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TF2 Emporium - 15-year-old cabal of terminally online game content creators contributing to the rot of a near 20-year-old game they could care less for.
Since I first posted about this, the VIP gamemode has garnered some massive popularity lately in the nu-TF2 community with a bunch of posts, videos, and even memes regarding VIP
Nu-TF2 fans don't know any better (many of them have effectively been brainwashed by the wider "community") and the hive of tourists have always not given a single shit. It's not helped by TF2bers spreading this with no care in the world for the game's integrity, because they're all a bunch of fucking hacks with mafia-like ties to the Emporium.
Nu-TF2 fans don't know any better (many of them have effectively been brainwashed by the wider "community") and the hive of tourists have always not given a single shit. It's not helped by TF2bers spreading this with no care in the world for the game's integrity, because they're all a bunch of fucking hacks with mafia-like ties to the Emporium.
Everytime I get MATI at TFt*bers, I remember that xhey will ALL (except our beloved rock scientist Zesty J) die alone and unemployed, as xhey have no practical use for society. Some may go into the coal mines for some time, but xhey will all share this fate.
Me killing TFt*bers (this is me showing mercy to them and ending xheir suffering).
I'm surprised this didn't come up sooner
People have been botting Steam for a long time to gain any kind of monetary value (wasnt Greenlight shut down for the same reason?)
Though, it would be pretty funny if entire TF2 workshop DOES turn out to be a bunch of astroturfed garbage after all
I might be late and gay for it, but apsolute kino thread.
It still ceases to amaze me that everytime, and i mean every single fucking time i come back to this game after a long hiatus i join a pub/casual game and i would see one of the low effort, either referenceslop or gay faggot furry cosmetic items added to tf2. And i would always know who is behind it...
A workshopper named Razoldon whom worked on Krampus has come out with a video detailing a harassment campaign against him by the Emporium over a map released as apart of the Offshore project:
TL;DR Emporium troon Chickenman began a mass downvote and Jester campaign on his map Riverport spearheading bullshit claims of a stolen map layout, heckin' transphobia, and being associated with diaperfag Aar. This led to a second wave started by Hoppkins (Tropic Crisis Lead) who swayed part of the Brazilian side of TF2 to participate in it; all of which led to other workshoppers cutting ties with him and his map being cut off from the Offshore project. Offshore project director Operabay would be notifed of this and ban Chickenman, only to later unban him citing "no concrete proof" and then leak sensitive report information to Chickenman that could affect the whistleblowers of this situation.
Zesty discusses this in further detail in his latest stream starting at 42:09.
Illiterate vatnik coomer grifter Chilliko is under fire over accusations of proclaimed AI usage in his submissions (SPOILER: he wasn't) while also not cooperating with head people of workshop circles, is conspiring of being targeted by Zesty Jesus and his affiliated group(s) over making objectively bad items.
But first, a prehistory. There is a strange phenomenon where talentless retards from third world countries try and be creative when their genes don't allow them to do so, this was a case with Moderno, a middle-aged (53) Bulgarian man who has littered multiple Workshops with churned out AI textures, he went missing after his failed attempts to insert himself to the travesty that was Tropic Crisis, but seems to have returned under a new alias (on the same account, good opsec) to continue his landfill occupation. He went by the moniker "Artizzo" for quite some time until having to seemingly have abandoned his Discord account. (ID: 921316099453255691)
While this is an obvious case of turdies grifting, it's no use because Valve forbids usage of AI imagery in their games. So what this dada has done is practically waste time while presumably being on some sort of disability check.
He coincides with the topic of this post; being another slavic spare meat-shield who has had similar endeavors. Chilliko (Discord ID: 333301707012571147) is the byproduct of heavy porn consumption resulting in little to no gray matter remaining. This is most evident by his "art" being horribly disfigured and having "erotic" themes, which I assume the target audience of it is supposed to be low-functioning autists because this is clearly modelled after the shitskin hellspawn that is Mimi Sentry.
I couldn't find his Patreon which he shamelessly plugged under his early submissions so be glad this is the cropped version not showing a vagina.
The worst part about this is that he uses it to flashbang people.
I did not mention Mimi Sentry without a reason, his first War Paint which was apparently based on a guitar had a render of it on it as a sticker. People quickly berated him for that because what the fuck does some ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL tier of pinoy autism have to do with the game as a whole? Other issues with his paint involved seaming textures, saturated colors (so they render like shit in the Source engine), so on and so forth.
He has made other terrible paints like one modelled after Buckshot Roulette (a game that has nothing to do with TF2) and more washed out safe paints.
A while back, however, he has greeted the workshop with probably one of the most hideous sets in a while... The Wizard Assault.
This does not take a Zesty-indoctrinated zoomer to figure out that this is a terrible cosmetic set, but because he is a victim-blaming retard, he HAS to make it known that it's Jesty Zesus' doing because he antagonizes the hecking wholesome Workshart troons!!!
While most people are rightfully shitting on him for making a bad set based on yet another PSX troonslop game, (that being Tactical Breach: Wizards) the Workshop community is on his ass because he is a stubborn ESL retard who is obviously just in it for the money and sucks off the Empoorium in hopes of getting an item in. He has tried to insert himself into such spaces with little to no likable aspects besides being a glorified Indian spambot shitting out Reddit shitposts every second or so while not making any coherent sentences.
In the end, turns out he is simply retarded and couldn't cooperate with people into telling them that he did not use AI, instead having spammed overlay brush strokes he did as evidence.
However, since he shared adjacent places like that, it wasn't too far off to claim such a thing.
I have tried digging up more, such as the existence of the Mimi Sentry sticker on his paint, but the amount of brain fog that he spammed within the Painter's Workshop server would take me too long. If you are willing to dig through the 3000+ messages he miraculously spat out, be my guest.
No bingo chudlings, despite the card being nearly full.
Offshore Content Percentage: 27% (+7% from Tropic Crisis' 20%)
Cosmetics:4/10. Fairly bad, there are multiple cosmetics that affect team / class readability alongside the Frogmann's Fittings having horrifically misplaced knee pads apart from the set it's apart of being shit; the rest are mediocre. Only standouts are the Jarhead for Soldier, Spy Ties for Spy which is actually quite nice, and I guess the The Maltese Dove Medic set and Mann In Mannhattan Scout set are fine.
Taunts:5/10. Mixed bag. Flying Colors isn't bad, The Final Score is overly animated, Bear Hug is the antithesis to taunts and anybody I find in-game that uses this will be raped, and last but of most note is the Texan Trickshot a P2W taunt kill (with the same range as Heavy's finger gun taunt btw), the first in TF2's history. Remarkable.
Unusual Effects:3/10. Trash. A few effects affect gameplay readability (there's an ubercharge hat effect, headshot hat effect, and glitch taunt effect), while the rest are typical gaudy garbage (this one in particular is unadulterated shit). Interestingly enough, they only added 14 effects this time which is rather small for your average slop update.
Maps:DON'T CARE/10. They added yet another whopping 10 maps (VIP Mode felted) with the notable additions including Citadel with a tank payload that has a buildable sentry nest on top, Boardwalk a reskin of a reskin of Slaughter that now has 4 variants (GEG), Mannhole a reskin of a recent Halloween map because fuck it the Emporium churns this shit out like a corporate assembly line, and Aquarius which looks like a clusterfuck to play on. Current active map rotation now sits at 122 maps.
BROKE SHIT: The usual minor bugs with the new slop, nothing egregious. That's all for this year's Summer update folks, see you in October for Scream Fortress XVII alongside a special first MVM Emporium update review.
I am tired of seeing new maps that lack spytech. I don't mind changing the setting (such as from the American midwest/southwest to the jungle) since there are plenty of settings that fit the Bond-esque theme well. However, the conspicuous artificiality and hidden spytech are crucial to TF2's identity. Without it, the mercs are no longer fighting for world domination on behalf of shady companies controlling things from behind the scenes. Instead, they're fighting over completely worthless pieces of land (which only reinforces the flanderization of the comics) for no reason.
Maps:SLOP/10. Nigga I ain't touchin' these. They added yet another whopping 10 maps (VIP Mode felted) with the notable additions being Citadel with a tank payload that has a buildable sentry nest on top, Boardwalk a reskin of a reskin of Slaughter that now has 4 variants (GEG), Mannhole a reskin of a recent Halloween map because fuck it the Emporium churns this shit out like a corporate assembly line, and Aquarius which looks horrific to play on. I heckin' love map bloat so much.
i had found only the quirky dev cameo room that is in this map
nevertheless good to know that sterotypes are always right!
e: i've found the tranny rights sign and it's not as easily spottable as it looks like, you need to have r_drawclipbrushes 2 on to see it, but it's here in its shitty glory
it's this spot if you want to see it without the pink
e: i've found the tranny rights sign and it's not as easily spottable as it looks like, you need to have r_drawclipbrushes 2 on to see it, but it's here in its shitty glory
Honestly, not so surprising these types of people resort to inserting their political messaging wherever they go. They really have nothing else going for them other than the tranny shit
Unusual Effects:3/10. Trash. A few effects affect gameplay readability (there's an ubercharge hat effect, headshot hat effect, and glitch taunt effect), while the rest are typical gaudy garbage (this one in particular is unadulterated shit). Interestingly enough, they only added 14 effects this time which is rather small for your average slop update.
In Zesty's latest stream beginning at 3:19:28, he discusses a recent incident regarding the Emporium in which their "biggest creator" was outed for grooming a minor starting at age 14. He didn't show any screenshots since he's unsure if they're real or not at the moment, but believes them to be "pretty damning." He also added that another prominent Emporium creator was banned for discussing this in a separate Discord server.
If this information is true and the wording correct, this means that NeoDement the largest and oldest active TF2 Workshop creator has been exposed as a groomer. Which one of you wants to bet HRT was involved?
In Zesty's latest stream beginning at 3:19:28, he discusses a recent incident regarding the Emporium in which their "biggest creator" was outed for grooming a minor starting at age 14. He didn't show any screenshots since he's unsure if they're real or not at the moment, but believes them to be "pretty damning." He also added that another prominent Emporium creator was banned for discussing this in a separate Discord server. https://youtube.com/watch?v=rDVLVHbomoY:11968
If this information is true and the wording correct, this means that NeoDement the largest and oldest active TF2 Workshop creator has been exposed as a groomer. Which one of you wants to bet HRT was involved?
I don't think he should've mentioned this publicly yet. He should've waited to confirm his evidence, get the "youngin" on-board, and then prepare a thorough killshot on the Emporium for covering it up. Either with his big Emporium exposé video, or as a standalone thing to expedite the process (which it sounds like it may merit). If it ends up being a fabrication/gayop of some kind, or if the mentioning goes against the victim's wishes depending on context, then him mentioning this at all could very easily blow back on him.
But of course, I know people adjacent to the discussed community read this thread. If anyone has information they would like to share, we won't bite.