Acid_Snake: “I’m sorry…”
This is an apology letter for the people at /talk regarding the reason for my banning. Please read the whole article before jumping to conclusions.
The only sin I’ve committed in this scene is being a huge troll. Did you really think I would accept money in exchange for a kernel exploit? for god’s sake I’m poor not stupid.
This is how it all went.
Wololo was to add me to the banned group but not actually ban me (that is possible btw, I’ve done it before in the pro forums), while I make up a really elaborate and overly convoluted plan a la Sons of Liberty to make everyone believe that the banning was real.
The story goes that I leaked another hacker’s kernel exploit in exchange for money through /talk’s PM or whatever and that when they found out, I started replying to their messages in a bad manner.
Those who know me well would never fall for that (aside from the fact that those who know me already knew of the plan to troll the entire scene). I’ve been a tester for various kernel exploits in the past, including my own, and I’m in possession of some of the scenes biggest secrets (sadly only one or two actually related to Vita-side hacking).
Why on earth would I damage my reputation by being a dumb leaker? specially me, who I’ve fought leakers in the past and have shown great distaste for those who treat other people’s work like garbage.
I’m a developer first, and a user later, I know how hard finding a kernel exploit is, so I respect anyone with enough knowledge to find one.
But what saddens me of this is that some people actually wanted to see me depart from the scene.
Those people haven’t done a fraction of what I’ve done for the scene, they are the typical “I use exploit and give nothing back”, yet they wanted me to go? They are the ones who should go before they manage to drive every dev away out of frustration, spoiling the fun for the rest of us.
I don’t really care if they dislike me or not, I can’t force anyone to do it, but showing some respect for the devs that bring you all the *** you install on your system for free is the least we can ask for.
Motivation
wololo.net is a very serious and professional site, we can’t deny that. We publish articles that are always either about the latest news or about more advance stuff like MIPS, C and exploits.
That being said, having a good laugh every now and then is healthy, and while it’s true that wololo organized a huge easter egg hunt, which should be fun, I wanted to take april fools to the next level and create a joke that would be hard for users to detect and see through.
That said, the joke was a complete success as only one or two people saw through it. But it was just that, a joke.
If you do not like the joke, I don’t care. I have my own sense of humor and I am pretty sure more than one person will have a good laugh with it, to those that do, awesome, to those that don’t, just move along and ignore it.
Well, I was expecting this since Acid Snake is an excelent troll in the forums… What could be better for this day than an elaborate joke?
Haha, he really isn’t. His trolling is very subpar.
Definitely nothing to write home about.
you should normally use an identifiable name when criticizing someone repeatedly, as otherwise people might think you have an unrelated grievance or are unwilling to level your criticism “publicly.”
but, yeah, wololo made the “prank” obvious. (and, as I said in the other post, he probably did it intentionally to prevent people from hating on Acid_Snake… it didn’t work)
I am. Want to find me? Search up these two names on Google.
You’ll find my blog and other stuff like that.
I’m a genius :p I visited Acid_Snake’s profile page, he was banned, but the last visit was in 4/1/14 at 4pm, I realized then that this is all a huge troll.
Sneaky
My colon was dripping and I cried myself to sleep last night…
:O
Welcome back from the dead. Good one btw..
What the heck is going on in this post…
¡¡¡Awwww Lawd!!!
and queue kalan porter-true colors in the track-player please. it was hard to believe such a contributing member of the community could do this, but in the end. you even had me fooled. well played/
Ok ill just suicide and kill a kitten bye…
good.
I just wasted 99999999999999,99999 hours searching for easter eggs, one side of me said me to not believe this, i listened the other side…
The Easter Egg hunt is real. The April fool’s joke was Acid_Snake being banned. We will add new Easter Eggs at the end of the week, there’s still $900 to go!
Oh nice! you saved the kitten!
Just take a look at my face!! —> >:0
Hahahaha… You really got me there.
It was very sad when I heard the news and I couldn’t believe it.
Thanks God, it was just a troll on your side.
Well, putting that aside I personally thankful for all the effort and time spent the devs have spent to bring the exploit to us.
Final words, it’s good to see you still on the scene. 😉
Well, yeah. You were still in the Moderator’s group, as well as Registered Users and such, so that was a big indication that it wasn’t a real ban because you would have been removed from at least the Moderator’s group if it was.
I didn’t even comment when i heard of it, i just didn’t believe it,
for me the news were kinda fishy and not believeble at all, i was
theres no way Acid did this.
yeah i was expecting it because he do a thing like that with NNNRT in ch, it is so funny that false ban
Man I am so glad this was a joke because I love to read your history of articles, and also your name is super cool haha. Anyway good joke and I was actually a bit scared lol, but I’m very relieved.
I would never say a bad word about you Acid, and to the people bad mouthing him, go to heck, honestly.
I thought he got banned cos it took him more than a day to get out his second **XX of the day :P**
xD C’mon plzzz the thirst of it
LMAoooo i had never read so much in my life trying to un-solve the riddle. i call those with-in the situation jokes. u had me confused not fooled. keep up the good work and humor, wololo.net is my home page i knew something was fishy
Well played my friend, well played
Im going to say I wasn’t sure about this. That being said, I don’t know Acid_Snake.
AWKWARD
“I GUESS THERE IS A LESSON HERE FOR US ALL!”
Don’t take them seriously darktbs7! You’re hero! You come to Wololo and check out the site without reading a word! Finally I found my personal hero!
Sure, I’ll show you (the developer) respect when you start showing us (the users) with respect. Sadly, you do not know how to do that.
Until you do, Acid, don’t expect it. Quit acting like you’re entitled to it.
Oopsies! I made a typo.
My point still stands, though.
No one will take you seriously with a name like that, and whether or not you think he deserves respect for his work doesn’t mean you should be rude. You my friend need to be more kind because I bet he reads these comments, and he doesn’t need to feel good by your words, but he definitely doesn’t need to feel bad. Respect others 🙂
So, being a developer in this scene gives you the right to walk all over everybody and still expect them to respect you? You may be content with that, but Acid_Snake can seriously *** off.
why are you even here then?
Why are you here?
Wait What?
Why would the Dev’s show you respect? what did you do for them?
If someone expects me to respect them, they will respect me as well.
I can teach you more about basic human interaction, if you want. Or you can keep sucking up to Acid_Snake.
Teach me.
Step 1: Grasp my appendage.
How are people sucking up to him? Those of us who were smart enough to realize it was April Fool’s were also smart enough to know that it was an April Fool’s joke. heck I even said on that very post that people should *** calm down, step back, and realize what day it was before jumping to conclusions.
So for those who have and still are disrespecting Acid – I say *** you all. The man has done NOTHING but help this scene and us end users at every *** TURN! So SHOW SOME *** RESPECT!
“So SHOW SOME *** RESPECT!”
How about NO?
yeah cause you know, I will totally respect a guy who continues to bad mouth me in the blog and has no *** to show who he is in the forums
Who cares what the unknown fool said flipssidooda, Acid_Snake you Rock thanks for all the had work you do for this community. Also all other devs giving your all Thank You.
Sorry, dear. I don’t visit the forums.
It really isn’t an April fools’ joke as you started the joke few days before april 1st.
to make it more believable
Exactly, anyone with half a brain should realize that the week leading up to April Fools is always going to be the time where misinformation is spread to go towards whatever the joke ultimately is on April Fools.
Well as my comments in the comment section on your “ban announcement/explanation” shows – I didn’t believe it from the beginning and even told people not to jump to conclusions and badmouth you till a day or two after April fools when the dust surrounding that holiday is supposed to settle. (meaning that if the announcement still held, then it was open season on you.)
Never believed it for a second. But I have to say that April fools jokes are a double edged sword m8. They usually cause more harm then good. As can be seen from all the backlash because people can’t put two and two together.
But you can also say that as a result of the joke you are obviously a critical member of this scene. People wouldn’t have gotten so angry if it was some “wannabe dev.” You offer a lot to the scene and so it caused an uproar. Just sucks you had to suffer backlash as a result.
I knew it was a fallacy! Although there was plenty of people flaming him online, I knew deep down that Acid_Snake wasn’t to be untrusted, plus it was April 1st, who can believe any news posted on such a day.
I kept up with it all and didn’t really say anything, with coldbird back in the news I was hoping not to see a coldbird disappearance of Acid_Snake. I remember a previous fiasco and what better a day to strike than april fools. You know that still *** me off big fu&%en time that The legend of Zelda movie trailer was fake. I would so watch a movie like that!!!
Glad to hear, it was a joke. And in my opinion a good one with the preliminary work in /talk, because that made it less obvious.
wololo.net is a very serious and professional site, we can’t deny that.
NICE JOKE DUDE! This was the funny part, the rest you know was definitely ***! You have serious personality behaviour issues! Consult a psychiatrist…
lolnice
Thanks, lol
ahaha ha ha ha hahhaha! Sense of humor! I never get that! Why do you keep trying?! Its like ‘Dude! shut the eff up! I’ve heard that joke a million times! You’re not funny, deal with it!’ But you know I’m sure most of guys in here was you know almost have an heart attack when they’ve heard you’re a traitor! An when you back! WoW! I can’t even describe that with words! Our favorite Snake, standing on the hall of fame, and shines like the sun after shower! It was G A Y! Jeez, I thought just Wololo is japanese in here! You could get some help from naruto guy you know! He do the summon trick and suddendly instead of a frog, wow! Guess who’s back?!
wololo is french, this shows how much you “visit” the site and how “dedicated” you are. Oh and when was the last time you (and that *** *** mlc) did something for the scene other than leech off and complain?
I thought so.
Well, I didn’t really read his bio! But as far as I know, in his twitter account (https://twitter.com/frwololo) he wrote that he’s in Tokyo! OH OH OH! I’m sorry! You were in this hacking stuff and never had this chance to read and pass geography! It’s ok! I’ll tell ya! Tokyo is in Japan, not France! Eiffel tower, wierdo mustaches, bonjour and kissing stuffs, mouse chef you know! That stuff happens in France!
PS, I really don’t wanna mention what happens in Japan! And I don’t recommend any anime! They hurt your stomach!
And I’m not dedicated (I swear to god I am if you’re reading this!) and don’t belong here!! Just for fun! I’ve never done anything for here b4 and the interesting point is I’ve never found anything useful here to use! Fair enough, huh!? But if you’re really interested I’m VFX artist, what do you want!? Shoot! I always make scenes!
Btw mlc, leave the guy alone! Can’t you see how “loud” he’s crying!?
And apparently you don’t know the difference between “in” and “from”, I advise you to go back to elementary school.
When keeping it real goes wrong.
The tone of this article alone is representative of why you were criticized, and why this was a poor choice of prank. You aren’t beyond criticism, hence the prank led to people criticizing you in a hurtful manner, unrelated to the “he sold exploits” prank itself. And now your feelings are hurt. =( lol
Honestly, though, planning a tone deaf prank and then throwing a fit about the response is hilarious. I thought it was silly, but this really made it worthwhile. April Fools Guyz
has there ever been a developer or moderator who has not being criticized?
Quite frankly people think I am rude to noobs searching for help, I can’t go around answering the same freaking question thousands of times so I end up doing what the FORUM RULES say:
“- If you have a question, be sure to check first the sticky topics of each category and use the search function before posting.”
and as a moderator, my main job is to make sure these rules are being respected, if you do not like the rules, or the moderators, then wololo.net is not for you. It is a black and white scenario.
That being said, your comment is completely wrong, you make it seem like everyone hated the prank or that I made new enemies with it while I only the same *** as always.
Aside from it, noobs that want to learn for real have all gotten help from me (have you taken a moment to read my posts in the security and programming sections? I’m guessing not by your overly-ignorant tone), not the typical “I wunt 1s0z” noobs, who always get redirected to the same TN-V and Ninja Release threads without further help on my part or any of the moderators for that matter.
I am gonna agree with many a time mods cop a lot of flak just for being mods. I could see why devs would too.
+1
oh well, I knew it from the beginning, I wonder which mods deleted 2 posts of mine mentioning about “1st of April….” in the blocked thread “Acid_Snake banned??” =)
it was most likely SMOKE
im not a member in the forum but i was shocked at first, because i read most of your articles and you seemed intelligent, even if you were to do what was said about you, i highly doubt it get exposed like this.
anyways, cool prank and now you know just how much quick judging *** this site has.
Wow there is a few hate comments here. I think Acid_Snake is doing a great job and is trying hard no need to hate if he just wants to have some fun for April fools. Although I guess I shouldn’t comment I’m not sure how he is like in /talk I’m not too attached to forms.. I should try I wouldn’t mind becoming a Dev if I could but soo tired…
The hate comments mostly come from the same people responsible for devs departure. 12-year-old kids like mlc and mosi who have no life and spent their huge free time criticizing other people’s work without doing anything useful themselves.
I kind of missed your april fools prank because the site was down for a while… though I want to help the scene more I don’t think it’s my time yet, I can’t really help the scene software or hardware wise
im still waiting for playing psx with sound on vita.
Why do you and a few others constantly post this *** on EVERY DAMN ARTICLE! STAY ON TOPIC! If PSX sound was easy, it would have been done by now. Instead of constantly posting “still waiting on that sound patch for PSX” why don’t you start learning and actually CONTRIBUTE!
Sorry but these kinds of posts tick me right off. As the person who posts it comes off as a total leecher who is demanding a fix for something.
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Just awesome. Give that man a cookie for his great troll.
Sure fooled me…
Wow….just wow…
Nice prank I already saw vital fooling april
Every April fools day there is crazy stuff like this. At least this was just that we need people like Mr. Snake or this whole crazy hacking thing will be lost and the Sony’s, Microsoft’s, and Nintendo’s of the world will win and we will lose big time. So good joke but let this be a learning moment for anyone looking to make money where there is never a need to make money in the first place.
This was insanely obvious but apparently it fooled a lot of people. I thought it was pretty clever