This apparently senseless spree does sort of lean towards the script-kiddy theory. At this point it doesn't seem like the attacks serve any useful purpose for ANYONE, and so we're either looking at a pattern of general vandalism unrelated to the community at all, or the list has gone out into the wild.

Come now, let's not be hostile. Let the man talk. If he doesn't know anything, he can't really defend TSR anyway, and if he does know something, he'll blurt it out eventually.

In any event, as far as THIS particular hacking goes, there is no real evidence that TSR was involved at all, as this "Sugah" is not connected with either of us in any way, and has neither confirmed nor denied the TSR password connection, making it entirely plausible that this is simply a totally random incident. And no, Goatse and Tubgirl are not connections. If anyone has ACTUAL evidence or information, let's hear it.

Well, let's look at the facts. Either he's not as shiny as he appears, and therefore, he will lie, or he is as shiny as he appears, and in any event, has admitted he has no idea what is happening, which renders most of what he says about the matter meaningless. Either way, he is not mounting an effective defense of TSR as a whole. I'm willing to believe him simply because I've already tried to pin stuff on him without any of it sticking to him personally, but like I said, he's also admitted he doesn't really know. If he was dishonest about that, such a move renders his defensive efforts worthless. If he was honest about hit, his defense of TSR is still meaningless. Whether true or false, what he has said has effectively crippled his defense of TSR.

Yeah, that's an argument against the "hive mind" idea. Sure, they have an office and talk, but Johan seems to show up during times which not always standard office hours. And obviously, he believes these accusations are untrue...but at the same time, he can only speak for himself, and clearly not the entireity of TSR. I haven't found any evidence that he, personally, has committed any nefarious acts, but again, he isn't the entireity of TSR, and clearly there is stuff they don't tell him about.

That doesn't mean anything. Site design takes effort. If someone already has two socks, they may simply not have enough energy left to expend effort making a GOOD site design that is different. They could REUSE the site design, but that would totally give it away. So, the obvious answer is to put up a shitty one. Plenty of shitty site designs, after all. Hell, PMBD uses shitty site design. I throw the files in a directory and call it a day. Site design? Pssh!

I'm not really a believer in the "Team Johan" theory, mostly because I have spoken with him live in real-time chat, where he would not have had sufficient time to consult with a "panel". On the other hand, I think he's largely clueless about what goes on in the TSR political scene and really has no idea what is going on, so what he says doesn't really represent anything other than himself. If he denies anything, his denial really only extends as far as himself. He strikes me as being entirely too willing to believe well of those close to him, which means his grasp on what is going on over there is probably tenuous at best.

Well, "Assless Chaps" is kind of a redundancy, seeing as if they weren't assless, they'd just be regular leather pants.

Awesome. Screw the funny looking horse chairs, I want the assless chaps for a special sim!

Photomapped anything looks like absolute shit in TS3, even more so than it does in TS2, because it really stands out when you see how TS3 has moved heavily from prepainted textures to procedural generation, and a lot of creators don't "get" that.

See The 8 Stages Of Goatse (Safe, no actual Goatse).

Are you kidding? Goatse? Tubgirl? Those are CLASSIC choices. People goatse websites all the time!

It's a subset of paranoia: Doing unto others before they do unto you.

Well, it's Inge. She is speaking of a subject that she has absolutely no understanding of, because she's all goody-two-shoes and has no understanding of how being evil works. Me? I know how the bad guys operate, because I know how to fight dirty. This, however, seems rather petty and needlessly destructive of potentially valuable intelligence assets, exactly the kind of hamfisted move you would see from script kiddies and assorted amateurs. I am more what they call "Gray Hat".

Let's be fair, here. We're also talking about Inge. Inge has a teacosy on her head. She thinks I am 3 people and live in my mother's basement. She thinks my wife is a blow-up doll. She comes up with some pretty outlandish conspiracy theories, which are not even consistent within themselves.