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Re: Hang-Out / Off-topic Thread
« Reply #880 on: September 03, 2013, 05:11:03 am »
Hey. Here's some of the things people from the Cave Story forums have said about the news.

...please don't feel bad if some of the things they said seem harsh or accusing, they're just as confused as I am and not as gentle or trusting. And they've known you even longer than I have...D:

Also, because we have different timezones, the time right now for me is 12:10 AM as of this post.
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What if a person you've known for a while, a friend, was a total lie?
12:46 PM

Tpcool
Err... define "lie."
12:49 PM

Polaris
That would suck, right?

Well...do you know who Shane is? The guy who we've known since 2012?

No. We don't.
(I was ninja'd by Tpcool.)
12:52 PM

Tpcool
Guh. I'm confused.
"ate in November 2011, my e-mail account got hacked.
Sometime yesterday or today, the hacker made the mistake of changing it back to the same password I used back then."
That's very unbelievable to me.
12:58 PM

Polaris
I don't even know.
1:00 PM

Tpcool
Whatever the case is, it seems that I can't trust Shane now. I'll wait for things to be (hopefully) sorted out.
1:01 PM

Dunc2403
Holy ****
what?
how? I just don't
I don't get it
So like
The real Shane /never/ knew any of us?
The person we thought was Shane was some dirty imposter?
But...
What? I just can't wrap my head around this.
1:06 PM

Randolf(Wayne on these forums)
This... Everything... It was fake.

I can't believe it. I guess that I don't have to visit these forums anymore. Glitches were preventing me from accessing them, and now that news...

Like TPkool said, we can't trust Shane now. At least, until the things get clear.

@Dunc
I knew the real Shane long time ago
1:07 PM

HaydenStudios
Wow... All the time that I, Dunc, Cool, and some others spent sympathizing Shane and encouraging him to not be so hard on himself... Was a waste. All those mods were made by an imposter... All that time I spent answering his modding questions were a waste of time... Now I don't feel so guilty that I hardly played any of his mods. In fact, I'm no longer guilty, but rather glad that I've been leaving him hanging in terms of discussing Cave Story Time Warp with him via PM for almost a year now, so that I didn't end up wasting any more time than I already have.

I always thought Shane was a little odd, but I never suspected he was trolling us. I trusted that the Shane I knew was a good person. I rolled my eyes at all the persecution he suffered when he was new, and felt that he didn't deserve the six-month ban that he got. I even felt pretty sad for him when he said that his cat Simba (who in the link above is revealed to not only be a girl instead of a boy, but is also still alive) was killed. He was nice, gave praise to my work, and was generally fun to talk to. ...And all this time, I was talking to an imposter.

I feel betrayed.
1:41 PM

Polaris
It should be noted that the imposter - someone called The Eternal Darkness - at least tried to impersonate him. Some basic things we know - like, his name is Shane Neumann, he lives in Gansbaii, South Africa, he has a cat named Simba - that is all true. But Shane himself noted that TED made his life out to be a lot worse than it really is. His parents aren't abusive, Simba is still alive, and the real Shane is more serious and positive.

But all of those mods, and lots of other things...despite being slightly based on the truth, were fake as well...

And please, please don't blame it on real Shane. It's not his fault in any way...
1:51 PM

Tpcool
I don't get why the "imposter" made fake mods. It's not like they're terrible, they're actually very well put together. Either this TED fellow is a very professional imposter, or what I think, this is still the same Shane. The story doesn't come together, not at all.
1:56 PM

Polaris
Like I said, I don't know...

We just have to trust him, I guess...

Here's what he said about the mods, though. Maybe we should ask him some more.

Quote from: Real Shane?
This hacker also was the one who made most of those "mods" of Cave Story, and some of that "Dragon Riders" fanfic. Apparently, he/she managed to find out about the prologue and such that I wrote, and rewrote it, and possibly even learnt about the Seretouan Alliance that I was working on if I got bored with Dragon Riders... yet somehow,  he/she figured out everything about it... somehow. He/she must have somehow entered the house when I was away...
Whoever it is must be a person who knows me well enough, I guess; he/she appears to know a lot about me. Even knowing that I'm in the middle of financial problems and then disappearing for some time...
Suppose I'll have to be paranoid right now, right...?

...

Draw your own conclusions.
2:08

Dunc2403
The thing is, he says "most", which really confuses me. Did the real Shane make some?
2:32 PM

Noxid
postulation: shane is not entirely well in the head
10:19 PM

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