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fwiw, cheating in CS(GO) taught me x86 RE and low-level programming way younger than is usual. sophomore year of high school. I still recommend writing an HvH

fwiw, cheating in CS(GO) taught me x86 RE and low-level programming way younger than is usual. sophomore year of high school. I still recommend writing an HvH cheat to anyone that wants to get into proggin' -- you get a taste of both static and dynamic RE, memory-level programming, UI development, bare dxsdk (usually), a skid-saturated environment, sysadmin (if you try to set yourself up an uber1337 cheat page), and a bunch of other little things, all in an environment where you're quite directly competing with others in the same situation.

StefanBatory 2y ago
still, it ruined game for other players. though personally I can't be that mad if you wrote cheats yourself, I will be a bit angry but impressed too ;)
andrewmcwatters 2y ago
Most hackers in the space start out at the freshman year or middle school age, my dude. Was the case 20 years ago.
- xeonmc 2y ago
  Usually by the time you are in working age people have outgrown the e-ego waving contest to be incentivized to cheat in an inconsequential video game* *with some exceptions.
  - kurisufag 2y ago
    you're on a website called "Hacker News", man. you think the startup game is less of an "e-ego waving contest"?
- kurisufag 2y ago
  it wasn't a brag or anything, i just don't know by what means i would've been introduced to that stuff other than game cheats. 15-year-old-me definitely did not care about crackmes or malware reversing. i did start writing code in middle school, though. php, mostly :)
  - pooloo 2y ago
    you sound like me, I was a little younger though ... aimbots, wallhacks, esp, textures, radar, it was all intriguing and I hated encountering cheaters in CS 1.4 and 1.5. I also began dabbling in writing bots around this time, as POD Bot was awesome! php had also been a thing of mine, I spent many months in DALnet and EFnet #php. Primarily around the time of v3 prior to v4's big launch...
    - jamesfinlayson 2y ago
      Did you end up releasing your bots?
nicman23 2y ago
i learnt a lot about virglrender, spice, opencv and ocr (and a bit of python but that was the easy part) by making a cv pokemmo bot

StefanBatory 2y ago

still, it ruined game for other players. though personally I can't be that mad if you wrote cheats yourself, I will be a bit angry but impressed too ;)

andrewmcwatters 2y ago

Most hackers in the space start out at the freshman year or middle school age, my dude. Was the case 20 years ago.

xeonmc 2y ago
Usually by the time you are in working age people have outgrown the e-ego waving contest to be incentivized to cheat in an inconsequential video game* *with some exceptions.
- kurisufag 2y ago
  you're on a website called "Hacker News", man. you think the startup game is less of an "e-ego waving contest"?
kurisufag 2y ago
it wasn't a brag or anything, i just don't know by what means i would've been introduced to that stuff other than game cheats. 15-year-old-me definitely did not care about crackmes or malware reversing. i did start writing code in middle school, though. php, mostly :)
- pooloo 2y ago
  you sound like me, I was a little younger though ... aimbots, wallhacks, esp, textures, radar, it was all intriguing and I hated encountering cheaters in CS 1.4 and 1.5. I also began dabbling in writing bots around this time, as POD Bot was awesome! php had also been a thing of mine, I spent many months in DALnet and EFnet #php. Primarily around the time of v3 prior to v4's big launch...
  - jamesfinlayson 2y ago
    Did you end up releasing your bots?

nicman23 2y ago

i learnt a lot about virglrender, spice, opencv and ocr (and a bit of python but that was the easy part) by making a cv pokemmo bot