Radium wrote:xaelar wrote:
Ignoring: kryx, naem, ANGERFIST, crappitrash, L3X, (all the hackers) and guys like Goo or fuckingyourdad.
Excuse my ignorance, but how do we know these guys hacked? And whats up with Goo and fuckingyourdad?
In the case of naem, history lesson kids: naem showed up in late '05 with seven zeroths. Pretty clean, and a few were quite innovative. Naem was good, on a level commensurate with Mr_Lim six months later. He grabbed 40 0ths in a few short months, and as his totals rose, two prominent highscorers, spect and Knu, accused him of hacking. The funny thing was he took most of his levels with some clever innovations rather than pure cleanliness, and unlike kryx after him, was unable to blow johnny_faneca out of the water. naem posted a thread mocking the people accusing him of hacking, and while it wasn't the nicest thing to do, people generally accepted his scores as legitimate at first, and moreso after kryx began stealing many of them. Later, in early '07 or so, people started accusing naem of hacking again. I have no idea why.
There is no evidence, nor has there ever been, that naem fabricated any of his highscore runs. I have no idea why anyone would exclude them.
In the case of kryx, he showed up in early '06 and within two months had racked up nearly 100 scores-a far, far faster rise than naem before him. He was accused of hacking and later admitted to it. He returned as ANGERFIST, once again using game slowdowns to get incredible scores, but was outed again. Crappitrash and L3X both admitted to hacking, and crappitrash admitted to creating the f***ingyour[family member] accounts. Goo somehow took absolutely ridiculous scores on Episode 2 without any previous highscore activity and within a short timespan. It was generally agreed that these scores were illegitimate.
In conclusion: stop calling naem a hacker. He's not. He never was.