I don't know what it is, but source maps that are empty kinda like Gmod community maps feels so, weird, nostalgic and scary even, like you'd obviously know it's tons of fun when people are around but when you're alone in there it's just....surreal
I think it's kinda because your brain connects these source maps with fun,loud,chaotic experiences and when they are empty your brain feels like something is off.
This was incredibly well done. Every time I see video's like this, I always look back to the old servers I used to practically live in, day in and out, as a teen on TF2, and every time I think that. Just imagine, all the people that would of once played on it, the RP server live and vibrant, a T-Pose heavy sliding around as a hitman, or a spy whose trying to sell you illegal baguette's. Anything like that. The servers that are kept up for the sake of it, and the people that still, to this day, will hold get togethers no matter how big or small, to just at least try to grab hold of those old days for even a few fleeting moments. We all have stories, and if only every server like those could just talk, only god knows what cool, funny, or downright TF2-ish shenanigans, it would tell. A single, vibing, server owner on their own, just playing some music and relaxing in dreamscapes, welcoming in anyone who would like to have a bit of fun for the hour or two, before they take off once more. Makes you think of all the things you've experienced over the years, and maybe the server or two that you used to love, now but a distant, but sweet, memory of maybe better years. And how, empty servers like that, are the same for goodness knows how many others. Their exactly like time capsules, unwilling to speak, but more than willing to let in just one more player if not for the day. I love this stuff, I truly do. Makes me evermore proud to of played this game for so long, and happy to be part of the community.
Will never forget the server I used to live in, at least 6 hours a day back when I was a teen. All the friends, joke, disputes, drama and laughs. It feels so weird that those moments are gone forever, it feels like I can just go to the pc and join, but it has been 5 years since it closed.
Very nostalgic, I used to play on a trade server w a bunch of ppl where I went from taking an insta pic of my first strange enforcer I bought for 55 cents, to getting my first set of professional kill streaks, I would duel the annoying ppl on voice chat and trolls and would always win bc I played all the time as a teen, (tons of practice w noobs), and I had added all the regulars as friends and we’d get together to play mvm. I was like 15, and they were all probably my ages or slightly older but I’ll always remember it vividly and fondly. i probably got my personality from ppl there lol
shit you got me reminiscing, but yea. I had a really dingy laptop that I used Chris maxframes to play, so I got gud Lenny face (I even had this key bind 🤦♂️”
3:14 for anyone wondering, that's based on "The enigma of Amigara fault", a short story by Junji Ito (the dude that made the scary spiral manga) and it's basically about a mountain that got "cut open" in two and those humanoid shapes appeared on the wall of it, and people who look at them feel the urge to get inside and get lost deep into the mountain's tight holes
To give more info, the holes were all in the shapes of different people, and when someone finds their hole, they come with an ever growing urge to fit inside in it, front first. Once in they would slowly get sucked inside and, in the complete dark, would lose all sense of space and time. At the end of the story another cut would open in another mountain (shown in the video after that), where similar holes would be discovered, albeit not human shapen, but very twisted, and the last scene is something coming out of these new holes (presumably the ones who entered from the other side)
As a final context, it became popular in 4chan's /a/ because it became a meme. It showed one of the nerdier looking people entering a human hole in the mountain while screaming "This hole! It was made for me!" while underneath is captioned 4chan. Because we know this place is a shithole, and it was made for us.
And the curious thing is there are countless more of them made over the last two decades or so. So many time capsules, internet archeologists are probably having a fun time with all these digital leftovers
Definitely, and there's a huge impact on the lonely feeling if its made to feel lonely, or if its actually forgotten (like the empty source map phenomena)
Very glad TH-cam recommended this. Very good quality video that was definitely entertaining. Keep it up, man, and I can’t wait to see what you do in the future!
The trade_delirium map has many references to the cult classic movie "The Holy Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Really cool seeing this sort of stuff in a TF2 map!
Empty servers that resemble places of human congregation is what is known as a "liminal space". You can see them in real life such as recently abandoned malls or hospitals, anywhere that it is supposed to host people and _looks_ like it is clean enough to do, _but nobody is there._ The reason such a fear exists is IMO a double: For one, it heightens the senses as part of your mind keeps telling you to expect anyone to show up, while the other remind you that you're alone. The other one comes from that last realization, _feeling that you were left behind by everyone else and now you're alone forever._ It plays in our own fear of being abandoned by those we love and care about. The fear only heightens with background music or worse, _random human sounds or footsteps._ Keeps messing with your sense of reality. That's why I think the last server is the scariest one, not only there isn't anyone there, _it is forgotten so nobody else is going to show up._ And the feeling is worse when you read that there used to be people there, those that cared enough to spend enough time to "buy" a place of residence there, furnish it, and then emblazon their names into them forever. *Feel the pain.*
Well, it's definitely gonna be remembered again, if anyone who used to play on it, watched this video. And it's possible that the server started having people play on it again, soon after this video went up. So yeah, it was forgotten for a while. But I doubt it'll be forgotten again. Or at least not completely, since 15,000+ people were made aware of it's existence, when watching the video. Plus, people will occasionally return to this video every so often. So even if some people forgot about it again. They'd eventually be reminded of it again, after returning to this video at some point
I've been playing TF2 from 2010 until now, and it makes me really, really happy to see a video like this. Do more of this kind of stuff and keep improving on it, it's honestly humble youtubers like you that keep this game alive. Thank you.
Dice's Fun Room seemed so interesting, sorely saddened when I read the description. Wonder what he would've said if his server had gotten populated by your viewers. Edit: Description used to say the server disappeared so my comment became irrelevant and then relevant again by accident because of the new text lol
I just want the dodgeball servers back up, having swagged up pyros flexing their items and airblast skills was the only reason I kept playing for a long time
7:35 Considering that the map there (harbl_hotel) was originally made for Counter-Strike (Don't remember if it was Source or 1.6) back in Mid-Late 2006, so it's not unreasonable to say that map is actually older than them.
3:14 This is a reference to a horror manga where there is a big mountain that has human sahpes, at the other side of the mountain those figures are twisted, this was a prehistoric torture method that consisted in putting the person inside the shape, they would be there for days until they reached the end, the shape turning into a twisted one made their body get a similar shape to the shape of the end
12:05 Holy shiet that is really neat, this entire trippy section are basically set pieces of the movie ''The Holy Mountain'' by Andrew Jodorowsky, I recommend it to anyone but I warn you, its one hell of a trip, im amazed that someone made this in tf2 and kudos to the server host for being a man of culture.
There used to be an abandoned server i constantly went on because it had a list of old creative custom maps. Only once did a single person other than me join. It's gone now. I miss that server, and the maps that it carried.
I always love source map exploration videos. Something about them is always so calming yet at the same time unnerving. No matter what background music you put, no matter how often you talk it always seems so quiet.
That 'game with round cat' is night in the woods, im seeing more referances to it these days, its really cool because its actually my favourite game ever basically.
@@reinweissritter yes it is. Unfortunatly. I dont know the ins and outs of it but alec was genuinley passionate about the game and his legacy lives on through it. The games message is literally about moving on. Its a tradgety that it happend but it is still considered a very good game.
@@reinweissritter has the story really warped that badly? alec's suicide had nothing to do with the nitw development. that stemmed from a different project he was on. and that was because he was outted as a serial abuser.
I've seen the first two (three) maps covered by Big Joey and Great Blue before, but it never gets old seeing someone else cover them as such maps are so bizarre that everyone reacts differently to them and will notice other details. Vibe of the second section is pretty cool but some of the stuff I've seen in it kills that and makes me worry about the map maker. Straight up source engine backrooms looking maps like the last are downright spooky.
I once stumbled across an empty server, late at night titled "The shit shack". It was a poorly lit enclosed KOTH map which had some mildly explicit images plastered onto every wall. Wasn't too bad but still made me a lil' uneasy.
Dice's server seems like an absolute banger. I liked the fact that at first you couldn't tell if he was an NPC or a bot, or really just a guy who spends all his time there waiting for people to spook them, but is actually pretty chill.
At this point I've gotten over the creep that can come with Source sometimes and I just absorb the charm. I hope Source 2 can capture the same feelings and freedoms that Source did.
@@tophonator great! looking foward to it, Ive been thirsting for some good content on youtube, but none of the other youtubers I watch seem to be uploading as consistently anymore, keep up the good work!
idk why youtube but the quality is good, it's not boring and the thing about empty maps makes me want to watch more and more of the video. nice video keep up the good work.
Outside of the fact that it was pretty weird seeing the maps with no players... The quality of the video is very good, I liked it a lot, keep it up! :D Epic new sub
@@catmaksimus Right? He feels like that odd kid you meet when visiting your aunt in her remote village, become best friends for a day and never hear of them again.
He was super interesting, wherever I'd be he would just come and find me and play around, but I see what you mean! It is quite daunting just finding him alone there
This is amazing! I occasionally dipped into these custom servers back in the day and while some where tame, some full recreations of other games and others just utterly bizzare for the heck of it they all are amazing and showed how creative and weird or community was back in the day.😊 thank you.
Community servers are truly abstract. I never really understood the concept of friendlies in TF2. It's funny to conga once in a while but doing this stuff longer term gets boring very quickly for me, yet there are people that spend countless hours alone in a server doing absolutely nothing but kazotsky in a corner of a map. I used to hop on jailbreak servers once a day or two and there would aleays be this almost dead server with little to no players and there was this guy who had almost always like around 9-11 hours in this server and he wasn't even afk 95% of the time. I once played with him on a weekend and I logged off after quite some time saying that I need to go to bed as it was 4 AM and he said that he will play for a couple more hours. No we were not from different time zones. We were both from middle EU and I don't know if he still plays on this server or even plays TF2. The legends say that he still plays on it till this day. Anyways this video brought some old memories back and I really liked it.
That second map in Dice's Fun Server section (I forgot it's name) is actually a recreation of the film 'The Holy Mountain' by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Very cool film, very trippy, very good watch.
it's amazing seeing someone explore harbl hotel and not understanding any of the references lol. thanks for the memories. also dice has good taste, especially with ss13 textures.
I find the stuff mad interesting because these old maps of like the mid 2000s just give off this vibe. this was some kids prized possession they showed this friends saying “look at this map I made this is awesome” and now it’s lost to time. That kid is probably now an adult. Its a surreal look back at the way Internet culture was before.
3:08 - some sort of execution room - I believe this is a reference to the running joke/copypasta of Red Rooms existing where you would pay to watch or even give commands to the people in the room which could even be to kill someone etc.
This was a great videos. Stuff like this reminds you just how big the Internet is with millions upon millions of communities with their own history and culture. Some are lost to time-artifacts of an Internet long past but some are still around. Here’s hoping this video gives life to some old communities!
Just, a great video all around, stumbled across this randomly and it was just so fun just to put on, sit back and just watch these obscure servers. I love how Desuroom still has a small community, despite small, it's somewhat active and I love that.
11:25 Got to know that map thanks to "Wolves Den" server, they still run it from time to time. To this date I still don't get what's up with the glaceons in it, but that is also a testament of the genius madness behind it's creation.
i like these kind of videos where people explore weird side of tf2 like maps weapons and servers i like your way of exploring too, no screaming, calm voice and surprisingly knows well about internet cultures despite being really calm person i hope my english isnt so bad to the point you cant understand what im trying to say, but i just wanna say i love this video
God I love the music you have been using in your videos... especially the big custom maps vid you did. Something about them both being somber/nostalgic, god it just hits different. Thank you for making this content, please keep it up. Love this side of tf2.
3:21 that's a reference to a short story by Junji Ito called "The enigma at Amigara fault" where a landslide opened up the side of a mountain. On the side were many human shaped holes. Many people went the the fault line to see the holes themselves. Eventually someone strips down, saying "this is my hole, it was made for me!" and gets into the hole. He fits perfectly inside, but because of the design of the hole, he can only move forward. At the other end of the land slide, you'll see the holes again, but now distorted and grotesque. The man who went into "his" hole then comes out, his body now shaped like the hole on the other side of the landslide. Genuinely one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.
fun fact! 3:17 to 3:25 is a reference to a very creepy comic called "Enigma of Amigara Fault", i don't recommend reading this comic if you get scared easily, it will absolutely give you nightmares if you read it, but still, the comic is really good.
Almost 2 years ago there was a server I played on. It was a 2fort server, and I can't remember the original name because it got remade and was renamed to Cabin5. There used to be a few people I consistently met on it, and we always argued but in a funny way. There was also a Discord server briefly but it got shut down. Then one day the server disappeared without a trace. I miss it but I still have some clips from it and I'll always remember it.
very good video. i've found trippy places like those servers in vrchat a few times and i havent seen many people cover them. one time i was showing my friend a bunch of weird worlds i had come across and bookmarked and while we were looking around a world called "Cirno's Universe," someone with the name "Zeke" joined our instance (with a cirno avatar that matched the strange looking cirno's seen around the world). they led us around what i did not expect to be a huge map with many different areas, which you would be taken to after interacting with secrets around each area. i was in vr and it was one of the trippiest things ive ever experienced.
I really enjoyed that, I'm pretty sure the vid you showed of harbl hotel was actually by the map creator Xenon, he also made mario_kart which you could probably tell from it's appearence.
5:15 that's pumpkin hill theme from sonic adventures 2 on the gamecube. All of the tracks they made for the levels for knuckles were out of this world amazing.
The fact that there is a server owner just staying on his server, waiting, having nothing to do, just passing the time, probably one of the examples of what an retired player looks like
@@tophonator I hope someday the newer generation get to experience this all over again, then they can get together and discuss their memories about games
@@tappajaav yea but it won't be the same, like if we all started watching old PewDiePie, we would be able to have that feeling of nostalgia, but since I never had played gmod when I was younger I won't feel that nostalgia
YO THE DESUROOM IS BACK UP? I spent many an hour there so many cool warps and the middle point had a modifier to make it harder to cap since red team could just drop down to it from the ceiling, not that you could do that at all times since Fish(server owner) constantly set up a lvl 3 sentry in the clouds to mow down the roof spawns. Constant mic spam was the norm and much hilarity ensued. The main secret of the map that wasn't shown off is that the kill rotor room has a button in it which if pressed teleports you inside of the sky box which has a button in either longcat or tacgnol (I don't remember which) which floods the entire hotel up to ceiling.
How glad I am that the recommendations threw me out here. Source maps always evoke a wild feeling of nostalgia. It was nice to look at the places where life once raged. Thank you for the video 🤍
It's sad that 99% of the people here don't understand even half of the Desuroom memes. Also, the name is a meme in itself, there's an anime called Rozen Maiden where this character (the one anime girl with the green dress at the ground floor) spams "Desu" (hard to explain what it means but it's basically just a filler word outside of specific situations) the whole time and so it became a meme.
it's set to remove your home if the player isnt active for a month or two if I recall correctly, so you get to keep them for a long time if you just occasionally visit the server. and they are hella expensive
One thing that makes the German map even more eerie is the thing you called "credits section", next to the Lazy Purple picture. These credits are actually so called "Stolperstein" literally "stumbling stones" and in Germany they are placed in front of buildings in which jews, that were killed during WWII, lived.
I don't know what it is, but source maps that are empty kinda like Gmod community maps feels so, weird, nostalgic and scary even, like you'd obviously know it's tons of fun when people are around but when you're alone in there it's just....surreal
It honestly does!! But weirdly, I actually find it sort of peaceful
@@tophonator same, liminal stuff like that has always been peaceful for me
@@tophonator Those feel like "quiet and nice places where to die"
I think it's kinda because your brain connects these source maps with fun,loud,chaotic experiences and when they are empty your brain feels like something is off.
Bruh weve already went over this like 2 years ago
This was incredibly well done. Every time I see video's like this, I always look back to the old servers I used to practically live in, day in and out, as a teen on TF2, and every time I think that. Just imagine, all the people that would of once played on it, the RP server live and vibrant, a T-Pose heavy sliding around as a hitman, or a spy whose trying to sell you illegal baguette's. Anything like that. The servers that are kept up for the sake of it, and the people that still, to this day, will hold get togethers no matter how big or small, to just at least try to grab hold of those old days for even a few fleeting moments. We all have stories, and if only every server like those could just talk, only god knows what cool, funny, or downright TF2-ish shenanigans, it would tell. A single, vibing, server owner on their own, just playing some music and relaxing in dreamscapes, welcoming in anyone who would like to have a bit of fun for the hour or two, before they take off once more. Makes you think of all the things you've experienced over the years, and maybe the server or two that you used to love, now but a distant, but sweet, memory of maybe better years. And how, empty servers like that, are the same for goodness knows how many others. Their exactly like time capsules, unwilling to speak, but more than willing to let in just one more player if not for the day.
I love this stuff, I truly do. Makes me evermore proud to of played this game for so long, and happy to be part of the community.
Beautifully written, you perfectly said what most people feel watching or exploring these empty time capsules ❤️
Will never forget the server I used to live in, at least 6 hours a day back when I was a teen. All the friends, joke, disputes, drama and laughs. It feels so weird that those moments are gone forever, it feels like I can just go to the pc and join, but it has been 5 years since it closed.
Very nostalgic, I used to play on a trade server w a bunch of ppl where I went from taking an insta pic of my first strange enforcer I bought for 55 cents, to getting my first set of professional kill streaks, I would duel the annoying ppl on voice chat and trolls and would always win bc I played all the time as a teen, (tons of practice w noobs), and I had added all the regulars as friends and we’d get together to play mvm. I was like 15, and they were all probably my ages or slightly older but I’ll always remember it vividly and fondly. i probably got my personality from ppl there lol
shit you got me reminiscing, but yea. I had a really dingy laptop that I used Chris maxframes to play, so I got gud Lenny face (I even had this key bind 🤦♂️”
3:14 for anyone wondering, that's based on "The enigma of Amigara fault", a short story by Junji Ito (the dude that made the scary spiral manga) and it's basically about a mountain that got "cut open" in two and those humanoid shapes appeared on the wall of it, and people who look at them feel the urge to get inside and get lost deep into the mountain's tight holes
To give more info, the holes were all in the shapes of different people, and when someone finds their hole, they come with an ever growing urge to fit inside in it, front first. Once in they would slowly get sucked inside and, in the complete dark, would lose all sense of space and time.
At the end of the story another cut would open in another mountain (shown in the video after that), where similar holes would be discovered, albeit not human shapen, but very twisted, and the last scene is something coming out of these new holes (presumably the ones who entered from the other side)
As a final context, it became popular in 4chan's /a/ because it became a meme. It showed one of the nerdier looking people entering a human hole in the mountain while screaming "This hole! It was made for me!" while underneath is captioned 4chan.
Because we know this place is a shithole, and it was made for us.
And the curious thing is there are countless more of them made over the last two decades or so. So many time capsules, internet archeologists are probably having a fun time with all these digital leftovers
Definitely, and there's a huge impact on the lonely feeling if its made to feel lonely, or if its actually forgotten (like the empty source map phenomena)
Things like this are so interesting.
Dice is truely a god among men, I wish we could find his server again
I've honestly tried, but after recording it vanished from the server list, so if I find it again check the description for updates!!
Great Trial when?
Could be he got a lot of people joining him and got overwhelmed so he went local/offline for a bit. Or just took a break.
@@Kektus1 sounds like the server disappeared before the video went live on TH-cam though
@@f40ph88 previous history?
Playing TF2 is the closest we have to a time machine.
no i think its activeworlds, dude look into it, its just a 1990s-2010s time capsule
Very glad TH-cam recommended this. Very good quality video that was definitely entertaining. Keep it up, man, and I can’t wait to see what you do in the future!
Thankyou!! I really appreciate it ❤
ye same
@@officiallefishe What?
@@TheRealLenin Engineer?
@@officiallefishe official
I think I speak for everyone when I say that the only bad part of this video was that it ended. Awesome job man, you've earned a sub today.
Thankyou so much friend!!
The trade_delirium map has many references to the cult classic movie "The Holy Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Really cool seeing this sort of stuff in a TF2 map!
This was so enjoyable to watch I wonder if more people have done this stuff of making a video about weird tf2 servers
Many thanks!! if you like this sorta content, maybe I can make it ongoing ;)
i've seen another video about abandoned tf2 servers but forgot which one
@@tophonator please do, this video was very entertaining, i would love another like this
Empty servers that resemble places of human congregation is what is known as a "liminal space". You can see them in real life such as recently abandoned malls or hospitals, anywhere that it is supposed to host people and _looks_ like it is clean enough to do, _but nobody is there._
The reason such a fear exists is IMO a double: For one, it heightens the senses as part of your mind keeps telling you to expect anyone to show up, while the other remind you that you're alone. The other one comes from that last realization, _feeling that you were left behind by everyone else and now you're alone forever._ It plays in our own fear of being abandoned by those we love and care about.
The fear only heightens with background music or worse, _random human sounds or footsteps._ Keeps messing with your sense of reality. That's why I think the last server is the scariest one, not only there isn't anyone there, _it is forgotten so nobody else is going to show up._ And the feeling is worse when you read that there used to be people there, those that cared enough to spend enough time to "buy" a place of residence there, furnish it, and then emblazon their names into them forever.
*Feel the pain.*
Amazing explanation my friend, 10/10 (Couldn't explain it better myself...!!)
Well, it's definitely gonna be remembered again, if anyone who used to play on it, watched this video. And it's possible that the server started having people play on it again, soon after this video went up.
So yeah, it was forgotten for a while. But I doubt it'll be forgotten again. Or at least not completely, since 15,000+ people were made aware of it's existence, when watching the video. Plus, people will occasionally return to this video every so often. So even if some people forgot about it again. They'd eventually be reminded of it again, after returning to this video at some point
This isn't a thing. You are just oversocialized
@@AB-bg7os "one took classes at a clinical school, and got a degree in medicine, one took a hammer and smashed it into a guy's nuts"
@@AB-bg7os It is very much "a thing"; otherwise, humans wouldn't go bananas when they experience sensory deprivation for extended periods of time.
I've been playing TF2 from 2010 until now, and it makes me really, really happy to see a video like this. Do more of this kind of stuff and keep improving on it, it's honestly humble youtubers like you that keep this game alive. Thank you.
No problem my friend, thankyou tons!!
Yoooo actual good TF2 TH-camr, with no overhyped personality, now thats something to subscribe to!
Thankyou!! ❤️
Overhyped personality?? What does that suppose to mean
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@@costilla1212 I've never heard anyone close to that in TF2 youtube, oddly
Nice video! Good quality, i love maps like these so much!
My god what a surprise!! Love you bro. Keep it up, also amazing stream yesterday :DDD (im so jealous)
Thank you so much!! im super honored!! and also ive made sure to subscribe and cant wait to see more videos!
Dice's Fun Room seemed so interesting, sorely saddened when I read the description.
Wonder what he would've said if his server had gotten populated by your viewers.
Edit: Description used to say the server disappeared so my comment became irrelevant and then relevant again by accident because of the new text lol
i cannot find what the controversy is, what was it if i can ask?
@@glizzygulper8948 the description used to say the server disappeared, i don't know anything about what they may have done
@@glizzygulper8948 I know what it is, as I am one who has seen what he has done. I will not say what it is, as it is very, very, bad.
@@furretx8384 it's good bad or bad bad?
@@furretx8384 what is it ; how bad is it ? what heppenee to tye server
I just want the dodgeball servers back up, having swagged up pyros flexing their items and airblast skills was the only reason I kept playing for a long time
Man, the first server really brings back some mid 2000s internet memories. Sad to see what it's become.
7:35
Considering that the map there (harbl_hotel) was originally made for Counter-Strike (Don't remember if it was Source or 1.6) back in Mid-Late 2006, so it's not unreasonable to say that map is actually older than them.
3:14 This is a reference to a horror manga where there is a big mountain that has human sahpes, at the other side of the mountain those figures are twisted, this was a prehistoric torture method that consisted in putting the person inside the shape, they would be there for days until they reached the end, the shape turning into a twisted one made their body get a similar shape to the shape of the end
12:05 Holy shiet that is really neat, this entire trippy section are basically set pieces of the movie ''The Holy Mountain'' by Andrew Jodorowsky, I recommend it to anyone but I warn you, its one hell of a trip, im amazed that someone made this in tf2 and kudos to the server host for being a man of culture.
There used to be an abandoned server i constantly went on because it had a list of old creative custom maps.
Only once did a single person other than me join.
It's gone now. I miss that server, and the maps that it carried.
I always love source map exploration videos. Something about them is always so calming yet at the same time unnerving. No matter what background music you put, no matter how often you talk it always seems so quiet.
That 'game with round cat' is night in the woods, im seeing more referances to it these days, its really cool because its actually my favourite game ever basically.
I definitely need to play it at some point!!
@@tophonator please do it's a really good game
Isn't that one game where one of the devs caused a coworker to kill himself?
@@reinweissritter yes it is. Unfortunatly. I dont know the ins and outs of it but alec was genuinley passionate about the game and his legacy lives on through it. The games message is literally about moving on. Its a tradgety that it happend but it is still considered a very good game.
@@reinweissritter has the story really warped that badly? alec's suicide had nothing to do with the nitw development. that stemmed from a different project he was on. and that was because he was outted as a serial abuser.
that Desuroom map was such a throwback, I recognized so many references and jokes on there. Feels good man
I didn't recognize most of them feels bad man
I've seen the first two (three) maps covered by Big Joey and Great Blue before, but it never gets old seeing someone else cover them as such maps are so bizarre that everyone reacts differently to them and will notice other details. Vibe of the second section is pretty cool but some of the stuff I've seen in it kills that and makes me worry about the map maker. Straight up source engine backrooms looking maps like the last are downright spooky.
If you know the name of the maps, please tell me. Love to visit those maps
Swag kid yellow dice gives off the vibe of some ancient sage the protagonist would have to find to obtain old knowledge of the universe
There's something so creepy about empty game servers like tf2 or G-mod, I honestly don't know why.
Its a really big and creepy phenomenon, you aren't alone!!
Hold on a second! 3:15 is a reference to "Enigma of Amigara Fault", by Junji Ito. Very good read.
Oh yes I was told this!! I'll have to check it out
Really nice, I noticed this too and its awesome
10:17 that pixaleted door is from a game called space station 13. Not very special but cool to see it randomly
agreed lol
I once stumbled across an empty server, late at night titled "The shit shack". It was a poorly lit enclosed KOTH map which had some mildly explicit images plastered onto every wall. Wasn't too bad but still made me a lil' uneasy.
Your video (rather, channel) has fallen to the hands of the recommended page. And boy am I glad you were on mine
Glad to see you here man!!
You should do more of these honestly. The concept of looking through obscure, forgotten and strange community stuff is very intriguing.
Thank you for putting the songs in the description my man
Dice's server seems like an absolute banger. I liked the fact that at first you couldn't tell if he was an NPC or a bot, or really just a guy who spends all his time there waiting for people to spook them, but is actually pretty chill.
You could definitely make a series out of this
This is one way to experiencing existential Dread.
Good video, keep it up!
Thanks!! Glad I could fill you with existential dread ;)
At this point I've gotten over the creep that can come with Source sometimes and I just absorb the charm. I hope Source 2 can capture the same feelings and freedoms that Source did.
9:26 that "Thank you" was cute as hell.
The moment I finished the intro I subscribed. Now THAT'S quality!
Thankyou my friend!!
Really well made video, keep it up!
Thankyou so much!!
dude I just checked your subs there is no damn way! this content is too good man, you deserve way more subs, you've definitely earnt one from me.
Many many thanks!! I've got loads more coming soon!! ;)
@@tophonator great! looking foward to it, Ive been thirsting for some good content on youtube, but none of the other youtubers I watch seem to be uploading as consistently anymore, keep up the good work!
Only 200 subs? You are the most underrated youtuber out there
Honestly all of this support is blowing me away, thankyou so much my friend!!
@@tophonator :D
idk why youtube but the quality is good, it's not boring and the thing about empty maps makes me want to watch more and more of the video. nice video keep up the good work.
Much obliged!!
Outside of the fact that it was pretty weird seeing the maps with no players...
The quality of the video is very good, I liked it a lot, keep it up! :D
Epic new sub
Much appreciated friend!!
This is top quality man, great job
Also i’m so interested in Dice now, he gives off very friendly energy but at the same time i fear him in a way
I feel like I have seen him somewhere already. Like, he was someone that I know for years.
@@catmaksimus Right? He feels like that odd kid you meet when visiting your aunt in her remote village, become best friends for a day and never hear of them again.
He was super interesting, wherever I'd be he would just come and find me and play around, but I see what you mean! It is quite daunting just finding him alone there
This is amazing! I occasionally dipped into these custom servers back in the day and while some where tame, some full recreations of other games and others just utterly bizzare for the heck of it they all are amazing and showed how creative and weird or community was back in the day.😊 thank you.
Community servers are truly abstract. I never really understood the concept of friendlies in TF2. It's funny to conga once in a while but doing this stuff longer term gets boring very quickly for me, yet there are people that spend countless hours alone in a server doing absolutely nothing but kazotsky in a corner of a map. I used to hop on jailbreak servers once a day or two and there would aleays be this almost dead server with little to no players and there was this guy who had almost always like around 9-11 hours in this server and he wasn't even afk 95% of the time. I once played with him on a weekend and I logged off after quite some time saying that I need to go to bed as it was 4 AM and he said that he will play for a couple more hours. No we were not from different time zones. We were both from middle EU and I don't know if he still plays on this server or even plays TF2. The legends say that he still plays on it till this day. Anyways this video brought some old memories back and I really liked it.
Dice's is so strange yet relatable...
That second map in Dice's Fun Server section (I forgot it's name) is actually a recreation of the film 'The Holy Mountain' by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Very cool film, very trippy, very good watch.
it's amazing seeing someone explore harbl hotel and not understanding any of the references lol. thanks for the memories. also dice has good taste, especially with ss13 textures.
This is trippy, I came across Dice on his server the other day and now I get reccomended this video.
I find the stuff mad interesting because these old maps of like the mid 2000s just give off this vibe. this was some kids prized possession they showed this friends saying “look at this map I made this is awesome” and now it’s lost to time. That kid is probably now an adult. Its a surreal look back at the way Internet culture was before.
3:08 - some sort of execution room - I believe this is a reference to the running joke/copypasta of Red Rooms existing where you would pay to watch or even give commands to the people in the room which could even be to kill someone etc.
This was a great videos. Stuff like this reminds you just how big the Internet is with millions upon millions of communities with their own history and culture. Some are lost to time-artifacts of an Internet long past but some are still around. Here’s hoping this video gives life to some old communities!
Dude this shit is so good, your content is only getting better
❤️
Just, a great video all around, stumbled across this randomly and it was just so fun just to put on, sit back and just watch these obscure servers. I love how Desuroom still has a small community, despite small, it's somewhat active and I love that.
11:25 Got to know that map thanks to "Wolves Den" server, they still run it from time to time.
To this date I still don't get what's up with the glaceons in it, but that is also a testament of the genius madness behind it's creation.
The Glaceons are there to represent the maps creator, DaimConne!
i like these kind of videos where people explore weird side of tf2 like maps weapons and servers
i like your way of exploring too, no screaming, calm voice and surprisingly knows well about internet cultures despite being really calm person
i hope my english isnt so bad to the point you cant understand what im trying to say, but i just wanna say i love this video
God I love the music you have been using in your videos... especially the big custom maps vid you did. Something about them both being somber/nostalgic, god it just hits different. Thank you for making this content, please keep it up. Love this side of tf2.
3:21 that's a reference to a short story by Junji Ito called "The enigma at Amigara fault" where a landslide opened up the side of a mountain. On the side were many human shaped holes. Many people went the the fault line to see the holes themselves. Eventually someone strips down, saying "this is my hole, it was made for me!" and gets into the hole. He fits perfectly inside, but because of the design of the hole, he can only move forward. At the other end of the land slide, you'll see the holes again, but now distorted and grotesque. The man who went into "his" hole then comes out, his body now shaped like the hole on the other side of the landslide.
Genuinely one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.
really enjoyed this video i really like the long form style it’s very enjoyable and ur outro is so cool
fun fact! 3:17 to 3:25 is a reference to a very creepy comic called "Enigma of Amigara Fault", i don't recommend reading this comic if you get scared easily, it will absolutely give you nightmares if you read it, but still, the comic is really good.
Video format indirectly reminds me of STAR_'s journey into community servers. Keep up the interesting videos.
Almost 2 years ago there was a server I played on. It was a 2fort server, and I can't remember the original name because it got remade and was renamed to Cabin5. There used to be a few people I consistently met on it, and we always argued but in a funny way. There was also a Discord server briefly but it got shut down. Then one day the server disappeared without a trace. I miss it but I still have some clips from it and I'll always remember it.
very good video. i've found trippy places like those servers in vrchat a few times and i havent seen many people cover them. one time i was showing my friend a bunch of weird worlds i had come across and bookmarked and while we were looking around a world called "Cirno's Universe," someone with the name "Zeke" joined our instance (with a cirno avatar that matched the strange looking cirno's seen around the world). they led us around what i did not expect to be a huge map with many different areas, which you would be taken to after interacting with secrets around each area. i was in vr and it was one of the trippiest things ive ever experienced.
When your favorite obscure TF2 server closed down and all that nostalgia is lost forever. Pepehands
Watching this late at night is a strangely uneasy experience
Can we have more? Like, its so interesting which maps and servers are empty, how you explore them
Keep an eye out!!
I really enjoyed that, I'm pretty sure the vid you showed of harbl hotel was actually by the map creator Xenon, he also made mario_kart which you could probably tell from it's appearence.
5:15 that's pumpkin hill theme from sonic adventures 2 on the gamecube. All of the tracks they made for the levels for knuckles were out of this world amazing.
He doesn't know Pumpkin Hill from Sonic Adventure 2, but he recognizes whatever this is 4:58
My bad 😔😔
@@tophonator I'm only poking fun, I enjoyed the video 👍
You should play on Gmod bhopping maps. Those maps are a whole different level of eerie feeling and creepiness.
Always had those maps in mind when making this video, same goes for TF2 bhop (which most of the time uses the gmod maps). Unforgettably creepy.
I want to know the map Dice's fun server is running on
Great stuff. Very impressed at the quality and originality so far, looking forward for more.
The fact that there is a server owner just staying on his server, waiting, having nothing to do, just passing the time, probably one of the examples of what an retired player looks like
What makes this really sad is that I'll never be able to relate that feeling if being gmod alone, because I never played them when I was a kid
The nostalgia is definitely a big part of it, but it'll feel super lonely and creepy regardless!!
@@tophonator I hope someday the newer generation get to experience this all over again, then they can get together and discuss their memories about games
Go on and install gmod then. Nothing is stopping you from being alone in gmod.
@@tappajaav yea but it won't be the same, like if we all started watching old PewDiePie, we would be able to have that feeling of nostalgia, but since I never had played gmod when I was younger I won't feel that nostalgia
@@Bixen_Bings Nostalgia is overrated.
5:15 Sonic adventure 2 Pumpkin Hill
Cant believe the desuroom had a revival... used to frequent that server on the daily
Very well constructed video lad. Love every part of this :D
YO THE DESUROOM IS BACK UP? I spent many an hour there so many cool warps and the middle point had a modifier to make it harder to cap since red team could just drop down to it from the ceiling, not that you could do that at all times since Fish(server owner) constantly set up a lvl 3 sentry in the clouds to mow down the roof spawns. Constant mic spam was the norm and much hilarity ensued. The main secret of the map that wasn't shown off is that the kill rotor room has a button in it which if pressed teleports you inside of the sky box which has a button in either longcat or tacgnol (I don't remember which) which floods the entire hotel up to ceiling.
I saw that room being used on all the old gameplay videos!! They have a discord server if you wanna join and play with them!!
I'm very glad that the algorithm blessed me with your content, you definitely need more subscribers!
It seems like there is a misunderstanding of liminal spaces and Kenopsia.
I really love empty source maps, especially that mariokart map. Had a long livestream with friends in Garry's Mod a year ago on that map, lots of fun.
Mariokart is definitely the most nostalgic map from this game, so much legendary backstory
Check out the creator of trade_abstract’s other maps they’re really good.
This encouraged me to look through some empty and obscure servers aswell!
Bro is boutta be in a creepypasta tf2 story with the servers you are visiting.
love to see another video like this it was very interesting to see what hides at the bottom of the server list
I have never been here or seen any of this maps til today, but it feels oddly nostalgic
How glad I am that the recommendations threw me out here. Source maps always evoke a wild feeling of nostalgia. It was nice to look at the places where life once raged.
Thank you for the video 🤍
It's sad that 99% of the people here don't understand even half of the Desuroom memes.
Also, the name is a meme in itself, there's an anime called Rozen Maiden where this character (the one anime girl with the green dress at the ground floor) spams "Desu" (hard to explain what it means but it's basically just a filler word outside of specific situations) the whole time and so it became a meme.
incredible video, given me a great new way to pass the time in tf2, im gonna start exploring empty servers.
That RP thing is interesting, seems like you get to keep your estate even after logging off.
it's set to remove your home if the player isnt active for a month or two if I recall correctly, so you get to keep them for a long time if you just occasionally visit the server. and they are hella expensive
amazing video! i NEED more of this in the future bro keep it up
i love how the night in the woods is all over this video
Dice's server is beautiful, I loved every part of it
One thing that makes the German map even more eerie is the thing you called "credits section", next to the Lazy Purple picture. These credits are actually so called "Stolperstein" literally "stumbling stones" and in Germany they are placed in front of buildings in which jews, that were killed during WWII, lived.
Interesting, but wow that is eerie.
the song that briefly fades in at 12:45 is "wham city" by dan deacon. neat track (also nice autechre intro)
Nice spot!! Autechre on top 👑
My heart dropped when you actually clicked the CP button xD
Dice listening to the Tunic OST in a server as mysterious as that is a vibe. I'd really like to play in that map
5:29 That meme got me.
great video man, exceptional editing and it all flowed together really well. earned a sub
Much appreciated!!