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'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

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 I can understand not wanting to field support requests from extremely outdated hardware, but being condescending and not even giving players the option to try playing it...

[–] Toes@ani.social 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Draconic_NEO@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That'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.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Garry himself has that in gmod. There is an achievement that's "played with Garry".

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