I'm wondering about this myself lol. Maybe he is laying the groundwork for another John Szczepaniak HG101 article.
I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I was wondering if you could shed some light on an apparent inside joke with this John Szczepaniak. Is there an opinion of his articles in general, they are not respected or something in particular that he said that you didn't like ?? The context of saying "another John Szczepaniak HG101 article." seems to indicate a form of derision against him, plus your joke, but I'm clueless as to the history of how/why it came to be, that's why I ask... I'm very curious and I'd like some more info on him for reasons I go into below.
See, I only knew him as "Sketcz" before your post, now I know his full name. He's a hack that once wrote a drive-by hit-piece on me on the blog section of HG101. The central premise of his hit-piece was that I was trying to make all of my Ys patches disappear, but in his incompetence, he posted a link to my temporary site right at the beginning! As soon as you would click on my site, the FIRST thing you would see was a Download Panel to your left with mediafire links to ALL existing patches, even a red link to the leaked Felghana patch!! So how do you make such a blatant mistake like that? He did other things too, like taking an Ys IV title screen image and putting the Communist Hammer & Sickle symbol on it, his angle being that he was combating the big, bad, evil capitalist NightWolve and what not, etc.
Like all arrogant hacks, they're above an apology, let alone admitting to any wrongdoing, so I never found out if it was because his browser wasn't working with my site or he was just deliberately lying. So what did I do having been slimed by this guy? I posted a response to his entry, but it was censored. Then I contacted Kurt Kalata who owns/runs HG101 and pointed it all out to him, LOOK, here is a link to my site, there is a Download Panel right friggin' there, what is the basis for this lunatic's central claim
Kurt responded by deleting Sketcz/John's ENTIRE hit-piece and made a very mild apology, "
I apologize for the post using grossly outdated information...", blah blah, and said he should've "researched things better", but by the end of it, he sorta kinda did try to provide a rationale for what led him to do it... There's more context to it: I had demanded "romhacking hacks.net" stop hosting all of my patches because of their extortion threats and being shitty in general, so I figure that got him going, but the fact that he linked right to my site and couldn't see it for himself with nobody else pointing it out to him, I dunno, it was pure laziness and/or incompetence. Anyhow, I've been working on an article of my own and I actually included a few paragraphs on Mr. Szczepaniak, so I'm gonna be returning the favor soon.
