10 Weird Gaming Stories of JULY 2023

[@aaronworthing1023]

I’ve been SWATted and maybe this is my life experience talking but I think SWATting should be treated as a version of attempted murder.

[@Gatorade69]

Agree.

[@dictatorofthecheese]

Totally agree.

[@frankkennedy6388]

Agree

[@cadence1331]

And/or an act of terrorism, if it isn't already.

[@aaronworthing1023]

@@cadence1331 both is good

[@AlwayzFresh]

The decoy is not an AI moving around, it is an actual recording of a live players game being played back. It will be the real thing as far as the cheaters eyes can tell.

[@rukitomikutochi8764]

Not to mention the applications this idea can have. If they're completely indistinguishable from normal players, and normal players should never be able to see nor find them is absolutely wild. This would imply, anyone who shoots said Decoy, will be immediately flagged as suspicious. It is something you shouldn't be aware of through normal play. How this will actually be practically is another concern, but it's definitely an Interesting concept. Much like most anything Original or New, people will either try to down it, belittle it, or call it "Ecentric" When in Hindsight, nobody else has nor is thinking of new a method of detecting Cheaters who think they can spoof every bit of themselves away. Falcon is immeasurably foolish for thinking it's "taking the long way around to stop cheating"

[@ReallyNoOneAtAll]

From a programming standpoint, if their engine is as open with handles and calls as say Source for CSGO, this hallucination feature shouldn't be hard to isolate and detect from the cheat software standpoint, so I wouldn't say it will work in the long run. They'll probably be able to detect if an entity was spawned by the game with that function if they can find how it's called and used in the engine after some careful hex editor useage. Shit, they may even be able to isolate the function that gets applied to an account once it's flagged for this feature. They'd likely be able to draw a special ESP telling them which entities are players and which entities are fakes the engine spawned for them. Just putting that out there.

[@tylerharrison4308]

@@rukitomikutochi8764😊

[@solomani5959]

Clever.

[@austinteed3248]

It would be great to completely record ALL players movements from the previous game and having TWICE as many 'players' running around

[@missedmurphy]

The best part of a new month is Gameranx's recap of weird stories from the previous

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@billyalarie929]

Especially bc it’s Falcon doing it, cuz I love our bois commentary

[@krawgs]

Definitely their best video's.

[@southpolethehippe]

The HoyoLab app for Android was not allowing me to access my Hoyoverse account, which I found weird, it prompted a "connectivity problem" and just didn't sign in, the weird part is that after trying lots of times, different networks too, it "magically" allowed me to sign in after I held my phone in front of me, I had been trying to sign in while my phone was sitting on my table, the thing is that the app never requested access to my camera or any type of permission, anyone else had this or a similar experience?

[@stevenstump246]

This is why I love Gameranx anymore. Jake and Falcon actually sound like they enjoy their jobs and it comes off more naturally. Other channels I watch, like Watchmojo and WhatCulture, sound like someone bored reading a script anymore.

[@stalkingtiger777]

That Starfield chronicler person deserves a medal, and I hope Bethesda puts an archivist NPC in the game for them! The skill tree guy is a hero too, but the sheer days of work that must've gone into that manual is impressive. It took me months to put together a few thousand coherent words, I can't imagine the hundreds of hours that went into that document.

[@FrameandGame]

He single-handedly ensured that at least 50,000 youtubers will have all of the source material they need so they can all make the same exact "Starfield Retrospective" video in five years.

[@terrafirma5327]

The amount of recognition video games have earned as a valid form of media, is exciting and baffling to me as a millennial. I remember when people were fighting whether it was art or not, and other pedantic arguments. Its great to have gameranx keeping us in the loop about it all.

[@SpencerfromEarth]

Oh, people still argue its not art.

[@frankkennedy6388]

Why do people still think it's not art? Games literally start as concept drawings, then become digital sculptures, and incorporate Cinematography. All things considered Art. Plus wouldn't the next step in art be Interactivity?

[@SpencerfromEarth]

@@frankkennedy6388 some people (Ben Shapiro) argue some types of music (hip hop/rap) aren't even music. So, yeah. Some people are just dumb I guess.

[@frankkennedy6388]

@@SpencerfromEarth I'm not into rap, but to paraphrase a comment I saw on "Remember The Name": "This is rap, not animal mating calls you hear today."

[@SpencerfromEarth]

@@frankkennedy6388 im not sure what you mean but there's plenty of great rappers today and whether or not they're bad or you dislike it, it's still art. What you just said is the *exact* same way people try to argue games aren't art.

[@906]

9:14 Correction, he didn't spend two hours compiling the skill tree, he spent two hundred.

[@SteffeL2]

Nor was the person in the clip before physically unfit for trial, but psychiatrically.

[@CartoonHangout]

@@kylethomas8655 Someone has to do it. People compile research all the time, it usually requires long hours.

[@Kamikazeesouled]

​@@CartoonHangoutdude could just wait a few months and find out...

[@SpencerfromEarth]

​@@kylethomas8655why do you care how others spend their time? At least he isn't making bombs or some shit

[@grayhatjen5924]

​@SpencerfromEarth Exactly. Because trust and believe, people that can manage to do that could absolutely be using their brain power for bad actions. It's actually people that think the same way that that dude does that are assisting in solving all of those old serial killer cases and identifying John and Jane Does, namely from cases that have been cold for decades. TBH anybody that is intensely into puzzle solving or is a staunch completionist when it comes to gaming, are the exact people that are killing it, no pun intended, in that particular field. For anybody that thinks spending 200 hours on working out that skill tree on their own before the game is even out is wasting time, let me offer this suggestion: That person is just exercising their brain. It's fun. It feels good. No one is being hurt. Where's the harm?

[@DatGrunt]

The guy that harassed one dude got a much harsher sentence than the loser that swatted Ubisoft lmao. Screw them both, but the guy that swatted Ubisoft got off WAAAAY too easy.

[@scotttill3847]

As to Story 6, the suspect was declared to be incompetent to stand trial (or a doubt was raised about his competence), which is different than entering a not guilty by reason insanity plea (NGI). Incompetent means the defendant is incapable of assisting in his/her defense, either due to a mental impairment, mental health issue, or learning disability. The defendant is usually then evaluated by one or more psychologists who will determine if the defendant has the mental capacity to understand the court process. If the doctors form the opinion the defendant is not able to understand, the defendant will usually be sent to a mental hospital to get stabilized (with or without medications, depending on the type and severity of mental disorder) and given time to learn about the court process. If the defendant is "restored to competency" at the hospital, he/she will be returned to court. An NGI defense means the defendant was mentally incapable of forming the intent to commit the crime

[@cowboy0370]

As a person with mental disorders/disabilitys I say charge his ass anyway Having your brain be broken isn't an excuse for any reason Not to mention that just opens this for other people to do the same thing then use the "I don't understand cuz it mental problems" plea and get away with it

[@mike41062]

Funny how "falcon" says he was deemed "physically unfit" for trial 😂😂😂 when it's clearly stating in the article shown (and just by common sense) he's PSYCHOLOGICALLY unfit for trial. HUGE difference between psychological and physical. He's autistic (the hacker), so it's a reasonable conclusion.

[@PlayingWithWilson]

Sounds like he came up with the perfect defence, if he wasn't competent enough to assist in his defence he would have been screwed and prosecuted

[@mike41062]

Coming back to this after a couple months- this is the GTA hacker, right? Most recent thing i heard was HE'S SERVING LIFE in "prison" (in a psychiatric place). It's fucked up... seems incredibly extreme- but he kept hacking and was doing shit on probation apparently under the eyes of the cops too. Lol. He did through an Amazon fire stick. He said he didn't plan on stopping, which is probably why they decided what they did. Still extreme- but they deemed him to be an ongoing and continous threat. But still... LIFE?!... that's just crazy. (I think he may have a chance at being released eventually if doctors consider him reformed and no longer a threat).. people commit murders and attempted murders and other truly heinous acts, and don't even get life in prison.

[@mike41062]

@@cowboy0370 he got sentenced to life. That's extreme in my view. For leaking some random b.s. in a real rough state, that didn't really give anything away..

[@michelfortin7055]

That Ricochet is absolutely brilliant! Kicking the cheater simply makes him join another server. Having him busy with fake enemies enables other players to play unhindered.

[@inquisitorichijou883]

The Bungie story really was a pretty big thing. Because of what happend to that CM, known as dmg04, was part of why Bungie scaled back on direct communication between devs and community managers and players.

[@SayWHARadio]

Game hasn't been anywhere near the same since

[@ChandlerC11]

It’s always nice seeing big KZbin channels like Gameranx shouting out and supporting the little guys like Linus Tech Tips ❤

[@dennis2376]

Not that Linus Media Group is that small, it is kind of huge. :)

[@robertoavila3834]

@@dennis2376 wooosh

[@dennis2376]

@@robertoavila3834 Ok, you are an airplane. :)

[@The7Reaper]

​@@dennis2376The joke just flew so far over your head

[@dennis2376]

@@The7Reaper :) And you missed the joke also. :)

[@iDEATH]

+1 on the ESRB facial rec take! Warnings that give parents the information they need to make an informed purchase is a good thing. Anything beyond that quickly spins into authoritarianism. Neither a private organization like the ESRB or any government entity should ever be afforded anything that comes close to decision making status in the lives of individual citizens or their families.

[@majortellandrus2552]

I really feel like a lot of this is coming from the massive epidemic of parents who just don't monitor their kids. I personally find the ESRB to be nothing more than an authoritarian dictator over gaming studios, because they don't just rate what's in the game. Much like the film equivalent (can't remember what that one is called) if your game has something they don't like they'll just extort you with an AO (or in film an X) rating until you change the game according to their flaky tastes, and there is no standard either it's all based on the tastes of whoever is rating your game. With the rise of parents who are just straight up ignoring the ratings on games it makes total sense to me that they'd think it was OK to decide what's ok and not ok in people's homes and money and invade their privacy to do it, because they were created by Karens, for Karens, and are run by fuckin Karens. Just a bunch of ppl who don't know how to mind their own and shut up.

[@charlesrozell848]

The face scanning probably has more to do with using that information for other things than it does with gaming.

[@ignisspiritus6392]

Yup that’s right. And people fall for it to. That’s why I don’t use phone face scans. Harmless now maybe, but imagine what they will use this stuff for in the future. It’s all being catalogued somewhere.

[@shinkamalei]

I think it’s definitely about getting our information over here and in other countries besides China. I have friends in China and SEA (with Chinese relatives) and it’s apparently extremely bad over there with gaming. Like massive addiction kind of bad. I don’t condone it and I don’t support it but I know that’s their idea of combating it. But I wouldn’t trust our information not to be used improperly or sold off.

[@rickinielsen1]

It is a minimum effort attempt to allow the gaming industry to continue their manipulative real money gambling stuff. One of the major arguments against gambling in games has been the kids. This way they could say they did something to protect the kids, while they continue to destroy the lives adults by manipulating them out of their money.

[@Gatorade69]

Just like those NYPD drones created to "announce weather changes." Edit : "NYPD testing drones for public safety messaging during weather emergencies." Yeah, weather emergencies. That's the best time to fly a drone. I mean a drone is the only way, it's not like people get emergency weather alerts on their phones or anything. These drones, owned by the police, are definitely not spying on anybody.

[@tvctaswegia497]

Sounds worse than denuvo. Any company that implements this will get an instant permaban from me, just like Ubisoft, EA, etc. We don't need this.

[@eyesofdarkness19]

I can definitely see a company scanning faces and using them as background npcs and extras to cut down on costs

[@Krexel]

Can you imagine how weird it would be to run into yourself as an NPC?

[@Gigaheart]

@@Krexel Can you imagine how much money I would want for my likeness being used in that case?

[@Gatorade69]

@@Gigaheart None. Because you didn't read the EULA, accepted it and it had a clause in it about using player's faces.

[@sinaen]

Lol couldn’t you do that on cheaters like they run into a copy of themself and make digital suicide like dark link in Zelda 2

[@sinaen]

I meant he was like superhard so

[@1wayroad935]

The hallucinations and putting cheaters in the same game are the best ones.

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@OcarinaLink24]

People with baby faces are about to hate the ESRB. When I was 26 I went to get my ears pierced and the guy tried to get my Mom to sign consent forms 💀

[@X2yt]

Last time I was this early Covid was still a distant future.

[@kirbykirbyv10]

For real 4 min ago 😭

[@NoMercy419]

Right 😂😂😂

[@victorrusso466]

I remember when falcon was talking about Gotham Knights and said "Im calling it, Batman is not dead"... An yeah he was kind of right, and its really fun to look back at those things

[@LunaliBrighteyes]

#8 He didn't cause monetary damage to the person (or if he did, it was relatively minor), he caused monetary damage to the company because they spent money to protect their employee.

[@alexwaddington9808]

Yeah, otherwise there'd be many "they hurt my feewings" lawsuits.

[@christiansmith131]

It's bs

[@sithlordslim547]

500K is half a mil. Spending that much to find him, you bet that harms the company.

[@CrodleMon]

Isn't that what he literally said?

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

@@CrodleMon yes, these people don’t listen.

[@sorinminca1321]

The money convention joke made me laugh out loud, it's exactly how I imagine Disney staff

[@Forever_Zero]

Man, I couldn't have said it better, when did the ESRB became the one responsible to raise children? All those discussions about addicting and violent video games but they just don't mention the negligent parents that allowed those situations in the first place

[@Mustafa_AhmedPGH]

Last time I checked, they put the ratings so PARENTS would know not to buy the game!

[@bunglekemp]

The aim bots will be targeting the clones as such preventing a cheater functioning correctly, also if you shoot x number of decoys youll know they are cheating

[@SunilManoharEnigma]

That makes no sense. Shouldn't the decoys pop up after confirming you are a cheater? Because if the decoys behave exactly a real player, you ARE going to shoot at them. And if you are now being evaluated by how many decoys you shoot, you are now classifying skilled players as cheaters, depending on how many decoys they run into.

[@bunglekemp]

@@SunilManoharEnigma they are invisible to players just have the traits/coding as if they were real. As such only the cheaters would be impacted because they'd be the only ones targeting them due to the software/aimbot

[@SirCanuckelhead]

This reminds me of I think tf2 way back in the day. The put fake players below the level. So aim bots would start aiming at the ground. It was an easy cleanup for a bit.

[@SunilManoharEnigma]

@@bunglekemp Yes, that's what I'm saying. They should only be visible to cheaters to impact their gameplay. If you're considering someone a cheater AFTER they have shot a certain number of decoys, then you'll be getting a lot of false positives.

[@bunglekemp]

@@SunilManoharEnigma if decoys cannot be seen by players how would they shoot them? The key is they are 'invisible' so you cannot see them or target them if not cheating. Software 'sees' them through the code line so unless they can find a 'visible=n' 😉 attribute in the code block and build that into the logic they'd target the decoys as well

[@ARIXANDRE]

The best series on KZbin is here! Let's get weird for July!

[@1IGG]

So you never heard about Behind the Bastards?

[@abstrusemedia2312]

Dude that wrote the starfield doc is a legaend its so good and worth a read. He should start a site so we can do this for more games as its brilliant

[@cppblank]

What if a parent looks younger than 18? It isn't unreasonable to think a parent in their early 20s could have that problem.

[@Sylkee._.]

#9 is kinda wild considering R6 Siege standard edition is $20 USD and you had to level the account to 30 or 50 to be able to play ranked playlist. Then doing that 80 times? 🤯

[@zackstryfes7527]

The facial scanner is for tracking information. A kid takes a phone and downloads a game app to play. Does not know how to read the things they are clicking on. Now the company is tracking information and keeping it from a under age minor who does not know how to read. Having a parent or guardian show their face, is a way to say they must of read and understood the conditions to play the game. Then they can take and track all info they want.

[@jacobgreaf2481]

the compendium and the guy who plotted out the skill trees remind me of the olden days, when the internet wasn't flush with too much information about everything. It reminds me of the independent game guides that people/teams would put hours into. Like I had an unofficial FF7 guide before I could afford a Prima guide that was in some cases more comprehensive than the official guide. It's just really cool to see people turning games back into a hobby as opposed to a passive thing that you do.

[@schools6555]

I cant believe its already the end of July but love it because its time for Gameranx weird gaming tales of the month!

[@justinseans]

It's actually pretty encouraging how many people are like "no" to this ESRB thing. It's really not that serious, those people need to calm down and stop taking pictures of people. There's enough of that without just having it for no reason.

[@dRoscoAZ]

2:49 It's France... what did you expect, a guillotine?

[@dennis2376]

Do not suggest that, they just got rid of the guillotine in the 1980s, I believe that was the time frame. :)

[@jscott4reel]

Halfway through the list and we have cheaters, racists and lunatics, albeit dedicated, but nonetheless 😳

[@DownWithBureaucracy]

That Bungie story makes me happy. They stood behind their employee and protected them with no promise of being compensated (and let's be honest, that dude doesn't have $500k). Good guy Bungie

[@YouReallyDontKnow]

Yup, great story! Glad some loser got the punishment they deserved.

[@LaRavachole]

Fr most companies would simply throw their employee under the bus and force them to deal with it all alone. Kudos to Bungie for standing up for their workers and for what is right.

[@miseajeux1287]

15:09 just imagine the inconvenience of having to store millions of pictures of people.

[@srellison561]

For your #2 rank about the ESRB checking ages. Unfortunately, there are way too many parents who pay no attention to what their children are playing, or even what they're doing online. On the other hand, does it really matter? Except for some possible temporary trauma being exposed to something they don't have the coping mechanisms for, yet, children have always had access to things that some adults claim influence them to do bad things. Personally, I think most kids are smart enough, or grounded enough, not to be influenced to do stupid things. Those who aren't, are just going to be triggered by something else. Games, movies, and books have often been targeted as being the cause of some loony toon doing awful things, but the source media isn't the problem, the problem already exists in the person. I grew up in a generation where we watched the 3 Stooges, Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner and Coyote, and with the exception of a few nut cases, we didn't poke each other in the eyes, hit each other with hammers, or attempt to blow people (or roadrunners) up.

[@omarbuentello5641]

No joke, the whole face scan thing is kinda how I thought it worked as a kid. Like I can't play CoD as a 10 year old bc the first hurdle is the store seller, but then the game would somehow detect me as a kid and not let me play lol seeing this happening nowadays is wild

[@the_box]

Yayyyyy always the best video of the month :)

[@gameranxTV]

🤝

[@pinksnootgaming]

3 years of not letting them use the internet not give them community service...😂😂

[@FranWest.]

Easier said than done though. How do you plan to not allow someone to use the internet, when even places like fast food restaurants have free wifi..?

[@GrahamMilkdrop]

I only play a few games and they are rarely, if ever, covered by gameranx, combat flight sims mainly... but I absolutely love this channel. The mix of slick editing and delivery with good information and a subversive edge make for a brilliant viewing experience. Keep it up gameranx, you're doing great!

[@pigsinspace9927]

Why was half of this month just court cases

[@FFMPlug]

It always makes my day when gameranx uploads!❤

[@XionDarkblood13]

As far as changing a game or story when people figure it out before its released, I like G. R. R. M. viewpoint. I'm paraphrasing but basically he said if you write a story and set up the maid to be the culprit in the next book but someone figures it out... Take it as a compliment that people are so into your work that they payed attention to your foreshadowing. Don't change it just because you are upset the surprise got ruined or whatever. That's what I think about the GTA6 leaks or the Starfield stuff. I think the GTA6 leak was obviously wrong of the individual to do (though if the story was true I hope he gets the help he needs, rather than just going to prison or have his finacial life ruined) I think that people are so rabid for any hint of a product should be seen as a good thing. I also think with the leak thing and I remember people being mad about how "bad" it looked and I think it led to a bunch of people learning how bad most games look in the development cycle. Which is good. It's not a reflection of the finished product and that's one reason leaks like that are kinda pointless. Anyway, I hope Starfield and GTA6 don't try to change things just because someone figured it out before the reveal because usually it leads to inferior replacements. Like if an author switches the story from the maid to the butler doing it, its going to just lead to plot holes and all the work you put into setting up the story meaningless. The cheater thing for CoD was kinda funny, I actually kinda like these weird punishments for cheaters. I loved the one where they put all cheaters in the same game or server as well. IDK how they identify it but as long as it's not affecting players who aren't cheating then I am all for it. God the ESRB thing is stupid. It doen't help that most of the ESRB are also ceos of gaming companies. I don't get how that's not a conflict of interest or at least a biased influence or whatever. Of course the ESRB is going to want to add stuff they can say is "for the saftey of the children" but really only helps these companies profit and damn the consequences of how it could be abused BEYOND just profit mongering. Anyone can make a video game and if it has to have this facial scan to play it, it's just an open door for anyone who wants the facial scan data. Need to unlock someones phone? What do you know the law enforcement agency published a free mobile game and they have your facial data on record that you gave them to use! The abuse cases are way to many and just opens the door for a lot of problems in the future, plus it won't help solve the problem anyway. If the parents don't care enough to read a rating label then they are not going to care enough period.

[@MrCode4money]

As I understand it. The decoys are to trick the cheat software not the cheaters per se. The basic idea is to give the cheat, for example auto aim, something else to shoot at. So if you've got 4 targets and 3 are decoys then the chances are the cheat will lock onto the decoy not the real player. It's not clear but I suspect that the person using the cheat won't see the decoy like everyone else. So if you're aiming normally then you won't target them. I would also guess that the decoys have no hit box meaning they won't randomly shield or get in the way of a real target. The devs can also run statistical analysis to see if people are cheating. As people who target the decoys more than would be hitting them at random would indicate they are cheating. Seems quite a straight forward implementation to me.

[@xenoemblem7]

gameranx: release 10 weird gaming stories Me: "WOOOO Yeah baby! that's what I've been waiting for, that's what it's all about"

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@philosoaper]

Grinding Gear Games is also owned by Tencent and has a similar deal, but there's little doubt that Tendcent has heavily influenced the way their game has gone since... even if not directly dictating the path forward...

[@primisimperator2189]

The most recent Tencent Acquisition was Visual Arts, ,the parent company of Key, an anime studio who made Clannad, AIR, Kanon and the mobile game, Heaven Burns Red.

[@DirgeTV]

If I'm not mistaken, I think a similar deal is in place with Digital Extremes as well.

[@BarackObamerHimselfEXCLUSIVE]

The way that people claims that the Simpsons remake is a waste of time and worthless is BEYOND ME. Probably just mad that they can't play it, but I think the dude who did it must have learned a lot from it, and yeah it's a true display of his capabilities and idk man, all my respect for him. Glad he played it safe

[@Ghost19_]

The concern with Tencent is that it's government owned, which is kind of sus the more you think about it despite the developer still being 'independent'.

[@RVered]

2:29 "...every Bethesda game..." (shows New Vegas). Bethesda deserves no credit for it, the same way we don't call Doom, Wolfenstein, Prey, etc. "Bethesda games"; Many of their assets and systems were used, but they had no part in development beyond that. Not to mention, they can't dream about making something of equal quality.

[@GJPGAMESvideos]

Ahhhhh weird gaming stories dropped my day is complete 😁

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@hisgreasiness]

14:04 That's not why they're scanning faces. "We won't use your faces for nefarious reasons, but we're happy to provide them to nefarious entities for profit."

[@elexendermedeiros183]

I want an audio book of that starfield situation.

[@foreverdjango5869]

Falcon: parents are perfectly capable of saying 'no, you can't have that game' Parents: SAY WHAT???

[@FranWest.]

"Some Parents".

[@slipknotron1626]

Love these lists 😂

[@w49660]

#6 to clarify, he was declared *psychiatrically* unfit to stand trial, not physically. As in mind unfit, not body.

[@sophia_comicart]

Aparently the newer CoD anti cheat methods are designed to preoccupy cheaters so devs and their software have time to gain as much information from the cheater as possible.

[@Courage_n_Honour]

yup until they figure out to sell them something . cant get rid of em, figure out a way to make money off them lol

[@Roland_Deschain_of_Gilead19]

SWAT 4 footage in point number nine makes my day

[@Mr.Glidehook]

❤ I can binge watch these lists! Oh and on the number 2 item, I couldn't agree more. With our lax and inhuman laws that let child abusers go, how can photographing kids to make sure they dont log in to inappropriate games ever be justified? The answer is, it can't. You're right to call it cyber fascism and we shouldn't be so quick to give up information, especially on children. It's careless and dangerous and , well, go*dammit. Enough already. I don't believe what we've mindlessly given away already to the governments and industries that will sell or use information against us. Not for crimes or curfew infractions. They will do it because we let them in the door.

[@InaudibleHippo]

For number 2 I am so glad you called this out. This is way too far!!!

[@phalcata572]

Great video guys, as always.

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@timcrawford93]

I gotta say I never heard anyone say switch was going to be bad everyone I knew at the time was excited about it. I do remember falcon saying he had the same feeling about cyberpunk 2077 as the switch though, and boy was he wrong haha.

[@nicholasjackson8709]

For #2, most parents don't care or don't pay any attention to what they are buying for their child. They just want a distraction for the kid so they can parent less.

[@rogen8094]

Maybe, depends on the parent i guess. Mine were very in-tune with what I was playing, to the point where I was annoyed because they wouldn't let me get certain games as a young teen (e.g. Dragon Age Origins)

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

Yep.

[@the7thelfjimmy885]

This dude is out here absolutely dodging being cancelled for his dear life in this video lmao

[@eddieford9373]

Community service is a punishment for a gamer. Being forced to go outside and interact with real people is punishment.

[@Courage_n_Honour]

I like that

[@Kevin-hx3hn]

It’ll distract their aim bot snap and wall hacks, they will have to decipher more info in split second situations leading to them dying. If it effects their audio as well that would be best. They should give those decoys flash bangs effect when killed. So the hacker gets flashed when killing the ghost bots

[@_quarterroy2325]

For story #8 it does matter that he's black. Representation does matter and seeing people that look like us excel in spaces where most people do not look like us is extremely important. Very disappointment in that take man.

[@finaloblivion799]

No it doesn't man.

[@tb1235]

In what is supposed to be a developed society, race should be far from the top of what matters in successful business and educational practices. It's obviously fine that companies praise their employees for success no matter their ethnicity, sexuality or religion and hateful bigots should be called out. But praise should not be given exclusively because of ethnicity, sexuality or religion either.

[@_quarterroy2325]

@@tb1235 It was not given just because of that…did you listen to the story?

[@_quarterroy2325]

@@finaloblivion799 how would you as somebody who is heavily represented in all facets of media even know that? 🧐

[@audreyharris7643]

​@@_quarterroy2325how do you know what he is

[@lazyman2451]

The cod ai thing is hilariously genius and it is possible.

[@Mike-jr5hq]

From high up in his tree, Falcon sees all that is going on in the gaming world.

[@iisacc_au]

LOL Falcon has the greatest of gaming monologues, Sense of humour is fricken amazing!

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@BigMobe]

Hunters in The Division are the closest thing I have seen to AI mimicking real players. If it wasn't for the interference they give off that causes your gear to get all messed up when they are near they could easily be mistaken even by experienced players as being other players.

[@takashy87]

the cheater thingy actually sounds like a neat idea and I'm pretty sure that cheaters wouldn't tell the difference between real players or "invisible" bots. Thing is that unless those boths do something drastically stupid that tells players that they're bots ... most people are just "in the moment" and are more likely to just shoot instantly at the enemy than try to observe them for long enough to tell if it's a bot or not like if you join a game full of boths, but no 1 tells you they're bots and they act mostly in the same way as humans then people will just believe it's real players unless the bots do something unusual or somebody tells the player that they're bots.

[@Viralbutnotyet]

Ricochet ghosts are the modern equivalent of mock plugging a controller in for your kid sibling to pretend they are in the game 😂😂😂

[@cuevee8260]

"...and they'd cosplay as money at that convention." 🤣🤣🤣

[@cristoff30]

So now bungie gets a taste of microtransactions 😅.

[@nicholaskinkaid]

Disney is a fan of money, aye? *John Cena inserts himself into conversation* "Are you sure about that?"

[@danaparsonsliquidcosmosart2669]

Swatting should be attempted murder period. Also in UK supplying a game to a kid who is underage is actually a criminal offense. I used to work game retail and if I sold a game to a parent knowing it was for a underage child I could have gone to jail for 6 monthd

[@badmonkeyking]

# 2 is like the fastest way to get everyones face data in one data base, that does not seem like a good idea

[@listerofsmeg884]

5:10 ...The US republican party? The Sun newspaper? Fox News?

[@MuNky1022]

"..they would go to a money convention and cosplay as money" 🤣🤣🤣

[@godoftwinkies574]

The swatter get 3 years of community service might have been a minor.

[@GV-ij9ib]

Perfect way to start a day off, right on time!

[@25Leprechaun]

For the esrb face scanning thing to quote Ben Franklin "If the people are willing to give a little liberty for a little security, they will gain neither and lose both."

[@Kjtuiono]

The ESRB is far from being anything near right about what kids should be witness to. Considering NBA, Madden, and fifa are all rated E and they all push heavily in betting and gambling micro transactions

[@PANTYEATR1]

Number 10 reminds me of Rick & Morty being in a simulation inside a simulation of another simulation! 😐

[@rukitomikutochi8764]

I wonder if the same guy who was banned 80 times, was the same guy i met a few years ago in a Ranked Rainbow 6 Seige Match. He too, bragged about being banned 18 times during that time, and the man was extremely unhinged. Even spammed his Twitch channel link in the Chat, somehow got it on our screens, and even rage hacked. His KZbin account was how i found out he was banned so many times. He actually counted how many times.

[@gamerpines]

That gta vi hacker’s lawyer was probably Saul Goodman😂

[@alexw4482]

I wonder if the Ubisoft office was surprised about the swatting. Like did they think they were legit getting raided for something shady they did? At the very least you’d think they got swatted for their bad decisions and not for a good one. (Edit) Also I imagine the swat team had enough common sense to realize they were tricked as soon as they were greeted by the receptionist.

[@robertAGC]

Yeah, I’m not okay with the face scanning thing.

[@ArcaneSorceror]

The Techland-Tencent story reminds me of that Embracer group thing a while back where they were unable to make a big announcement at their Annual Report... Which strikes me as weird if true, because Embracer OWN Deep Silver, so Techland might have gotten the rights to the Dead Island IP. Might sound far-fetched, but when Titan Quest was getting new DLC made, they went to the OG developers to see if they would be interested in making more DLC for the game.

[@doctordubstepgaming6706]

never played a gta game and gta 6 ain't gonna change that

[@otg4088]

It’s probably hard af to make those type of videos everyday, thank y’all for making them

[@chisaten]

13:47 If facial recognition for age was required, some people might be screwed. Since I was in my 20s, I look much younger than my actual age. A good example is I was 37, someone guessed that I was 16. Even now, the best that people can guess is I appear half as old as I am.

[@Heavenlyhounds96]

Story #2 is like an age equivalent of "I am not a robot"

[@yazminscarlett]

As an adult who often gets mistaken for a minor by real people, I think the face-scanning thing is an awful idea. Leaving aside the privacy problem of it of course.

[@wolfinthesno]

... people who Swat other people should be charged with attempted murder by proxy. They are well aware of the dangers involved with a swat team showing up at anyone's home or business, and in this guy's case there's clear evidence of a motive, it's clearly premeditated. Hell he should be charged with an act of terrorism, he is actively sending a team of heavily armed individuals into a group of people who are otherwise unaware. The fact he got community service actually pisses me off.

[@mythiccarrot8523]

Giving hackers schizophrenia is the best punishment i can think of.

[@worlddomination92]

Bungie: Fuck around and find out. Me: I love you.

[@ob1_kn_obi969]

I don't like that Falcon explains the same point like 3-4 times.. this video should be half the time it is

[@ImRandomDude]

I miss the simpler times, for example when chapters in seek bar were game titles instead of numbers

[@BathOLeastResistance]

I swear, the scanning thing is just so game companies can be like "look, all the micro transactions were approved by an adult, so you can't charge back"

[@zerooskil7161]

8 restores my faith in humanity lol