will be discussing, but once we finish this it will be stark reminder of what ego and pride can do to somebody like Allout Monte. And the worst part about this was that this managed to get Rooster Teeth's attention, scoring a spot at a section in their channel… that the section itself wasn't even being received well in the first place. (Apparently, it was trash.)

Implying that it didn't even get that much attention, or at the very least the kind of attention that Allout is expecting, which considering what happens later is not one expectation that should never be healthy to anyone. And one that might as well be lost to time at this point. Which morbidly implied that despite whatever happened next, a lot of what he did would not matter. Not because of his overall character, but because of the unfortunate events of giving Rooster Teeth to the Warner Brothers. Anyways…

I think there wouldn't have been any better way about it. Because a part of me genuinely thinks that this whole thing started when he sat down in that interview. The moment he went face to face with Mr. Avellone was the moment where everything went wrong, because after that, would lead to a compilation of very unfortunate events talked about soon, and the aftermath that came with reminding us what ego can do to your greatest dreams. If this had not ever happened, I believe everything after would have never happened in the first place. Give or take. AshfallDude would never be accused of being a bisexual trans man, Fallout: Ashfall would never be a literal zombie of a mod project where the only attention it demands is drama & clout, and I wouldn't have such a skeptical yet negative outlook on the New Vegas Modding Community now that I got to see the industry behind the machine.

But this is pretty much the entire true starting point to all of what will be unfolding in the interest of time and what we will be covering now.

Beginning of a content theif

This next set of events is a little mixed messages of tragedy, little bit of comedy, little bit of deserved to the eyes of some other people, but more importantly, Allout Monte's first official set of crimes he will be comitting today. And that is talking about a place known none other as "Surgarbombed!"

To the unaware, let us start with the basics, Sugarbombed was a forum group where I once originally thought was something tied to Fallout: The Frontier. Turned out that ended up not being the case and was originally a Fallout 4 Hype Forum that lasted around 2015 to 2017. Which did serve its purpose for the most part. It was originally a joint effort by a YouTuber named MrMattyPlays and an individual by the name of "Potato" who would run the servers. Guess who else was in the Forums? Mr. Monte himself.

Now on the first bit of on the surface, you would imagine that Allout Monte would be the example child in fact, he claims himself to be a Fallout Fan, and he would do everything in his power to make sure he gave what the fans needed. But that would be so far from the truth.

Allout Monte proceeded to co-opt the forum group and make it his own. From then and to the current days of 2025, Allout Monte would say that he is the owner/founder/CEO of Sugarbombed when Allout Monte never founded anything nor worked on any aspect of the forum group. Meanwhile, Potato put the entire work into Sugarbombed even when it came to finances where there were Patreon supporters who were more than happy to put some money to keep the servers live, they would proceed to pay for the servers themselves out of their own pockets keeping those servers live. So the fact that Allout Monte would spend that same amount of time just claiming that it is his own while not even paying for a single penny for it is the most psychotic work ever.

And don't make the mistake that he was giving all these barks with followup bites. Monte did not know a thing about web development, or forums, or literally anything. So he would waste yap session upon yap session saying he owned all of this while not knowing a damn thing on how to manage it. Don't also think that's the end of it, because he would also show all of the things that I said by not knowing anything about web development and forum management for the past 8 years by best bet assuming his "ultimatum" never happened. Basically attempting to bring it back to life in some way or form, by any means necessary, and luckily, a lot of that never worked. At some point during those 8 years though, Monte had success. Somewhat.

By downgrading it to a Discord server.

And this is the second and most prominent red flag that came to play. Because that old friend of Allout has mentioned before, came to visit that server once upon a dream, and that server was basically filled with nazis and racists. A crowd that in the interest of time Allout Monte would serve as a frequent visitor of towards these kinds of circles. But aside from that, absolutely like nothing akin to the former glory of Sugarbomed. After that it was basically stark reminder that Sugarbombed was just no more, and Allout Monte basically parades its corpse around acting like it's alive and stuff even having a Patreon to it that might as well be a irl recreation of that one South Park episode about Kickstarters.

You can actually find it right here.

And it's not like Allout was one of the few problems that plagued Sugarbombed another bit of that discourse was turned towards MrMattyPlays himself. Which a lot of the consensus around Matty falls under the category of things like shill business and the sorts, not having a willingness to criticize and the likes. Another would fall under a couple other situations regarding MrMattyPlays, and his management. But a lot of it basically fell under the category of shilling nonsense and the sort, essentially a lot of stuff a part of me already figured and contributed to the reasons why I felt something was off about Matty in the first place when I heard of him. But at that time, it also wasn't worth wasting all of that time over since it was under the category of basically understanding the hustle.

But at the end of the day though... Allout Monte basically stole the credit of Sugarbombed- commandeering the entire thing, and bulldozing it into oblivion (in a bulldozer he had no damn clue how to work btw,) until the former glory of Sugarbombed was unidentifiable.

Yet, here's the stinger regarding Matty and Monte, this also would not be the first time he tried stealing shit from him.

Because Allout Monte would proceed to try and front a Podcast called the H.A.M. Radio Podcast... and guess who started that first?

Now luckily this never went far and the events regarding it was basically lost to time. But the long and short of it was a little bit after, Monte tried to mog Matty with his Podcast and that like his roughly 8 years worth of botching the holy hell out of Sugarbombed didn't even work at all. It was apparently so tragic, that was why it was lost to time.

At the end of the day though, that was the beginning of Allout Monte's content theft spree. And kind of this E3 Demonstration of Monte basically exposing himself as this insane-o style clout chaser that'd basically go to things as far as being a raging asshole for attention, or in this case, unapologetic content theft.

More importantly, this would only gas him up in preparation for the whole entire schism on what was about to go down next.

Ash and the fall (1/ Borrowed time)

Now this is where we get to the main course of the iceberg, Fallout: Ashfall. A name of horrid memories, abysmal downfalls, and the world's most cringe crashouts imaginable. This is where the bulk of the entire documentary is at, this is where I have the most vivid memories of Monte and his clown shows though preferably I always kept wishing they were just fever dreams. A lot of you probably are tired of hearing about it, and probably think the same thing too, so I'll try to make introductions as brief as possible to the uninformed.

Fallout: Ashfall was a Fallout: New Vegas Mod Project akin to the likes of Fallout: London and Fallout: New California. Entirely different Fallout stories using Fallout: New Vegas's Engine Assets among their own creations to create DLC-sized and even New Game++ Experiences. Fallout: Ashfall was one of those that was to be taking place in Hawaii. And it got salad tossed around a couple other times by some management issues on top of being targeted by a goofy goober by the name of Sneedclave Anonymous. (a face we will talk about later.)

Now Fallout: Ashfall had a lot of shoes to fill, trying to build up promise, impression, and the pursuit of an entire Fallout Story in Hawaii. The only problem is trying to sort out the planning. As mentioned before, this got salad tossed around by a handful of lead developers and the sort, seemingly looking like it was gonna be in development hell until this course of events it fell under its brand new leadership for that time, AshfallDude.

And AshfallDude was someone who did a good job at it. Had a systems and everything one time, even one time stating that he had a set of rules regarding work efforts and personals that basically made overworking yourself a bigass "No." Keep this in mind as this will be a very important tool in the interest of time. Now in tragic fashion, guess who else so happened to be a part of the Fallout: Ashfall Team. Allout Monte himself.

Now his first hours of being a part of the Ashfall Team started out almost innocently enough. But rather unfortunate case nonetheless. He was recommended by a friend, which in turn, made him an apology hire. Which, consequently as apology hires go, Allout was never interviewed, question, or side-eyed what Monte was truly capable of. Now had a few prying eyes keel over Monte. Some would imagine it either be a much shorter story, or it would've panned out the same just without a much bigger outreach compared to that whole one year. Fact of the matter being that nobody regardless of it being three months ago, or even three years ago probably wouldn't have anticipated the aftermath unless they telepathically knew Monte.

Ash and the fall (2/ "Where you even at???")

Now then, we move on to the next segment of this entire episodic ordeal with the abysmal guerilla stunt that came to play started by Monte. Allout gets what he wants, the strife between getting fired and staying is over. You'd think with someone who claims to be high and might like Allout Monte, he'd put his entire backbone into the project. What Fresh claimed About against was a fluke and he was this model citizen for the “Fallout Community.” No.

Spoiler alert: this never happened.

Allout Monte would be inactive for the entirety of four to nine whole months. Almost half a year. And the bitch of the entire thing is this was not even with anything major he was just assigned a side-quest and still proceeded to do nothing about it. How much of “Nothing?”

No updates, no reports, no progress, no attendance, no nothing. Hardly attended meetings, and not even a lick of content to work with. How this became more prominent was all thanks to AshfallDude's Leadership.

When he was assigned the lead of the project, there were a concrete reality he understood off rip:

Modding is about hobby that people work on for free and that they are giving out for free. At the end of the day, the modding scene primarily consists of people would take a fraction of their time to put something together for the purpose of entertainment and never for business. So on the first few days as lead he made these no exceptions set rules basically summarized by myself who understands it clearly:

Nobody is to set any form of personals to the side in favor of working with on Fallout: Ashfall.

If anybody is currently in the event where they are unable to work on the mod for a considerable amount of time, they are to notify their higher ups beforehand if not immediately so they can assess, address, and act accordingly.

Clear cut, simple, and no excuse to say it was never done.

With these two rules aside, Allout had that amount of excuses to not find such a time to read and follow accordingly. Again, almost six whole months with no activity or contribution. And the only form of activity was when he responded to AshfallDude after he himself personally checked to see how he was doing. A week after on top of the unfathomable months of nothing, he would finally ruled out that he is to be kicked from the server, no exceptions.

But that's getting ahead of ourselves.

Because the before marks the beginning of the Fallout: Ashfall discourse, and the start of everyone's worst fever dream.

The other and only only sense of "activity" he ever did or make was out of insubordination. During the development days, everyone was focused on trying to make the project, promotionals were deemed the very last things to be working on. Because one, they were in no state to do any sort of promotionals whatsoever. There were still conceptions taking place, but a nothing was set, and they were focused on trying to get settled in. And two, making promotionals at a time like this is the last thing nobody should have on their mind. But unfortunatele enough, this did not stop a select few people.

The only few people who saw it that way, was Krimson Graey and Allout Monte. Them and a few other people they accumulated decided to do a "Leak Trailer" that did not pan over that well. When they published it. It was abysmal, rushed, and as expected, something that hardly resembled any kind of a product if not final. Practically, the number one reason why it was frowned upon in the first place. They effectively ruined a reputation that they were trying to build up in the first place. If the point was somehow that this was the case, this was the one and only thing they were good at doing. And nothing else.

The worst about all of this was the fact that everything that happens after, Shadow Raven, his hate group and everything in-between, on top of the fear being distilled into every investigative journalist of being stalked and doxed by these exact people, who claim they're doing this to fight the "woke mind virus" they swear up and down the Vatican that it isn't cope… All started because of this exact moment. One garbage take of a trailer. Destroyed an entire Mod Project and gave everyone the worst brainrot imaginable. After it was all settled, a handful of people were removed from the server for this action, which eventually lead to the last and final kick from the server Monte for inactivity.

When Monte was ejected from the server, all hell broke loose.

Petty crashouts, pettier coverups

By now, bearing in mind what I laid out for Allout's “contribution” to the ordeal, you'd think that kicking him from the server would be the end of it all. Doing nothing for that amount of time more than likely involving that same exact energy when being out of the server.

Allout Monte would just so happened to be much more active and now eccentric after his removal. He would go on to say that he was kicked out of the project for no reason at all, that it was unjustified, the lead was a dick for putting such talents to waste and that he was going to make a much more better Fallout: Ashfall in his own server. (Which he unironically did. Six different times actually.) Bear in mind once again, that this was the same guy that did nothing for half a year, and this was his reaction towards all of this. Not once was there ANY kind of evidence that indicated he ever contributed to the project. Not once did he even try to put effort into whatever he was assigned to do. Monte basically did all this as clout points just on the sole fact that he was working in Fallout: Ashfall the same way he treated his interview with Avellone.

After his meltdown is where his narrative began. He and Krimson Graey made the entire narrative that the former lead of the Fallout: Ashfall mod was this bisexual trans man who was secretly dating another dev on the team. And for a time, some people started buying into that, his own dev team turned against him, and this eventually caught in to Shadow Raven's radar. They would run along for this narrative as long as it took. Some believed it for “better” or worse, while others were remarking how stupendously asinine it was for someone to have a crashout like this. While looking at it face value with less understanding of the behind the scenes. He would make one piece “addressing” the ordeal only to be silent for the rest of the discourse. Or so we thought.

Meanwhile, during the discourse had between Shadow Raven and a few other was this entirely different channel working with him by the name of How 2 Exist Pranks and Tutorials. To kind of speedrun how this channel worked, he was pretty much a Shadow Raven Studios goon. But with much more AI. The entire schpeel of the Channel involved AI Generated content, and AI Generated videos making slop piece after slop piece towards someone who in the interest of time basically left the entire project their crowd wanted for themselves in the first place. It was initially thought that it was just one of Shadow Raven's followers who had a social outlet they could use to express that. But after putting a much keener eye on the videos in a mildly amusing, very unfortunate, yet painfully pathetic turn of events, How 2 Exist turned out to be a channel alt owned by Allout Monte who was assisting Shadow Raven fueling this ordeal.

How did we know this?

Allout made all his AI Videos with watermarks with his actual name in the videos on the top right corner. And I mean all of them.

Was there any doubts or tribulations to this claim?

Not after he purged the entire channel in a public livestream you can witness.

This was not only the most damning piece against Allout Monte and what his “crusade” stood for, but the first time we ever witnessed Monte mask off.

Put it this way, here we have Allout Monte. A "writer" for Fallout: Ashfall, ridiculed, shame because he was “putting his all” into the goals of Fallout: Ashfall. Yapping his heart out, swearing up and down that Allout Monte himself is the sheer perfect writer for the Fallout Ashfall Team who's talents were put to waste after being wronged by his own employer.

Only to witness that same exact person using generative AI into their content. All of that talk, all those threats, everything that was thought to be deemed your empire deduced to an AI content creator who was as useful as EDM Background Noise. The worst part was the channel creation date lost to time. Because if it were to be discovered that How 2 Exist was a channel made at least in 2022-23, this would basically blow the entirety of Allout's story out of the water and into the first half of the Titanic. Because this would imply that Allout's “response piece,” his claims, delusional speakings and the sort had zero meaning long before he put his own two and two together to see his plan this deep in the gutter. There would've been a chance that for the four or five months he was inactive and hardly contributing to the Fallout Ashfall Project, all of those were spent messing around with the "potential" of AI and what he could or could not do with it and how much he could get away with it and make this impervious facade that he was trying to "cook."

That was when, on that day, I finally understood Allout's life. Allout is best described as a talentless liar that tries to buy time for things he never has a chance at winning. If not that, he was also someone with the worst superiority complex imaginable, thinking he is above anyone and anything especially with other moderators and higherups.

The MSART (Monte Schizo Alt Response Team)

After this discovery was made, a new pattern started to emerge. Every now and then, freshly made accounts come in either claiming to be associates or best friends with the same exact accusations that were spewed numerous times, debunked plenty more times, and were laughed at as long as it took for them to back off and purge their account. Even allegations that were debunked but were regurgitated at least five to seven times.

The more accounts they make, the easier the dots connected, the better understanding that came together. That these alts were, in some shape or form, owned by Allout Monte. It was made more prominent when it came to alts that were further out into other outlets. Sneedclave Anonymous from Twitter, among other names, who would basically hold up the claim that the lead dev was Bisexual, Trans and Jewish, a "Fake Fallout Fan" seeking to destroy the community. While unironically being the worst Fallout Fan imaginable.

During the remainder of the discourse, Allout basically had an entire alt ring that was co-hosted by Krimson Graey and a handful of Ashfall Devs who were "converted." In which during my thoughts, in hindsight, I've considered them to be described as bystanders who only knew how to keep an eye for any professionals wanting to intervene.

Regurgitating and spewing the same exact nonsense that he had always been doing since he was kicked from Ashfall. He never did any kind of self reflection, introspections or retrospect. All he was ever stuck at was the day the former Ashfall Lead rued the day he got kicked from the project for doing absolutely nothing. The only question was how. As a matter of fact, it'd probably be much more wiser to talk about his alt Sneedclave Anonymous.

Sneedclave Anonymous was another prominent figure in the discourse, his account dated longer back than Ashfall. But he was pretty much someone hidden in plain sight. SneedAnon originally started as a shill for the Fallout: The Frontier, defending tooth and nail until either the listener gives them a reason to shut up or they give up entirely. He shifted his focus into Ashfall around 2021-22 saying that Ashfall in some shape or form, made an “assassination effort” towards one of their affiliates. In the later days, he would hyper-focus on Ashfall basically acting like a free automated account if not an obnoxious parrot harping on the allegations that were far debunked long before. We originally considered, like H2E, an entirely different person or at this point a bot that set up by somebody else. But I paid attention closely, and noticed the pattern.

Allout as previously mentioned, was overtly narcissistic, egotistical. Any chance he got, he'd basically glaze himself until people got tired of it. And that is precisely what Sneedclave would do for hours, days, weeks on end. Even if there were many people who were piling on against Sneedclave. He'd still claim specifically that Allout Monte and Krimson Graey are the ones innocent. Regardless of credibility. In short, there has to be a point of time where if you regurgitated something for the fiftieth time, it was probably time to consider a Plan B.

Even beyond the fiftieth time, Sneedclave would still go on, referring to old videos, terminated videos, or resources that either never existed or were never present since 2021. And soon enough I've already deduced that Sneedclave Anonymous was overseered by Allout Monte.

There were some speculations that came to play in terms of whether or not this was owned by Allout Monte. Some I knew people would start asking, if they wanted to cross ref what I had down so far, which I am more than willing to provide here.

Theory 1: Sneedclave Anonymous was truly a remnant of a Fallout: The Frontier dev and/or zealot partaking in the Ashfall discourse.

Learning about Fallout: The Frontier and the Sneedclave as a whole, there were considerations to think just that. But an aspect of it indicates that some pieces about it may or may not add up as vivid as it should. For basic context, Fallout The Frontier was a DLC Mod that had an abysmal release, with an even heinous crowd. Various horror stories came about it ranging from derranged NSFW works circulating, development hells, and unhinged track records of developers. When those surfaced and The Frontier Devs in deep water, their ultimatum was: take everything that they manufactured themselves and pin it onto somebody who wasn't even involved in the writing development of the mod to begin with. After that, it seemed as if everyone either phased out of existence, or tried to rebrand to the best of their ability disassociating themselves from their work. If it was a remnant, a lot of whoever would be supporting it would think twice, three, maybe even ten times before tagging in to defend their biggest fan. As it stands, their frame, cover-up and evading was what made their affair feel resolved and therefore lack any reason to worry about coming back into the fray whether incidentally or intentionally. Therefore zero reason to ever worry about it to begin with…

If it were to be a remnant of some sort, why risk any exposure by defending somebody who wouldn't even give you the time of day after all they did for themselves alone?

What would they gain from masquerading as something they'd represented in the past if they knew it would pin it back to their "past life" if they were not careful if not incredibly stupid about it?

Now is it still possible, to an extent, but with this theory in mind and also Allout Monte in mind would give a much more lunatic implication that I'll be talking about later.

Theory 2: Sneedclave Anonymous is a zealot of Allout Krimson, and/or the converted Fallout Ashfall Dev Team that is effectively using a defunct group as cover.

This was something I considered too before calling Sneedclave and any other alt an Allout alt. But there were two things that were basically involving unrealistic expectations and assumptions out of Allout Monte:

Allout, apart from his comandeered Sugarbombed forums has any sort of "friends" apart from Krimson, Abrams, and/or Cellblock, who'd be more than willing to help him out. (More on that later…)

Allout found people more competent than him to run a channel while yapping his psycho sayings who won't even question it for a second and actually get away with telling the difference- on top of being totally okay with being associated with the world's worst sociopath. Which again, follows the keyphrase "braindead is, as braindead gets."

One thing to note, is that Sneedclave was too consistent. If I were to be somebody defending Allout, (and knowing some of the tactics from lifestyles I shunned in the past,) the wiser thing to do would be spicing up the tables by making new outlandish stories to work with. And definitely not involve the same six different allegations debunked, laughed at, and ratio'd. Certainly, there were some that tried to be different, but they were effectively an absolute cut and paste of all of Allout's sayings. More importantly, this is working under the assumption that Allout managed to get equally dumber people who'd believe in him to be magically skilled in covering tracks or even manufacturing lies in the first place. This would give the indication that yes, Allout Monte owns it, but he's puppeteering husks that won't mind being human shields to content thieves.

As previously mentioned, Sneedclave was too consistent, (a very important keyword and trait,) yet less diversive. (ha.) For example: The allegations that AshfallDude is a bisexual trans man remained the same for the past five or so months. The one and only change that was made was that they decided to call him Jewish on top of that in the sixth or seventh month into the discourse. Not to mention that it only made Allout's on-brand schtick more prominent in Sneedclave Anon's soul of the channel. In that twisted fit of self-report would fit the criteria of Allout Monte running the account since again his friend group usually consists of sauerkrauts and racists who find no problem in racism. With nothing left and six feet in the gutter, you can probably imagine why Allout Monte's grift was just dead for so inexplicably long.

Let alone finding a lack of people to ever be called psychopathic to follow his lead. But another important and hilarious notion and indication was the egregious amount of self glazing.

Because Allout Monte and Krimson Graey (on top of another face we'll talk about soon) are the two people people partaking in the one sided cope fest spewing some of these, the problem was that they were the only ones talking about this and feeding their one sided cope fest that had lost numerous times while failing to hold a candle to about anything. Meaning nobody else was chiming in implying that either the hate group had the worst commitment issues imaginable, or Allout Monte and Krimson Graey were actually the only two "competent" people in that group that knew how to write the same three different stories. Great.

Even if everybody knew they were flaccid lies, Sneedclave A would still try to make a circle-jork-fest with Monte and Company. Which was just more reasons on top of a fustercluck cake.

Which eventually, many people caught into the idea that Allout Monte was Sneedclave Anonymous in some shape or form that we've yet to understand and will go over in a minute. But when people started calling him out for it, boy did he fight baby tooth and nail to gaslight anyone who was interested in assisting the effort of putting two and two together. One example was how Sneedclave Anonymous was known to swap between posts being written by humans and posts written by AI. An implication, previously mentioned, that not only was this owned by Allout Monte but this was a co-host with him and somebody else, with a best bet being Krimson Graey. Allout was effectively giving everything to us while also not even giving anything to us and hiding behind glorified yap sessions that are usually just enigmas of cringe nobody cared to read about.

Remember what I previously said, that Allout was a talentless liar? That's where this trait comes to play, because the bitter irony of Allout's grift and these one sided battles he puts himself in was always what lie to put through the ringer. Or lack thereof. And all he ever saw was one of the most dumbest dilemmas in the market. So dumb in fact, that you just have to beg the question of what part of it made it the way that it was making the choices.

If Allout were to outright say that he is Allout then and there, like a sane and sensible human being making the right choice and not the dumbest ones like how he totally (in)consistently swears that they're not, it'd definitely put the entire façade to an end right then and there. But of course, that'd destroy his reputation. Or whatever's left of it. Or what non-existent astral projection makes it a reputation. In his case it wouldn't have mattered in the first place. But for whatever reason, it was like he got shell-shocked by the 2012 movie every time there were cases where he had the chance to confess that he was Allout Monte.

If Allout were to not confess and keep the façade up despite every single bit of debunking, then he'd better start praying that he's a more competent actor than he is a writer. (meaning dropping the Chat GPT. Which you'd think he would after getting caught with his AI alt.) People will start noticing those traits, changes and the sort, take note, and you'd be giving them no choice but to have them think that Sneedclave Anonymous is indeed Allout Monte. Yet with no defense, proper deflection for an offense for that, you're pretty much stuck with the same four things you had to stick with long since you were thrown for being exposed as a liar. His whole debacle was best described as six lies zero truths, but you have to replace a truth with a lie with every round.

The Friend List Intermission

Since we've gotten ahead and cover his more prominent alts, we can actually put a bookmark on the alt narrative and go over his friend circle before we cover the end, aftermath, and semi-conclusion. Since we are nearing the end anyways. A quick intermission and an "In Memoriam" of the many people willingly letting somebody like Allout Monte drag everyone and everything into oblivion and a bitch-less life.

Because chances are you could be imagining to yourself:

"Well how bad can Allout's friend group get?"

"There's no way it's as extreme as you're making it out to be."

"I've seen loony bins like this before, what are the odds that Allout and his group are equally as heinous, slow, and asinine?"

That's the neat part, you already know you're going to be proven wrong.

The good news is that you get the scaling level of tame to most unhinged.

The bad news is that it's going to be the smallest scale you've ever witnessed.

Krimson Graey

Now as you recalled recently in past works, Krimson Graey was somebody who is Allout's most involved friend in his circle. He was who actually made ultimatum on AshfallDude where he threatened him to kick another Ashfall Associate from the team or he were to leave with everything that was attributed, and he was the one that helped fabricate the narrative on AshfallDude. Among other things. Now with someone holding a title like that in Allouts circle, normally, you'd think he'd be as insufferable as Allout would be in just being the most loudest and delusional loony in the house. But contrary to that, he was reasonably chill.

Discounting the soft-insubordination problems.

One of Krimson's "semi origin story" of the one-sided hate campaign was that Krimson was a lead writer for the project when he started a habit of ignoring AshfallDude’s inputs. In the beginning, his main issue is that if he didn't like an idea AshfallDude had for a character/storyline/etc, he would just not tell the other writers about it, which effectively got to a point where he basically defeated his own purpose as a lead writer and stopped being a lead writer altogether just for the fact that he was taking orders from AshfallDude. As if some of these cases could not get any dumber by the milisecond.

He would refuse to talk to or coordinate or quality control anything being made for the mod. There was even a point in time where AshfallDude had to bring Veta Phoenix in to do the jobs he refused to do. Krimson would only agree to and/or O.K. ideas for the mod if people besides AshfallDude came up with the idea. From what other former writers told him, if they came up with an intentionally batshit idea and said AshfallDude hated it, he would push for it extra hard. It would be a pretty ergrigous trend throughout his Ashfall history.

Which at that time sparked a joke within a group one time where somebody (who AshfallDude desired not to name at the time of discussion. I think I know who, but I’m not risking it) made up an idea that the Legion built a submarine that doubled as a rocket ship, which Krimson shot down as being dumb, but then immediately went all in for it when someone told him he also hated the idea. Which to that dismay all of these events listed were of what happened after the trailer incident. He was overall described as being somebody who insisted that he knew best even when he really didn't.

All things considered, he was actually considered pretty decent. If whatever he was good at wasn’t overshadowed by how he refuses to just leave AshfallDude the hell alone.

Or his friends alone.

Or how he keeps going around the general public saying AshfallDude’s publicly trans.

Or the best cherry on top, how he started off begging AshfallDude and incessantly nagging him to give Graey the role of lead writer.

(just to ironically, let that entire briefing on himself above happen.)

But as you can imagine with everything else, he was Allout's accomplice helping with alts, making loony bin takes, and just outright ensuring that AshfallDude's life was a living hell… because they released a shitty trailer nobody liked and was never told to do. And got fired for it.

Apart from all of that he was also somebody with a failing voice acting career to the point where he'd probably send you death threats if you side-eyed him the wrong wait. Which he did. Once.

Maybe twice. Or more...

Anywho, decent portfolio on Allout’s Top Reference in his lovely resume as the first. But that’s far from what the others have at the table in Allout's friend circle. Like I said, this is the only tamest member in his friend group in terms of humble beginning.

Welcome to hell.

Abrams/Aehab/AehabCries

Abrams… I originally approached the idea that, considering the accounts of him being a gooner and the sorts, that I was going to get the run of the mill incel nonsense. Y’know, the ones with the likes of misogyny, wife beating, those sorts of things. But after AshfallDude’s description of Abrams when I asked him about it sometime ago… I’m just going to let the discussion where I originally was asking if he had evidence of these actual fan-fictions between Abrams and AshfallDude existing do the talking on this.

So… yea. Certified gooner.

And number one resource provider of Sneedclave Anonymous. And once again, by that Allout logic he is providing, might as well be true. One of the running themes you’ll be getting out of these is that Allout’s friend circle partaking in the loony-bin nonsense and then turning around to do the 4chan textbook special of “itsa joke.” This was something where it was god awful impossible for Abrams to follow that 4chan textbook move.

Especially when Sneedclave Anon presents things that not only fit the criteria of Abrams himself or anyone else in general, but the sole fact that he never even bothered addressing, or at least personally acknowledging it. Or hilarious of all, give everyone an indication that it might be true. Which as you can tell, this same dilemma that is presented to Allout is not exclusive to him. He's tried multiple times to sell the idea that this was not him. And exactly like Allout, fails to present any kind of indication or proof to those claims. While also half-assing himself between being a part of the discourse and not being part of the discourse by pretty much doing the same strats Allout would do. Just with a little more indication that they much much more things to hide than crusty hard drives.

But that's getting ahead of ourselves. Somewhat.

As it stands though, he’s still trying to spam the signature 4chan of nuh-uh when… it’s kinda on the walls. And probably some other stuff I'll spare the details on. Just keep him on your personal watchlists on who the hell to stay away from.

Pomen

Pomen was not somebody in the Fallout Ashfall debacle group so far, (or so as far as theoretical copes say,) he was infact the only verified follower of Sneedclave Anonymous. Does he sound like somebody who can, would, and probably has been mutuals with Allout Monte? Indefnitely so. Why is he getting featured in this list? Let these posts do the talking.

Moving on.

Saint Floyd

This one is a very special case. Not because of the near blatant obvious of trying to sell themselves off as a christian minecraft server themed christian minecrafter. But that he’s selling himself off as a christian minecraft server themed christian minecrafter and the most friendliest fascist that hates Jews as he said to AshfallDude during a tabletop game session with a few people.

Don’t take my word for it, take this discussion and profile overview of SaintFloyd.

Apart from that there isn't much to go off of unless you want another rabbit hole following a case in Fallout: Unity who in an awkward turn of events once had a petty crashout against a different mod solely on the fact that the two share the same open permissioned resources to help build it.

Whether this was addressed or not in the end is uncertain, compared with Ashfall, it might as well have been dismissed faster that anyone could say "hypocritical irony." Or that it was a dispute so asinine people have chosen to blot it out of there memories with more happier thoughts and greener pastures.

For the sake of convenience, and the hope that it does not go into any further cringefests to be dragged into the near future, I am hoping that is the latter. In any case, now would be a time to get a move on to our last.

Urias

Urias was originally meant for another document that I intended on remaking. But considering what has happened recently, I don't get that luxury to cover it that way. Yet, lucky for us, this would be marking the end of this intermission I put together. And a key figure to what happens next. Urias was never deemed as a friend of sorts, he was considered more as the most hollow human shield used by Allout Monte, Krimson Graey and any and every alt they ever owned.

What kind of hollow you ask? The kind of hollow that in every sense of state of being baseless and has nothing to do with the Ashfall discourse in the first place. Or literally in general. Yet they do it anyways because… reasons. I guess.

To get a brief understanding on what we're theoretically working with here: Urias was an individual who was feared by many of the Fallout New Vegas Modding community. In short informal terms, Urias is described with the likes of Sauron, Vader, but more populary, the Icon of Sin.

The only feat about this personification of this Icon of Sin?

He never existed.

Urias never existed since 2021. Long before the Ashfall discourse, long before anyone which made for a reliable quick stray Allout and his group frequently uses. Urias is more accurately described as a human shield made out of pure glass. There is effectively nothing about him, yet easy to see through what they were doing behind. With any and every question concerning, debating, or testing his existence shatter his shield and have it reduce to atoms. And even if there was anything about him, there isn't even a crumb about it happening.

The usual stick of Urias is that he is tied to various misdeeds, crimes, and misdemeanors. Ranging from being a public nuciance on Discord servers to even stalking and potentially doxing Fallout: London writers invloving love letters( I think?) and the sort. The problem with about every single one of these cases is that there is absolutely nothing to show for it. No documentations, no evidence providing them, and even the people who are part of it certainly know next to nothing about these cases.

The one and only documented event of Urias doing something heionus is as simple, easy, equally perplexing, and overall semi-funny. And it follows as this:

Urias reaches out to a member of the Fallout The Frontier Team

Urias sends him an artwork of Deathclaw Pornography in his DMs

And Urias proceeded to call him the signature homosexual slur

And leave.

That's it.

The entirety of the rest of its history has basically been lost to time and out of the open. And the bitch of the entire thing has effectively been the implications, indications, realizations, and epiphanies behind it.

Because the fact that this is the only event that happened and was ever recorded and the rest in blind accusations and mass hysteria clearly indicated that if this entire case is the only reason that makes this whole ordeal with using Urias as a scapegoat asinine, it gives all the more reasons to not believe them and then dunk on them into oblivion for being the most braindead liars wasn't imaginable. Especially when you dumb the entire situation down to being demonizing somebody through one life event.

Like for all the intensive purposes of speculation, Urias could've been just one dude who's like the most reasonable guy imaginable, the you'd least expect and know for a fact that he doesn't have a life Sir Schizolot yaps about and the reason why they did it was because it was out of a intrusive thought.

But everything else about it after that, pure open season comedy to see somebody like Sneedclave Anonymous and to an extent Allout to mald so hard about such an event, that he had to fabricate these multiple narratives to get his getback on something and someone he wasn't even a part of- and in every way possible, impossible to be involved to begin with.

It even gotten to the point where people have proactively framed others for being Urias, and these types of things starting as petty crashouts. Zapshock being the most hilarious example who got framed for being Urias over a petty crashout over open-permed assets that might've or might've not gotten mistaken for somebody else.

And on top of that, is one implication that gets to me regarding Allout = Sneedclave. If there was ever history between him and Fallout the Frontier, everything about what Allout did would make much sense. From his meltdowns, to his content theft days, to his AI content, and the sort, all of that would just make all the more reasons why Allout Monte was such a threat to the entire community in the first place. Maybe even the Fallout Ashfall Dev Team who blindly believed in Sneedclave Anonymous.

Now was there any evidence between him and The Frontier? Not any that is considered presenting or has any reason to present itself. Or at the very least any that is blatantly obvious. Sneedclave Anonymous was founded in May of 2021, meaning that it is not in the realm of impossibility, but the odds would never be at 0% all the same.

How not to self report

Now we're getting close to the end of the Sneedclave Anonymous Arc, as mildy entertaining as some of us want to pretend it to be, such things have endings for a reason. And I'm sure a lot of us are begging for it at this point, if we want to put the brute force honesty in our mouths.

Now as previously mentioned, after enough schizo posts, psycho hearings, and loony bin pillow talks, each and every participant in the discourse had each and every idea that in some shape, some formality, some chance, Sneedclave Anonymous was owned by Allout Monte through it all. Each reasoning, and indication varied, but the consenus was consistent. One example I know, as previously mentioned, was a mutual of AshfallDude who noticed that some of his posts were a flip flop between AI and Human. Indicating that in some shape Sneed was owned by Allout, but was co-hosted by somebody else. One who may or may not be more competent than Allout, but by best shot that it was Graey. I guess in a hindsight retrospect, we were waiting for somebody to make the call to actually put the two and two together… And somebody did.

And most importantly, it was a fustercluck. After that first stone was thrown, everybody started throwing it at the glass house they surrounded at a safe distance, and everything was made much more clearer. The patterns became more prominent and the hilarious part was that there were even cases where he basically "gave up the game" actually acted like, or responded "properly" like Allout Monte.

After these sets of events, this was where I came in.

The people I associated with once part of the discourse, understood that the grift has been made, and decided to set it to the side and let them be at their own devices after three or so more back and fourths that had Allout bodied, and others gave up entirely knowing full well that Allout being dumb as hell is probably gonna never figure it out on his own in a hole he dug for himself. However, I understood that odds are one way or another, the documentation about these could be outdated, maybe a few months later if not more than a year. There was much to cover, things subject to change, and more importantly, goofy goobers who could not shut the hell up for the life of them. What was even worse was that Allout with the help of Krimson made more alts, and even stalked and doxed an Archive Channel a part of the whole ordeal.

I opted in to call it out, and that's what I started doing. One hilarous day, they started running YouTube Alts, specifically under the name Fallout: Ashfall is Woke! And on the next after Christmas Break (yes, they dragged this on through Thanksgiving and Christmas Break) they thought it was a good idea to announce that they were doing a supposed three hour documentary covering the Ashfall Drama exposing their former lead, and just for the shit of it, announced that Krimson Graey will be voicing the ordeal. (Because let's face it, Graey needs this to avoid even less reasons to awknowledge that he has a failing voice acting career.)

Not only did I call out their bluff, but on the 25th of December at 2:14 AM, I published my entire documentary on Sneedclave Anonymous with everything we had another week later. Not only did they never release it on Christmas Day, but they had the audacity to make the announcement that the documentary was "accidentally destroyed."

How you asked? Apparently, it was replaced with gay porn.

And right then and there, that was when I was onto their game. Hilariously enough, not only did I end up cancelling their documentary, but they also effectively briefly locked down their entire Twitter Account for a total of close to a month. That was how badly I got them fucked up, that I was on top of their grift and pressed the hell out of it until it caved and self-imploded. Then came the second and only time that Sneedclave Anonymous defuncted his account and terminated it for good, which was when after I exposed the truth about Urias. Now, you'd think that with such a debunking like this, the next best option would have to be pack in the towel right? No.

Allout, after keeping in mind the months on end of swearing up and down that Urias is Zap or some other bystander that has nothing to do with it, takes it upon himself to call… himself. Urias.

I don't even think I need to write down another sentence explaining how unapologetically pathetic it was trying to sell that story to everyone else. Especially when he turned the entire gun to himself after spending months upon months upon months that Urias existed. He would proceed to purge the entire channel. Right after I managed to get the entire report on him, with full tweets and everything. Yet, this was how his escapades concluded.

Not even mentioning the incel trend of stanning the Joker. At least a Joker that was part of the shittiest sequel known to man because some dickhead didn't want to make "woke musicals."

Anyways, like all his posts Allout's theoretical final days as a LARPing alt ended just as pathetically as it started. It was basically a glorified yap session involving Ceaser & Cleopetra or some weirdo junk like that, and that this weird ass narrative he was making was trying to frame another person for an entirely new loony bin built for such an occasion.

At this point I had to assume that I was witnessing Allout Monte at his most pathetic low. Nobody to lie to, nobody to gaslight, not a single soul to believe in him. A part of it was a little poetic. Unfortunately. Still pathetic, but at least there was a reminder. I guess.

But that's aside the point of everything else, as you'll eventually learn in another entirely different segment, it was only half true that it was the end. But put in an entirely different alt impersonating another group (which you'd think some part of it would be illegal in some degree) and in comes a brand new story, in a brand new psychosis, with a brand new world order that a lot of us are totally thrilled we will be living through for theoretically longer than 4 years, but shorter than seven.

Unfortunately, that story in question might not involve me walking out of this freely.

Finally doing what you sucked at for a whole year now

Now, normally, this would be how the documentary would end. However, there's always been that one thing that Mr. Monte always has a tendency to hide behind. The one simple thing that he would always swears and treat as a holy bible it is his only video regarding the Fallout Ashfall: ordeal. The one that was supposed to be his saving grace, only to have it at the end of the schism be shown as a medal of disappointment, cringe, and a grim reminder on how not to respond to any drama that you as a matter of fact, had everything to do with. Always clung onto by the hate group, by Allout Monte, by anyone super familiar with the grapefruit glaze session in Allout's group.

Previously, I've mentioned that Allout made a piece addressing the whole thing. One 17 minute video.

Posted on the 24th of March, 2024. One year ago.

You see, the thing with that, was that when that bit was released, nobody except for you gave it the time of day. Not even Shadow Raven or any goofy goober in his circle. Not because it was abysmally ass, it was extremely abysmally ass. And to have it to the point of making a cover-up piece so garbage that neither side wanted to screw with that apart from Allout Monte. Makes me think that he is more creatively competent than I give him credit for. Almost.

This unique thing about this is the reason as to how nobody had ever responded to such an crybaby session, let alone, give any pity points towards Mr. Monte for such "selfless action." Some of the bigger known people who were talking about the discourse and in the process of exposing Allout Monte for what he truly was, didn't even give the time of day to side eye his own response video. Which hilariously implied that everyone involved had the neuron activation that Allout Monte was never to be trusted under any circumstances since day one.

But that's the problem. Nobody covered it. And for the time spent working on, talking about, hearing about, acting out on this ordeal, the sole fact that not a single soul ever evaluated the video puts enough ego into Allout Monte that he still thinks it is the sole proprietors of the Ashfall discourse, that it is the ultimate gacha moment from him that nobody ever talks about it. Simply because they were unwilling to do it.

"Setting the record straight about Fallout: Ashfall"

Between Allout Monte and myself, I agree.

It's time to set the record straight.

Since I'm on borrowed time the moment I send this to my piers and the people that need to see it, and on the topic of mutually assured destruction, today, I want to invite each and everyone of you to the moment that is long overdue and cringefully long awaited. Today is the day we will debunk that video. I figured as the last few things I do as my good ole self before the music starts, I do what I always do best and do the things the others won't bother doing. Always my forte anyways.

Now… I'm not going to make the same mistake as you did, Allout and debunk it for clout. If anything, clout was the last thing I ever wanted, all that mattered was what I said gets out to the general public as far and wide as possible. And if people believed it, good. They don't have to physically prove it, but as long as there were people willing to take a gander at these words and understand the weight of all of them is enough to know that I did my job anyways. It was always the purpose of a writer, after all too. Something that I figured you already knew yourself, Monte.

I'm also not going to be debunking this because I wanted to be the first to do it and say I did, because let's face it, it's already disappointing enough that my career ended up having to be associated with an entire hate group unwilling to take responsibility. And that self-implodes once every other three days.

And originally, I was going to say that I did this because I wanted this to represent someone who used a downfall like your own, and use the already mangled pieces to build the statue of a reformed man who almost fell into a lifestyle as decrepit, as depressing, and as unfathomably cringe as yours that actually learned their lessons. Granted, that for a moment, it did feel that way. It was never in my right to do such a thing, and frankly, that's a luxury I never want anyway considering how I got here.

I'm doing this for the love of the game and the sole fact that you destroyed lives at the end of the day. Over a petty crashout. And the systematic self implosion of you never accepting such a reality and responsibility turned out to be the best music to face for somebody like me.

Without further adieu, here's the video below to follow along for free views, let us discuss it.

0:00 - 9:25

Now, to make a mark like this might seem a little excessive, although it is guaranteed that the yap session is objectively bs anyways. This is actually considering personal tips and guidance regarding apology videos.

And yes, I'm not going to sugarcoat it, Monte, you were better off calling it "how not to set an apology video" over "setting the record straight."

At first glance I've always seen it as an "apology video" and to some who are familiar with the Pauls, or a certain CB into CP, "apology videos" has been a surefire way to give you many more reasons for people to call you an ass. If done poorly. The harder you try to sell it as one, the worse it gets instead of just… getting it over with because you don't want to be clowned at when something goes wrong if you haven't screwed it over yet. And "apology videos" are usually going to be insufferable anyways. And throughout this entire timeframe, you gave out fifty reasons by just breaking one rule: never make this about yourself.

Now it's not to say that you have to show your face, you have to open yourself up more, (although it could be extra credit, but given you are a bit of a lil bitch into full-sending about anything, even grifting lifestyles, I'd still assume you'd fail extra credit anyways,) but having the entire wiki of yourself as background for the video is not only the weirdest thing to do at a time like this, but almost makes it look like excessive flexing when you're trying to make something for a serious topic and negates everything a "apology video" is to theoretically stand for. You're basically telling your own audience: "Hey, there's some stuff circulating and going on around me, but look at the accolades that I made during the time, here's some stuff that I did in the past that's totally going to make you forget that I framed someone because I spent four to five months doing absolutely nothing. In which you may be curious about that, but I totally swear it's not about that, and that didn't happen. I'm totally innocent in all of this because I did all of those things so that means I'm free of charge anyways…"

Let's actually talk about your wiki page, since we're stunlocked here, because apart from you even outright lying in your wiki page, there's even one more lie in there that you put and even omitted not too long ago that feels like the perfect cherry on top for your overall character. And I'm going to give you like five or so seconds to look at it and make your own personal guesses for a few.

Times up, if you think I was going to call out the usual suspects like the HAM Radio Podcasts or even Sugarbombed, I'd be giving you A+ for actually paying attention in the class for once, but I'm giving you a B- for having your expectations a little too high especially for Allout Monte who's already at a F- just by the sheer fact that he's coping malding and seething at the concept I decided to debunk his trash video on the anniversary. I'm actually talking about Fallout: New California. Because you didn't lie once or twice, you lied three different times in just that amount of time.

Speedrunning here: Fallout New California, DLC Sized New Game + New Vegas Mod, it did release, don't know what happened to it, probably betting it's good, but that's not the point.

My point is your "involvement." Because your first lie was telling your own people that you claimed to be a writer for Fallout: New California, yet on your wiki page it says contributor, so were you just contributing to the writing or were you just a donator the project? That's such a weird paradox you got yourself going with here.

But wait, there's more! Because lie number three is coming.

I was actually going to be considerate, not hurt your pine needle ego, and let you be with your one little piece of cope to help you recover, but that entirely changed when I discovered the original Fallout: New California Credits List that I archived, and spoiler alert: your whole fucking name wasn't even in there.

You were not even mentioned once.

Not as a contributer.

Not as a writer.

Not as anything.

You outright lied through your teeth with stolen valor, and it didn't even take that long to figure it out, knowing everything about you with your AI hitpieces, I knew for a confident fact that you're someone who doesn't do shit. And the hilarous part is that you outright erased that whole bit when I called out for it when you had a chance to do that almost a whole year ago, and you still kept it on there not expecting anybody or anything to question it or look into it futher if you were really just some dumbass behind a Xbox Live Microphone on a toothpick throne of lies.

Again I know we're getting stunlocked into the first beginning bit, not only that it deserves this long with all I've said earleir, but let me remind you again…

Fallout: Ashfall is now a Chud circle-jerk-ring because of a petty crashout.

Fallout: New Mexico is rolling next to Wyatt Earp in his grave, not only because of a petty crashout, but because he saw another petty crashout, decided to make this about himself, and helped his potentially petty crashout bestie frame his opp as a cognitohazard during that same petty crashout and then cry to his already disappointed parents about it when he got called out for it.

In the interest of time, as your schizo alts, you'll be and still proceed to claim that you're trying to protect Fallout and all Fallout mods against perceived "wokeness" in the form of identity politics.

My brother in the Emperor's Imperium, by glazing yourself to the point it destroyed your entire life and reputation because somebody found out you lied in your resume is by definition: Identity. Fucking. Politics.

You tried to play Identity Politics so hard when your clout points got lost by getting fired in Fallout: Ashfall that it became the death of you. And you are still playing it to this day as every other schizo alt whether it'd be H2E, Sneedclave Anon, Tamriel Rebuilt Community Watchdog, or your new schizo Tumblr home that just so happened to be conviniently placed when a specific someone abused Tumblr's tolerance on mass-reporting (spoiler alert, not a whole lot. Which is why I'm here.) to destroy all the evidence. And still nobody would ever side with you because what they know, already know, and what they're willing to share with everyone else.

Anyways, thanks for the quick TED Talk, moving on…

1:16 - 1:50

Not to say that it ever happened… but considering what I explained about Krimson Graey himself… How much do you want to bet that whole schpeel with him having all these documents were stuff that was already rejected by AshfallDude? Or at the very least, he spammed the entirety of the "apology video" outright glazing.

I mean I could totally be mean and say that wasn't a thing, but given that he almost became reasonable all things considered except for those outliars I talked about… You kinda start to question what he was really yapping about with the history they made for themselves. Like what was even there and what actually wasn't. Just a thought.

1:50 - 2:30

Four to Five Month Absence. Looking at this for the first time on it's initial release date, and then looking back on it almost a year later has got to be the most depressing thing imaginable.

Because you're listening to Allout, yap and harp on and on about being the "model citizen" of the Fallout Community, while knowing everything that you witnessed all those months ago and in-between… you know in some shape, some form, he was just lying this whole time. Everything then basically getting blown over by the aftermath of today with ergrigous smear campaigns, AI… makes you wonder. How the hell was all of this worth it to him?

3:06 - 3:50

Apart from the depression levels of trying to figure out how much of it was a bold faced lie, what he half-assed and what he actually tried to do, there was a point in time where when personally talking one of his former "buds" he did end up saying that he was trying to do this huge mod project and was trying to bug the hell out of Chris Avellone for it. I mean, we both knew it was a fat faced lie, but hearing it for the first time onto here just makes it more ironic. And Chris never got into the project anyways, sot it kinda makes you wonder how that discussion actually went, especially when again, we have Sugarbombed to talk about.

3:59 - 4:13

"Never personally had anything against him."

Spends an entire year having each and everything against him big or small or petty.

Good job.

You can't tell but I'm giving you a thumbs up. But they're replaced with middle fingers.

Also very funny that this becomes a complete 180 after the upload was finished. I actually even wondered what was his entire thought process through the whole thing. I mean I could care so much less about it, but it's just one of those things where you can't help but just have one of those Axolotl stares.

Like you still made those hit pieces. You also made those AI hit pieces. You've proven countless times, that you lied. What are we even doing?

Actually, on the first day I actually heard of this video, I figured that the "apology video" didn't even work and now that I'm looking at it, I'm having this new epiphany, this realization now. That this did work not because it was an done "apology video," (in any sense of the word or definition or state of being) but because less people than he expected managed to get their hands on it, and much less people saw it stared at it for three seconds, and could not tell whether or not to just let it be and do something else or just tap his shoulder and be like, "what are you even yapping about?"

Because the entire ordeal could've just been said and done if you just took the L, and then buzz off to do something else, like the most asinine convoluted situation that went on for this long because it started off with being simple problems, simple solutions. And I guess it broke bruv's brain, like it was too simple.

Not even to mention that one saying about like criminals and hanging around crime scenes, I'm trying to remember what that was but I'm drawing a blank but at this point you're getting it now.

4:30 - 4:44

One this is effectively gaslighting.

Two quick story time, once a friend of mine was against this one goofy goober, I keep forgetting his full "persona" name but his last name was like "Cortez" or something (it was Red Dead Content Creation) and he was like insanely homophobic and a culture vulture and they were calling him out on it. And on the grind to be an ally, I should say, one of the red flags that I learned was not even saying the whole minority group name properly like the whole LGBTQ+ name. I mean, the one exception I usually make is like the "+" of it, because in my head the plus was just what it is: open ended. Like there's going to be a lot more community stuff where they'll debate what to add, what not to add, what to shun, what to protect at all costs and what to keep the hell away from them. That sort of thing. Anyways, the idea was the less letters they said, the redder the flag was. (In hindsight, probably not practical- but hey, people change) Long story short: Cortez failed to pass that Red Flag, he could only say that he's a friend of the LGB Community or something in that vein, and he got outted as a pedophiliac.

If you're wondering why I am talking about this now, look at Allout, look at that timeframe, look at the remnants of How 2 Exist Pranks and Tutorials, now look at the below.

Just something to put into consideration, Allout.

4:44 - 4:48

Now that I'm here one of the weirdest things about anti woke losers of these calibers is like what is this bipolar ass relationship with the LGBTQ+ community?!

For one, by now, you're probably deaf as all shit from the lie detector alarm because of the insane amount of double entendre going on with this one on top of the worst willy nilly use of logical fallacies. And of course, I'm referring to all his schizo alts owned by him where he self glazes so hard, you'd have to imagine whether or not he was the inventor of self grapefrutilation award… Let alone if he's actually bi-curious about himself. To the hate group (Ashfall Dev Team) that threw AshfallDude under the bus for this clown, you say Allout Monte is like this saint of all saints against the sins of wokeness, yet he calls himself a bisexual calling somebody else entirely different a trans bisexual, so by that whole entire logic, would he be a threat to you because he's conflicting with your fight against perceived wokeness by that very notion that he's bisexual, or are you purposefully ignoring the anti-woke code because you found a suspected bisexual who's a better than the apparent bisexual that "potentializes" AI?

Actually, don't even bother answering that, you (Allout Monte) already did it for us in your defunct Sneedclave Anonymous alt. And you (Allout Monte) didn't even bother realizing you were forgetting that you were still LARPing for the self grapfrutilation award.

I guess the upside is that some of these people have enough braincells to understand that they have the free will to like pick and choose and omit whatever they see fit and not agree with certain specifics. But by their own entire logic of this wack anti-woke code, it's literally either the entire thing or leave them alone entirely. That they can never pick the struggle on no matter how many times you try to help him make that choice.

Or here's something that might get that pea brain churning, all the bisexuals including the one you posted up as your "Messiah" of the Fallout Community go away or none at all so they can stay and vibe. It's just so weird.

5:00 - 5:25

"Oh no. I got kicked out of a mod project because of I wasn't doing anything for four to five months. I'm totally not dogwhistling that as harassment while lying and saying that it's okay to avoid the responsibility of taking an L. God save the queens. XP"

- The guy that has zero idea how to play double agent.

Very ironic if you ask me. Not saying anything else. Yet.

5:00 - 5:48

Friendly reminder that the same exact guy that had no idea what he was doing, was also the one making sure nobody worked themselves to the bone over something that costed 0$ to plan, produce, and distribute.

Also the weirdest hypocrisy going on, but at this point, I'm not even going to bother breaking down the worst example of hypocritical irony considering Allout has the worst comprehension skills imagineable. And granted that I know he's reading this in an official impersonation account that at this point he ilegally made several different times now, he's already malding hard enough and finding even lesser and lesser ways to cope.

6:00 - 9:20(-ish)

At this point, you're more than likely (myself included) at the threshold where you're re-experiencing having a conscious for the first time. But instead of having every single thought, question, shoot through your nuerons it's all replaced with every single "What the fuck is even the point?" Thought with everything I've shown you throughout the whole thing.

Like you just never know. And you'll never get to a point you'll know on the sole fact of the amount of lunacy to get from Point A to Point B.

There's also some hilarious points I like to laugh at too. Around like the seven minute mark I believe, he starts talking about Sugarbombed and how it's a even more complicated story than Ashfall and and that's going to be a video for another day… Its been a whole year. And he never made that video.

My literal working game theory about this was right at the moment he said that and hit upload, Allout Monte finally got the audacity to actually grow two more braincells. One to remember the absolute content theft fest Allout Monte committed with Sugarbombed and where it's at now, the other to have this insane-o style panic attack that resulted in running an AI alt, a schizo alt, and an entire chudlogic big brain plan to never make that video and not take responsibility for stealing credit and robbing his own community blind. Yet here I am, I know everything about Sugarbombed now, and he's trying so desperately to try and dance around that until his tap-dancing takes him to the grave.

Anywho...

The other portions of the worst “apology video” status video I've ever seen just involves unironically shittalking his employer where about the eight or so minutes ago (at this point might as well be two hours ago for how long this dragged on for) he was saying he was chill, and that you have nothing against him.

Biploar ass behavior btw.

The rest of the video (I tortured you long enough)

I think I tortured everyone in the classroom long enough so I'm going to speedrun the end of it. From like 9:25 to the rest of the whole video, Allout picks up the last discussion he has with AshfallDude before and during the process of getting the boot and it's so hilarious watching him spin, twist, and like lightly crash out on this entire narrative he was fabricating. The actual section of the first discussion was basically AshfallDude starting, coming in saying “hey, so I'm confirming we don't have this guy working with us anymore, you're being assigned where he left off, but there's some stuff here that some of our crew want you to double check on and just make sure that it meshes well…” that sort of thing and he's not saying it in any specific way he's just talking like you'd imagine how people in semi-professional workplaces actually talk, which I'm surprised that you even a lite crashout to professional talk like that, Monte, I thought you said you were the model citizen doing all this professional work, talking the professional talk, for the entirety of like 11 years at best polite bets, yet here you are getting pressed at the concept that somebody is professionally talking to you the way that you did and that… set you of?

(I mean I know there are cases where my public speaking kind of goes all over the place and my articulations are never perfect, but when I actually sit down to take a guess, evaluate and lock in, I actually do that and know when I'm screwing something up. Like it's one of those things where it kinda makes sense as there being no wonder how people never take you serious as a writer more than you are the worst content thief and grifter imaginable.)

Even all the way to him giving him the boot kind of saying outright like you kinda can't not exist for half a year after saying you're working on it and then come back acting like nothing happened. Which again remembering those rules I talked about in that chapter he didn't even bother notifying any kind of absence whatsoever. In fact the literal last message that would end in radio silence for a whole ass month was actually AshfallDude trying to see how and what he was doing. And then nothing. AshfallDude was literally asking you "How's 'x' Doing?" And you wasted a whole month never answering that.

That's not even mentioning the all for one effort in hiding the actual time stamps- actually thats too much credit for him, he didnt even bother hiding about anything and left it all out in the open for people to put two and two together for themselves which seems to be the most hilarious favorite habit of yours to give everyone the indication to everyone looking at each and every alt- even including the Fallout Ashfall Official that you like to cling on being owned by you and the most doomer-esque people I've ever seen.

And with that I would like to congratulate you on witnessing how to properly set the record straight. On an "apology video."

But wait. There's more.

In a series of unfortunate events. Hubris did get the best of me.

Am I getting currently stalked by these people? More than likely. Have they threatened me by using my personal information as blackmail to ensure I never write again- after they doxed me? Also yes. And they might as well have already started, regardless if I listened or not. Because chances are, not only are any of the alts going to admit that they're owned by Allout Monte by giving me the time of their day of being their newfound favorite Bisexual smut writer that is also a Jewish Mexican, they also showed me that they are the worst pathetic doxers imaginable. Not even being able to full commit to the lifestyle as Allout Monte has always been since he co-opted Sugarbombed. And of course, self reporting that they're owned by Allout Monte and the Fallout Ashfall Dev Team in two sentences or less with the same three arguments their copium addictions refuse to let go of. (More on that one day.)

Why does it sound like I'm unfazed by this?

Don't get me wrong, it was still jarring. But not because of what actually happened alone, but because of the sole fact that it is painstakingly entertaining for Allout Monte to think that this set of events evened the scoreboard to begin with. But that'll be a later story.

So anyways, if you haven't abandoned Twitter already or even plan on trying to stay, god forbid, there are several alts you have to be wary of that are under the ownership of Allout Monte and the converted Fallout Ashfall Dev Team:

Tamriel Community Rebuilt Watchdogs

And

Cletus the Sneed

Yet, of course, we do have to mention that they also run a Fallout Ashfall alt here owned by Allout Monte. No, it's not @falloutashfallproject, who they did proceed to defunct that channel to warn people of the alt. It is the "Fallout Ashfall Mod Official" who is owned by Allout Monte. And chances are, they're probably going to read this one way or another. And then mald to their hearts content.

And one more thing, if you plan on mass reporting again, Monte, don't bother. It's already everywhere.

Anyways… that's about it.

Happy Anniversary to your flop career, Wyatt. c:

Goodbye.

[izzycodes]

Saturday 20th January 2024

Someone asked me earlier this week a question that I didn't really deeped about beforehand. Basically, I was stuck answering it and it boggled my mind ever since because it stuck to me how I didn't think about this earlier on?

"What are your career goals?"

Since I started learning programming and Web Development back in 2020, I just thought "Oh getting a proper job in Tech would be great!"... but now I got it, it's like okay what now? Do I just continue this, learn new things, and just stick to this position?

I had to answer this person straight away for specific reasons but I said "Maybe being a Senior Software Engineer would be nice 🤷🏾‍♀️" and yeah I'm sure having that title would be great for my Dad to boast to his family and mates about "Oh my daughter is a Senior Software Engineer~! 😎", which honestly I don't mind as he's happy, but what else? What do I actually want to work towards now - short and long-term?

But making short and long-term goals is very important. For some people, this helps them have a path for them to work towards. I am one of those people because that's what I did to get where I am now in my programming journey, but I didn't think THIS far as to what next after I got the job I wanted. I came up with some ideas but I might work on them a bit:

Senior Software Engineer be nice?

Whatever a CTO actually does? (long-term)

Be proficient enough in Web Development technologies to teach others properly maybe? Especially the younger generation (HELP I tried teaching my sister coding and she called me a nerd...)

Work on my own web app product thingy?? and sell?? and earn money?? (confused about how I would do that though)

Venture out to Game / App Development maybe? (long-term)

Ability to work anywhere internationally (I have other goals where I would have to visit countries so would also like to work in Tech as I complete those side-quests)

Right now I am comfortable working FOR someone / company - I'm the type that SOMEHOW I become a CEO I still would work than be a no work/meetings/travel to conferences type of CEO if that makes sense

Help other companies temporarily on Web Dev stuff (free or paid, I don't mind - just want experience, innit?)

Work in another country maybe? That doesn't speak English though cause that's cheating (to me, I like challenges and language learning is a really good one)

But maybe now I will have something to work towards, but I will soon convert this bunch of ideas to a roadmap a bit~! 🤔

Thank you for reading and hope this makes you think about your own goals in terms of career/work/profession~!

[chinomiko]

Happy belated birthday! Thank you for opening your asks again! Can we ask anything? When will NewGen be released? Can't wait for it, it sounds very promising and 🥰Jason🥰is🥰so🥰hot🥰 Thank you for creating these hot characters to thirst over!

Thank you ☺️

I cant agree more for Jason 😂

Im sorry i can’t announce a date on behalf of beemoov, but anyway we don’t have a clear date. The game is still under development and, like with all these kind of projects, we have some unexpected issues and delays happenning that can change our initial launching deadline.

In this case, for exemple, we have had some web design issues, that also impact the dev’s work.

We also had quite a lot of turnover these past months, so we have a bit less people and the new people also have to learn and get used to our working procedures. But this is not a bad thing on the long term, some (not all of course) of the people who left had become really unmotivated with the years or didn’t have enough love for the projects which can also be very dommageable. (For whatever their reasons. I am not judging or hating here, it just happens it’s work life. Also it does not mean they aren’t nice people too.)

But i can assure you that all the current team is really motivated and works hard !

(Please note that this is also just my personal opinion and feelings on the matter)

[bittersnsweetz]

You said you like ace attorney... do you have thoughts on Trucy and/or Athena (and/or Kay Faraday if you've played the Investigations game, but no worries if not)? They are my chaos girlies and I would protect them with my life.

Oh boy do I like ace attorney...

I have many thoughts on all of them although as of right now I am still formulating my opinion on Kay (I haven't finished Investigations yet!)

Trucy is absolutely darling and I love everything about her. I think her implementation into the story is interesting, I think her becoming Phoenix's adoptive daughter is extremely heartwarming and her dynamic with Apollo is probably one of my favourite protag/weird girl dynamics aside from phoenix and maya who ultimately have my heart and soul - that said, I do think a lot of her backstory with her mother and Zak could have been fleshed out more (I just think the plot + growth of the characters in AJ get lost after the last episode and it makes me sad), and I would have loved to see more done with her in terms of her magician aspirations in the later games as well as her relationship with Phoenix and more importantly Apollo after finding out they were half-siblings -- also her meeting people like Maya and Pearl and having more interactions just with characters that Phoenix already knew would have been awesome to see

Athena is a character who I feel had a lot of potential, but ultimately felt lackluster and not because of any fault of her own, but because of how the writers and game devs portrayed her. Her personality isnt anything special, and her relationship with Juniper is extremely bittersweet but doesnt really lead anywhere meaningful in terms of the game's narrative, and it's partially for those reasons I feel like she doesn't really stick like the other protagonists and sidekicks do. Dont get me wrong, i LOVE her gimmick, but capcom just didnt do enough with it, they didnt do a good job establishing it, they didnt do a good job of exploring how it could be used not just in the courtroom but in conversation with people during investigation scenes. the lore of her and Blackquill's past was very intriguing to me though and I just wish they had done more or stuck with her as a protagonist more. Athena just wasnt given enough period and Im sad about it because she could have been something so special and cool but instead she was just. there. with a gimmick that felt out of place BECAUSE it hadnt been given the right amount of time to be really solid (i have my own thoughts about apollo and athena's abilities and how they were framed in the game's narrative but thats for a separate post)

I find Kay and Edgeworth's dynamic adorable and fucking hilarious and i am going to get through Investigations just so i can really sort out how i feel about them but thats the long and short of it!!! Hope this provided a unique insight and thank you so much for the ask. I love to analyse/rant/ramble about these silly characters

[theia-eos]

How old do you think the dragon laguz are?

I'd like to preface this answer by, an answer to this question will vary from person to person, as there is no hard set answer given and so the answer depends on how you want to interpret various canon and canon-adjacent facts (Canon facts being explicitly what is contained within the games and nothing more, canon-adjacent coming from artbooks or developer interviews and such things).

I've already explained in depth how I get to my interpretation here, but the basic gist is that the canon-adjacent chart that's commonly passed around as "canon aging" comes from pre-development of FE9 and it: contradicts canon facts; contradicts things the devs say in interviews post RD; and contradicts the hawks' designed ages in the same art book. Therefore, I mostly throw it out when I'm setting up how laguz age within my own interpretation of the age of various laguz and Branded within the games. That's not to say other people who use it, or people who came up with their own ideas, are wrong, but I have my own opinion and they have theirs and we can coexist.

But you asked me, and so I will provide my interpretation. The tl;dr for quick reference:

Dheginsea: 862 in FE9; 865 in FE10

Rajaion: 365 in FE9

Almedha: 304 in FE10

Kurthnaga: 103 in FE9; 106 in FE10

Ena: 233 in FE9; 236 in FE10

Nasir: 563 in FE9; 566 in FE10

Gareth: 451 in FE9; 454 in FE10

More info and details about how I arrived at these answers are below, but it is according to the detailed chart I provided here when going over how I think laguz likely age.

Dheginsea: Since the Pact with Ashera's heroes occurs in the year 131 BT ("Before Theocracy" which is a term being made up by me to function as BC/BCE does IRL), and the flood occurs in the year 155 BT, and the games occur during 645 BE ("Beginion Era" which is used by Almedha in RD) and 648 BE, and Dheginsea is designed to appear around 50 for a dragon, my best guess is that he was born around 217 BT, and therefore around 86 when the pact was formed and 862/865 in the games. (According to my timeframe of laguz aging, he was about the equivalent of 16 during the war against Yune. Young, sure, but Ike is 17 in FE9, so I'm chill with this).

Rajaion: Well, he was fun, because in his profile, he is designed to appear around 23, but Almedha, his younger sister, is designed to appear around 26, so one of those had to go, and it was Rajaion's designed age. With the freedom to pick my own age for him, I settled on a rough equivalent of 30, meaning that he was born around 280 BE and is around 365 years old in FE9, simply because I don't think dragons are having kids back to back to back seeing how long Ena is pregnant for (anywhere from ~4 to ~23 years, and I'm siding on the ~23 end of things).

Almedha: As stated above, Almedha is designed to be around 26, therefore I set her to being born around 344 BE, with an age of around 304 years old in FE10.

Kurthnaga: We do have, per canon, Kurthnaga is at least 100 years of age, so with him being designed to appear around 17 and the canon facts in mind, I see him being born around 542 BE with a rough age of 103/106 in the games, as it appears the Japanese description of his age is "roughly 100" (ああ見えて、ざっと１００年は生きているはずだ, and I am, as always, using Google Translate, so I am unsure of the accuracy of this translation), whereas the localization says "more than 100" and 103 is true on both counts.

Ena: While she was designed to appear around 18, that would only make her around 122, which just bothers me thinking about the fact that she and Rajaion were an item at least 20 years before the game, if not earlier (making her 16-17ish). Therefore, I decided that she was born around 412 BE, was around 233/236 years old in the games with an equivalent age of 23. It makes me feel better.

Nasir: He has a designed age of around 32, but that would only make him around 414 years old, or 181 years older than Ena, which is not grampa age (292 years older, while at least possible, is also not really grampa age for dragons, if I had stuck with the looking 18 thing for Ena). Therefore I set him to being born around 82 BE, giving him an age of 563/566 years of age in the games, and an equivalent age of 38, and he would be 330 years older than Ena which would allow him and his child to get to around 165 years old each before having a child (20-21ish) and not bothering me with how long dragon pregnancies seem to take.

Gareth: Thank Ashunera, we are finally no longer dealing with anyone who has to account for Rajaion and Ena's relationship. He has a designed age of around 35, so I set him to being born around 194 BE with an age of around 451/454 in the games.

[wildstar25]

terribly sorry to bother, but I've been loving your screenshots since I stumbled on your blog, and like 100% genuinely: how do you get them to look like that? Is it all done in game or is it some combo of mods & shaders? Cause every time I see a cool pose I'm just left wondering how you did it. Obviously I wouldn't ask you to make a massive tutorial just for me, but if there are any resources or general things you'd be willing to share, I'd be eternally grateful!

Hi there! Thank you for enjoying my gposes, and you're not a bother; my ask box is open to get asks after all haha

To answer your question: My gposes are not a product of the vanilla game alone. I'm slapping my explanations under a read more since it's a bit long:

Firstly, I am running reshade, an open source post-processing injector. It's a program that can (in the simplest terms) run various visual filters over a video game in real time. Most everyone I know made the jump from Gshade to reshade last year, so if you look up "reshade for ffxiv" you should be able to find a handful of tutorials. When it comes to finding presets, there are a lot of independent shader devs for ffxiv and generally a quick google search should bring you to a few. Most of the presets I use are outdated holdovers from the GShade days, and I don't know if they are available anymore; so unfortunately I can't recommend any directly, sorry!

In general, I lean towards shaders that enhance the overall brightness and vibrancy of the (imo muddy looking) default graphics. Arsay can quickly get over exposed by the in game 3 point lighting, so putting a shader that boosts the brightness overall really helps preventing that. I set up my lights in gpose at 2, put the character lighting to 100, pick a shader with a LUT that gives me the colours and brightness I want and thats usually enough. sometimes I'll hit the manual brightness in game and mess with that too. I often go into the preset of the shader and muck about with the Depth of field settings depending on what I want. An important note regarding the use of reshade: While reshade does not directly effect in game files or gameplay and it's technically not against TOS (as far as I have read), it is still highly encouraged that screenshots taken with shaders on do not have the ffxiv screenshot watermark visible. Reshade has it's own screenshot button that you can map to any key of your liking that will capture the game and the applied shaders without any watermarks. If you have an nvidia graphics card, I believe you should also have access to the geforce post-process correction tools, and could use that as well to enhance the game visuals. However, I am under the impression it's solely corrective settings (brightness/contrast, vibrancy, saturation, etc.) and you do not have the ability to adjust the depth of field setting, apply LUTs, mess with ambient occlusion, etc. Aka the more in depth rendering stuff that would make your graphic card fan go brrr. I've personally never tried the nvidia filter system so maybe that's incorrect information. Best to do independent research on that!

As well, on the occasion I will bring some screenshots into photoshop and do further, fine tuned, tonal corrections there. Generally this is only when I'm trying to achieve a look that I can't get in game and I try to keep it to a minimum. When I'm working on big photosets or comics, I'll end up doing more corrections just to make sure colours/tones/shading are consistent through out.

On to the second part of the question: the posing. I do all my posing with this tool. It is a tos crime, however it's client-side only and completely undetectable to other players. It gives you full access to character rigs and allows you to not only build your own poses, but export and import poses, outfits, props used by npcs or seen in cut scenes, and character data as well. Tons of people will upload pose files on the various mod archives for others to use, so even people who don't want to mess around with rigs can have fun with their characters. I personally love posing, and it's something I'm very comfortable doing since I have a background in 3D modelling and animation. I do believe in working smarter and not harder though, so what I tend to do is apply an in game animation cycle to my character in question that has a frame or key pose close enough to what I need, pause the animation, turn on posing, and start rotating bones. I never really looked up any tutorials myself tbh, I kinda just messed around with things and figured the tool out as I went along. That said, there are tutorials on youtube if you search for them. "Anamnesis ffxiv guide" or something along those lines should bring up good results.

Anam also gives you further camera control than what is available in game, allowing you to fine tune its position to the .001 degree. You can increase the FOV and zoom range past the typical amount. Bring your character and camera pretty much anywhere on the map too. And you can export your camera setting to use between gpose settings! It's a really great tool, though it has some quirks and can in specific instances crash your game (never change a character while fishing lol)

That's pretty much it! I know this wasn't really much of a guide, so sorry about that. Most of my gposes are a product of seeing a fuzzy image/concept in my head and messing around with various compositions, locations, lighting conditions, ect. until I bring that idea into clarity. It's hard to explain that process in ways beyond "fucking around and finding out (positive)" I suppose to anyone else reading this has specific references in mind, please pass them along to sailor-artemis ! I know being told "just google it lol" isn't super helpful but I really just tend to figure things out on my own ^^;

[soup-for-ghosts]

talk ant temenos. for the ask thing :3

First impression

something along the lines of “wow this guy is so funny what is wrong with him (affectionate)” and the murder mystery neuron kicking in

Impression now

oh so THAT’S what’s wrong with him. ok. genuinely one of my favorite characters ever, and uh. also ow? what the heck?? I wasn’t prepared for a personal callout post!!

but yeah temenos is such a good character… and while I do have a few gripes with how his story was handled, I have no gripes with how he himself was written. and those ex skills… so many thoughts about those… I could go into more depth into my thoughts on him but I’ll save that for another place at another time

Favorite moment

all of them /j

ok but seriously, I loooooove the scenes with arcanette. I hate her. I hate her so much, but oooooo those scenes are so goooooood… the placid mask dialogue hits… I didn’t trust mindt from the beginning, but THIS was something else. him yelling at her not to speak of everyone he’s lost in the process of getting here… gahhh it’s just so good….

Idea for a story

uh?? idk what to put for this

Unpopular opinion

also dunno what to say for this one really

Favorite relationship

ok I have two and yes they’re the obvious ones

first is his relationship with crick which give me the 🤨 look all you want but listen. I’m not even talking about the ship this time, I just mean their general dynamic, which yes is very goofy at times but it’s also so complex and interesting. especially when you get into everything crick tells him in chapter 3 stormhail. I don’t like.. I don’t like crick’s death from a literary perspective, idk I just never enjoyed characters being killed for the sole purpose of making you hate the villain or for the emotional appeal particularly when said character is clearly at their lowest point. meeting temenos lead to crick having to learn to doubt (for lack of a better term pf) everything he has ever known, and that has practically brought him to a pit of despair in chapter 3 stormhail and idk I think he deserved the chance to claw his way out of that pit and actually get to learn what faith really means to him and stuff. and also it would be interesting for temenos’ character if one person survived, he already pushes people away out of fear of losing them, if he thought it was just happening again, but it didn’t, he still lived, how would he react to that? how would he develop and move on from that? idk it’s just more interesting to me, but again, conversation for another day, the important part is, their dynamic is very fun and also genuinely interesting, and I like how their characters develop throughout the game because of each other

the second is everyone’s favorite detective duo, temenos and throné. I am a claudelet temenos truther, so siblingisms real, but besides that, their crossed paths and travel banters really hit me I think. my favorite travel banter of all time is one of theirs, “the wool dilemma,” from throné chapter 3 father’s route. wherein throné asks temenos to tell her a story to get her mind off of all. that. and he tells her about this wool dilemma, where wool keeps the sheep warm, but because of that, a lamb never truly feels the warmth of their parents. throné’s response is “I’m not a sheep,” and that to me speaks volumes. she understood exactly why temenos chose this story to tell her, she understands him perfectly. and that’s saying a lot! temenos has a travel banter with osvald in his chapter 5 where osvald explicitly states that temenos never says what he means and it is very confusing and people are bound to misunderstand him. osvald, resident genius scholar, struggles to understand temenos, but throné understands him perfectly. and then their crossed paths… they both have a lot of pent up grief that they are not really… addressing or conveying and they end up working together to tie loose ends both for themselves and others. alpates…… but yeah, they’re a very good duo and the devs made a very good decision having them as a crossed paths duo. I like them a lot….

Favorite headcanon

silly one, but I always loved the headcanon that his eyes glow blue when he’s doing his little “the truth lies in the flame” thing. it’s just fun to me pf, also it looks sick as hell, especially when it’s used outside of just those segments and in scenes like the battle against kaldena and stuff

[rivilu]

I read your notes about DAQ on that wyll vs dorian post and i just could not agree more. Specifically the thing about krem you said, i absolutely hate how the game while trying to introduce trans friendly concepts just. Forcibly makes your character cis in association. Like no my inquisitioner would not say any of that shit!!! He is trans!!!! And you could tell that shit was not written by a trans person. I think they were trying to avoid using many trans specific words to fit in with the setting but like? "Why do you pass?" Is not a question that makes sense for someone to ask and i hate that theyre taking an existing trans term and trying to make it mean like....the entire concept of transitioning?? Idk i feel like i would be more ok if they could have you be like "oh dw i am also trans" but nah we as the player are just assumed to be cis. Also yeah as you said, inventing transphobia in a series where that wasnt present before, its annoying.

Oh dont get me started I could talk about my gripes with the handling of transness in dragon age (and particularly inquisition) forever. Actually do get me started this has been a long time coming.

i absolutely hate how the game while trying to introduce trans friendly concepts just. Forcibly makes your character cis in association

YEP. Yep yes exactly. your options are 'three flavors of being transphobic' or 'when did you know' . which is what i picked, because you can stretch your imagination a little at least.

But there's also this other tiny elephant in the room issue with Krem that i didnt mention in those tags. Or should i say. Bull in the room ? Because holy shit, way to take away the trans character's speaking voice and characterization so we get to know how much of an ✨Ally ✨the cis man bestie is! Like okay if you're being a transphobic shithead it makes a bit More sense that he'd get defensive and speak up for Krem, but when your question was 'when did you know', Krem answers 'when i was young. not a great thing to know about yourself' and then Bull immediately cuts in to cisplain transness is like? What was the Idea there. Which then makes the dialogue choices being 90% straight up transphobia MORE suspicious, because the game is letting you, almost pushing you to verbally harass Krem.. almost like he doesn't REALLY matter, he's just a vessel to see how Progressive And Trans Friendly And A Good Friend Bull is. Thanks, i hate it.

Even in terms of backstory Bull being Krems savior when he was trying to escape his life etc never really sat right with me. Like there's an underlying demsel vibe i feel the devs stuck in there that really irks me. Not helped by the fact that we dont have a trans voice actor. Also not helped by the fact that this is a fantasy setting with magic but some form of magic hrt? Nah too impossible. Like sure there's some implication that it MIGHT exist somewhere but because magic Bad in the dragon age setting and tevinter magic Even Worse he wouldn't go for it- Like ok. some people might prefer their trans realism in faux medieval media. even fantasy. Im not one of those people. And all those justifications read more like excuses to me. Like you're telling me the circles wouldn't be making BANK out of selling trans-your-gender potions and abusing the shit out of it? And just. Again this makes the setting retroactively much Worse because where before i could point to my warden or Hawke and go 'yeah that's a trans man via magic hrt' and someone who prefers trans realism could ALSO do the same when making theirs how they like. Vagueness in such matters allows for imagination! But now dai is saying noo they had to be cis. And your inquisitor also. Fuck that.

Also yeah as you said, inventing transphobia in a series where that wasnt present before, its annoying.

one tiny correction here. there were hints of transphobia in the first two games, but it was mostly contained in like. Oghren style aged like milk type humor. more meta than text i guess. like in the Pearl in game one if you ask to be surprised there's a chance you get the ever hilarious 'haha you got man in a dress' *crickets* And then Serendipity in mark of the assassin.. well the wiki says she's meant to be a drag queen. So not 100% related to this discussion. But the execution of her character just felt SO mean spirited to me when i was playing that i felt it needed to be mentioned as well. (So i just love her out of spite now. ) But anyway yeah. Out of all the lgbtq things dragon age touches on i feel like gender is one that they. dont really even try to tackle in good faith. And it just got worse as the games went on. I can handle easily skippable side gags that are shitty and unfunny. Inquisition tries to actually bring ATTENTION to the topic, and proceeds to fall flat on its face. Not to mention Sera. Them having one of the main companions being transphobic in banter.

Bioware when I catch you Bioware. Bioware when i catch you.