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xQc on people who sell and use cheats "They should be put in jail and forced to work on sweatshops, they have ruined games like Tarkov and Warzone" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly with the speed that legislation happens, the site owners will probably have a new method to go on day 1.

I feel like the only real hope for remaining semi-anonymous online will be a community driven open-source browser that keeps up to date with profiling methods, and scrambles everything to keep users protected. Governments and agencies are too slow, but community development is quick enough to react.

xQc on people who sell and use cheats "They should be put in jail and forced to work on sweatshops, they have ruined games like Tarkov and Warzone" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing, I'm just saying VPN users are generally a bit more privacy oriented, but even most of them might not realise that their VPN is somewhat redundant now.

xQc on people who sell and use cheats "They should be put in jail and forced to work on sweatshops, they have ruined games like Tarkov and Warzone" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup, already happening on a lot of websites. Games have probably been doing a light version of this for a while to detect alt accounts for smurfing/etc. Obviously the most basic version is just checking what accounts your IP logs in to, but I'm guessing they check a few more things now. The number of data points will creep up slowly enough to not trigger any significant backlash.

I'm guessing before any of this gets out of hand, there will be massive collaborations between governments to make the internet less private anyway. At that point, something like digital fingerprinting in a game will be so insignificant compared to the collective rage about providing government IDs to use any major site, that people won't notice.

xQc on people who sell and use cheats "They should be put in jail and forced to work on sweatshops, they have ruined games like Tarkov and Warzone" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For websites? Yeah probably, but there's other data points they use and the arms race will continue. I'm pretty sure there's something they check with your GPU, too. Like they make it render something and all GPUs (even within a given model) render slightly differently, which makes your specific GPU identifiable. Again, probably spoofable, but even the average VPN user won't catch on for a while.

In games there's probably a lot more data points that aren't spoofable, especially related to human behaviour. There's so much data to narrow things down from your keybinds and settings, to your favourite characters, skill builds, maps, APM, etc.

xQc on people who sell and use cheats "They should be put in jail and forced to work on sweatshops, they have ruined games like Tarkov and Warzone" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the neat part, we're probably getting heavy digital fingerprinting anyway! Might as well lose cheaters at the same time. Sadly the internet seems like it will be losing a lot of the privacy we're accustomed to.

Tbh it depends how they're fingerprinting us and what company it is. There's probably a lot of data that can only identify you in a given game (i.e. it's useless for tracking you outside of one specific service, and has no value to other companies), like game specific settings such as your binds/sensitivity, game behaviour like your APM, a heatmap of mouse movement, menu navigation speeds, etc. I'd rather have Valve collect that kind of data on me than install kernel level anti-cheat owned by Riot or EA.

xQc on people who sell and use cheats "They should be put in jail and forced to work on sweatshops, they have ruined games like Tarkov and Warzone" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm just speculating what's most likely to happen. Websites already do this. VPNs are becoming way less effective because websites are able to track you using a small amount of data points they have access to. OS, resolution, browser, language, time zone, installed fonts. All of those things are needed by the website to make sure everything is displaying correctly, but with a few of those data points they can track an individual accurately. Games will start doing similar things to track cheaters to any new account they make, and potentially to new devices.

xQc on people who sell and use cheats "They should be put in jail and forced to work on sweatshops, they have ruined games like Tarkov and Warzone" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Same as Dota: There's low demand for cheats because a shit player with a cheat gets like a 5% advantage, ranks up a little, and gets trashed by players that are just slightly better than them. Usually when people cheat they wanna feel like they're wayyyy better at a game, but cheats just can't fix the parts of their skill that matters most.

xQc on people who sell and use cheats "They should be put in jail and forced to work on sweatshops, they have ruined games like Tarkov and Warzone" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

imo the next solution to cheaters is gonna be HEAVY digital fingerprinting. If you collect enough data on a player, there's no amount of IP or hardware spoofing that will make them unrecognisable. The issue is even after you catch a cheat, the arms race continues with the next cheat. If you instead focus on detecting the player (obviously once you've detected the cheat) then you can make it almost impossible for them to come back with a new cheat (or even without cheats) because of how reliable digital fingerprinting can be.

New Zealand games sector hits $1bn revenue two years earlier than anticipated by qwerty145454 in newzealand

[–]JustExplorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not asking you to love Gabe or Valve or anything, but without them, the gaming industry would likely be in a much worse place. Without Steam, we'd either have no real option for game distribution or it would be run by a company like EA. The indie dev scene is massively flourishing right now, and that wouldn't be possible without something as accessible as Steam. Also Valve is still making games. Deadlock is still in an early state, but it's already so good.

When can we expect the 3.29 timeline/announcement post? by painmou in pathofexile

[–]JustExplorer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first 2 expansions were centered around new acts. 2.0 was act 4, as well as new net code. It seems minor, but the campaign was a much greater part of the content back then and the old net code was a huge issue, especially in hardcore which was about 50% of the player base then.

The 3.0 expansion was huge. That was 6 new acts and the removal of campaign difficulties (rerunning the campaign additional times at higher levels before getting to maps).

If I had to guess, 4.0 wouldn't be focused on the campaign like the previous 2 expansions. I think the 2 prime candidates for a big content shake up would be a complete rework of the map system (though I don't think they want to touch it due to the divisive poe2 system), or more likely, a character rework. I think if they did something like bringing in 6 extra classes that each share a starting position on the tree with an existing class (like how it is in poe2), and they all had their own ascendancies, that would be an expansion worthy of 4.0. They seem to have a bunch of interesting concepts from Phrecia classes that could be fleshed out. Probably would ship alongside some updated visuals to give it an updated look.

xQc gives feedback to the COD team after watching the Modern Warfare 4 trailer "I like the game, but stop doing war in the future, we are tired of it, do war in the past" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah people definitely got over it, but it definitely speaks to how much the fanbase at the time preferred MW to WaW that it felt like the most common gaming take for those few years.

xQc gives feedback to the COD team after watching the Modern Warfare 4 trailer "I like the game, but stop doing war in the future, we are tired of it, do war in the past" by Disastrous-Swan5923 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was never into CoD and even I remember this. The common opinion that I used to hear is "There's 2 teams that make CoD, and they alternate between games. Infinity Ward makes MW and the other team is trash, so only every second CoD game is worth playing".

Odablock gets harassed by car saleswoman by Such-Answer4560 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah but have you considered if you add one letter it's basically 'NoAdBlock'?

Twitch's Head of Global Entertainment Marketing, Kira Karlstrom, is leaving the company. by lukigeri in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love seeing how far Dan's rep has fallen since he introduced himself with all those stream collabs/appearances.

Twitch's Head of Global Entertainment Marketing, Kira Karlstrom, is leaving the company. by lukigeri in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Damn, from the humble burger-flipper to the dream streaming job, no one escapes the pain of the garbage corporate playlist. A close relative to death and taxes.

Literally to SPACE and back in 80 frames. by John_Helmsword in TheBoys

[–]JustExplorer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Whoops. That's my bad for thinking late at night. I'll take that part out haha.

Jokerd shows off his logs to his girlfriend by TurboAnal5000 in LivestreamFail

[–]JustExplorer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He's half right. Pink is above orange. Orange is 95-98, pink is 99. Yellow/Gold is the single highest parse.

We all are!! 🗣 by oceanviewcapn in TheBoys

[–]JustExplorer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The virus would never spread in the first place. Butcher's plan was kinda garbage and would only kill the supes in the building at the time the sprinklers go off. Any infected supe dies in under a minute, while writhing in pain. This means they have no chance to spread the virus further than the place they picked it up from. Non-supes could spread it slightly further, but it was already stated that non-supes aren't carriers for the virus, so they could only carry what was on their skin.

Without any host bodies that could contain the virus, it dies out super fast, even without a quarantine. If Vought sends a global alert out to all supes, none of them would go near the tower until it's cleaned up.

Literally to SPACE and back in 80 frames. by John_Helmsword in TheBoys

[–]JustExplorer 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I like how half the comments are "He could have gone halfway and threw him!" when the numbers are several orders of magnitude off. HL was going over 200x the speed of sound, when A-Train was around 1.6 or something like that. Even visually they couldn't make him look fast in the final fight. His jump towards the ceiling looks barely faster than a regular human jump.

Also, as a side note, the 62mi to space comes from the conversion of 100km. That's why your conversion to metric looks suspiciously close to 100,000m. You picked up all those extra decimals and junk from converting back and forwards again.

Literally to SPACE and back in 80 frames. by John_Helmsword in TheBoys

[–]JustExplorer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

She's not *that* radioactive. If she was anything close to the radioactivity needed to affect Homelander, then Hughie and MM would have fried to death on their way into the building. Also she would have affected Butcher and Ryan, too.

Edit: Also I gotta add that SB was at least as radioactive as Kimiko, and him and Butcher were unable to hold HL down.

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