'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing
'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing
A Half-Life 2 mod has been coded to block certain YouTubers, who will see the first-person shooter crash, and an error that reads: "STOP talking SH1T about us".
Reposting my comment from another thread because it needs to be made clear:
Those mod devs are absolute assholes.
As per the decompiled code, the game will refuse to load in certain cases with the message "Upgrade your PC, the current hardware is just ridiculous." I can understand not wanting to field support requests from extremely outdated hardware, but being condescending and not even giving players the option to try playing it...
56"You are too poor for this mod, peasant", basically.
29One of the devs stream ids from the decompiled code:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/55846295727582/
Why am I not surprised that they're Russian 😅
13And while the other guy may not be a Russian (at least he doesn't admit it) he's still a pretty awful person. One of his most recent post replies is talking about how great killing LGBT people would be, and how he'd be for that since it would "destroy the LGBT in small parts" and somehow lead to "fully destroying LGBT".
Not surprising whatsoever.
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I used to help test Gmod mods and this was common to find. Sometimes the author would even try to embed an obfuscated check for their own steamid to give them God rights over the multiplayer game session.
We would collect those steam IDs and add them to the ban list. And often switch mods all together.
9That's honestly stupid of them to try that, they should know they'd get banned quickly for doing that. It's not like we can't figure it out pretty easily even if they try to obfuscate it, Steam emulators exist that can be used to find that kind of behavior even if you couldn't decompile to see it.
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Hold on, we have a check for outdated hardware for a mod of a 20 year old video game?
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I probably wouldn't have even heard of this mod if the creators had not been this bitter about the poor reception.
Me neither; but now I'm going to check it out for the laughs. Mission accomplished?
27Honestly, recreational rage deserves punchback
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