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IP Address
Networking Security Gamedev
15 days ago 176.0K views 0 shares
IP Address
Someone's playing "The Cheating Game" and getting busted by the most passive-aggressive error message ever written. The game literally snitched on the cheater by revealing their IP address: 199.214.367.3624. Plot twist—that's not even a valid IP address. IPv4 addresses max out at 255 per octet, but here we've got 367 and 3624 casually breaking the laws of networking. Either the game devs are trolling cheaters with fake IPs to make them paranoid, or they're so fed up with hackers that they invented IPv5 just to shame them. Either way, imagine getting caught cheating AND being roasted by impossible math at the same time. The digital equivalent of being told "I'm not mad, just disappointed" by your router.

The Linux Anti-Cheat Reality: A Configuration Change
Linux Gamedev Windows Programming
2 months ago 226.9K views 0 shares
The Linux Anti-Cheat Reality: A Configuration Change
OMG, the absolute TRAGEDY of Linux gaming in one brutal image! 💀 Game companies will enthusiastically raise their hands when asked about supporting Linux servers (free money, honey!), but the SECOND someone mentions actually doing the work to make anti-cheat compatible with Linux desktops? *crickets* The deafening silence is SENDING ME! These multi-billion dollar companies acting like enabling a compiler flag is equivalent to solving quantum physics. THE DRAMA! THE AUDACITY! Meanwhile, Linux gamers are just sitting there with perfectly good hardware, begging for crumbs of compatibility. I can't even!