Continuing the
"is CrunkLord420 perhaps Alec Murphy, the disappeared TempleOS programmer?" brainstorming session:
Mutahar posted a video a couple of weeks ago where he effectively showcased CrunkLord420's Cyberchud games before an audience of young gamers who would've otherwise never been exposed to either CrunkLord420's games or TempleOS for that matter. This video was originally titled
"Revisiting The TEMPLEOS Rabbit Hole... 3 Years Later..." but the title was changed to something more "Catholic":
The Apostles Keeping TEMPLEOS Alive…
source
Other comments were praising CrunkLord420 by name (presumably these are Kiwis):
Mutahar seemed very impressived with Cyberchud, saying:
"Cyberchud is one of the most impressive pieces of gaming that I've seen on TempleOS. By most impressive, it also is, one of the only pieces of serious gaming developped, more so than what Terry Davis was even doing... this is, THIS was impressive. Now, obviously CrunkLord420 decided to put another tribute into the situation, and they decided to update their engine. And, in fact, released Chud's Vacation." [note how Mutahar refers to CrunkLord420 consistently as "they" in his video, like he doesn't know his gender, when Null has explicitly referred to CrunkLord420 as a man on MATI.]
Mutahar did not appear to recognize a lot of the very explicit references to KiwiFarms that CrunkLord420 has worked into the graphics of his game - or if Mutahar did recognize them, he made sure to hide his recognition thereof.
Someone in the comments points out that the dogs are a reference to Null's KF avatar of a slobbermutt:
Towards the end of the video, Mutahar brings up a TempleOS program by "tramplersheiks", which was of course one of Alec Murphy's aliases before he DFEd:
Notice the anime girly in the background.
Alec Murphy had a reddit account as "tramplersheiks", which he appears to have used to respond to people in /r/TempleOS_Official but that too was DFEd along with everything else:
His reddit account was mentioned in this post, where Alec Murphy is brought up as someone who met Terry Davis before he died:
I think u/TramplerSheikhs did, he may even be the one of the ones who talked to him in the Down The Rabbit Hole video, but he's since deleted pretty much all of his projects and online presence
Various people had emailed him, of course
Alec Murphy as "tsheiks" was also active on news.ycombinator.com, the hacker news website, where he would post about his TempleOS projects:
tsheikhs on March 26, 2017 | prev | next [–]
I've been dabbling in learning TempleOS programming for a bit, did a host-guest driver giving VMware Tools-like functionality, minimal web browser, Mega Man game engine & DOS demoscene style intro, Github stuff is here if anyone's interested:
news.ycombinator.com
Here is a 2018 post mentioning
"@tsheikhs aka Alec" in response to a question about TempleOS software links being down:
In fact, I'd say it's been at least a year since @tsheikhs aka Alec took all of his stuff down.
It seems a large amount of the TempleOS software links on the internet such as all sheikhs.space have gone dead, like the game boy emulator and megaman games. I am trying to collect this and try to...
github.com
The oldest Archive.org capture for Alec Murphy's website
"sheiks.space" is from Jan 2018 (recall here that CrunkLord420 joined KF in 2017):
I wanted to highlight this part where Mutahar notices CrunkLord420's use of anime imagery in his games:
"You've got some anime on the wall here", so why did CrunkLord420 make sure to include some anime in Cyberchud? If CrunkLord420 agrees with Null that anime is pure evil and that anime femmebois are "scum", why put anime into Cyberchud? Just as a 4chan "joke"?
Mutahar then says that it's crazy that
"a user created a full video game engine in here"... which is exactly what I thought when I saw footage of CrunkLord420's game. Not that I am an experienced gamer or anything, but even I immediately saw this game was made by someone who's obviously experienced programming retro games. (Which is why I began to speculate that CrunkLord420 is pretending to sound like a dumb teenager on KF because he's age-LARPing to seem younger than he actually is.)
But then I saw archived footage of the kinds of programs that Alec Murphy was programming for TempleOS, back when Alec was posting excerpts of his work on Youtube (an account he DFEd along with everything else)... and lo behold, just like in Crunklord420s retrogames, Alec's programs and video demos too were full of anime:
Notice how Alec Murphy, in the above video demo screenshot, was using an "Erythros" desktop background with an anime girl. "Erythros" is a TempleOS program by Alec Murphy that is a desktop environment for TempleOS. Unsurprisingly, CrunkLord420 has archived Murphy's Erythros on his Gitgut account:
Fast and Free Git Hosting
gitgud.io
("Erythros" is ancient Greek for "red", as in "red blood cells" aka "
erythrocytes". I am guessing it's meant to be a reference to the blood of Chris.)
Source (Archive.org mirrors of Alec Murphy's videos; the identifying string used for these videos on Archive.org, namely "UCiHz7aSA2zdYsdhCMHH8JJQ", was the unique string for the address of Alec Murphy's channel on Youtube):
archive.org
Looking at archived these versions of Alec Murphy's old Youtube videos, it's very clear that Alec Murphy was into anime and used his HolyC programming skills to bring anime themes into TempleOS... just like CrunkLord420 is doing with his games.
I, being anime ignorant, had no idea what either "Bad Apple" or "Touhou" was, so I had to watch this Youtube video to learn about yet another esoteric anime meme.
Bad Apple Explained: History and Analysis
The history and an analysis of a viral music video: Bad Apple. Originating from the Touhou Project franchise, Bad Apple is arguably the most famous thing to come from it... but where exactly did it come from? And why is the video so mesmerizing? That's what I hope to answer today.
So again, here we have two TempleOS hobby programmers, both of were active online around the same time, both whom have femme avatars despite being men, both of whom include anime graphics into their respective TempleOS programs. I am still going through CrunkLord420's accounts at the moment but AFAICT thus far, there is no evidence that CrunkLord420 ever contacted or interacted with Alec Murphy while Alec was active and public online. Isn't that a little bit strange, given the timeframe these men both got into TempleOS and their mutual interest in anime and retro computer graphics? CrunkLord420 could've easily reached out to another TempleOS enthusiast who was into the exact same stuff he was into... but he didn't. Instead, CrunkLord420 archived Alec Murphy's TempleOS programs only after Murphy DFEd.
TempleOS demo#2 made by Alec Murphy on 1st of November 2017.
I would love for someone to play devil's advocate and debunk my findings. But for now, I will keep asking if CrunkLord420 is the DFEd TempleOS programmer Alec Murphy, and wondering Murphy DFEd because he went to work for Null on KF, disappearing fully into his CrunkLord420 alter ego?
If (again, IF) I am right and CrunkLord420 and Alec Murphy are the same person, then it would be highly ironic if Mutahar mentioned "tramplersheiks" in the very same video he showcased (and thus white-washed) CrunkLord420, not realizing he was actually referring the referring to the same person.
I really do think at this point that Clayton/nrootconauto should come out and either deny or confirm whether CrunkLord420 is Alec Murphy.
Once again, I don't know anything about the TempleOS milieu, so I don't know if it's very common there to meme with anime. When I watch these Youtube videos of other people's TempleOS games, no one else seems to be fucking with anime in TempleOS but CrunkLord420 and Alec Murphy.
Maybe this explains why Null is raging against anime so much? Maybe it's because his closest associate on KF, the person who is helping him troubleshoot KF, is also a massive anime nerd and Null hates the fact that an anime nerd is a better programmer than him?