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I read the 4chan thread about Fish and Quinn getting hacked so you don't have to by serial malcontent 08/22/2014, 4:09am PDT
I couldn't sleep so here's the highlights reel in case this all gets flushed down the internet hole later this week.

Headline:



The short version:

/v/ wrote:

FEZ IP BEING SOLD
FISH DONE WITH VIDYA FOREVER
HIS WEBSITE HACKED
ZOE HACKED
ITS A FALSE FLAG
FURFAGS DEFENDING /v/ ON TWITTER


Phil Fish's twitter account is suspended as I type this. Quinn's is full of posts about people crawling into her dropbox and how sorry she is for friends of hers who are being attacked.

A few hours ago, the index page of Fish's company website looked like this:


Anyone who's read 4chan for ten minutes will smell a rat. The /v/ideogames board instantly started arguing over how hard they were being trolled. Plenty assumed he was doing it to himself, or else Quinn was the culprit because she wasn't pressing charges to avoid legal risk. Things got very Creative Writing 101.

/v/ wrote:

Phil drove a knife into his own heart.


The page had a link to a compressed file claiming to be dox on Fish and source code from his projects. It weighed in at over a gig and a half. A cautious anon in the thread started streaming an attempt to open it on a virtual machine.



He got as far as rifling through Fish's private documents and source code before he got banned from the site.

/v/ wrote:

Anonymous 08/22/14(Fri)01:11:39 No.259168258▶
>>259163801
[The guy streaming] just got banned.
illuminati and lizard men dont want this shit on twitch

...

VMfag !NnAF3/496Q 08/22/14(Fri)01:11:41 No.259168268▶
Hi.
I was streaming on twitch tv/malkraz
I got banned from Twitch
It was pretty much all financial reports, planning shit and some contact info/contracts.
Nothing of real interest, but I can say for certain that the zip is at the very least completely safe to open in a VM.

...

Bunch of contracts and sales reports. He didn't go through every doc, as I saw a JP poster posting the cheat sheet and design document for the game.

...

Got around 400 viewers, files were mostly financial reports, contact info, contracts, that sort of deal.
Started getting passed around on twitter and then I got banned from twitch. Nothing too interesting, but the ride was fun.


And so on. The file may still be up somewhere if you want to look around. I wasn't that curious myself.

An invoice floated to the surface at some point.



/v/ wrote:

>you will never become a millionaire from making an absurdly overhyped, fun-but-mediocre game


Phil didn't take too well to the situation.





Zoe had a friend along to tell her story.





Suddenly it was time for solidarity, whiteknighting, and being a strong independent woman.





/v/ wrote:

>I may even be next
The fucking self-obsession of these people holy shit.
You are literally nobody.




This guy is ready to FIGHT, man.

As always, 4chan is full of scorn and paranoia. Quinn's getting railed by Fish and her bar-hopping whiteknight pal as they write defensive twitter posts. More such shit is readily available.

Forum wars might get watchable in the next few days.



/v/ wrote:

>/V/ DID IT BECAUSE they POSTED LINKS TO A STREAM SHOWING A FILE THAT WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC MERE MINUTES AGO

How do you deal with your incredibly stupid moderators, Neogaf?


Other highlights included talking about how great they were because they backed those women Quinn screwed over. #4chan4woman is already forgotten, but here's another one for posterity.



They obviously didn't hack anyone because federal investigators have had access to the site's inner workings for years and are armed with official documents explaining its intricacies. A hacker would be tracked down in minutes and every /v/ poster knows this.



Much was made of an IGN user's blog post criticizing Quinn and the industry at large because anons mistook it for an official article. I'm linking it here just to see if it gets taken down in the next few days. I can't think of a more sure-fire indicator of hysteria than private blogs disappearing over this misadventure.

some IGN blogger wrote:

There has always been an incestuous relationship between the journalists and the people who create and distribute. More then almost any other industry hear gross stories about journalists at conferences slipping a game dev his business card after an interview. It's stunning how many former reporters now work for developers. It's also no secret publishers like EA & Activision pay select journalists to write internal reviews for their products. In addition it's becoming more & more prevalent for incentives and bonuses to be based on a MetaCritic score. So clearly it's in both developers & journalist best interest to have extremely close bonds with each other.

While this is great for "The Industry" as a whole, it's clearly NOT good for the consumer. All the morals and ethics in the world are no match for human nature, and it's human nature for game journalists to positively cover people & developers to whom they feel positive towards.

The actions of Miss Quinn has served to blur the lines even further by bringing sexual relationships into the mix.


A few of the reactions were cogent.

/v/ wrote:

That's a blog post not actually IGN. What needs to happen is a female games journalist needs to write an article about this. No matter if there are hundreds of articles written by men it won't matter because the people who worship the insane people and the insane people themselves will never take any criticism from a man about a woman.


The thread was here. If you want to read it yourself there's realtime archival services but more than likely it'll be wiped from those in a few days max if anyone gets litigious.

That's that. Another day, another Phil Fish immolation. Nothing of value was lost.

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I read the 4chan thread about Fish and Quinn getting hacked so you don't have to by serial malcontent 08/22/2014, 4:09am PDT NEW
    What are the odds on Phil having released all this info himself? NT by Entropy Stew 08/22/2014, 9:24am PDT NEW
        Everyone's asking that. I'm just a sleepless malcontent posting what I saw. NT by serial malcontent 08/22/2014, 10:05am PDT NEW
        Evidence on swc showing that phil fish did hack his own website. NT by kate leth 08/22/2014, 10:38am PDT NEW
            Evidence on swc showing that phil fish will be going to jail soon. NT by kate leth 08/22/2014, 10:46am PDT NEW
        People are saying it's ridiculous to say he'd do it himself, and they're right. by Worm 08/22/2014, 11:21am PDT NEW
        I'd say even. by Jim Crow-Lollerson 08/22/2014, 12:15pm PDT NEW
            Alternately by Butterface Loving Lollerson 08/22/2014, 7:55pm PDT NEW
 
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