Today's Awful Link of the Day...

[ratmankey]

For those who don't know, somethingawful.com has a daily feature, the Awful Link of the Day, which showcases the worst of the internet. Well today's is pretty interesting... (censored because I don't know what the standards concerning profanity are)

Brinatello's TMNT Page (thanks mike.jpg) - Sites like Brinatello's TMNT Page make me feel good about the amount of time I've wasted writing sh***y go-nowhere short stories, playing video games, and watching crappy Kung Fu DVDs. Brinatello has written not just one but several complete epic works of fanfiction devoted to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The amount of work that has gone into these dull, confusing, and disgusting novel-length pieces is staggering and in many ways comforting. Because no matter how long I spent trying to beat the annoying fa***t last boss of "Crimson Seas" it was time infinitely better spent than Brinatello's.

"Mike." Sam took over. "She's been cursed with some sort of witchcraft. It's something to prevent her from seeing or even mentioning you guys. I wanted to go to my room to look in one of my books to see if I can help her."
Michaelangelo stared with interest. "You study witchcraft?"

"Wicca, Black Magic, White Magic, Glamours, but yes, some forms of sorcery. I know one or two thinks in the spellbound world. If I could just get a hold of what he used, there might be a chance."

I CAN'T STOP READING! What shy and boring character will the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles become creepily obsessed with next? Will it be one of Brinatello's friends from junior highschool?! A girl can dream!

Just thought you guys might find that interesting. For the link to the actual page and a sample of the fan art, you can visit http://www.somethingawful.com

[Reznorite420]

I wonder if "Brinatello" could accuse the webmaster of SA of libel?

[ratmankey]

No, SA has been threatened with legal action many times, and every time they had no case at all. It's the internet, you can say what you want.

[JameO]

Well they have no right to attack other people like that. That's stupid. And them playing that game they like isn't a hobby? The guy likes TMNT and writing fan fics? So what. Everyone likes to do something. And they charge for people to go on the forums? 10 bucks to type on something like this. I think I will stick with a wonderful place like this and not some site that is a big waste of time.

[damnhooligan]

Ah! Holy crap! I'm a relatively avid supporter of Something Awful (Photoshop Phridays and Comedy Goldmine rock!) but I always wondered how long it would take for a TMNT fan fic site to pop up on the Awful Link of the day. They've been taking shots at fan fic site lately.

Worse comes to worse, it'll blow out her bandwidth for the next few weeks and generate some nasty comments in her guestbook (which, from the look of it, it has already). But as some say, there's no such thing as bad PR. Who knows, it could generate some genuine interest in the site/genre.

[Machias Banshee]

My God, thats awful!!! :evil:

I have visited her site before, and I personally think it is very interesting for TMNT fans to look at...

thats an awful thing for that guy to do...

[Misfit]

That's horrible. I've read some of Brinatello's stories and I really enjoyed them, they were well written and made for good reads. Those people over at "Somthing Awful" are jerks to slate an author like that. Don't they stop and think about how Brinatello might feel if she saw that? Guess not.

And I've read TMNT fics that are WAY worse. Some fics out there are so horrifically bad I wish I could have them erased from my memory Men In Black style. Sadly, however, this is the real world and those fics will stay in my mind forever. :goofygri:

[Cascadia]

Brinatello's website is very good. I do judge various websites on their content, links, etc.

when I judge a website in my mind or for yearly awards.....I never critize harshly about the website.

[Nturtle]

Bleh,that was preety harsh.

I've never been into fan fics but doing that to somebody's site like that is cruel.

[Jephael]

GRRR, I have a right mind to find these jerks who're picking on my pal Brina and tear them a new @$$hole! :tmad: :tmad: :tmad: :tmad:

[Kali]

I know, it's horrible. And the things people are posting in her guestbook... But she's gotta know that we all love her work and the opinions of these worms aren't worth anything.

[Turkituck]

WTF?!?!?! I just went to Brinatello's site and some arse has hacked it! I left her a message inthe guestbook and wheni went to read it, my screen was covered in popups that siad "this s**t sucks, F*g!" and it froze my comp!
If anyone has her email, someone tell her about the hacking quick!

*grabs her wand* Begone, thou website deamons!!!

[Machias Banshee]

My God, this is ****ing ridiculous!!! :flaming:

Ugh, its got a tubgirl pic up now... :dead: I think I'm gonna be sick...

[GK Punk]

Ya know, Im all for free speach on the 'net, that guy can say whatever he wants about her site... but the fact that he actually has people HACKING HER ****ING WEBSITE MAKES ME SICK. Can she sue? OF COURSE SHE CAN. The reason Something Awful always gets out of the law suits, is because people e-Mail threatening to sue.. If she actually had lawyers call the guy up, and subpoena him, he'd be screwed.

[Leo656]

What a bunch of bullsh*t. Brina's a cool chick, and she's been a big supporter of my own work. That's disgusting that someone would do something like that.

People are such assh*les.

[GK Punk]

I wish a fate upon them, that rivals what happened to Kane tonight on Monday Night RAW.

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

I don't know who Brinnatello is, but that guy's an asshole for hacking her site. I hope she does sue, and win!

[GK Punk]

I'm personally sticking with The Destroying a limo with the writer inside. (CRASH IT IN TO AN 19 WHEELER!!!!)

*Dances to "Here Comes The Money" By Naughty By Nature*

[Machias Banshee]

hmm..maybe I'll pay the guy a visit...


*flares claws* :evil:

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

Not a bad idea!
Flourishes laser-sharpened, hydrolically-enhanced, steel toe claws! :evilgrin:

[Machias Banshee]

*blinks, looks at her plain six-inch killer claw*

Man...I need new digs....

[damnhooligan]

I can safely say Something Awful doesn't condone the hacking of websites. (They have enough legal sh*t to deal with) There's just a number of elitist idiot fans who take that stuff way overboard.

No one hacked into her guestbook, but rather was able to implant a pop-up code in their guestbook entry. Unfortunately, her guestbook supports HTML-based entries, so until she deletes that post it'll continue those damned annoying goatse popups.

Total bullsh*t. My condolences.

[Misfit]

Whoever's doing that sh*t to Brinatello's site is pathetic low life scum. What total morons.

[HorseTechie]

:o

*rubs eyes.. looks again*

Damn.... and I *know* Brina. She's one of my TMNT friends from the TMNT mailing lists. She will NOT be pleased when she learns of this. She's already been through a load of RL crap as is. Her main problem right now is that her computer crapped out on her a couple months ago. Her files on the hard drive are probably lost, with only the files on the internet being what she has...

Shyyeeet... :evil: :cry:

[ratmankey]

I can safely say Something Awful doesn't condone the hacking of websites. (They have enough legal sh*t to deal with) There's just a number of elitist idiot fans who take that stuff way overboard.

No one hacked into her guestbook, but rather was able to implant a pop-up code in their guestbook entry. Unfortunately, her guestbook supports HTML-based entries, so until she deletes that post it'll continue those damned annoying goatse popups.

Total bullsh*t. My condolences.

Yeah, I'm a regular on the SA forums and I've actually had a friend be an ALOD (Emi of Brie). I don't have a problem with the ALOD itself, but I don't like it when the goons (forum posters) take over the guestbook. It makes it seem like SA is just a bunch of immature 12 year olds, when really it's among the most intelligent groups of people on the internet.

And you're right, they can say whatever they want about the sites, but Lowtax (who runs SA) does NOT condone hacking or otherwise harming the sites that he features. Actually, planning a forum invasion is a bannable offense due to all the legal threats he's received in the past.

[GreenWillow]

~Jeez...poor Brina. As if she hasn't had enough bad luck we have a bunch of Idiot 12-year olds to deal with. Sorry , I have *zero* sympathy for "Something Awful" jerks, or *anyone* who gets his jollies dissing other ppl's stuff much less has an entire *site* dedicated to attacking others. People need to get a life.... Aside from that, at least the pop-ups are something it sounds like Brina could do something about --*if* the poor girl had her computer up and running.

This just really, really, pisses me off...and those of you who know me know I don't get angry easily.....

~GW

[Skeletoncrew]

Well, I honestly can't criticize Something Awful for making fun of websites, God knows I've done it before, but hacking an individual's site is terrible. I can understand hacking the site of some big corporation if you're trying to make a statement against it, but hacking the little guy is just cruel.

[Blaze DTGG]

I have been giong to something awful for a long time. I never joined their forums or anything but its things like this that really bother me.. all websites are potential targets and nobody is safe. and thats fine.. but to have someone do that to her site is just wrong.

I dont agree with what was said about her site.. but everyone has a right to their own opinion. but this is just plain wrong


Blaze DTGG

[cqb101]

That's ****ing horrible! I think I'm gonna hve my friend "pay a visit" to something awful. :evilgrin:

[Blaze DTGG]

*looks at cqb*. hehe... you have friends like that too huh?

Blaze DTGG

[damnhooligan]

That's f*** horrible! I think I'm gonna hve my friend "pay a visit" to something awful. :evilgrin:

*whimper* Aww, c'mon! SA's Photoshop Phridays are the highlight of my week, man!

[cqb101]

*looks at cqb*. hehe... you have friends like that too huh?

Blaze DTGG

Oh yes. :evilgrin:

[Lisardo]

OMI! Those A**HOLES! Why would they do soemthing like that to her?!!!! Brina is my bestest friend and she didn't deserve that! She is an excellent writer and if those creeps don't like her work, they can shove it! It's none of their business. Old saying, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!' Just go about your business. They don't even know her! And top it off poor Brina doesn't have her computer working very well. All she's able to do is connect (dial-up) to check her Juno email account, and her and her sister are both having to use it. They can't go on the web tho. Tho I've already emailed her at her and her sister's shared Juno email address, and boy she will not be happy about this. Tho I did give her my condolences and told her I was sooo pissed, as many other friends of hers are that these creeps would do this to her! AHHHHH, let me at 'em!

[Nturtle]

I know everybody's angry, but keep the swearing down a notch, even with the auto-censoring, this is a forum designed for fans of a kid's show, so it has to be suitable for kids. thanks.

[Machias Banshee]

AND...



Please, dont post anything along the lines of..

"Ooh, I'm gonna go hack into that !@#$@#@##'s @#$%$%%$ website and %$^%$#@$$ hack into it and *&^%$#%$#%$ screw him all the *%^$ up!"

We dont want anything to happen to THIS site as a result of childish games on their part...

[ZariusTwo]

Well it's NOT typical for this sort of behavior to start coming up, there is a Power Rangers message board which ALLOWS that behavior, not a freindly place.

Those fanfics are good MST3K material, I'm not exactly sure why there is such a huge amount of hate going on in this thread, somethinhawful is a HILARIOUS website, take a joke people

[Roseangelo]

I have access to Brina's account and went and fixed everything. I went and removed all the guestbook links from the mainpage. The Guestbook files are all still there, just currently hidden. Sabrina can put them back when/if she wants to. I also removed all the hacked guestbook entries so that also won't be a problem in the future.

[HorseTechie]

Yay! Thank you for pulling through for Brina, Rose. I'm sure she'll deeply appreciates your efforts. :D

*decides to move this thread down into Gen Discussion now*

[Machias Banshee]

*bows down to Rose*

thank God you did taht. No one should attack someone's site like that... :(

[Raven]

hacking has to be the most immature thing on the net. it makes me sick to see such ass holes do somthing like this to a really nice person, who ever did this hacking, I hope there computers blow up while there on it, then have there house taken away.
and i mean that in the nicest way.

[Reznorite420]

somethinhawful is a HILARIOUS website, take a joke peopleThere are things is this world called libel and slander, both of which are illegal in the US...apparently that's the only thing SA does is libel/slander everything else on the web.

You say it's hilarious? Fine...just don't complain to anyone when your site ends up on there as the awful link of the day and they cut you up like a turkey, metaphorically speaking.

[Raven]

very well said rez

[ZariusTwo]

[quote=ZariusTwo]You say it's hilarious? Fine...just don't complain to anyone when your site ends up on there as the awful link of the day and they cut you up like a turkey, metaphorically speaking.

I would'nt complain, like I said, somethingawful is designed to rip apart websites to make others laugh, if it's MY site one day so be it, I'll still laugh

[Machias Banshee]

Well, I do believe that Brina has joined our forums...

hope she can do something about what these guys did....

[GK Punk]

Well, I do believe that Brina has joined our forums...

hope she can do something about what these guys did....

I noticed that... I was waiting for her to make a post.
Atleast she knows we all support her, and I hope she dosn't get too let down about what happened, because it was obviously a bunch of 12 year old "l33t haxxorz" That did it.

[damnhooligan]

The best course of action would be to try to locate who put that signature in the guestbook by geographically pinpointing their IP (if logged), and then contact the appropriate ISP about abuse. Even then, chances of any actions being made are remote. Worth a shot though.

The only shots possibly made against SA would be regarding republication of excerpts and images from her site without permission. Such cases rarely see the light of day, though.

I just hope crap like that doesn't get her down. It's quite obvious (from this thread alone) that a good number of people enjoy Brina's site and support it.

[HorseTechie]

I suppose Roseangleo can help in doing that too. The Splunkyard is her webserver on which she let Brina have a subdomain.

The thing that gets me about how SA was nitpicking on Brina's site, was more about the act of writing fanfic. It didn't sound to me like they were saying her site in itself sucked. It sounded like the mere act of writing (alternate universe) fanfic was stupid. In that case, any of our sites are vulnerable, to have the slightest thing on them ridiculed. And THAT is the part that makes me leary about the manner that SA conducts these "pick apart a site" games. ANYONE is vulnerable! Especially if they have even harder to control 'vultures' that linger about to furture slag the site.

[JameO]

They talk about writing fan fics and that makes them happy. But don't they make stuff for their website. Like Photoshop Phridays and what not. They make stuff for their site and enjoy making and writing stories on certain sites everyday. I hope Brina and whoever was messed up is doing good. That is so stupid. She gets pop up codes in her guestbook just because some fan of SA goes to the site and thinks it's is stupid or "gay" to waste time in a site and do stupid things but isn't making a site like SA just a big waste of time?

[Brinatello]

Well, MY TMNT site has been hacked once again, the guestbook is once again removed, and I'm once again having a major fit. I am getting SO TIRED OF BEING VIOLATED THIS WAY!!!! I can't get a hold of Roseangelo right now, so I'll just have to wait till she can fix it. I don't think I'm putting up the guestbook ever again. I have had it, I need to vent. Please, let me vent. Okay, I'm going to vent. *takes in a breath*

DAMN YOU HACKERS! I HOPE YOU'RE ****ING HAPPY!

Okay, I feel better. Now, I'm going to go cry. :cry:

[Cascadia]

I am so sorry Brinatello.....I can not believe that anyone would do such a horrible thing. You have worked so hard on your website. I enjoy it when I do visit it. I keeps me wondering if this would ever happen to my 4 websites.

[Meira-Bates]

I already hated "Something Awful" they've 'ripped up' every page they could find on a certain alternate life style a friend of mine lives. While I won't say what this life style is I will say that it is compleatly offensless unless someone totaly scews it the wrong way. The way I see it there is NOTHING funny about "Something Awful"'s awful link of the day. It seems to just be a bunch of prejudice, close minded crap to me -.- No offense to anyone that likes it...but this is the kind of crap that happened to most those sites too, so it's NOT just Brinatello that suffers from being targeted by "Something Awful". IMO if "Something Awful"'s awful link of the day visitors refuse to behave by thier rules, it's obviously a lost cause to try and controll them and the owner should stop running the awful link of the day. I'm sorry...making fun of a simple page is one thing...making fun of someone's abilities, someone's life style, and hacking are NOT jokes!

[Misfit]

Well said, ArashiPanduh. I agree. [/quote]

[Brinatello]

Well, you tell me if it's hacked. The link is removed from the web site but the file still exists. Tell me what you see when you click it. I promise it won't crash your computer, you'll just be...disgusted.

[Edit: Link removed. --Krang]

[Meira-Bates]

You might not wanna do that till it gets fixed @.@ you could get in trouble with what they put on there...it redirected me to that disgusting thing a few seconds into the loading of your guest book

[damnhooligan]

The link-redirection code is in the guestbook entry from "the giver", I believe it's the top on the list. I was able to snag the source code before it redirected to the goatse site. I'll toss you a copy of the source code, if you're interested and point out where and what the code looks like.

Unfortunately, your guestbook allows HTML, therefore anyone could put a code, picture, or something far more malicious in there.

[Misfit]

Brinatello, I'm sorry you fell victim to such pathetic bullies. Just remember you are better than they are. If it's worth anything I think your site and stories rock, they've given me a lot of enjoyment since I found them. :)

[Splinter]

Sorry they targeted you with such immature acts, Brinatello. And agreed, you may want to remove that link. So someone underage doesn't see that filth. The first thing I would suggest doing, is getting rid of the HTML capabilities of the guestbook. If you can't, just remove the guestbook entirely for now. :(

[Cascadia]

I would take the link off until you get it fixed. That is a true shame on how they treating with super immature acts. They put their guestbook in place of yours.

[Meira-Bates]

It takes a lot to get me to read fan fics...that or sheer boredom....but your fan art is great Brinatello ^.^ and I had to say somthing when I saw him in your archive... "Oh Mi Gosh it's Darkturtle!" Hehe, I really love some of your stuff, like the plushie, lots of your drawings, of course I like DT, it's so rare to find anything of DT (who cares if he is just...well I posted a thread on him some months back that had my theroies of what DT really was).

EDIT: *rolls laughing at herself* I can't belive I typed fan Fart and didn't notice!

[Machias Banshee]

Geez, these people need to get a fricken life... :flaming:

Brina, dont give up...we're all here for you....

[GK Punk]

Well, MY TMNT site has been hacked once again, the guestbook is once again removed, and I'm once again having a major fit. I am getting SO TIRED OF BEING VIOLATED THIS WAY!!!! I can't get a hold of Roseangelo right now, so I'll just have to wait till she can fix it. I don't think I'm putting up the guestbook ever again. I have had it, I need to vent. Please, let me vent. Okay, I'm going to vent. *takes in a breath*

DAMN YOU HACKERS! I HOPE YOU'RE f*** HAPPY!

Okay, I feel better. Now, I'm going to go cry. :cry:

f*** those immature bastards.
Don't put your guestbook up, it's not worth the agony it'll put you through

[Raven]

hey if you wantz, we can findz were theze peeps live and murder there azzs for yaz's :wink:

[Bowser_Koopa]

go ahead!

[Brinatello]

Thanks, everyone. I've been given some very helpful suggestions and I'm not about to turn my back on them. I need to take serious action at keeping my site safe from hackers. I think being too nice and too lienent is a few of the reasons why I was attacked twice. Anyway, I'll keep a guestbook, there's just going to be some changes with it. Right now, I have some major cleaning to do at my site.

It takes a lot to get me to read fan fics...that or sheer boredom....but your fan art is great Brinatello ^.^ and I had to say somthing when I saw him in your archive... "Oh Mi Gosh it's Darkturtle!" Hehe, I really love some of your stuff, like the plushie, lots of your drawings, of course I like DT, it's so rare to find anything of DT (who cares if he is just...well I posted a thread on him some months back that had my theroies of what DT really was).

Oh, thanks! I made DT for a friend who used to go by the same name before creating her own alias. Yeah, he is kind of hard to find, not too many people are familiar with that episode or care enough to mention it. As for me, I hadn't seen the ep until 2000 at the Motor City Con and I really liked it! I ended up buying the action figure at the same con for about $2. I loved his costume.

EDIT: *rolls laughing at herself* I can't belive I typed fan Fart and didn't notice!

:lol: I guess that's what you call art that stinks! :lol: