Vizor explained that Ricochet uses a list of hardcoded strings of text to detect cheaters and that they then exploited this to ban innocent players by simply sending one of these strings via an in-game whisper. To test the exploit the day they found it, they sent an in-game message containing one of these strings to themselves and promptly got banned.

Vizor elaborates, “I realized that Ricochet anti-cheat was likely scanning players’ devices for strings to determine who was a cheater or not. This is fairly normal to do but scanning this much memory space with just an ASCII string and banning off of that is extremely prone to false positives.”

This is insane, they had an automatic script to connect to games and ban random people on loop so they could do it while away

Even as someone who doesn’t usually play the genre it’s a fantastic game

Its hard being me!

Perfect. I’ve never made a mistake in my life.

Hello, thank you 👋 The niche toys are my favorite! Someone made an orrery app, which is like a solar system simulator. I have this year’s eclipse bookmarked because it’s neat

Mars After Midnight was fun!

Unfortunately it’s still ~$100 just to make the thing, so halving the price doesn’t sound likely. It’s definitely a device you have to use intentionally because of the screen, but I still play mine at least few times a week (and daily when I’m pomodoroing!)

Plus you get 3 months of included games! A bit harder to become ewaste so fast when you’re playing something new every week

Heck yeah, I think that’s a good reason! 💛 Hopefully they ship out by mid-December, Christmas is on a Monday so you’d have a few season 1 games that morning!

Cheers, happy Halloween!

Save up for season 2, it’ll be like a game book club! Maybe we can finally make a playdate lemmy community 😭

As a dev who recently released a game for the system (on sale now - only $1!), I’m pretty excited to see what gets included! It sounds like it’ll be all new games

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Why are you arguing about something that matters so little?

Undead Nightmare becoming suddenly easy to stream around Halloween will probably boost sales a bit too

Voyager is my favorite, but mlem is a close second for me

I downloaded the demo rom (from itch) to play on my anbernic sp tonight! I didn’t realize there was a nice little homebrew scene

Edit: Played it some, great game! They have little gates that take away abilities and it makes traversing the areas really fun. Smart level design and the platforming is solid

Some people think if you’re not foaming at the mouth over this then you’re in total support. The threads have been bizarre

Little Inferno can be beaten in ~3 hours and… let me check… yes, it’s on mobile! It’s by the people that made World of Goo, don’t sleep on it

Hat in Time is a great modern 3D platformer, movement was fun and I liked the variety of characters across the levels. The Murder on the Owl Express quest was my favorite!

Most of the game is fantastic, but yeah my partner and I were surprised when that happened!
There was one other plot point where we raised our eyebrows, but I don’t know to do spoiler text

KNIFE FIGHT!!!

There’s a lot to do outside the main plot, the townspeople were really interactive. The falling leaves give it a cozy vibe too

Frog Detective!

It’s a lighthearted detective series, more of a walking sim with humorous characters than anything. The magnifying glass doesn’t even do anything!

Here’s a shot I got from the last game