Jan 21, 2014 11:29 PM
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Help Viral Dragon
Hack Forums' very own Viral Dragon has not been having the best year. Since early 2013, he has begun having occasional seizures and, after the continuous reappearances of these seizures, decided to pay the hospital a visit in order to find out what was causing these disruptions. It turned out to be a lesion in his brain, as determined by the results of a CAT scan and an MRI. At a mere 1.3 cm in size, it doesn't seem all that large but his neurosurgeon still believes that it is the root cause of the seizures. Even though medication against the return of the seizures helps, they also have strong side affects including severe irritation, affecting his culinary classes. Several other problems have also arisen over time, including light sensitivity and trouble concentrating. Viral Dragon has been a member of Hack Forums for over four years at this point, sharing his knowledge to others completely free of charge. Being a Mentor, he is relentless in keeping Hack Forums a good place to be. Now the roles are reversed; Viral Dragon is the one who needs help. On the Indie GoGo campaign started by his significant other, iceybunneh, several ways of how members can help out are described, from sharing his story on social media to making a donation, helping them raise $13,000 needed to diagnose the lesion and hopefully improve the quality of his life.
Lastly, I usually do not go first person when writing the headlines. In this situation, however, I make an exception. Viral Dragon is a leader, someone to look up to and learn from. Share his story, help how you can, let's make a change for the good. -Mohatu.
PayPal Holding: A Bannable Offence
In a sudden turn of events, Omniscient has decided to disallow members from either using PayPal holders or offering to be one. For those unaware of what a PayPal holder is, it is someone who quite literally holds PayPal funds for another member who is either unwilling to use PayPal or has been banned from their services. This leaves both parties vulnerable: the receiver of the funds is likely to have to deal with chargebacks while the one using the services of a holder is never guaranteed to receive the funds being held for them. On several occasions, Hack Forums' members have awoken to PayPal balances in the negatives, often by several hundreds of dollars. In an effort to reduce this type of occurrence and cease young members from falling victim to debt at a young age, the practice has been decided to be disallowed entirely. There are, of course, members who may be angry at the change, such as stresser owners. However, Omniscient advises those members, and others, that this change will increase the adoption of Bitcoin in the forum marketplace even more. An alternative to PayPal, Bitcoin offers encrypted, safe transactions that can not be disputed. The notification thread can be read here. Punishments as a result of attempting to use or be a PayPal holder after this day are in danger of having their account closed.
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User News
- Ηaze and Google Expert both hit 1,000 reputation.
- Cryptic™ hit 2,000 reputation.
- Jinu snagged the first post in the 177th edition.
- Roger Waters caught the fiftieth post in the 177th edition.
- Sir explains this new section in Sir's Second. Look.
- Natas was repfucked.
- Max' was repfucked.
- IPv6 was repfucked.
- Be Brave was repfucked.
- iKLUTCH was repfucked for rep abuse, trolling, and LQP.
- Paradoxmoney was repfucked.
- ๖ۣۜCowboy BeBop was repfucked.
- IPv6 was banned for one month for repfuck complaining.
- iKLUTCH was banned for rep abuse, trolling, and LQP.
- I ƒucking hate you. was banned.
- Crаzy was banned for LQP.
- pashabiceps was banned for harassing members.
- No was banned for bypassing the character limit.
- Sergeant Reaper was banned for trolling.
- Gаry took a vacation ban.
- sam0016 took a vacation ban.
- Emylbus took a vacation ban.
- PandaVenom took a vacation ban.
- Diabolic had his Diamond award removed, and, in return, received DaBomb award.
- Acroz donated for Master Donator award.
- xflat is no longer a leader of The Brotherhood.
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Interview - Devour
(Click to View) Welcome to this weeks edition of the news. How are ya' doing, Devour? How'd your week go?
Devour: It's been pretty good so far I went away for work for about 2 days, other than that pretty normal overall. How about yours?
Clique: Decent as heck. Just got back from playing some pool. Any shout outs before we begin?
Devour: Shout-out too everyone in Saturn, TheHackersLove, Cloudy, Mikey, Myth!, and Dripz!
Clique: The whole crew, amiright? So - what do you do outside of here? You work a lot, that's for sure. Anything else?
Devour: Yea I do work a lot I repair printers and copiers so I do get to travel quite a bit. Besides that I like play Xbox mostly Call of Duty, I like to play competitively when I can . Also I do have a girlfriend we have been together for almost 2 years now. Besides that nothing..
Clique: Pree' cool. Have any plans to actually get the Xbox One? You should go for it. Are you in school?
Devour: Well I want too get the xbox one at some point in the nera future it does look awesome, maybe we could play again once I do. ;)
Also I am not in school I am 20 I graduated in '11 and plan to go back to start college when I work less, I work about 60 hours a week now so it's a little hard to balance it all.
Clique: For sure. Dang, busy dude. What are you going to study? Have anything you are interested in?
Devour: Not 100% sure yet something around network administration is what I had in mind, I did want other things earlier in life but they won't happen.
Clique: You can always change your mind. No problem. How'd you even come across this site?
Devour: I actually didn't start on this site the guy who made me come to this site would have to be Saturn, I did come here for the gamertag section I have owned some pretty good ones if I do say so myself. Now that I've been here for a while I have moved more to the entire site rather than sticking to that one section.
Clique: Glad that you're exploring. Where do you see yourself in the next few years? Still on this site?
Devour: I'm not quite sure yet I'm sure I'll still be here but I can't guarantee how active I will be.
Clique: Fair enough! Have any advice for the new members on the forums?
Devour: I only have one piece of advice for the new members.
-Don't ask for rep you will get rep-fucked.
Clique: What do you think about HF as a whole? Do you think it's a distraction?
Devour: I think it is overall good, but depending on how focused you are on it it can be a giant distraction and pull you away from real life.
Clique: True that. Any last words before we finish this interview?
Devour: No not really anything else to say, just everyone reading have a good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
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