Deadwater Gaming

Deadwater Gaming is an American YouTube channel that uploads gameplay videos and Garry's Mod machinimas. It consists of three main members: Timbleweebs, MahoganyCrafter, and Marvel. They also play with other friends from time to time.
Their commentary style is comedic yet casual. Timbleweebs has expressed dislike of videos where the commentary is fast-paced and spliced together because he feels like there "isn't room to breathe."https://youtu.be/pxwV3HWai7s
==Backstory==
In 2013, Timbleweebs was introduced to MahoganyCrafter and Marvel through their shared interest, VenturianTale. Isaac from VenturianTale was holding a Galaxy Warfare gameplay session with fans, and all three attended.
In a Q&A, Timbleweebs talks about how "negative" Mahogany was to him when they first met.https://youtu.be/LQbUdHCGvR4 Mahogany said he originally thought Timbleweebs was several years younger than him, but Timbleweebs was actually almost a year older. They started to get along when Mahogany asked him if he knew how to make Minecraft servers, which he did. Through a Galaxy Warfare server he made, the two began to warm up to each other.https://youtu.be/BmVyFiMYHic?t=657 Mahogany was actually banned from this server once by Timbleweebs due to misusing the world-edit and "putting a café in the sky".https://youtu.be/1cZdhim33jA?t=130 Whether this was intentional or by accident on Mahogany's part is unknown.
Timbleweebs, a huge fan of Half-Life and a talented SFM animator and Source modder, wanted to make a series based on the games. He and his friends (a few of which have since left the group) used a name-generator website to come up with a name for their organization, and the name decided on was "Deadwater Media".https://youtu.be/eDVY8aISlu0?t=1141 The project was soon under way, Timbleweebs as the main animator and Mahogany to be a voice actor for upcoming episodes. Sadly, only one episode and one unfinished Source map were ever made and the project came to a halt.https://youtu.be/hw7psnXcWZghttps://youtu.be/DqXw5fcSGdk
Eventually, the three current members created their channel and dedicated it to machinimas and gaming.
==Gameplay==
The games they play the most are G-Mod and the Half-Life series games, but they also play various others, some of which include Team-Fortress 2, Minecraft, Halo, and Skyrim. Timbleweebs and Mahogany also do play-throughs of Half-Life maps, mods, and other games via Parsec, a program that allows two people to control the same computer over the internet.
The two occasionally play mods of games that have been "Google Translated" by their friend, BinkusTheTrinkus. They have voice-acted for Portal Google Translated.https://youtu.be/jFhuyPZs4WAhttps://youtu.be/3daXPNCT__k Mahogany voiced GLaDOS, and Timbleweebs voiced the turrets. In Portal 2 Google Translated, they reprised their former roles. Mahogany voiced Cave Johnson in the second. In Half-Life 2 Google Translated, Timbleweebs also voiced various citizens and Mahogany voiced Alyx.https://youtu.be/9Or08qxd0UU?si=h43vGs69VI1ZZkMW
==Machinimas==
Their most popular machinimas are part of the "By A Bot" series. They are machinimas about the plots of games which are summarized using a website called "Botnik". There are a total of seven, five for the Half-Life games, and two for the Portal games.
Their first and second By A Bots were made using a Reddit post with the script, whereas the rest were written by themselves. The first was "If Half-Life Was Written By A Bot"https://youtu.be/QEE7_Hwi7mQ and the most recent was "If Half-Life: Alyx Was Written By A Bot".https://youtu.be/VsPscK80_1A
When the first By a Bot was uploaded, they were accused of ripping off the style of "Full Life Consequences".https://youtu.be/OHxyZaZlaOs They clarified that they only took inspiration from these videos.
Another popular series is the one that started the channel, the bad fan-fiction machinimas. Most of the fan-fictions were written by Peter Chimera. The first they did on their main channel was "Babylon 13"https://youtu.be/C1Tpdc7QFLU and most recent was "Castlevania: Wisps of Dracula".https://youtu.be/kpe9UgzBTdY However, the first machinima they ever made together was "Metal Gear Solid: Fight of Metal Gears",https://youtu.be/y6KaSQD2Tuk which was uploaded on Timbleweebs' channel before Deadwater was started, but is now unlisted. Timbleweebs and Mahogany reacted to it in an also unlisted video where they watched their old machinimas for their 3-year-channel-versary.https://youtu.be/eDVY8aISlu0
They also make other machinimas, such as out-of-context audio clips from their videos, ideas from fans, or just random things. A lot of these videos go to their second channel. Timbleweebs often makes and posts these random machinimas without the help of the others. His most popular one is "T H A T C A T",https://youtu.be/dPHvb4rTSJ4 a backstory to Barney Calhoun’s famous line, "I still have nightmares about that cat."
==Second channel==
"Deadwater 2nd Channel" was created on January 10, 2020. It was originally called "Deadwater Squared" (as in the symbol for finding the area of a square, "²"),https://youtu.be/HKKIPvYTOhE?t=300 but this was changed to avoid confusion. It currently has roughly 9k subscribers. It was made for videos that are deemed "not up to standard" with the videos on the main channel. These usually consist of certain gameplay recordings, random machinimas, and clips. The first video uploaded was "The Raid",https://youtu.be/0nIApwEEByk a half-hour-long video of Destiny 2 shenanigans with friends.
==Members==
===Timbleweebs===
Bryce (Age: 24 [Born likely October or November 1999])https://youtu.be/PBvSpGVAq5Y?t=1081https://www.deviantart.com/comments/4/37308883/4670189211, better known online as Timbleweebs (also known as Timbles), is the first Deadwater member. He is the owner of the channel and the one who usually records and edits the videos. For on-screen text, his is outlined in orange. He has his own channel with over 4k subscribers, where he occasionally uploads SFM animations.
He came up with his name several years ago when he spammed Mahogany on a Skype chat with tumbleweed emojis. He repeatedly typed ":tumbleweed:" over and over when he ended up misspelling it as "timbleweebs." Thinking the word was funny, he set it as his Steam account name, and it stuck.
Since he was given the nickname "Bryek" (also spelled "Bryec/Bryac") by Mahogany, which is a play on his real name, people often mistake his name for "Brian". Mahogany once referenced this by calling him "Timble-Brian," to which he responded, "Why does everybody think my name is Brian?"https://youtu.be/nR1CTTsJAxU?t=718
He was introduced to the first Half-Life game at a fairly young age and has had a love for the series ever since.
His mom has been in at least one videohttps://youtu.be/Xlhkfi2rZGc and has been mentioned multiple times throughout the channel’s history. He has also mentioned having a brotherhttps://youtu.be/2D6t5XIXqlY?t=289 as well as a step-father,https://youtu.be/r7UGpp_o7UI and he jokes about his "hick heritage".https://youtu.be/qBdRzHxk0FA?t=803 Most of his family is Spanish.https://youtu.be/_9oW8a4gAVE?si=sFGF84zMn-UXTZP2&t=196
===MahoganyCrafter===
Justin (Age: 23 [born August 7, 2000])https://youtu.be/bnFrZhdklus, better known online as MahoganyCrafter (also known as Mahogany) is the second Deadwater member. For on-screen text, his is outlined in cyan. He likes to sing and can play piano and guitar, and has perfect pitch. He also does voice impressions. He majored in Musical Theater in college. He has two of his own channels. His main channel has almost 2k subscribers, and his second has about 120 subscribers.
On his main channel ("MahoganyCrafter"), he does gameplay videos, usually revolving around Minecraft Bedwars, though he has played other games such as Skyrim, Pokémon, and Fortnite. On his second channel ("Justin’s Fabulous Channel For Fabulous People"), he used to upload random videos with friends, reaction videos, and would livestream Dungeons and Dragons. He hasn’t uploaded or streamed on this channel in approximately 3 years. He also has a Twitch channel where he used to stream often, however he didn't stream for about two years, but has since started speedrunning Portal on there.https://www.twitch.tv/mahogany_crafter He mainly streams Minecraft and Skyrim on his main channel.
Some of his friends have been in Deadwater videos, such as DermyPlayz (Blake), USS Jeffery/Chellados (Andy), CJ, and Jeff ("the Russian brother-in-law"). His parents could both be heard talking in the background of a video,https://youtu.be/1hEyxG8hFrs and his mom can be heard in a few other videos.https://youtu.be/I7F_KtyAqyE?t=325https://youtu.be/4_nvuGV6kgQ?t=93 He also has a sister who has been talked about in several videos. She is likely the wife of Jeff, as he has mentioned her getting married.https://youtu.be/Di4tPgP0WGM?t=185https://youtu.be/bweWBJbQF_0?t=417 He is a Christian.https://youtu.be/fH0T0tFJ03khttps://www.deviantart.com/mahoganycrafter/journal/I-was-Tagged-449583541 He is part Italian, German, Welsh, and French.https://youtu.be/Hlh-EUJYBII?t=1166 He jokes that he is ashamed of being Welsh because their language is hard to learn and they don't know how Ws work. (explained further in In-Jokes section)
He is a fan of both PewDiePie and Technoblade, taking inspiration from Techno for some of his Bedwars thumbnails. He also takes after Techno's commentary style and sarcastic sense of humor. On Twitter, he expressed remorse at his passing, thanking Techno for inspiring him.
=== Marvel ===
Cameron (Age: 21 [born January 7, 2002])https://twitter.com/Mahvlson/status/1611591612072697857?s=20, better known online as Marvel (also known as Mahvl) was the third Deadwater member. For on-screen text, his is outlined in neon green. He has his own channel where he posts gaming videos, skits, and reaction videos. He has 1k subscribers. Like Mahogany, he can also play instruments and sing.
Mahvl created the Deadwater Gaming YouTube channel originally, but Timbleweebs remains the leader.
His sister, Mady, would occasionally appear in videos and became a member of the crew for a short time.https://youtu.be/TxPM0wo4oqE She didn’t often come to gameplay sessions, however, and so didn’t have too much of a role on the channel. The last video she appeared in was "Borderlands 2 Coop But Tina's Eye".https://youtu.be/FmOn4nGhs8M His nephew has appeared in a video.https://youtu.be/d-KghKO_LZI He also has a girlfriend.https://twitter.com/Mahvlson/status/1686465550895992832?s=20
During the production of "If Portal 2 Was Written By A Bot", the crew struggled to make the machinima due to the maps being extremely janky and hard to work with in G-Mod.https://youtu.be/hCRHxRJgZoo After filming for several hours, Timbleweebs came to the conclusion that the footage was bad and he wouldn’t be able to do much with it. He voiced this, but ended up offending Marvel by causing him to think that his script-writing was the issue. This argument developed into a rough patch between the two, and the machinima was put on hold. Later, Timbleweebs and Mahogany tried again and ended up finishing the recording in one day.
Due to creative differences (mentioned in an unlisted livestream), Marvel was removed from the group and has not appeared on the channel since. The last main channel video he appeared in was "Halo: Reach COOP With 3 Man-Children" in August, 2020.https://youtu.be/PBvSpGVAq5Y In one of his videos published in August, 2023, he calls himself a "former member of Deadwater Gaming".https://youtu.be/LXmxA7piyUA?si=aQduVHdf0hw_NbXs&t=61 He does a Spotify podcast with some of his other friends, called "Inexperienced: The Competitive Prediction Show".https://open.spotify.com/show/6ZCNFqejaSOG4DQ82oOEpO?si=083f407883a34f4c
He still watches Deadwater Gaming's uploads, and on Mahogany's main channel during 2023, it has become an inside joke that he is currently locked in Mahogany's basement (example in the comments of this video: https://youtu.be/8ODwTn4j_DY). Even Marvel is in on the joke and has claimed that "[Mahogany] spoonfeeds me mashed pears every night at 7:30" and "it's a pretty good life" (in the comments of this video: https://youtu.be/udQ_i_T9LCQ). During a Minecraft stream of Mahogany's on the 21st of February, he claimed Mahogany gave him a lamp and a copy of the "Communlst Manifesto" to read.https://www.youtube.com/live/nHR8fkN6cq4?feature=share
=== Other Friends ===
Occasionally Timbleweebs and Mahogany will record games with other friends or fans. Most of these videos are with a few of Mahogany's friends, DermyPlayz (Blake), USS Jeffery/Chellados (Andy), CJ, and Jeff ("the Russian brother-in-law"), as previously mentioned.
Notably, they have collaborated with BinkusTheTrinkus, who (also previously mentioned) is well known as the creator of the Half-Life: Google Translated Edition series of mods.https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-google-translate-edition They have played G-Mod together in three separate videos. Binkus will often make extremely cursed dupes of Half-Life characters and make a new "DK Rap" segment about each one. He also created a comedic Half-Life 3 role-play campaign in G-Mod, which has become a fan-favorite video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfGwyErqUM&ab_channel=DeadwaterGaming Binkus nearly fired Mahogany for not recording his Alyx Vance lines for Half-Life 2: Google Translated Edition, a mod which is currently still in development.
Timbleweebs will sometimes play Escape the Backrooms or other games like Minecraft or G-Mod with Lonestar Gaming (aka AgentLonestar or Agent) and Ravencross15 (aka Raven).https://youtu.be/tUevBcn-BEc?si=2x67k2pf4gI5ylaJhttps://youtu.be/5O8sIYgwRrU Sometimes Agent's brother, HeLives, will join them.https://youtu.be/-JGKhfXq8Yw?si=Am49O2McgbXTjpOJ These videos have become somewhat regular on the second channel. Timbleweebs had to warn Raven of Mahogany's sarcasm before the group met up to play Minecraft since she doesn't watch Deadwater videos.https://youtu.be/CVtifaM__Zs?t=279https://youtu.be/ZVRPnraiJB4 Agent has joined Mahogany in Minecraft streams and usually plays different meme sound effects with his soundboard mid-game.
Timbleweebs has also played TF2 with fans on livestream and tried to meet up with a specific handful of them towards the end of the stream.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eqzQ_NIfEM&ab_channel=Deadwater2ndChannel One of these fans, named AstroTom, would play TF2 again with Timbleweebs later in the year.https://youtu.be/aLJgHjwlL_4https://youtu.be/ctujY4kWCFI In 2024, Tom and Timbles would play several Half Life games together in one chaotic, glitch infested session. Prior to this, from late 2020 to early 2021, Tom made three animatics of Deadwater clips.https://youtu.be/64nPfpayvDM?si=TUIpnCUmR5sdhL_Dhttps://youtu.be/c3SACWWXmwA?si=GWMHl5G0UEV2Bqd5https://youtu.be/UI6l0gdIfUw?si=_Roh0WebjyeZfiJI He became more well known in the Deadwater community when he would comment on every video. Upon noticing this, Timbles and Mahogany started joking about it, and Timbles sent a meme to Mahogany, "Friendship ended with Mahogany, now AstroTom is my best friend".https://youtu.be/aLJgHjwlL_4?si=sLRmqNJfVQyhvquK&t=2513 In July of 2022, he suggested during one of Mahogany's livestreams that people should get together to make Deadwater fan content, which lead to the creation of a channel dedicated to that sort of thing called "Deadwater Gaming Fanclub". It had three other members: AhmadGT, ChocoBerryArtist, and Rosie Leaverton. Tom ran the club between July 2022 and May 2024, but is no longer a member. He briefly gave up ownership of the channel, but resumed In late June, rebranding it as Deadwater Animated and now operates it on his own.
Rosie has been responsible for documenting much of this Wiki page's information. She has created tons of fanart and is trusted by Timbles, who has described himself as the male equivalent of her.https://youtu.be/et5urXGXGUE?si=j5-w2q5Gl4D6_iSn&t=41 As of May 2024, Rosie has taken ownership of the Fanclub Discord Server, however it is unknown what will become of it.
== Sponsorships ==
Timbleweebs does not accept paid sponsorships on the channel. He has expressed distaste for them, especially when someone is paid to say something good about a product, whether they actually think it is good or not.https://youtu.be/SQWJWPtGZD8 He once stated in a Tweet that he "would accept sponsorships if the people who sponsored YouTube videos actually sold good products."https://twitter.com/DeadwaterMedia/status/1337585142479646721?s=20&t=ZeOVUXzpBMDuLhiOtZXsqg
The only product he ever "showcased" were some VR mics that were sent to the members for free.https://youtu.be/I7F_KtyAqyE This was not a paid sponsorship, only a company taking notice of the channel and helping them out with their struggles to get good audio quality for VR videos.
In 2021, a video of Timbleweebs and Mahogany reading off weird sponsorship offers was posted on Deadwater 2nd Channel. The products included air humidifiers and sportswear.https://youtu.be/Lrv0Mqtgriw 
== Livestreams ==
The crew used to livestream back when the channel was newer, but haven’t done so consistently on the main channel in a long time. There are a few edited VODs of old streams still on the channel, but most full streams are unlisted.
However, starting in late 2021, Timbleweebs started doing test-streams on the second channel so he could practice for possible streams on the main channel. However, these seem to be currently unlisted.
On July 5, 2022, after a short test-stream on the second channel, Timbleweebs did a livestream on the main channel for the first time in years.https://youtu.be/EjefbAe7b40
On January 1, 2023, Timbleweebs held a livestream on the main channel in which he let the viewers vote on which game he should play. The first game was a Half Life 2 Beta mod (which re-designs the game to look more like the scrapped beta of the game). The second was a G-Mod collection that Timbleweebs himself organized to emulate the experience of MMod Tactical, because it had not been released as of then. Third, Timbleweebs invited the fans to join him in two rounds of Team Fortress 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqgA5rxLCEQ&t=11861s
(Just fyi, nothing happened on the 24th of January, 2023. I have no clue what you're talking about.)https://youtu.be/Hlh-EUJYBIIhttps://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxph0fWFoyfFqE0qGz4xWaBZpgvBi8tkcE
On February 8, 2023, Timbleweebs streamed again, but this time on the second channel as a VR test stream. He had a few technical problems and couldn't tell if anyone was actually watching since he couldn't see the chat, so he spent his time getting lost, trying to steal from a vending machine, and talking to his potentially non-existent audience, who watched in amusement.https://www.youtube.com/live/RIpkye2fkVE?feature=share
On March 15, 2023, Timbleweebs livestreamed again, this time playing MMod, a mod he had been eagerly waiting for its release. Although a handful of fans were able to watch the stream, it was unlisted the following morning and then privated for unknown reasons.
== Music ==
In 2020, the crew released a mix-tape on their second channel.https://youtu.be/V1x5xkQld6I It contained one Deadwater original and 6 fan-made tracks, totaling 8 minutes and 46 seconds. The album cover was done in G-Mod by covering a semi-circle in traffic cones and posing ragdolls on top, a parody of album covers where the artist poses on a pile of money.https://youtu.be/UymGZSXu5bY
The idea for the Deadwater original, "If I Ever Get My Hands on Doctor Breen" (abbreviated, "IIEGMHODB"), came from an audio sample in Half-Life 2 Randomizedhttps://youtu.be/dXSK1kbXYng that the three took a liking to and made a song about. A fan also made their own track using the sample. The backing vocals of the Deadwater version were done by Marvel and the verses were rapped by Mahogany.
During production of the mixtape, another song was planned by Marvel, an impromptu sea shanty. It kept him and Mahogany distracted for a while before Timbleweebs eventually stepped in and got them back on track.
When the crew made a re-dub of the original Half-Life game (more info below), they wrote the "SCIENCE Song", a parody of the "F.U.N." song from Spongebob Squarepants.https://youtu.be/k5Tg6_TnV9c?t=314 They also made a parody of the Space Jam theme song called "Space Slam" using references to their own videos in place of certain lyrics.https://youtu.be/LuasaEhv0_c
== Discord ==
They once ran an official channel Discord server that was pubic to fans. They made a video using machinima suggestions from fanshttps://youtu.be/yml9_Y4pJ2k as well as a machinima using a 2-month-long word-chain,https://youtu.be/e-Gwdjsem0M each from the respective text channels on the server.
However, the Discord was eventually taken down due to the server becoming extremely difficult to moderate, at that point Timbleweebs was uncomfortable having it around so he took it down. They do not plan to make a new one. Though an invite remains on their Patreon because the website wouldn't let Timbleweebs take it off, it no longer works (obviously).
Despite the lack of an official Discord server, several fan servers exist.
== Half-Life Re-dub ==
In 2020, the crew made a re-dub of the original Half-Life game and gave a sneak-peak of it in a video.https://youtu.be/k5Tg6_TnV9c
It is a humorous retelling of what really happened during Gordon Freeman's time at Black Mesa. The basic plot is the Resonance Cascade was planned by the scientists in secret. The Barneys, however, figured out that something was up and began spreading conspiracy theories about what would happen. Also, Gordon has committed tax evasion.
It was received negatively, however, and a well-known Half-Life Twitch streamer played the re-dub live and expressed his disappointment in it. Timbleweebs watched part of the stream, but couldn't bear to watch the whole thing. Despite the negative reception, some fans enjoy the redub and many of them quote it frequently, especially during livestreams.
== In-Jokes ==
There are several in-jokes on the channel that could be confusing to those who are new viewers or haven't watched many of the videos. Here are some of them:
* "We're drivin' to Grandma's house!" - This is the longest running Deadwater in-joke, with its beginning occurring a few months before the channel came to be. Its first appearance was in "Road Trips With Charlie!"https://youtu.be/Rh0wCrBQi5k on Mahogany's channel. This joke involves someone (usually Mahogany) driving a car off a cliff or ledge, often into water, and saying the line before crashing and/or dying. This joke has been used so often that a compilation video of all the times it had been said up to that point was uploaded on the second channel.https://youtu.be/NsgG0O_hQh0 Since then, several more references have been made.
*Charlie - Charlie is a character who appeared quite frequently in pre-Deadwater videos, mostly on Mahogany's channel. He is a strange individual who apparently works for the news. Charlie's grandma is the same grandma that the crew have been searching for ever since the original Grandma's House video. Charlie made a surprising return years later when he stumbled into a room with a map of the world located in a Combine base and assumed it was a weather room. Charlie then decided to report the weather in front of a camera, although it's unlikely anyone saw the broadcast.https://youtu.be/4nzn-x802TI He can apparently survive being hit by a train and also has a pet cat named Gerald.https://youtu.be/VPldtWEdtR8
*"BEER" - In "If Half Life Was Written By A Bot",https://youtu.be/QEE7_Hwi7mQ?t=55 there is a scene where Mahogany narrates, "Barney hides with beer because Gordon is in bound and destroys people." He had a voice-crack on the word "beer", and it has since become a rather iconic in-joke. Mahogany himself has referenced it a few times. He explained how it happened in this unlisted video: https://youtu.be/eDVY8aISlu0?t=3080
* "We've done it, Jonathan!" - Something said by Timbleweebs in a video several years agohttps://youtu.be/CNoxPcNP6KQ?t=417 that has now become a commonly recurring statement.
* Not spending skill points - Timbleweebs often doesn't spend skill points on video just to annoy people, especially the channel's Borderlands 2 fans (who may or may not exist anymore, as their current last Borderlands 2 video was uploaded in 2019).https://youtu.be/ON4NG5UGG2s
*"That's what the government wants you to think." - Something Timbleweebs occasionally says in response to Mahogany. Its predecessor was "That's what they want you to think", which was also said by Timbleweebs in "Human Fall Flat But It's Half-Life I Guess".https://youtu.be/zmFdZgrpX7c?t=925
*"So how was your weekend?" - Timbleweebs often asks this during awkward moments in gameplay. He said it is one of their most obscure running jokes and that it probably wasn't on the wiki... (cough, cough)https://youtu.be/3MJkX-lYQYc?t=3013 A fan made a compilation of these moments in December, 2023.https://youtu.be/S98Z0uuAtcI?si=LMTQigHp4l46Le4c
*Mahogany getting food - Sometimes while recording for a video, Mahogany will randomly leave to get food. He once ended a stream to drive to McDonalds because he didn't think anyone was watching. Timbleweebs, however, was watching, and has never let him hear the end of it.https://youtu.be/e0CFGR2v7BM?t=1615https://youtu.be/ZVRPnraiJB4?t=109 Another time, he said that he couldn't stream with Timbleweebs because he was going to his sister's house for lasagna, although he didn't have to go immediately and did not, in fact, end up eating lasagna.https://www.youtube.com/live/kqgA5rxLCEQ?feature=share
*"Many Enemies" - This is a quote from a fan-made Half-Life 3 game (nicknamed "Leon's Half-Life" due to the creator's name being Leon) that Timbleweebs and Mahogany played. Whenever a map change occurred, this text would pop up on screen to alert them that there would be more enemies than usual. But eventually, it got to the point of coming up so often it was just expected and became a running joke.https://youtu.be/5ONrjqqnuSc?t=942https://youtu.be/vyPXFvj86_s?t=409
* "Gnome means a easter egg in this level!" - In the same fan-game, gnomes were hidden randomly throughout the levels, and when one was found, this text would pop up. It signified that there would be a secret room at some point in the map.https://youtu.be/5ONrjqqnuSc?t=1586 Gnomes in general are a joke on the channel.
*All problems can be solved with a 357 Magnum - Whenever Timbleweebs writes a story with AI Dungeon he often writes "shoot ____ with a 357 magnum" to resolve any conflicts. Research shows that this works roughly 50% of the time.https://youtu.be/6NaNvucknAwhttps://youtu.be/J2ejBugAC8o
*"Welcome to ___, the game." - This joke started when Mahogany and Timbleweebs played "Watching Paint Dry" where you... watch paint dry (also some other wacky things, but the paint is the main point). The game opens with an AI voice saying, "Welcome to Watching Paint Dry, the game." This line is used occasionally said by Mahogany or Timbleweebs with a different game/situation in place of "watching paint dry".
* E - This is in reference to the Markiplier "E" meme, which Timbleweebs doesn't like very much. He doesn't care for modern meme-culture, especially letter-themed memes. He once had an outburst of frustration against this particular meme when Mahogany mentioned it while the two were playing a difficult Half-Life mod.https://youtu.be/U8D2DmoMjAM?t=945 He later clarified that it doesn't bother him as much as it seemed in the video. Even later, Timbleweebs stated that the fans' constant teasing about his hatred for the meme has made him come to like it.
* "Did you know that ___ was originally from the Half-Life 2 beta?" - This joke started when the duo played a recreation mod of the Half-Life 2 beta.https://youtu.be/-e82j1bsgqc The quote is used to joke about random non-Half-Life-related things somehow being from the Half-Life 2 beta.
*Harold Combnin Johnsos/Dangle McSignpost - This joke refers to a Combine Soldier standing on top of a gas station sign in the Half Life 2 chapter "Highway 17". During a currently unlisted livestream of Half Life 2: Overcharged, Timbleweebs pinned the Combine to the sign, causing him to hang down. The stream viewers became obsessed with him and gave him the two nicknames. "Harold Combinin Johnsos" is the one used most often.
* "Tactical ___" - This joke started on a livestream that Timbleweebs did, "Half-Life 2 But it's Tacticool (And Possibly Broken)". This is often used by putting "tactical" in front of random words. One saying that came from it is "Tactical Lean", the act of leaning around a wall to see whoever is on the other side of it.
*"Lockpicks broken: ___" - A running gag within Mahogany's Skyrim streams. Whenever he breaks a lockpick, the chat says, "Lockpicks broken: ___", or on rare occasions "Pocklicks broken: ___". It eventually evolved into just saying the number on its own. This started when a chat member thought it would be funny to keep count of the amount of times Mahogany failed at picking a lock. Unfortunately, this chat member would eventually stop keeping count. The rest of chat used to keep track of the broken lockpicks, but they've basically given up.
*British Mahogany - When playing the Portal mod "Requiem of Science", Mahogany gave the main protagonist a British accent while the character's dialogue text appeared on screen.https://youtu.be/DdAFUEAXE_o?t=671 AstroTom made a joke about British Mahogany being cursed in the comments, something Mahogany brought up in a later video. Tom (being Welsh) is also occasionally referred to as British Mahogany because of his Mahogany impressions.https://youtu.be/ctujY4kWCFI
* "Genuuuu" - Mahogany said this while trying to imitate the Valve opening sound in Requiem of Science.https://youtu.be/DdAFUEAXE_o?t=671
*"On par with Black Mesa!" - During their second half of the Entropy Zero 2 playthrough, they said this every time they encountered an issue or oddity. This saying came about from a review of the game saying it was "on par with Black Mesa", which was a bit of an overstatement.https://youtu.be/bcjWjbYBUic?t=431
*"Noclio" - Once while playing a Half-Life/Portal mod (titled "Chell's Way To Home"), the two tried to noclip because they got stuck, but accidentally typed "noclio" which became a running joke whenever they have to noclip.https://youtu.be/3MJkX-lYQYc?t=552 This was preceded during Leon's Half-Life when Timbleweebs turned on god mode because of all the enemies, then Mahogany tried to be funny by quickly opening the console and turning it off, but he accidentally typed "dgods".https://youtu.be/vyPXFvj86_s?t=651 While playing a Half-Life 2 randomizer, they needed an air boat but the game didn't spawn one. Mahogany opened the console and typed "airboap", to which Timbleweebs responded while laughing, "Airboap? That's not even anywhere near the T! How did that happen?!"https://youtu.be/ttrTwT8d_cc?t=708
*Emo Timbles - During a stream on New Years Day, 2023https://youtu.be/kqgA5rxLCEQ, Timbleweebs talked about an old TF2 joke about a certain cosmetic for Sniper that he often used when he was younger. He said the joke made him mad back then because he really liked the cosmetic, and this kickstarted "Timbles has a dark side" and "emo Timbles" messages in the chat. Now there are even fanarts of "emo Timbles".https://youtu.be/3MJkX-lYQYc?t=1680
*"You see, it's like real life because..." - While playing a Russian mod of Portal, Timbleweebs and Mahogany noticed many inconsistencies in it, as sometimes it would be realistic, while other times illogical and tedious. This lead Timbleweebs to often joke about it by saying it was "like real life" in some ways.https://youtu.be/3MJkX-lYQYc?t=1649https://youtu.be/4EI7XvGWWiQ?t=730
*KeithKevinRyan - During their playthrough of Entropy Zero 2, Timbleweebs recognized one of the voice actors as a YouTuber named LambdaGeneration. He tried to recall his real name, but couldn't think of it. The two then started guessing what his name might be, coming up with "Keith", "Kevin", or "Ryan" (his real name is actually Mitch). Now whenever mentioning LambdaGeneration, they call him "KeithKevinRyan" instead of his actual name.https://youtu.be/tNKK2iqSA1k?t=828https://youtu.be/tNKK2iqSA1k?t=909https://youtu.be/tNKK2iqSA1k?t=2558
*Mahogany hates the Welsh - A running joke that started in Mahogany's livestreams is him making fun of the Welsh, particularly their language and how they need to realize that Ws are not vowels. Timbleweebs has playfully joined in too. The joke originated when AstroTom (mentioned in the "members" section) said he lives in Wales. Despite these comments, Mahogany has confirmed that he is actually part Welsh and uses this as an excuse to "clown on the Welsh," as he puts it. He had also previously made a comment about Italians not being able to build anything structurally sound and are only good at "pretty buildings and cathedrals", using the fact that he is part Italian as an excuse.https://youtu.be/pw4Ex8Y29Xc?t=964
*Tim - Tim, sometimes known as T I M or Tim Saven't is a running joke in MahoganyCrafter's streams. The joke started when a fan misspelled "him" as "tim". Upon noticing this error, they asked, "who is Tim?", which prompted Timbleweebs and then the whole stream chat to create the character of Tim. Originally a mysterious character, it was later revealed that AstroTom is really T I M. According to Timbles, he is the most powerful character in Deadwater Lore, can control the weather and will come for you if you don't eat your greens.
*Cid - When Timbles and AstroTom play TF2 together, they often reference the crime boss Cid from the Disney+ Series The Bad Batch. Timbles and his mother hated Cid's character due to how annoying she is, but eventually began to ironically enjoy the character. Both Timbles and Tom occasionally do impressions of her.
== Trivia ==
* Their main channel hit 100K subscribers on January 9th, 2024. A short fan movie was made to celbrate this, with Timbles providing a voice over for the short.
* Timbleweebs has never shown his face publicly on the internet, except for a few times to his friends. The in-universe explanation given, after several interactions with fans is that Timbleweebs actually has no face.https://youtu.be/rZe180EnOyA?si=K0u9b1FRT4neJxXT He has, however, made a Sims 4 character of himself on video,https://youtu.be/9PmX0afGqYg and done accidental hand and neck reveals on the Discord.https://youtu.be/9Xugl_ZhXCo?t=273 He did an "official" hand reveal on April 5th, 2024, on the video "Half-Life 2 Chaos But I'm Using a Drawing Pad".https://youtu.be/ilVxUcd6Ot8?si=zrxf8XNUl72qIK3Y&t=125 He has stated several times that he resembles Peter Knetter.
*Mahogany is the narrator of all the narrated machinimas.
* "Bob Orlando" is a recurring character in machinimas. He is a Half-Life 2 NPC with a large yellow afro on his head, made to resemble Napoleon Dynamite. He was given the name "Bob Orlando" during the machinima, "Desert Bus Ride: A Romance Story", but has been around since long before then, first appearing on Mahogany's channel. Bob has a bus driver’s license that canonically expires November 3rd, 2022.https://youtu.be/oBfXhQH4YpE
* All three have ADHD, Marvel has anxiety, Mahogany has a stutter, and both Mahogany and Timbleweebs have dyslexia.
* Their channel artist is Papa Shlup, who did their current logo. Another artist, Taylor Denna, did the designs for their merchandise.
* On June 20, 2022, they uploaded a video of their "most viewed moments" in celebration of their 6-year-channel-versary and their 8-year-friend-iversary.https://youtu.be/MNVdM-Oi1iU
* The Team-Fortress 2 font, "TF2 Build", is often used for on-screen text. In older videos, the "Impact" font was used instead. Occasionally, generic fonts are used.
*Timbleweebs once pulled a muscle in his chest from laughing too hard at something Mahogany did.https://youtu.be/xO24c3L0Nj0?t=77
*Mahogany hates the American sitcom "The Office" because his roommates used to watch it constantly.https://youtu.be/vyPXFvj86_s?t=913
*Timbleweebs is sometimes called "Mr. Deadwater" by fans.https://youtu.be/zQvYiRTqbrY?t=1133
*In real life, Timbleweebs is 6'4, Mahogany is 6'3, and Marvel is 5'8.https://youtu.be/hRCZUwHcVzE?t=586
* Mahogany is teased for having a mono-tone voice, as well as for being "bad at video games".https://youtu.be/pw4Ex8Y29Xc?t=208
*The three have never gotten together IRL as they each live too far apart. However, Marvel has visited Mahogany and his friends before.https://youtu.be/gl1w-1Hm0aw?t=752
*Timbleweebs sometimes gets jump-scared by glitches.https://youtu.be/uvstSpVj1WQ?t=187
*In 2019 on a community post, they asked if they should remove the "Gaming" part of the channel name (solely for aesthetic purposes), and set up a poll for people to answer with. The vote was technically 60% yes, 40% no, but due to the majority of people in the comments either being against it or undecided, the channel name was not changed.
*As of January 3rd, 2023, Mahogany has confirmed on a livestreamhttps://youtu.be/GZ0yYpE-98g that he has never eaten a grenade. His reasoning: "They don't taste good."
*Somebody once trolled Timbleweebs by creating a Newgrounds account called "youloserlmao" using his email. So far nobody has owned up to creating it.https://twitter.com/DeadwaterMedia/status/1335653606368956417?s=20&t=VRAJZoxEr9MVnq0avFiDsQ
*Timbleweebs likes to assume that everyone in the Half-Life community hates their channel since pretty much no one has acknowledged their existence.https://youtu.be/QQNi0soByIE?t=511
*Mahogany is said to have "chronic stubbornness".https://youtu.be/3MJkX-lYQYc?t=602https://youtu.be/3MJkX-lYQYc?t=1217 Timbleweebs and Mahogany decided to pick a name for moments where Mahogany's stubbornness is at its peak, with one fan in the comments coining the name "Greg Moments".https://youtu.be/ttrTwT8d_cc
*Timbleweebs believes that gaming YouTubers are at their most entertaining when they play badly, commenting that it wasn't as fun when they're good at the game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFRlWBuYeY
*Timbleweebs once managed to do an Emperor Palpatine impression when he hummed Epic Sax Guy for a few minutes and started losing his voice.https://youtu.be/wiHhTFWI76w?t=559
*Timbleweebs can moonwalk in real life.https://youtu.be/lRbgPDMDcvk?t=486
*According to Timbleweebs, the rise of retro game prices is because of the eBay Mafia.
== Quotes ==
*(singing) "This is out of context!" - Mahogany and Marvel
* "We’ve done it, Jonathan! We created a time machine that can send people back in time!" - Timbleweebs
*Mahogany: "To be fair, I loved the letter 'E' meme." Timbleweebs: (dies to enemy) "I didn't! It doesn't make any sense!! It's just 'E'!!"
* Marvel: "If you come play with us, you can’t be talkin’ about your peace." Mahogany: "Not about… how many floors there are in Solitude? How many stairs there are?" Mahvl: "How many stairs are there? Have you been counting?" Mahog: "I have." Mahvl: "Okay, how many are there?" Mahog: "More than 6."
* "If you wear your glasses, then you can see…" - Mahogany
* "Ah, I’m just fed up with your guys’ ADHD…" - Timbleweebs
*"These mountain flowers, which also grows next to lavender sometimes. Uh-huh." - Mahogany
* NPC: "Minions, roll out!" Mahog: "What did he just call me?" Timbles: "Minion." Mahog: "I don't want to be associated with those yellow freaks."
* "They will never find me in Cancun..." - Mahogany
* "Mahogany, we can dance while robbing banks!" - Timbleweebs discovering the potential of arm/movement-tracking in VR
* "Schnapper-wing-doodle." - Mady
* Mahog: " ‘Bend knees to the left’? First of all–" Timbles: " ‘To the left’? It says, ‘to lift’." Mahog: "Oh, to lift? I.. I’m dyslexic, shut up!"
* "You know, when people like me see something that is utterly B.S., we tend to say… ‘B.S.’ " - Mahogany
* "Welcome back to Cooking With Charlie!" - Mahogany
*"I hate you, Gnome Chompski!" - Timbleweebs
* "I don't appreci-a-nate you guys making fun of me." - Mahogany
*"Shut up, Josh! No one loves you!" - Marvel
* " ‘Tomorrow is another regret.’ " (Punches self in the gut) "Ugh… that hurt… I’m sad now…" - Mahogany
* "Henry! You can’t go firing rockets all William-Nilliam!" - Mahogany
* "Ohh, I should've popped my anxiety pills..." - Marvel
* "Did you know girls actually existed in the 90s?" - Timbleweebs
*"I'm safe in hewe wif my AK-fouwty-sevuns!" - Timbleweebs
* "Mayonnaise! I like it! I run away with it!" - Mahogany
* "So many of my jokes are me trying to say something that is actually funny, and then messing it up because I can’t think of the correct wording fast enough, and then it ends up funnier than what I was originally gonna say in the first place because I said it so stupidly." - Timbleweebs
* "That's pretty close to good..." - Mahogany
* "Crippling depression." - Timbleweebs
*"This game makes me wanna cuss." - Mahogany
*"We can sell that for expensive! Three whole dollars!" - Timbleweebs
* Mahog: "Be absolutely silent." Timbles: "Violent? I know how to be violent real well."
*"Leave me alone, Miyamoto." - Mahogany
* (Mahogany revives Marvel before Timbleweebs in Borderlands 2) Timbles: "What happened to ladies first?!" Mahvl: "Screw women!"
*"At school as a kid, they ask you on Career Day what you wanted your future career to be, I always wanted to be a USPS delivery person!" - Timbleweebs
*Mahog: "Oh... fiddle-faddle..." Timbles: "I can't believe you would just say the f-word like that!"
*Timbles: "It's okay, Mahvl. We love and accept you as you are." Mahvl: "I'm 5'8." Mahog: "WAIT, REALLY?!" (slightly later) Timbles: "Mahogany, why are you having reality- why are you having eggs-and-pencils crisis over Marvel.. having.. shortness?"
*" 'Giant Greats!' he excreamed." - Mahogany reading a poorly written fanfiction
*"Doors were not like regular doors so Gordon did not know how... to do..." - Mahogany narrating Gordon during Leon's Half-Life
*"I like to call this one, 'Paul Blart offers you a doughnut, but then has an asthma attack'." - BinkusTheTrinkus
*"The pants were dead! I wouldn't consider those alive pants..." - Timbleweebs 
*Mahog: "Death for Half-Life Gor-don FREE-man does not necessarily mean Half-Life death for, uh... Max Payne. Trademark." Timbles: "I don't think that was English..."
*"Bedwar players do be playin' Bedwars." - Mahogany
*"All roads lead to the road." - Timbleweebs
*"Me when I'm sick of my life, so I touch fusebox." - Timbleweebs
*"Did you know that Master Chief was originally a female, but then they decided females don't video games and thought-- and maled him?" - Marvel
*"How am I supposed to be a shotty sniper if I can't shooty snipe?" - Mahogany
*"You don't know how to use guns, you're a woman." - Timbleweebs
*Timbles: "You run over gas, it makes you go fast!" Mahog: "I don't think that's a rhyme we should add to our repertoire."
*(to Mahogany fighting a headcrab-less zombie) Timbles: "How do zombies work if they don't have headcrabs?" Mahog: "Maybe it's under the helmet." Timbles: "That's not how headcrabs work." Mahog: "Maybe it's a baby headcrab. You don't know." Timbles: "I don't think that's how baby headcrabs work." Mahog: "How would you know? This doesn't consistent with the headleh- the hadl- Head-Life canon." Timbles: "The Head-Life?"
*"No, you're not allowed to like it because it's Force Awakens and new trilogy is cringe. Stop enjoying Force Awakens. Cease." - Timbleweebs
*"Non-stop action in every bite: Walmart." - Mahogany
*"I see your point, BUT... Moto Moto." - Timbleweebs
*"Yeet." - Timbleweebs
*Timbles: "Yes, Barney, this is a red letter..." (Awkward silence) Mahog: "(Mischievous laughter)"
*"I like to think that we're collecting 24 copies of, like, 'The Emperor's New Groove' on VHS tape." - Timbleweebs
*Timbles: "You're just walking into the invisible wall indefinitely." AgentLonestar: "No, you're walking into the invisible wall indefinit--" Timbles: "No, yo-o-ou."
*"Hey! We were being friendly to your friendly!" - AstroTom
*"2Fort is not just a map, it is a way of life." - Timbleweebs
*"Don't test me, Bedwars child." - Mahogany 
*Timbles: "What are you doing?" Mahog: "Break dancing on these clowns 'til they die."
*Timbles: "You're not a true Half-Life fan!" Mahogany: "Yes! That is true!"
*"The real sharks in the water are copyright lawyers." - Mahogany
*"My liver is showing." - Timbleweebs
*"Deadwater 3rd member secret is here." - Timbleweebs
*AstroTom: "Imagine if Half Life 3 is finished except for the audio mixing, which nobody at Valve can be bothered to do." Timbles: "That'd be hilarious, just AAA quality for everything in the game but the voice acting is Beta Minimalist tier." AstroTom: "Valve exposed."
*Timbles: "(Smacking with fish) Lead us! We worship! (Offers high five)" AstroTom: (Leaves) Timbles: "Oh, there he goes! He's goin'! Unsanctioned Tom leaving."
*"I don’t like the state Iowa." (a quote from 17-y/o Mahogany. He doesn’t remember saying it, but people tease him about it to this day)
*"Doctor Who died; malaria-lalaria, halitosis, and diabetes concentrate." (The ending quote of the word-chain machinima)
*"The HECU see what seems to be an industrial complex populated with aliens. This is not good." (A quote from Half-Life 1 By A Bot)
*Scientist 1: "We’ve sent the test chamber down to the sample." Scientist 2: "And we gave that anti-mass spectrometer some, uh, hangity-dang-dang-bang-digity.. So, uh, yeah." (from the Half-Life re-dub)
* "Gordon doesn’t need to hear all this! He’s a tra-sha-ugh– you know what I mean, Daniels! You need to shut up, okay?" - Swag scientist (re-dub)
* "Freeman! I told you the government was tracking us! I t– augh!" (suddenly dies) - Barney (re-dub)
* "Get away from there, Freeman! I'm expecting an important message from my hot Minecraft girlfriend!" - Scientist (re-dub)
*AstroTom: "Welcome back Tingleweeps." Timbles: "WHy is TInGlE weepInG?" (chat messages)
*"Onions are like onions: they have onions." - Timbleweebs (chat message)
*"chef boyardee flavored minecraft speedrun" - Timbleweebs (chat message)
*"My eggroll will forever be gone." - Timbleweebs (chat message)
*"NOW WE FEAST ON HIS CHOCOLATEY REMAINS" - Timbleweebs (comment)
*"Not enough Dedotated Wam on my computer to play this game... So I'll just put a Trivia question. If I throw a triangle out of the car and the car is going 60/mph, and wind resistance is a thing that exists, how many cupcakes can Pedro buy with one human soul?" - Mahogany (Steam Review for Planetside 2, circa Feb. 2015. He is embarrassed by this review.)
*"owie my mental" - Timbleweebs (chat message)
*"bro how come girls get all the organs?" - Timbleweebs (chat message)
*AstroTom: "Timbles is mine now" Mahogany: "I'm not paying a ransom"
*"im bill from bill.com, im famous" - Timbleweebs (Sven Co-op Chat message)
*"I thought you hung up on me because I called you a fake Kung Fu Panda fan" - AstroTom
*"I came outside just in time to get hit in the face with your liver" - Timbleweebs
== Gallery ==
File:Garry's Mod BEAR GRYLLS (Hide and Seek Funny Moments).jpg|Original Channel Logo
File:DeadwaterGaming.jpg|Current Channel Logo
File:G-Mod art made by Deadwater.jpg|The Crew's G-mod Player Models (L-R: Marvel, Timbleweebs, Mahogany, Mady)
File:The Deadwater Mixtape (Semi-Unofficial) - YouTube - Google Chrome 2022-08-16 16-29-23 Moment.jpg|Mix-Tape "Album Cover"
File:Half-Life Beta Mods & Junk Figuring Out This Streaming Thing - YouTube - Google Chrome 2 13 2022 8 00 00 PM (3).png|"Stream End" Image
File:Merch banner.png|Merch Website Banner
File:Barneh.jpg|A Funny G-mod Pose of Barney Calhoun
File:My Litte Ponly Friendship is Danger! (Gmod Machinima) - YouTube - Google Chrome 2 26 2022 7 10 17 PM.png|Bob Orlando's Bus Driver's License (From "Desert Bus Ride: A Romance Story")
File:If Half-Life was Written by a Bot - YouTube - Google Chrome 2022-07-27 15-31-37 Moment.jpg|"Beer" From "Half-Life By A Bot"
== References ==
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