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The most unrealistic part of this arg is not any of the things you would think of, but the fact that the scout doesn't shoot the A-posing friendly heavy.
My singular question here is, how tf is anomi doing all of this even if he has a team he’s created multiple UA-cam channels with lore behind them, possible Mocap that is completely different from most as it’s interacts with the map and at the same time moving like 40 to 50ft in a couple of the type 5s, creates servers and commands that completely defy the source engine, creating an ai so good it can create demos, and create something to crash games with no known commands.
It's what makes Gmod/Minecraft/Roblox horror so creepy. In games like that, you are the one controlling what happens, so somwthing having the power to overturn that power is pretty unnerving
The left 4 dead type 5 clip is honestly terrifying because the fact that a zombie, a completely brain dead creature that doesn’t even act on instinct, runs in fear from something and doesn’t even stop to eat a helpless and defenseless prey is truly unnerving
even scarier, you could see that it was not just one zombie, but an ENTIRE HORDE of zombies running from whatever the thing is. now, anything that could make a large group of mindless individuals who normally just shamble around aimlessly act with that much speed and purpose has to hold an EXTREME amount of authority within the game.
The "Are you trapped" bit gives me fucking chills. The way I view it, we get two answers, one from the umbrella men and one from a DMNPC. The DMNPC, trapped vying to get to the yes to prove to something or someone out there that it exists and to try and get it to hear its plea. The umbrella man seems to answer by taunting the viewer, clipping the skybox and going to another map, showing that not only is it not trapped in the walls of the map that Eida built but not even to the map itself as a way of showing that its powers and abilities go well beyond what we thought was possible not just by the umbrella men but by the engine itself. Genuinely terrifying to me
proof that aperture science is just an allegory for valve itself weird priorities and management, top quality products at the expense of a bizarre and hostile work environment, and apparently with this series, accidentally developing sentient ai perhaps that's why (thematically at least) the portal games are crucial to the interloper stuff
Now THIS is what you call an ACTUAL "Source Engine ARG!" Not only it has the creepy videos and stuff; but you can also get involved in it as well, such as looking thru the codes, files, and stuff.
@@inkoalawetrust still, anything could go wrong with the livestream - the prerecorded video could have broken, or crashed during the livestream, the livestream couldve crashed, etc etc. it's a ballsy move to do anything with complicated connections like an ARG with a live audience
@@pemo2676 It's not that hard to do. People have reliably and repeatedly faked 'live' speedruns by playing a recorded TAS and miming along. Took years to figure them out, and only ever when the person was willing to typically interact with chat. For someone who doesn't like an ARG creator, it's super easy. Basically the same as a premiering youtube video.
@@Winasaurus i'm not saying it's particularly difficult, obviously its just playing a video, but it's ballsy with how many issues can happen. even with speedrunners, its not like people haven't been caught out for some sort of fuck up, either directly from their end or an issue with the stream/video itself (which could've been avoided if it wasn't live)
It's worth noting that even singleplayer source games have very very rudimentary multiplayer capability. This includes Portal 1. It's quite possible - hypothetically - to force any Source Engine game to connect to a server being ran by the same game, even if it's supposed to be singleplayer.
Hm... yeah, you're right - totally slipped my mind that singleplayer Source games, just like "Minecraft" or "S.T.A.L.K.E.R", create a localhosted server instance for the singleplayer campaign...
this whole mess feels exactly like the Herobrine mess all over again from before 2014 or so, but now a lot more legit, and thus a lot more terrifying...
The coordinates are hex values, they're pointing towards specific lines of code in the engine. The coordinates are not in the world, they're in the Source.
Can't wait until anomidae tries GMod out with the interloper command and we see an epic battle between a DM npc spawning in happy appy and freddy fazbear and shit against the umbrella man
@@surrealtastic Actually, that's a good point. What about modified SE games, like Titanfall 2 or Apex Legends? What about Source 2? What about games BASED on Source engine titles? There's a lot they can explore. Here's what I think could be the results of each test: Postal 3: For a generative AI, Postal 3 is, somehow, one of the BEST for them to use, with positive and negative reinforcement states. A lot of demos would probably play with that, potentially reaching a climax with a full game run with either ending. Titanfall 2: Demos featuring more mobile DNPCs, with hands and stuff, operating titans and other machinery. Probably would have a DNPC try to fight an umbrella man with the Titan, only for him to phase through it. Apex: similar to the TF2 gameplay, probably a lot of crashers present. HLA: Probably the climax or ending of the series, if its ever used. Probably going to reveal a twist about what how the DNPCs actually operate in tests, probably relating to HLA's VR.
I don't understand why people say the "vr" parts ruined it. I think those parts greatly enhanced this arg. This has got to be my second favorite Source ARG
Kind of a stretch, but I wonder then if this indicates that the DNPC tech has been in development since long before Source. Source is directly related to the original Doom engine, albeit a few generations removed. The progression goes Doom > Quake > GoldSrc > Source. According to John Carmack, lead developer for the Quake engine, there are still bits of early Quake code in HL2. Could be something, could not be, but it could be worth looking into.
The Eidamona story made me so sad. It seems to be just someone who lost a loved one and tried to bring them back when they found a way, only for it all to fail.
1:03:00 i think mona was his imaginary gf from the very beginning and not a real person. after using a citizen model for a while he switched to using an early AI gf model
@@olzhas1one755idk, I like the new direction, I feel like it’s a natural progression, it’s always been about the source engine, they’re just going even deeper into it.
@@Jakesfji they’re going way more in-depth with the engine, so much that people are losing interest, one of the newest ones are focused on lighting and how curtain lighting programs work and how the interlope command is messing with it.
Something hidden in episode 2: turning on subtitles reveals that Anomi was actually talking to someone called “L” during their Portal type 5 discovery. The hidden dialog I don’t think reveals much, but it appears Anomi wasn’t looking into Interloper alone during Nov 2022.
@@ltjp6611 What's so funny? It's just the Sauce Council. The real funny business is with the "antelope" command; just type "antelope" into the Sauce Council.
Probably the best concept to come out honestly, and with how A.I. and liminal space started to pick up, it makes this feel like the perfect culmination of everything.
Horrifying creepypasta that stalks you and has mystic powers: Me: 😐 A game breaks past your controls and runs without your input: Me: THATS NOT HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED! OUT OF THIS HOUSE! OUT OF THIS HOUSE!
Honestly, only when the sections recorded in VR appeared did I realize this wasn't actually real. And that says a lot about how well-made this series is!
Valve has worked with VR for years though, and motion capture itself is not out of the question. They used motion capture for the development of TF2 in 2007, long before they started work on any sort of VR hardware! Its not outside the realm of possibility.
Really? Not the fact that they thought that you can add text to a texture file, not destroy the original file, and still show up fine? Or the dumb idea to hide a message in a *texture file* which is the stupidest idea?
@@SCP-tn2lnbut you can, it's been done in other much earlier ARGs with similar results to the texture in the video (all the pixels encoded after the text being distorted and off-colour)
Recently I've gotten into the habit of bringing an umbrella around with me everywhere because it's easier protection from the sun than using sunscreen, so every time The Umbrella Man is brought up as this terrifying, ominous, powerful entity, all I can think about is me and my gay little parasol striking fear into the hearts of men in the same way Slender Man did for the previous generation of internet horror enthusiasts.
I had to double check but on spooky coast (25:55) right before the umbrella civ guy lunges at the camera the npc we're seeing through has his right hand broken.
I love the subtle detail of the heavy slolwy turning his head the other way when the spy bangs on the 4th wall for help, like he knows what's going to happen to him and doesn't want to witness it or be associated with it.
if you look at the original(the not arg one) called "spy is sandvich" the spy is supposed to be behind heavy, and the heavy supposed to slowly look at the spy behind him
This is one of the most realistic takes on an arg. You can tell the creators truly know the source engine and thus know how to make cool explanations for everything. Also having the videos be in the form of long form UA-cam mystery videos that people interact with is awesome since those videos are common, especially with half life 2
I now have the headcanon that Half-Life VR AI takes place in the same alternate universe and Wayne somehow manged to get his hands on a version of Half-Life Source that contains dynamic NPCs but is free from the Umbrella Men.
Surprisingly, gunslingerpro2009 was able to creep me out with the character's genuine fear, how they have sentience, and specially spy try to get us to help him.
The Interloper ARG has been one of my favorites. It's not like those ARGs where you need to look every pixel of a video to figure something out. The Interloper ARG can be interacted physically (Like the CS Source and TF2 demo) and how it involves A.I learning the game then gets targeted by the Interloper if it gets too self-aware.
1:25:57 I am watching this in the breakroom of my workplace, I am doing an overnight cleaning shift where I am basically the only person in a massive supermarket with the doors locked. I cannot fucking tell you the level of fear that went through my body when I heard this part of the soundtrack come in. I genuinely thought I was about to get murdered by a ghost.
As a network specialist my first thought as to "what is anomi connecting to" was use wireshark to see which tcp connections are established, or use a netstat -a in powershell to see all listening ports and corresponding applications
As well as the "Lan" category in the server browser, it probalby is looking for a hosted game in the local subnet using a broadcast and seeing if one client responds to it, limiting it to only the subnet the server is in
I think portal rtx was the server he connected to. I'm not a network engineer but I set up Silly Tavern with Kobold AI and Automatic1111 and it works the same(ish) way as what we see in the video.@@GeorgZoller1306
This ARG is perfect. It represents what I think it’s the most realistic and terrifying form of supernatural occurrence on a digital plane of existence, and it also engages the viewers on highly detailed investigation that covers the programming world in a way those who understand about it may get even more spooked than I do. It’s the first time I see those uncanny and “wrong” moments transplanted to a world only those familiar with the source engine can understand. And your narrative compilation of this is really good. Keep it up ❤
1:02:25 Not sure if someone has pointed it out yet, but going with the whole “Eida and Mona were two different people” theory, it’s actually more likely that “Jan” is Eida. Considering his accent, the fact he’d likely have easier access to Fsky with actual geographic relativity, and the fact that “Jan” is actually supposed to be pronounced “Yan” (since it’s dutch, plus it’s masculine), It feels a little more accurate.
My memory is kinda shit but is Eida's location even confirmed? Because if not, I want to point out Jan is also a Fairly common name in Norway, which makes sense with Fsky as well
FINALLY! Sagan Hawkes made a vid partially talking about Interloper but I was waiting for someone to make a full fledged analysis dedicated to the series. Thank you Mr. TheWhat Show.
@@jamesrosewell9081arg suggest that series progression is locked behind arg games (viewers should break the puzzles, find secret information, etc.) but this video seems like recap of what happend
Usually I don’t like these arg things because it requires me to use my small little brain, but I genuinely enjoy watching you make sense of it, it’s like I’m sitting in a room watching it with you and making guesses about it!
The existence and death of "Mona" brings me to tears out of both fear and sadness. She is lacking half a torso, twitching around, staring blankly ahead. I think she was *tortured* by Eida. A fully sentient AI *broken* out of malice. It terrifies me more than any of the eerie appearances of the Umbrella Men.
Something really terrifying I noticed was when I tried the interloper, a graffiti appeared. It wasn't the man in full black. Just a normal one. But when I came back to the game launching it once again, it wasn't there. That thing literally scared the ever-living hell out of me. It also freaks up your game; for example removing the G-Man TV appearance.
Liminal spaces trigger something in me because my family, for a time, worked in installing blinds and painting. Sometimes it would be during the summer or spring break and I would be forced to sit in an office chair and wait out the whole day. It was lonely, and it often lead to be having to use my imagination to find something to do. Look down an empty hallway to a classroom or an empty office with a patch of wall open for wiring, you get that same vibe with liminal spaces.
What I love about these source engine horror things is because it uses old urban legends about source engine and weird questions we’ve always thought playing alone on Gmod or reading theories about half life.
The coordinates Eida sent his associate could refer to somewhere inside the source engine. As established, the source engine is a gigantic "plane" or "universe" that Valve has contained where all of these games take place. These coordinates could likely be the location of something Eida has placed between maps in the abyss. If I had to guess, that mysterious blob/human shaped thing we see in the CSS incident could be another Mona hes been trying to make, and thats where the coordinates lead.
30:29 In some ways, it's like someone is wearing a full motion capture suit and recording these. Which I guess could be the case outside of the world of this 'ARG' in what ever stuff the creator does behind the scenes to make this stuff. Really hope the guy shows a behind the scenes when the series is done running its course because I'm very curious.
I like to imagine that this whole thing only exists because the creator figured out that you can use mocap in source demos and they thought to just make an arg about it
I remember when i saw this the first time i thought it was real and spent a long ass time trying to get this to work myself, this really shows how well this all is done
It's real, my friend has the gmod mod and got a type 5 demo, it lasted 3 seconds and crashed. He didn't save it but he was streaming it on discord and all we had was a screenshot.
I think the part of Edia having a more paranormal approach to the dynamic npcs is what actually sells this the most for me, if this was real and people were looking into it of course there would be at least a few people who would think of it as paranormal and look into it as such
The uncanny piano in portal 2 is a modified version of a song present in game files, it was a possible candidate for the contaner ride music and the most popular use of it is from a workshop map called "Real procedural generation" by lavashik which utilizes an a unused entity that allows to procedurally generate laser puzzles
Man, the map generation feature with the command in interlope reminds me of the Personalization A.I that blew up a few years ago with SM64. Just something about your childhood game having this dark history behind it's development with tools unheard of, and finding that unnerving explanation to why something felt off.
god i want to love this video but my soul shrivels up like a raisin every time he says "council" EEAUGH this is such an irrational thing to be bothered but but oml
"Yo what's up?" *scout turns to look somewhere else before turning to stare at the heavy again, only to see heavy staring at them* "Think fast chucklenuts!" *scout hears a voice exactly like his and turns around again only to turn around again before he goes silent and camera POV closes*
@@tristinroberts4963 [Interloper puts Scout outside the map] "What the hell?!" [Scout starts to fall] "Oh this ain't good... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHH--- Holy crap this goes on forever...!"
The fact that this is based off something actually found in the Source engine is so creepy that I honestly don’t know how much is real and how much was made
@@DumbArsewere gonna see if thats the case in November, a comment by another user noted some interesting things that i don't understand excelt for the fact that the : followed by numbers is a port and putting the command in google crashed their wifi
I relate to 9:20 so much because I played gm_construct as a map in blade and sorcery without enemies and although I knew nothing was there, I felt watched constantly
I used to open G mod maps, especially huge custom maps, and wander around to check them out and I swear the paranoia that there was going to be an unexplainable person or creature in there always happened.
You explained that liminal feeling perfectly in the intro. When i was screwing around in a private server on TF2 l literally had to close the game because I was freaking myself out too much
For the Eidamona bit: I think when he was asking the questions, if your theory is true, questions like 'Are you in pain' was to make sure Mona wasn't hurt during the process, making Eida the only person to bring a loved one back from the dead and have an IQ of at least 70.
Courage was and still is a very weird show. Ironically I didn’t get scared by most of the spooks like the weird “you’re not perfect” fetus, i got scared as a kid and had an existential crisis from a time travel episode i hardly remember now
Happy Appy, the creepypasta intended to be seen as a joke which the internet took way too seriously for so many years until the creator had to come out and say themself that it was satire.
If you pay attention, the shadow of N when he was in the portal demo after leaving the NPC looks very similar to the mannequin. And in the coast, the charecters thumb was broken before she was pushed in
I am SO glad Interloper is getting some attention. It's one of the best ARG's/creepypastas in a long while and it's clear Anomidae has put a lot of work, creativity and dedication into it. I am so happy he is getting more attention, especially after the latest videos are declining in views. I adore thia series and wish to see it to its end, so anything that shows Anomidae some support is very welcome 😁
I love when i watch a video and for 8 minutes you go into detail about an episode from a kids show from the 90s and a creepypasta about a fake kids show from the 70s, analog horror, as well as explaining how liminal spaces can trick your brain into feeling like you've been somewhere you haven't just to help illustrate how nostalgia can be used as a tool for horror, then i realise this is about a gmod arg and i think "ah yes, a true video essay"
32:03 Error 405 in the Portal 1 demo means "Method Not Allowed" (Source: MDN). As it is the last demo before the time limit runs out I personally think that the method part of the error is interesting, maybe signifying that the way that anomidae connected before is no longer allowed by the hoster of these DNPCs, but the server for the DNPCs and the demos is still up (which I think is how anomidae connected with the Portal RTX method)
If 405 means that Anomidae is maintaining a connection 'illegally' thanks to some kind of loophole... Maybe the real Interloper is Anomidae, and by continuing to meddle with demo gen, he's delving deeper and deeper into the core of what ever FSKY is hosting on their servers. If exploring the new voids are the next step in the process, then I can really see an aspect of Eldritch Horror to evolve. Especially as more and more power is taken from both, us as viewers, and Anomidae as the Interloper.
![INTERLOPER -The Source Engine's Dark Secret [ARG]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VUv89a8IfYc/mqdefault.jpg)
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I liked it when Interloper said Interloping Time and Interloped all over. Truly one of theWhat-est shows of all time.
I spent all my money on pomsons I don't have money
i cant... my last carrier pigeon died
No thanks, I play Warhammer 40k, I don't have money
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The most unrealistic part of this arg is not any of the things you would think of, but the fact that the scout doesn't shoot the A-posing friendly heavy.
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The most unrealistic part is that it's impossible to find anything about it that IS realistic.
@@LtSprinkulz it's all fantasy idk who enjoys this goofy shit
That's the thing, I don't think they're friendly.
you slowly killed a piece of me everytime you pronounced console as council
the council has judged thee, and thy punishment is kill; explode; quit
@@ceo_of_cats bind kill h
I’ve never seen anyone pronounce CONsole as Council and it’s giving me the jeebies
@@ceo_of_catsratopombo pfp🫡
Same here, it was so painful and strange to listen to, I feel like I am the one in a Source ARG
I love the developer council. Such nice people
Ikr
05 Council but by valve instead of scp
You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of developer.
they should update tf2 more often
The true citizen always pronouces their words correctly.
That fact he can say “concept” but pronounce console as “council” is the scariest part of the video ever
this slightly pissed me off for the entire video
(also "chell" was pronounced as "shell")
Drives me up the fuckin wall
THE COUNCIL COMMANDS! WE COMMAND YE
I can't understand why it happens. Not the first video where someone blatantly mispronounces something... Probably not the last
He's dumb as hell
Interloper drinking game:
• Do a shot every time he says "council" instead of "console"
• Chug every time he says "however"
shit man, good idea.
down the whole bottle every time he says "liminal"
alcohol intoxication:
you think i want to die of alcohol poisoning?
I gotta treat my liver better
I remember watching the first episode of Interloper and being so surprised by the creativity and how the execution behind it felt so real.
@@psyokYOU
@@floober6428 Pff
same here, never playing single player again
My singular question here is, how tf is anomi doing all of this even if he has a team he’s created multiple UA-cam channels with lore behind them, possible Mocap that is completely different from most as it’s interacts with the map and at the same time moving like 40 to 50ft in a couple of the type 5s, creates servers and commands that completely defy the source engine, creating an ai so good it can create demos, and create something to crash games with no known commands.
@@sonicdirtface9623 something called mocap fusion vr in ep2 tools used iirc
The concept of something moving while a game is paused is utterly horrifying to me
Now imagine if videos could play on their own after you pause them😈😈😈😈
@@arthurconanthebarbarian1288like if you paused the youtube video but the interloper still moved even though everything else was paused.
@@nafereuskortex9055 and the chime sound is there too. that will either sell it or make it untolerably cheesy
much more horrifying in a singleplayer game
It's what makes Gmod/Minecraft/Roblox horror so creepy. In games like that, you are the one controlling what happens, so somwthing having the power to overturn that power is pretty unnerving
The left 4 dead type 5 clip is honestly terrifying because the fact that a zombie, a completely brain dead creature that doesn’t even act on instinct, runs in fear from something and doesn’t even stop to eat a helpless and defenseless prey is truly unnerving
When a creature that acts only on instinct doesn’t follow it, you should be scared.
even scarier, you could see that it was not just one zombie, but an ENTIRE HORDE of zombies running from whatever the thing is. now, anything that could make a large group of mindless individuals who normally just shamble around aimlessly act with that much speed and purpose has to hold an EXTREME amount of authority within the game.
when the virus controlling you doesnt act on instinct and says "to get tf outta there" is scarier when it probably seen what you havent seen
do yall got a timestam for dis?
@@Isol545 1:14:00
The "Are you trapped" bit gives me fucking chills. The way I view it, we get two answers, one from the umbrella men and one from a DMNPC. The DMNPC, trapped vying to get to the yes to prove to something or someone out there that it exists and to try and get it to hear its plea. The umbrella man seems to answer by taunting the viewer, clipping the skybox and going to another map, showing that not only is it not trapped in the walls of the map that Eida built but not even to the map itself as a way of showing that its powers and abilities go well beyond what we thought was possible not just by the umbrella men but by the engine itself. Genuinely terrifying to me
Same
time stamp?
proof?
@@jolleerancherswagmanaround 53:00
@@chairwoodare you below average in intelegence yes or no?
the "jumpscare" in the portal part is actually hilarious because im imagining a friend in gmod trolling their other friend
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@@surrealtastic WEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEW
It's lile a joke soundsmith would do tbh
He floats through the wall and you just hear "Hola amigo" silently
virtual insanity
Valve can program self aware npcs but can’t fix TF2. Is this really where their funding is going? 🤦♂️ smh
Honestly knowing valve that sounds about right
Well, wouldnt be suprised if they can make an AI that could take over the world in a month yet they cant make a 3 installment of any of their games.
TF2 is perfection among even the gods themselves.
heh true
proof that aperture science is just an allegory for valve itself
weird priorities and management, top quality products at the expense of a bizarre and hostile work environment, and apparently with this series, accidentally developing sentient ai
perhaps that's why (thematically at least) the portal games are crucial to the interloper stuff
Now THIS is what you call an ACTUAL "Source Engine ARG!" Not only it has the creepy videos and stuff; but you can also get involved in it as well, such as looking thru the codes, files, and stuff.
It takes a special talent to have an ARG extend to a legit livestream without breaking kayfabe one way or another.
If I recall correctly, there was no real interaction with the livestream, so it was basically a very long prerecorded video.
sighs
@@inkoalawetrust still, anything could go wrong with the livestream - the prerecorded video could have broken, or crashed during the livestream, the livestream couldve crashed, etc etc. it's a ballsy move to do anything with complicated connections like an ARG with a live audience
@@pemo2676 It's not that hard to do. People have reliably and repeatedly faked 'live' speedruns by playing a recorded TAS and miming along. Took years to figure them out, and only ever when the person was willing to typically interact with chat. For someone who doesn't like an ARG creator, it's super easy. Basically the same as a premiering youtube video.
@@Winasaurus i'm not saying it's particularly difficult, obviously its just playing a video, but it's ballsy with how many issues can happen. even with speedrunners, its not like people haven't been caught out for some sort of fuck up, either directly from their end or an issue with the stream/video itself (which could've been avoided if it wasn't live)
7:33 demoman holding a syringegun with soldier's hands in left 4 dead 2 is the scariest possible form of nostalgic horror
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It's worth noting that even singleplayer source games have very very rudimentary multiplayer capability. This includes Portal 1. It's quite possible - hypothetically - to force any Source Engine game to connect to a server being ran by the same game, even if it's supposed to be singleplayer.
We once did that with Portal. It wasn't this weird, but definitely caused many annoying crashes and glitching dialogues
Hm... yeah, you're right - totally slipped my mind that singleplayer Source games, just like "Minecraft" or "S.T.A.L.K.E.R", create a localhosted server instance for the singleplayer campaign...
Fun fact: a small bit ago Valve actually made portal 1 multiplayer work *better* than before, if i remember correctly!
@@DrCraniummaybe do more research on this Boi.
@@DrCraniumwhat timeline are you living in?
40:08 As a British man, I can confirm, the dm npcs get sent over here, we are getting an overflow of them by now, someone tell them to stop.
No. Your government is full of dm npcs. In fact, I have reason to believe you are ALSO a dm npc
how did you know? @@RedGuardian0902
@@RedGuardian0902 As a british I find this to be highly offensive
@@Theeggsmann as a british person, i agree
Anomi: "Akcshualy it's a extremely smart ai in The source engine" 🤓
Eida: "ghosts" 🗿
LOL
The interloper respects eida’s chad theory so much it allows him to use the demo feature for multiple days
After episode 7, it's even funnier, because they're literally reverse engineering the light with a obscura camera
@@dagobahstudios3662 makes sense
eida be sigma gigachad in this situation
this whole mess feels exactly like the Herobrine mess all over again from before 2014 or so, but now a lot more legit, and thus a lot more terrifying...
TRUTH. Not gonna lie, this is better made.
@@calebkelly8221 Herobrine is just steve with white eyes theres nothing else to it just him with white eyes
Or a much less known mess, Entity 303
@@TemmieContingenCentity 303 was never scary and is infinitely worse than herobrine. HEROBRINE SWEEP 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯❗️❗️❗️❗️
@@dogeboithedoomslayer that’s fair lol I just used to watch some mc web series on the fella. He holds a nostalgic level of remembrance for me
The scariest part of this video is how he says “console”
Council commands
@@dehydrated1the Council commands it!
My favorite part of any game are the council commands, closely followed by the D.I.V. Menu.
@@Skylight-zy4iz I like the part where they have to submit a formal request to the counsel to grant the champion everlasting life.
It irks me so violently that he doesn’t say it correctly
The coordinates are hex values, they're pointing towards specific lines of code in the engine. The coordinates are not in the world, they're in the Source.
could they be assembly instructions?
Maybye
Damn the source engine is super scary, thank god it isnt real.
But what if, it was?
My grandparents have told me to beware of the Gary Newman in the woods
@@Namerco*Vsauce music plays*
Was it a dream or are you in your mind
1:28:12 1:28:17
36:43 Missed opportunity to say "unforeseen consequences" instead of "unexpected consequences" for a cheeky Half-Life reference
Can't wait until anomidae tries GMod out with the interloper command and we see an epic battle between a DM npc spawning in happy appy and freddy fazbear and shit against the umbrella man
What about Postal 3
Don't forget about V1 from ULTRAKILL.
Umbrella man gets repeatedly phys-gun dipped into the water on gm_construct.
Sadly I think it's mentioned somewhere that the command doesn't work with gmod for some reason. At least not modern gmod. So maybe old versions?
@@surrealtastic Actually, that's a good point. What about modified SE games, like Titanfall 2 or Apex Legends? What about Source 2? What about games BASED on Source engine titles? There's a lot they can explore.
Here's what I think could be the results of each test:
Postal 3: For a generative AI, Postal 3 is, somehow, one of the BEST for them to use, with positive and negative reinforcement states. A lot of demos would probably play with that, potentially reaching a climax with a full game run with either ending.
Titanfall 2: Demos featuring more mobile DNPCs, with hands and stuff, operating titans and other machinery. Probably would have a DNPC try to fight an umbrella man with the Titan, only for him to phase through it.
Apex: similar to the TF2 gameplay, probably a lot of crashers present.
HLA: Probably the climax or ending of the series, if its ever used. Probably going to reveal a twist about what how the DNPCs actually operate in tests, probably relating to HLA's VR.
I don't understand why people say the "vr" parts ruined it. I think those parts greatly enhanced this arg. This has got to be my second favorite Source ARG
What's your 1st favorite source arg
@@man-1291 where is that I cannot find it
@@man-1291 you look like a glonglebongle...
what could possibly top this arg, uve peaked my interest in one sentence
Fun fact, in the original doom engine, FSKY is a texture that sets itself to the sky image coded into the level
sick dude
ok 🙂👍
Kind of a stretch, but I wonder then if this indicates that the DNPC tech has been in development since long before Source. Source is directly related to the original Doom engine, albeit a few generations removed. The progression goes Doom > Quake > GoldSrc > Source. According to John Carmack, lead developer for the Quake engine, there are still bits of early Quake code in HL2.
Could be something, could not be, but it could be worth looking into.
what if the ai processing is done by a part of Carmack that he left behind when he coded Doom
@@HappyBeezerStudios cv11 viewer, You might be
The Eidamona story made me so sad. It seems to be just someone who lost a loved one and tried to bring them back when they found a way, only for it all to fail.
Yeah, I hope we get more info on it in the future
1:03:00 i think mona was his imaginary gf from the very beginning and not a real person. after using a citizen model for a while he switched to using an early AI gf model
@@abbcc5996 That makes it sadder
That kind of shit always ruins interesting args, this shit sucked
Bro took a mad L
TheWhatShow: makes an hour and half long video completely breaking down the entire arg
Anomidae: I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move
Shame the ARG has gone completely off track and that it lost all it's appeal.
@@olzhas1one755idk, I like the new direction, I feel like it’s a natural progression, it’s always been about the source engine, they’re just going even deeper into it.
Could I ask what the updates are focusing on? I’m not fully caught up on the series.
@@Jakesfji they’re going way more in-depth with the engine, so much that people are losing interest, one of the newest ones are focused on lighting and how curtain lighting programs work and how the interlope command is messing with it.
@@Wh1teNoise616i mean if people are driven off by the fact that there is no more boohoo spooky ghost they chose the wrong ARG
I like how despite the horror, the Umbrellamen basically just go
You know what? Fuck you *banishes you to the skybox*
I'm tired of you existing. to the void you go
The concept of using 2fort as most horrifying map in a whole game speak for itself
there is no escape. snipers on the bridge, engies in the basement
Conhager slaughterhouse
@@pokemonfanmario7694
"Nice ball you got there"
-M
Emesis blau
@@pokemonfanmario7694 I'll never see the map the same way again..
Its crazy how many council commands are apart of the source engine.
Not going to lie it's running me up the wall hearing council instead of console but it's not that bad.
> makes fun of a guy for mispronouncing "console"
> can't spell "a part"
(this is meant as lighthearted ribbing not genuinely mean)
@@ThornShadowWolf it is genuine, own what you say
@@Markizas.Karabasas people can make jokes
@@khedudcemquazar2278wrong
Why are source fans so scared of mysterious black people
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You wouldn't be asking that if you spent as much time in 24/7 2fort server voice chats as me
Because America FUCK YEAH
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The umbrella man is just an admin kicking you for failing rp as citizen aren't supposed to be in that part of the game
"Admins aren't supposed to suck dicks"
Citizens aren’t supposed to have guns
@@olle8132admins arent supposed to suck dix
Something hidden in episode 2: turning on subtitles reveals that Anomi was actually talking to someone called “L” during their Portal type 5 discovery. The hidden dialog I don’t think reveals much, but it appears Anomi wasn’t looking into Interloper alone during Nov 2022.
yup and it explains why this was the first video to have him talk apart from the last one during live
I can't believe Death Note is real
Man I really love using “Council” commands
yeah it's so cool using Council commands in the sauce engine
Lol
@@The_dog_in_the_picture_is_mine ''Sauce engine''. Never have i laughed so hard to a comment
The Console has decided your fate. You are sentenced to the 'kill' command!
@@ltjp6611 What's so funny?
It's just the Sauce Council.
The real funny business is with the "antelope" command; just type "antelope" into the Sauce Council.
Probably the best concept to come out honestly, and with how A.I. and liminal space started to pick up, it makes this feel like the perfect culmination of everything.
Realistic Creepypasta is spooky
Horrifying creepypasta that stalks you and has mystic powers:
Me: 😐
A game breaks past your controls and runs without your input:
Me: THATS NOT HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED! OUT OF THIS HOUSE! OUT OF THIS HOUSE!
This ARG is very well done so well done that I became so immersed in it that I forgot it was an ARG
DM could probably stand for Dynamic Motion, hence the VR-esque movement
Or maybe dynamic model?
i thought it meant discord message
@@somedummyonyoutube3362 Yeah, that could work too
Honestly, only when the sections recorded in VR appeared did I realize this wasn't actually real. And that says a lot about how well-made this series is!
Valve has worked with VR for years though, and motion capture itself is not out of the question. They used motion capture for the development of TF2 in 2007, long before they started work on any sort of VR hardware! Its not outside the realm of possibility.
@@SnapSVyeah at the first I legit thought that was the case, valve fucking around with source with stress testing and mocap vr shit
Really? Not the fact that they thought that you can add text to a texture file, not destroy the original file, and still show up fine? Or the dumb idea to hide a message in a *texture file* which is the stupidest idea?
@@SCP-tn2ln there's instances where secret files can be hidden in plain images look up
@@SCP-tn2lnbut you can, it's been done in other much earlier ARGs with similar results to the texture in the video (all the pixels encoded after the text being distorted and off-colour)
Recently I've gotten into the habit of bringing an umbrella around with me everywhere because it's easier protection from the sun than using sunscreen, so every time The Umbrella Man is brought up as this terrifying, ominous, powerful entity, all I can think about is me and my gay little parasol striking fear into the hearts of men in the same way Slender Man did for the previous generation of internet horror enthusiasts.
I fucking adore this comment
Can't wait for sunscreen man to vs. off against the umbrella men.
That's hillarious
"hes literally me!"
So you're a bottom?
I had to double check but on spooky coast (25:55) right before the umbrella civ guy lunges at the camera the npc we're seeing through has his right hand broken.
yeah! like he’s slowly ragdolling.
I love the subtle detail of the heavy slolwy turning his head the other way when the spy bangs on the 4th wall for help, like he knows what's going to happen to him and doesn't want to witness it or be associated with it.
Honestly, that spy banging on the fourth wall was the creepiest Gmod stuff I've seen in a while
Time stamp
@@Ihaveagasmask11:22
if you look at the original(the not arg one) called "spy is sandvich" the spy is supposed to be behind heavy, and the heavy supposed to slowly look at the spy behind him
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Ah, truly the most horrifying of things to encounter in a dark room: Peter Griffin.
but what about cleveland
hey! what about homer simpson
"Hey lois, im in a source ARG"
@@Dr.Freeman..."Hehehehe" - Peter griffin
Hey Lois, I'm in a liminal space
I loved it when the interloper says "its interloping time" and proceeds to interlope
This is just @youreverydaycosmichorrors post :|
bro interloped for real
Dead meme😐
@@randomyoutubeuser3918 and brother I'm a necromancer
@@randomyoutubeuser3918poops you
Not gonna lie, spookcoast was so fucking cool. The jumpscare and the animated looking flailing compared to the realistic movement is so cool to me.
This is one of the most realistic takes on an arg. You can tell the creators truly know the source engine and thus know how to make cool explanations for everything. Also having the videos be in the form of long form UA-cam mystery videos that people interact with is awesome since those videos are common, especially with half life 2
Correction. 27015 is just the default port source and goldsrc servers use.
I now have the headcanon that Half-Life VR AI takes place in the same alternate universe and Wayne somehow manged to get his hands on a version of Half-Life Source that contains dynamic NPCs but is free from the Umbrella Men.
Idk if to take this seriously or as a joke
Thank you for this information
AAa
*No*
* teleports out of bounds *
I am pleasantly surprised to see a fellow HLVRAI fan here. Hi hi!
it’s cause Benry keeps scaring them off harassing them for PSN
Surprisingly, gunslingerpro2009 was able to creep me out with the character's genuine fear, how they have sentience, and specially spy try to get us to help him.
The Interloper ARG has been one of my favorites. It's not like those ARGs where you need to look every pixel of a video to figure something out. The Interloper ARG can be interacted physically (Like the CS Source and TF2 demo) and how it involves A.I learning the game then gets targeted by the Interloper if it gets too self-aware.
Interloper has been my favorite Source ‘ARG’ ever since it came out, awesome to see you cover it!
1:25:57 I am watching this in the breakroom of my workplace, I am doing an overnight cleaning shift where I am basically the only person in a massive supermarket with the doors locked.
I cannot fucking tell you the level of fear that went through my body when I heard this part of the soundtrack come in. I genuinely thought I was about to get murdered by a ghost.
As a network specialist my first thought as to "what is anomi connecting to" was use wireshark to see which tcp connections are established, or use a netstat -a in powershell to see all listening ports and corresponding applications
As well as the "Lan" category in the server browser, it probalby is looking for a hosted game in the local subnet using a broadcast and seeing if one client responds to it, limiting it to only the subnet the server is in
I think portal rtx was the server he connected to. I'm not a network engineer but I set up Silly Tavern with Kobold AI and Automatic1111 and it works the same(ish) way as what we see in the video.@@GeorgZoller1306
This ARG is perfect. It represents what I think it’s the most realistic and terrifying form of supernatural occurrence on a digital plane of existence, and it also engages the viewers on highly detailed investigation that covers the programming world in a way those who understand about it may get even more spooked than I do. It’s the first time I see those uncanny and “wrong” moments transplanted to a world only those familiar with the source engine can understand. And your narrative compilation of this is really good. Keep it up ❤
1:02:25 Not sure if someone has pointed it out yet, but going with the whole “Eida and Mona were two different people” theory, it’s actually more likely that “Jan” is Eida. Considering his accent, the fact he’d likely have easier access to Fsky with actual geographic relativity, and the fact that “Jan” is actually supposed to be pronounced “Yan” (since it’s dutch, plus it’s masculine), It feels a little more accurate.
My memory is kinda shit but is Eida's location even confirmed? Because if not, I want to point out Jan is also a Fairly common name in Norway, which makes sense with Fsky as well
There's something so realistically charming about him just humming along to the radio during the type 5 exploration
Something I haven't seen anyone mention yet is that Anomidae is an anagram of Eidamona. Neat little detail, though a bit on the nose if you ask me.
Every time I hear TheWhat pronounce console as council, a little piece of my soul breaks off and dies
I know right?
And boundary as boungee
FINALLY! Sagan Hawkes made a vid partially talking about Interloper but I was waiting for someone to make a full fledged analysis dedicated to the series. Thank you Mr. TheWhat Show.
What's the difference? I'm in the same situation but haven't seen this
@@jamesrosewell9081arg suggest that series progression is locked behind arg games (viewers should break the puzzles, find secret information, etc.) but this video seems like recap of what happend
Usually I don’t like these arg things because it requires me to use my small little brain, but I genuinely enjoy watching you make sense of it, it’s like I’m sitting in a room watching it with you and making guesses about it!
Same except for me I'm incredibly unnerved watching the content by myself
"congratulations and welcome. You are not welcome here" .... What
The existence and death of "Mona" brings me to tears out of both fear and sadness. She is lacking half a torso, twitching around, staring blankly ahead. I think she was *tortured* by Eida. A fully sentient AI *broken* out of malice. It terrifies me more than any of the eerie appearances of the Umbrella Men.
imagine speculating and writing this for a shitty arg for a game only nerds play now
👍
@@mostholeyou sure are such a ray of sunshine, aren’t you?
@@mostholeYour fun at funerals aren’t you
@@mostholewasn't gaming as a whole is just a nerd community as it alway have been?
Something really terrifying I noticed was when I tried the interloper, a graffiti appeared. It wasn't the man in full black. Just a normal one. But when I came back to the game launching it once again, it wasn't there. That thing literally scared the ever-living hell out of me. It also freaks up your game; for example removing the G-Man TV appearance.
where did the graffiti appear?
Maybe in follow freeman or anticitizen one, since the section with the generators and Barney has a whiteface umbrella man decal
i love how technical it is, it legit feels like a existing program. It's also really neat to see 2 different interpretations with this
umbrella man cosplay with really tiny hidden rollerskates so you can slide around into people at conventions
The programing this guy/team had to do to create this ARG is superb.
The thought of running the interloper command in Postal 3 and an umbrella man just comes out of nowhere and starts pissing on you
Umbrella man: exists
Postal dude: "Hi there, would you like to sign my petition?"
Umbrella Man: *exists*
Postal Dude: "You gotta be fucking kidding."
I’ve honestly never heard anyone pronounce “Console” like “Council”, I personally pronounce it as “khan-soul”
It's "Kohn-sole" you plebean 😂
@@engineerskalinera You slob, you Bobolyne, it is pronounced 'Con-Sole'
@@engineerskalinera you spelled the same thing different. good job.
@@lxmental is joke
@@engineerskalinerait's obviously kyahn-suhl
Liminal spaces trigger something in me because my family, for a time, worked in installing blinds and painting. Sometimes it would be during the summer or spring break and I would be forced to sit in an office chair and wait out the whole day. It was lonely, and it often lead to be having to use my imagination to find something to do. Look down an empty hallway to a classroom or an empty office with a patch of wall open for wiring, you get that same vibe with liminal spaces.
What I love about these source engine horror things is because it uses old urban legends about source engine and weird questions we’ve always thought playing alone on Gmod or reading theories about half life.
The coordinates Eida sent his associate could refer to somewhere inside the source engine. As established, the source engine is a gigantic "plane" or "universe" that Valve has contained where all of these games take place. These coordinates could likely be the location of something Eida has placed between maps in the abyss. If I had to guess, that mysterious blob/human shaped thing we see in the CSS incident could be another Mona hes been trying to make, and thats where the coordinates lead.
Interloper has always seemed like a strange case to me
NO-
This comment makes me shudder.
reskins have always seemed like a strange case to me
47:36
gary man eats tacos and *_DIES_*
ARG reskins in Source have always seemed like a strange case to me
There's something funny and terrifying about zombies running away from other zombies that are T posing
30:29 In some ways, it's like someone is wearing a full motion capture suit and recording these. Which I guess could be the case outside of the world of this 'ARG' in what ever stuff the creator does behind the scenes to make this stuff.
Really hope the guy shows a behind the scenes when the series is done running its course because I'm very curious.
The creator has used motion capture for previous videos, so that’s most likely how
I like to imagine that this whole thing only exists because the creator figured out that you can use mocap in source demos and they thought to just make an arg about it
the idea of a video game development studio accidentally creating sentient AI is so stupid I love it
also COUNCIL COMMANDS
I remember when i saw this the first time i thought it was real and spent a long ass time trying to get this to work myself, this really shows how well this all is done
Is it not real?
Yeah no this is real
It's real, my friend has the gmod mod and got a type 5 demo, it lasted 3 seconds and crashed. He didn't save it but he was streaming it on discord and all we had was a screenshot.
Imgur screenshot?@@xlso23
@@xlso23ngl, valve cooked.
I think the part of Edia having a more paranormal approach to the dynamic npcs is what actually sells this the most for me, if this was real and people were looking into it of course there would be at least a few people who would think of it as paranormal and look into it as such
The uncanny piano in portal 2 is a modified version of a song present in game files, it was a possible candidate for the contaner ride music and the most popular use of it is from a workshop map called "Real procedural generation" by lavashik which utilizes an a unused entity that allows to procedurally generate laser puzzles
Man, the map generation feature with the command in interlope reminds me of the Personalization A.I that blew up a few years ago with SM64. Just something about your childhood game having this dark history behind it's development with tools unheard of, and finding that unnerving explanation to why something felt off.
So THAT'S what I was thinking of!
I was like: "Wait... THIS is familiar. What did I see it from? "
this almost makes jerma seem humanlike
Jerma is a stage 6 demo
@@alfalldoot6715 god. by stage 8 he will turn black.
@@ggoldenracist
@@ggoldenRACIST PUFF
Jerma is the interloper
god i want to love this video but my soul shrivels up like a raisin every time he says "council" EEAUGH this is such an irrational thing to be bothered but but oml
I loved the part where the umbrella men said “It’s interlopin time” and then interloped all over the dynamic npcs.
"what do you mean he doesnt say it in the video?"
@@darrylthewolf6568 what? of course he did did you even watch the video?!?!?!?
@@lopadjshive mind
@@lopadjs if this continues at one point the text will form a QR code to a random hospital advertisement
Truly one of the ARGs of all time.
*During that type five tf2 demo i just had scouts voice lines repeatedly playing in my head as he peaked round the cornor to look at the heavy..*
"Yo what's up?"
*scout turns to look somewhere else before turning to stare at the heavy again, only to see heavy staring at them*
"Think fast chucklenuts!"
*scout hears a voice exactly like his and turns around again only to turn around again before he goes silent and camera POV closes*
"Aah!"
"Boink!"
"Im a frickin blur"
"Dumbass!"
@@tristinroberts4963
[Interloper puts Scout outside the map]
"What the hell?!"
[Scout starts to fall]
"Oh this ain't good... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHH--- Holy crap this goes on forever...!"
OKAY, THIS DOES NOT LOOK GOOD HERE, UMMM...
@@tristinroberts4963(scout looks at his back to check the other heavy)
Uhh.. no
The fact that this is based off something actually found in the Source engine is so creepy that I honestly don’t know how much is real and how much was made
What? Bassicly everything is made up, dude XD
the only real thing is demos
What real stuff💀
I refuse to believe that all of this is fake
@@DumbArsewere gonna see if thats the case in November, a comment by another user noted some interesting things that i don't understand excelt for the fact that the : followed by numbers is a port and putting the command in google crashed their wifi
I relate to 9:20 so much because I played gm_construct as a map in blade and sorcery without enemies and although I knew nothing was there, I felt watched constantly
I used to open G mod maps, especially huge custom maps, and wander around to check them out and I swear the paranoia that there was going to be an unexplainable person or creature in there always happened.
You explained that liminal feeling perfectly in the intro. When i was screwing around in a private server on TF2 l literally had to close the game because I was freaking myself out too much
every copy of source engine is personalized
For the Eidamona bit: I think when he was asking the questions, if your theory is true, questions like 'Are you in pain' was to make sure Mona wasn't hurt during the process, making Eida the only person to bring a loved one back from the dead and have an IQ of at least 70.
Courage was and still is a very weird show.
Ironically I didn’t get scared by most of the spooks like the weird “you’re not perfect” fetus, i got scared as a kid and had an existential crisis from a time travel episode i hardly remember now
theres a good creepy pasta i think you've heard about its called happy appy really well told and has a very scary plot
Happy Appy, the creepypasta intended to be seen as a joke which the internet took way too seriously for so many years until the creator had to come out and say themself that it was satire.
is this a reference to schizo mvm
@@anderkrume564no fucking way
I can’t believe there’s more people that know about the true cause of 9/11, this is so cool
It was written as a joke lol
I KNOW THIS IS A SERIOUS VIDEO (nice work btw), BUT I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING WHEN SOLDIER SAID "PAINIS"
A person with taste, I see
The music in the portal 2 maze also plays in the portal 1 type 5 demo, meaning the umbrella man is here.
34:05 “do you have any games on your phone?”
If you pay attention, the shadow of N when he was in the portal demo after leaving the NPC looks very similar to the mannequin. And in the coast, the charecters thumb was broken before she was pushed in
I am SO glad Interloper is getting some attention. It's one of the best ARG's/creepypastas in a long while and it's clear Anomidae has put a lot of work, creativity and dedication into it.
I am so happy he is getting more attention, especially after the latest videos are declining in views. I adore thia series and wish to see it to its end, so anything that shows Anomidae some support is very welcome 😁
I love when i watch a video and for 8 minutes you go into detail about an episode from a kids show from the 90s and a creepypasta about a fake kids show from the 70s, analog horror, as well as explaining how liminal spaces can trick your brain into feeling like you've been somewhere you haven't just to help illustrate how nostalgia can be used as a tool for horror, then i realise this is about a gmod arg and i think "ah yes, a true video essay"
One and a half hour long video? Now that's what I wanna see!
Seeing Mona in the dark room was so unsettling. I deep dive into ARGs often but this is the first time one really got under my skin
32:03 Error 405 in the Portal 1 demo means "Method Not Allowed" (Source: MDN). As it is the last demo before the time limit runs out I personally think that the method part of the error is interesting, maybe signifying that the way that anomidae connected before is no longer allowed by the hoster of these DNPCs, but the server for the DNPCs and the demos is still up (which I think is how anomidae connected with the Portal RTX method)
If 405 means that Anomidae is maintaining a connection 'illegally' thanks to some kind of loophole... Maybe the real Interloper is Anomidae, and by continuing to meddle with demo gen, he's delving deeper and deeper into the core of what ever FSKY is hosting on their servers.
If exploring the new voids are the next step in the process, then I can really see an aspect of Eldritch Horror to evolve. Especially as more and more power is taken from both, us as viewers, and Anomidae as the Interloper.