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[–] chaosppe 45 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

"Are you seriously watching porn by yourself?"

"Nah, I'm with my ~~bois~~ monitor!"

[–] riodoro1 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It will automatically fast forward to your favorite part. Imagine the time saved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Why not? It can tell you when they're about to cut to a close up of a dude's butthole

[–] corus_kt 19 points 11 months ago

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

[–] CaptainSpaceman 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Its all client-side, so unless LoL is checking the hw on the monitor there is no way to detect it

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They could ban hardware, rust banned a certain series of mice to prevent scripting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can't you just spoof different hardware though?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

hdcp is easily defeatable nowadays.

would their new anticheat be able to detect it?

[–] MrPoopbutt 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

there are small boxes you can buy that you install before the monitor.

it pretends to be your monitor while you can do shenanigans up the chain.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Aren't they about to start using their kernel-level anticheat for LoL? They very well could look at hardware ids

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Wow, who knew you could buy a monitor that looks at your data and probably sends it back to MSI.

[–] xkforce 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tolstoy 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

HwID-ban straight to hell...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's a shitty move, no good will come from this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You could even put some string over the screen or apply a little static sticker

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.