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 gwionwild colonial boyPremium,ExMod 2001-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:1 | Hmmm... a few thoughts for the cheaters... 1. You play a game with other people in a public forum, you play by the rules. You want to cheat, download a game and cheat away, playing single player mode, or with your cheater friends. In the old west, you cheated at solitaire in your room at the boardin' house, nobody cared. You cheated at poker in the saloon, the Sheriff didn't come to arrest you for fraud; ... the Sheriff came to lock up the guys you were playing for homicide.
2. The Army's letting you play their game. They're giving you the use of their public servers and other resources. And the other players are giving you their competition and comradery. If you enjoy playing, it's a fair guess somebody else does, too. Return the favor. However inconsiderate, rude, self-absorbed and distasteful you are in real life, you should either make an effort to behave like a mature, civilized person, with the most minimal consideration for the other players who make your fun time possible, or just not play the game, at all.
3. That said, if you happen to live in a shack on a mountain in Montana, and think the "gubament's out ta git me, they's usin' brain control, y'kno...", this probably isn't the game for you. Think it out in advance. If you think it's accessing your fertilizer inventory database and your KKK chapter's membership list, here's a clue... don't bother playing. Hmmm... uncanny grasp of the obvious. Since most of the rest of the country's not at all that dim, somebody'll figure out if the thing's taking over their computers. Since it's assumed you don't have "any a dem gubment spy thingies on MAH cumputa," you probably haven't even played it, much less decompiled and reverse engineered it.
4. No, releasing software to he public does NOT constitute "making it public domain." That applies to any software out there. If you want to "liberate" some app, pick one over at SourceForge. There, they might even let you have your own page, if it works when you get done with it. Better yet, start from scratch and write something. Make it as cheater friendly as you like. In the process, you might gain a real appreciation for the time, effort and real work that goes into bringing good software to people.
Cheaters make other people miserable. Only an infantile ethical slob laughs at seeing someone else's good time ruined. Or a bona fide closet sadist. People who enjoy ruining a game for other people -- which is precisely what lame arsed cheaters do -- are the same people who enjoy kicking dogs, scaring little children and pulling the wings off of flies. Real nice bunch.
... and cheaters aren't "mad skild hax" -- they're lame script kiddie dweebs... anybody still use that word? When I was a kid, it was sort of the diminutive of "geek." Geek could be a compliment, depended on the usage. A dweeb was a geeky dork with a bad attitude who richly deserved a sound asskicking. The same sort of 'lusers' who learn just enough VB to write a worm, and not enough to write a "hello world" routine.
Now, all that said... what to do with the cheaters? Hmmm... I have an idea. Let's make 'em all LRPs, and drop 'em near a cave, fifty miles behind the lines in Afghanistan, with a rusty Swiss Army knife and a canteen... mission: find Waldo Bin Laden...  ...and don't worry one bit if they haven't had any training with their 'chutes. It's amazing how fast a guy can learn on the way down.
All that to get to a simple conclusion. "If you play a game with other people, you should treat them the way you want to be treated. If you can't or won't, you shouldn't complain or be a bit surprised when they return the favor in kind, and does it to you, the way you done it to them...  Just my own take, anyway.
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| said by gwion:1. You play a game with other people in a public forum, you play by the rules. You want to cheat, download a game and cheat away, playing single player mode, or with your cheater friends. In the old west, you cheated at solitaire in your room at the boardin' house, nobody cared. You cheated at poker in the saloon, the Sheriff didn't come to arrest you for fraud; ... the Sheriff came to lock up the guys you were playing for homicide. that's probably if they played for real money. the people cheated probably shouldn't have been gambling.
said by gwion:Now, all that said... what to do with the cheaters? Hmmm... I have an idea. Let's make 'em all LRPs, and drop 'em near a cave, fifty miles behind the lines in Afghanistan, with a rusty Swiss Army knife and a canteen... mission: find Waldo Bin Laden... ...and don't worry one bit if they haven't had any training with their 'chutes. It's amazing how fast a guy can learn on the way down. some might say that same about people that say stuff like that, but probably wouldn't because they wouldn't, but you don't like cheaters, and they don't approve of people that say stuff like that, but what if one of them was a cheater. take out cheaters in that quote and put in some race, and you're pretty much like the KKK not liking other because they dont do what you want. | |
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Tell you what, pal...I'm so sick and tired of getting murdered by cheaters I'm gonna see if I can get me some of those bots. Every game I play online has cheaters --aimbots, armorbots, wallhacks, bright skins, dozens of other mods that give an unfair competitive advantage. Some servers are dedicated cheat servers for the "clans" who all are server admins. I really don't believe there's any such thing as a "clean" server anymore.
So screw it. Fight fire with fire. | |
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