The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters (www.wired.com)

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Allan “dwangoAC” has made it his mission to expose speedrunning phonies. At the Defcon hacker conference, he’ll challenge one record that's stood for 15 years.

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

I've been so disappointed with just how many cheaters there are in the speedrunning community. We can't have nice things without someone trying to get smart for their fake 15 min of fame. Like, congrats, your biggest achievement is being a fraud.

[-] ttyybb@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

Its normally not about getting good times, often it's tweaking RNG or other elements to get good times faster but ya, it's stupid

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

A fraud over a video game record.

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

You talking about politics, or capitalism?

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Fictional internet fame

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh so real shit. Cool.

[-] Nima@leminal.space 32 points 2 months ago

as interesting as this is, I feel like the author just heard the term "Tool Assisted Speedrun" that morning. And is not really sure what they're actually used for.

[-] Oka@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 months ago

Yeah, headline confused me. I know Dwango as the holder of TasBot, not as a hacker

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah I can't read his name without hearing the "keeper of TASbot" right after it.

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