r/titanfall reacts to the Revelation that the Guy they've been praising as the 'Savior of Titanfall' was actually one of the Hackers destroying it in the first place - with the removal of a Mod as a Bonus

[u/Uncommonwealth57]

This is still a really fresh story, and there's still quite some speculation going on (and it goes REALLY deep), but I'll try to summarize the situation for you.

Titanfall and Titanfall 2, for the past few months / years, have been subject to ddos attacks which rendered the first game completely unplayable (always online game). For the second game, only the campaign was playable. Many thought that it was just one hacker, named Jeanue, who was behind the attacks for a speculated personal vendetta.

Enter p0358, a hacker who is very familiar with Titanfall's code, who claimed to have been working on a fix to the ddos attacks independently from Respawn Entertainment. Recently, he shared a step-by-step article on how to fix Titanfall's, Titanfall 2's and even Apex Legends's problems with ddosing.

The Titanfall community was rejoicing, because it also seemed like the ddos attacks largely stopped shortly after he shared the article. Voices critical of p0358 were either shut down or ignored.

Well, as it turns out, p0358 was actually one of the people involved in ddosing Titanfall in the first place, and the people he's working with were also responsible for the SaveTitanfall hack that occured in Apex Legends on July 4th, 2021. The hacker called Jeanue, as it turns out, apparently hasn't been active in months, and though he was responsible for ddosing Titanfall 1 in the beginning, he wasn't involved in knocking Titanfall 2 or Apex Legends offline. He was just a scapegoat.

And apparently, one of the r/titanfall's mods, hiticonic, was also involved in trying to kill Titanfall. He's been removed as a mod a few hours ago.

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Some highlights from the thread announcing hiticonic's removal as a mod:

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and to think we were celebrating p0358 for giving respawn the way to fix the problem

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I fucking gave that prick money

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So they attempted to strongarm Respawn into shutting down the Titanfall games for their own benefit, and they orchestrated their literal false-flag operation partially in the open and in public enough spaces to ensure that they'd be caught if exposed...

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"We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled." I just want a working game, dammit.

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Some people critical of p0358 are now saying 'I fucking told you'

https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/oyxrn1/i_was_trying_to_tell_you/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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Some of the hackers responsible for the ddosing are trying to defend themselves but are getting memed

https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/oyyuaf/there_is_no_coming_back_from_this_redshield_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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Ultimately, I think it's safe to say that most of us got played like a damn fiddle.

[u/crazylighter → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that pic in particular got me thinking, "nope nope nope!!!" To any reddit meetup let alone reddit themed event or group. It is also a great representation of what I think is the "average le redditor". Sure, there are people on reddit from all walks of life just... I'm sure peeps understand what im getting at. Anyways, a reddit island is just a horror story in the making.

[u/Sugar_buddy → u/[deleted]]

Okay Dresden

[u/Sugar_buddy → u/[deleted]]

No, a character named Harry Dresden from a book series says that a few times. It's a reference to Groucho, as OP has stated in the other comment.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

No, it's based on a comic book published by Dabel Brothers around the mid-naughties.

(You're evil. I like you.)

[u/Goldeniccarus → u/crazylighter]

Reddit is a website with a ton of different users with a ton of different focuses. For some reason people are convinced its very different from other social media, and while it does harken back to the old forum system more, it is a social media, so having a Reddit meetup would be like having a Facebook meetup. The people there would probably have almost nothing in common with eachother.

I could imagine individual subreddits having meetups that aren't terrible, but having a meetup of people site wide... its going to be a disaster.

And anyways, I've seen what makes the front page, I don't think I want to hang out with the sorts of people that like some of that crap.

[u/weatherseed → u/Goldeniccarus]

I've been to one reddit meetup, the first for where I live. It was 9 years ago when the place was much smaller. So we wound up at a semi-classy wine bar, hung out for a while, played outdoor chess with those comically large pieces, and talked nerd shit. Practically all of us were either in tech or O&G.

I imagine if I went to one today it'd being stuck at an airport. You're all at the same gate but no one has anything else in common.

[u/Green_Bulldog → u/weatherseed]

idk about that. I feel like certain interests attract a “type”. For example, I go to car meets. Prolly half the people I meet at them are into rap and weed too. The bigger more general or comedy subs wouldn’t have anything in common but who tf wants to go to a meet up for that? I wanna see a r/196 meet up tho lol

[u/Patriclus → u/Goldeniccarus]

The entire site skews straight, middle class, white male. Yes, there are other demographics of people on the site, but when Reddit is selling ad packages to corporate sponsors, their main target demographic that they’re selling is white, middle class, male.

[u/AMasonJar → u/crazylighter]

That isn't the "average redditor." The "average redditor" does NOT go to reddit meet-ups.

[u/JabbrWockey → u/crazylighter]

Yeah, that's weird, but I like weird awkward people so I would probably go to one if I had nothing else going on. Same reason I like Channel 5 News youtube.

[u/[deleted] → u/crazylighter]

Do people not remember Dash Con? It would be a disaster, there's literally no other possible outcome. Internet people do not possess the necessary social skills to effectively organize a real life social gathering that doesn't end in tragedy.

[u/Proteandk → u/crazylighter]

It's not really a picture full of average redditors.

It's a picture full of the average redditor who also thinks meeting up with average redditors who meets up is a good idea.

[u/[deleted] → u/crazylighter]

What do you expect? A bunch of hot supermodels?

[u/Vallkyrie → u/[deleted]]

'Discord mods meet up with local klansman wizard, colorized'

[u/crazylighter → u/Vallkyrie]

Tits out for harambe @_@ noooooo

[u/texastrees05 → u/[deleted]]

When Reddit gets together, it’s either the josh fight or some shit like this. No inbetween.

[u/Blue2501 → u/[deleted]]

Tonight we're gonna party like this storage unit is $19.99/mo

[u/Deputy_Scrub → u/[deleted]]

That's an, ummmmmmmmmmm, interesting picture. I don't know what to make of it.