did you hear about the ordosalpha situation regarding the SHC?
A little bit of it entered my peripheral vision where I understand someone at... SSRG? They cracked recently and posted some pretty edgelordy stuff in the SHC judges reviews, and people are asking for his removal.
I did not look super closely at it.
That is, by and large, because I don’t pay attention to SSRG at all, and I keep a certain amount of distance between me and the Sonic Hacking Contest. I’ve mentioned not wanting to cover SHC over the years because I already kill myself with SAGE -- that’s true. Covering SAGE is a marathon to me, and the idea of doing two marathons so close together is a bit too much.
But I keep hearing rumblings about different people in and around the Sonic Hacking Contest, too. About the hardcore chan-culture weirdos (like OrdosAlpha) and the bad, hateful, edgy stuff they’ve engaged in over the years.
So while I am truly, actually, genuinely exhausted after covering SAGE once a year, I also don’t feel particularly energized or incentivized to summon the effort to engage with the SHC.
Because, I mean, for OrdosAlpha to get in to the position he’s in, well... that came from somewhere, right? This wasn’t a case of musical chairs where he happened to steal a seat. There’s more going on here than one guy being a dumpster clown. He’s not the root of this problem.
Unfortunately, I am not the person to go in to much more detail than that, as once friends that I trust give me a sense of “you should stay away from those people” then I tend to do just that.
