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1	[[http://it-he.org/ IT-HE Software]] is a website maintained by Joseph "DOUG the Eagle" Morris, most famous for hosting "anti-{{walkthrough}}s" that detail ways to complete popular games while using every single bug in the book, and SequenceBreaking the poor game to death. Accompanying these documents are collections of bizarre, wonderful and memorable tricks to try in the games.
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3	The games tortured on the site include:
4	* ''VideoGame/UltimaVI'', ''VideoGame/UltimaVII'', ''VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII'', ''VideoGame/UltimaVIII'', ''VideoGame/UltimaIX''. Also ''VideoGame/UltimaV: Lazarus'', a remake of the original game made as a GameMod for ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege''.
5	* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and, to a lesser extent, ''VideoGame/SystemShock2''
6	* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''
7	* ''VideoGame/ArxFatalis''
8	* ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}: The Dark Project'' and ''Thief II: The Metal Age''
9	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' and ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''
10	* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''
11	* ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'' and ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder''
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13	In addition, the site features some ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[GameMod mods]], Joseph's old game programming projects and his music.
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15	Spoilers abound around the site, obviously, so beware what you read.
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17	!!The website contains examples of the following tropes:
18	* AltText: Shows up on some of the pictures for additional funny commentary.
19	* ArtifactTitle: Morris hasn't been making any software for a long time now and the site, once meant to showcase his "company"'s works, is now primarily for the anti-walkthrough pages.
20	* DontTryThisAtHome: At the beginning of the ''System Shock'' page.
21	-->''Disclaimer: \
22	0. This page contains dark humour. You have been warned.\
23	1. I do not advocate the use of real drugs. (In fact I am teetotal and do not smoke.) \
24	2. I do not advocate the use of violence as entertainment in real life. The last such act I took part in was in 1990 when I was 14 and we laid all these fish out over a busy road and watched each one get squashed by passing traffic.\
25	3. I do not advocate ruthlessness or evil as a means to an end. Except in computer games ;-)''
26	* {{Epigraph}}: Quotes from songs or fiction head some of the chapters; for instance, the ''Deus Ex'' walkthrough opens with a quote from ''Music/{{Rush\|Band}}'''s "Tom Sawyer".
27	* EpilepticTrees: Pondering just what the protagonist of ''System Shock'' is. [[invoked]]
28	-->''It seems we are looking at a hacker with [[SpiderLimbs 13 foot long, boneless tentacles that snake across the ground but are unable to support their own weight.]]''
29	** Since then, Morris has decided that the hacker is, in fact, a betentacled incubus from ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''.
30	* FusionDance: The ''Deus Ex'' walkthrough suggests that Jock and his BlackHelicopter merge into one being at one point (in the game, you meet Jock once in a bar, and that's the last time you ever see him; from then on, he always speaks from inside his helicopter, his lines tend to be labelled just "Black Helicopter" or "Jock's Helicopter" more than half the time, and in the credits "Jock" and "Black Helicopter" are listed as separate entities.)
31	* HeroicComedicSociopath: Pretty much every protagonist becomes this, killing lots of innocent people and stealing their stuff.
32	* ImpliedDeathThreat: In the "Message to Whiterun" quest of the ''Skyrim'' walkthrough, the author points out the [[PoorCommunicationKills ambiguity]] of what exactly the message you're supposed to be delivering is.
33	-->Jarl Bogroll will send you to Ulfric with an axe, and no further instructions. This may have been a mistake, since someone dressed in Dark Brotherhood armour who's wanted for mass-murdering Thalmor is liable to draw the wrong conclusions about what is expected of him.
34	* NotTheIntendedUse: Heavily used in the Oblivion and Morrowind anti-walkthroughs. Also a meta-example since some of the spells and objects he gives you the formula for are useful for purposes other than sequence breaking (for instance a ring lets you leap across vast areas of land in Morrowind; it's very useful for getting to out-of-the-way spots on the map).
35	* SequenceBreaking / ScriptBreaking: A lot of the walkthroughs describe ways to break the intended game flow.
36	* SociopathicSoldier: The ''Deus Ex'' walkthrough makes JC Denton into an explosive-obsessed, suicidal, murderous maniac with a "full-blown psychosis".
37	* ShoutOut: Plenty of these, from famous movies to obscure songs.
38	** The chapters in the ''Thief'' walkthroughs show this a lot: [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "The Mines of Moria"]], [[Franchise/TombRaider "Tom Braider"]], [[Music/MCHammer "It's HammerTime"]], [[VideoGame/{{Hexen}} "The Heresiarch's Seminary"]].
39	* SomethingPerson: The player character in the ''Morrowind'' walkthrough is a [[CatFolk Khajit]] named Cat-Dude.
40	* TerseTalker: "Am-Shaegar's Diary" from the ''Arx Fatalis'' walkthrough is written in this style. For example:
41	-->Went to Arx again today. Cast incinerate on Carlos. Spoke to him just as he was turning red. Carlos fell dead but lips still speaking. Spooky! Went home.

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