I Will be Retiring from Modding for Good.
Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:58 am
So long story short my PC got taken over by ransomware that cannot be decrypted so I have lost every single file or resource I have ever had on modding. This would be manageable but my Facebook also got deleted again, and my entire YouTube channel got terminated overnight. The only thing I have left of my mods are whatever is on here and previews on my Flikr. For whatever reason YouTube have refused to give back my YouTube channel which got banned overnight by Russian bots spamming porn links. I received 5 email warnings all in Russian acrylic which I do not speak and could not translate within one hour at 5am while asleep and woke up to the channel being terminated.
Since the PC files were impossible to get back without paying whoever put the ransomware on my PC upwards of 1000 euros I decided to eventually do a hard reset. I can re download the mods themselves but it is the 5 years of my YouTube dedicated to basketball games and tutorials for modding along with my hundreds of GBs of resources and files I had made myself to help with my modding being gone in the space of a day.
Thousands of hours through years of work between these videos and the mods I made being completely wiped in the span of a day when I did absolutely nothing wrong and just had everything taken from me by a real scamming piece of shit has killed my passion for ever doing YouTube content or making mods ever again. Sorry if this is disappointing to anyone but I suffer from a number of mental illnesses including BPD, PTSD, Severe Anxiety Disorder and severe depression disorder. With substance abuse being extremely common with BPD as living with it is hell I always had modding and youtube to turn to, to distract me and keep me going. Now that it is gone, even the thought of it is enough to trigger severe suicidal thoughts in me, and with my last serious attempt and hospitalization being in November 2019 meaning I have been clean from a near lethal overdose in 16 months I have decided that I just need to move on and leave this all behind for good in order to be able to move on with my life in a healthy way. After this happened I had to be put on anti-psychotics to keep me relaxed until I have moved on but ye unfortunately this is probably the last anyone will hear or see from me.
It sucks that this happened and was out of my control but it was a great few years and I hope my work gave some people a little joy but until all my shit illnesses have fucked off for good the thought of anything related to this will only trigger bad shit.
Adios amigos
Since the PC files were impossible to get back without paying whoever put the ransomware on my PC upwards of 1000 euros I decided to eventually do a hard reset. I can re download the mods themselves but it is the 5 years of my YouTube dedicated to basketball games and tutorials for modding along with my hundreds of GBs of resources and files I had made myself to help with my modding being gone in the space of a day.
Thousands of hours through years of work between these videos and the mods I made being completely wiped in the span of a day when I did absolutely nothing wrong and just had everything taken from me by a real scamming piece of shit has killed my passion for ever doing YouTube content or making mods ever again. Sorry if this is disappointing to anyone but I suffer from a number of mental illnesses including BPD, PTSD, Severe Anxiety Disorder and severe depression disorder. With substance abuse being extremely common with BPD as living with it is hell I always had modding and youtube to turn to, to distract me and keep me going. Now that it is gone, even the thought of it is enough to trigger severe suicidal thoughts in me, and with my last serious attempt and hospitalization being in November 2019 meaning I have been clean from a near lethal overdose in 16 months I have decided that I just need to move on and leave this all behind for good in order to be able to move on with my life in a healthy way. After this happened I had to be put on anti-psychotics to keep me relaxed until I have moved on but ye unfortunately this is probably the last anyone will hear or see from me.
It sucks that this happened and was out of my control but it was a great few years and I hope my work gave some people a little joy but until all my shit illnesses have fucked off for good the thought of anything related to this will only trigger bad shit.
Adios amigos
Re: I Will be Retiring from Modding for Good.
Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:57 am
Sorry to hear about your situation and hope you can get things back on track soon! Huge respect for what you did and shared!
The ransomware is absolutely hateful and hard to defend, even some websites we frequently use to share the mods files are spreading them through popup ads...
The ransomware is absolutely hateful and hard to defend, even some websites we frequently use to share the mods files are spreading them through popup ads...
Re: I Will be Retiring from Modding for Good.
Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:55 pm
That's an awful turn of events in short order. Sorry to hear about it, and sorry to see you retire. With that being said, it's completely understandable, and health - mental or physical - must always come first. I appreciate and admire you speaking openly about your mental health, as that's too often stigmatised. I'm glad to hear that you've been able to get help though. Please keep fighting the Good Fight, and thank you for all of your contributions to the community. If you do ever feel that you can drop by again just to hang out and chat with us all, you'll always be welcome here. In the meantime, all the best, thank you, and please take care.
Re: I Will be Retiring from Modding for Good.
Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:22 pm
Health first, take care of you !
And thanx for all you made for us
About your files, dont loose hope, dont delete everything.
Quite often with cryptolockers, few weeks after, the files can be decrypted ; check this website : https://www.nomoreransom.org/en/index.html
And thanx for all you made for us
About your files, dont loose hope, dont delete everything.
Quite often with cryptolockers, few weeks after, the files can be decrypted ; check this website : https://www.nomoreransom.org/en/index.html
Re: I Will be Retiring from Modding for Good.
Fri Nov 26, 2021 2:57 am
Wishing you the best
Re: I Will be Retiring from Modding for Good.
Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:45 am
Hadn't been on the forums for a bit, but wanted to say how much that sucks what happened to your PC!
You made such a great mod that brings happiness to others and that's what counts!
All the best to you.
You made such a great mod that brings happiness to others and that's what counts!
All the best to you.
Re: I Will be Retiring from Modding for Good.
Tue Apr 12, 2022 2:05 am
Sorry to hear about your PC and personal issues. It was good to help you out when you were a rookie modder. Gute Gesundheit, which is German for good health.
Re: I Will be Retiring from Modding for Good.
Mon Apr 18, 2022 5:54 am
Bassman58 wrote:Sorry to hear about your PC and personal issues. It was good to help you out when you were a rookie modder. Gute Gesundheit, which is German for good health.
haha thank you, I'm doing better now and in university life's good but busy, been thinking about coming back to modding but ye remembering then that my entire YouTube channel and personal resources are gone makes me not
Glad I had the attitude of sharing everything I had with everyone because even though the videos are all gone and the folders, I still have alot uploaded to my mega drive that are still available for download
might return again one day
