Lmao!

lol cryptobros unable to right click is probably my favourite example of a modern geas.

To be fair, the kind of person who falls for a crypto scam is too stupid to check.

lmfao

This joke's going over my head, can someone explain?

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Works for me every time, that was until i lost my anti virus subscription due to my bank being drained

Some game engines legitimately give antivirus alerts. Specifically older RPGMaker versions and Ren'py.

@@paranoiaproductions1221 Depends on where you launch them from in a newer Windows install, most times. (protip, don't install anything but the RTPs in their default positions if you can, put everything in a folder on disc root (C, D, or whatever else the drive uses) instead.) Source: I've just fought with RPG Maker 2000, 2003, and XP to get them on Win11, the RTP is fine on default path and my habit of putting the actual editors and games in a dedicated set of folders to remember what's using which engine has stopped antiviruses from whining (also stopped admin prompt and saves failing).

@@paranoiaproductions1221 Yes but you can tell when they are legit, also not every anti virus is the same I'd run something detected as a virus through at least one other program to check what kind it is

I love that movie!

It's like when you tryna tell your friend is not gunna explode in Minecraft and you end up setting him on fire instead

​@@XylophytaeI loved the part where Georgia Cloonèy scammed 200 dying children, jiggled her tits and started morbing all over the place.

​@@MilesProwerTailsFoxTryna? Yeesh. That sounds bad, you might want to see a doctor about that.

It's more like a scam that pretends to be a recruitment for scammers, but the would-be recruits are actually the marks.

We wouldn’t happen to be related, would we?

Same, except mine is my Uncle Nancy. Yeah, my grandparents were sadistic

​​@avgredditmod Boy named Sue situation. Did uncle Nancy meet his dad later on and start a barfight?

lol what a reference@@snakewithapen5489

@@avgredditmod what is "sadistic"

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Ah yes, another huge benefit of blockchain tech. Getting robbed blind with zero recourse. Future of finance for sure.

@@brandontoates Decentralization is so important though! For thieves and scammers.

So much for non-fungible

I guess you could say that this content is called... Edutainment.

Unless it's Kkrieger which it's not.

Heck they could've just sent a small program without malware as a launcher and have it start to download the actual '700MB' file to make it look far more realistic.

@@someguy4915 Exe files downloading and then executing other exe files usually get detected by heuristic anivirus.

The classic "billion laughs attack"

That's pretty normal compression.

glad you found it interesting as a security person! I have no formal cyber security training, so everything I shared was just stuff I taught myself over the years

​@@jauwnthe best school is good logical thinking

Eh im still no expert though I just pretend I am

@@jauwnHow do I know that you're just pretending to pretend that you know, and actually DO know?

Yea I was genuinely impressed. My man's out here with fancy softwares all over the place when I thought he was only for the funny nft gaming. Keep up ur right work !

@@theor3472 if you have been through scam baiting vods some of these tools and info are infact out in the open also security researchers are in the tube which is also a good thing watching LPL led me to some pen testing channels which then led me to tech security pen testing related channels

Yup. Just changing your password is enough to make this not work as well as unchecking the [Remember this location/this pc]

Yeah, was gonna say so. I remember seeing that kind of stuff on old forums like gamefaqs frequently for guides.

Gamefaqs my beloved

GameFAQs! Just thinking about that takes me back. I used to read stuff on that site for hours as a kid.

I remember printing out and stapling together a walkthrough for Lego Star Wars 2; that thing got tattered from near-constant use.

Every report gives every other report validity. One report is a false positive, a hundred reports is a matter of concern.

You mean "Dare you enter my Magical Realm?"

@@coltonlong7562 All bow before the Whizzard

Would this magical world have anything to do with putting on a robe and wizard hat?

dude my ex was writing a magical world 😂

@@ZorotheGallade wizhard

Just another day out working in the mine field

I do have to wonder how much of the art was plagiarized, since clearly the text is.

@@asteroidrules Since it wasn't detected as AI made, I'm betting it wasn't and was just snagged off little known websites or sites that aren't cached by Google image so you can reverse search. (Such as pixiv). Just like was done with those articles. Easy to get professional quality material when you just steal it. No AI even needed.

I think they just booted up Inkarnate, a tool mostly used by Tabletop RPG GMs to quickly make fantasy worlds.

When I saw it, I immediately thought of concept art from nightmareworld (a game prototype created entirely for the sake of demonstrating the incompetence of the developers of "dreamworld", an NFT scam game). I don't think it is from nightmareworld, but some of it looks similar.

Fake (real)

If you think I'm going to say the word "leet" out loud in 2023 you're dead wrong

@@jauwn it's "one thousand three hundred and thirty-seven"

LOLOLOLO 1053R @@jauwn

​@@Unnamed86 You forgot "In The Year of Our Lord" at the beginning

​@@Unnamed86no it's one thirty three seven

😅 everyone keeps commenting this lol, I pinned my response. But SMS 2FA is miles better than Email 2FA, which is what I was trying to get at in the video. Guess it wasn't very clear

That game must've trained me to never listen to anyone saying "kindly" do anything

Yuuuup you are right I learned that after making the video

yeh malware coding is like a whole thing, use to do stuff about f12 coding at collage and what applications binary can have@@jauwn

CIH did a similar thing back in the 1990's

yerp@@MandrakeFernflower

Just a power user! Nothing I learned in school really helped me learn this sort of stuff. I learned way more just from being a PC power user since the early XP days, and was even more pushed to learn by my father who used to be a big PC enthusiast in the late 90s-early 2000s. I think the best way to learn this sort of stuff is to take an honest interest in it and start teaching yourself. School is great and all but your passion to learn will teach you far more in the long run.

@@jauwn Thank you for the response, yeah I've been an early PC power user myself since the early Win 2000 days. Interesting to hear your perspective. Like I mentioned, I hope you might do more of these scam attempt investigation videos they are fun to watch. I'm pretty much watching anything you put out though lately

Not stupid at all! Like I said this is a very convincing scam. As far as I know, there are very few pieces of malware that can persist through a full system wipe, and I wouldn’t think this one would be an exception. I would make sure to change every single password you have, starting with you email. You also want to make sure that you have 2FA enabled for all accounts. If they didn’t steal anything yet, there’s a chance that either you simply didn’t have anything interesting for them to steal, or they haven’t gotten around to it yet. If you had any seed phrases stored on the computer, those are probably compromised though, so I would get all of your crypto out of their ASAP. If they do manage to steal any of your crypto (if you have any) then it would be interesting to see what wallet they sent it to

@@jauwn Thanks for the reply. Already did all of that. FWIW I also played with the exe file in a controlled environment and malwarebytes found nothing. I also managed to scan it online (can't remember which one allowed the upload of such a large file) nothing was found. Avast picked it up and from your video I see that NOD did too. Did you manage to discover which files does it scan for?

Not sure I understand your question. What files does what scan for?

Consider all your browser passwords sold

The funniest part is that it still exists and people are still falling for it. Someone just messaged me saying he lost $10,000+ of crypto from downloading it.

@@jauwn damn

@@jauwn I partly blame legitimate developers of Windows software who teach users to allow privileged access for every little thing. That way, when a malicious software comes along and asks for access, most users will click Yes without a second thought. I also blame Microsoft for making it seem like not a big deal to let software run as administrator and even higher privilege than that. That's what I like with Linux. Running a software as root is scary, as it bloody well should be.

@@oliver_twistor i think its a double issue ngl, on one hand, making it so easy/the norm to run things as admin or allow admin privileges is bad, but it's not helped that a suprising amount of normal stuff just often doesnt run without them.

but if i change my mind and start using basic crypto (like Bitcoin) then i'll simply mine it and trade it as that seems much less volatile than buying a digital asset and hoping it doesnt crash in price

Nah it’s not worth it you’re not missing anything by just ignoring anything crypto

@@jauwn fair enough

@@jauwn if i HAD to choose between mining or these nft games tho, i would choose mining because if you have hardware, you only really gotta pay the electricity used by the rig

@@tylern6420You cannot possibly mine efficiently enough to pay for the electricity you are using to mine in the first place. Maybe if this were 10 years ago.

If you wanted to get constructive criticism then I'm sure me or any other similar channel would have no problem providing that as a paid consultant, and giving that feedback in private. But I wouldn't expect a channel of this sort to do a promo / partnership video on a type of game that they have a history of making fun of, it wouldn't be a good look for your game, or for their channel.

Is it possible to make nft-games, when nfts are scam to sell crypto? What nfts can give which nothing else can, in way which justifies all problems nfts cause?

One of the points this channel frequently makes is that video games should not be "P2E" or any variant thereof. Some of the reasons for this are 1) it takes the fun out of video games. They're supposed to be fun, not be a job. 2) "P2E" is associated with many scams, and most of the time is just a front for P2P. 3) "P2E" has been proven to take advantage of people in developing nations to the point of absolute absurdity. So besides the whole "P2E" scam, crypto provides absolutely nothing of value to the gaming industry. There are videos that explain very, very well that virtually any theoretical use case for NFT's in video games that isn't inherently evil not only will not work, but aren't necessary; not to mention they often attempt, and fail, to solve problems they create. After all that being said, what could you possibly be creating that will change any of the aforementioned? If you like to make video games just make video games. Leave the NFT's out of it.

@@brandontoates I get what you're saying. What is your opinion on RMT in video games ? i clearly remember playing D3 and having fun with it without spending anything on the RMT auction house. If the game addressed thoses concerns (regarding currencies power imbalances and p2p) would you consider looking at it? Mostly i'm interested in the smart contract side-effects that can be applied to owners of specific nfts (and i do think there are video games applications to it that would not involve scamming or paying bagillions of dollors for simple items). But the common sentiment seems to be: "if NFTs are involved then it is a scam and there is no way around it"

@Mighty L'Insomniak The reason the sentiment you mentioned is common is because it's literally the only thing we've seen thus far. As far as RMT, if you had fun playing a game that utilizes it without using it yourself, you're just proving the point that it's totally unnecessary. Also, from my understanding, there are games out there that have these auction houses without using crypto to do it, so once again crypto is unnecessary right? There are all sorts of payment systems that are more secure, cheaper, and far more efficient than blockchain. As far as the "smart contract side," I'd need you to elaborate. I see absolutely no benefit to implementing smart contracts in video games. Once again, blockchain in video games utilizes the premise of fixing things that aren't broken, all the while being a huge opportunity for scammers. When it comes down to it, I suppose I wouldn't be totally against checking out a game you've made that utilizes NFT's, but I'm quite skeptical that they would add any value to your game, and would be a giant waste of your time when you could just build a fun game, probably for cheaper, without all that nonsense.