Author: popeofh October 31, 2016

Now, you might have found the last few pages a bit on the nasty side. Maybe a bit petty or vindictive. Maybe you even noticed how, out of all those pages, only one affected me personally. Why would I go through all that trouble then?

Romhacking has been a hobby of mine for a long time. Various projects kept me going through times when i really didnt have much going for me, and times when i did. I had managed to carve out a niche, and made a name for myself with my work. For a while, situations in my life pulled me away from my hobby, and when i got back to the community, me and many of my compatriots had been forgotten, or dropped off the face of the internet.  The old haunts had become all but abandoned, and RHDN was one of the biggest ones left. It was then i ran into “badhacks” they knew who i was, they knew and loved all the work i had done and the work of the people who, in the past, were my associates and peers. Tough some derided my previous work, it was still acknowledged as a part of the history of the hobby. As the “Bad” hacks community has changed and moved from one iteration to the next, some of those who have found it have told me that my work, a bunch of stupid hacks about a fat old man with diabeetus and a cereal magnate, inspired them to do incredible things with roms… leading to knowledge the hackers of my time, with their primitive tools, could only imagine. But while “bad” hackers continue to innovate, the “clean” hackers have regressed. The “clean” hackers have shat out hack after hack of “we used someone elses tool to hack SMB levels, whoo look at us!” like a bunch of BBS script kiddies. Doing things without understanding anything about the principles that make things work.

In the badhacks community i have seen people from all walks and creed. A transvestite (or at least i’d guess they were), a literal doctor, a recovering drug addict,  programmers, family men, a convicted criminal, and English major…… people that i wouldn’t want to be within ten feet of in real life, and though we don’t all agree, we all accept that we share the same hobby, though we may be on different levels, and we wouldn’t have it any other way arguments and all. If the words i’ve posted here get me banned from RHDN, for simply telling the truth and sharing a story then so be it. I’d rather be stuck with a bunch of nutjobs who would laugh at my stupid mistakes while simultaneously telling me how to fix it without talking down to me, than a bunch of elitists pricks who seem to solely exist to call me a Nazi pedophile because i think dick jokes and stereotypes are forms of amusement.

Its nice to think that if i disappear for a few years again, there might still be a community like this one I can come back to… to find people that still know how to have a good time and laugh every once in a while no matter how bad things get.