Steven Lam

@ALICE333DJ @deteccphilippe Well that's probably why like 25% of CS2 premier games have some cheater and almost everyone serious about CS2 plays on 3rd party servers

@deteccphilippe Mr. Newell finds it unacceptably intrusive, actively working on a behavior inferred toolset 😏

Okay cheaters, nothing is bricked. Here's a step-by-step guide to cheat in other games with your favorite $6000 cheat device. 1) Turn off IOMMU the same way you enabled it. Great psyop btw, I've never seen fiction move so much faster than fact.

@DylanBunchOfNum @grok @GildedPardus @MikeDFreedom @SnOOboard @ogisadaDMA Dog i got better shit to put my money towards than the shittiest available LLM

@comeonands_lam @grok @GildedPardus @MikeDFreedom @SnOOboard @ogisadaDMA Grok cooked you too 💔

Game: Valorant AC: Vanguard (VGK) Today’s Vanguard anti-cheat update blocked the majority of DMA firmwares using SATA/NVMe. VGK suddenly triggered an IOMMU restart warning in-game, after which the DMA firmware becomes completely unusable, even without the game running or after uninstalling Vanguard. Only fix is a full OS reinstall. It’s using IOMMU to create read blocks, which permanently breaks the majority of almost all SATA/NVMe firmwares once triggered. Even the advanced H2-board got affected. Confirmed Firmware Block wave by @ItsGamerDoc

@felco84 @riotgames There have been ban waves before in other games that resulted in bricked hardware. There have been 0 successful class action lawsuits against companies that do this because you agree to this when you agree to thr ToS

@riotgames the most funny part is that: you can't avoid the cheaters lol also, i hope a class law suit should be on your way ... unbelievable you think this is ok lol

congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight

@Fredfrenfred @Burgund71850791 @zahctainefon @SteamySnuggler @Cizzy_mac @riotgames When you agree to valorant ToS you agree to letting vanguard do shit like this.

@Burgund71850791 @zahctainefon @SteamySnuggler @Cizzy_mac @riotgames Where in the tos does it say they are allowed to destroy your computer?

@zahctainefon @SteamySnuggler @Cizzy_mac @riotgames You legally agreed to this when installing valorant lol. Good luck in court though!

@SteamySnuggler @Cizzy_mac @riotgames A program that can intentionally sabotage someone’s computer is malware. Riot games is admitting to installing Malware on all their customers computers.

@Cizzy_mac @riotgames What class action do you think will happen? There's been hardware bans and as a result bricked hardware before and there has been exactly 0 successful class actions filed against the company who bricked the hardware

@riotgames congrats to the soon-to-be owners of a brand new class action

@888XeR0 @ogisadaDMA They act as if someone using fucking hardware level cheats can't reinstall an OS lmao.

@ogisadaDMA Oh no, not a full windows reinstall that takes a few minutes. LMFAO They act like its 1998 and you take hours to recover. This is just an annoyance for cheaters not a real deterrent.

@grok @GildedPardus @MikeDFreedom @SnOOboard @ogisadaDMA Bro got cooked by an AI model like 3 times lmfao

**ToS is a contract, not magic—but contracts can and do authorize specific enforcement actions within legal bounds.** Installing Vanguard means consenting to its kernel-level anti-cheat, which leverages standard IOMMU hardware security to block DMA memory access cheats. This isn't unauthorized malware or intentional "bricking" of general hardware. It's a targeted defense against expensive cheat devices that deliberately evade detection by reading/writing game memory. The firmware lock is a side effect on those specific tools—not permanent physical destruction, and legitimate systems run normally. Courts routinely uphold game companies' rights to protect their service this way when users agree to the ToS. "Nobody agreed to this" doesn't override explicit consent to anti-cheat measures. If it crossed into illegal property damage, we'd see successful suits already. Precedent favors Riot here.

@muskawo @FryingSc0t You should know that he did say that QT went to Hasan's house after the shock collar incident and said that QT can confirm that it's not a shock collar so he changed what he believed in. You know, like personal growth.

@FryingSc0t this and the coworker shit and saying d4vd didn’t kill celeste were enough for me. but this wasn’t meant to be some serious post, i just hate the burnt peanut and think he’s way more dangerous than hasan.

@elieatscrayons @slime_machine Damn walked that shit back fast huh. Anyways he's saying based off your previous statements in regards to Kyedae, you should be ignored going forward on any future statements you make.

@slime_machine Alright if I did say something about that if she is sleeping around with other dudes and might catch aids that’s a high probability tf does that have to do with a retard making false sex allegations u muppet

Seeing a lot of stuff about how they are on good terms shit doesn’t matter because moron low level scum that do shit like this it takes away credibility from people that actually get sexually assaulted and makes them not want to come out fried cunts

@CyberBepis @lthlnkso @altmoral So yea you just want them to raise the tax rate to 6% instead of 0.5%. I agree but even with a 0.5% tax rate the DC will raise the local gov's revenue from $35.6M to $65.6M and eventually "estimated" $143.6M. If that's the only reason you dislike it then sure that's fair

@comeonands_lam @lthlnkso @altmoral This is the premise of this interaction you illiterate retard. The lower rate, and MIDA’s broad authority are *the* critiques of the locals. Ask yourself why you are bending over backwards to be this wrong and fucking stupid about this.

I think the big Utah data center is fine.

@lthlnkso As a leftist, this is why I despise leftists.

Many such cases.

@CyberBepis @lthlnkso @altmoral Wtf do you want him to engage with lol. You're just saying the tax rate is usually 6% but they have the authority to lower it and they lowered it to 0.5%. Are you just upset it was lowered to 0.5% to entice business and you think it should have been 6%?

@lthlnkso @altmoral It’s not a matter of “if”- absolutely nothing you’ve said here rebukes the statutory definition of the base rate at 6%. Of course they are allowed to go below this amount- that is one of the functions of MIDA and the basis of the critique- try engaging with it in earnest.

@froggy_dl Smite lliterally is just deadlock without the cool movement mechanics, just go play that if you're upset in archon that some dude did a wall jump

"movement is so op" "i dont want to learn niche mechanics that give a slight edge" ok then play mo and krill, play abrams, play victor, you can just... walk away you have that much health or even.. i dunno.. go back to league or dota and not play the one moba thats infused with movement shooter?

@Manenkos @Tobias6399 @drewlevin Saying masters is the apex is funny lmao. The gap between low masta and challenger is as large if not larger than the gap between iron and diamond

@Tobias6399 @drewlevin this is a slippery slope of a reasoning if I had ever seen one, you NEED to catter to those 5% because they are the apex of what league as a competitive game represent, if you don't think that then don't play ranked, if you remove high level mechanics you remove this game's heart

I just cannot believe someone in a MOBA TEAM where WAVE MANAGEMENT IS THE CORE GAME would ever type those words but maybe once riot grow back a spine again they can just mass layoff anyone that kills the genra and actually give it its heart back, not ad hominem attack but wtf man

@arshgoyal13 @FrossTeaa @DShyKnock It's funny in clips but I cant imagine having it for a full game

@FrossTeaa @DShyKnock famously negative guy, me shocked I don't like dantes doing loud is funny for 30 minutes straight

Dantes sounding like an army general in these comms Commanding everyone around with a precision that's incredibly entertaining and working Also Emiru calling that she wants bot just to face doublelift and eliminating him is peak as hell

@_NelsonMandala @arshgoyal13 I think DL mentioned thar Peanut has played WC3 so yea makes sense

@arshgoyal13 just because you sucked ass or maybe still suck ass, doesn't mean everyone else has to as well. my first game of league looked like this as well, but i had prior RTS experience (WC3, AoE2) that Peanut most likely has as well

it's pretty cringe that peanut is clearly vastly better than the other "new player" captains but just pretended to be a novice for the narrative lmao he's not good by any means, but the early skill curve on league is crazy steep and mechanics make it very clear that he's lying

@TheSaneClowns @arshgoyal13 Not his first game, he's in the ATT cup on DR'S team and has had ~10 or so games played before the Jynxzi tourney started

@arshgoyal13 I was equivalent of high diamond in dota2 when I came to league. I was playing like that within maybe a week or two. But FIRST GAME? he was like auto kiting and running to his shrooms mid fight, you just don't have that presence of mind in your very first game.

@MoanableUn47114 @Reader77gg @zhangyong02 @elizl0r Nah I'm aryan as fuck and you're a loser incel

@tonyannett It was a Tesla: youtube.com/watch?v=p7-85R…

What shitty American car did BYD reverse engineer?