u/Fair-Mango-5423

I want to write this here because this is the second stolen valour case I’ve seen on this person’s YouTube, and this one has genuinely pissed me off. I want to bring attention to it because I know last time Azeal didn’t listen to me when I let them know someone they were interviewing was committing stolen valour.

Azeal does interviews with people they find in VRChat. They usually have impressive stories, but they do not properly vet the people they interview.

In this case, they interview a Rural Fire Service volunteer who weirdly tries to weasel himself into the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire efforts. At the start, they openly state that they only started working “after the fire season,” but as the video goes on they begin blurring that distinction and making themselves out to be some kind of hero.

They were NOT part of the bushfire efforts.

The end of the fire season was a full month after the fires had already been dealt with, and several months after they were at their absolute peak. They were not part of any major bushfire season.

Australia has semi-predictable fire cycles where, roughly every five years, we get a major, sometimes nationwide, fire season. We kind of had that last year, but it was nowhere near as severe.

The 2019-2020 bushfires were… there are honestly no words to describe it other than literal hell on Earth. It was bad. Really bad. We knew things were catastrophic when we saw mobs of kangaroos running out of the bush on fire. These are animals that, for 60,000 years, have instinctively known how to survive bushfires, and even they had no idea what to do.

At one point, a town of several thousand people was completely cut off and had to be evacuated by the Navy. Everyone with a boat came out to ferry civilians to the naval ships before the fires arrived. Firefighters lost their lives buying time for survivors to escape.

Why do I care so much?

Because I was part of the efforts at their peak. I was with the Army at the time, on my way out, and was called up to assist.

Everyone who was part of the firefighting efforts received one of these medals (circled in red):
https://imgur.com/a/Zs2i8z4

I’m sorry this has angered me so much, but I know Azeal won’t listen, and they really do need to be held accountable because these bullshit stories get glazed over by people who simply don’t know any better.

More than 400 people died in these fires. They do not exist for you to clickbait.

And if the guy being interviewed genuinely had nothing to do with the video’s title, then I do partially apologise. While he absolutely deserves credit for his service to the community, he is speaking on matters he should not be speaking on, and you both know exactly what you were doing.

got bored and took this. I know they aren't accurate, but that's not really what I'm asking about.

My friend said the "sub numbers" are unusual because they're all even. People usually excel in one area and struggle in another.

Some additional info:

The military made me do an IQ test 20 years ago. It came back 162.

I'm not particularly gifted, I'm actually pretty slow and have ADHD, but I do know my brain works differently to everyone else. It's slower, but it gets there eventually.

Like, I know with math I was told most people can do math quickly because of memorization, but I do math kind of weird.

If you asked me what's 16x8, I'd do it in my head like this:

10x8 = 80
6+6 = 12
12+12 = 24
24+24 = 48
80+20 = 100
48-20 = 28

Answer is 128.

i got this model because it was being sold cheap at a hobby store along with a smaller $20 i got one of those black pens with it

ive seen from builds and reviews online that people dont weather these titanium coated kits is there any particular reason? i know the lines have a faint kind of silver but i feel like painting them black will bring out a lot of detail