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Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by tiltowait on Sunday February 16, 2025 @01:19AM (#43065823)
This happens pretty often. Karl Jobst has a lot of videos about cheaters, and it’s always interesting to see how many were ridiculously obvious in hindsight. Frequently, people won’t expect a good player to cheat, because “they don’t need to.” But cheating, at thay level, tends to be about saving time waiting for the perfect RNG.
Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by lawn on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:08AM (#43066909)
It reminds me of the blatant aim hacks that for example Flusha used in Counter Strike, yet people online still defend him.
Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by vikingerik on Sunday February 16, 2025 @12:07PM (#43069567)
There's observation bias there - the cheaters that we see are the obvious ones, we never know who gets away with it when they got everything to appear perfectly consistent without any telltales.

Like even for RNG, it'd be possible to fake that on a real console, with extra hardware writing to the bus. We'd never detect that, all we'd have would be the statistical arguments of like "one in 10^10 tries" or whatever.

Re:Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal by wredcoll on Sunday February 16, 2025 @01:38PM (#43070388)
Reminds me of the argument that rich people, given political power, won't act to harm the government/society for their own enrichment "because they're already rich!".