40:04 AIN'T NO WAY

@terradoom8503

2 ай бұрын

Omg it's blockland1892

@FireNinja7365

2 ай бұрын

The man, the myth, the legend himself, blockland1892

@MrAnnonimous

2 ай бұрын

The man who DRIVES!

@TamelaVilla

2 ай бұрын

He found his way here, bless

@Levioli_

2 ай бұрын

no shot

Dude the memorial for Active World members isn't even sad, that is the most beautiful shit I have ever seen. RIP DMC2U.

@amoryblaine3292

2 ай бұрын

For real, it's amazing seeing this sort of thing. This small forgotten community and yet all that love and fraternity between these people bonded over that place and hobby.

@triskoto

2 ай бұрын

rest in paradise DMC2U🗿

@bluemooninthedaylight8073

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's a good reminder that there's also really nice people online, too.

@jacknagel9387

2 ай бұрын

@@amoryblaine3292 It feels like we're some sort of archeologists looking into the lives of people who never even knew we existed yet through whats left over in their worlds we could tell who they were.

@Tacdelio

2 ай бұрын

​​@@jacknagel9387in 50-200 years when theres an archive of the entire internet, we will be the same thing, our words etched into the internet for eternity for people to scroll through. there will be people that read and follow our words as if we knew any better than them.

39:30 Lol, I really glad you liked my basement with all the books I had given custom titles to. It took like a week to get them all working. Sorry for the explosive one..

@Ty-17

2 ай бұрын

wow when did you make that?

@Mr.Nossody

2 ай бұрын

@@Ty-17 Decently early on. Had to have been 5 years ago by now. It was one of those projects you keep adding to, you know? I put everything I had into that, and what was in the vid was like 1% of what was done. I hope the Pirate Adventure build gets some love someday. A great team put so much love into it. Maybe someday, you know?

@Ty-17

4 күн бұрын

@Mr.Nossody Love seeing people passionate about what they do, good stuff man.

44:10 Blockland Soccer ⚽ We've held soccer tournaments every summer since 2014, along with other smaller events throughout the year. All of our matches have been recorded live with commentary, and are available to watch, no soup or tea necessary!

@kemrit9967

2 ай бұрын

We have impromptu scrims as well. Times vary, but they're usually around 9:30pm est

@denverbeek

2 ай бұрын

I believe I attended one in like 2018 and was blown away by the detail of the map you guys had.

@Agret

2 ай бұрын

Why does it need to download 11k files for such a basic map? You guys need to clean that up.

@HalfLifer81

2 ай бұрын

that's actually kind of impressing

@mattt9022

2 ай бұрын

​@@Agret There's a CDN add-on that you can download and drop into the folder, it makes you load typically in under a minute. Sadly things like that aren't added to the game by default so there are a lot of obstacles for newer players :p The add-on is located in the welcome message to the server or on the discord for future reference

Some say blockland 1892 will only stop when the sun burns out, I say they will outlive it

@treverfanjoy2871

2 ай бұрын

He has arrived in the comment section. the man, the myth, the legend

@werbeplakat4318

2 ай бұрын

Did you ever play prison break when the servers were still up? It was my Favorite mode back in the days I played the game. Download it again a few Months ago and it was sad to See most stuff gone or completly empty

@stevestevenson1678

2 ай бұрын

@@werbeplakat4318 I remember playing the shit outta that game mode, it was like Tezuni's or something right?

@werbeplakat4318

2 ай бұрын

@@stevestevenson1678 YEEES Tezunis prision break got me alone 80-100 hours. So many secrets and weapons to find and a lot of fun. Meet some really funny people there

@genkaido9471

2 ай бұрын

​​​@@stevestevenson1678yeah it was called tezuni's jailrp or tezuni's jail break it was one of my favorites as well!

"Blockland survivor" here. Seeing it described as a dead game is heartbreaking to be honest. A small community and servers still persist, but I still really miss the old days.

@TheReuleaux

2 ай бұрын

I remember seeing you alot on the forums. The old days probably won't come back, but we can relive them in small pockets still.

@TheBlackParrot

2 ай бұрын

probably wouldn't be doing any of the things i'm doing today if it wasn't for that game

@KittyBladeProdutions

2 ай бұрын

I remember all the secret passages in the bedroom and the kitchen, the snow mountain that you could ski down, and the death match in the desert towers map. Everyday, I miss the Blockland I knew before shaders.

@Bluezexmas

2 ай бұрын

I was just casually listening to the video then friggin, BLOCKLAND was mention and I got misty eyed remember the hours I spent logged onto freebuilds and Tezuni's Jail escape. I'm glad it was mentioned and hopefully down the line it could have a resurgence

@Fantasticanations

2 ай бұрын

Were you around back in RTB or only in modern blockland?

It's possible that the Master Sword server ran out of storage. Throughout all those years, the server may have been quietly writing log files until it ran out of space. Then when you delivered the quest, it tried to write *one more piece of data* and... well, it couldn't. Well done. Thanks for the vid.

@KittyKatty999

2 ай бұрын

Wow, that feels like something out of an existential story

@pedrososapena5893

2 ай бұрын

@@KittyKatty999 in a sense, it is.

@spyczech

Ай бұрын

"I'm tired, boss" damn thats actually kind of sad

Is it just me, or is he an amazing comfort youtuber? Both his voice and editing style are so soothing.

@macawed

2 ай бұрын

No it’s not just you.. this content really just relaxes me.. i really cant stand them dramatic yelling over the top KZreadrs

@sirmcfrank4464

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. I feel very comfortable watching his content. The flow is smooth and I feel distracted from general stress

@erisvile9443

2 ай бұрын

I fully agree. This is why I started watching John Wolfe and LetsGameItOut, and I’ve happily found another gaming KZreadr to watch. I love this video. So enthralling and comforting.

@beaconlight20

Ай бұрын

Any other comfort youtuber recommendations? I like to put these kind of videos to sleep

@bluwafer4255

Ай бұрын

@beaconlight20 while it's pretty subjective on who's a comfort youtuber or not, for sleep/pleasant background noise I'd recommend The Librarian. Most of their videos are exploring gmod maps/short horror games, and their commentary is anything but annoying. youtube.com/@TheLibrarianYT

In a sense, would this be considered a form of Digital Archeology? Just because the cities aren't made of brick and stone, it doesn't mean there weren't hundreds, if not more, that at some point called these spaces home.

@420quickscoper5

2 ай бұрын

archaeology is the study of past human culture, so i don't see why this couldn't be classed as digital archaeology

@mattpace1026

2 ай бұрын

Considering that's exactly the term used (on the internet, anyway) for this type of thing, I'm curious as to whether or not you got that term from some forum or something, or if you came to that idea on your own?

@Cr3zant

2 ай бұрын

@@mattpace1026 The "term" is literally just normal archaeology with the simple append of digital in the front to denote the medium. It is not some special term that requires great creativity or learning it from someone else to come up with.

@jack.jpg247

2 ай бұрын

Hi friend. I have a degree in Historic Preservation. I can confirm that "digital preservation" as its called is absolutely a thing! However, while it concerns itself with archiving and preserving media created digitally, it is a relatively new field in historic preservation and digital archivists are practically writing the rulebooks for it as they go. While it is mostly concerned with tackling issues like how we preserve and archive things like emails, digital photographs, SSD's, and etc., there is a recent and noticeable recognition of things like early internet websites and video games as being culturally significant and worth preservation. But, there is by far no consensus on best practices for this or agreement on the sorts of "qualifiers" which mark something as being worth the time to preserve in an accessible way, and innumerable barriers to trying to figure out a way to preserve these sorts of things in an accessible way that doesn't violate the original creators or users or hosted content's privacy or copy write protections, which is the biggest barrier to accessibility for both digital and non-digital media. In short, this digital archaeology is indeed a thing that is happening in the professional space, but it is very difficult and hampered by all sorts of challenges that have yet to have a concrete process for resolving, as this is an extremely new phenomenon and we as a culture have no frame of reference for handling this new form of records.

@HotdogSosage

2 ай бұрын

​@@Cr3zantBro this response cracked me up

12:30 a lot of webcams in the 90s were not webcam streams like we have today - it was basically a webcam taking a picture every 10/20/30 seconds and uploading it.

@AlidarJarok1

2 ай бұрын

OH wow I forgot about how they used to work in the 90s. Core memory unlocked lol.

@scrung

2 ай бұрын

hehe to be fair, that is what a stream is (an ever updating source of data). i remember my webcam in 2002 or something that had like 0.4 frames per second refresh rate 😅

@soniablanche5672

2 ай бұрын

well it's literally the same as current year webcams, the only difference is that they take 30 pictures per second rather than 1 picture every 30 seconds lol

@ioverexcitedninja4281

2 ай бұрын

lol imagine a gaming youtuber with a 1 frame per 10 seconds webcam 😂😂

@hpwilliams0

2 ай бұрын

I remember being really into ghosts and aliens, and there being a stream for a library that was “famous” for having ghosts caught on the various webcams they had inside the complex. Was always spooky seeing the slight changes that would happen between pictures of a dark hallway at 3am at night 😂

Ah, I'm so glad you played Speedkart Remastered in blockland, I did the announcer voice! I love hearing my own voice blare across someone else's speakers when they win/lose lol

man there are a lot of these kinds of "exploring dead game" videos but yours are always way more comfier and it's like you try to tell a story in them, they're great

The tribute to DMC2U and all the others who helped to build and foster the Active Worlds community into what it was-- that's gotta be one of the most tasteful beats I've ever seen in a KZread video.

@CrobatmanIamthenight

2 ай бұрын

Hopefully no one vandalizes it if they even can

@LexusLFA554

2 ай бұрын

If they would still live today, how old would they be? Sorry if I invade your personal space.

@methvirus5685

2 ай бұрын

nice to see u here place

@DogDooWinner

2 ай бұрын

@CrobatmanIamthenight I vaguely remember it from years ago. I think it was admin controlled. It was so long ago that I don't even remember where I originally heard it from. It might have been from a friend's father who was obsessed with games like this. I can't ask because the friend got super addicted to pills, and I nuked the friendship to get him off of them. Sometimes, helping someone requires extreme actions.

@TheBcoolGuy

2 ай бұрын

Man, it's wild to think that he's been dead for nearly 12 years.

the 1892 in blockland1892 is when he started racing

blockland, my beloved... for a time it seemed to be possible competition for roblox, but in its heyday, the creator released one fatal update: v21, which saw the removal of rooms. in v20 and earlier, there were maps one could select for their server which would be the rooms of a house, in addition to custom-made maps and the flat plain seen in the video, atop which one would build with legos. the twist: you're lego-sized. the rooms were MASSIVE, and filled with hidden passageways and secrets, such as the bedroom window being breakable, allowing you to go outside, or the secret entrance into the cabinets in the kitchen. god knows why badspot chose to remove these, but they turned out to be so integral to the game's spirit and image that, combined with a total halt of subsequent updates, it set in motion a long decay of popularity until the sad death that has taken so many multiplayer games. what a tragedy.

@roberthughes2360

Ай бұрын

im glad to read that others share the same love for the blockland of old :,)

The TFC segment sent me for a wild nostalgia trip. I used to religiously play it when I was younger on an old PC that was shared with my siblings and eventually when that died I played on my brother’s laptop. Three of the servers you visited are some of the servers I believe I used to frequent as they were semi active back then, and I would play climb maps if no one was on and would always try to do the escape maps but didn’t usually succeed as myself and the other handful of people couldn’t figure them out or weren’t skilled enough. My favorite memories are probably from the “conc” jumping maps as I befriended a guy from Switzerland named “Quaid” and he taught me to his best ability to “conc” jump, and I was constantly trying to get on the same time as him, and eventually he stopped playing as I think he was set to do military duty or something like that😭 I miss ya buddy, you were a great teacher and gave me tons of memories when I didn’t have the resources to buy newer games. I love your videos so much and wanted to thank you for providing such amazing content, sorry for the wall of text just remembered some great moments of my childhood.

NO WAY

@swiff

2 ай бұрын

Is that him?

@Redlyne_

2 ай бұрын

LEGEND

@FireNinja7365

2 ай бұрын

🗿

@vinny3410

2 ай бұрын

Actual legend

@von...

2 ай бұрын

race me. if you beat me, ill declare you president of blockland

That "Heat" game was exactly what I imagine it would be like to be the last human on earth. You spend your whole day doing dumb eccentric stuff to forget the loneliness. That scene of you going into the empty white house, sitting down in the presidents chair and declaring yourself as the president was too perfect!

@mattpace1026

2 ай бұрын

I bet that was actually the last game he recorded for this, just as he snapped from the isolation.

@Providence83

2 ай бұрын

The longer the segment went on, the more this comment rang true. I was laughing through several bits thinking about it.

@HeftyYeti8764

2 ай бұрын

The TV show The Last Man On Earth has an ongoing bit about that so right on point lol

@maggs734

Ай бұрын

I can recommend the 1985 NZ movie "The Quiet Earth", which has a similar premise.

@astvrion

Ай бұрын

reminded me of zombieland double tap

Your Comprehensive History of Internet Horror was the video I saw of yours and you immediately became one of my favourite KZreadrs. Your delivery and editing is really really good and this series is so much fun. Thanks for all your hard work!

The post-zinger dancing in HEAT had me crying every single time 😂.

hey I'm Zeustal from that Blockland map, I DID NOT expect to see my bot show up at all!!! that map was a repurposed version of a significantly better map called Skill4life's pirate adventure, the Blockland community is still somewhat alive so I'd implore you to revisit us sometime.

@patyos2

2 ай бұрын

Yes that was from the Blockland New Years 2024 although he only went in the server 5 days after the festivities were over.

@Mr.Nossody

2 ай бұрын

Yes, the Pirate Adventure crew worked very hard on this. Over 5 years of work went into the build shown, and it was only the Spawn Island. It was nice to see some of the interactable stuff we put in was still present. It still had some of it's charm left even after all this time. What was seen was an edited version for the New Years celebration that Im surprised was still up. The New Years is kind of the only time old players show up to play.

My new favorite type of humor is people finding unfortunate references to the Twin Towers pre 9/11. Active Worlds give me such nostalgia for early Second Life. I played that game for almost 20 years, over half of my life lol

@noonyabeezniss4911

2 ай бұрын

It's a shame 9/11 American won't get to see this

@coolmcdudely4814

2 ай бұрын

It reminds me of that tragedy

@Hally-oc8ry

2 ай бұрын

@@coolmcdudely4814yeah I remember walking down the streets looking for my brother

@r00tan16

Ай бұрын

tbf, some of those builds may have been made as memorials

I love these exploring online game videos man. The length you go to on covering each one makes it feel like a compilation of really succinct videos and i find myself forgetting there are other games coming up next im so lost in it.

All these Killer7 sounds and music, man. This is the third time you brought tears to my eyes. So much nostalgia from these items, some of the terms, the decoration and the brushwork... Thank you for your work man. From the bottom of my heart.

That entire HEAT section was like a fever dream

@Kleptogames

2 ай бұрын

Fr chaotic asf😂

@DaProductionsDrawings

2 ай бұрын

Real

@jtjoemamma

2 ай бұрын

the guy who said "be serious" too like how do you be serious in a game like that 😂

@Anyting9OnTopGrrr

Ай бұрын

​@@jtjoemammagame is the most unserious thing ever 😂

this man’s voice is so comforting

@renechristmann2607

2 ай бұрын

yes totaly

@lcb45

2 ай бұрын

So true. This is one of my favorite youtube channels right now, probably top 3. Always get so excited to see a new video

@Gobeux

2 ай бұрын

ive used past videos to help fall asleep, so comforting and relaxing

@avoncoguy4745

2 ай бұрын

He sounds exacly like spoonkid

@SurmenianSoldier

2 ай бұрын

@@caviar_dreamz how the hell do you accidentally type lust instead of just and not notice it

I spent HOURS upon HOURS in ActiveWorlds as a kid. I was absolutely obsessed just exploring words - but when I bring it up to people no one ever knows what I'm talking about! I remember there was one world in particular that seemed to go on forever. I would spent days running from one build through seemingly endless empty landscape until I would randomly come across another build (usually half-finished). Then I would repeat the process.

Oh, hey, old man here. I grew up with TFC and remember mooncheese. It was a pretty interesting map that had a unique spin to the normal gameplay. If I recall correctly, it was 3-4 teams of countries all racing to prime a rocket and get in it to get to the moon. I think you won if you got there first and got to, well, the moon cheese. That's why you were downloading anthems. Shame it didn't work. Also, entmod felt like a weird proto gmod, it let you spawn and move entities around. I remember begging on a server to get access to it so I could mess around. Have to imagine none of those maps work because that mod is probably mega-broken these days.

Master Sword felt weirdly existential by the end. You just innocently jump into some dead game, only to accidentally destroy the only working server. All those NPCs that had sat in limbo for years, finally serving their purpose by engaging with you, and then their entire world just flashes out of existence.

@Providence83

2 ай бұрын

Some old beige tower someone's been using as a heater in their room had its fans suddenly slow down for the first time in ages when the server crashed. That's the weirdest part of any of these videos to me. There is a machine, a *physical computer,* _somewhere_ in the real world that is running this stuff and linking to the modern day internet. That machine has been connected to power, looping automatic startups on restarts or power cuts, forwarding, hosting, going through an ISP, and all that FOR DECADES! It's even crazier to think some of these servers could be ran on modern machine just by happenstance because it was something that was in an old server rack and when the equipment was upgraded, they could have just moved everything from the old machines to the new ones without bothering to check what all processes they were doing. That's speculation on my part but I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility.

@StudioAREshorts

2 ай бұрын

That makes me wonder, you know? Like what the fuck how are these things still running. Who is paying for this machine, the internet that runs this machine, the power hasn't gone out once???

@zombieslayer02gjustzombies85

2 ай бұрын

@@StudioAREshortsobviously not for some servers, that server just died after having been used up too much since 2005 that he was able to be the final person to play it

@WillockFlame

2 ай бұрын

All of these reminds me of this game . kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIqKo5eCXcyskZs.htmlsi=itZC2byPjRDZ4qj8

@derpderpson2188

2 ай бұрын

@@Providence83A lot of those urban exploration videos will happen upon computers that have been running for ages, sitting in abandoned buildings just chugging away because nobody's bothered to turn the power off. I'd like to think that this was one of those.

The dichotomy of going from the memorial to "I'm the president now let's ride a bear across the country" is golden.

Thanks for covering TFC, that gave me some nice nostalgia particularly the conc jumps, I actually totally forgot that used to be a thing and felt sooooo old. I like these videos a lot thanks for making them

was liking the video very much already- heard pseudoregalia ost in the background and literally turned on my computer so i could go subscribe. really enjoyed your active worlds coverage and glad that what remains can also live here to some degree

MR PRESIDENT GET DOWN mr president: "THE BOOGIE DOESNT STOP TILL I SAY IT STOPS GOTDANGIT"

@triskoto

2 ай бұрын

thanks for introducing me to worm grunting lol

12:20 I operated some webcams in the late 90s/early 2000s and the way they worked back then is that they uploaded a still .jpg file via FTP to a webserver very often. In the early days it was usually every 60 or 30 seconds, later people tried to crank it up to every 10- 5 seconds. On the viewer side you just needed a webpage with code to embed the image and auto-reload itself every x seconds which was very compatible with most browsers and worked without installing extra stuff. Since active worlds seems to have a way to embed webpages, it's totally possible to have webcam images on there back then. It most likely wasn't a live video feed as the tech just barely wasn't there yet, more like a fast updating still image.

@SJGster

2 ай бұрын

I don't know about the "webcams" in this world, but there were a number of Activeworlds "TV stations" that did exactly what you described, but with edited screenshots etc. instead of real world photos. Web pages couldn't be embedded back then, but there was a picture command that took a URL and had an optional parameter indicating how often to refresh.

Love these videos so much man, thank you. Always good to see stuff like Active Worlds being covered. I just love going on there and wandering around, just seeing what I can find. The memorials always hit harder than I expect. You're not going to get that experience in many games! ...and the Killer 7 clip 😩chef's kiss. Happily subscribing, thanks again.

man I truly love these videos, like no joke I love them. keep up the good work

Hey again - good to see you revisited AW! A few things of note: - The Bingo worlds are more or less dead and relied on a bot, so they don't work anymore - that and Activeworlds retired the paid citizenships years ago as it declined in relevance compared to SL and VRChat. - The reason a lot of the stuff is missing images is because back then, content was hotlinked from other sites that hosted websites and images, that have long since either changed their policies on hotlinking, or are defunct. - For a time I actually used to call abc my home world.. primarily because of the fact a house played a MIDI version of Blur's Song 2. - Regarding PKToons -- Rip Veger (IIRC the owner of PKToons), I guess, lmao - Memorials are prominent and have been a part of Activeworlds' history for years. I have seen many of my fellow citizens, and even in my days in Second Life, many residents, as we call ourselves - pass away. I should go to pay respects to the fallen soon, in all honesty. Thanks for coming by again, Redlyne.

@00boyd9

2 ай бұрын

mans said lmao after rip hahahah lovely

@CC-qx7hk

2 ай бұрын

Hey a fellow Og SL Resident~ Hurts to watch these games slowly dying while people try to pass metaverses off as a new concept, done somehow even worse than THERE/MTV Online.

@notarealdad

2 ай бұрын

Would something like the internet archive help with the dead hyperlinks and hotlinked images? It seems like a pretty extensible platform, so maybe an internet archive plug-in for the web browser/renderer could help? Not every link or every image would be archived, but it would be nice to see. There was a mention of an archived server in the video too. If/when it goes down, it would be cool to have those backed up with some kind of IA ability. Maybe a read only version to protect against vandalism, and a “living” version for anyone interested

@someguy1865

2 ай бұрын

​@@00boyd9yea wassup with that? I can't imagine saying "RIP Queen Elizabeth, lol" 😭

@vainglorias

2 ай бұрын

oh man to experience midi version of song 2 ….

Man, I played Blockland for literally a decade back in the 2000's. It feels so weird knowing it's a dead game these days. I miss the community and all the fun times we had. Thanks for showcasing it, it brought back a lot of memories.

@OrgusDin

2 ай бұрын

I miss Blockland too.

@patyos2

2 ай бұрын

still active players playing Blockland weekly and even daily, I wouldn’t really call it dead but it’s only active on peak timezones like around 5-10pm est and not at 4am est in the morning like the video lol

@incoplaysgames3530

2 ай бұрын

patyos meow

@patyos2

2 ай бұрын

@@incoplaysgames3530 meow

@legatelaurie

2 ай бұрын

@@patyos2 There's despair fever (a danganronpa-esque gamemode) games being hosted regularly still, it's really fun

So happy to be hearing coverage of Master Sword! It may seem dead but there's a new version called Rebirth that is actively fixing bugs and has a pretty active community. Been enjoying the game and excited to see what's in store. Thank you for your hard work in this video, awesome seeing these old games being covered and given another chance of being known :)

Your videos have such a calm charm to them, my absolute fav to just watch and listen while chilling in bed sometimes falling asleep, please never stop these videos my absolute comfort channel and i appreciate the content you make! Great job sir

Oi nice.. checking in for EntCity RP at 56:15 -- so this was actually made for The Specialists mod for Roleplay servers in combination with EntMod, where players can build their own house piece by piece, and could save, load, and place it again anew anywhere they wanted. If you go back and revisit these EntMod maps, enable noclip and go underground, you will find hundreds of objects that can be copied and manipulated with, but you'll need EntMod setup to use them. I still have my server setup so if you want we could go take a deeper dive on all the many curious Ent maps.

@krazzy6440

2 ай бұрын

This comment right here could help make a video about the graveyards of ent maps to be explored. I'd take him up on this offer! Dementei is an old school entmod/RP head that knows all the ins and outs. So much content there.

@Rev_Erser

2 ай бұрын

tour guide

@asdfjkli

2 ай бұрын

Oh man The Specialists mod. Best HL mod ever. It should've been way more popular

Wow, that memorial for DMC2U was genuinely beautiful, Active Worlds really had a dedicated community that cared about it’s people. That’s something you don’t see at all anymore, RIP DMC2U and all the active world players that made a impact in that community.

@JumboDS64

2 ай бұрын

You do see it, but only in niche communities. It just happens that the entire internet used to be niche.

absolutely love this series and am glad you're continuing it

This is one of my favourite series and your voice and delivery is amazing. Please keep making content in general

The moment I saw Animyst I was like "hey, it's that game Josh Strife Hayes played once!" and right at the end of the segment he gets mentioned by someone else in game lol

@eugenepoez

2 ай бұрын

yeah lol

@beast667

2 ай бұрын

Haha, yeah I had the same experience

I really liked AW you can tell the devs wanted the community to be creative, compared to other games it doesn't have paid imvu like items and crap.

@jermafan111

2 ай бұрын

While this is partially true, maybe not as predatory as websites like imvu, AW does have a paid model and you could even buy clothes and hair etc for your avatar from malls with credits

This series is incredible. I genuinely hope you continue making these.

i love the way these videos are made, super impressive stuff as always. Your voice is really calming, feels like i’m watching AsumSaus

BlockLand1892 Patriarch of the BlockLand Family

X-Files ice cave is a reference to the first (and only?) X-Files movie where the alien ship was in the ice.

@ryanyoder7573

2 ай бұрын

There are two movies

@cornn-flaek

2 ай бұрын

Last episode of season 4 called Gethsemane features an alien found frozen in an ice cave in the Yukon. I assumed the cave in the video is a reference to this. There's a lot of frozen extraterrestrial/supernatural beings/matter in the show but from what I remember Gethsemane is the only one with an ice cave

@haruhisuzumiya6650

2 ай бұрын

X files: I want to believe

The section on Blockland is quite something. Those servers you checked out are definitely odd balls, Quenenard is someone who has hosted New Years parties for Blockland since 2010, and Floran is like the only person still persistently hosting a server that's mainly death run and minigames. The game itself won't die on it's own, there's a few dedicated players who refuse to leave, grow out of it, or switch to Brickadia, the newer game that took major inspiration from Blockland, and was created by Blockland players. That game would be a major reason why people have left the game, but there's still those who refuse and stay with the classic. Sadly, the game won't ever be updated anymore. Before it was updated to "Shaders" in V21, it had MAPS. Lots of maps, lots of players, all sorts of servers. That is where the prime of this game was. Now, it's just desolate, and I personally blame the creator Badspot for it.

@raelthyk

2 ай бұрын

Hi dillpickle!

the first half hour of this video is really a rollercoaster of emotions. Well done sir!

that HEAT presidential arc was amazing

Didn't expect to see TFC in one of these, but it's cool that you covered it. The game's 25th anniversary is coming up in a few weeks. 57:48: Entmaps were used in EntMod, which was sort of a proto-Garry's Mod. Players (usually admins) would be able to move and manipulate entity objects (walls, floors, crates, etc.) around a map in real time. So, you'd use an entmap as a sandbox for creating a map rather than do so using a traditional map editor. 1:01:03 LeeW is Lee Wakefield, who created this map. He created many other TFC maps as well, including several "social"-type maps featuring houses or rooms for people in the community. His maps were often played on Axl's TFC server, which was one of the most popular servers for custom maps.

@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments

2 ай бұрын

I didn't play too much TFC (know more about CS) but those social type maps sound a lot like TF2 trade servers (well without the trading and idlers). I wish I would have been around on TFCs prime but where I live got DSL quite late since it was a rural area. I used to jump on as a sniper cause I didn't lag around when I moved and I think the lag helped me get headshots.

@jaimdiojtar

2 ай бұрын

what was the name of the map? where i can download it?

@krazzy6440

2 ай бұрын

Use to play with Ent Mod all the time! Especially in Sven Coop servers. Bless Drunken F00l's meta mod plugins. His Ent Mod was one of the most innovative plugins to come out during the Gold Source Engine era.

Anyone showing up for the 2026 performance??

babe wake up PEAK KZread content has just dropped

I've been posting Master Sword ambience type videos on my channel recently! This is actually the old version, Master Sword: Continued. There is a new project, Master Sword: Rebirth and an associated discord bringing out new content and bugfixes still in the works! It's in a weird transition period from the original dev team over to open source, this is why there was only the one buggy server for the old version. Rebirth is still moderately active.

@Hemeriodius3345

2 ай бұрын

Seeing MSC described as a "dead world" hurt my soul a little. Can't wait for MSR to eventually go public and hopefully see new players find the game.

@reptarien

2 ай бұрын

@@Hemeriodius3345 It seems like a game I would enjoy honestly. There were Roblox RPG servers that were kinda like it that I loved as a kid.

one of my favourite series on youtube rn i love these videos so much

I love these video's too man never stop making them yheyre so entertaining genuinely the only hour long videos on youtube i can watch fully through

something about this video being chock full of yakuza references JUST as i get into the series is just perfect. i lost it when you started making Nishiki in the club cooee game. perfect, no notes

@lucyinchat

2 ай бұрын

Nishiki!!!!!

@shaxxiv8234

2 ай бұрын

My brain immediately went “10 years in the joint made you a pu**y” 😂

The Heat segment was genuinely one of the funniest things I've watched in a long time. You've got a talent for comedic editing, Red!

Not only is it fascinating to see your exploration of these relic worlds, it's entertaining since you play up these characters as you try to wholeheartedly engage.

That VR company working with the Army makes sense. Their Tac-Eye thing looks very similar to the Land Warrior stuff that army was playing with during the early 2000s. It's basically a heads up display thing that clips onto your glasses and connects to other soldiers.

Nothing like chilling out to an algorithm recommended video and finding your own game in it.

@horrorfan1978

2 ай бұрын

it didn’t have to be on this list had you still worked on it you know :(

@3p1Kf41L

2 ай бұрын

YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS

@scrung

2 ай бұрын

Sometimes you burn out and feel like working on a different project, it’s aight man :)

@snakebot4986

2 ай бұрын

Where did the time go...

@3p1Kf41L

2 ай бұрын

@@scrung do you know what his different project is?

Nice you got to see a little bit of Blockland new years 2024 server after the festivities were over. Fun new years 2024 server stats. Highest player peak was 120 players. Total 381 unique players

@CyPhaSaRin

2 ай бұрын

fk man i remember playing blockland back in like.. 04-05

@patyos2

2 ай бұрын

@@CyPhaSaRin still active players playing the game weekly and even daily

@JohnSmith-ox3gy

2 ай бұрын

​@@patyos2Looking for challenging Blockland 1892.

@OrgusDin

2 ай бұрын

Based blockheads keeping the game alive, minecucks swerve. @@patyos2

@patyos2

2 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-ox3gy Blockland 1892 shows up on speedkart servers normally also he’s in these comment section

I really love this series. It's perfect to just cozy up to with some snacks and relax.

58:43 the assets for this map is from the hl mod called Afraid Of Monsters. Massive recommend, awesome horror mod with insanely cool atmosphere and great mapping

@bigcooltony437

2 ай бұрын

I knew it looked familiar! He should totally check it out

hands down one of the most fun series on youtube for me

Your sense of humor and edits are great. Keep it up big man

Genuinely one of the best channels that I have found in all my years on KZread. Your voice soothes the soul and the media you cover is melancholy yet calming.

"Mr President get down" segment KILLED me

Wow, Blockland brings me back. Haven't played it in probably a decade but I put so much of my time into that game when I was younger. Pretty nostalgic hearing all of those sounds and seeing the unique visuals.

I love this series. Please keep making these

I spent years in ActiveWorlds, as the owner of a few "Pokéworld" servers, where a dice roll bot was customized into a sort of battle between our posters of chosen 'mons. We all built gyms, but the world hosting costs back in '02 were more than my allowance. I wandered the ice caves of X-Files 2 so many times, and I think it just goes around in circles.

The HEAT section might be your best work yet

The up to date war room was the best part lol

I'm so glad to have found this channel oh my gosh this is gorgeous

Exceptionally relaxing. Joe Pera talks about dead games 3. Love it

LET'S FUCKKINGG GOOO!!!!! I live for these videos from this channel. Literally freak out whenever I get the notification

@chera114

2 ай бұрын

nice pfp. if i had you next to me i would kiss you

@sandrinooo

2 ай бұрын

I celebrated when I saw the noti lmao

@chera114

2 ай бұрын

nice pfp. oil up im there in 5

@Fiend-ish

2 ай бұрын

@@chera114 ☹️

@Elvis.D99

2 ай бұрын

Is that gal from DDLC?

Fun fact about Blockland: the reason why it was so popular back then wasn't because of the game itself, but because of the Blockland forums since it was more a forum about Internet gossip than about the game.

@2yoyoyo1Unplugged

2 ай бұрын

I remember the brief but intense Roblox vs Blockland Wars

@3p1Kf41L

2 ай бұрын

Blockland Forums only has 11,000 users who have ever posted while Blockland the game had 20x more purchases

@eleven99

2 ай бұрын

@@3p1Kf41L because Badspot would frequently ban people from the forum, and the only way to rejoin the forum was to repurchase the game.

@eleven99

2 ай бұрын

@@3p1Kf41L Badspot would frequently ban anyone causing mischief on the forums, and the only way to be unbanned was buying another copy of the game.

@xchronox0

2 ай бұрын

There was also a relatively large modding community. Modding was the only reason that game ever had any amount of life.

This is the first video ive seen of yours and the concept immediately drew me in but man, you really sold me with the killer7 songs as bg music 😊

Yo! Thanks for playing Blockland. I have so many memories of that game from my youth. I literally had to mail cash to the developer to buy it because I didn't have any way to purchase it digitally lmao. Blockland is definitely dead thanks to neglect and shitty updates from the developers. It's an actual shell of what it used to be

@TheBloopers30

2 ай бұрын

Should've had a workshop when they launched it on Steam. So dumb how the devs ruined the modding community.

58:29 I think this map is meant to be a reference to the 'Afraid of Monsters' mod for Half-Life, made by the same group that did Cry of Fear. I can't say for certain though.

Cant believe i missed this dropping. I love the Trigun track ya use man.

You seem to be letting a lot more of your humour and personality come out in these videos and it really works - really enjoying this series keep it up

1:36 I'm so glad the mall music in Dead Rising has become the go to for background audio when showing malls lol

@II_Omori_ll

2 ай бұрын

I noticed that instantly too haha

I've been playing active worlds for a few months now, but I remember discovering it like 15 years ago while my grandfather's computer. Your last video where you showed off active worlds was what sparked my memory. I have been playing it every single day since and it's legitimately the best exploration game.

yessss these are my favorite videos ever thank u for uploading

This my first time here and immediately subscribed. Great content!!!

the memorials in active worlds are so SOOO lovely :( rip

I was about to clean out the garage, but I sure as hell ain't gonna ignore a new video.

Man, i love this videos keep up the good work love you.

i love that you are preserving history so these dead games can live on even if they are shut down, thank you for making these videos! also it's really cool how you handled the AW memorial part, I was never there but still RIP to all those who helped make a community a better place

the map at 58:29 comes from a half-life mod called afraid of monsters, it's made by the same person who created cry of fear

I've been waiting patiently for this. you have the best content ever its so addicting

Loving the sheer amount of Yakuza / RGG music in this one, always nice being able to recognize the background tunes.

I adore these videos, from the music choices for each scene to the obscure references peppered throughout. Thank you for holding my attention for far longer than any other media these days

That's so beautiful that people were doing this for years and seeing old pics and memorials and sweet stuff! I love these vids man! Also youre chill af keep up the great stuff

I used to play Blockland religiously as a kid before moving onto Roblox like it was my fulltime job. I thought I lost Blockland long ago, but fortunately my log in and everything still worked and I was able to bring it over to Steam. I'm really happy to see it highlighted here. Keep up the great work, man.

Rest in piece dead games 2 you’ve got competition 🙏