Careercow Tyler McVicker / ValveNewsNetwork (VNN) / Tyler Jon McVicker - Autist with stalker tendencies larping as the Jason Schreier of Valve news

[Aurelianus]

New Tyler video about Portal Reloaded.

"The Community's Portal 3"

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Just in case you don't feel like clicking the video, it's for a sourcemod called Portal Reloaded. I'm not as fluent when it comes to Portal mods compared to TF2, but it seems to be a one person mod in development since 2014. I don't see how this is "The Portal community project" like VNN is claiming when there are multiple groups making multiple mods with various goals for Portal so calling one mod made by a single person the "Community's answer to Portal 3" while numerous other mods exist put down everyone else's work. He did this previously with TF2 modding with claiming how Team Fortress 2 Classic was the definitive TF2 community mod until Pre-Fortress 2 released and called that the definitive TF2 community beta mod so this isn't new behavior.

Even his own viewers are calling him out on his shit for once again over exaggerating a simple mod into the next big Valve game.

Spoiler: Community Reaction

Edit: Just noticed that this mod isn't downloadable at all publicly, be it on Steam or ModDB or on its website. That means Tyler got an early copy to play and is praising the mod as a result. This happened previously with Team Fortress 2 Classic where he got whitelisted to play it during the DRM lock period between 2017-2020 and praised that mod as better than TF2.

 

[Vorkland]

Edit: Just noticed that this mod isn't downloadable at all publicly, be it on Steam or ModDB or on its website. That means Tyler got an early copy to play and is praising the mod as a result. This happened previously with Team Fortress 2 Classic where he got whitelisted to play it during the DRM lock period between 2017-2020 and praised that mod as better than TF2.

When will the Source community learn to stop giving him shit? The entire reason the shit with Creators.TF is happening is because people keep giving him power that he should not have

 

[Shaka Brah]

I wonder if he really was behind the bots or not.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

I wonder if he really was behind the bots or not.

On paper it makes sense - official servers become insufferable, he makes couple of videos, bashing Valve for this and then invites people to C.TF servers.

 

[Red-Hot Copper]

On paper it makes sense - official servers become insufferable, he makes couple of videos, bashing Valve for this and then invites people to C.TF servers.

I mean even if he has nothing to do with it, he sure as hell wasn't helping himself. Same goes for all the other TF youtubers crying that "The game is dead now" but then they slightly hint that they may or may not be playing on the source mods instead.

 

[Aurelianus]

I mean even if he has nothing to do with it, he sure as hell wasn't helping himself. Same goes for all the other TF youtubers crying that "The game is dead now" but then they slightly hint that they may or may not be playing on the source mods instead.

You can tell they're playing the regular TF2 instead of the Source mods due to a couple of different hints. To keep it brief some of the more subtle hints is the HUD and the lighting engine, because pretty much every source mod uses the original ones while they got updated in TF2. While the HUD isn't as drastically different from the original, there were videos made on how the lighting engine and optimizations had graphically downgraded TF2. This is why TF2 after around 2014 looks significantly worse than before, not counting the cosmetics and artstyle death.
The easier way to see if people are playing the Source mods are to look at a player tracker for Source 2013 Multiplayer, because all TF2 Source mods use that as a base. You can see a jump that happened in early July when Team Fortress 2 Classic was finally publicly released, but even then you only have a jump of maybe 30 players on Source mods in the long term. I think the smaller bumps in 2019 were Team Fortress 2 Vintage releases but again no long term effect.

When will the Source community learn to stop giving him shit? The entire reason the shit with Creators.TF is happening is because people keep giving him power that he should not have

Because VNN is horrendously biased and so there's huge chunks of the community that aren't seen because he doesn't report on it.
Take for example when he had closed access to the TF2C private beta during those three years. Unless you were in the community at that time you would think TF2C was the only TF2 Sourcemod that existed, because nobody else at the time was putting him on a pedestal. When he finally got access to Pre Fortress 2 was when he started praising that game as well. I don't know if he had any exclusive access to Open Fortress but I assume he had something especially with allowing him to be an announcer for the mod. I think he turned on OF around the public release of TF2C is because Tyler is trying to pick sides in the TF2C schism. I'm guessing he's using OF as a punching bag to try and score an early copy of Team Deathmatch Classic.
VNN isn't involved in around 80% of the TF2 community mod groups at all. He has no presence on TF2V, no presence on OF, no presence on PF2, pretty much anything other than TF2C and TDC he has no interaction with so anything outside of those two mods might as well not even exist. It's the same behavior like that Portal video I linked where one modder who gave him an early copy of a Portal mod == the entire Portal community.

To clarify the TF2C schism thing, I've wrote out a summary of it here. I tried to include the more important parts of the narrative without including each individual mod or spinoff or indepth details.

Spoiler: TF2C Schism Summarized

2016

-TF2C releases beta 4, the last publicly available release​

-TF2C closes down public repository, swaps to closed source model​

-TF2C starts silent development complete with NDA, and talking or even asking about development is a ban from the community​

-TF2C makes second private channel for beta testing, pretty much only for devs and friends of devs leading to the community being split between the have and have-not access​

2017

-A recruitment attempt is made to get more TF2C beta testers using a Google Form that is a job application in length​

-Users start to leak copies of the TF2C beta out into the public, devs add DRM to the mod that crashes unless you're whitelisted (the whitelist is a secret invite-only Steam Group for the game Toki Tori)​

-The community is culled out of people questioning the mismanagement of the game and getting pissed at having no news for a year, leaving the community as a small group of yes-men and rabid fanboys​

-One longtime server hoster tries to contribute to the TF2C beta development and has all their contributions rejected, then kicked out of the beta and banned from TF2C for being skeptical of the mod's development​

-The server hoster rounds up a small group of people who then fork the last publicly available TF2C repo into a new mod called Team Fortress 2 Vintage​

-TF2V meets some initial success on 8chan where many players were disenfranchised with TF2C with an original identity of "Fuck TF2C"​

2018

-TF2C is still in closed development and has missed numerous release dates by now, causing the most famous TF2 mod community meme to start involving the picture of TF2C's Civilian character with a release joke​

-TF2V starts to gain an identity for itself, eventually deciding on making an open source recreation of TF2 up to the Mannconomy Update​

-Loses favor with 8chan due to the concept of adding the newer content like sidegrades and gameplay elements, tries to add settings as compromise but is not accepted​

-Creates a Steam Community, ModDB, and focuses on migrating the community from 8chan to Discord​

-Part of the TF2C team decides that they want to get paid for working on TF2C, so they split off a new group called CompuColor and leave for it​

-CompuColor starts development of a paid spin off game based off their work with TF2C's DM gamemode called Team Deathmatch Classic, sending DMCA notices to anyone who shows or talks about it​

-TF2C starts throwing out all of their DM content they had previously, leaving very little development for the past two years of work​

2019

-After head developers of TF2C jump ship to work on TDC, power vacuum emerges where a random new developer gets control of TF2C​

-He goes on a purge of the majority of TF2C developers left that were sympathetic to TDC or alienated the community two years ago​

-Those banished developers then decide to fork the tf_port repository into a DM focused game called Open Fortress as direct competition to TDC​

-TF2V's ModDB page and download links go down due to an anonymous takedown notice, forcing all development to halt to focus on revision patches to restore the pages​

-Gains several new developers to help with the project, finishing the original Mannconomy goal and deciding to work on content up to Jungle Inferno​

-OF gets released, has positive feedback and press release​

2020

-TF2C starts talking about a serious release date for the mod within the year​

-Finally announces a release date for the mod of July 4th, releases to the highest playercount of any TF2 sourcemod​

-TF2V manages to reverse engineer TF2 NextBot out of the L4D NextBot and other various AI components such as Halloween bosses for TF2​

-OF starts using TF2V code in their repository, including making their own bots for DM​

-Blitzes through adding up the rest of the content to Jungle Inferno in record time, slowing down development and acting as a mod resource​

-OF is threatened with an ultimatum by VNN​

-OF concedes to the ultimatum, closing their sourcecode and silencing their development​

-TDC hints at a potential beta release of the game but with no serious announcements closer to progress in releasing
​

​

 

[The Demon]

When will the Source community learn to stop giving him shit? The entire reason the shit with Creators.TF is happening is because people keep giving him power that he should not have

I'm sure that Halloween community mod video will basically be the thing that puts him in a downward spiral, like the yandere dev email video. Or maybe he'll boogie2988 it up by just outright lying about things that people can easily go to his previous videos to see what he actually originally thought/said.

 

[SlipNHonk]

Glad Tyler is finally getting some love as a lolcow in the past year or so. He's always been disliked by the likes of /v/ and others, but its obviously intensified as he's continuing to spiral out of control mentally. Never liked the kid and I've displayed my discontent for him numerous times over the course of years, one recently being https://boards.4channel.org/vm/thread/101522#p155543 (not him of course, but im sure that gremlin has replied or at least lurked all these threads about him on /vm/ and /v/.).

 

[The Demon]

Do you think Tyler might be friends with the scrap.tf team? They're the ones that are pedophiles and cover it up constantly by removing tweets and twitter accounts along with removing videos on YouTube.

 

[ScatmansWorld]

Just a little something interesting I saw in a VNN stream.

"This fictional character personally doesn't look that appealing."
"FUCK YOU!!!!"

 

[iceteayo]

I don’t get why people now are starting to catch onto to this guy. He’s a classic celebrity stalker from the 90s. Why does he base his channel on one of the most locked up game developers who rarely make games? If anything I’d be worried of Valve outright tells him to fuck off since he seems like the kind of guy who would do some shooting or attack since if he can’t get valve no one can.

I also believe he’s the reason bots are so rampant he wants to be seen as this savior of TF2 and needed a boogey man.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

I don’t get why people now are starting to catch onto to this guy. He’s a classic celebrity stalker from the 90s. Why does he base his channel on one of the most locked up game developers who rarely make games? If anything I’d be worried of Valve outright tells him to fuck off since he seems like the kind of guy who would do some shooting or attack since if he can’t get valve no one can.

I also believe he’s the reason bots are so rampant he wants to be seen as this savior of TF2 and needed a boogey man.

People are genuinely curious of a secret no matter how locked down. Think about Area 51, still one of the most confidential locations in the US, yet people camped out there just over a year ago. If you keep things a secret, people will start to speculate and it takes one sped to capitalize on this.

 

[Snom Clubber]

lol
tl;dw Tyler talks about how tired and stressed he is, - sleeping 12 hours a day - orders food via GrubHub, buys gummy vitamins, and entertains the idea of "working" by creating a list of video ideas before playing video games. All the while having a donation meter up with the goal being a thousand bucks for rent. Self-deprecation the whole time for extra guilt points.
He's such a transparent grifter, and yet idiots flock to be his paypigging support group.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Hm, interesting, If he is sincere about what he is saying, then good luck.

https://twitter.com/valvenewsnetwor/status/1343385206527504385?s=21

https://archive.vn/3T1aO

 

[OmnipotentStupidity]

Hm, interesting, If he is sincere about what he is saying, then good luck.

https://twitter.com/valvenewsnetwor/status/1343385206527504385?s=21

https://archive.vn/3T1aO

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Well holy shit, I never thought I'd see the day where a lolcow would finally self-reflect and work on bettering himself and embrace criticism.

...Hopefully. Hopefully he's not just riding the high of his father being proud of him, but in fairness, I probably would be on a high like that too if my family was like Tyler's, and then they just flat-out admitted they were completely wrong about, and are incredibly proud of, him out of the blue like that.

 

[Snom Clubber]

Hm, interesting, If he is sincere about what he is saying, then good luck.

https://twitter.com/valvenewsnetwor/status/1343385206527504385?s=21

https://archive.vn/3T1aO

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Well holy shit, I never thought I'd see the day where a lolcow would finally self-reflect and work on bettering himself and embrace criticism.

...Hopefully. Hopefully he's not just riding the high of his father being proud of him, but in fairness, I probably would be on a high like that too if my family was like Tyler's, and then they just flat-out admitted they were completely wrong about, and are incredibly proud of, him out of the blue like that.

Assuming this is even true and not just a new layer of grift, it means nothing. Look at his past - you can't just will his brand of narcissistic, manic-depressive autism away. Also note how he downplays his actions while apologizing for them, and goes back and forth between validating himself and repenting and vowing to change. He ultimately doubles down in his last post. "It's who I am." Pretty shaky foundation for a whole new Tyler, if you ask me.
His plan also doesn't make a lot of sense. Noting his recognition under the VNN name, he's now going to drop it and be "just Tyler"? Like he's getting a network talk show or something. I guess it gives him a wider latitude of things to sperg about, at least.

 

[General Issue]

The above posts are missing some context. Tyler's latest breakdown stemmed from someone leaking in-dev Half-Life Alyx screenshots on Knockout (images that most likely came from him), and after getting supposed death threats over it, he started posting on Discord, Twitter (as linked above by Juan), and the Knockout thread where the screenshots were posted.

Spoiler: Beta breakdown

Tyler, when faced with criticism or a discussion he finds uncomfortable, will often resort to spamming to avoid said discussion.

He then posted a goodbye message explaining his reasoning for taking the break.

Spoiler: Leaving post

As mentioned above, in the past Tyler has wanted to work at Valve desperately, having applied multiple times, even though he has no marketable skills that would be even remotely useful to a video game company.

Despite this, he still paints himself as an expert on Valve, and has often referred to himself as an unofficial assistant or PR rep. This however, as mentioned above, has changed, and he now apparently has no interest in pursuing a job at Valve. Why? Most likely because of this incident, where he was told by two senior Valve employees that playing a leaked early copy of Half-Life: Alyx on stream for thousands of people to see was, surprisingly, a dumb and illegal move. They told him off for doing that, along with a whole host of other leaks he's been involved with over the years. This likely included the 2020 TF2/CSGO source code leak, as he was responsible for originally distributing it amongst his mod team in 2018 when it first circulated.

For all the genuinely shitty shit Tyler has done over the years, this thread really likes to focus on "MUH SJWS". There's a lot more to Tyler than his outward political views, which I would regard as somewhat fishy considering all the people he likes to surround himself with who are very much in opposition to that. There's a lot below the surface to Tyler, which frankly hasn't been covered on this thread yet.

 

[Beelzebub's Gate]

The above posts are missing some context. Tyler's latest breakdown stemmed from someone leaking in-dev Half-Life Alyx screenshots on Knockout (images that most likely came from him), and after getting supposed death threats over it, he started posting on Discord, Twitter (as linked above by Juan), and the Knockout thread where the screenshots were posted.

Spoiler: Beta breakdown

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Tyler, when faced with criticism or a discussion he finds uncomfortable, will often resort to spamming to avoid said discussion.

He then posted a goodbye message explaining his reasoning for taking the break.

Spoiler: Leaving post

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As mentioned above, in the past Tyler has wanted to work at Valve desperately, having applied multiple times, even though he has no marketable skills that would be even remotely useful to a video game company.
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Despite this, he still paints himself as an expert on Valve, and has often referred to himself as an unofficial assistant or PR rep. This however, as mentioned above, has changed, and he now apparently has no interest in pursuing a job at Valve. Why? Most likely because of this incident, where he was told by two senior Valve employees that playing a leaked early copy of Half-Life: Alyx on stream for thousands of people to see was, surprisingly, a dumb and illegal move. They told him off for doing that, along with a whole host of other leaks he's been involved with over the years. This likely included the 2020 TF2/CSGO source code leak, as he was responsible for originally distributing it amongst his mod team in 2018 when it first circulated.

For all the genuinely shitty shit Tyler has done over the years, this thread really likes to focus on "MUH SJWS". There's a lot more to Tyler than his outward political views, which I would regard as somewhat fishy considering all the people he likes to surround himself with who are very much in opposition to that. There's a lot below the surface to Tyler, which frankly hasn't been covered on this thread yet.

Agreed. He seems to make very impulsive, 'I'm going to be doing this now!" kind of choices which flip flop all over the place. Very destructive with anything given to him. I can't tell if it's ADHD or a personality disorder at this point, maybe both.

 

[Snom Clubber]

The above posts are missing some context. Tyler's latest breakdown stemmed from someone leaking in-dev Half-Life Alyx screenshots on Knockout (images that most likely came from him), and after getting supposed death threats over it, he started posting on Discord, Twitter (as linked above by Juan), and the Knockout thread where the screenshots were posted.

Spoiler: Beta breakdown

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Tyler, when faced with criticism or a discussion he finds uncomfortable, will often resort to spamming to avoid said discussion.

He then posted a goodbye message explaining his reasoning for taking the break.

Spoiler: Leaving post

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As mentioned above, in the past Tyler has wanted to work at Valve desperately, having applied multiple times, even though he has no marketable skills that would be even remotely useful to a video game company.
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Despite this, he still paints himself as an expert on Valve, and has often referred to himself as an unofficial assistant or PR rep. This however, as mentioned above, has changed, and he now apparently has no interest in pursuing a job at Valve. Why? Most likely because of this incident, where he was told by two senior Valve employees that playing a leaked early copy of Half-Life: Alyx on stream for thousands of people to see was, surprisingly, a dumb and illegal move. They told him off for doing that, along with a whole host of other leaks he's been involved with over the years. This likely included the 2020 TF2/CSGO source code leak, as he was responsible for originally distributing it amongst his mod team in 2018 when it first circulated.

For all the genuinely shitty shit Tyler has done over the years, this thread really likes to focus on "MUH SJWS". There's a lot more to Tyler than his outward political views, which I would regard as somewhat fishy considering all the people he likes to surround himself with who are very much in opposition to that. There's a lot below the surface to Tyler, which frankly hasn't been covered on this thread yet.

I'm in awe at those Discord logs. The sheer hubris of this dysgenic gremlin is impressive.
Look at how he demands respect despite doing nothing to earn it. Look at how he shirks any personal responsibility for the way the neurotypical majority of these fandoms despise him. Everything is someone else's fault - Tyler only pays lip service to the idea that he is responsible for anything negative in his life, as an attempt to appear humble and sympathetic to people with wallets too fat to close and brains too small to notice. And an attempt to spare the rod because he knows he is deserving of it.
Of course, he won't be "picked up" by a company who "wants HIM". He's a liability. Companies want normal people who can do work without hassle. Companies don't want people who have to keep talking about their mental health in long, emotional ramblings like this. They don't want people who fixate so hard on things that they can't function outside of them. They don't want someone who leaks and datamines upcoming projects. They don't want people who have a public image that is one of squalid hedonism and transparent e-begging. For fuck's sake, his own family was ashamed of him until recently, and I still find that sudden 180 to be highly questionable.
I don't know if I've seen levels of unwarranted self-importance this high since Sargon. I'd find it all more amusing if he wasn't so goddamn insufferable.

 

[General Issue]

For fuck's sake, his own family was ashamed of him until recently, and I still find that sudden 180 to be highly questionable.

I find that story about his dad suddenly turning over years of doubt because his "son's friend's dad's cousin's sister" asked about him at least a large exaggeration, and at most a flat out lie.