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From my experience with other AAA games in this industry, this is it. This is the point of no return for games.

Highguard and Concord both had more players than Marathon did when their plugs were pulled, and just about every other game I've played facing shutdown has had more players too.

The only saving grace for Bungie, is that Sony may not want to dissolve such a long standing studio. But then again, that may be the only way Sony recoups anything.

CyFy (a Home Inspection YTer) has recently been under attack by what he calls, TikTok Electricians. This has included doxxing, stalking, threats, a harassment campaign and just otherwise degenerate behavior.

He has already had to move (or was moving already?). They found his new address and started threatening him immediately.

Based on this initial short, I was actually able to confirm that the harassment campaign is legit. Checked out the Facebook accounts of some of those involved, found the posts and comments in question, found that these were real events.

CyFy's response to all of this, was to tag Rack A Tier Tools as the large majority of these people are affiliates or friends and family of affiliates.

This is a situation I've been lightly aware of for about 5 days now, and this is the closest I've come to making sense of it all lol. And yes, some of these people legitimately are *TikTok Electricians*.

For the most part, this video is just a very good collection of events that I covered in my original post (will be linked in a comment below), but it does give us an update about the situation as a whole.

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First and foremost, there is some good news. There is an active police investigation into Bruno, regarding his actions with minors. But likely also into his other actions towards adults, like trying to take advantage of them while they're drunk. If you were aware of the investigation, then no real update besides that.

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***However***, it's clear Bruno will never be able to return to Sea of Thieves safely, as he is under threat that if he returns, his doxx will be published. I don't necessarily like that this is the case, as I would prefer justice, but it is an important fact that needs to be stated.

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As for RARE and Microsoft, this is where the bad news comes in. The main accuser of Bruno has been banned from the SoT discord (unclear if banned in game), anybody who took the allegations seriously has been blocked by all SoT accounts. The employees and moderators who platformed Bruno and *harassed victims unrelated* (that's correct more on that in a bit) are still in positions of power. And it seems that RARE's official strategy is do not acknowledge the situation, harass people who bring it up, and to cover it up.

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So, as I mentioned, RARE employees harassed victims unrelated to Bruno, as any time a woman got harassed (often sexually) in game or out of game, the SoT moderators and employees would either opt to 1, ignore them, or 2, harass them themselves to get them to stop talking about it. The video goes over this in a lot of detail, but it's consistent. It makes it very clear that if you are the victim of anything in Sea of Thieves, you are not safe. Also, Bruno had more victims than originally suspected, which reports to SoT moderation were clearly ignored.

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Needless to say, if you are a fan of Sea of Thieves or RARE, you have an unfortunately hard decision to make. Go down with the ship, or swim to shore.

Hey all, so I waited until this Coffeezilla video to post another summary update, because of how quickly things were updating. Sometimes hour by hour.

So if you're all caught up beforehand, what this video is, is Coffeezilla investigating both sides of the Lego scandal regarding Reckless Ben and Bricks and Minifigs. He promises new information, and he talked to both sides regarding this. He delayed the YT release because of legal concerns, but it's out now. I paid for early access, and the legal concerns were not only legitimate but this makes the situation so much worse than it actually already was.

If you're not caught up, please read my previous post (linked in 1st comment along with the gofundme). The facts I wrote into this post have only been reinforced in several ways. ***Post Patreon video edit, the actual dollar amount of the missing Legos has been estimated to be about 20k, total amount of the collection is estimated to be roughly 100k, though there's quite a bit of unknowns here now***. I'll add new information to this summary.

To start off with, two court cases got filed against Ben, one criminal, one civil. The civil case is why this summary will be very brief as there is a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against Ben and him talking about this situation. I worry that public participation about a matter of public interest may be used against him due to the clear lack of logic being followed in this case. Both court cases are ongoing and will likely take years to be handled.

The American Fork Police Department accidentally released completely unredacted bodycam footage, about 100GB worth. Some highlights of this include: colluding with the CEO of Bricks and Minifigs and Joshua Johnson to arrest people for various crimes, both of whom appear to have officers' phone numbers. Officers trying to find crimes to pin on people. Officers arresting people without knowing who they even are or if they're related. Officers admitting to be friends with the AirBnB owner and planning a SWAT raid entirely on hearsay. Them admitting to violating the first amendment by turning off cameras. Them admitting to filing a search warrant to arrest someone (against the law, you need an arrest warrant for that, as they also did no searching for stolen LEGOs). Them admitting to trying to scare Ben. Them admitting to being annoyed by Ben. Them harassing a Mormon and insisting that he's drunk and not a Mormon.(huge deal for Mormons) Needless to say, civil rights lawyers are frothing at the mouth.

BaM also shut down one of the stores in question, and proceeded to actually say the store owners mishandled things and admitted some fault. On paper, they're doubling down, but in reality they threw Brandon Best and Joshua Johnson under the bus.

Part of the goal of BaM's lawsuits were to go after the GoFundMe money raised for Bryan Mansel, which has now been taken down. This is a gross thing to do, and comically evil if I have to be honest. (EDIT: It has been put back up, meant to add this before posting but had to make other changes to the post lol)

This whole situation has been an absolute mess to follow, and an absolute mess to witness. I want to say I hope the law prevails, but the law has failed for this situation to even have occurred as it has. I hope human decency and common sense prevails instead, because there is no reason a corporation or group should have this level of power and cops should not feel this comfortable breaking the law they've sworn to uphold.

Basically, it's as said. I pre-ordered within the last week, didn't get pre-order bonus. I would prefer to get it (mostly cuz I just like having everything), but also curious if anybody else is encountering this issue.

Nintendo eShop pre-order. My demo transfer worked, as well as the bonuses from FF7 Remake and Intermission.

There are about a dozen super good videos I could link about this, so for the sake of this post, I'm going to link the main allegations as the actual focus, and then a couple supplementary videos by Technicals and two SoT content creators. (AShinyRay's Video [a SoT content creator], Technical's 2nd Video [provides new context and corrections from his end], L8dyHysteria's video [a SoT content creator])

The TLDR is that a SoT Boatswain aka a community representative/content creator named Bruno was found to be a pedophile, with multiple child victims of various degrees including asking children for nudes, tons of sexual jokes with children, and a bluesky filled with shit like that. Rare did drop them, but the problem for Rare doesn't stop there: the community voted against Bruno ever even becoming a person in power a year before most of these allegations came to light because he had already been found to be inappropriate with minors, and the head community manager at Rare overruled. Then, multiple other Boatswains and community managers got outed as ALSO being pedophiles, which lead to multiple content creators quitting Sea of Thieves.

The community is overall, falling to pieces, and it will probably permanently damage Rare as a company, who were already in the hot seat for SoT, given how poorly they treated customers and content creators.

I have just ran through and seen everything besides community ID card and badge, done all riddles.

Riddles, good, locations, good. Don't like how Saga and Alan's outfits were handled, they don't look right. The Writer card looks good.

Problem is, the gameplay. The cosmetic update really put a bunch holes in the ship, me and my group have had CONSTANT nonstop crashes, and when that happens words of powers + dolls reset. Oh and some ghosts are completely bugged. I get the evidence for a Jinn, it's a Poltergeist! Had a Raiju see me through walls with no equipment on me.

As far as gameplay of the event, yeah I mean I like the Cult of the Tree and Cult of the Word stuff, but I don't like how Shades were handled. Instead of burning them with flashlight, ya burn them with angel lamp. And sometimes if you have hiding places blocked off so you can't burn them, and the act of burning them is itself not great. The shades add a lot of atmosphere to the events. Burning them gets rid of that.

Also, is anybody else's game ***darker*** since the update? It's incredibly hard to see stuff sometimes.

So the context of this video is that Airrack is kind of a Mr Beast clone, been featured on this sub before for other reasons, and he made a video pretty much only gambling and clearly trying to get people to go gamble at the casino. MKAndy, a primarily chess focused YTer (from what I can see) makes not one, but two videos criticizing him for this. (https://youtu.be/7V50\_y00SFM?si=7Ri9hZaIqoyLg7Gp #2)

The reason why I posted it here is because gambling's actually a pretty big epidemic these days, and I feel as though there's not enough people criticizing creators who take gambling sponsorships or make pro gambling content, despite it being a major addiction, and a major cause of financial hardship. Almost everything these days is tied to gambling of some kind, from video games, company decisions to literal wars and attacks on people.

I think this sub would actually appreciate this video overall.

For context, the Quartering is a "non political" aka right leaning media and drama coverage channel, commentary if you will, who has run 10 or more channels over the years and constantly ends in major drama.

This video covers lesser known events such as him having a Bree Larson shed, to much more known events such as him pissing in his basement/garage constantly. In a lot of respects, this is covering his descent into lolcowdom.

My apologies in advance for all the things you will hear and see throughout this video if you choose to watch it.

They balance the game as if bugs, squids and automatons will rage quit if the game gets too hard for them.