DDoS Attack Breaks Beloved Video Game Wiki After AI Bro Was Banned
It is a treasure trove of gaming information–a trove that is currently offline following a DDoS attack that “seems to have been triggered by someone using Claude Code.” The team at TCRF absolutely hates video-coded AI slop. In fact, they hate it so much that the team created custom, anti-AI artwork in MS Paint, which appears when anyone attempts to access the site using LLMs and AI tools. Nothing actually happened, mind, but our anti-AI page successfully annoyed the operator and interrupted their "work." — The Cutting Room Floor (@tcrf.net) 2026-08-06T14:57:48.491Z Why?
- ▪It is a treasure trove of gaming information–a trove that is currently offline following a DDoS attack that “seems to have been triggered by someone using Claude Code.” The team at TCRF absolutely hates video-coded AI slop.
- ▪In fact, they hate it so much that the team created custom, anti-AI artwork in MS Paint, which appears when anyone attempts to access the site using LLMs and AI tools.
- ▪Nothing actually happened, mind, but our anti-AI page successfully annoyed the operator and interrupted their "work." — The Cutting Room Floor (@tcrf.net) 2026-08-06T14:57:48.491Z Why?
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| Original publisher | Kotaku |
| Canonical URL | https://kotaku.com/ddos-attack-breaks-beloved-video-game-wiki-after-ai-bro-was-banned-2000729335 |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:29:34 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T20:30:26.834Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T20:30:26.834Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 6ZymgaHGSs3m · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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DDoS Attack Breaks Beloved Video Game Wiki After AI Bro Was Banned The person accused subsequently served with an image of a butthole drawn in MS Paint AIDDoSTechWiki By Lewis Parker Published August 28, 2026 | Comments (25) | 𝕏 Copied! © The Cutting Room Floor The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF) is a much-beloved wiki dedicated to archiving and protecting unused content and unreleased builds from video games, and it’s been supported by hundreds of volunteers since its inception in 2002. It is a treasure trove of gaming information–a trove that is currently offline following a DDoS attack that “seems to have been triggered by someone using Claude Code.” The team at TCRF absolutely hates video-coded AI slop.
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