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August 17th, 2023

THE GALAXY TRIBUNE
EDITION #008

The Events of Market 76's Discord and Reddit Nuke and it’s Reconstruction
August 14th, 2023 by Jah (@di0xazine_)

Market 76, a Fallout community started at the beginning of the release of Fallout 76, the place where you are “able to buy and sell items with caps or to trade with fellow players” has made an interesting start of the week of August 14th. The previous day according to multiple members on subreddits like r/Fallout76Marketplace were wondering what happened to the r/Market76 subreddit as it went private all of a sudden. According to members of Market 76 and even a volunteer moderator and a head mod, the owner Stunt made the Reddit page private and completely removed the staff and deleted the Discord. I talked to the head moderator (admin) of the old Market76, Bridgerton (Floral), about her thoughts and plans for a new market to amerge. According to Bridgerton, she states that the old owner “Stunt” went “full nuclear” as they also said the following of “deleting a server with 28k+ members, removed all staff from the subreddit and made it private”. Continuing on with her statement saying “He did nothing prior to all of this, he was inactive. Purposefully neglecting the server and the subreddit”. Some information that was found about Stunt that he was majorly inactive as per the Reddit and Discord, coming on a few times out of the blue to make a post or to converse with members for a short while. After the event happened, Bridgerton was able to gain control of the subreddit after filing a Top Mod Removal Request on r/ModSupport, she stated in a post on the subreddit that “The reason for this unfortunate situation is that the owner had neglected Market 76 for quite some time, and had taken the bots responsible for core services, such as the karma system, offline”. At the end of the post, she stated that ”Market 76 will continue without him and we're glad to be free from his reign”.

We are genuinely happy to see that Market 76 is re-building and trying to get back on its feet and what it may do new in this venture of rebuilding from the ground up. Most of the old staff from a little before the nuke will be the current staff for the new M76. While there is many people excited with this come back from the M76 team, there is some that have a bit of a different opinion on the matter at hand. We want to state that all information provided in the following interviews are experiences people had in the past.

We were given the chance to interview two people with another person giving us information on a past event that we will get into later on. The first person being Ash, a old M76 community member and the second being old Responder (Trial Mod.) Aylaine. We asked both about the matter starting with “''If you are staff or not, how do you feel about Market 76 being rebuilt? If you have friends who were ex-staff, how do you think they feel?''”. Ash responded “I think it's probably a bit futile, ''especially if they're hoping to have the same level of members as before. The server had 25k members… the product of getting in early while there was hype for the game. The game is now 5 years old, and dying a slow death.” and Aylaine saying “I feel like this is something everyone should know about, because the biggest issue with M76 is what's been tearing it apart for years:'' the lies, the secrets, and the general inactivity and volatile behavior of the owner”. We then asked about that since most people are happy and most are not happy with the rebuild as of the moment, what should old and new members consider or feel with the staff team and the rebuild? Ash stated that they do not know any other staff besides Bridgerton as the ex-staff left due to a big exodus event. They then went on about how trust in the lead mod may be low due to the events and that “''I do know a few of my friends have reached out and offered their support after hearing the news.. who knows,'' maybe we'll have a few old mods back”. With Aylaine saying that they thought “Trepidation is the feeling that immediately comes to mind.” and continued that how Bridgerton while can handle the server well and its day to day functions, but how she has “many faults and her management style is riddled with issues”. They continued with the exodus event that happened where a NSFW rule was changed and was being harshly enforced. They state that “a rule that all previous staff were more lax towards. Convict, Sergeant, Rankork and Lucy mostly let the adults be adults, fondly referring these moments to after-dark” and which caused a week long public debate and Stunt randomly coming online, going ban happy and then disappearing right after. They were nice enough and provided receipts from one part of the debate.





Going into the topic of Stunt, I asked that if they both seen Stunt that if the opinions from most of the community think that his 'Inactivity and sudden nuking is a valid reason to be angry. They both agreed that the community has 100% right to be angry by Stunt’s decision and action.

Ash stated that how “it was pretty major at the time, like they lost most of their staff to it.” and how that “I don't necessarily think that's a problem as long as he's doing his job in the background, but he very clearly wasn't. Bots went down often and staff would have to scramble to get in touch with him to rectify it, he actively ignored them”. They then went on how he was very non-helpful even to “not press the reset button of the bot”. Aylaine said that Stunt has done this multiple times. She described how “He leaves the discord in the hands of admins, then seemingly gets upset when his lack of presence creates a problem that those other staff members try to solve since they can't get ahold of him due to his inactivity”. She continued that how with his actions during this whole timespan, that the discord would grind to a halt due to his actions and decisions. This goes into the other person we talked too about another event that happened. Didn’t we just talk about one? Yes we did, but this was the first purge that was reported and seen. This one was about a major purge. We talked to a individual named Jabba. He described the event by starting with “the purge was the first attempt at a purge. Serge ''was originally head admin basically of m76. During that time'' he had issues with flora the new owner”. He talked about how Surge banned Bridgerton but hadn’t gotten permission for the ban, as that happened, Stunt came online and banned Surge and brought back Bridgerton into position. They went on about when this happened, the bots went offline again. Two people in staff, one of them being a new head admin, Rankork and Lucy-K (Head Admin) paid for a new bot to help with the lack of services available due to no-one else but Stunt having access to the bots. A little while after this happened, Jabba said how Stunt “decided to get on when that started. He demoted Lucy the last admin and left. After that there was no one running the ship so they kept pestering him and complaining cause they needed an admin.” After a few months after this, Stunt promoted Bridgerton to admin. He continued banning people trying to obtain the ownership and banned a group of vocals about their opinion on the matter. Those people being members Ash, Kork, Lucy and a few others. “Most active users got banned.. there was a lot. This was the first coup attempt and the purge. We thank Jabba sharing his side of a event that happened. Now we go back to our interviewees about if people being mad at Stunt for what he did is valid.

But at the end of the interview, they shared a final thought and which being.. give the new M76 a try. Some may be confused by this after all that they have said, but like Aylaine said for this end thought “'For the users, give it a fair chance. Cautious optimism if you will. While M76 in the past had a whole bunch of issues, things can change. People can change… but in order for that to happen, everyone needs to put their past feelings aside and give it a chance'”. Then she described that the staff should try and “communicate rule changes clearly, don’t play favorites and treat the community the way it deserves”. Ash stating that even with the decisions that Bridgerton has made in the past that “''the community are generally great and I've made some genuine friends for life thanks to M76. As much shit has gone down, I can't be too bitter about it because of that.''” We hope that M76’s rebuild goes well and hope that some changes major or small go very well to help the community prosper.

We tried to contact Stunt for comment but '''we were not able to contact him. This story is still developing''', so we will update this story as it goes on.

''*We at GNN want to make it clear that when creating this piece, we mean no harm and do not wish to inflict any harm to any form of parties who have been apart, involved, affected or who was interviewed in this. Do not send any form of harassment or threats to anyone in this, as this piece is to show both stories and both opinions on the whole situation.''

A Galaxy Conference (004) - NTM, Fallout Content Creator
August 15th, 2023 by Jah (@di0xazine_)

With the many ways that people get into things like if you have a passion for sports, technology or whatever it is.. we all can agree that it's a memorable Christmas when we get something we like that catches our mind and soul. For NTM, it started from a Christmas morning in the earlier years of 2013 when he received a copy of Fallout 3 from his big brother and got absolutely hooked!

When he received that game, ever since Christmas, he was “instantly hooked since it was my first experience with the game” and even later on as he grew up started paying Fallout: New Vegas as his next title to play. After this amazing experience, his passion of Fallout grew more and more until the year of 2016. He went back into Fallout 3 and started to mod his game while also making a Nexus Mod page for the things he created. With this, we was able to make connections in the modding scene of Fallout, especially when he made his YouTube channel NTMFalloutProductions and installed Discord as he got message and message about his mod and other things along side it. With all of these new experiences just from one game he was able to get himself more situated in the Fallout community and soon after was able to join many fallout servers to share his love and creations of the game.

With this love for the game, who isn’t going to like Fallout content, huh? NTM started making Fallout Machinima Content, and if you are confused by what that means, he said that he does “create short films or series in the game engines of Fallout 3 and New Vegas but I also do theme music for fallout characters.” He talked about how he started doing themes for characters from mods like the Character Medic from Bec. He even makes his own mods along side with mod trailers. With this start of doing machinima content, he has been able to make amazing connections in the community, some of those being past creators in that space like Anarchist, Blaaah45, an animator from the Classic Machinima Series DC Chronicals, and smaller creators like Crocket as NTM said about them being “a promising creator.. I loved his recent stuff and look forward for his future projects”. With his current plans with this content career, he said how he plans to continue with that and his painting and music comp, while doing currently nursing.

At the end of the interview, NTM had advice for people wanting to go into that type of content creation or just content creation as a whole. His advice being “'to stay the course try to improve your craft since the first videos I did, they didn't age well it is something which can take years to improve on. I would recommend to stay humble since you will not get as many views or as many subscribers since the algorithm favors fast paced content and it is simply impossible to create machinimas in this speed. One thing that's very important to me is that the old Machinima Creators teach the new generation on how things can be done they should encourage new projects and try to help by finding the right modding tools or video tutorials maybe perhaps make their own. Be open minded and kind towards new creators and always find a way of improving and connecting because together we can achieve more.” Thank you NTM', we will see you all later!