Trivia / Soviet Womble

• Corpsing: In "Random Space Engineers Bullshittery Part 4," Nep does the voice-overs for the pre-duel ship intros. It's quite evident from listening that she's trying to restrain her laughter while saying her lines.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor:
  • Phoenix was kicked out over an unspecified incident ^note  while the guys are tight-lipped about it, it apparently involves him making a joke about someone's then-recently deceased mother. He later rejoined before leaving this time of his own volition.
  • Nevil was banned from the Teamspeak and by proxy the clan because of multiple racially-charged comments and posts made in both the Teamspeak and on his Twitter account, which had, according to the other ZF members, crossed the line from taking Refuge in Audacity to being legitimately disturbing.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: According to Womble in a stream, "The Dancing Lich" was originally meant to be more of a comedic review of Blade and Sorcery, with the joke being that rather than approaching it as a fighting game, Womble believed it to be some kind of dancing game, waltzing with NPCs while critiquing the game for its "shitty dancing physics". However, while experimenting with the game, he realized he couldn't hold NPCs in place by their hands (they'll simply pull away from you before drawing weapons and retaliating with them), and Womble's only option was to instead grab them by the top of the head and neck. Once he started recording footage, he realized there was no way he could pass this as actual dancing, but instead thought to himself "What if that's the joke?"
• Troubled Production:
  • The streams of the clan playing Gang Beasts were filmed around 2017, but Womble didn't get around to editing and releasing the Bullshittery of it until 2019. According to a comment in the video, he had planned on making it earlier, but originally believed he lost all of the footage until he found he had just misplaced it while making another video.
  • As he explains at the start of it, Womble's three-part video essay on DayZ had been in the works since 2015, and it was something he continuously worked on and off from for years, extended in part due to its extensive difficulty and due to mixed feedback he received from Patrons over his rough draft work. It finally saw the light of day in 2020.
  • As detailed within "What's so strange about The Forest? (2014)" (both in the video essay itself and in comments), Womble had a much crazier time than expected putting it together. He originally planned on making a video essay about how plot and narrative affects Wide-Open Sandbox survival games in the broader sense, with the intent to use Subnautica and The Forest as subjects of discussion once their story modes were eventually completed, but The Forest turned out to be such a bewildering experience leaving Womble with such conflicting feelings that he felt the need to process his thoughts into an extended rant and analysis about the specific game. Consequently, this extended his notoriously prolonged release schedule even further, as he was working effectively non-stop between August 2022 to May 2023 to complete the three-hour-long beast, with Womble commenting his disappointment of leaving his audience in the dark and promising a soft maximum length cap of 45 minutes for future video essays.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things:
  • A very likely reason why the ZF clan shut down their Rust server was due to constant stream-sniping to hunt down ZF members, leaving them unable to make even basic tools. At the very least, it's the reason why there are no more Rust Bullshitteries after the second.
  • Fan attempts at making bullshitteries is the likely reason why the original unofficial stream archive channel was basically asked to shut down and why there won't be bullshitteries of certain games like Halo.