I can’t speak for the lower ranks, but I was mid-ish on premium this season (played from 17k to 23k then stopped iirc) but a lot of the cheaters were subtle enough that not everyone realized that they were cheating, even though they pretty blatant from my perspective. (For reference, I play lvl 10 faceit and have a decent understanding of the game.)
Point being that a ”subtle hacker” might be subtle to some and obvious to others. So OP, being a newbie with only 6 mo of experience, might suspect someone being subtle about their hacking but they might be very blatant to a more experienced player.
Or, and I'm speaking from my experience in TF2 here... they're just good.
TF2 is an interesting case study because it's a very old game with a very high skill ceiling. I have 2,000 hours now. Players with 4,000 hand my ass to me.
The difference between an aimbot and a sweaty 4,000 hour sniper is close to none. You peak the corner and within 200ms you're dead. It's easy to think they're cheating, then you open up their steam profile and no, they just have even less of a life than me.
They'll even headshot you when you got invisible on spy. Yes, really. They have so much experience their hands have remembered the movement speed and trajectory of spy. So you go invis, and then they can predict where you're going to be and headshot you. Especially so if you go for a health pack or ammo. It's really crazy stuff, but not cheating.
I used to play with a notorious TF1 sniper who constantly got cheating accusations. Saw them play live once, and they were just that good. But with a catch - they lowered screen resolution to the absolute minimum, meaning higher refresh rates, and bigger pixels. Bigger pixels meant easier head shots, as if a bullet path hit a bounding box, the rendered pixels of the target were then used to determine hit/miss and hit location. They also adjusted their screen contrast making everything look awful, but apparently easier to make out the important details.
My thoughts exactly reading these comments. Generating scripts is a very good use for LLMs, but I was under the impression that vibe coding generally referred to building whole products with just prompts. It’s a very different beast to do a small script (or a todo app) than to do a relatively more complex application.
Yeah, my and my SO have very different experiences regarding this.
I’ve quit cold turkey several times with little problems - quit for several months or over a year, then used again for x months, then quit again, etc. (This went hand in hand with a certain seasonal job.) Apart from very slight ”I wouldn’t mind a smoke” kind of feelings it doesn’t have much of an effect of me.
My SO was miserable, depressed, craved cigarettes for months and months. For the longest time she was convinced that it isn’t possible for her to quit, since they cravings didn’t go away. (Until they did.)
There's at least some evidence that people have very different affinities to different drugs and their effects and addiction potential are just as individual.
Anecdotally, I can tell you with absolute certainty I could never become an alcoholic, I have no interest in drinking on any two consecutive days and it's usually several month between any alcohol consumption. Yet there have been alcoholics in my family. But when it comes to weed I will be continually stoned out of my mind as long as any weed is available.
It's a terrible side effect of the legal status of most drugs that we have neglected to study most of them to the extend that would be necessary to actually make progress (with the notable exception of tobacco)
I’m not sure if you are trolling, but I’m pretty sure just attaching a file to an email is often more efficient. Not to speak of legibility or maybe the intended use for said documents. Sadly I don’t think you are trolling.
Also: a computer (where the documents were) has the required hardware and software to send the documents as is. Your phone is the special and external hardware in this case, not the computer (also probably more expensive than the computer). Your phone requires signups and logins as much or even more than computers. I don’t know what paid subscription you would need to share these documents. Plenty of free methods. I don’t know why you are talking about malware? Do you think the documents might mutate into malware while traveling the internet? I think the risk exists with pictures too, be careful out there!
Using email, passing the data through 2 third party services known for scanning attachments for advertising purposes is not more efficient and is a security concern. It’s just that we have forgotten that, and it didn’t used to be.
All major phone OS now have the ability to select and copy text out of images.
If you think about it she really did choose the best method to transfer a text document safely, securely, efficiently.
I disagree strongly on the points of batteries and cables, and so would most of people who care about gaming mice to begin with (competetive gamers). Same probably holds true for most casual gamers as well.
To be honest, your whole comment seems to be very out of touch when it comes to modern PC gaming.
You are dead wrong. I have had both wireless and wired expensive gaming mice and the fact is, it makes very little difference for a whole lot of cost and trouble.
You largely underestimate people susceptibility to fashion/trend and just going with what's supposed to be better.
I also have a Magic Mouse (the V2, my V1 broke) and I have a wired Mighty mouse before.
Outside of the ball being replaced by tactile scrolling, the wired mouse was a better product.
And if you had done your research, you would know that there is very little correlation between gaming peripherals and gamer level/quality. It just doesn't matter that much and those who play a lot will have 2 wireless mouse or one of the pads to make up for the annoyance of battery management (but it has a cost and is just a waste generally).
I don't want to call you an idiot, but I have knowledge on the subject far deeper than you can imagine, so I would say you are the one out of touch.
Yeah nah. The endless loop of useless suggestions or ”solutions” is very easily achiavable and common, at least on my use cases, not matter how much you iterate with it. Iterating gets counter-productive pretty fast, imo. (Using 4o).
When I use Claude to iterate/troubleshoot I do it in a project and in multiple chats. So if I test something and it throws and error or gives an unexpected result I’ll start a new chat to deal with that problem, correct the code, update that in the project, then go back to my main thread and say “I’ve update this” and provide it the file, “now let’s do this”. When I started doing this it massively reduced the LLM getting lost or going off on weird quests. Iteration in side chats, regroup in the main thread. And then possibly another overarching “this is what I want to achieve” thread where I update it on the progress and ask what we should do next.
Musk said, on a 2023 earnings call, that he expected “the Tesla Cybertruck to sell between 250,000 and 500,000 units per year” [1]. It sold fewer than 40,000 in 2024 [2]. Tesla’s sales in 2024 weren’t 100+ P/E calibre, but they also didn’t yet reflect the sort of cratering we saw at the end of ‘24 in both Tesla sales and resale values [3].
Cybertruck flopped as a product before Tesla flopped as a brand. It’s why Tesla is throttling down their production [4].
Not the US but most EV markets, apart from maybe eventually asian markets. Tesla and Musk had a crazy amount of goodwill and pretty much everyone I know was ”oh look, it’s a Tesla!” early on. Now every is more like ”oh look, it’s a Tesla..”
Point being that a ”subtle hacker” might be subtle to some and obvious to others. So OP, being a newbie with only 6 mo of experience, might suspect someone being subtle about their hacking but they might be very blatant to a more experienced player.
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