[deft]

This is just the surface, with personal politics and clashing personalities obscured. The scene is incredibly dramatic and childish.

[delroth]

The nice thing with the console hacking scene is that the people doing actual useful work and the people causing drama are mostly disjoint sets.

[av3csr]

The apex of the scene's pettiness has to be this http://wololo.net/2015/03/18/total-noobs-response-to-latest-... (tl;dr the custom firmware checks if a certain user is using it, if so it formats their memory card)

[khedoros1]

I remember that in part of modding the Wii, one of the tools asked if you were going to use the tool to play backups. I took it literally; my plan was to rip my game disks and run them from a USB drive. I answered "yes"...and the tool spit up a message against piracy, and set a flag somewhere in the NAND of the Wii.

I don't remember exactly how I fixed it...I think there was some undocumented way to clear the flag that you could only find by reading the tool's source. It was a good reminder of how much stupid, blind trust I tend to put into random tools from the internet.

[paulie_a]

To be fair that is pretty funny. If you are going to spite someone...put some effort into it.