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'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing
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https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/st...-as-anticitizens-and-blocks-them-from-playing
There is some spiteful drama in the Half-Life modding scene this week. The developers of a heavily criticised mod for Half-Life 2 are intentionally blocking a small number of YouTubers from playing that mod, using Steam IDs to effectively blacklist and ban specific people from running it. Instead of launching the game as expected, these players will see the first-person shooter crash, alongside an error message that reads: "STOP talking SH1T about us". This is an act of revenge for previous criticism of the mod, say the affected videofolks, who are described in the mod's code as "anticitizens".

https://www.moddb.com/mods/hl2-overcharged
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Half Life 2 still has a modding "scene"?

How in the hell is that even possible? (the HL stuff).
Their game can read your steam id when you launch through steam so they just figured out the steam id of the players (easy to find out if you can find their steam account) and had the game do something when a match was found.
 

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'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing
Dis-content creators


https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/st...-as-anticitizens-and-blocks-them-from-playing
There is some spiteful drama in the Half-Life modding scene this week. The developers of a heavily criticised mod for Half-Life 2 are intentionally blocking a small number of YouTubers from playing that mod, using Steam IDs to effectively blacklist and ban specific people from running it. Instead of launching the game as expected, these players will see the first-person shooter crash, alongside an error message that reads: "STOP talking SH1T about us". This is an act of revenge for previous criticism of the mod, say the affected videofolks, who are described in the mod's code as "anticitizens".

https://www.moddb.com/mods/hl2-overcharged
Overcharged_moddb_hat950x.png
The mod's devs went out of their way to peronally block... FOUR players.

Four anticitizens.

Four.

Modders are mental.
 

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'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing
Dis-content creators


https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/st...-as-anticitizens-and-blocks-them-from-playing
There is some spiteful drama in the Half-Life modding scene this week. The developers of a heavily criticised mod for Half-Life 2 are intentionally blocking a small number of YouTubers from playing that mod, using Steam IDs to effectively blacklist and ban specific people from running it. Instead of launching the game as expected, these players will see the first-person shooter crash, alongside an error message that reads: "STOP talking SH1T about us". This is an act of revenge for previous criticism of the mod, say the affected videofolks, who are described in the mod's code as "anticitizens".

https://www.moddb.com/mods/hl2-overcharged
Overcharged_moddb_hat950x.png
The mod's devs went out of their way to peronally block... FOUR players.

Four anticitizens.

Four.

Modders are mental.
Totally unhinged, this is probable violation of tons of the conduct rules on modding sties and Steam.
Their blocked steamids are probably in some kind of lists.
If it editable, imagine mallware possibility by editing it by another mod.
 

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