dogs0n
@dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Day 394 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 21 hours ago:
Yes please this is common courtesy aaaaaaaaaaa
- Comment on Sudden memory 1 day ago:
I still get dreams of this one tshirt. Its been 2 years. We shall meet again.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
“Evolve” is so funny. Sounds like you have a good pop pop.
Also no.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 days ago:
True VAC alone is not great, but CS2 (in my opinion) has one of the best systems against abuse, even though legit players like myself can get stuck in low trust factor sometimes.
VAC, trust factor, overwatch (player report reviewing, not sure if this was discontinued) all work together.
Hopefully a big improvement is to come soon with the VAC Live agents that monitor games using AI to predict likely cheaters.
Valve obviously has a big interest in keeping cheaters out, because their skin economy makes them boatloads (literally hehe) of money. I think they are the only company going down this road right now of AI agents, which is unobtrusive to users and should hopefully keep up VACs high accurate ban rate (which is at least a good thing about VAC, when you are banned, in almost all cases, you were indeed cheating (low fase positives)).
I do recognize though that AI agents likely comes with a high cost and may only be implemented in other highly competitive games that make lots of money.
There probably exist other methods, but it’ll take more investment in designing adaptable systems that can work on many games.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
True, but it feels less satisfying against bots but still true
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
Yeah as I mention I don’t really believe it either, just brought it up because it’s a thought.
And yup the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
I do wish they would stop invading our systems with their current anti-cheats (invasive ones) though, that’s the main thing I am worried about.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
Good eye.
I would think there’s money to gain by keeping your players engaged longer by having less cheaters, but I guess theres also an incentive to keep just enough cheaters that you can steadily ban them for more game sales (not that I think that’s happening, i hope not).
Anyways they take our money, we expect whats best for us, within reason of course.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
I wish i could be zen like you. I hate dying in any game I JUST WANT TO KILL. Tryna rack up high scores, when I get killed it’s a big bummer, and dying by a cheater just makes it a WAY BIGGER bummer because it wasn’t even a fair fight.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
Hopefully they start to learn from this at some point… they should realise that their current anti-cheat systems are not working as intended at some point right?
Battlefield will lose sales, every game definitely loses players because of cheater infestations. Lots of money lost in my eyes, is it enough to make them see straight?
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
I agree, there’s definitely some checks you can only do on the client and only some that work server-side. Ideally everything that can be checked on either, are checked.
Currently it’s just all wrong, the client-side can’t be relied upon as heavily as it is.
The benefit factor to the rootkits they install on our machines is nil. Just bloats our systems with garbage that is just waiting to be exploited by hackers.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
It definitely reduces cheating, but mostly just by raising the bar of entry (not by that much as evident in day 1 cheats being present). I doubt it’s effectiveness though, since most games you can do some quick research and find $5 cheats that will go undetected (hell even free cheats can work if you do a little more research on doing the injection part manually yourself).
You can also never stop cheating, but the anti-cheat they install on your computer is just an extra attack vector for hackers, etc at this point, since it obviously doesnt work as intended.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
Proof is in cheaters existing on day one of battlefield 6 open beta. Client side anti-cheat will never work. It’s good to have some basic preventative measures client-side, but server-side anti cheat is the only way to properly prevent cheaters.
Unfortunately companies keep investing in garbage client side anticheat that just pokes security holes into our machines.
Only Valve to my knowledge is investing money into their server side anti cheat, no other big player is to my knowledge.
- Comment on it's called speedrunning, my dudes 1 week ago:
Im gonna cry. This is so poetic
- Comment on looks like the one 1% can't be everywhere. 3 weeks ago:
Because you can gamble online now, right?
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 3 weeks ago:
Maybe the idea of BTC was fine. What wasn’t fine is the idea of mining.
The mining is how BTC, etc are decentralised & secure (so the idea of btc and mining are the same idea in my head).
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 month ago:
Yeah idk if its nostalgia or wut.
In my head, the sales were much deeper like you say, but I could be wrong.
I also miss when the sale would start and there’d be a minigame or some type of event. They’ve really been streamlining a lot of stuff though I think to reduce network traffic maybe, or maybe they haven’t had the time for events when they are redesigning their whole client and steamos and stuff.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 month ago:
Has the refund process changed? From what I remember it has always been very easy to refund?
- Comment on Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices 1 month ago:
Cheapness ended after PS3 era I think. Even if it (ps4, ps5) is cheaper than a comparable PC, online access after a year or two would probably ruin all the savings.
- Comment on Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices 1 month ago:
Assuming they are forced to open up their platform, I’m sure they would be required to make changes to make it possible for others to use it.
- Comment on Movies not starting when they are scheduled. 1 month ago:
It’s fun to try guessing what brand the ad is for (up to a point). I hate when they tease me as if the movie is about to start and then start playing more ads instead.
Movie trailers are good though. Have seen some that I’d never have watched without seeing a trailer there.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 2 months ago:
You don’t know it didn’t suffer and he didn’t kill it so that he could eat it.
Also im not sure if you are saying that you dont judge him for what he did or just saying youre not vegan, but doing as he did is judge worthy.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 months ago:
Upgrade: Splinter attack.
Also i feel like I would be able to throw a stick one further, am I wrong?
- Comment on It's bad man 2 months ago:
Wait
- Comment on A person born in 2015 is 20 years old 3 months ago:
Dam i bothered looking it up after seeing your comment and 10 years of seeing it online makes sense to me now
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 3 months ago:
We wanna play on release!!! We want them big booties in our face on day one!!! Not day 365!!!
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 3 months ago:
The next ad you see: “The only device that lets you work-out, on your way-out to work!”
A sad world indeed.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 3 months ago:
'preciate the edumacation. Definitely sounds like a harder problem to solve, good point on the universal healthcare, I’m sure that could save some money for companies, it’ll make employees happie regardless to not have to worry about paying doctor bills.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 3 months ago:
Is the reason it wont work in blue collar settings that it’ll inflate prices of stuff too high? Possible making the country fall back in a global stance on pricing on exports, etc (not conpetitive)?
- Comment on Tabletop Convection Oven* 3 months ago:
My guess is they were making popcorn and fish sticks for a movie night.
When shaking the air fryer to get all the corn cooked, a single fish stick stuck itself to the top.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 3 months ago:
I didn’t mean to say that it’s (still) trash, I think it’s useable, but there are still a lot of improvements to come.
Element as a client seems to want to do everything, which is probably great for a lot of people, but it (in my experience) has led to a poor user experience (which with more time, will likely improve, they seem to have a lot of backing).
With Element completing voice/video implementation, I imagine it’ll be easier for other clients to reference their work when implementing their own support.
Once the other clients get voice support, I will definitely be trying them out again, I’m sure they will make a much simpler experience that works out the box.
The lost keys problem has luckily never happened to me, it usually boils down the user error I believe, but yeah, if it is a user error that happens often, they should figure out some way to fix that (probably a hard problem, which is sort of fixed (i believe) if you use the client on multiple devices, so if you get logged out of your account you can easily authorize your access from another logged in device, eg desktop/mobile).