• Chaos
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    4211 months ago

    As cool as this is, Im not quite sure I want my monitor to also watch my porn with me.

      • ditty
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        211 months ago

        It wouldn’t surprise me if someone does use the software training program that goes with it to program its bottom rgb strip to color-suggest the highlighted segments on Pornhub videos.

  • @corus_kt@lemmy.world
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    1911 months ago

    Cool gimmick, just icky that their target audience is the type of people looking for unfair advantages in a multiplayer game

        • Ephera
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          1011 months ago

          I don’t know, if LoL uses it, but there’s some pretty ridiculous infrastructure in place for DRM, where programs can detect that your entire hardware stack (CPU → GPU → cable → Monitor) hasn’t been tampered with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection

          They still can’t detect when you’re filming your monitor, but pretty much everything else…

        • Dirk Darkly
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          911 months ago

          Depending on the game, this could open you up to a perma-ban (if found out). Which I think most multiplayer games take a hardline stance against circumventing their rules.

      • YMS
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        511 months ago

        And that’s actually an argument against buying this monitor, as long as you want to play any games with it. They have reason to ban you just for using this monitor. So in the end you have the choice between one monitor that could get you banned and all the others that don’t. I know which one I wouldn’t choose.

  • @xkforce@lemmy.world
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    1211 months ago

    This isnt just going to get used in LOL but any game that it can be trained on. This is basically another example of money giving people an advantage over everyone else. You buy the monitor, train it and bam, you are “better” at playing pretty much any video game you want and there’s not much that can be done to negate that advantage.

      • @xkforce@lemmy.world
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        711 months ago

        Contrary to what device manufacturers would have people believe, the differences in gaming outcome between a cheap keyboard or mouse and expensive ones isn’t much. But what this monitor is claimed to be able to do would provide a significant tangible advantage. This shouldn’t be normalized.

      • YMS
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        711 months ago

        That’s the point of banning by hardware ID.

        • @pory@lemmy.world
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          111 months ago

          detecting it is the problem. If the software is truly being run on the monitor, not the PC, it’s not something Riot can detect, unless they want to just ban anyone with this display connected to their PC (and monitor EID can also be spoofed).

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    11 months ago

    I can “cheat” with my current nearly decade old monitor. It has 4 cross hair overlay settings to choose from, so even if the game doesn’t provide me with a cross hair, I can still have one.

    This one is just ridiculous.

  • @soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
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    -311 months ago

    This is along the same lines as streamers getting meta info from their chat.

    If it’s been rendered on the screen but the user missed it, it’s not cheating because you would have had that information if you were more observant

    • @Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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      2411 months ago

      Missing a 0.5 second blip on the minimap vs the monitor telling you HEY HE’S OVER THERE! for several seconds with a big icon you can’t miss or ignore, is not quite the same.

      One of them is a big advantage. Even pros miss fast blips on the minimap. And it’s their job to be “observant”

        • @Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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          211 months ago

          I’m sitting low diamond and is perfectly OK with that.

          But your pathetic attempt at an insult doesn’t change the fact that a monitor like that is an unfair advantage, regardless of rank

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      By that logic, aimbots should be fine in FPS because the dude was on the screen for it to trigger. I would have had that headshot if I had faster reflexes, so it’s all good.