grandjedi6
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E-phonk said:
He's talking to a commenter called NeoGAF. There is a whole conversation between the two
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Surfer girl nonsense, resistance and killzone fans go away please
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He's talking to a commenter called NeoGAF. There is a whole conversation between the two
thestopsign
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Doc Evils said:
I'm pretty sure that is his own personal stuff, not hers.
Apocryphon
Member
E-phonk said:
Shitty sentence construction for a supposed journalist.
This is all so fake and staged. Did you read her interview at Destructoid? She's obviously emotionally fragile and just does this sort of thing for attention. I'm not surprised she "faked her own death" (read staged hack) so quickly after her interview.
While I was excited about beans she spilled/made up about Nintendo stuff, I figured sooner or later she would self-destruct and go do something else to garner people's attention.
As for the Resistance 2 stuff. That seems needlessly detailed for it to be anything other than genuine.
While I was excited about beans she spilled/made up about Nintendo stuff, I figured sooner or later she would self-destruct and go do something else to garner people's attention.
As for the Resistance 2 stuff. That seems needlessly detailed for it to be anything other than genuine.
Apocryphon
Member
Lucky said:
My 14 year old neice could put together something that looks more convincing than that trash. We're not talking about some two bit independant studio here, we're talking about Insomniac games.
Sloane said:
Because it's so obviously made up?
Apocryphon
Member
Sloane said:
Most of the stuff he/she has pulled out of his/her ass. Some are likely educated guesses and the rest are probably based on old information no doubt found in the rumour sections of gaming magazines.
I find it hard to believe anybody could take this stuff seriously.
Littleberu
Banned
Majik said:
You're full of shit : the Resistance 2 sheets are real, the hacker mentioned that he found them on internet, not in Surfer Girl account.
That's where she's taking her infos, though.
She posted educated guesses along with legitimate information, which is far more than your usual "insider" does.
And now a fucktard have hacked her blog and mail, and everyone is cheering for no reason other than following the hive mind of "an insider is always a liar and a attention whore", so she "deserves it".
Even if everythign said at that blog was a lie, I don´t think that such a personal attack to the intimity is deserved. I think that the bitterness towards her and the cheering for what has happened has more to do with envy of the "undeserved attention" rather than any love for truth.
And now a fucktard have hacked her blog and mail, and everyone is cheering for no reason other than following the hive mind of "an insider is always a liar and a attention whore", so she "deserves it".
Even if everythign said at that blog was a lie, I don´t think that such a personal attack to the intimity is deserved. I think that the bitterness towards her and the cheering for what has happened has more to do with envy of the "undeserved attention" rather than any love for truth.
Apocryphon
Member
Littleberu said:
Hacker?
LOL :lol You'd have to have a malfunctioning CPU *taps head* to believe that it's not all been staged. She could have had her account back in two shakes of a donkeys tail by contacting the blogger.com support team and explaining the situation.
Littleberu
Banned
Majik said:
"Hacker" is the name of the person that posted the Fact sheets about Resistance 2 ; it may or may not be Surfer girl, but the fact is that the Sheets are amazingly real.
Keep telling yourself it's all fake ; if anything, I think those Res2 info are the only real thing she spoiled.
Apocryphon
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Easily led atomitons.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Rotanibor Eht said:
It became pretty obvious through the whole conversation that she created the Hacker to have someone verify that she recieved emails from Ubisoft and such. She was really bad at it though since there were alot flaws with the fake personae.
MrNyarlathotep
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I don't buy this 'faked a hacking' at all.
If he/she is legit, and genuinely does have insider information from people who are very explicit about not wanting their names revealed (presumably because they want to keep their jobs), then those sources are sure as shit not going to be sending any more confidential information that can identify them as sources to their respective bosses by any script kiddy with a brute force pass-cracker.
If he/she is legit, and genuinely does have insider information from people who are very explicit about not wanting their names revealed (presumably because they want to keep their jobs), then those sources are sure as shit not going to be sending any more confidential information that can identify them as sources to their respective bosses by any script kiddy with a brute force pass-cracker.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
MrNyarlathotep said:
That assumes she actually does get insider information over her email. There are too many inconsistencies to believe she was actually hacked. Especially since by "hacked" she meant "figured out her password"
You guys should understand that if she did it for PR attention, she failed, since the hacking was really only talked about here on gaf, and she's removed most of things DA Goliath did, including the purported Resistance docs.
Wouldn't she have waited for the almost inevitable Kotaku/*******/1up PR blitz before removing everything?
Wouldn't she have waited for the almost inevitable Kotaku/*******/1up PR blitz before removing everything?
Thunder Monkey
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Automatons.Majik said:
These types of bloggers have been on the internets as long as I have. Rarely do they ever turn out to have legit info.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
numble said:
You assume that someone who couldn't even make a plausable hacking story would be a master conspiracist. Plus surfer girl has never been popular with 1up or Kotaku, its mostly been forums and Destructoid, both of which commented on her "hacking"
MrNyarlathotep
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grandjedi6 said:
Regardless of he/she/it's insider credentials, I think it's a bit much to question whether they do or do not actally receive emails containing information, because they obviously do. Whether that information is genuine or not is a seperate matter.
I think it's a given that once you have established yourself as 'having insider information' and being discreet about how you then present that information publicly, then you are then likely to attreact more 'insider' information, particularly from people who want certain things about their project known by the public - whether that's from people working on something who are genuinely hyped for it, people who want 'the true story' of a struggling project being 'saved' by their contributions, or people who want to expose mismanagement or incompetence by their seniors and have no other access to speak out and have their claims taken seriously (the Ubisoft news for example seems to cover all three of these contingencies).
This is why Fatbabies achieved some degree of fame - relatively anonymous actual insider information, with some measure of authenticity as many of the 'leaks' were attributable to people whose company was known and verifed by previous information. With this 'hacking', the guarantee of anonymity for any contributor is threatened enough to prevent any future information being passed by legit sources.
As Busty says, these things never last. How accurate surfergirls information is / was will only be measurable in hindsight.
Father_Brain
Banned
Interesting update on her other blog.
I find this a bit hard to believe for some reason, but it's obviously not unprecedented, and the pics look real.
I find this a bit hard to believe for some reason, but it's obviously not unprecedented, and the pics look real.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Father_Brain said:
That could be easily done through a mod in the PC version. I want a legit source to comment on that before I believe it.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Kafel said:
Multiple independent people on GAF have confirmed a lot of the past-tense or descriptive stuff. The Prince of Persia shot is pretty widely considered to be real. The other blog from the same person is obviously real and has access to a lot of internal stuff the like of which even people like Frank Cifaldi (ex-Gamasutra, the Lost Levels) have been impressed. The guy on here who posted the Project HAMMER screens said Surfer Girl was involved in getting them.
Whether or not each individual thing is true, this is obviously not just some raving nutso like RumorReporter.com.
Apocryphon
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Apocryphon
Member
Aaron said:
I've been vocal in my doubts too.
Anyhoo, gotta skip...
She said a lot of stuff. If any of it is true is what I wonder. When you type out all that, at least a couple of things are bound to end up being true. This does not necessarily mean she is actually being informed by someone.
She could also only know a few things, and then mix them in with a bunch of lies so that she looks credible when the ones she KNOWS are true end up being revealed, thus generating hype-filled threads like this.
She could also only know a few things, and then mix them in with a bunch of lies so that she looks credible when the ones she KNOWS are true end up being revealed, thus generating hype-filled threads like this.
SolidSnakex
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De-mon said:She said in comments that Valkyrie Profile 3 and Persona 4 are for PS3
Great news.