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Now why? Sony, EA, big corporations, they seem to attract infinitely more ire from the gaming community from indie developers like Team Meat. What’s the reason?
A single member of Anonymous (or an anon) was turned down by Edmund McMillen. Or rather by Team Meat as a whole.
An anon exposed a MYSQL error (to be clearer, the error of connection to a MYSQL database) in the Team Meat servers, pointing it out to the team who responded with, what is likely to become a new internet inside joke, “Trust me, it’s fine. I’ve done this stuff for a while now.”
As if anonymous needed another reason to look bad in the gaming community. Not that they mind, that’s what Anon does best.
[Source: Gaming Irresponsibly]
that was not anonymous of 4chan, but “turdy” from the SA forums
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2803713&pagenumber=258#post398884189
Dude’s not “a member of Anonymous”, he’s not even anonymous. You showed his full name in the screenshot collage you took from someone else. Do you know what words mean.
The guy stumbled across a problem in the game (because it crashed on him, not even because he was picking it apart or anything) and dutifully reported it to the developers. I fail to see what the problem is here.
Then someone vandalizes the scoreboard and the authors data. If the devs had listened to the guy you basically deride as an evil hacker, this wouldn’t have happened. The dude didn’t do anything wrong. he went out of his way to help prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening, and he couldn’t really have done anything more.
You are really bad at building up a narrative out of your misreported third-hand information.
@a ~gamer~ apparently you missed the part of the scoreboard screenshot which says “anonymous”. That PROVES that it was anonymous! I mean that word means that it’s THEM, right? It’s not like they picked that word because of it’s existing meaning, right? RIGHT?
Seriously though, Wil, Have you ever considered looking into something before writing a knee-jerk post with no real information (and vague… well calling them “lies” implies that you knew they were wrong, but I think you’re just ignorant, not malicious)
Jilted? The guy gave them excellent advice; using nothing but his own time and work. The Team Meat guys completely ignored him in a brilliantly arrogant “we know what we’re doing fashion”.
That stuff doesn’t fly with the demographic they appeal to.
This terrible article is almost worse though; Mr. Taylor it is idiotic to engage in slander against an individual who not only meant well, but also demonstrated his ability and integrity. Please correct this story.
The term you’re looking for is libel and not slander… just saying.
Yeah, it really behooves you to get the story and timeline straight before writing an article up. charliesome did his little investigation when the game crashed for him, got the cold shoulder from Team Meat when he repeatedly tried to help them, and then threw up his hands and posted the story to SA with the login details redacted to prevent script kiddies from exploiting it.
At this point, someone taking up the mantle of Anonymous duplicated his work with gdb to get the login details to the database for themselves, vandalized the db, and made a montage of charliesome’s original emails/tweets/etc, Team Meat’s responses, and their own vandalism.
The error here was conflating the first part with the second.
Your timeline is still wrong kaesees. He posted it on Facepunch first. And the full username and password was quickly posted after.
http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1144771?p=33857273&viewfull=1#post33857273
Leave it to a game editorial site to publish inane junk.
What a poor sub-amateur display of an article. Not only could you report the proper site origin of the event, but you couldn’t even credit the right person.
This is by no means a “small error.” It’s sites like this that boost 4chan’s “Anonymous”, a sess-pool collective of high school kids and young ignorant college students, to media status through repetitive misinformation.
@Logic is FUN
are you a f*cking retard…. maby you should do a little double reading. right? RIGHT?
Anon may have changed the scoreboard but a ~gamer~ is right, the guy game his name when he found the problem. read before you write…