Today's Awful Link of the Day...
 

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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:

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.

Bleh,that was preety harsh.

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

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:

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.

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!!!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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*

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


*flares claws* :evil:

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

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

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.

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

: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:

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.

~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

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.

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

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

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

Blaze DTGG

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

Oh yes. :evilgrin:

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.

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...

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

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.

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*

*bows down to Rose*

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

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.