TSR: In Ur Accounts, Deletin Ur Stuffs!

[rum nate]

I just have to share this comment that was in posted on TSR about their news update for Workshop:

cool this is sweet u guys r awsome have u evr considedered merging with modthesims.info?

Someone really has no clue about the relationship between MTS and TSR, do they?

[ShanOw]

Haha, I saw that comment as well - I was gonna post a reply but figured that getting banned from TSR wouldn't help my cause at all.

Perhaps gullible Sheeples like this one could be turned persuaded to ditch TSR quite easily. It could be that the secret to bringing down TSR is to take advantage of the stupidity of its paying userbase.

[ShanOw]

I've been looking back at all my server logs from when I was hacked looking for something, anything, that I could use as evidence against TSR and I came across something interesting.

It seems the same week as my website, www.sims3central.net was hacked, my other website; www.luinasims.com was the victim of a DOS attack.


This single day my website used 26% of the months total bandwidth usage; often small-medium peaks in traffic can be explained by an update but I had not updated on the day, nor the week beforehand. Seeing this anomaly, I decided to investigate further.


As this log shows, a single download was downloaded over 2100 times. The download had been online for over 12 months and had never been downloaded more than 5 times in a month up until this time (It is a very unpopular and -If I may say so myself- very craptacular download) Further investigation found that all of these downloads occurred within the period of 3 hours, during which the site went offline to excessive cpu usage. According to the hosts server log, the particular server I was then hosted on; creation.lunarbreeze.com suffered downtime due to reseting all connections because the DOS protection was activated (Or something along those lines, I didn't quite understand all the graphs they provided me with)


Lastly, on that day I got one visit from a hostname that downloaded over 2200 files! How many people download that much CC in a single visit? Answer: 0.

The first hostname (internode.on.net) belongs to me, and it only bigger than the second becuase I took a full backup of every file (1300'ish) on my hosting account, hence why it has more KB's transferred than the second.


All I can establish from this is that someone tried a large DOS attack on my website the same time as my Photobucket and other site being hacked that was thwarted only by my hosting provider.

[Quorneater]

At this point I'm just watching the train wreck.

Try playing Sims?  It might cheer you up a bit.

[SnarkyShark]

Inge, shouldn't you be hanging around with your shady millionaire friends? I mean, what's left? You've come here and all but endorsed TSR's toxic tool -

I think I am going to like using Workshop once it is finished, and I think most other creators are too.

 - Hey, if you can supply them with a smiling headshot  (then again, maybe a smirking one would be more appropriate), maybe they'll use it on the downloads page.

Again, this playing out almost exactly like coconut predicted.
 

[Quorneater]

Lol!  Ok

[Pescado]

Heh, you should get a server more like ours, then. The MATY servers automatically banhammer anyone who tries something like that.

[neriana]

At this point I'm just watching the train wreck.

Try playing Sims?  It might cheer you up a bit.

Because your brain has apparently been stolen, you seem not to have noticed that I said you amuse me now. I'm watching the train wreck because it's way more fun than playing Sims 3, which is shit. However, I have other games to play, and many things to do other than play computer games, but it takes like 7 minutes to see what's up on PMBD.

[KatCat]

I didn't know where else to post this and I didn't want to create a new thread just for this, so I hope it is okay to post here.  Looks like their forums still email members when new replies are made.  I've not been to TSR in a long time but I received an email notice about a new post in Padre's FA thread.  Looks like he has retired and made all his items free.

http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/Padre/blog/view

[Paden]

The princess has stepped down? Oh frabjous day, calloo callay! And in other words, the Jack of Hearts stole some hearts and died of terminal indigestion... Sorry about being cynical, but I just can't get too enthused about a second-rate drama queen quitting and putting their illegal paystuff to free status, where it should have been since day one... One down, how many more to go?

[simsrocks]

Wow!
He has as well! I just looked.

Wonderful =D Now if only we could get more people going free. *gives him a cookie*

[CatOfWar]

If we don't appreciate the small things and drink to them, then what's all our rum for?
Yay, no more Paden Padre for pay!  I was amused by how Paden Padre wrote that leaving was voluntarily.  
FAs are contract workers.  You don't produce, they don't pay you.

edit: fixed horribly embarrassing typo (see Paden's post below)

[Paden]

Um, I'M Paden. HE's Padre. I've always been free. He's always been a pay douchebag. Also, I haz boobies while he IS a boob. *waits for apology cookie*

[CatOfWar]

Eeep!  Paden, so sorry!  A million apologies for accidentally mixing you up with a pay creator!
*hands over basket of apology cookies and hides in shame*

[SnarkyShark]

Can a princess lawfully abdicate? I always imagined that they had to be dragged to a guillotine and dispensed with. Well, as long as he's giving up the title and the tiara, good luck to him, I suppose.

(Paden, get rid of the coach-and-six and the confusion will end)