bashwizard

Skill gaps back then were HUGE. At least in the games I used to play and compete in. Mainly Quake, CS and StarCraft. If you were an average/decent player, you'd get absolutely destroyed by a good player every single time and it was never even close.

Modern FPS games with SBMM creates this huge "blob" of low-to-average players that will rarely if ever even have the chance of playing against an actual good player and they have no clue of how huge the difference in skill gap it is.

Skill issue. No pun intended.

> If that's the new player experience, you done fucked up.

Have you really though?

I'd argue that what made arena shooters great was the steep learning curve and the grind to improve as a player.

The feeling of having practiced duels for months and finally being able to beat players that used to 50-0 you every game was better than any achievement in any modern FPS game I've ever experienced.

Gamers these days just doesn't really care about becoming better themselves. They want the instant gratification and that's why you have FPS games with super low TTK, perks, abilities, heroes etc. All to narrow down the skill gap between actual good players and completely new players.

Maybe it's just me but I find those games boring.

The majority of devs are average. What a shocker.

It's a coordinated psyop to enforce mass surveillance and control. The question we should ask ourselves is "Who are they?". Their agenda is clear already.

Thanks but no thanks. I'm not going to give you any of personal information whatsoever.

Raycast is all I need. AeroSpace if tiling windows is your thing.

This is another good one: https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

You sound like me. I disliked CS because of how slow and campy it was compared to Quake and we always had this banter in my friend group about Quake vs CS vs Unreal Tournament and which game requires more skill. I ended up playing for one of the best clans in Sweden and competed for a few years until Q3 eventually died.

I did try playing CS more serious for some time but I just couldn't stand it and I never had the patience. Got to respect that.

Quake requires more skill btw.

A dev who have never seen a base64 string before? Fascinating.

I'm surprised that it's not more. I couple of years ago I spent a few months basically github dorking for leaked api keys and made more than that.

When the cognitive dissonance hits you in the face like a truck, you hit that button!

Companies like that needs to be outed so that no one will ever go any testing whatsoever for them in the future.

Like people have said already; Certificate Transparency logs.

There are countless of tools to use for subdomain enumeration. I personally use subfinder or amass when doing recon on bug bounty targets.

> It's because the phone's CPU isn't keeping up.

That's bs. You will immediately notice the difference when going from let's say 120 hz down to 60 hz on a fast gaming pc even if you're just dragging windows around. Everything feels jarring to say the least compared to higher refresh rates and it has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU. It's because of the refresh rate.

It's same thing going from 120 hz to 60 hz on a phone while scrolling and swiping.

It's quite interesting though that there are people out there who won't notice the huge difference. But hey, at least they don't have to pay premium for the increase performance of the screen.

And then there's common sense. Something most people seems to lack.

r/USDefaultism

Security related vulnerabilities.

I know some of them in person as I'm involved in the bug bounty scene myself. What they work on varies depending on skill set and interest. I do not personally know any security researchers with high impact vulnerabilites in iOS but those people get paid millions and you'll never hear about them.

What I do know is that they tend to sell their exploits through exploit brokers like Zerodium.

I know many people making a very good living from bounties (>$500k/year). If you're good, you'll make bank. If not - don't quit your day job.

I have a few thousand of streams per month and I make pennies from it. It's not like I care about being demonetized on spotify and losing a few pennies.

It's almost as if hypergamy is real. Shocking.

I used to play professionally during 2003-2007 until all the poker coaching sites started popping up everywhere. The money was indeed crazy and I was making roughly $400k/year at NL1000 back then. Eventually my winrate started dropping along with all the fish leaving the game and the whole boom died out. I did a year coaching but later decided to leave poker for good.

Good times though and kind of surreal for a 20 something year old dude.

And then you switch to security from being a developer and the imposter syndrome hits you in the face like a truck and you'll realize how easy it was being a developer.

I agree. After B.P.Empire they pretty much died to me I don't think I've liked a single track by them after that album.

What? I've played D1 about 50 times and not once have The Butcher not showed up.

Most of us get private invites by the companies themselves or there are already open public bug bounty programs on HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti etc for anyone to try to hack them within confined scopes.

There are a lot of money to be made if you're good, so there's the incentive as well.

So have I and I don't recommend it to any Tolkien fan because nothing about Rings of Power actually feels like something out of Tolkiens work.

If NFTs and pay to win in gaming is the only thing you think about when it comes to Web3, crypto and DeFi you're kinda dense to be honest.

This made me giggle like a little girl. Oh sweet summer child...