Video Game Archival Autism / TCRF / Jul / Sonic Retro / And More - Harvest Troon: Friends of Byuu-Near-al town

[I Want To Believe]

Great OP but man, why do most communities I’m interested in end up being ruled by insane tranny (and sometime pedo) furries? What a shame, I liked to go on TCRF, and wow, I never knew LuigiBlood was that unhinged, aside for his obsession with Magalor. I recall seeing him helping with emulating the Satellaview and the N64DD, I guess Byuu wasn’t an isolated case after all... far from it.

> Start a community that pertains to your interests
> Build up popularity by appealing to the lowest common denominator and being "relevant"
> Gain power and popularity over time, form a toxic friend circle
> People start trying to bring you down and harassing you
> Come out as "trans" or asexual
> ???
> Profit

It basically nullifies any wrongdoing that they may have done and gives them a "get out of jail free" card.

 

[ks99]

Big talk coming from the child molester. (https://archive.ph/98Lau)

 

[Hrafn]

Had a chat today with a very respected PhD level archivist who also teaches at a high ranked university in my country.

Without pl'ing too much, preservation and archival relates to my day job. I was looking into something today and I brought up examples from this thread to them regarding sacred cows taking something over and using their sacred cow status as a shield against criticism, and the amount of noncey incidents mentioned, as well as how there was a post where there were caps from the discord talking about screening material before releasing it.

I didn't of course show them the thread as kiwifarms is hardly a work appropriate discussion topic, but suffice to say, they found the entire thing to be very sinister and agrees with me that stuff like this warrants some investigation as well as outright exposure. There's certain core rules when it comes to archival and preservation, even in an amateur context, and these degenerates are ignoring a lot of them.

I'll be hawkwatching this thread and will contribute anything of interest I come across, I appreciate all of the interesting contributions here. I can use these as a start to actually deep dive into some things time allowing. Thank you, kiwifrens.

 

[bonanus]

Had a chat today with a very respected PhD level archivist who also teaches at a high ranked university in my country.

Without pl'ing too much, preservation and archival relates to my day job. I was looking into something today and I brought up examples from this thread to them regarding sacred cows taking something over and using their sacred cow status as a shield against criticism, and the amount of noncey incidents mentioned, as well as how there was a post where there were caps from the discord talking about screening material before releasing it.

I didn't of course show them the thread as kiwifarms is hardly a work appropriate discussion topic, but suffice to say, they found the entire thing to be very sinister and agrees with me that stuff like this warrants some investigation as well as outright exposure. There's certain core rules when it comes to archival and preservation, even in an amateur context, and these degenerates are ignoring a lot of them.

I'll be hawkwatching this thread and will contribute anything of interest I come across, I appreciate all of the interesting contributions here. I can use these as a start to actually deep dive into some things time allowing. Thank you, kiwifrens.

Since preservation and archival is something you do, I appreciate looking into the thread and any, if all, input you have will be nice when it comes to these weird video game archival communities.

What I personally hate about these communities is the gatekeeping of information and how these people think they're free of any criticism by their contributions to society (ala, trooning out and then using said troonisms as a get out of jail free card). It doesn't help how Luigiblood has lied to people about the Gigaleak and wack0 for clout. It's insane what people do when it comes to mishandling archiving and the entire purpose of preservation.

I don't have much experience in the field, but isn't preservation something that should be taken seriously?

 

[Hrafn]

Since preservation and archival is something you do, I appreciate looking into the thread and any, if all, input you have will be nice when it comes to these weird video game archival communities.

What I personally hate about these communities is the gatekeeping of information and how these people think they're free of any criticism by their contributions to society (ala, trooning out and then using said troonisms as a get out of jail free card). It doesn't help how Luigiblood has lied to people about the Gigaleak and wack0 for clout. It's insane what people do when it comes to mishandling archiving and the entire purpose of preservation.

I don't have much experience in the field, but isn't preservation something that should be taken seriously?

Absolutely, yes.

Spoiler: Archival Sperging

So when it comes to archival there's a term called "respect des fonds", which basically means if you find something, do not alter it unless there's concrete evidence that it should be altered. Keep stuff to "provenance" which basically means like original order. So for example you find pages labeled 1 2 3 and 4, you keep them in a box together. However, if it turns out that there's a page 5, it's acceptable to place this with the other found pages if it's related so long as a record is kept of this. It's pretty autistic lol.

Not keeping to this rule is a big no no and in a professional situation would actually hinder any long term plans or possibly destroy a record altogether if the original is messed with too much.

The fact that they mention screening romdumps is a MASSIVE red flag in itself. Like yeah if you duplicate something, it's fine to alter the dupe in the sense that you'd be erasing Japanese text and replacing it with translated English text, but if you straight up do this to the original it's just a complete retard move. Same goes for altering the message in the original dialogue, which is slipping into commercial items through localisation, which of course isn't allowed to be criticised as of course, the localisers are part of the usual suspect cabal. Dupes and edits of records is also part of a very long, very autistic bit of theory I won't elaborate on as this post would turn into a novel.

TL;DR they are ignoring one of the most core and important rules of preservation which basically boils down to "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT FUCK WITH THE ARCHIVES" and as a result are shit at it and should be criticised, which they ain't as they have protected status and most of them have no fucking idea what they're doing. As well, if you control the archive, you control the narrative so naturally certain types of people would get a kick out of this kind of thing, hence some of their gay ass drama/noncery/general habit of sucking as people.

Respect des fonds

 

[Enig]

Absolutely, yes.

Spoiler: Archival Sperging

So when it comes to archival there's a term called "respect des fonds", which basically means if you find something, do not alter it unless there's concrete evidence that it should be altered. Keep stuff to "provenance" which basically means like original order. So for example you find pages labeled 1 2 3 and 4, you keep them in a box together. However, if it turns out that there's a page 5, it's acceptable to place this with the other found pages if it's related so long as a record is kept of this. It's pretty autistic lol.

Not keeping to this rule is a big no no and in a professional situation would actually hinder any long term plans or possibly destroy a record altogether if the original is messed with too much.

The fact that they mention screening romdumps is a MASSIVE red flag in itself. Like yeah if you duplicate something, it's fine to alter the dupe in the sense that you'd be erasing Japanese text and replacing it with translated English text, but if you straight up do this to the original it's just a complete retard move. Same goes for altering the message in the original dialogue, which is slipping into commercial items through localisation, which of course isn't allowed to be criticised as of course, the localisers are part of the usual suspect cabal. Dupes and edits of records is also part of a very long, very autistic bit of theory I won't elaborate on as this post would turn into a novel.

TL;DR they are ignoring one of the most core and important rules of preservation which basically boils down to "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT FUCK WITH THE ARCHIVES" and as a result are shit at it and should be criticised, which they ain't as they have protected status and most of them have no fucking idea what they're doing. As well, if you control the archive, you control the narrative so naturally certain types of people would get a kick out of this kind of thing, hence some of their gay ass drama/noncery/general habit of sucking as people.

Respect des fonds

I'm wondering, considering your chat with the archivist, what would their view be on the Helix Chamber and gigaleak situation seeing as multiple TCRF staff and higher ups were involved behind the scenes on handling what is/was stolen data which makes their credibility overall suspect.

 

[NoonmanR]

Absolutely, yes.


TL;DR they are ignoring one of the most core and important rules of preservation which basically boils down to "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT FUCK WITH THE ARCHIVES" and as a result are shit at it and should be criticised, which they ain't as they have protected status and most of them have no fucking idea what they're doing. As well, if you control the archive, you control the narrative so naturally certain types of people would get a kick out of this kind of thing, hence some of their gay ass drama/noncery/general habit of sucking as people.

Respect des fonds

I think now is the best time to bring up some of the more "professional" members of the community. Forgive if it's not quite up to par with the other posts.

Frank Cifaldi / Video Game History Foundation / VGHF

Spoiler: Info

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi (https://archive.ph/dJxco)
GameHistory.org (https://archive.ph/Fddcc)

A few of the older members have actually gotten together and started real museums, at least 3 separate ones. All 3 of them are, "special" and are about as professional as TCRF is, if not worse(Including one that has hoarded and also released data obtained through multiple company hacks but hoh boy we'll get to that one some day.), but we'll start with Frank here. Frank Cifaldi is a member/owner of the site Lost Levels, one of the older sites in the community. They would release out such games as the US localization of Final Fantasy II, and Bio Force Ape, a game that was an infamous meme in that community. In recent years however, it seems as if he's gotten a bit of remorse over his work.

(Archive)
You can kind of tell through his output. In recent years, he rarely ever seems to preserve anything publicly, even when there's no real issue in doing so. It's been alleged that he takes donations to buy stuff, not necessarily prototypes themselves, more magazines and various public materials relating to games and then just shows off a snapshot of the thing that may or may not have been archived. It's strange though, because he'll usually take his sweet ass time to release things if he even does, for example, Sim City on NES took him years to release it and Bomberman on Jaguar which he was said to have had access to the source code on, still hasn't been properly released. Whenever there's a big event that could bring attention onto him/VGHF happens though, suddenly he too also has a prototype available that he can lend and/or dump. This has happened at least twice to my knowledge, once during Hidden Palace's release of a PS2 game

and then again more recently, when a prototype of Sim Copter 64 showed up on reddit(hoarded, of course, the video was deleted but archived all the same.).

He proclaimed on some discord called Gaming Alexandria that hey, I too have a copy, which was apparently stored in a big fucking generic box labeled "Prototypes", and he hasn't released it yet. Notice he all the generic boxes that just have a post it note on them, i wonder if they too just say "PROTOTYPE":

He also works closely with WATA Games(who are accused of price manipulation on the retro game market) as their official verifier of Prototypes that get sent in. This lead to him accidentally doxxing prototype hoarders and leaking a few of those hoarded prototypes a few months back, nothing terribly interesting, compared to say Side Pocket on the Sega CD, and he was very quick to rectify, but not quick enough...

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All in all, he has the appearance of someone who doesn't really give a shit about their work, but at the same time really wants attention and nerd credibility.

That's it for now.

Say hello to xkeeper, btw.

 

[Enig]

Since Tweaker is a subject to talk about I figured it's time to bring up something historically interesting, since it shows a bizarre parallel between Kiwi and Sonic Retro in how sites eventually converge.

SeanieB (powerword G3 wallstreet: Sean Brackeen) has long been the host provider for the site SonAR, a ROM/ISO hosting bunker that looks like it last received any major HTML overhauls in 2003 and yet still has news updates as recent as late 2021. While he might be known in the Sonic sphere for hosting sites for that community, if you were around the indie imageboard scene a decade ago he was hosting something entirely different to any of that...

SeanieB was the host and admin of 789chan.org, the site responsible for /cwc/ in 2011 and soon after was hosting /cow/ once Chris stopped being the main focus. The board that has one of the most hilariously seethe filled articles in ED's gypsyesque history, hopped between multiple backwater imageboard hosts before landing on 8chan a week before the 2014 crisis on 4chan, and was probably responsible for knocking 789chan.org out of existence in November 2012 due to everyone railing on Tweaker in January of the same year which if memory serves me correctly was a time full of a lot of attempts at suppressing Tweaker discussion and which also killed Seanie's enthusiasm since his own subjects wouldn't stop insulting his favored pedophile. Of course, this is all a decade in the past, and in much the same way a few Sonic communities eventually fused to form Retro, /cow/ and CWCki Forums effectively fused to form this site over time (aside from those shitty /cow/ knockoffs being ran by IBS obsessed nobodies).
While we know that Tweaker is somehow being allowed to roam freely on Discord even with full knowledge of what he did to his own sister, I dunno where Seanie's at these days. All I know is a friend of mine's had this image of him saved since 2016, so now's a better time than ever to post it.

Anyway, back to deciding if I should do a writeup on the Socks the Cat shitfest or the Bio Force Ape prank.

 

[NoonmanR]

Ah, fucking SeanieB. First off i can tell you that SONAR site hasn't changed a bit from how i remember it, way back in TWO THOUSAND AND FUCKING EIGHT. Second,

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Also this is off topic as fuck, but fuck it this is a Chris Chan forum, right? Before him /cwc/ was a different beast altogether. The chan where it came from originally was more geared towards general troll ops than Chris or lolcows, typical for an altchan that rose during the age of chanology, but honestly the rest of the site never had much of a pulse, and the ops only served to give /cwc/ such "quality" content as "Hey guys we should send Chris some hookers" and then being told Clyde Cash did it already, "Hey do you think it's a good idea to make a documentary on Chris?", JULAAAAAAY prank calls, or "Hey guys i think we should dig up Patti it'd be an epic trolle and make Chris angry", also the owner was doxxed, cucked(twice from what i remember), and thoroughly humiliated by his inner circle by the end of it. When Seanie got his mitts on the site he more or less softened the image, chopping away the more "problematic" bits like /i/nvasion and made the switch to lolcows in general, since thanks to Rocky Chris went on a hiatus.

>The ED article

Ponyfuckers.789chan.txt
789chan has a proud history of ponyfuckers and getting DoX'd on and then having SeanieB clean up the mess their failure has caused. Unfortunately for them, Sean doesn't know anything about dox, doxin, or how to remove dox and therefore is a poor troll shield even at the best of times.

That part i can tell you is 100% true, maybe not so much the dox, but god damn there was tons of horsefags and by the end of it's run they did NOT hide it. Nothing like jumping into IRC then starting a fight with some bitch named DiamondTiara because you get the reference but can't outright say it without getting gotcha'd by the other horsefags in the chat, or checking the site on my school computer and seeing pages upon pages of fucking pony porn some assmad retard was spamming.

Anyways, just goes to show where the site went under his reign.

but ah, at this point i'm rambling on shit i can barely remember, and there's not really any way i can prove any of this shit, but caveat emptor and blah blah.

 

[Enig]

That part i can tell you is 100% true, maybe not so much the dox, but god damn there was tons of horsefags and by the end of it's run they did NOT hide it. Nothing like jumping into IRC then starting a fight with some bitch named DiamondTiara because you get the reference but can't outright say it without getting gotcha'd by the other horsefags in the chat, or checking the site on my school computer and seeing pages upon pages of fucking pony porn some assmad retard was spamming.

If you want worse, there was a time when the IRC was hosted by a service named InternetRelayCats, and going to their site in public to get the connection info was always a risk taking affair since the home page had green tinged Nazi naval banners along the top and left edges.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Thread's been a long time coming. There's always been terminal autism in the rom preservation community and I'm not really surprised to see the transgender culture has taken it over entirely since I stopped participating.

Frank Cifaldi

I really wonder what happened to him since the early 2000s, he used to be a fairly prolific shitposter back in the early years of SA when he went by TheRedEye everywhere. He'd also rage against people who hoarded roms and generally seemed like an almost entirely different person compared to now. Seems like the entirety of his old crowd has moved on as well, or at least distanced themselves further enough to not be involved in the current nonsense.

 

[Enig]

I really wonder what happened to him since the early 2000s, he used to be a fairly prolific shitposter back in the early years of SA when he went by TheRedEye everywhere. He'd also rage against people who hoarded roms and generally seemed like an almost entirely different person compared to now. Seems like the entirety of his old crowd has moved on as well, or at least distanced themselves further enough to not be involved in the current nonsense.

There just seems to be some bizarre aura or force that eminates from Something Awful where the people that left it end up doing a 180 on their personality while retaining the hair trigger. I recall that he once used the start of a post on a Tumblr blog he had open for obscure art assets to lightly seethe over Gamergate, which was followed some time later by an abrupt tweet about 8chan over either GG or pedophiles. It's somewhat like that Foone guy, he went from obsessing over 3D Movie Maker and being a 4chan mod to sitting on Twitter doing 200+ tweet megaposts about how he couldn't use Kryoflux on a single one of his hundreds of computers he has stockpiled.

 

[Coolio55]

There just seems to be some bizarre aura or force that eminates from Something Awful where the people that left it end up doing a 180 on their personality while retaining the hair trigger. I recall that he once used the start of a post on a Tumblr blog he had open for obscure art assets to lightly seethe over Gamergate, which was followed some time later by an abrupt tweet about 8chan over either GG or pedophiles. It's somewhat like that Foone guy, he went from obsessing over 3D Movie Maker and being a 4chan mod to sitting on Twitter doing 200+ tweet megaposts about how he couldn't use Kryoflux on a single one of his hundreds of computers he has stockpiled.

Wait, Foone was a 4chan mod? Ahahahaha! That just makes it funnier.
Anyway, all he does now is seethe about "the orange site misgendering meeee ". Boo hoo!

 

[RisingPhoenix]

Most of these people also came from Sonic Cult originally. Sonic Cult was run by a succession of people including Sazpaimon, ScarredSun and original owner PACHUKA.

It sprung up around the time a lot of the big Sonic sites of the 90's and early 00's were starting to run out of steam, and mostly stole discoveries from places like Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta site and Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog and repackaged the content with more edgelord snark between screens. The community generally was considered the "black sheep" of the Sonic Fandom as PACHUKA generally would be a dick to other webmasters/ movers and shakers of the fandom. But many members of the Cult Forums pretty much all moved over to Sonic Retro once it was time to jump ship. Members such as Tweaker, DRX, Wetflame and others all were members of Sonic Cult at a time when it was known for doxing, hacking and harrassing other Sonic fansites and members.

PACHUKA's main achivements were getting to be a tester on a naff Sega Games collection on GBA and also pre-leaking the announcement of Cream the Rabbit as a new character for Sonic Advance 2, I think Cult also pre-leaked Sonic Advance 3 before it's glory days were over. Somewhere in the middle of all that - PACHUKA got arrested for having sex with a minor. So ScarredSun and Sazpaimon basically ran Cult in his absense. Somewhere along the way they decided they wanted to do away with the stigma. Cult also hosted a bunch of Sonic Hentai with no age gate as well. So they had already covered for one Pedo before Tweaker.

PACHUKA has popped up at Retro since his arrest. But Tweaker was essentally erased from everything he'd ever done for Sonic Retro ( I believe he's still credited in Sonic Megamix - a popular fan hack in the 2010's) . Retro never really explained in proper what Tweaker did to get essentally erased almost overnight (the post to Tristan and the logs the first time I've seen the full story) - which has been to his advantage as most people don't know the story or got vague details on what had happened. This is likely why he's now able to gradually squirm back into the video game preservation community again as he claims he did nothing wrong.

 

[NoonmanR]

Most of these people also came from Sonic Cult originally. Sonic Cult was run by a succession of people including Sazpaimon, ScarredSun and original owner PACHUKA.

It sprung up around the time a lot of the big Sonic sites of the 90's and early 00's were starting to run out of steam, and mostly stole discoveries from places like Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta site and Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog and repackaged the content with more edgelord snark between screens. The community generally was considered the "black sheep" of the Sonic Fandom as PACHUKA generally would be a dick to other webmasters/ movers and shakers of the fandom. But many members of the Cult Forums pretty much all moved over to Sonic Retro once it was time to jump ship. Members such as Tweaker, DRX, Wetflame and others all were members of Sonic Cult at a time when it was known for doxing, hacking and harrassing other Sonic fansites and members.

PACHUKA's main achivements were getting to be a tester on a naff Sega Games collection on GBA and also pre-leaking the announcement of Cream the Rabbit as a new character for Sonic Advance 2, I think Cult also pre-leaked Sonic Advance 3 before it's glory days were over. Somewhere in the middle of all that - PACHUKA got arrested for having sex with a minor. So ScarredSun and Sazpaimon basically ran Cult in his absense. Somewhere along the way they decided they wanted to do away with the stigma. Cult also hosted a bunch of Sonic Hentai with no age gate as well. So they had already covered for one Pedo before Tweaker.

PACHUKA has popped up at Retro since his arrest. But Tweaker was essentally erased from everything he'd ever done for Sonic Retro ( I believe he's still credited in Sonic Megamix - a popular fan hack in the 2010's) . Retro never really explained in proper what Tweaker did to get essentally erased almost overnight (the post to Tristan and the logs the first time I've seen the full story) - which has been to his advantage as most people don't know the story or got vague details on what had happened. This is likely why he's now able to gradually squirm back into the video game preservation community again as he claims he did nothing wrong.

Ah force me hand, why dontcha? lol, but for reals

Eric Robert Gray / PACHUKA / Unknown Archive

Spoiler: Info

https://www.youtube.com/c/UnknownArchiveDump (Archive)

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He did fuck a child, and not just the one time either oh no, there were MULTIPLE children molested. A pity too, he was one of the more dogged members of the preservation scene back in the day, back when people would just buy games then altered them as they pleased so they could sell bootlegged copies. Then one day he picked a fight with the original owner of NintendoAge and...

This juicy little tidbit came to light! Odd though, if you visit the page now, the section they original had on him? Completely wiped of all the damning bits of information! Ah but not to worry, "whoever" it was that did it couldn't wipe out the article history, and they for damn sure can't touch this here Archive, or the archive of this here news article:

An Atherton man charged with assaulting a teen girl he met on the Internet pleaded not guilty in San Mateo County Superior Court Wednesday.



Eric Robert Gray, 25, is charged with two counts of oral copulation, as well as sexual battery and penetration with a foreign object for allegedly forcibly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl he met online.



The prosecution alleges that Gray, who has a 2001 conviction for unlawful intercourse with a minor, met the girl in a chat room and communicated with her online for three months. On Dec. 7, Gray allegedly picked the girl up in Sunnyvale and brought her to his Atherton home to watch a movie. The defendant attempted to fondle the victim and, when she resisted, used force to sexually assault her, according to the prosecution.



Gray then allegedly drove the victim home. The victim told her friends of the alleged assault and the friends told the police, the San Mateo County district attorney's office reports.



Gray appeared in Superior Court Commissioner Joseph Gruber's courtroom with his recently retained defense attorney Kathryn Fontaine. He returns to court for a preliminary hearing on Feb. 23 at 2 p.m.

And here's what he has to say about it:

Dear Sonic Community,

Strange how the mighty have fallen. Forgive my spelling and handwriting; neither are very good. Maybe someone can type this up.
I'll dive into the meat and potatoes of curiosity, you deserve nothing less. In Oct/Nov of 2004, I broke up with a girl who was once my best friend. She had an abusive drug addict boyfriend and she got pregnant; She moved eight hours away. He was beating her while pregnant, so I called the police. He went to jail and she came home. The first time I saw her, her right eyeball was crimson red. It bursts vessels from him punching her. It broke my heart. Her boyfriend got out and followed her home. She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. I loved that little girl to death and couldn't stand the idea of her father hurting her, so I seduced my best friend. Over the next year and a half we dated, but my best friend was a horrid girlfriend and I was a horrid boyfriend. I cheated with twelve different girls, one I'll call "Girl A". Girl A was very disturbed mentally. She couldn't even kiss due to a phobia. Well me and the best friend split, and I realized that I loved her. I was heartbroken, so I got further with Girl A. Girl A had a friend, "Girl B". Girl B was 15, as Girl A was very immature. She hung out with much younger girls to make her feel more mature. Girl B started showing me affectionate attention during my time with Girl A. I was flattered obviously, but I explained that I had no interest. This didn't sway her pursuit, but I dealt with it. In my lame depression, it felt good to be chased. Anyways, Girl A lost her mind and became very abusive towards me. We split and Girl B came to the rescue, with lots of "AWW poor baby" attention.
I was a mental train wreck. One night Girl B called me up saying her boyfriend (who was also in his mid 20s) dumped her for her 14 year old friend, "Girl C". She claimed she was suicidal and sad, so I came along to play hero. Stupid me. I told her she could hang out with me, watch a movie and kick back. Help her feel better, my intents were just that. Unfortunately, her's weren't. We watched the movie and she got frisky. She began cuddling, then kissing on my neck, and purring in my ear. I stopped it and told her we couldn't. She was ok and agreed, but 10 minutes later there she was again. After a bit of back and forth, I gave in, partially due to libido and partially due to my fear of hurting her feelings. So we kissed and touched and got a bit too frisky. Now I didn't fuck her, didn't get a blowjob, no hand action, nothing at all. But I did kiss and grope a girl who was 15; sexual battery. 243.4PC, I think. I COMMITTED A FELONY CRIME. And to top it off, Girl B told Girl C. Girl C told the ex girlfriend, Girl A. Girl A confronted Girl B [Saznote: The letter says “Girl C,” but as it doesn't seem to make sense I'll put girl B. I also changed the next occurrences to “Girl B”], Girl B tells all kinds of horrible stories to cover her ass. But that lie and many others was relayed from the ex girlfriend to the police. Yep, the ex turned me in. By this time, Girl B's father knew. Girl B never told the truth. I guess it was too embarrassing, who knows? To be honest, I can't be sure what happened and I long since stopped caring. Luckily the courts fucked up.
See, the girl and I talked online a bit. I also used DeadAIM. For those who are ignorant of what that is, DeadAIM is a hacked AOL instant messenger. It has a feature that logs ALL conversations. The court took my PC looking for evidence to damn me. They found logs proving she was lying, but there was proof that we fucked around and kissed. No sex, but groping. I was convicted of squeezing a boob. Go Me. Should I be angry? No. Should I blame her? Nope. I did something wrong. She wasn't old enough to make the choice. And as can be seen by her dishonest actions, she couldn't handle the situation. That's why those laws exist, to protect those too immature to handle the complex nature of sexual emotions.
Am I proud of this? No I am not. Ashamed? No. Shame is an emotion reserved for the incurable mistakes. Her life will go on, so will mine. The world doesn't stop spinning for mistakes. So an emotional meltdown and general life factors led me to do something stupid. It doesn't end however. What about that good ol' PACHUKA revenge? Let me explain something. PACHUKA is a fake person. He's also dead. I don't desire retribution anymore because I found the power of forgiveness. Sound lame? Well fuck you. Fuck you too. Forgiveness is the ultimate vengeance.
Think about it. Letting go of the pain of people's actions makes you the better person. I want to be the better person. Not that I look down on anyone anymore.
Same goes from Sonic CulT. I always needed that last word. Had to get everyone. Had that power. Want to know why? I was powerless. My life has been a shitpile since birth. I'm not looking for pity; I'm looking to explain myself. See, I was a nerd from early on. Glasses, body odor, ate my boogers, really a lady-killer. But as life went on, I learned to adapt and assume roles. I played the part of many people. PACHUKA, Seashell, Reala, many others, and I got the attention I desired. I've been a fake for so long, I forgot who I was. I slept with 32 girls in that time, became popular, became the person I wanted to be, like some lame 80s movie.
Why such a passion for Sonic? Well, I was 11 when my mom got cancer. She was very likely to pass away. It was a rough year and we were low on cash, but on my 12th birthday, I got my first genesis and Sonic 1. As lame as it is, Sonic helped me through those hard times. I felt grateful to him for that. So what if the form of your savior started to degrade with time? I hated watching Sonic go through that. Maybe that was the source of my hostility. Who knows, who cares?
Yes I admit, I cheated, hacked, lied my way to the top, but power and acceptance are powerful drugs. Even worse when you stop caring what people think. It becomes control lust. To be honest, I will never give a fuck what you think about me or what you say, but I do regret those I stepped on. The Moogle Cavern, SSRG, Area 51, SFGHQ, the Artail crew, Sonic Classic, and a hundred others. Jan, Andy, Kulock, Sue, and hundreds of random people I abused, I apologize. I don't ask your forgiveness, but I urge you to learn this power. To anyone I hurt, I am sorry.
Such is life. We learn, we grow. If anything, I can serve as a bad example. Don't follow me, don't hero worship me; I was not a good person for a long time. I am not to be emulated or adored. I know from personal experience - be yourself.
For those entering adulthood or entered adulthood, respect your local consent laws. They're there for a reason. And if you're under 18 and you find someone sexually pressuring or taking advantage, call the police. They will listen.
Sorry to disappoint those who wished for me to be a rapist or a child molester, but I'm just not. Look me up, its not that hard, but I had a lot of bad karma and I truly earned all I got. I ran my bath, now I have to soak in it.
Life. Live it. Learn from it. Learn to forgive, learn to let go. Learn to love who you are. If you don't love yourself, who will?
I won't be back.


Pachuka was idolized by many.



Yours Truly, Eric

PS - Question everything.
PPS - I miss you all, especially the girl who flies in her dreams. I still call it Plaid


Tree of life, bring to me
The one true thing I truly need
Let the power grow, let it feed
With every person who sees to read

tl;dr: Prison has taught me that raping kids is bad, I used to be an asshole, and I'm not coming back.

Ever since he's been running a youtube about "Mental illness" and shitting on Sonic Fans, which is more or less par for the course considering he was dear leader of Sonic-Cult at one point

For awhile he was still in Hidden Palace's Discord server, which kinda fucked, but it doesn't appear that they did anything to protect him, and it seems like they eventually kicked his ass to the curve.

(Well, well, well. It seems like the pedophile reads this thread and has elected to DFE. I didn't bother archiving the videos, stupid i know, but as the only goal of the video was showing his face, have a random archived video and a screenshot taken from an archive of a reaction to one of his videos.)

Beautiful.
A few months back he had a meltdown for some reason, and hasn't been heard from since. 3E#2733 may or may not be his newest rebranding.

That's it for now, have some retard making a primo death threat on Byuu back in 2018.

Argh i wish i had spent more time making that, i archived the absolutely most important stuff you'd want to know, but of course being an unrepentant pedophile Pachuka aka Phugolz aka RealaNightmaren aka UnknownArchive aka 3E then immediately proceeded to Delete Fucking Everything. Obviously writing all that didn't help, but in my defense i wrote it under the assumption that he had a google alert set up for his name/any of his aliases, so i rushed it more than i should've. Also most of his socials were already dead when i was writing it up.

Still, that doesn't change the fact that i fucked up, and i apologize. All i can do now is pick the pieces up, he's paranoid, but not thorough. See, i left a few details out of the last post, in case something like this might happen. The thing is; PACHUKA never actually LEFT Sonic-Cult/X-Cult, he just rebranded into the alias PHUGOLZ. He has quite the internet history of rebranding for reasons i'm sure you can imagine. As you can imagine they probably didn't kick him out of Hidden Palace, either, at least not at first.

Face from back in the 00's:


Socials:
Archive of his most recent channel
Archive of 1st Twitch
Archive of 2nd Twitch
Sonic Retro Forum Profile / User page was blanked, but their Talk page confirming Phugolz is an alias of PACHUKA isn't.
TCRF userpage / Talk page
Unseen64 interview
Profile on Sega Saturn enthusiast forum
X-cult twitter
Deviantart / Blog post confirming it's him / Another blog post talking about leaving Sonic-Cult
Anti-otaku, a website he started and seemingly never finished.
Jul / Thread where he announces X-Cult is dead
Him shilling on some Final Fantasy forum
Dailymotion

Dead

https://www.instagram.com/unknownarchivetv/

https://odysee.com/@UnknownArchive ( attached is a webp of his pfp. Before this it seems as if his channel redirected to a video? Not sure how that works.)
Gamefaqs(Still works atm, but Archive.ph can't archive so assume it will die at some point.)
He also had a discord who's link was expired before the post went live.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

Sorry my post might not of helped as well - I just wasn't sure how far the rabbit hole you had been as Sonic Cult had mostly become a buried memory for many.

 

[NoonmanR]

Jake Robinson / pfcjakers / JayKurin / KatKurin / KatKurin_Kattie

Spoiler: Info

Email: pfcjakers@gmail.com
Age: 18
Socials:
https://twitter.com/KatKuriN_Kattie (Archive)
https://github.com/JayKurin (Archive)
https://www.pinterest.com/pfcjakers/ (Empty, save for a sonic avatar.)
https://xboxgamertag.com/search/jaykurin (Archive)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/KatKuriN/ (Archive)
https://rockymountain.zone/ (Just a glorified link to discord atm)

(Archive)
This is a bit of a tragic story, possibly. Jaykurin a teenager who claims to have been groomed by an italian general sonic community member named Cardevero.

It's hard to really take it at face value however, as KatKurin is an incredibly vengeful person. In addition to his transexuality, he's also developed a bit of a death grudge against a few members of the community, resulting in them being cancelled, him leaking their progress and attempting to/getting people banned from communities,

(Twitter link)

(Source: TCRF's block log)
While the person in question is an shameless attention whore who's only crime is calling him Jake and tranny in order to get a rise out of their target, and thus will not be focused on here, this is not the only person Kurin has targeted. He's also gone after the Sonic 3 Delta romhack server(to the point of forcing them to cancel the project), and other random discord users.

(Archive)

In Katkurin's own words:

Yes, I leaked 3C Delta. The source code was backed up by me some time in 2020 and remained deep within a garbage folder on my desktop for years. I finally had enough after I lost some friends and decided to release it multiple times out of spite.

I do not regret these decisions, as much as I hate the idea that it killed a fuckton of potential and maybe the project itself. Most of the work on 3C Delta was done by MechaKnuckles and Chainspike, with help from contributors who are named in their SHC credits. I took these things into consideration before I did anything. I apologize for anyone on the project who did not deserve this, but for a lot of team members, they were well aware of the abuse going on, standing idle and looking the other way.

Sonic 2 Complete was also released by me, along with its source code. This was a project I spearheaded and did most of the development work and conceptualization on, along with a bunch of research. Chainspike did a few small edits and music ports, this is NOT his project.

(Source, an backup of the document is included at the bottom, this thing will be sourced quite a bit.)
The server's crime? Bad "opinions", including not giving HRT medication to those below the age of 21.

They believe that hormone blockers, HRTs, medication of the like, should be limited to 21+, presenting a statistic from 2018 that implied that most teens simply “grew out” of their dysphoria, and that it was giving ‘children’ something they didn’t need.
They parrot a blatantly made up lie that many children are groomed into transitioning, to keep their “But think about the children!” argument grounded. They misrepresent statistics and data to further their cause when all the data and science would be against them.

They act as if they are fighting a form of child grooming. However, this is a completely made up boogeyman used to justify their claims and beliefs. They stand very firmly with their beliefs, even after being discredited, they have doubled down and found excuses to not believe the “narrative” and “mainstream.” They are typical conservative types.

There's also a bit of speculative stuff i don't want get into involving Cardevero, and whether or not he actually groomed this kid or if it was a misunderstanding or misinterpretation. Lots of he-said she-said stuff i can't verify since i don't have the full side of the story, there's more detail in the doc if you need it. Though, i like how the defense for the lad seems to imply they think Tweaker is also innocent:

Fucking sonic fags.
These days, all they seem to do is scream at people on twitter while lamenting how they no longer seem to have any friends in the community.

(Archive)
He's not necessarily wrong either, people in that community are starting to see his antics as trolling.

(The doomsday document is the name of that .doc embed at the bottom)

That's it for now. Have some paranoia at the Republican Terrorists coming to allah ackbar the white house next election.

 

[Cukimoo]

The LuigiBlood guy is the same person who made this by the way.

 

[ThatOneAsshole]

Jesus that's a lot of shit to take in. After a while it was like listening to the same story over and over.

1. People start game site
2. game site starts to grow
3. anime avatars move in
4. furry avatars move in
5. anime avatars and furry avatars take up light moderation positions
6. they begin correcting behavior they find "toxic"
7. people who created the site can't keep up with all the gross furry and anime stuff so they hand over nearly all moderation to furries
8. anime and furry avatars become troons
9. the troons multiply and ban anyone that hurts their feelings or disagrees with them
10. site traffic keeps dipping until it dies

Then they transmit to the next thriving site. Troons and furries are like herpes.

Autistic obsessions + Bullying + Internet access = Tranny jannies

Always video games too.

Very interesting read OP. A lot of people have probably contributed to TCRF without knowing the back story since most seem to use Notes page and not the discord. At least the very old users.

A formating idea though ya might wanna turn your full images into thumbnails. It will make its readability quite easier.

got to agree, it was a hard scroll to go through, no offense.

Damn, this is practically an more of an expose than an OP, if only we had this in proper Journalism, TCRF would probably be in some really hot water if that was the case.

expose would be an understatement. In video form that would have taken at least an hour to go through. Not the worst, but I don't find much interest in the politics of game troons. Still mildly interested in the fallout of dumbshits

 

[Toolbox]

expose would be an understatement. In video form that would have taken at least an hour to go through. Not the worst, but I don't find much interest in the politics of game troons. Still mildly interested in the fallout of dumbshits

Merge your posts man. If you want to reply to someone after you've already posted last, you can copy replies after they're in the new post box and put them in when editing. Or quote someone with the quote symbol to the left of the calendar looking thing or 'insert table'

Always video games too.