Here's an alternative version so you can really appreciate the majesty of this dude's belly.
That's the fusion reactor of that gator-kicking machine.
Also the docile look on the companion gator makes me want to caption him. Except I have no immediate ideas and am short on time, so I'll just pretend he's a socially anxious gator doing a 'count to 10' meditation and thinking to himself, 'Come on GatorGreg, you can do this, you deserve to be in this space as much as anyone else, like your GatorTherapist said. Just breathe.'
That autistic gator is the Arrowhead dev team just trying to keep their heads down.
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i'm desperate to know the context of this photo, and if i'm correct that it's in florida
It's an AI-generated photo and it became a small-time meme some months back.
That is shockingly good for being generated. I can’t spot a single giveaway. If you don’t count the ridiculous scenario, that is.
This image is much older than AI images. Dude is just making up bullshit.
Lmao at the whole story.
There are a few giveaways. I questioned it when I first looked so I zoomed and look at the part of a gator next to/behind the one he’s kicking. The one behind him has a strange arm/appendage connected to their bottom jaw, the strange “porelessness” of the image is almost always a giveaway to me—or at least it’s what prompts me to look closer.
And look at the guy’s weirdly short feet, the oddly small hands, etc.
This is the ideal male body. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
"Beloved by all" Don't be so hasty. I wish I could love games with kernel level anti cheats, but there are far better games with less risky software.
It's a really fun game though so idk I don't care (about the privacy concerns, your opinion is valid regardless)
It's not just privacy. Kernel level anti cheat software opens up a new attack vector for malicious actors, e.g. your computer is less secure. Your system also becomes less stable and is prone to crash more often. This is all dependent on the skill of the software engineers writing the kernel level anti cheat of course.
Unfortunately, most software, if not most of modern IT is a house of cards.
Kernel level anticheat software opens up a new attack vector for malicious actors
This is one of my favorite techniques used by threat actors.
Essentially, for those of you who aren’t familiar with the BYOVDD technique, code is signed by companies when it is set to publish. This signature is proof that the company actually released the code, and generally, if the code is signed by someone you trust, it means that it doesn’t contain malware.
However, programmers are often bad about writing secure code. Security is hard, and kernel-level code is complex, so things slip through the cracks and the code becomes vulnerable to exploitation from the threat actor.
The fun part is when there is signed code that operates at the kernel level. To an OS and many security systems, signed code is good code. If a threat actor exploits signed code to arbitrarily do things like download and execute malware, or just behave maliciously, security software often throws up its hands and goes “Well, it is signed by a trusted company, it’s probably fine lol.” But because this code operates at such a privileged level, the amount of damage that can be done is devastating.
This was used in 2022 by threat actors to spread ransomware. The vulnerable kernel-level software they used was Genshin Impact’s anticheat.
Thankfully, crafting an exploit like this is pretty difficult to do, and since the signatures used for the code is revoked when malicious activity is seen, it is unlikely that you will see this specific technique used against you on your personal computer. But your IT and/or cybersecurity team might see the Helldivers anticheat used to ransom their systems sometime in the future.
Sony has been fucking over the AAA gaming market for at least 20 years now.
Hey that's a little unfair, they've also fucked the music and movie industries.
But this one sure was a doozy.
nProtect seems to be even worse than it sounds:
no idea if they patched any of that since, but accepting non-validated DLLs is some wild level of neglect...
Kernel level anti cheat, battle pass, micro transactions in a $40 game btw. It was shit from the beginning. Unfortunate cause the game itself is so good.
$40 is almost half what you pay for a new game nowadays, how much do you think a game should cost then?
All of you playing on a pc already installed the insane rootkit of drm that it comes with, idk why any of you would complain about linking a sony account.
That drm is why I only got it on ps5, at least there its not on my pc.
It's not just about security. It's also about half of the countries in the world not being able to have a PSN account. Anyone in those countries who bought the game can no longer play the game they bought. I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't otherwise care about the DRM who are going to be locked out of their game.
You speak so high and might as if its incomprehensible that someone might enjoy this on say, a Steam Deck? Where that risk is significantly mitigated. It was entirely optional to have Sony at the start, its unacceptable that has changed.
Especially if you're one of the people complaining about the PSN data breaches... My brother in christ you're cool with having malware by definition from an insanely shady korean company on your computer.
I mean if it is a choice between using a Sony account and using nProtect. Would choose Sony account but needing both is a little overkill.
Pc gamers with 15 accounts being asked to create one more.
Unless you bought the game in one of the countries where you can't sign up for a PlayStation account, then you can just go fuck yourself.
Yeah i mean, if this is true (and I have no reason to doubt it ) it’s not something I’m looking to defend, but this industry stiffs customers on the regular, and in worse ways than this.
Being slightly less shitty doesn’t mean people should stop calling them out for their shittiness.
That makes it okay, obviously.
It literally said this would happen from day one lol
And still allowed it to be sold in regions that don't have PSN access, anyway.
Wow first I am hearing of this, what a bummer.
It's Gamespy round 2 (also, what an awful name for an authentication service)
GameSpy wasn't an authentication service. It was a way to search for servers for games because the in game search usually sucked. When you launched the game from GameSpy it would simply send a command line argument with the IP address when calling the executable. Well that's how it worked initially.
Not sure how no one saw this coming. Every multiplayer game that uses malw- kernel level anti-cheat WILL inevitably be enshittified. This one is a reminder that not even the most beloved of games are safe.
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