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mentos on May 18, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: A forged Apple employee badge

Ha yea I spoofed the value server side so it was something like NumPlayers*20+RandRange(0:3)

So that if there were only 6 online it’d report 123. Took only a few weeks before I was able to disable it and report the real values.

mozman on May 20, 2024 [–]

As long as it works that’s all that matters. It’s natural for people to not want to be an outlier

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