Who's Cheating who?
We all have experienced the peeps online that cheat, we know that they're out there, maybe even one or two of them will actually stumble onto this and read it, and, like the cheating little punk that they are, try to use some sort of something to try to hack into my blog. In actuality, who's cheating who? What's true in life is often true in online gaming. Like every teacher has said from the beginning of time,,, if you cheat on the test you're cheating yourself.
Don't know the answers to begin with
Which is true, because if you have to cheat on a test, that means you're ignorant to begin with because you already know you don't have the answers and are too lazy to do the work to aquire the knowledge. So, you may get an A on the test but remain as ignorant as ever, it's a viscious circle, my advice, cut it out or have a happy life flipping burgers. The phenomena of cheating online is similar, in general, I think it's an overall personality flaw or maybe even bad genetics that cause it. You may be on top of the leaderboards or you may be able to run a lot of smack in the post game lobby, but then how are you going to explain getting pooned at your friends LAN party? Oh wait, you don't "attend" those because you already know you'd get owned by everyone there. So now that we've called these schmoes out, let's examine a few of their "tactics".
Cheating tactics 101
My first experience in doing battle with a "cheater" had to be on Mortal Kombat on Sega Genissis and I recall to this day, the rapid fire controller. The rapid fire controller was only the beginning. At least back in the day, when you actually had to go to your friend's house physically to play against him, you were face to face and could tell him to switch his rapid fire off or you'd be Audi 500. These days, you can't see the cowards on the other end, and it's not surprising that a lot of them have their rapid fire on. So what other things are happening in the world of wussies? How about "glitching" where players find a programming glitch in the game, like a secret hiding spot, or a hole in the bottom of that map that leads to ammo or an ambush point or whatever the case. They will find the glitch and then abuse it and claim,,, uuhhh, it's part of the game man. Then there's the lag switch, a switch between the gaming platform and the network.
Turn it off and on and you're guy can run around the map gaining all sorts of competitive advantages. I'm not too much into MMO's, but if I was, the player using bots to play the game for him, thus giving him currency to improve his character once he's done working the pizza oven at Dominoes, would piss me off. Weinesis tend to run in packs because they all share the same character flaw, so it's not uncommon for them to work out some agreement amongst themselves to boost their numbers, status, equipment, perks, whatever the case may be by voluntarily spending time killing and being killed by eachother. Hey man, let's meet up online tonight, I'll let you off me 200 times and then you me 200 times, that way we can get some better weopons. Give me a break. Get a job. So, it's not to say that I'm some sort of stiff that plays by the rules all the time, I just don't make it a point to put money, time, and effort into being able to be a d--chebag.
