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Hecko!

It's time for your obligatory Minecraft drama update!!! NO YOU CAN'T LEAVE YOU ALREADY CLICKED THE THREAD!

And this time it doesn't involve your truly (for once)

Today's story starts a couple months back in November 2024

Let me introduce you to Iskall85

Iskall85 is a popular Swedish Minecraft Youtuber, whos been making YouTube videos since 2006. In fact he was an original playtester for Minecraft, even having his MC account personally gifted to him by the games creator (and /r/drama mod) Notch!

Iskall is most known for Minecraft videos on the 'Hermitcraft' Server, which is a collaborative private survival server which several YouTubers are part of and make videos on. Some of the Popular YouTubers who play are MumboJumbo, Grian, Ethoslab ect.

In fact Iskall was one of the more popular members with his Hermitcraft episodes regularly clocking above 400k views each, and rightfully so as he had been making content on the server as a member since 'Season 4' (Feb 2016), That's nearly a decade of content being made with his fellow members.

And it's worth noting for those unaware, that Hermitcraft is extremely culturally prominent within Minecraft as a whole. They are friends with a lot of the development staff, probably have played a small hand in suggesting new features for the game. And generally very highly respected in the Minecraft space.

(especially in compared to their other Minecraft YouTuber contemporaries like that fricking butthole Gerg)

Hermitcraft also presents itself as everyone involved not just being collogues but genuine friends off camera as well. WHOLESOME CHUNGUS

So it came to everyone as a massive shock when the Official Hermitcraft X account posted this vague update that Iskall85 has resigned from Hermitcraft after some mysterious "allegations" (As well as another member called Stressmonster, but more on her later)

pic.twitter.com/WApKgZDPQx

— Hermitcraft (@hermitcraft_) November 23, 2024

NOW I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ALL THINKING!!!! What would make his long term friends and colleagues drop him like a fricking BRICK so suddenly! It has to be really fricking bad.

Oh.... Well that's a change for once.

But have no fear, white ran through foids are here!

A few hours later, these private complains became public with the release of "Kass' Statement".

Who is Kass? Some 30 year old mod of Iskall's groomercord server. Here's a link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1paBcGkIfDWCyHcxhDrdhEGGvtpJL8yAqBR3HCKNK7DU/edit?tab=t.0

Now I know you dramatards, You hate reading EFFORTPOST? MORE LIKE BORING POST!

Basically Iskall85 flirted with this b-word in dm's (HOW DARE HE!)

Even after flirting with her, she never said stop, or im not into you.

In-fact Iskall asks her to get Skype so he can continue being flirty and she obliges (Clear manipulation from a position of power)

And despite this foid complaining that hes being heckin sexually active towards her, she then complains that he STOPPED messaging her

Somehow she paints this as manipulative evil behavior that BREAKS HER.... and she's right #BelieveAllWomen #Gerg2025YearOfGerg

A couple other statements were made by anonymous accounts, but confirmed by the female making the first statement (NON SUS AT ALL)

https://pastebin.com/Ln3nVRkq (BORING TEXT SAYS NOTHING WORTHWHILE, JUST ISKALL IS LE BAD)

https://x.com/starssoul0808/status/1860827397534159283 (DELETED TWEET LITTERALLY AS IM WRITING THIS!!!)

(from archive.is)

If your asking if that's it? Yep! that's it!

That evil fricker Iskall forgot his fricking place as a Minecraft Youtuber. YOU WILL NOT HAVE S*X, YOU ARE KEN DOLL

In response what did his long time 'friends' and fellow youtubers do in response to this silly claim of what he does in private?

IMMEDIATLY DROP HIS BUTT!

they gave him 90 mins to respond upon receiving the messages to which Iskall didn't and then dropped him from all branding and the server.

• -MumboJumbo recalled Merchandise featuring references to him

-An episode of a podcast he was on was deleted.

-And Grian (another member) Changed The title and thumbnail of the last 6 YEARS of videos to remove any reference or image of Iskall.

• The final reveal when this all went down was that Stressmonster (That other youtuber that quit when he was removed) was most likely fricking Iskall behind the scenes, people found out that her name was also registered to the same residential property as Iskall in Sweden (Shes from the UK)

So many people assumed she left because she found out Iskall had been cheating on her with groomercord mods of all people.

And that's where it laid. UNTIL LIKE 6 HOURS AGO!

iskall uploaded this video "I was Cancelled"

Where he complains about he's cancellation, reveals the 90 min time limit they gave him, as well as some problems it caused for other projects he had going on.

The biggest question was in the comments though

Stressmonster is defending him? Which MAKES THE WHOLE SITUATION EVEN STRANGER???? WHY DID SHE QUIT THEN?

Why did hermitcraft (which i will remind you he worked with for nearly a decade) DROP HIM SO FAST!

Minecraft is full of autism truly.

Time for the xitter seethe

stopped 35 seconds in.

iskall85, you are a sick man. you are nearly 40 years old and yet you cannot take responsibility NOR accountability for your actions. quit painting yourself as the victim. you abused your power over your victims. stop acting like you didnt pic.twitter.com/dvkbq1URrc

— SHARLENE EXPRESS 🌟 (@cherietaime) January 30, 2025

YOU ARE A SICK MAN FOR WANTING TO FRICK A WHITE WOMEN

I mean he does have a point

#iskall85 "this cancel culture of guilty until proven innocent gives too much power to the wrong people"

dawg prove ur innocent then

— Moon (@Moonlight2095) January 31, 2025

We shouldent do guilty until proven innocent

But you didnt prove your innocent though

Absolutely disgusting behavior. I hope all victims may find their peace and iskall85 should GO TO HECK jesus fricking christ https://t.co/goQJvrE73r

— 🏳️‍🌈MAKATA🌙🚦 (@makatalt) November 24, 2024

Victims

OH GOD I HAD TO SEE A FAT PERSONS LUST. KILL HIM WITH FIRE

I agree !thin has my back

What do you think dramasisters?

This would have never happened to him if he wasn't fat and also gay. Straggots cant help themselves.

Minecraft Autism prevails above all else.

UPDATE: https://rdrama.net/post/338501/quick-update-for-iskall85-controversy-marseybooba

🚨 This is the biggest scandal in news media history:

No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. First time ever the company missed a pay period. This is a crisis.

Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was… pic.twitter.com/DwHqEp6gjp

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 5, 2025

This is the email Politico sent to all employees yesterday. No one got paid. Politico’s corrupt management blame this on a “glitch” and not their government gravy train ending.

State propaganda collapsing pic.twitter.com/mIDWGmOkZ9

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 5, 2025

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1887152245931692317/photo/1

!chuds

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Trav and Taylor are trumpers girl (698)

Taylor may have secretly voted for Trump idk her mind. But she openly campaigned for Harris so 🤷🏼‍♀️ (14)

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NFL players of all races lean very conservative. Remember this is a sport that has had ONE openly gay active player in its entire history, It's not exactly known for its progressivism and tolerance. There are only a couple of vocally liberal players and a whole lot more far-right ones who stay relatively quiet. (743)

Is basketball different? My cities team has a coach that will not shut the frick up about issues(complimentary)but I don't really get into sportsball so I thought that was common across the board. (59)

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Compare this to the Eagles and Jalen hurts attitude towards him. I don't know anything about sports except that I want the chiefs to lose this. (983)

What did Jalen say about him? I can't find anything about it. (14)

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Let's stop pretending Taylor is some kind of helpless baby who's trapped in this relationship - she's obviously fine with dating a Trump supporter. She's a typical billionaire who's insulated from everything that's happening and about to happen to America and idk why she gets special treatment. (7874)

Listen I don't know a fricking thing about this subreddit and idk even know why it's recommended honestly but you hear me this:For as much good as taytay loves to purport I'll say this much as an aviation veteran with a decade experience working with private jets: this woman can frick right the frick off. The amount of fuel she shits into the atmosphere on the regular is worthy darn near of a war crime. Not to mention just the idea of how unabashedly gaudy it is, flashing her billions around while charging what, 4-500USD a ticket?I'm over the Taylor bullshit and I'm fricking left as they come. Way fricking left. (6)

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I'll likely be downkongd for this but this is just your standard straight down the middle athlete answer during media week, if you have a problem with the answer [which is fair] then it's less about him as an individual and more about the NFL's media training and stance as a whole. The same journ*list asked everyone else the same question on both teams and they all answered pretty much the same. They do it to create as little headlines and distractions as possible before the big game. The only reason this may get more attention despite a similar neutral answer to everyone else is because of the TS connection.We have seen Trump speak negatively on both Travis and Taylor previously. As someone who isn't much of a fan of his or the Chiefs he's publicly supported and advocated for causes and groups that are diametrically opposed to Trump. Whether it be Kelce's public stance on guns, LGBT rights, BLM movement or vaccination. There is also a podcast appearance where he says Trump is racis... (766)

This is a dude that kneeled with teammates during the national anthem, who donates to inner city youth, and is generally a decent dude doing pro-vaccine commercials, and other things. I don't know his personal beliefs, but he's also the ultimate team player. He's the least likely guy to make a media mistake during the biggest week of his life at the Superbowl. He didn't say he loves Donald Trump and he didn't say Frick him. Both that would blow up the story. He just said the President coming is an honor. It would be for any President that the head of the nation wants to watch you play. Even if they are not someone you like or support. Now, that saying Trump sucks, F him would cause trouble with his team, team owner, league, fan base, half the country, that is what really sucks. Not Travis's answer. For being a Chiefs fan, I don't like the NFL limiting players free speech by threat of job loss, the owners make the game almost unwatchable knowing that you are stuffing money i... (167)

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Donald trump has literally gone out of his way to insult taylor and made horrible deepfake AI images of her. Also trumps boss musk has been posting in the past 2 weeks ! photoshopped images to make taylor look like a nazi and this is what he says?! I'd be fuming!! (40)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/prettybunbun

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Druski releases the official trailer for “Coulda Been Love”

A show that'll have multiple women in a house competing to be his new girlfriend 💀pic.twitter.com/CfCsslRd0n

— Complex (@Complex) February 5, 2025

!tmz

Pick yo fave foid:

pic.twitter.com/JivikzDa3v

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2025

Jared Kushner is reportedly behind Trump’s proposal to occupy and develop Gaza.

Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/C7KR3IBJsT

— AF Post (@AFpost) February 6, 2025

pic.twitter.com/sl8xfeNjGk

— Stonetoss Comics (@stone_toss) February 6, 2025

Yesterday, Netanyahu gave Trump a gold plated pager and a regular pager as a “gift.”

Is that supposed to be a death threat? pic.twitter.com/Ddht34EMdZ

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) February 5, 2025

Explain it to me like a Redditor plz:

_ pic.twitter.com/ZPfAigfNyR

— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) February 6, 2025

Edit lol Trump flanked Lady G:

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham floats more reasonable Gaza proposal than Trump.

“I would suggest we go back to what we’ve been trying to do: Destroy Hamas and find a way for the Arab world to take over Gaza and the West Bank in a fashion that would lead to a Palestinian state… pic.twitter.com/Fh4mFN793B

— AF Post (@AFpost) February 6, 2025

https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/404

nobody who loves these kids has made them sound cooler than wired has made them sound while trying to destroy them pic.twitter.com/6IAFBog6lu

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) February 6, 2025

https://web.archive.org/web/20250206083241/https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/

The instability, the trumpflation - really not good for folks that enjoy the market.

If 79% of Americans oppose "transgender FEMALE athletes" competing in women's sports, imagine how many oppose MALE athletes in women's sports!

Drop the obfuscatory language. The opposition is to ALL MALE ATHLETES, no matter how they "identify."pic.twitter.com/6RKCcIXLNv

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) February 6, 2025

!chuds !transphobes

Because sometimes you'll have to contact tech support. And they'll refer to you by your stated name. And you'll have to sign off your emails with your stated name. And in my case those emails are sent from a gmail account that proudly shows my real, actual name.

I'm just happy that I had the restraint to avoid naming myself Nate Higgers or the like.

The name I signed up with came from this meme which randomly popped in my mind when registering

Have any of you heard of Unknown 9?

If you haven't- I don't blame you. I haven't either. Apparently it's a 4-month old game developed by Reflector Entertainment who also made... uhh this game and it's DLCs.

This screenshot gives a lot away but fear not, it was published by Bandai Namco, the guys who made the Dark Souls^TM of videogames These guys know a good investment when they see it, and at 50 eurobucks (USD to EUR is almost 1:1 at the time of writing !eurochads), a price comparable to that of God of War 2022 (50 EUR, 95% rating), HOI 4 (50 EUR, 90% rating) and Mount & Blade: Bannerlord II *editor's note: why are there so many MLP emojis when querying 'horse' (50 EUR, 87% rating(should be 100)), it is sure to deliver the same experience, right?

Well, from the screenshot you might have noticed that the ratings are mediocre: 49%. But that does not tell the whole story.

Unknown 9 currently has 7 concurrent players , 11 player 24-hour peak and a 285-player all-time peak [1]. This means it is mogged by the likes of Gollum 2023 at 758 all-time high [2], 6 year old rockstar game Red Dead: Redemption 2 at almost double the rating [3], a 2023 unity slavshit game Contraband Police at almost double the rating and half the price [4] and absolutely mogged by LEWDAPOCALYPSE, which has double the concurrent players, double the rating, and 1/50th of the price [5].

IGN gave Unknown 9 a 9(-4) rating [6], so is it really that bad?

Looks pretty bad, but is this the lowest we can go? Just some failed garbage from an upcoming studio, but is that it? Can't we do worse?

Heck no! It was in the works for at least 4 years, and was supposed to be a tans-media project, "including video games , film , and books (!bookworms), for example. Unknown 9 was conceptualized as an ongoing series, spanning podcasts , comics , and even a web series , many of which have already been released." [7]. So you've been laughing at Concord for having an Amazon episode despite being a dead game- well, you've seen nothing yet kid. This shit was supposed to be massive, at least according to the cited source (I didn't check further (yes how could you tell, I work in academia )). It was supposed to be the next fricking star wars by the looks of things, expecting to bank on their notoriety to create the equivalent to Netflix's Witcher [7] (which is not something to be proud of tbh). While we have no numbers on the project costs, one might imagine that a AAA game with massive marketing like that would've cost a lot. While we do not know how much exactly the project did cost, it is hardly believable that some unknown studio with 0 releases might have funded it. Indeed, the studio is owned by the publishers- Bandai Namco, who can probably afford to throw money around [8]. Looking at their website and LinkedIn is pretty funny as well, considering that they have announced that they will cease support for the game [8].

But you don't have to trust me, you can view the official gameplay trailer posted on Playstation's account and come to your own conclusions:

The lore/narrative trailer, which is just as stupid, can be found at

TL;DR?

Well, it's about a brown woman with supernatural abilities . Kind of like Forespoken from 1 2 years ago if anyone remembers that.

"Unfortunately, part of Hoerdt's statement confirmed several staff members would be made redundant, including back-office employees, and given severance packages, further health benefits, access to counseling services, and "proactive" career planning support." [7]. Lmao imagine getting free counselling from a company that fired you. I would probably take that as an insult, equivalent to one of those "reddit cares" messages . One might accuse me of using a chuddy source, but the same website compliments Unknown 9's use of "stepping powers", which states that "Stepping is the ability to project one's mind into the consciousness of another, by way of the Fold. While Stepping, one has access to the weaponry, strength, and intellect of a given vessel, and may fully control their actions." [9]. A totally true statement which has never been done before.

Here's Cr1tikal AKA Charlie AKA penguinz0 explaining it probably better than I do (it's the weekend and I've had several drinks already ):

He quotes the investment value into the IP at 100 million $ [citation needed]

In conclusion: 1) gaming in 2025 is dead, do not bother. 2) Nominative Determinism is true- the game was titled Unknown 9, and it remained unknown. For anyone running any sort of business- watch what you name your product.

@Ninjjer @Losercel please ping !g*mers

!kino

Silicon Valley built the modern world.

Why shouldn't we run it?

— John Shedletsky (@Shedletsky) February 3, 2025

hi rdrama

I got a few pings after people shared places I posted my most recent article, and that made me remember I've been neglecting to share them here lately.

can't have that. so here's my latest Drama

you may have already seen it but now you're seeing it from me, here

A lot of porn subs getting the mop.

rip /r/cocaine and /r/drugs

/r/bannedsubs for up-to-whenever updates

/r/modsupport in shambles

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/communities_are_banned_again_for_being_unmoderated/

I hate it I hate it I hate it. 90% of our student body relies on it to complete their work. There is near to no originality in their writing and work. We are nearing complete dependence on it from some students. AI checkers work sometimes but students just use AI then switch the words around to avoid this.

I know the upside that it has for us as a society, but we are losing creativity and gumption with every improvement. I hurt for them. I used to read beautiful student writing and didn't have to question if it was written by a program. Now I am forced into skepticism. How can we lose so much with advancement?

/u/Academic_Let_1043

What are you actually losing? Oh no kids are cheating? Kids always cheated! This is the calculator argument all over again

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3130060/Move_Out_Manor/

The game that the post is about.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3336610/Ghostly_Acres/

The new game.

Going on visuals alone this is actually a significant upgrade that they should be happy about. I can't say much about the rest though. It's a little sad that the talent they have is being funneled into the trash. There's talk of "market research." Surely asking anyone in their life if they'd be willing to spend any amount of time or money on a puzzle game where you push boxes around would get them the results that it took nine months to find.

"We did all the things you're supposed to do: Steam page launch, Next Fest, festivals, but still have minimal sales." When they say minimal they're talking less than 100 sales. Likely less than a dozen genuine. It has one real review. The other isn't even a friend, it's a small youtuber who received the game for free. Not a single associate of this team was willing to play and review this game.

When I started making these posts it was to point and laugh. Now the thought of multiple people spending their free time producing content that likely didn't even cover the $100 steam submission fee makes me

I wonder if a Caleb Hammer-type show where "legitimate" devs pitch their idea to a flamboyant host would go well. Ideally the content would have a biggest-loser "where are they now" segment but almost every time it would be - "faded away into obscurity, released nothing."

!chuds tired of winning yet?

"The American Flag gives me the ick"

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXPreppers/comments/1igugaw/the_50501_protests_are_looking_more_and_more/mas4hph/?context=8

Even if it isn't a trap, ya know what? POC think I'm one of those white people and white people have, unequivocally, down to a one, every single time thrown me under the bus first. Sometimes just for funsies. My husband, who was just calling me hysterical not too long ago can pout all he wants that Mommy won't take him to The Protest. Frick no, I won't go.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXPreppers/comments/1igugaw/the_50501_protests_are_looking_more_and_more/massx7c/?context=8

Horsefrickers in Wa. find excuses not to go outside:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Washington/comments/1icmujl/50501_protest_lets_do_this/

take:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1ieon3k/american_witches_join_r50501_if_interested/

The Jannies of the South explain why this particular pile of shit ain't worth mopping (i.e. reddit tier organisation):

https://old.reddit.com/r/Georgia/comments/1igeqfz/50501_advertisement_posts_are_temporarily_not/

/r/Antiwork asks why they aren't protesting?

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1i9lshc/why_arent_we_protesting/

Answer: