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ultimafan ◴[] No.41863289[source]
Cheating in online games is a scourge and I really don't understand why people do it. It's one person selfishly getting a "win" at the expense of ~60 other people in that match having their time, pleasure, potentially money absolutely wasted.

I think even more infuriating than blatant hacking is this epidemic of "micro cheating" for lack of a better way to put it that I've seen prevalent in some games that just boost some stats or reactions by amounts large enough to help the cheater but low enough where new or inexperienced players have absolutely no way of telling if someone is cheating or genuinely good especially in games with high skill ceilings. At least when it's blatant you can leave without time wasted but when they're doing it subtly you end up getting tilted and spending the whole match with a bad taste in your mouth second guessing if someone is actually playing fair or not. Chivalry 2 is a really bad offender for this, once you notice it you can't unnotice it anymore, almost every match will have at least one guy with his swing/move speed adjusted by ~10% and in a game where swing manipulation is a legitimate mechanic it can be borderline impossible to catch someone out on it unless you're really paying attention.

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daghamm ◴[] No.41863734[source]
Cheating is also big business. Players can pay big bucks to rent (!) a cheat.

IIRC there is an episode on darkness diaries podcast about this.

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smolder ◴[] No.41866787[source]
What a bunch of absolute losers. If it's taught me anything though, it's that you can't underestimate the pathologies of people you encounter 'in the real world'.
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1. mrguyorama ◴[] No.41872149[source]
Remember that at all times we are surrounded with people who are such leaches on society that they won't even put away a grocery cart at a supermarket, instead leaving it in the middle of the parking lot because they are too important to take the time to push it five feet.

Something like 10% of people are just maximally assholes, no justification, no reason, no rationale, they genuinely think everybody else exists only for their benefit.