Allan “dwangoAC” has made it his mission to expose speedrunning phonies. At the Defcon hacker conference, he’ll challenge one record that's stood for 15 years.

Allan “dwangoAC” has made it his mission to expose speedrunning phonies. At the Defcon hacker conference, he’ll challenge one record that’s stood for 15 years.

  • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    3 months ago

    What are the stats? I would expect something like 50 % to be fake. Just like with doping, where I also expect similar things.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      It doesn’t seem to work that way.

      The article is essentially a “day in the life” kind of thing, describing how the guy went about understanding how records were set and finding out that it was impossible without cheating.

      • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        What he does is not what I am asking. I am still amazed, because I want to know how wide spread cheating is. I assume that it is crazy wide spread.

        • 0laura@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          it really depends on the game I think. it’s a lot harder to cheat in some games vs others.

    • atkion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      It used to be incredibly common, but popular speedrunning games now have mod teams monitoring the leaderboards, sometimes going to truly unbelieveable amounts of effort to prove a run was or was not cheated. It’s actually pretty difficult to get away with it these days.

      • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I know, I have seen the YouTube videos, but cheating is still easy to pull off. They just did a bad job and that exposed them. It is far harder to prove the cheating than to cheat, that is the issue.