Thread: Questions
Darth Vador didn't do the DDoS; it was Drake. I'm not sure how he did it, but I think he just pinged the site over and over. Pseudo's sites have a big bug in it which means that if his database server goes down even for an instant, it takes the rest of his site and takes it down. This bug has been pointed out to him before, but he didn't do anything about it, and likely still hasn't. I should point out that he still blames us for this.
Pseuo is an emotionally manipulative bigot. Simple as. He wants to be treated very well, to the extent that he is pampered, while he, quite frankly, treats everyone he dislikes (which is a large list) like crap. I'll link to a post I made explaining the Frances thing in a reply to the other comment you made, and that should give you a basic idea.
Anyway, I stayed on Fig Hunter for much of my teenage life, and after that experience, I'd warn you to stay away from him. He is unable to run a website or choose people suited to running a website (which in itself isn't a bad thing) and has a bad habit of abandoning or drastically changing sites when he doesn't get women he wants.
Something which may be relevant to you is his disliking of people with Aspergers or Autism, which he thinks just makes you psychopathic. There was a call to unban a person with Aspergers because he had improved since Pseudo last talked to him, and he said "I'd unban him, but he has Aspergers which I don't think is something you just "get over"".
I and most fig hunters don't want to hurt Pseudo. Only two people have attacked Pseudo, one of whom was a troll that was banned ages ago hundreds of times and the other stopped after realising that Pseudo was blaming FH for it. If I am to do anything, it'll be along the lines of having Pseudo face consequences for his actions, or something.
Pseuo is an emotionally manipulative bigot. Simple as. He wants to be treated very well, to the extent that he is pampered, while he, quite frankly, treats everyone he dislikes (which is a large list) like crap. I'll link to a post I made explaining the Frances thing in a reply to the other comment you made, and that should give you a basic idea.
Anyway, I stayed on Fig Hunter for much of my teenage life, and after that experience, I'd warn you to stay away from him. He is unable to run a website or choose people suited to running a website (which in itself isn't a bad thing) and has a bad habit of abandoning or drastically changing sites when he doesn't get women he wants.
Something which may be relevant to you is his disliking of people with Aspergers or Autism, which he thinks just makes you psychopathic. There was a call to unban a person with Aspergers because he had improved since Pseudo last talked to him, and he said "I'd unban him, but he has Aspergers which I don't think is something you just "get over"".
I and most fig hunters don't want to hurt Pseudo. Only two people have attacked Pseudo, one of whom was a troll that was banned ages ago hundreds of times and the other stopped after realising that Pseudo was blaming FH for it. If I am to do anything, it'll be along the lines of having Pseudo face consequences for his actions, or something.
drake here, pitchin' in to that first point. spudo banned myself and several others for negative attitude. one of these was a friend (uuuuuugh) of darth. she made an account on st (and provoked others into doing the same); in retaliation (and in approximation of the actions of the few to the intent of the many, as spudo often does), spudo edited the chat to replace every message with "DUUUH", and taunted us. around this time i logged in with an alt and used a repurposed chat-interfacing app to spam it with messages. underestimating the obscene fragility of spudo's servers, i started to ramp up to as many requests as i was able to perform; this, of course, shut down the site. after realizing that i had actually done it personally (i hadn't been sending nearly as much traffic as i had believed would crash it, so i initially assumed that it was michos' doing), and after being notified by an anonymous informant that spudo was talking faeces about fhers behind our backs, i started to shut down other subdomains of his. it went on for about thirty minutes to an hour, at which point my sleep-deprivation-addled brain finally recognized the concept of "legal consequences" and i stopped.
on the second point, because i don't want to make another post, the guy's a prick. basically all of the Serious Antagonism he has recently (in the broad sense) received has been from me, and he seems absolutely hell-bent on using my sporadic insults to justify his raging kismesis to fighunter entire. i have no idea what your attraction to st is (a cursory glance at your profile registers "vaguely pretentious"), but my honest advice to you would be to GET THE FUCK AWAY RIGHT THIS SECOND. i literally cannot think of a single person who has ever been positively influenced by spudo, and the memeplex that hovers like a fetid musk around that site is hella harmful. imho you should *really* try to avoid absorbing any more of those ideas than is absolutely necessary. what savage said is absolutely correct; the site is a thinly-veiled vehicle for spudo's desires, and spudo's desires only. he could be charitably described as a predator; i would say that his vocal denunciation and categorization of people like that has made it far more easy for him to ignore the little signs that he himself is one of them.
i'm not going to talk about the entire "bigoted" thing, because that much should be patently obvious to anyone in the same plane of existence as him.
on the second point, because i don't want to make another post, the guy's a prick. basically all of the Serious Antagonism he has recently (in the broad sense) received has been from me, and he seems absolutely hell-bent on using my sporadic insults to justify his raging kismesis to fighunter entire. i have no idea what your attraction to st is (a cursory glance at your profile registers "vaguely pretentious"), but my honest advice to you would be to GET THE FUCK AWAY RIGHT THIS SECOND. i literally cannot think of a single person who has ever been positively influenced by spudo, and the memeplex that hovers like a fetid musk around that site is hella harmful. imho you should *really* try to avoid absorbing any more of those ideas than is absolutely necessary. what savage said is absolutely correct; the site is a thinly-veiled vehicle for spudo's desires, and spudo's desires only. he could be charitably described as a predator; i would say that his vocal denunciation and categorization of people like that has made it far more easy for him to ignore the little signs that he himself is one of them.
i'm not going to talk about the entire "bigoted" thing, because that much should be patently obvious to anyone in the same plane of existence as him.
I have something else to bring up about the "Get away from him" thing (I should add swear filters).
I go to a youth club, and I showed Pseudo's Transphobic Adventures to a women working there (who I trust with my issues and stuff). It's literally the most shocked a person I have ever seen, really. Anyway, she not only said that I should stay away from Pseudo, but that I should stay away from his FRIENDS (as I assumed people like Scint and whatnot where; honestly I don't know) as well. Yes. I should point out that she also thinks he's faking his social anxiety, and doesn't really know much about him besides his transphobic adventures. So take it with a grain of salt maybe.
He also called us Psychopaths or sociopaths or both (Actually, they are the same thing. Ignore this). Not really sure. Fun Fact: Looking at the list of symptoms of psychopathy, they don't really match up with Aspergers/Autism. So if you have autism either you are not, or the chances are reduced of you being a psycopath as well. :D
Also, Drake, I wouldn't call him a predator... He's more like the pampered kid who throws tantrums if he doesn't get exactly what he wants all the time... Which isn't a contradiction to him being a predator. Never mind. Carry on.
I go to a youth club, and I showed Pseudo's Transphobic Adventures to a women working there (who I trust with my issues and stuff). It's literally the most shocked a person I have ever seen, really. Anyway, she not only said that I should stay away from Pseudo, but that I should stay away from his FRIENDS (as I assumed people like Scint and whatnot where; honestly I don't know) as well. Yes. I should point out that she also thinks he's faking his social anxiety, and doesn't really know much about him besides his transphobic adventures. So take it with a grain of salt maybe.
He also called us Psychopaths or sociopaths or both (Actually, they are the same thing. Ignore this). Not really sure. Fun Fact: Looking at the list of symptoms of psychopathy, they don't really match up with Aspergers/Autism. So if you have autism either you are not, or the chances are reduced of you being a psycopath as well. :D
Also, Drake, I wouldn't call him a predator... He's more like the pampered kid who throws tantrums if he doesn't get exactly what he wants all the time... Which isn't a contradiction to him being a predator. Never mind. Carry on.
yeah, he makes pretty frequent allegations of sociopathy and/or other serious mental illnesses. i can remember multiple occasions where he's called me personally and explicitly a psychopath, and there was that discussion on st about "internet trolls" correlating with psychopathy (which is really not surprising, when you think about it, but which was treated as an absolute). his propensity to attach tags that he doesn't even remotely understand to people is really quite worrying.
Not that hard to figure out he uses Host Gator (just use www.fighunter.com/somethingthatdoesn'texist in any browser) and host gator will complain that the page isn't found. I would like to know how you managed to get the email address though. I've never managed to learn much about how to do anything other than simple network stuff.
If the DDoS was done by pinging the server a ton of times then you can do that in any command line (unix or windows) with a simple command. There are other (more effective) methods of DDoS'ing though that could have been used and I wasn't paying much attention at the time so I don't know.
For question 2 I'm ambivalent. I don't care about Pseudo. I don't know him. I know what he writes on the blogs (doesn't come across well). I'm entirely sure that Pseudo wouldn't like me so I don't think I'd bother with him personally. Better for the both of us. He's too much himself which is a natural clash with how I do things. (I poke and prod and in general try to break things so I better understand them.)
If the DDoS was done by pinging the server a ton of times then you can do that in any command line (unix or windows) with a simple command. There are other (more effective) methods of DDoS'ing though that could have been used and I wasn't paying much attention at the time so I don't know.
For question 2 I'm ambivalent. I don't care about Pseudo. I don't know him. I know what he writes on the blogs (doesn't come across well). I'm entirely sure that Pseudo wouldn't like me so I don't think I'd bother with him personally. Better for the both of us. He's too much himself which is a natural clash with how I do things. (I poke and prod and in general try to break things so I better understand them.)
1. I have no idea and no interest in knowing anything of the sort.
2. Like him? No, not really. To be perfectly honest, there are few internet personalities I genuinely like, at least without a fairly long list of conditions. Just like in the rest of life. I need to, as a frequently tired introvert, limit my number of close relationships, so I've developed some fairly high standards (as a feely, perceiving person, they're fairly fluid) to be met in order to be genuinely liked. Or at least what I consider "genuinely liked." I appreciate his internet existence. To be perfectly honest, there are few internet personalities for whom I do not appreciate existence.
The thing about feely types (are you one?) is that they are not incapable of understanding logic. It does not confuse them. I am not confused by logic. It makes perfect sense to me. I just don't find it that convincing. I'm also not scared by logic, I don't give it enough power to scare me. Sheep, you are deceiving yourself. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's generally better to recognize one's own self-deception, I feel. Just like in the rest of life. I appreciate social interactions for the understandings they can afford me, but will not pursue stronger friendships with the majority of the people I meet or acquaint myself with.
Anyway, Pseudo isn't some god. He's just a person. Fragile like the rest of us. He should be treated as the equal he is, not as some superior entity. That is how I feel, no logic necessary.
I'm an INFP, by the way, if that clarifies things for you.
2. Like him? No, not really. To be perfectly honest, there are few internet personalities I genuinely like, at least without a fairly long list of conditions. Just like in the rest of life. I need to, as a frequently tired introvert, limit my number of close relationships, so I've developed some fairly high standards (as a feely, perceiving person, they're fairly fluid) to be met in order to be genuinely liked. Or at least what I consider "genuinely liked." I appreciate his internet existence. To be perfectly honest, there are few internet personalities for whom I do not appreciate existence.
The thing about feely types (are you one?) is that they are not incapable of understanding logic. It does not confuse them. I am not confused by logic. It makes perfect sense to me. I just don't find it that convincing. I'm also not scared by logic, I don't give it enough power to scare me. Sheep, you are deceiving yourself. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's generally better to recognize one's own self-deception, I feel. Just like in the rest of life. I appreciate social interactions for the understandings they can afford me, but will not pursue stronger friendships with the majority of the people I meet or acquaint myself with.
Anyway, Pseudo isn't some god. He's just a person. Fragile like the rest of us. He should be treated as the equal he is, not as some superior entity. That is how I feel, no logic necessary.
I'm an INFP, by the way, if that clarifies things for you.
I'm perfectly fine with him being fragile. What I'm not fine is with him using it as an excuse to ignore other peoples feelings.
Hmp.
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Savvy, how you feel about Pseudo now is understandable and unproblematic, in my opinion.
How you felt about him in the past, on the other hand, where you elevated him above yourself, was not, and is greatly contributory to the intensity of your current feelings, the way I see it.
If you had only treated him as an equal from the beginning, skeptical of his powers of insight and empathy, you wouldn't have experienced nearly the shock to find he has terrible flaws that are not just pitiful but personally offensive. The pity was in no way detrimental to the kind of deification that Pseudo has been allotted, but the offenses tear down the facade fairly quickly.
How you felt about him in the past, on the other hand, where you elevated him above yourself, was not, and is greatly contributory to the intensity of your current feelings, the way I see it.
If you had only treated him as an equal from the beginning, skeptical of his powers of insight and empathy, you wouldn't have experienced nearly the shock to find he has terrible flaws that are not just pitiful but personally offensive. The pity was in no way detrimental to the kind of deification that Pseudo has been allotted, but the offenses tear down the facade fairly quickly.
Darth Vader didn't do any DDoS attacks at all. What he DID do, however, was coerce Young Yoshi and a few others into spamming fake accounts on ST, which unsurprisingly angered the Almighty Spoodow.
My opinion of the Almight Spoodow, though? It's... complex, I suppose. I was significantly against him during the Big Five Bannings, and continued a strain of non-acted anger towards him (that is, I talked amongst a few confidants about it but never did anything vocal). I was a member of a group which housed a few troll/hackers from FH, which might have shaped my opinions. But that's irrelevant, right?! D:
After he started explaining things, I felt more comfortable. However, I still felt the hostility to anything remotely Fig- or male-related stuff, especially if it's both of them. At one point I tried to get an account on ST simply because I was curious, yet my careless IP stuff revealed it and I was banned in, well, 15 minutes. I suppose it doesn't help that Pseudo sees me as a 'youngling', coming to FH at 13. I've acted rather immaturely around him formerly, too. Pseudo's the type of person who holds grudges.
Now? Ambivalent, I suppose. I'm happy that he's admitted that a few of the bannings were wrong, but bitter over the fact that he still hasn't unbanned them yet despite having enough time to write essays on ST. I mean, 10 essays per day is quite a lot of time. I wouldn't expect changing one variable in a database would take much time. I enjoy(ed) his games, but he's drifted towards his own niche genre, so I think that my fun with that is over. Despite all this, though, I am remarkably grateful that he made FH in the first place; it's grown to be my 'identity', so to speak. Online, I identify as a Fig, as part of the Fig community, which having a name which is directly derived from the FH-verse adds to.
In response to your emotional thinking stuff about him... FH isn't really that logical at all, I think. It's just that a vocal minority use logic to justify things, and very infrequently logical debates occurred in the chat. It's not really that bad – I spend/spent a LOT of time in the chatroom. I understand he has feelings, which is why after my ST banning I 'gave up' being angry. However, constantly whining about how his creation (observe the last line) has caused him so much pain yet not acting upon it as the administrator is, frankly, irresponsible. I still respect him in the manner that he decided to solve his 'problem' by not going on FH any more, though.
I actually used a primarily emotional-based argument for the unbanning of Heiveldboy, although he now doesn't want to rejoin. :/
Anyway, I think that most of us have stopped any aggression towards him, regardless of how much of a {INSERT INSULT HERE} he is. :3
I'm an INTP with almost equal T/F and P/J things, by the way, if that clarifies things for you.
Oh, and thanks for mentioning me. I'm flattered! :D
My opinion of the Almight Spoodow, though? It's... complex, I suppose. I was significantly against him during the Big Five Bannings, and continued a strain of non-acted anger towards him (that is, I talked amongst a few confidants about it but never did anything vocal). I was a member of a group which housed a few troll/hackers from FH, which might have shaped my opinions. But that's irrelevant, right?! D:
After he started explaining things, I felt more comfortable. However, I still felt the hostility to anything remotely Fig- or male-related stuff, especially if it's both of them. At one point I tried to get an account on ST simply because I was curious, yet my careless IP stuff revealed it and I was banned in, well, 15 minutes. I suppose it doesn't help that Pseudo sees me as a 'youngling', coming to FH at 13. I've acted rather immaturely around him formerly, too. Pseudo's the type of person who holds grudges.
Now? Ambivalent, I suppose. I'm happy that he's admitted that a few of the bannings were wrong, but bitter over the fact that he still hasn't unbanned them yet despite having enough time to write essays on ST. I mean, 10 essays per day is quite a lot of time. I wouldn't expect changing one variable in a database would take much time. I enjoy(ed) his games, but he's drifted towards his own niche genre, so I think that my fun with that is over. Despite all this, though, I am remarkably grateful that he made FH in the first place; it's grown to be my 'identity', so to speak. Online, I identify as a Fig, as part of the Fig community, which having a name which is directly derived from the FH-verse adds to.
In response to your emotional thinking stuff about him... FH isn't really that logical at all, I think. It's just that a vocal minority use logic to justify things, and very infrequently logical debates occurred in the chat. It's not really that bad – I spend/spent a LOT of time in the chatroom. I understand he has feelings, which is why after my ST banning I 'gave up' being angry. However, constantly whining about how his creation (observe the last line) has caused him so much pain yet not acting upon it as the administrator is, frankly, irresponsible. I still respect him in the manner that he decided to solve his 'problem' by not going on FH any more, though.
I actually used a primarily emotional-based argument for the unbanning of Heiveldboy, although he now doesn't want to rejoin. :/
Anyway, I think that most of us have stopped any aggression towards him, regardless of how much of a {INSERT INSULT HERE} he is. :3
I'm an INTP with almost equal T/F and P/J things, by the way, if that clarifies things for you.
Oh, and thanks for mentioning me. I'm flattered! :D
Hello beautiful. ♥
I'm replying to Sapphiros' comment to reply to this thread because Sapphiros is my master. ♥
You know what's been said about the DDoS thing or whatever it is. No need to repeat it.
Pseudo honestly just kind of annoys me now, he seems far too needy and hypocritical and rude and insensitive and other wonderful things. He seems to exaggerate things too much sometimes. He seems intolerant. I used to respect him, then he kind of went down in a little spiral, and crashed, burned, and didn't even bake a cake with his flames (of anger, clearly) at around last December. Then I stopped caring. And just ignored stuff. That's about it.
I find it important that I mentioned cake. This post was probably useless.
I'm replying to Sapphiros' comment to reply to this thread because Sapphiros is my master. ♥
You know what's been said about the DDoS thing or whatever it is. No need to repeat it.
Pseudo honestly just kind of annoys me now, he seems far too needy and hypocritical and rude and insensitive and other wonderful things. He seems to exaggerate things too much sometimes. He seems intolerant. I used to respect him, then he kind of went down in a little spiral, and crashed, burned, and didn't even bake a cake with his flames (of anger, clearly) at around last December. Then I stopped caring. And just ignored stuff. That's about it.
I find it important that I mentioned cake. This post was probably useless.
I have nothing to say on the first question, as I don't know anything about that.
As for the second, well... He's a hypocritical asshole, plain and simple. I would elaborate, but everything I have to say about that has been said already, so I don't feel the need to reiterate. But honestly, I'm not mad at him or annoyed with him or anything. He's a guy that made some flash games I used to like that turned into a hypocritical asshole because of a series of faecesty (and possibly self-induced) events, and I see no signs of this changing in the near future. So I guess you could say that my opinion on him is that I don't like him and that he does, to a limited extent, piss me off. But then you take a step back, look at the whole picture, and realize that getting pissed off isn't going to help anyone (especially if you're the vocal type). In fact, it's likely going to make everything worse. So, I choose to simply let it be now.
If this post contains any possible contradictions, please let me know.
As for the second, well... He's a hypocritical asshole, plain and simple. I would elaborate, but everything I have to say about that has been said already, so I don't feel the need to reiterate. But honestly, I'm not mad at him or annoyed with him or anything. He's a guy that made some flash games I used to like that turned into a hypocritical asshole because of a series of faecesty (and possibly self-induced) events, and I see no signs of this changing in the near future. So I guess you could say that my opinion on him is that I don't like him and that he does, to a limited extent, piss me off. But then you take a step back, look at the whole picture, and realize that getting pissed off isn't going to help anyone (especially if you're the vocal type). In fact, it's likely going to make everything worse. So, I choose to simply let it be now.
If this post contains any possible contradictions, please let me know.
"I have nothing to say on the first question, as I don't know anything about that."
You hypocrite!
You hypocrite!
I'm just messing with you. Saying you have nothing to say is saying something about it.