They are either kids or unemployed grown ass adults who still live in their parents house. Of course they have "enough free time", they literally have nothing to do with their life.
Either way, I would bet they are script kiddies. They don't know enough to shut up. They are also operating off Discord like the chats are private. You know, because discord totally hasn't had a fairly recent breach where the logs were pulled. I doubt they would have the capacity to go much further. But.... it's better to err on the side of caution.
Yeah I mean, all their hacks where public on github, they got deleted today but I've saved copies of what they had which I'm going to republish later today so they need to make new shit or keep using the leaked code.
Its easy enough to find locations already
It doesn’t take much time to do
So if they really wanted to they would have done it already
I’m not saying he should keep doing it though
The big thing he probably should have done is post from a throwaway reddit account. I sure hope his account name and post history don't have anything personally identifying linked to them.
Hoping you sent the last image to discord.
Saying that is bannable, i mean almost all of this is bannable but that's something they come down on hard and fast.
People like them have no self-awareness. I knew a guy at school that was stabbing me with his compass or calipers dunno the name in english(they used to have very sharp needles). When I confronted him about that he got mad that I am the asshole for ruining his fun. Next time he got a big old bonk to his head with my fist. Dude was STILL mad, but at least he stoppped.
Sorry, I'm just imagining you getting stabbed, then are like "Yo, you know it's not nice to stab people, right? You should stop that." as you're covered in stab wounds and continued being stabbed.
Agreed. There are way too many stories of schools doing nothing when bullying is reported, but when said bully gets retaliated against, it’s somehow the retaliator’s fault.
And when they get in a fight, they arent allowed to defend themself? "oH bUt OnE pUnCh CaN kiLl!!!"
They were on the recieving end of punches! They could have died! You wish for them to sit back and just take it?
I'd imagine fair chance they are edgy kids.
From what I recall majority of hackers are young enough to be stupid enough to do it, but just old enough that they know how to do it.
I saw one of the discord messages just say “oh I lost 150 dollars, I’ll just wait for my next paycheck”
you could easily spend that money with friends to go out to eat, but nawr, they spend it ruining other people’s free time. That’s genuinely sad living paycheck to paycheck just to ruin others time.
Here’s some things you could do with that money
-buy lots of legos
-buy food
-put it into savings
-put it into investments
-go out with friends
-give it to a child
-use it to buy a homeless person a warm meal
-donate it to charity
And of all things they chose to use it on botting an old as hell game
The fact they even WORK is astonishing to me. What do you mean someone who wants to pay his bills and food or whatever, IS GOING ALONGSIDE THOSE PEOPLE?
What the actual fuck.
For anyone who has no idea; 88 is a dogwhistle for "Heil Hitler"
[Its a common fascist/neo-nazi thing to do](https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/88-hand-sign?_ga=2.207515539.1866211974.1504039448-216564017.1504039448),
for those that are still clueless, H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, thereby making 88 "HH" which could have been used as shorthand in 1930s-1940s Germany transmissions
I highly doubt any of them are *actually* full-blown nazis. They're just so unfathomably stupid that they think edgy = funny, so they're just doing the edgiest things possible in a sad attempt to be entertaining. But if you point out how pathetic it is, the Dunning-Kruger Effect comes into full swing and they think you just don't get it.
It's a failed attempt to be funny by people too bitter & stupid to actually be funny
"Rosne made himself too public of an image" bro who tf is Rosne 💀
Ain't nobody here knows any bot hosters whatsoever except for the twink robot the people at /r/OmegatronicNSFW want to fuck.
Over here acting like bro is Dutch Van Der Linde getting snuffed out by the pinkertons 💀
Rosnehook is what pretty much all bots use(d). Cathook evolved basically.
Also, by too public of an image they meant he had a public discord for Rosnehook, publicly posted tutorial videos about using Rosnehook and hosting bots, and had all public Github repos for Rosnehook.
As far as I can tell, as of today, his youtube is gone and Rosnehook Discord is gone, and so is his Github account.
Yeah I didn’t get a chance to mention that in the post since that happened afterwards, but one of them did say that they would reopen it, but not give it to anyone else in the server.
Once upon a time, when I was seriously disillusioned with this game, I said that the issue with it was a bunch never grew out of the "slurs/general shittines = peak humor" phase or life. I am vindicated in the why, but not the who. This community is (mostly) chill from the experiences I have had, but if there were a group of people that matched what I just said, it would definitely be those that ruin the game through bots
Bro thinks he is very anonymous but he uses Discord with zero encryption. If the FBI or any other authority wants his information, it's right there.
All i want to know is how these guys can host so many bots. They don't seem to have any infrastructure.
From what little i know, there are ways to run the game in basically code only form. Think something like the matrix but way less advanced and impressive.
They don't actually have a computer somewhere with 20 version of tf2 open at the same time because there's basically no computer out there that can reasonably run that.
Instead they basically rent server space to run it all for them.
Yep IIRC they run a terminal text-based version of TF2 to minimise computational overhead, but I doubt it's official, and is likely a modified version created by someone else especially considering that the source code already leaked.
Why would you doubt it’s official? (it is it’s called textmode). this is a game with an exposed dev console that lets you do literally whatever you want to the ui
I swear these basement dwelling no-lifes act like they're some kind of criminal organization when they're literally just ruining a video game for people.
And the amount of effort they're putting into it is the most embarrassing part about this whole thing.
Someone said a bunch of tf2 cheaters are like under 18, that pretty much checks out because it's hard to imagine a person taking themselves seriously with middleschooler curses and slurs.
Older people unfortunately do it too. I had a 30-something say it while I was helping him load his car when i worked at a grocery store. "I can't believe kroger hires all these"
What do bot hosters even want? I can’t envision any sane person being asked what they do for fun and happily replying with “I host obnoxious hacker bots in a 15 year old FPS game”
1) attention
2) item farming, some will actually make a few cents off of one bot. What sucks is that they don't NEED to be spinbotting and ruining the game.
I'm pretty sure the item farms and spinbots are most likely separate groups of people, since one is abusing item drops with multiple accounts to make money while the other is attempting to make a game unfun for others
Can we talk about how much of a absolute hero op is for this they literally risked getting doxed and all the horrible stuff that in the internet person could do to someone just to give us this beautiful gem of bot hosters being absolute morons
The fact they rage quit being an ass makes this even funnier. Like saying “well actually, we didn’t get punished, we just threw a hissy fit” was a better story in their head.
"Rosne talked too much and was too public."
"Oh by the way, Rosne DEFINITELY quit you guys! He is no longer hosting bots! He has chosen to disappear from the public eye! Forget about him! He is gone forever! \*whispers\* pssst, Rosne, I think they're buying it!"
Tbh I'd take everything a hoster says as a pinch of salt. It wouldn't be the first time those mfers lie like dogs. And that's not even the tip of the iceberg considering all the wicked shit they've done
https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1dq0zob/bot_hosters_doing_damage_control/
If the guy quit, why hes making new accounts then. They are just sad because they are getting banned.
Ugh, stupid comment server issues. Anyway.
I have to ask, what is this about Rosne's entire presence vanishing? Rosnehook isn't even a public repository any more on Git. Did it go the cathook route and get nuked entirely?
Rosne had his steam accounts constantly banned even if he literally just got some new ones, allegedly got Doxxed as well.
If we are to beleive the monkeys from that bot hosting discord then he quit over this and deleted all his accounts, including github and youtube channel.
I swear, every community set on making cheats and such for games always say the N-word, it's insane. It's no different in the GTA V Modding community. Strange people, truly...
Pathetic edgelords, that guy doesn't deserve to have a HL Lambda as a profile picture, it makes me sick that someone like that actually likes the same thing as me
In theory couldn’t you get their discord sever shut down for stuff like this? I’ve managed to get a cheaters server banned for similar things in the past. It may not stop them completely but it’d probably really annoy them.
This will probably be the last update I make, I don’t feel like getting involved in this any longer
It's a risky game laddie, but we thank ye for ya service!
What’s the risk I’m confused?
Being found and stalked over the internet and then doxxed. I think these people have enough free time on their hands to do that
They are either kids or unemployed grown ass adults who still live in their parents house. Of course they have "enough free time", they literally have nothing to do with their life.
Either way, I would bet they are script kiddies. They don't know enough to shut up. They are also operating off Discord like the chats are private. You know, because discord totally hasn't had a fairly recent breach where the logs were pulled. I doubt they would have the capacity to go much further. But.... it's better to err on the side of caution.
Yeah I mean, all their hacks where public on github, they got deleted today but I've saved copies of what they had which I'm going to republish later today so they need to make new shit or keep using the leaked code.
Its easy enough to find locations already It doesn’t take much time to do So if they really wanted to they would have done it already I’m not saying he should keep doing it though
They're desperate to cheat in an incredibly old game, they're off their rockers already.
A captain almost sank ye’s ship But that doesn’t mean ye gon be in davie jone’s locker
I mean it's good to see this, but there are more important things, than these pathetic kids
I understand. These bot hosters seem draining.
It's not just that. If they figure out which one he is, he could end up getting stalked online or doxxed.
The big thing he probably should have done is post from a throwaway reddit account. I sure hope his account name and post history don't have anything personally identifying linked to them.
Wait, so this is NOT a burner account? Whoa, that's not a good idea
Godspeed and good job for this much mr spy
Great work Red Spy. <3
Spy is kredit to team!
It's still great news regardless. It gives me some hope things will improve.
You’re doing god’s work lad
Hoping you sent the last image to discord. Saying that is bannable, i mean almost all of this is bannable but that's something they come down on hard and fast.
Completely understandable
You are a good spy. Sad that you will no longer provide us with your services.
Godspeed you magnificent bastard
at ease soldier
Bro, are they actually getting mad that they got caught?
People like them have no self-awareness. I knew a guy at school that was stabbing me with his compass or calipers dunno the name in english(they used to have very sharp needles). When I confronted him about that he got mad that I am the asshole for ruining his fun. Next time he got a big old bonk to his head with my fist. Dude was STILL mad, but at least he stoppped.
Sorry, I'm just imagining you getting stabbed, then are like "Yo, you know it's not nice to stab people, right? You should stop that." as you're covered in stab wounds and continued being stabbed.
One of the reasons I hated school. And don't forget! People only get involved if you fight back or make a stand, and it's **not** in your favor.
Agreed. There are way too many stories of schools doing nothing when bullying is reported, but when said bully gets retaliated against, it’s somehow the retaliator’s fault.
And when they get in a fight, they arent allowed to defend themself? "oH bUt OnE pUnCh CaN kiLl!!!" They were on the recieving end of punches! They could have died! You wish for them to sit back and just take it?
UK
"Chin up Englisman!"
Me, after being stabbed: "That's a bit rude, innit?"
'Ave ya got a loicense for getting stabbed?
Compass is correct, assuming you're talking about the thing you draw circles with.
I'm so dumb. I imagined he broke his navigation compass and started stabbing him with the needle lol
That's textbook narcissism
"The spy has already breached our defenses"
You've seen what he has to our bot hoster
HE COULD BE YOU! HE COULD BE ME! HE COULD---
***banned***
WHAT?! HE WAS THE CHEATER ALL ALONG! WATCH, HE'LL TURN HIS CHEATS ON ANY MOMENT NOW......
SEE? CHEATS! No wait, that's skill...
so, we still got cheater
Alright, whos ready to go find this bot?
\*Robotic voice\* Right behind you.
Ah, *ma petite hackeuse*
# CRITICAL HIT! # CRITICAL HIT!
even funnier alternative *in robotic voice* GOOD SHOT MATE!
this quote has been said in some form by every gamer ever
God I swear these people always either act like edgy kids or Joseph Seed. What a joke.
Far Cry 5 Mentioned; Tell me your favorite companion or i'm Blissing you.
Boomer. My hatred for that game runs deep due to the fact that Boomer can't sit in my car and has to run behind me
Glad New Dawn let the dog ride with you at least.
Adelaide because she delivers me a chopper
Oh yeah that chick gives you air support actually helps a lot
Peaches and Jess for killing peggies and savagery, Sharky and cheeseburger for the vibes and humor.
Cheeseburger. Hurk Jr. is a close second
Cheeseburger or hurk jr. i like funny redneck with rpg
Because they likely are children. Some of the newer hosters at least. Who don't realize what all is at stake.
Speaking of, I was in a call earlier, and it seems I met a hoster who was, about 11(?) information stated by other parties in the voice call.
Imagine getting blacklisted by Steam before you're technically a teenager. There's obviously workarounds but it's still nutty.
I'd imagine fair chance they are edgy kids. From what I recall majority of hackers are young enough to be stupid enough to do it, but just old enough that they know how to do it.
More like Jacob Seed to be honest.
r/farcry5
Fr the way these shitheads talk is extremely cringeworthy, I knew the bot hosters were already shitty people, but not *this* shitty
Never expected a far cry 5 reference but that'll do
For real, they act like they are Providence members or something. Wonder why
I get John Seed vibes from them more imo
At face value, these kids are fucking pathetic.
I saw one of the discord messages just say “oh I lost 150 dollars, I’ll just wait for my next paycheck” you could easily spend that money with friends to go out to eat, but nawr, they spend it ruining other people’s free time. That’s genuinely sad living paycheck to paycheck just to ruin others time.
Here’s some things you could do with that money -buy lots of legos -buy food -put it into savings -put it into investments -go out with friends -give it to a child -use it to buy a homeless person a warm meal -donate it to charity And of all things they chose to use it on botting an old as hell game
Hell you could even buy a decent used graphics card with that money.
"Buy lots of legos" Man for $150 you could buy one lego
The fact they even WORK is astonishing to me. What do you mean someone who wants to pay his bills and food or whatever, IS GOING ALONGSIDE THOSE PEOPLE? What the actual fuck.
Being so demoralized he quit is somehow even better.
Get your facts straight reddit 🤓 Lol
Literal mental illness lol
Mental sickness
Professionals have standards.
Be polite
Be Efficient
Have a plan to kill every bot hoster you meet
They rly be showing some signs of ASPD
Lmao they're all speaking like 16 yo edgelords
I think some of them literally are
Because they are
Hmm I wonder why his name is EightyEight 🤔
For anyone who has no idea; 88 is a dogwhistle for "Heil Hitler" [Its a common fascist/neo-nazi thing to do](https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/88-hand-sign?_ga=2.207515539.1866211974.1504039448-216564017.1504039448),
for those that are still clueless, H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, thereby making 88 "HH" which could have been used as shorthand in 1930s-1940s Germany transmissions
God bot hosters really have no creativity Best they can come up with is more nazi related names
Thats bold of you to assume nazis/fascists are creative Edit: I accidentally capitalised the nouns I don't respect
Cuz they have 88 chromosomes
88 is what the family tree of their father's side and their mother's side looks like when you put them next to eachother
wow bot hosts are nazis
*pretends to be shocked*
I highly doubt any of them are *actually* full-blown nazis. They're just so unfathomably stupid that they think edgy = funny, so they're just doing the edgiest things possible in a sad attempt to be entertaining. But if you point out how pathetic it is, the Dunning-Kruger Effect comes into full swing and they think you just don't get it. It's a failed attempt to be funny by people too bitter & stupid to actually be funny
They have eighty eight percent less braincells than a normal person
Damn lol, all basement-dwelling troglodytes Thanks for your service. 1000 Super Credit will be sent to you via Super Earth's government
F R E E WARBOND!
Y E S .
And 1000 Magnetite resources by DRG corporation
Also 1 free 500kg to be used at your desecration. Make good use of it.
Imagine using an 500kg in an actual TF2 match?
"Rosne made himself too public of an image" bro who tf is Rosne 💀 Ain't nobody here knows any bot hosters whatsoever except for the twink robot the people at /r/OmegatronicNSFW want to fuck. Over here acting like bro is Dutch Van Der Linde getting snuffed out by the pinkertons 💀
Rosnehook i think was a very popular bot hook for 64bit.
Rosnehook is what pretty much all bots use(d). Cathook evolved basically. Also, by too public of an image they meant he had a public discord for Rosnehook, publicly posted tutorial videos about using Rosnehook and hosting bots, and had all public Github repos for Rosnehook. As far as I can tell, as of today, his youtube is gone and Rosnehook Discord is gone, and so is his Github account.
Oh that’s good
“I have a plan Arthur I just need 500 more bots”
I have a plan arthur, we just need money
they make this private all it means less ppl will start hosting bots, so nice lol.
Yeah I didn’t get a chance to mention that in the post since that happened afterwards, but one of them did say that they would reopen it, but not give it to anyone else in the server.
Gotta love the copium in the last screenshot. "He wasn't banned he quit" said with the exact level of maturity I expected from these losers.
YOU CANT FIRE ME, I QUIT!!!!
I love how even in such a "serious situation" they still input the n word somewhere
Once upon a time, when I was seriously disillusioned with this game, I said that the issue with it was a bunch never grew out of the "slurs/general shittines = peak humor" phase or life. I am vindicated in the why, but not the who. This community is (mostly) chill from the experiences I have had, but if there were a group of people that matched what I just said, it would definitely be those that ruin the game through bots
The same type of people who cheat too
Like a white supremacist tourettes.
what did we really expect lmfao
Bro thinks he is very anonymous but he uses Discord with zero encryption. If the FBI or any other authority wants his information, it's right there. All i want to know is how these guys can host so many bots. They don't seem to have any infrastructure.
From what little i know, there are ways to run the game in basically code only form. Think something like the matrix but way less advanced and impressive. They don't actually have a computer somewhere with 20 version of tf2 open at the same time because there's basically no computer out there that can reasonably run that. Instead they basically rent server space to run it all for them.
Yep IIRC they run a terminal text-based version of TF2 to minimise computational overhead, but I doubt it's official, and is likely a modified version created by someone else especially considering that the source code already leaked.
Launching TF2 with -textmode launch option is what Rosnehook did.
Why would you doubt it’s official? (it is it’s called textmode). this is a game with an exposed dev console that lets you do literally whatever you want to the ui
No, they don't rent servers. You can host prob like 15 bots on any old shitty laptop. Textmode uses very few resources.
Why would the FBI (or anything similar) ever give a single fuck about bot hosters..
Because they've been doing shit like DDOSing and calling in bomb threats and such.
any russian bot hosters are safe since russian law protects russian cybercriminals unless they attack russian sites/companies/government/services
We should inform Ukraine and have them droned.
I'm fairly certain valve could make a case that they are compromising their copyright on tf2 by playing with the source code, too
they talk about him like a one piece antagonist
Some of the biggest one piece antagonists were defeated by someone doing some goofy shit and rubber…. SO COULD THE PORN STILL WOR-
I swear these basement dwelling no-lifes act like they're some kind of criminal organization when they're literally just ruining a video game for people. And the amount of effort they're putting into it is the most embarrassing part about this whole thing.
Let them. Wasting so much time and effort on something so pointless will only make their lives even more miserable. Soon, they will break.
Someone said a bunch of tf2 cheaters are like under 18, that pretty much checks out because it's hard to imagine a person taking themselves seriously with middleschooler curses and slurs.
Like hard r n word, who in their right mind does that
"I’ll add the hard r to my message, that will show them!"
“I’m not owned”
Older people unfortunately do it too. I had a 30-something say it while I was helping him load his car when i worked at a grocery store. "I can't believe kroger hires all these"
What do bot hosters even want? I can’t envision any sane person being asked what they do for fun and happily replying with “I host obnoxious hacker bots in a 15 year old FPS game”
1) attention 2) item farming, some will actually make a few cents off of one bot. What sucks is that they don't NEED to be spinbotting and ruining the game.
I'm pretty sure the item farms and spinbots are most likely separate groups of people, since one is abusing item drops with multiple accounts to make money while the other is attempting to make a game unfun for others
Can we talk about how much of a absolute hero op is for this they literally risked getting doxed and all the horrible stuff that in the internet person could do to someone just to give us this beautiful gem of bot hosters being absolute morons
Haha honestly I don’t even think they know what my account is, but thanks regardless!
Very classy towards the ending, of course they're still in the middle school racism phase why am I not surprised. 💀
Who the fuck are these people and what are they talking about
n-word jumpscare
and with the hard R too
and theyre nzis too
lmfao but of course
then it got deleted
Meet the Spy
INTRUDER ALERT RED SPY IN BASE
The way they talk is beyond cringe, they genuinely try to make themselves sound badass lmao
They legit can’t go more than ten minutes without dropping the N word
The fact they rage quit being an ass makes this even funnier. Like saying “well actually, we didn’t get punished, we just threw a hissy fit” was a better story in their head.
"This act of foolish recklessness on his part further helped his downfall." Holy shit dude way to sound like a Dark Souls NPC.
It’s like watching a trashy reality show meltdown lol
What a bunch of losers
"Rosne talked too much and was too public." "Oh by the way, Rosne DEFINITELY quit you guys! He is no longer hosting bots! He has chosen to disappear from the public eye! Forget about him! He is gone forever! \*whispers\* pssst, Rosne, I think they're buying it!"
That’s like a cheater saying “kick me I don’t care” while scrambling to hit the leave server button so they don’t get kicked
What they did was the equivalent of just putting their hand over their mouth but talking in a still hearable voice infront of a crowd
I know I shouldn’t be surprised to see people in bot servers casually throwing out slurs but man they really do have no decency do they
Huge w
Tbh I'd take everything a hoster says as a pinch of salt. It wouldn't be the first time those mfers lie like dogs. And that's not even the tip of the iceberg considering all the wicked shit they've done
What a bunch of sad little manlets.
Godspeed. o7
Figured it was too good to be true here. Too coincidental of a timeframe.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1dq0zob/bot_hosters_doing_damage_control/ If the guy quit, why hes making new accounts then. They are just sad because they are getting banned.
How do we know these bot hosters are honest about anything?
These guys clearly got shat on by their cousins while playing smash 64.......and never got over it.....
these fucking kids are acting like gangsters over a stupid game hack LMAO
Good Riddance finally
I love the GenAI always shows up in these screenshots
what is rosnehook is it like the full username of that lad or something
probably the fork used to host bots, there's also cathook, whatever happened to that
Ugh, stupid comment server issues. Anyway. I have to ask, what is this about Rosne's entire presence vanishing? Rosnehook isn't even a public repository any more on Git. Did it go the cathook route and get nuked entirely?
Rosne had his steam accounts constantly banned even if he literally just got some new ones, allegedly got Doxxed as well. If we are to beleive the monkeys from that bot hosting discord then he quit over this and deleted all his accounts, including github and youtube channel.
even better that he quitted 🙄
Even bigger losers than I thought 😂😂 Honestly laughable...
I swear, every community set on making cheats and such for games always say the N-word, it's insane. It's no different in the GTA V Modding community. Strange people, truly...
Damn those guys are even more pathetic then I thought
The fact that those conversations feels scripted just confirms their IQ is probably lower than Soldier's
These dudes are so pathetic lol. Does typing like they're anime villains make them feel cool?
I love seeing the boys hosters reality crumble when they realize they’ll eventually need to get a real job once valve ruins their fun
Ofc they're racist, Jesus christ
> easy dubs
Acting like they Dutch van der Linde and shit
Who tf are any of these pepole
Pathetic edgelords, that guy doesn't deserve to have a HL Lambda as a profile picture, it makes me sick that someone like that actually likes the same thing as me
Man he is talking about social engineering lmao
ah yes the casual n word as expected of people who practice in bot hosting
In theory couldn’t you get their discord sever shut down for stuff like this? I’ve managed to get a cheaters server banned for similar things in the past. It may not stop them completely but it’d probably really annoy them.
Can we just drop a zip bomb on bot Hosters and crash their servers?
Dumbass can't even spell loose lmfao "*lose* lips sink ships"
Bro being a spy in real life💀.
Valve all off the sudden said: THINK FAST CHUCKLENUTS
You deserve a medal! Or at least a spy cosmetic inspired by you. Holy hell!
These people talk like JRPG villains lmao, so pathetic