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I just found out Mega.nz is technically ransomware

I uploaded something above the free storage quota, didn't think much of it because what I uploaded was only a few megabytes above the free limit, and I just woke up to my account being locked.

Now, thankfully I just used Mega as a backup so I didn't lose anything important, but having to pay to get your data back is by definition ransomware

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Was listening to a bunch of TLT songs, and OH MY GOD THIS SOUNDS LIKE A LEMON DEMON COVER OF A TLT SONG

Qbomb's music sounds a lot more metal than Lemon Demon's, but you can 100% hear it lmao

This is the closest we'll ever get to Neil making a song with TLT

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I find kernel level anti-cheats and generally client-side anticheats like BattleEye, EasyAntiCheat, and Vanguard really stupid, because they really aren't stopping cheaters, all they're doing is discouraging them while sacrificing performance, user privacy, Linux support, and generally risking accidentally banning casual user.

I started developing my own anti-cheat for a game and it hit me, you should never have any anti-cheat on the client. All anti-cheats should be server-side, because to this day players are still figuring out ways to bypass these anti-cheats, like using hardware-level exploits which are physically impossible to detect unless they start serving anti-cheats as AI-powered robots that are physically in your room looking at you while you game.

Think about it.. Wall hacks let you see other players through walls, easy solution right? Just don't tell the client where the other players are, do server-side calculations for occlusion, you already have a system for it to do it client-side since it saves performance not to render players that aren't on the screen. But nope, because it would slightly increase server costs, even if it makes cheating impossible to perform.

The number one rule in multiplayer is "NEVER TRUST THE CLIENT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE", and these huge game dev corporations are consistently not following it, then complain about having cheaters while going "Oh, it must be the Linux users!!! Not our flawed approach at anti-cheat!!!"

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I tried recreating the theme song from The Amazing Digital Circus!

I've heard from a lot of places Gooseworx uses the now 20-ish year old abandoned ,,Edirol Orchestral'' VST plugin, but I'm not sure this is what she used for the TADC music as I couldn't find any instrument that sounded similar to the lead brass in the theme even when messing with their characterization knobs, unless it was several layered sounds, I'm not sure.

My project ended up being completely destroyed however, because for some reason that old janky VST plugin did not save ANY of my settings once I reloaded the project. AAAGHHH

Welp, its on me anyway for trying to use a decade old abandoned VST plugin. Either way I hope y'all enjoyed my yap sessh.

The actual MIDI / note arrangement was made by Aelsir on OnlineSequencer, original song belongs to Gooseworx obv

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I was messing with FFMPEG video compression back in 2023 and I ended up making this monstrosity out of a random Markiplier video and I only now just found it again lmao

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Was messing around with Malic Radwan's Gangle rig and I accidentally made this abomination. Oh no.

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I hate the modern web so much

Every account I make automatically signs me up to a newsletter and I only notice by the time I've already gotten 30 emails and the only way out is clicking the tiny unsubscribe button and going through their "please don't unsubscribe!!" page

It's impossible to read anything without getting jumpscared by 30 "Sign up to our newsletter" popups and prompts to allow their advertising cookies so they can use your personal information to target ads to you, I even have an adblocker set to block all newsletter and cookie popups and they still somehow get past

One trick I have up my sleeve however.. is finding the business emails of the people who make these websites, and signing them up to their own newsletter >:)

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My YouTube recommendations scare me lmao

I either get this or "(insert character from popular game) beats you violently with a metal pipe"

Once I got a 30 minute video of AI-generated Dwane The Rock Johnson narrating random motivational quotes 😭

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I find it crazy how stupid and insane Trump and Putin are rn

Ukraine got invaded by Russia because Putin doesn't believe / want Ukraine to be their own separate country. He stated in a diary a while back he basically wants to reassemble the USSR, collecting countries that barely escaped communism unscaped like they're fucking infinity stones.

America pushing the EU to be more independent is really good, but uhhh, backstabing Ukraine out of nowhere in the middle of the war after supporting their defences for years is really not the way to do that. Both Trump and Putin are throwing out a completely insane claim that Ukraine started the war because Zelenskiy didn't hold some agreements years back, which not only contradicts tons of things they've said in the past, but also makes no fucking sense. Even in the case Zelenskiy violated some magical decade-long peace treaty with Putin, I can't believe I have to state that violating an agreement does not give you the right to brutally murder thousands of innocent civilians, destroy all of its buildings, and back it into a corner and then order them to surrender

Not only this, but as I understand it the US is making a proposal to Ukraine to stop the war if they hand over almost all of Ukraine's natural resources, when a country being mined out and sold to foreigners is literally one of the reasons Ukraine escaped communism btw. So essentially, you either surrender to Russia, or surrender to the US, after already having most of your country brutally murdered and destroyed for no reason other than Putin's large ego, and there was nothing you could've done to even prevent the war. Great.

Also, I'm Romanian (another post-USSR country like Ukraine) and I've noticed we have someone in our presidential election that is publicly a communist, his campaign somehow started from Tik Tok, and he's winning the majority vote. It's almost like Putin shifted gears and might be trying to claim Romania back into the USSR as well but as an inside job since the Ukraine war was harder to deal with than originally anticipated, since he didn't expect Ukraine to fight back. Just a theory but, definitely scared for my country seeing I'm too poor to get a flight ticket and move to somewhere like the UK.

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Not me working on a completely unrelated song experimenting with voice filters and accidentally creating the voice filter from the FNaF 2 phone guy 😭

[credit: vocals I stole]

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what I imagine FNaF 2 in real-time would be like LMAO

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I just started rewatching Tony Crynight's original FNaF series 8 years later now that I'm no longer a toddler, and you know how you remember a piece of media being way better than it actually was because you originally experienced it during your childhood? THAT SHIT DID NOT HAPPEN WITH THIS SERIES

For an animation made by one singular Italian fella in his free time it is INSANE. Even crazier, he has been consistently making FNaF animations for 10 years now and he has not stopped.

Most YouTubers can barely play video games on-camera or react to other people's videos for 10 years, even Scott retired after 10 years, and Tony still makes animations about the same silly robots and enjoys still making them as far as I can tell. He is almost at the point where if he keeps going he will be making FNaF content for longer than Scott officially has, now that Scott has been slowly fully retiring.

Even ignoring THE SECOND SEASON, the original series still stands really well. He made an entire animation series almost completely on his own, AND PULLED OFF AN ENTIRE 360 PERSPECTIVE SHOT AROUND FOXY IN ONE OF THE FIRST EPISODES. That is the 2D animation equivalent of drawing realistic hands without any reference. Even the writing was pretty decent imo, and the voice acting didn't feel that awkward or forced when combined with the animation, which is very easy to mess up.

There were SO many completely unnecessary hand-drawn in-between frames that were drawn for the sake of making the animation look smoother. He drew 3 frames for a bowtie being picked up as a solo animator during his free time. And when perspective changes weren't necessary he smartly used tweens to add little micro-movements to characters instead of letting them stay still. And perspective changes? THERE WERE SO MANY

No singular Italian man with a graphics tablet in his bedroom should be this good at animating. I'm shocked if Disney haven't hired him yet considering he is basically a walking 10 year portfolio😭

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I started working on a FNaF fangame based on The Unwithered Truth's video since about 3-4 days ago, the video was about how he envisioned a reboot of FNaF 1 to look and work like, and only recently realized some master's degree graduate in his comment section just asked "hey wanna make this into a game I need something for my portofolio" and he said yes 😭

3-4 days spent on nothing. Not sure what to turn this into now but I'll probably just scrap it xD

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So I'm working on a multiplayer Roblox mascot horror game, and I just had a brilliant idea.

Players will eventually discover and abuse bugs to their advantage to earn items and whatnot, exploits are inevitable.

But what if I add an exploit on purpose, something I can easily detect server-side that allows me to ban every single player who ever used it.

This way I would ban every player who had even the slight inclination towards cheating

Also I'm forcing the game to handle player movement server-side (people with slow internet are going to be fine, and no, ping spoofing won't work)

My game isn't even competitive btw. I have just entered my villain arc and want to cause as much irreparable damage to cheaters as humanly possible lmao

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I just realized, every Twitter drama that involves a big company always makes their stocks tank temporarily.

If you invest in a company while Twitter is having beef with said company (oh no Microsoft added AI into Windows 11) and you just wait out until the drama dies off, you end up with a little bit of free money since their stocks raise in value because the Twitter goons immediately forget about that drama the instant Logan Paul makes another crypto scam or Elon does another weird salute or tries to get into the US government.

real life infinite money glitch

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I'm on Season 2 Episode 3 now, and SQUID GAME THEORY!!

I still mostly stand with my old hot take about the games not being specifically evil. Outside the death fight at the end of the game that is straight up demented, the games are very keen on equality and the staff team is killed if they don't respect the players or the rules.

The players had to sign their lives away several times in order to get into the games, most of them aren't even surprised they were kidnapped since they literally stepped into the car willingly, and they always chose to come back even when they know death was involved.

The games are a tool to get you out of your financial situation, just like gambling. Gambling isn't some evil thing otherwise it would've already been banned, people should be able to do whatever they want and wealthy people gamble, but if your act of gambling results in even worse financial situation, you've used the wrong tool.

The way I see it is, the pink soldiers and the frontman aren't the villains. The VIPs are.

It was said the games were specifically constructed for the VIPs, and that the frontman didn't even invent the games, he's just the CEO that has to run them for the sake of potentially his own wife and kid not going homeless or some other motive like that, all he can do is make sure they are fair. The pink soldiers are just doing their job as well.

There's this shot in Episode 3 where the computer is telling a pink soldier (the girl) that a player moved. The player's hair was moving with the wind, and she decided not to shoot. The games are set in modern day, and they didn't automate the guns even though they easily could have especially with their already huge arsenal of tech. They specifically chose to have user input to make it as fair as possible. There's a lot of cases like these of the games trying to enforce equality and fairness, and this one Frontman quote: "Here every player gets to play a fair game under the same conditions. These people have suffered from inequality and discrimination out in the world, and we're giving them one last chance to fight fair and win"

I don't see this talked about at all, but I think this show is trying to talk about homelessness, not just poverty in general. 7,877 people died out on the streets with no home or money just in 2020 in the United States alone, that number started to grow significantly around the time the show started being made (there were 1,500 less deaths in 2019, and from what I can tell Covid didn't make that huge of an impact on that number). There's a lot of anti-homeless structures starting to be produced, like park benches that have arm rests in the middle so people can't lay down, and air vents that have spikes on top of them so homeless people are forced to freeze during the winter. Most of the participants will go homeless very soon as well since they all are millions won in debt, and considering that entire scene of the homeless man freezing to death, I feel like the show is saying something along the lines of "if this nasty game that involved killing people didn't come into their lives, all of the players would be homeless freezing to death on the streets living a fate worse than death, and the real homeless don't get the chance to play and win their way out in real life".

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I'm watching Squid Games rn. Still at the start of the 2nd episode of season 1. But, hot take (from what I know so far): The pink soldiers aren't evil, and neither is the game

Every player played a demo game with that business man where they were slapped as the punishment, they all agreed to call the number to join the Squid Game, they all willingly got inside the car with the sketchy masked guy and all the gas did was conceal the location of where the games are played, they legally got kidnapped but morally it was their choice.

When they came in, the pink soldiers calmly explained how the game works and answered any questions the participants asked, as well as telling the players in what cases they can leave the game and in which cases they can't.

Then, the participants literally signed a contract stating the rules of the game. The thing is, the show only showed what the first page content's were, but as you can clearly see in the show, there were several different pages. So far my theory is that either one of the pages included signing their lives away, or the game uses the already-signed contract where the lone sharks owe their body (which is very unfair and immoral to the participants)

I don't think the pink soldiers mean any harm to the players? (so far!!)

There were several moments where they could've shot the players but didn't. Even when that angry bald man was yelling at them, they shot a warning shot in the air to stop people from yelling.

When it comes to the game itself being immoral, i don't think it is? I feel like it completely relies on whenever the participants fully consented to signing their lives away or not. If it was the lone shark contract they signed for the game, that's not fair, but if the game made them sign their life away separately, i think that is fair since yk, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO READ WHAT YOU SIGN AND THEY WERE ALLOWING YOU TO LEAVE IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO SIGN IT.

Even in the case if it was the lone shark's document that legally allowed the participants to be killed. Even after the most brutal death scene I have ever seen in a show that wasn't The Boys, half of the people still agreed to stay in the game by a majority vote, and if they left the game then the families of the people that were killed would be paid. The Squid Games didn't have to pay the families, i don't think that was in any of the contracts.

So my theory is, the Squid Game is a third-party hired by gangs as a way to raise money for people who owe them debt, since I believe its a show thats broadcasted in a messed up place for messed up people, they probably earn all of that cash from the active viewers

Possibly very bad take and they will end up being VERY evil later on but, so far it all seems legal?? (in their universe at least, i doubt gassing someone would be legal here)

And, daily reminder to read every document you sign, online or not. You could end up in the next Squid Game lmao

Also I love this show so far, the writing and acting is INCREDIBLE