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What can I say? I've been a regular TCRF editor for years, and seeing all this stupid shit really sucks.
Yeah, this has all been a rollercoaster of shit. I was an avid reader for years but never joined to contribute because I lolnope'd at the sight of mandatory Discord registration. Credit where credit is due, that is an effective filter for most, but what it doesn't filter is demonstrably infinitely worse.
I think he's banning people manually. If he's using a script, he probably has his own IP whitelisted.
I think it's a mix. Script for referral-related autobans. Another, super-sensitive, script for filtering the IP logs of suspicious activity, manual bans if any of it particularly triggers his paranoia.

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Completely unrelated, but is there ANY legitimacy to the claims that the TCRF is constantly under DDoS attacks? I have never encountered any errors, slow load times, timeouts, crashes, literally anything typical of a DDoS, over the many years I've read the site, and especially over the weekend while I was manually scraping the ever-loving shit out of the site inbetwixt the Sharty raids. Not a single hint of any issues anywhere. The tin foil is crying to me that it's all a buncha bullshit to grift sympathetic Patreon bucks.

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How did someone like this become a GBATemp admin?

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Another fine specimen on GBATemp. Nice to see the stereotypes about troons check out.
"they're not part of the vtuber "community"
"well they succeed by catering to a far right audience"
MOTHERFUCKER I WILL MAKE YOUR BERENSTAIN NOT BEAR ASS A RUG.
 
You used to never know what these faggot's personal lives or politics were like in the 00s, usually. The most cow-worthy thing I recall when getting into retro games and emulation in my teens was reading the website of FF6 fan translator and certified neckbeard Sky Render and that he self-diagnosed himself with aspergers.

Yeah, about that... he goes by Rachel now. He's now a certified troon.

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He took on the project of retranslating Final Fantasy VI for the sake of improving accuracy and to remove censorship and he did this while facing criticism from fellow translators who thought Ted Woolsey's translation was perfect and as if you're not allowed to have any alternatives to that. So he, despite being a troon, has my respect for that. It also helps that he's not on social media as far as I can tell.
 

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So he, despite being a troon, has my respect for that.
I have respect for the work of these people. TCRF is fairly in line with my interests, but after a small amount of lurking ages ago, well before I understood troonery, I picked up on the horrid vibes under the surface of the "community" and it killed any desire I might've had to actually participate. I doubt I'm the only one either, and that's not even counting the people who did participate and got banned.

Something heavy-handed jannies fail to consider is, if you project out this pattern of spite and banning over minor disagreements over a long time, it produces a self-accelerating process that ablates any member that isn't as miserable as them. Eventually this probably hits a point of no return. In a way, it's their loss. I would guess that they consider it a positive in a short-sighted manner, "taking out the trash," or something.
 
Yeah, about that... he goes by Rachel now. He's now a certified troon.

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He took on the project of retranslating Final Fantasy VI for the sake of improving accuracy and to remove censorship and he did this while facing criticism from fellow translators who thought Ted Woolsey's translation was perfect and as if you're not allowed to have any alternatives to that. So he, despite being a troon, has my respect for that. It also helps that he's not on social media as far as I can tell.
literal oldtroon.... for a split second i thought the site logo was goatse
 
I picked up on the horrid vibes under the surface of the "community" and it killed any desire I might've had to actually participate.
Yeah, i never did like being around TCRF all that much. I remember as a kid having found all of these places, before TCRF was even a wiki, and the vibe was always just off. They always seemed a bit too much like downers. Got worse when they DID make the wiki, the message board they had was filled to the brim with furfags and their skyscraper sized signatures and this ugly ass css designs they'd do to be ~*UnIqUe*~. I've never seen anything so gaudy like it before or since. At the time i'd just chalked it up to them being furfags, but i don't anyone really knew what a tranny was beyond those weirdos you occasionally saw on TV(Alongside other weird shit like the guy who larped as a Jaguar).

So he, despite being a troon, has my respect for that. It also helps that he's not on social media as far as I can tell.
Eh, despite everything he does seem to be different to these people. I'd hesitate to say i'm sympathetic or anything because for all i know he's running one of those troon communes with kids and crusading IRL and shit, but if the blogposts hold up he's well and beyond above most of these tranny jannies so i'd just chalk it up to one of those wild cards life likes to deal sometimes.
 
Yeah, i never did like being around TCRF all that much. I remember as a kid having found all of these places, before TCRF was even a wiki, and the vibe was always just off. They always seemed a bit too much like downers.
I got this same vibe many years ago when I first went to TCRF, and I got the fuck out of there. Kind of glad I didn't touch the site with a 10 foot pole ever again, despite the great content it holds. Troons ruin everything.

Finally caught up with this thread. What a disaster, and it was a very avoidable one too.
Hey Xkeeper! I know you're reading this! You will never be a real woman.
 
I got this same vibe many years ago when I first went to TCRF, and I got the fuck out of there. Kind of glad I didn't touch the site with a 10 foot pole ever again, despite the great content it holds. Troons ruin everything.

Finally caught up with this thread. What a disaster, and it was a very avoidable one too.
Hey Xkeeper! I know you're reading this! You will never be a real woman.
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Serious business only here
 
Eh, despite everything he does seem to be different to these people. I'd hesitate to say i'm sympathetic or anything because for all i know he's running one of those troon communes with kids and crusading IRL and shit, but if the blogposts hold up he's well and beyond above most of these tranny jannies so i'd just chalk it up to one of those wild cards life likes to deal sometimes.

Judging from the blogposts, he does not come across as shrill and BPD as your average online troon so we shall be cautiously optimistic when we deem him a more "normal" and agreeable troon. He trooned out post Trump's first four years. There would be a bit less troon fatigue if they were a bit more like him and less like xkeeper.

Let's hope (for his sake) we don't find his x/twitter or bluesky where he politi-spergs.
 
I used to be an editor for tcrf years ago - the website is super cliquey. It's one of those "communities" where if you're new or learning about how to hack or wiki syntax, they make fun of you behind your back in the IRC and on jul (a little bbcode forum xkeeper owns, it's linked on their website). Disregarding the tranner stuff, it's not a very welcoming place if you're new.

In addition, xkeeper is a pretty funny individual. Very uptight, holier-than-thou kind of attitude when they're just some balding weirdo who's almost 40 and thinks they're hot shit because they run a website. Here's a fun little rant they did about their ex-roommate in 2023 I remember giggling at (turns out your retarded commie fantasies doesn't actually work out in practice, who woulda thunk)
I used to be a poster on Kiwi Farms years ago - the website is super cliquey. It's one of those "communities" where if you're new or learning about SWATting or lolcow culture, they make fun of you behind your back in the chat and on the Sneedcord (a little Discord server Null owns, it's linked on his website). Disregarding the tranny janny stuff, it's not a very welcoming place if you're a newGOD.

In addition, Null is a pretty geg-worthy individual. Very uptight, holier-than-thou kind of attitude when he's just some overweight weirdo who's almost 40 and thinks he's hot shit because he runs a website. There's a fun little rant he did about his mom in 2007 I remember giggling at (turns out your retarded chud fantasies don't actually work out in practice, who woulda thunk).
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Its insane to me how these nigger mods are just tripling down on their shitty behaviour that led to this happening in the first place!
This is probably how it feels in that Discord.
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Honestly surprised "Do not have fun" isn't already a rule there.
 
I remember as a kid having found all of these places, before TCRF was even a wiki, and the vibe was always just off.
I got this same vibe many years ago when I first went to TCRF, and I got the fuck out of there.

I doubt I'm the only one either, and that's not even counting the people who did participate and got banned.
I realize this is circlejerking a bit, but called it.
 
Honestly surprised "Do not have fun" isn't already a rule there.
they know that if the rule was phrased that way it would be funny and funny stuff is fun which means the rule would violate itself
as a workaround, they have to ban every fun thing individually
 
He took on the project of retranslating Final Fantasy VI for the sake of improving accuracy and to remove censorship and he did this while facing criticism from fellow translators who thought Ted Woolsey's translation was perfect and as if you're not allowed to have any alternatives to that. So he, despite being a troon, has my respect for that. It also helps that he's not on social media as far as I can tell.
Ahaha! He is absolutely on social media. He has a presence on reddit and gets posted to the Tranny Sideshows thread every once in a while. He believes that he was born with a cryptovagina and that he is a true medical hermaphrodite.
 
The irony of the constant mentions of dying on hills is delicious since Xkeeper decided the hill to die on was policing the websites people visit. I elect to imagine it's a hill with a tree to ACK from.

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For 20 years I watched it grow, from nothing but a seed.
A sprout of cut vidya lore of yore,
my own autistic tree.

You lowly Kiwi, can't you see?
This tree is not for you, but me.
Away from my site, just leave me be,
Just leave me with my hanging tree.

This tree is mine, for I alone,
Just I and only me;
This tree holds one, a single one,
but never two or three.
 
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