Hey everybody. There's a whole lot of weird statements and allegations and content nukes and all this kind of stuff being levied against me.
And I've refuted those things in many different locations on the internet.
But I thought it'd be good to put together this video so you guys had it all in one location because people are fighting over little pieces of information and ones that they hadn't heard and all of this kind of stuff everywhere that they can.
So if I put it all in one location, it's much easier for you guys to find everything. And then you can just divert people to this instead. Much easier.
and no i'm not going to monetize this video i just want to get this out there so you guys can actually see what the hell is going on on the other side.
Number one, Maldavious Fig Tree. This is the character that everyone's talking about. You'll actually see this posted all over the internet with people trying to use it as some kind of a gotcha against me.
Except this character has never been secret. I talk about it all the time on stream and I usually refer to Second Life, which is where this character resides, as an adult version of roblox.
So, this character isn't just used in Second Life either. In fact I've used it in other games. Fiddlemoon is a demo that I never ended up releasing because it kinda sucks. It was fun to build, something kind of a side thing, took us maybe 2 months to do, and was a good exercise, kinda like doing a game jam. But there's the character. I use him everywhere. Cause it's my cool old object head character and I like that kind of a thing. With that in mind the allegations that were brought against me were pretty goddamn heavy. But they're also not the first time they've been brought against me. The first time was in August of 2024.
I had to put out this announcement that's still up on the news channel on our discord.
I said apparently some people believe that I ripped off an underage artist 16 years ago.
That artist went by Winglessomoto at the time and is now known as Mameface on twitter.
They were 17, I was 19 when all of this went down, and no we never did anything sexual
together.
We made avatars in second life and our work was really popular.
And by really popular I mean we were one of like the top 3 avatar creators at the time.
The two of us made about $5-10,000 US every month doing this.
They did all the models and I did all the programming and LSL.
This is part of me being a freelancer back in the day before my career really took off.
We had a falling out over pay splits and Wingless open sourced our work.
Wingless wanted 80/20.
Our agreement was 50/50.
When I said no, Wingless took all of our stuff, sent it out to the entire world with full
permissions.
Second Life has a permission system where you can change the permissions that the next
user has and by checking all of the boxes they had free rein to distribute, modify,
and copy our work.
Infinitely.
got fired, they quit on their own, and did this on the way out. Tabloids at the time
do what tabloids do. We were kind of a big deal in the game at the time for the avatars
we were selling so they made extreme and idiotic statements and took the side of just the artists
without reaching out to me. These tabloids still exist and people are starting to dig
them up now. That's it. This is 20 year old drama.
Now here's the interesting part. Maim and I made up four to five years later. We've
been best friends since. You can actually reach out to them to confirm any of this.
We'd been talking about them coming on stream to stop this tide of idiocy because this isn't
first time. This is not even the second time. This has happened for years. People try to do
it all the time to try and take me down. And the two of us always shut it down together.
Because it's wrong. It's completely wrong. And it's using Wingless, or Mameface,
as weapon to try to bludgeon me when we're friends. And if you don't believe me,
well, let's just go look at it together. Here's the post by Wingless, Mameface,
I'm Winglessamoto. I really was 17. And nothing sexual happened. If anything had happened,
I would have added him in 2008. See, there's the problem. They made this post publicly on
The people didn't care. In fact, they also made this post publicly on YouTube on the content nuke for this and people didn't care
They tried to say that wingless was actually a sock puppet account of mine, except maim face's account here. It's from 2013
And then they tried to say oh well, well, maybe maybe it's him
Anyway, he's just been playing the long game the goalposts keep shifting, but we keep providing evidence from there
somebody actually did try to impersonate maim face with a wingless emoto YouTube account
The only account they ever had before was Wingless Chimera and the reason why is because Wingless Emoto is a second life name.
Emoto is the last name that you could choose from a list of names to put on your character, kind of like Minehead Figtree.
And at the time there was no way to change this. Their handle was never Wingless Emoto.
It was Wingless Chimera and now Mameface. And when the internet inevitably brings this up in another three months to six months,
I'll just show them this video. Because we've refuted this time and time again. And the two of us are still friends after almost two decades.
Now for the second one, Asmongold. I recently went on Asmongoldstream and talked about a
game called Ashes of Creation. People feel betrayed that I talked to Asmongold in the
first place because they feel like his ideals will somehow seep into our community and they're
inherently negative. They also feel very angry because a lot of people in the comments on
things like twitter were going and attacking them and they feel like that's somehow a
core part of our community. So let's get into that. This video came out from a content creator
I'm going to start with a video called NARC. The reason that I had the conversation with Asmongold in the first place is because of this. As you can see, it shows a desert that's kind of drab and empty.
NARC's video talks about how he felt betrayed by the developers and he felt like the game was a scam and he showcased this desert as an example of those feelings, saying that the desert had not been completed and that there was nothing there. He had actually misrepresented the content here.
Asmongold has set the tone to 50,000+ people. To understand how big of a deal that is, Ash's
creation's primary discord only has about 100,000 members. Our community is about 20,000
We play this game all the time. So I'm very invested in wanting to play this. I really enjoy this game as do many other members of our community.
And the moment those calls went out saying the game was a scam, Asmongold's chat started to fill up with people echoing that sentiment. Because they had no other information.
Right after this Asmongold had on Stephen Sharif, the creative director for the game. And he showed off the desert to the best of his ability and refuted the claims.
The problem was, some of the people in chat were still saying "oh that's fake, that's the developer, he's lying just to get money."
So I went on, reached out to Asmongold, and said "hey, I've had 500 hours in this, come and talk to me."
And he had me on. We talked about it for about an hour, and I produced this video, it's about 35 minutes long, as a result of that.
And the whole thing is me basically talking about the game, and Asmongold saying "uh-huh."
That's kind of the whole thing. It's like a live react video, if you've ever seen his content, you understand what I'm talking about.
There's nothing in here that's inflammatory, there's nothing in here that promotes hateful rhetoric as people have been claiming, and this is all very mundane.
So, right after I put this out, a lot of people were really angry. So I put out a statement about it.
I said a lot of people were mad that I talked to Asmongold recently about Ashes of Creation.
I can see all of your comments and messages about this through YouTube and here on Twitter.
In this instance, another creator made a disparaging video about the game, and Asmongold didn't have enough game knowledge to talk about it because he hasn't had the chance to play it.
So this immediately makes the audience have a negative opinion of something with nobody
there to say otherwise.
I have over 500 hours in the game and refuted the video by the other creator.
As Asmins channel is the flashpoint for this it makes sense to talk to him about the situation
and clear the air of bullshit.
We did this live on twitch the same day it happened.
In the internet of today, if you don't say something, then the room will fill up with
people who do.
I chose to help set the record straight on this and I'm glad to have done so.
If you want to cancel me for this, for talking to him, that's fine, but I would do this
again given the chance.
The developers don't deserve unwarranted hate.
And I would do this again, given the chance.
The reason why is because as many people on the internet tried to state I was platforming
him and his ideals by doing this, his community is massive compared to ours.
If you have all of those people with a negative sentiment about a game and they have absolutely
no other information to refute it, they're just going to go trash the game.
And I don't think those developers deserve that level of hate whatsoever.
And if I have an opportunity to fix that before it becomes terrible and out of hand, then
Why wouldn't I take that opportunity?
For those of you who think that I "gained money" from this or anything like that, I didn't.
This was not a financially advisable thing to do.
People are pissed about me taking a stance on that.
But I think it's the right thing to do.
If you see something that's false, say something about it.
And if you don't like that I talk to them about it, that's fine.
If your whole entire idea here is to try to take down Asmongold, and the only way you
can think to do that is by coming after me for having a conversation about a video game,
you're not going to get that accomplished.
And it doesn't make any sense.
From there, I've had to put out another one.
And I was pissed about it so I deleted my first post.
I basically just said "this is why I did it, I'd do it again" it's a little crass for me
so I deleted the comment.
Under those circumstances I would have absolutely had that conversation again.
Prior to me being on with him another creator was there defaming the developers and the
game we talked about.
As Asmongold didn't have an understanding of the game he couldn't refute the claims.
It was being bashed to 50k+ people which is a death sentence for games of this size and
at this early alpha stage of development.
and by the way, these are the types of allegations that have been brought about it for years.
And after we had that talk, they've all but disappeared.
We barely ever get those types of statements in chat anymore.
It's really nice, now, that that air has been cleared.
So it had a definitive positive effect on the sentiment for the game.
So to reach out to Asmine as I have 500 hours on this, this is just a repetition of the
same stuff.
But threads like this are just filled with people that are bashing me for just having
the conversation.
I don't think anyone should ever be restricted from having a normal conversation about normal
things.
Heartbound, the indie game that I work on.
People are currently review bombing this. They're very upset. I can understand why in
some of those cases I haven't worked on the game for the last year. I could have communicated
better this entire time though. And that's completely on me. I'm a dumbass for not putting
out more announcement posts and releasing information to you guys to let you know what
was going on and I was stressed the entire time and acting like a fool.
With that in mind I've started putting out updates on this game again. We actually put
the first one out on January 19th, 2025. I made an announcement out to the discord about
this on that date saying that we'd be moving to monthly update builds. Everybody was really
excited about this and they're quite happy with it. I then put out a video talking about what
was going on and why this all happened. People seemed to really like this. It's sitting at 4k
likes on it. It's got about 93,000 views and most of the people inside of the core community were
really excited about the prospect of the game coming out now. And we have it all listed in
timestamps for everything that's going on there and why we're doing all of this kind of stuff.
With that in mind this led to the review bomb but it didn't stop me from working on it. On February
1st I released the first patch just like I said I was going to. We put out the patch notes for it.
I made another announcement on the discord and I plan to make the next patch on march 1st. In fact,
I work on it all the time. I was even showing it off on stream earlier. This is part of the
new environment that I'm putting together to be able to get this out to the rest of the public
on march 1st. There's a lot of dialogue in here and it's the end of a chapter, so there's a huge
amount of stuff that I have to do. I've also updated the Heartbound ARG in the background,
which a lot of people don't even realize is there, but we'll talk more about ARG's and puzzle
mechanic stuff later. So with all that in mind, if you're still upset at me about this, I get it.
For those valid reasons of not communicating and not putting out information and not putting out
updates to the game, I understand and I hear you and I'm sorry for that.
For the other amount of posts that are on there, there's quite a lot of them that you'll find
inside of those reviews that aren't even about the video game. They'll put things in there like
Maldavius Fig Tree which we discussed from the first part of this video, or complaining about
me talking to Asmongold, or saying "Mana Gem" from World of Warcraft because they still haven't
let that go, or all the other shit that goes on in there. It's all of the allegations all of the
the time. And because of that, I had to lock down the steam forums to stop people from talking about this stuff because it's incredibly obnoxious, not to stop them from giving critique or saying like, oh, you did a bad thing.
Stopping them from doing things like posting my home address and telling me to kill myself, because that's what a lot of them were.
Then we reported those to steam and I can thank you steam for banning those accounts for doing that.
If you're just a normal player caught in the crossfire, again, I am sorry.
Please wait until March 1st and the first of every month thereafter for the next updates.
Now for the next one which is Ashes of Creation. Ashes of Creation is an MMO that is in very early
alpha. I actually talked about it earlier in this video during the Asmongold segment. Something that
I play quite frequently and I play on the Lineth server and i am currently the mayor of Halcyon.
I actually just got re-elected. So thank you, glorious population. With that in mind, it's a
game that is a social sandbox. If you've never played one of those they're usually built on
player conflict. There's a lot of propaganda that's put out. There's a lot of shit talk in
between players and things like that. Very similar to Eve Online or Albion or Foxhole.
If you've ever played foxhole before, you know that the wardens eat babies as an example of
propaganda. Very simple stuff. Kali's definitely dumped though. So with that in mind, this server
is rife with this kind of behavior. It's very normal. And there's a lot of tension on the
line because we're constantly combating each other and trying to get the upper hand through
different resources. In one of those groups that I was in, inside of my own guild, I accidentally
pulled something with a spell called Ball Lightning. You can see it kind of off in the
back there. I thought somebody else in the group pulled this and I was really pissed off and I
I blamed the rest of the team. And the reason why I had done that is because earlier on in the fights people just kept pulling random shit.
And then I accidentally pulled random shit and I looked like a dumbass because I was an angry dumbass. This was entirely my fault.
And later on when we reviewed the footage we realized it was entirely my fault and then I apologized to everyone involved.
Later on we entered the raid and we moved on to other content. All these people are still in the guild and we still run with each other all the time.
So I know people on the internet get really agitated about stuff clipped out of context, but here I was mad and then we worked it out.
Outside of that, the weird narratives that I've somehow been kicked from the server are completely false, as you've seen on my earlier part of this video, I'm on a flying mount.
Flying mounts are only available for Mayors after getting re-elected by people where they have to vote on me.
We're also the dominant force on the server. We fight with everyone all of the time, as we should in any PvP focused game, and we give a lot of reports and reviews and bug reports to the developers all the time.
We also run internal information and have a thriving community of about 22,000 people on the Discord specifically for this game.
So, not going anywhere. I haven't been kicked out. And this wasn't that big of a deal, even though I was a jackass in it.
Now, to the next one, where people are calling me a "Nepo Baby".
For those who don't understand the term, a "Nepo Baby" is somebody who got their job only through nepotism, never accomplished anything in their career, and never did anything to deserve the position that they have.
My father was the cinematic director for Blizzard for 23 years, he worked on basically everything going all the way back to the Death and Return of Superman and many other games all the way up until now.
And then he quit, he went off to Jagex and he worked in on Old School RuneScape, I believe as a creative director of some kind.
With that in mind, he now streams on Twitch under the name of YearJoy.
People think that I got my job at Blizzard specifically because of him. In reality, I only had help from him in order to do my resume.
But you're probably not gonna believe me to say that, so I'm gonna let him say it.
I remember one time he had... his boss had come to me because he came to me to apologize that one of his people talked to me.
And I'm like, what are you talking about?
He goes, "Well, uh, Jay, Thor came up and was talking to you and I don't think that's appropriate and stuff like that."
I'm like, "Okay."
I go, "Just so you know, I'm going to keep talking to Thor when he comes and talks to me because he's my son."
This was two years after he worked for this guy and this guy did not know...
So funny thing here, he actually got the timeline wrong. That was four years into my career.
Oh, that Thor was my son and that's okay for Thor to come talk to me, you know. But it was in public. It was in the quad at work. It's just...
But it's like, no, he can talk to me anytime. It's just like anybody else at Blizzard could come talk to me.
For those who don't understand what's going on there, my own boss didn't know who my dad was.
It's really hard to be a nepo baby when the people who control your career have no idea who your connections are.
Aside from that, for the people who have this narrative, both myself and my brother replied
at the same time.
I got the job and my brother didn't.
Where was the nepotism for him?
And now for the next one.
People saying that I'm using a voice changer.
I can actually just control the vocal range of my voice.
Just go like this and talk all the way down to the bottom of your vocal range.
This isn't that hard.
Then you go like this on the way up into your nose and talk like this.
Amazingly, people's voices change over time and they do this at different ages as you
go through life.
On top of this, streaming and talking for 12 hours a day doesn't make that any easier or better.
Outside of this, you can actually catch me on a bunch of other content creators' channels.
I went and did a tailgate party with Espen in real life.
I'm gonna tell you right now, Dix is good. As you can see. Everyone lines up for Dix.
I was in the middle of a forest with Bao.
A lot of mushrooms, like, you can only determine what they are by touching them, or smelling them, or tasting them.
I've been in the streamer awards, giving speeches.
Since 2016, actually. So, like, I cut it during that.
I also got caught by NMP LOL right out there on the street.
And you'll find that my voice is just about the same range the entire time.
It goes up when I'm excited or nervous, it goes down when I'm tired or bored.
Just like everybody else.
It's really weird that people are obsessing about each and every little thing, but I guess
This sets the nature of the internet. If you don't believe me on this, I can't really fix this one for you.
Because any time that I'd make something online, people would just claim it's doctored in some way.
There were even people saying that they had hidden a voice changer inside of the microphone at the streamer awards.
Or that I got some kind of an implant in order to change my voice.
And now for the last one. People claiming that I cheated in puzzle games, specifically Animal Well and Outer Wilds.
Both of those games are games that I played live on stream. We had a whole blast of fun with it.
People in the community really enjoyed it, and they were very, very long periods of time for both games.
I believe Outer Wilds was beaten in one sitting but it was a very long period of time and Animal Well
I think took the better part of a week at that point. I think it was like 40 hours on stream and 80 hours overall.
Most of which was just us sitting around trying to solve puzzles and do weird shit on stream.
A lot of people say that I cheated because I looked at my phone because it was right here.
Why would I cheat with my phone when I have a three monitor setup? It's a pretty easy way to talk about this.
I have one monitor here that actually shows broadcast information, usually using game capture.
So I could put a guide up here if I wanted to in the first place. This one is just OBS.
I could put it right next to chat there and it'd be really easy to hide it because I'm constantly looking at chat anyway
Or I could put it on the right and put it on another one where I put all my social media stuff
It doesn't make any sense to use a phone to look at a guide while you're running through a game like that when you could
Just look at anything else aside from that. I have a very long history in beating puzzle challenges
So let's get into it. This is potato hat security our old team potato with a whole bunch of guides for Def Con challenges
[Thor] I go by the middle name of Thor for a reason, because it is my middle name.
Brett Beerhouse was the person that I got to go run with. He's a good buddy of mine back
from the Blizzard days. DEF CON 22 was the first challenge that we actually went up against.
We didn't win, but we beat it. There was a shitload of puzzles that went along through
this and we had a blast doing this and learned a lot about cryptographic methods. I didn't
know anything at the time when I first stepped into this arena back in DEF CON 22. That
I went home and tried to learn as much as I possibly could about cryptographic methods,
hiding information, and reading books like this one called Code, the hidden language of
computer hardware and software by Charles Petzold.
Awesome book, shitload of methods in it.
I have a ton of books like this now because of this.
I went home and started making my own on a website called potatoplad.net.
Made it with Brett, it's actually defunct now but it had a ton of our own custom puzzle
challenges on it.
We went back to Defcon23 and teamed up with a team called Council of Nine.
After doing really well in the first challenge in 22, they wanted to have us on the team
and we agreed to join them.
We won.
I got to write up this entire writeup this year as well, and we solved a bunch of cool
shit together.
One of the ones that I really had a blast working on was specifically the audio one
where I got to dive into DTMF using specifically Audacity to visualize the information.
I love this.
These types of things are really awesome, so whenever I play a puzzle game and I know
that there's going to be cryptographic methods involved, I eat that shit up, dude. And if you're
wondering if I actually did go to that, here's the badge for it. DEFCON23. It's a radioactive badge
that was actually obtained through winning that puzzle challenge that year. On the back you can
see that there's a lichtenberg figure which is hit by plasma to create a small lightning configuration
across it. There's also another puzzle on the back of this that was solved by CryptoK on Twitter,
it's a running key cipher and he built a way of cracking certain running key ciphers. After that,
We went back at Defcon24 and we won again. Defcon24 we got a robot head. This is another black badge
for winning a Defcon challenge that is particularly hard. Defcon24 was actually written up on Council
of Nine's website because I was still running with them at the time as well but I think their
challenge page is defunct now, unfortunately. I wish we still had it because I really really enjoyed
that challenge and doing that with them. The next year I left and I went and joined what is called
the Psychoholics. That's a new team that I'm on. I have a lot of really good friends with them and
are over there and you can actually see a number of them show up in chat from time to time and I
still go to DEF CON every year. At DEF CON 25 there was no badge challenge. The normal cryptographic
challenges we usually do wasn't present there because Lost, the one who runs those, didn't go.
So we did instead a telefreaking challenge which was really really fun and I didn't realize it
was going to be there. There was a guy who ran up to me and he threw a badge in my lap and he said
"you dropped your badge and ran away" and it was for the Ellingson Mineral Corporation which you
The black badge for DEF CON 25. Since loss wasn't there they made gold coins, which isn't as esthetically cool, but it is still solid gold. So, you know, kinda rad.
Outside of this, I don't just solve these, I build them. This right here is actually built for the Heartbound ARG.
Artbound, the game that I worked on that I talked about earlier in this video, has a
massive cryptographic challenge in it.
And I'll give you an example of one of the puzzles that I built for this, and yes, all
of these puzzles are built by me.
Right here, I gave them an image of a whole bunch of different squares of lettuce.
I didn't tell them what it is, there's no other information for them, it's just images
of lettuce.
If they laid them all out in a row, it actually creates a strip of 0 through 9 squares, which
means this is a grid of numbers.
That grid of numbers doesn't go over 26 at any time, so because of that, it actually
comes out to letters.
Good, this operation is complete. Proceed to lettuce squares. And the next puzzle is lettuce squares.
But there's other, harder puzzles in this as well. If we go up here and we find... where is it? Truncated. There it is.
Truncated was one of the ones that I gave them where I just gave them an image. This image is a picture of a zipper. And that's it.
The zipper is actually a zip file and inside is a wav. That wav is called celestial bodies.
If you visualize the spectrogram of that audio, it comes out to all these weird symbols. Celestial Bodies is a reference to Moon Type, which is a precursor to Braille. This is a message written in Moon Type, and it says this fragment is lost among the stars. The stars.png on the server is actually this image here, which is a color-shifted version of the night sky. In the EXIF data for that are these numbers here. They had to determine that those were DTMF tones. As you can see, it's got one of 6971336.
So you go to 697-1336 and that's the number 2 on your phone pad. Whenever you hit a number on your phone pad,
it comes out to 2 tones. Dual tone, multi-frequency. Plays them both at the same time. The 697 Hertz tone and the 1336 Hertz tone.
So that's a 2. They had to figure out that all of these came out to all those numbers and then that comes out to the
next message, which in this case was boot record and that brings them to the next page.
This is a massive series of cryptographic challenges that has spanned years and it's something that I build in the background.
so I can stay sharp for things like DEF CON. Puzzles are my life and it's really really absurd to me
that people just gloss over all of this, because Streamer looked at phone.
So now let's look at the timing. My video for Animal World here came out on July 27th, 2024.
Except that's not when I played it. It's also only 7 hours and 41 minutes long,
which wasn't the full runtime. As shown on Twitch tracker, you can see that I played it from May 11th
to May 19th, a total of 39.4 hours on broadcast. As shown on Steam here, you can see that I actually
I actually played for 83.2 hours because I was playing both on and off stream trying to practice different things and see if there was different puzzles that I could solve along the way.
Inside of this you can also see that the game released on May 9th 2024, which was only two days before I actually started playing it.
From there I asked people to send in any type of guides that would contain all the puzzles that we solved throughout it, and those came out after we stopped playing the game.
May 19th, May 22nd, and this one on May 23rd. There are likely other guides that exist out there,
but I don't know about them. The people who ended up helping us solve this were people in chat.
We solved it together as a community, with 13,008 people in the chat. My guess is that there would
be a lot of people who were there from the puzzle solving community as we did this. Tons of people
were working together. That was the point of doing this. All of this was. And on top of that,
I ended up going on to go and interview Billy Basso, who's the developer of the game, and
got the physical version of the game, which just arrived the last few days,
which we're planning on beating this together as well.
And that's everything from me. Now that everything's in one place, it'll be much
easier to just direct people to something like this so they can choose which thing they're angry
about and then get extra context for it. And if they decide to still be angry about it after that,
it's fine with me. I would much rather have this kind of information out there so that people have
I understand the idea of anything for views and trying to put content out as quickly as possible, but you guys could do better than that, honestly.
To the rest of my community, I'm sorry you're having to go through this and watch this kind of shit go on everyday. At least now you have some kind of ammunition to throw at people that are causing more drama in the future. Anyway, I hope you guys will have a good day, and I'll be back on stream tomorrow. See ya.
