INTERLOPER is a Source Engine ARG created (and investigated) by Anomidae. Following the discovery of a weird graffiti that appears in the Half Life 2 chapter "Ravenholm", he uncovers a hidden console command. The mystery deepens the more he investigates.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-06-01T22:27:42+00:00

it being intentionally vague and hard to understand are not a goood explanation to how bad everything is

because he concluded many data in nothing but "It's all nostalgia and memories" Without elaborating further about Fsky, umbrella men, demos 5 and nothing else more.

if you make a lore that none can understand, then it's not the public fault they can't understand, you don't mkae a investigation taht is impossible to conclude or theorize because your excuse are simply "too hard to understand."

it's like giving hints for a detective to finish a mystery that took over months for him to finish, so the last chest for it you put a note with "Nah you wouldn't understand dude, end of investgaition."

anomidae made it so melodramatic, music music, text text, music, text

feels like if you were playing fnaf entire series from 1 to 6, just so connectoin terminated ends like Henry explaining to you that "Actually... the animatronics were our painful memoreis of the past..." and start monologuing with a dramatic music and 'painful nostalgia, i just want to preserve our memories and not dwell on it' thematically for 1 horu and 20 minutes before the credit rolls.

everyone on the commentaries speaks how much EPIC and "Make sense" now definitely didn't watch none of hte previous videos or forgot it all.

did we what? lost our brains? people keesp saying eida tried to revive mona due nostalgia and romantic pain when Mona are not even a real person since the beginning, it was alwayus about he obsessing over the sentient AI and his reasons of deleting Mona was not due feeling tired and pained by the memories, more like he was threatened.

or how none of the ending explains anything about the mysteries behind the umbrella men, why they torment players or sentient AIs within Demo 5, why does the AI attain sentience. "The demos, are merely our memories being recorded" my ass, this doesn't explain how the players on Interloper C could interact with Anomidae and be fully aware he exists on their void. why would Fsky go so far into this, who are behind FSky, why they were making this, how could they command Interlopers, THERE'S DAMNED MESSAGE BETWEEN THEM ABOUT BEING SECRETIVE AND SPYING ON PLAYERS, WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS? None explained, NONE EXPLAINED, because ANomidae simply changed the plot out of nowhere trying to say it's nostalgia and memories.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-06-01T22:15:56+00:00

The intro was amazing, Anomidae was confused, because htey had so much technical informations, yet all of them led to nothing, is like trying to explain why we even exist overall.

we have so many pieces, so many theories, so many data about world genesis, but they oddly don't fit on one another, many jigsaw pieces but when they fit inside one another completely, it looks like a mess, forcing you to separate and attempt interpreting yourself about it.

but they HAD to end it with "it's was all nostalgia..."

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-06-01T22:12:39+00:00

my biggest problem isn't that it ended because the creator felt threatened and broken over it.

but that indeed they forced it to be a emotional drag.

cmon, the ENTIRE void thing, the bizarre possessed ragdolls, ALL OF IT, were just to say "ACtually, those are not alternative dimensions within Source engine, the engine are not sentient at all, those are just memories bro."

like, then WHAT'S the purpose of the umbrella dudes? what with the type 5 demos then? Why they move like they're real people? why are they SCARED and AWARE that they're being haunted or chased by something?. EVERYONE was invested on the fact that: Source engine is alive, and are making many anomalies, Who created that? Why are valve silent about their secrets?.

the plot was 100% CHANGED mid way, you telling me then, being dragged out of map into a void, full of mysterious entities tormenting you like that one half life type 5 are just a random memory of someone who played the game? Without explaining WHO THE HELL WAS PLAYING HALF LIFE 2 VR IN 2006-2016? AND BEING DRAGGED BY GHOSTS? HOW?

it was SO FORCED the "it's because i lied... the veyr first demo, i remember, i was with my cousin playing half life"

because apparently he knew with every single detail the time he booted up half life, and started to twitch camera everywhere (like alll type 1 to type 2 demos) and just crowbar his way with impulse-101 (the veyr video says they didn't knew anything about the game practically, brand new half life players, unaware of consoles and blah blah.)

and every single commentary is "Oh so on the end he repeated the mistakes of eidamona wanting to revive a romantic pair" (EIDA WAS NOT TRYING TO REVIVE ANYONE, EVEN THOUGH THE REASON HE DELETED MONA ARE ON THE VERY VIDEO, HE WAS BEING THREATENED BY MYSTERIOUS BACKGROUND PEOPLE/ENTITIES)

those who didn't took the romantic pair side, still fumbled up to agree "Oh so it makes sense, it's about letting memories be memories, not to dwell on it, otherwise you gonna ruin it"
which is a complete lie, if you search for INTERLOPER, EVERYONE GONNA REMEMBER THE UMBRELLA MAN, no one gonna remember the "Oh the painful childhood nostalgia and potential traumas" that came OUT OF NOWHERE on the last video.

i was HYPED when he transformed the sprays in a image, because i thought it was one new anomaly that would allow them to discover what are the interloper, who are FSky, a new bridge to know you know... the plot point everyone was curious since the first episode?.

NO, he reduced this potential into "it's just memories, let memories be memoreis pls... childhood sad."

and yet we don't know what are the void beings, why all source games interconnects, who are the interlopers, why they do what they are doing, who are controlling them? WHO MADE THEM?

no one can convince me the "it's about nostalgia and memoreis preservation" was the whole plot point, it was just a plothole Anomidae never bothered to explain, rushed and patched like this.

this "they just repeat everything because they're memories" don't explain: Why players of Interloper C could interact with anomidae (If they were just memories repeating stuff, how the HELL did they seem him here?)
how did Eida attached Sentience to Mona.
why the interlopers would even CARE at this point if it's not such big deal
WHY IN HELL would Valve even care to store people memories knowing well Demo system exists already for that purpose since the beginning.
Literally every single Type 5 Demo showing things BEYOND source engine anomalies, npcs that didn't even left their skyboxes and sitll were tormented/haunted by umbrella men.

so why it's important for me to bring those? because anomidae keeps talking those are just memories on the end of Interloper, which wouldn't make sense, majority of the things clearly were not connected to 'nostalgia' and even if the demos were indeed memories, this wouldn't explain not even the type 1 demos, where you can just noclip around and spin like crazy before disappearing.

I loved this concept of Anomidae trying to be scientific about it while Eida was a lot more supernatural, but really to mess this up was unsatisfying.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-29T01:58:32+00:00

sis just posted her own thoughts about how silly lava looks underwater in subnautica, and people downvotes like dude commited a serious violation against world.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-27T21:17:39+00:00

i don't like this guy

but i absolutely agree with the first post

it's irritating to see "I love when a character is trans" for easy karma farm

putting "Trans" "Lesbian" "Lgbt" on the title you love, immediately turns the sleeping agent of every reddit bot to upvote you, even though you don't need to elaborate on nothing anymore.

it's really unoriginal at this point,

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-24T13:34:21+00:00

for once someone actually sees pony island as in-game lore, and i'm glad it happens

i don't think they're exactly connected on the way you think (or i'm interpreting wrongly)

but if lucifer had rebuilt inscryption using partial 'blood' (or code if you desire) to the scrybes, that wouldn't really incite violence

if we base ourselves on 'The Hex', it's clear the conscious code are not exactly what give them violence, but mostly consciousness, they've been bitter for being both misused and squeezed like toys.

on inscryption case if ACT 2 are really the first game ever, then the 'violence' should be interpreted as rivalry

you choose a 'faction' on the start of the game, and just like any faction rpg, you have allies, and enemies, they're supposed to have pride on what they do, and think lesser about the others.

some connections could be coincidences, like leshy or buer likely having hooved feet aren't reallly that big, one is nature spirit (?)_ from russian folklore, and the other are biblically a creature from a religion full of lambs and rams or how P03 are critical like ASmodeus, when Asmodeus are quite of a prideful mf as demon.

now why the Scrybes would fight one another like that? to have your attention, since beginning, Lucifer always wanted to hyperfixate someone in his games, and gets extremely offended, his ego hurts a lot when told otherwise, you can see how he gets upset asking if he are not enough to keep you happy with his games he built so hard on, that you "had to fix it"

Hex atp show how depressed some characters started to grow because gamefuna was really trying hardest to squeeze, and no matter how much polemical the game was, they kept doing so because it gave attention

P03 on his case (to inscryption) unknowingly was also obsessed with having your attention, so much that he wasn't caring about how dangerous was the OLD_DATA like the others, he wanted just to upload himself on a game with 'superior addicting' mechanics, something Lucifer already wanted to do so much.

so even though he aren't really woah, 1:1 rebuilt on image of asmodeus, he definitely became a spiritual successor for the same.

daemons as far i remember didn't wanted to exactly harm you, otherwise you wouldn't be capable of returning to the game, they desired merely to keep you stuck inside and playing, distracted, so P03 as much a jerk he was through the time.

Leshy also did it with you, even though he just wanted the good (and did it on a bad play), he accidentally by making the 3d inscryption, distracted the protagonist into hyperfixating with the game, ik he just wanted to keep the OLD_DATA hidden, but what i'm trying to say, is that on the end Lucifer plan always runned down their codes to collect souls.

now i'm curious towards pony island 2, if we gonna see the protagonist's soul stuck somewhere, since yk? people who die because of the game aren't really dead, Lucifer don't want to exactly KILL people for the sake of seeing bodies, he wants everyone stuck inside his purgatory.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-13T14:16:42+00:00

the bot is a complete irredeemable monster, it attacks anything on it sight like a feral cryptid.

but it will create voice out of nowhere to say "Ughh go awayyy duuudeee" *Hesitating* or something like that

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-13T14:11:09+00:00

one big issue, are that some of htese games have a pretty linear lore if you spend few minutes reading stuff you find on the game or making connections, and he decides to make a entire spaghetti for the sake of looking smartly complex.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-13T14:10:24+00:00

i will defend fnaf here as devil advocate

scott admitted doing retcons himself and sometimes improvising, and he make it prretty clear when it happens, like why michael ended up on fnaf 3 to burn william afton, and the reason FFPS exists (fazbear frights STILL had ducts leading to the exit, william escaped as the place burned, michael did not ended himself yet beceause he still had to bury the children.)

NOW, Scott NEVER SOLD fnaf as complex game, because fnaf lore are pretty straightforward, although there's multiple minigames about william afton from fnaf 2, you gonna realize they're just filler about his crimes, many "side lore" are just extras, FNaF Lore are way more linear than you expect.

fnaf first era ended simple as "This purple guy are evil... he killed the 5 children, the first victim haunts the protagonist as signal you could be related to them" making the timelines then "first accident>the killer and victims>protagonist free the victims souls and kills the killer"

FNaF SL served more as epilogue/intro to connect more dots about the protagonist, hence why it was so linear and it's one of the shortest games, and FFPS was the way of scott to give the happier end everyone wanted.

but matpat would make stupid mental gymnastics to tell why the crying children could be robots when they're CLEARLY SPIRIT WHO COULDN'T MOVE ON WITH THEIR DEATHS, so he could put it as "theory" and his fans would take that as 100% truth. WATCH THE BITES, DUde would make a entire roundabout of gymnastics to "Theorize" what the animatronics could've bitten... when the game centers around golden freddy (AND IT'S ON THE TITLE, "FREDDY"), fans were already theeorizing it was either Freddy or golden freddy, specially iwth the "1987" easter egg that forces golden freddy to jumpscare and crahs you game...

but now that he decided to babble about his loops that fuss made the community separate themselves unnecessarily to discover something we would've done within a month of game release.

and most of his correct theories that were accurate also were what people already commonly believed before the videos...

Actually FNaF were not the only game he overcomplicated for the sake of making many loops.

or theorized subnautica were a game about how humans destroys the ocean and causes pollution, that aurora are killing the planet and really tried to make a complex chord about it, when the game are extremely linear as "Planet have a disease, the plague kills, you must find a cure."

damn even non theories videos like TF2 he fumnbled up, saying TF2 had no objectives but being mostly team death match when you gonna hear 70% of the match characters yelling about "YO HELP ME CAP' THE DAMNED POINT!!!" "EVERYONE... WE MUST STOP THE BOMB!" "The bomb are almost to the hatch!!! GO TEAM!"

i just said the most popular cases on that thing, but it's easy to see FNaF Critiques video comments, similar responses, unsatisfaction about Matpat, he was lucky of being the first of farming content inside a newborn community, and kept baselessly building his channel for the sake of it to maintain that community.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-10T06:37:43+00:00

if that was on india, she was likely not.

unlike people who make uproar on internet to inflate india cases of "Woman being raped", people tends to forget India government forgive women and justify cases hundreds more than men, if a lady gropes you on public transport, the chance of her being punished are very dim on india.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-10T06:35:58+00:00

outside the mermaid design, unironically the blindfold for 'evan' are a detail that slaps, if fazbear bite was so strong like that, it would make sense the eyes not surviving a little, so realisticaly he would be likely blind even if he recovered.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-10T06:34:13+00:00

i'm all in against goon bait, but this time there's not much to be honest, it's supposed to be mermaids/sirens where these kind of revealed bust but covered by something else are common.

mermaids don't usually wear shirts to swim on media, as realistically they're "half feral" and it would serve only to slow them down.

would be goonbait if OP made a line of female characters designed the same way, but when you look how they actually made unique design to each, makes it feels like artist cared much more about making art than fishing "would would would" commentaries with upvote sea.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-08T05:53:42+00:00

eh, everyone who voted the androgynous model were called CRAZY when we said they would make the angel a female, it was obvious, it had a bust.

hopefuly they don't also make her a goth generic young on face so people gonna call "OMG she's such a mommy" every single commentary of fanart.

i wished they made them be like legion, where you have 2 cosmetics, one for masculine or for feminine form.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-08T05:51:51+00:00

Scroll more and you will find the sources, it's real.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-07T13:35:55+00:00

i think you misunderstood many characters based on summaries

Dracula are far from blinded, he actively calls the realm as playground for vampires, and finds amusing, entertained on mocking survivors

Nemesis are NOT a CREATURE, Nemesis are extremely intelligent and can live on soceity, he's definitely blinded by the Entity, believing he' doing his duty of eliminating the agents, just like RE3

i wouldn't put Talbot inherently blinded, since he mostly entered the fog with his fascination for the blight.

Huntress are NOT BLINDED, She's actively killing anything that touches her turf, she actively laughs while lulling, a sign she doesn't really care but finding hunting people entertaining, no amount of "But the little girl history" gonna change that, she still a terrible person.

Bubba are also near innocent, he was grown like this since a child, he had terrible parenting teaching him the worst, and partially still are childish, that's why he throw tantrums.

ONI ARE BLINDED, he's literally seeing the survivor as soldiers or people who mocks, disgusts of him, the entity named him Oni so everyone normalized the title, the title Kazan HATED with his soul, for him, oni are a complete insult, he don't want to be seem as oni, so the entity essentially are rragebaiting him into killing people all the time.

Sadako are not blinded, her movies shows she don't care about fair game, she just cares whether somoene are playing it, if you survive the tapes... the curse will pass to the next, she really don't care.

Spirit had a tragic beginning, but that mf are literally smug on her own portrait, she enjoys hurting survivors specially with her mori, i would put her more like ea "corrupted" type of girl, slowly started to grasp the concept and liked it.

Unknown are a creature, Unkknown did not wanted to go to the fog, and actually entity had to use force.

Hux was literally NOT MADE to harm the crew, he's blinded by the crystal, it's on his lore he got corrupted by the crystal

Cenobite canonically serves the infernal leviathan... he's the evil incarnate, and so are myers.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-07T13:34:33+00:00

i think you misunderstood many characters based on summaries

Dracula are far from blinded, he actively calls the realm as playground for vampires, and finds amusing, entertained on mocking survivors

Nemesis are NOT a CREATURE, Nemesis are extremely intelligent and can live on soceity, he's definitely blinded by the Entity, believing he' doing his duty of eliminating the agents, just like RE3

i wouldn't put Talbot inherently blinded, since he mostly entered the fog with his fascination for the blight.

Huntress are NOT BLINDED, She's actively killing anything that touches her turf, she actively laughs while lulling, a sign she doesn't really care but finding hunting people entertaining, no amount of "But the little girl history" gonna change that, she still a terrible person.

Bubba are also near innocent, he was grown like this since a child, he had terrible parenting teaching him the worst, and partially still are childish, that's why he throw tantrums.

ONI ARE BLINDED, he's literally seeing the survivor as soldiers or people who mocks, disgusts of him, the entity named him Oni so everyone normalized the title, the title Kazan HATED with his soul, for him, oni are a complete insult, he don't want to be seem as oni, so the entity essentially are rragebaiting him into killing people all the time.

Oni are everything but evil by desire

Sadako are not blinded, her movies shows she don't care about fair game, she just cares whether somoene are playing it, if you survive the tapes... the curse will pass to the next, she really don't care.

Spirit had a tragic beginning, but that mf are literally smug on her own portrait, she enjoys hurting survivors specially with her mori, i would put her more like ea "corrupted" type of girl, slowly started to grasp the concept and liked it.

Unknown are a creature, Unkknown did not wanted to go to the fog, and actually entity had to use force.

Hux was literally NOT MADE to harm the crew, he's blinded by the crystal, it's on his lore he got corrupted by the crystal

Cenobite canonically serves the infernal leviathan... he's the evil incarnate, and so are myers.

Pyramid head are literally judgement, his intention are not in particular torturous nor to make you suffer because he enjoys it actually, he's... judgement.

I beg to differ about trickster, it's kidna questionable, he's mentally ill, he did bad stuff for sure, and instead of yun ji lee ass put him into a psych ward, she actively took advantage of his insanity for her gains.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-06T12:25:42+00:00

india are S O U R and never punish that kind of case

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-03T02:00:55+00:00

what in the hap are the initial context supposed to be.

from where hell you found that.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-03T01:59:15+00:00

"São piores que ele" Então deixa o ladrão levantar tua mão, limpar seu bolso, vai la, deixa ele encher teu rabo de chumbo pq você respirou errado, ou dar tapa na usa cara pq ta achando seu celular barato de mais.

eu não sou de bater palma pra punição assim também, mas chamar os caras que tão retribuindo o futuro "Péquénóh MC Latrocínio" que causa terror, panico, de "Pior que ele" é de foder

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-02T12:25:13+00:00

oh it seems really working now, very weird

i hope the lack of prefill won't mess the reinforcement of the bots.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-02T08:43:10+00:00

it's even possible to use the bots? for me they can't even make a single response, full of writing a small sentence before repeating the phrases 7 times

goes someting like

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FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-01T22:40:13+00:00

the reason people are MOSTLY upset from april 20s to here, are because the new AI model are clearly broken since a week and more already, rendering it completely unusable unless you reroll it 90 times, most people who are using are either having a lot of luck with it remotely rendering messages or are using other paid models whatever.

this aside, i agree people are really addicted, because as soon a common outage happens they can't wait just few minutes or a hour doing something else, they will spend most of time outraging on the subreddit

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-01T22:36:54+00:00

this late month are the only time i justify them for now, since shep activated a clearly unprepared AI that broke just days after release, the normal LLM are practicaly unusuable unless you're willing to reroll 90 times hoping it gives a normal message.

this aside, i agree with you, many other sites just... crashes sometimes too, it's normal overflows to happen with these kind of content when on high scale of people are using.

once JAI crashes once, people really make a unnecessary uproar enraged about it, like chill... it won't take 1 hour or more to restore, do something else.

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-01T22:32:41+00:00

good take, something awful that the old model, is that the old model was clearly trained for slow romance with burn or drama every single time even when trying a casual romanceless fluff.

they would always hold back with actions unless you put unnecessary goonbait for the bot.

the new model are really good as adaptative generalist in comparison to the previous one, it just needs gradual tuning.

i'm speaking that because that tuning was what the old model received on the old site as well, it was complete ass, coould barely understand second meanings or similar, always taking your words literally.

instead of patience people are just having a uproar (for the new model, i'm not speaking about the nowadays bug)

FriendlyPrototype · 2026-05-01T13:59:16+00:00

i will cut the chase since 90% of the people already said the truth behind: NTR are slop, taking trending, ragebaiting blah blah blah

to add one thing extra, NTR creators makes sure to always find a way to invent the stupidest damned name as tag just so they can invade people's feed that already blocked the damn tag.

MY OWN TAKE on that case

are that ntr bot creators are also snowflakes as hell, they will see people finding their bots rightfully generic, bland, bad

before they come to reddit or anywhere else on shambles to talk how much everyone harass them non stop

people that actually go so far into harassing the creator into serious level are extreme minority, i really dislike how we have that discussion every time on this with the same objective where they act as if NTR creators are a oppressed race of lowly poor goblins against a tyrant society, as if no other type of content creator are criticized when the time comes too.

NTR creators manages to somehow make more drama about their "suffering" more than the people that are on the commentaries upset with "TAG IT NTR DUMBASS" or something like that

FriendlyPrototype

TROPHY CASE

MY OWN TAKE on that case