saigot

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacker says they banned ‘thousands’ of Call of Duty gamers by abusing anti-cheat flaw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vizor said they could simply send a private message — known as a “whisper” in the game — that included one of these hardcoded strings, such as “Trigger Bot,” and get the player they were messaging banned from the game. 

  That is so fucking stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will a Razer Blade 15 play nicely with Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I helped set up a raser blade 14 with ubuntu 22.04 and it worked out of the box. Since setting it up I haven’t heard any complaints, which is usually a good sign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Short games with lots of replay value?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Binding of Isaac would fit the bill. A single game takes between 30min-1hr, but there are dozens of endings, about 30 characters and about 900 unlocks (every ending with every character unlocks a new item, and then there are many unlocks that aren’t tied to that). It took me about 1500hrs to 100% the game and I still boot it up fairly often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave truth teller.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It (used?) to be expected to tip your maintenance man at the end of the year in big apartment buildings (there’s even a friends episode about it). Some scummy landlords try to claim that they are the maintenance man and more and so deserve a tip. I have personally had landlords ask for it,