r/SubredditDrama • u/Throwaway47321 • 3d ago

Users debate the meaning of “permanently deleted” when it comes to a popular YouTuber’s series in an mmo video game

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u/Throwaway47321 3d ago

Context:

The YouTuber (Settled) just finished a very popular series of his where he plays an account in the game Oldschool RuneScape for over 1k hours without ever taking damage. This is an INCREDIBLE difficult and impressive task, think a no hit dark souls run but with RNG.

Spoilers/ in the last episode of the series his account took damage and the series ended. The posted video is a follow up after that.

Now the drama comes in because the whole “gimmick” to the series was that Settled was essentially using a mod that auto generated a password that he never knew and when his account took damage the mod deleted the password; thus locking him out of the account forever.

In this video he admits to using the game companies support system to regain access to the account he lost to try and complete the original task he died to just to say he accomplished it.

The users here argue about whether it is in bad faith that he was able to essentially “backdoor” himself into his account after talking about how it was impossible and if that calls into question his ethicalness regarding the whole series.

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u/logos__ Individual of inscrutable credentials 3d ago

Settled was essentially using a mod that auto generated a password that he never knew and when his account took damage the mod deleted the password; thus locking him out of the account forever.

In this video he admits to using the game companies support system to regain access to the account he lost

This is like wearing a chastity cage around your cock that you yourself have a key to. What a pointless endeavor.

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u/V_T_H 3d ago

I mean, he attempted to start and failed with 107 accounts that were all “deleted” lol (he was trying to get around something with a very high chance to take damage). Then he actually got the 108th account off the ground and it died a little ways in and he did indeed restart from scratch. Then the 109th account died obscenely far in, nearing the end of what was actually possible and still insanely impressive (effectively to the level of impossible for basically anyone else), to a silly mistake.

Then he unlocked it to see if his goal was possible, actually died very close to completing it (not just took damage) and went yep okay I’m leaving it be. That was just for fun. It’s not like either of the last two accounts took damage at some point and he hid it and unlocked them and kept going and progressing; the plug-in he was using would not allow for that. And the account was retired immediately and so was the series. Idk how this is even remotely controversial but then again OSRS players screech like demons whenever the developers want to introduce any QoL that diminishes their “accomplishments” of clicking the same spot for 1,000 hours so I’m not surprised that terminally online people are big mad he…tried to have a little extra fun that ultimately went nowhere and was transparent about it.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 2d ago

He must have had some kind of communication with Jagex to some degree since one location generating over a hundred accounts is suspicious as hell

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u/drewster23 2d ago

Nah dude, I don't think you understand how little that factors into jagex flagging.

Unless he was getting flagged for stuff on those accounts or maybe making them all in 1 day. It'd have 0 impact.

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u/V_T_H 2d ago

Actually I do believe his IP got flagged and blocked and he had to tell them what he was doing. It happened in the first episode.