Culture Fallout and Elder Scrolls legend ‘Mitten Squad’ has died - The beloved creator of Fallout and Elder Scrolls challenge runs, Joseph Wilson, known as ‘Mitten Squad,’ has died at the age of 27.

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Joseph Wilson, better known as ‘Mitten Squad,’ the creator of dozens of Fallout and Elder Scrolls challenge run videos on YouTube, has died at the age of 27. A legend among the Bethesda games community, Wilson made some of the greatest Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 3, and Elder Scrolls videos of all time, and completed incredible challenge runs for a variety of other games including Far Cry, Doom, BioShock, and GTA 5. Blending imagination, humor, and superlative gaming ability, Wilson accrued more than 1.4 million subscribers on YouTube. He was renowned for his deadpan narration and for creating obscure and inventive challenges, such as trying to complete the entirety of Fallout New Vegas without ever moving the in-game camera.

Between Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, Fallout 4, and many others, Wilson’s videos covered the majority of Bethesda and Obsidian’s modern RPG games. In some cases, he created challenge runs that were designed to be intensely difficult, such as beating Fallout 4 without taking a single point of damage.

In other cases, the runs were more abstract and imaginative, such as completing both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas at the same time using one controller. Wilson also beat Fallout 3 by controlling the game exclusively using eye movement.

Wilson’s final video was posted on Thursday July 14, 2022, and has so far gained more than 1.2 million views. He shared occasional updates via his social media pages regarding struggles with his health and with alcohol use. “I will upload again, eventually,” Wilson wrote on Friday November 24, 2023. “Mitten Squad will return.”

On Monday December 18, Molnar Funeral Homes in Brownstown, Michigan, shared an obituary page for Wilson. He is survived by his mother and father, his brother, and his grandparents.

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Weird. I’ve played a lot of elder scrolls content over the last twenty years and never heard of this guy.

I do think using “mittens” in your name is pretty gay, though
 
In another article about the passing of Mitten Squad, it is noted that he had been diagnosed with pancreatitis and at some point his drinking habit culminated with him going to the emergency room because he blew a .351 BAC (Blood Alcohol Content). People can apparently die from .40 BAC though .30 BAC has also been occasionally sometimes fatal.
 
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I really liked this guy’s content and I was wondering why I hadn’t seen anything new for a while. RIP buddy, your vids were good background for work.
 
Never really watched any of this guy's content (challenge runs/speedruns are fucking gay; go play something else) but it sucks he's gone, doubly so for someone so young. Guy's head looks like it got stuck in a vice though.
 
Never heard of him, sucks that he died. But these "Can you beat X with(out) Y (only)?" types videos are fucking garbage. Made the mistake of trying one of them and it was 15 minutes of a drawn out intro, a RAID SHADOW LEGENDS intermission, 10 minutes of gameplay where the dude failed pretty much immediately, 10 minutes outro explaining why he failed, and 3 minutes of "thx patrons liek subscrub hit that bell famalam buy my merch".
Shame about the Sid look too.
 
complete the entirety of Fallout New Vegas without ever moving the in-game camera.
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Incredible
In some cases, he created challenge runs that were designed to be intensely difficult, such as beating Fallout 4 without taking a single point of damage.
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Amazing
In other cases, the runs were more abstract and imaginative, such as completing both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas at the same time using one controller.
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Outstanding
Wilson also beat Fallout 3 by controlling the game exclusively using eye movement.
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Superlative
He is survived by his mother and father, his brother, and his grandparents.
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youtube gaming fag and Content Defecator ends his Hardcore run with chronic alcoholism. nothing sympathetic about this one, rip in piss.

imagine going into your late 20s with your beginnings of a career staked in endlessly replaying Bethesda garbage in increasingly retarded ways. I beat Skyrim without running! I beat Fallout 4 without using any movement keys! I beat Starfield without talking to any NPCs! this dude was literally broadcasting the death of his imagination in real time. how fucking bleak.
 
When an obituary doesn't list a cause of death, I'm automatically suspicious of either substance abuse/OD or suicide.
 
RIP to someone that I thought was funny. Husband used to put his videos on for background noise.
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He did a big "Face Reveal" a couple of years back and this was the general reaction, even amongst his die-hard fans.

There was something wrong with him.
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Every person I've met that had similar features had a mother that did drugs while pregnant.
 
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