I made hacker news account just to post this. This post triggered me harder than anything I have ever seen on the internet. All that said, sorry for the screed below but I can't keep it in. This must be an elaborate troll designed specifically to make me mad :-P

  "I would just analyze the HDMI output from my computer (via an FPGA)"

OH WOULD YOU

  "(You also don't want to make your mouse movements statistically different from anyone else's, or it's the server that will pick up on your cheating... or at least a well-crafted MapReduce. Do game companies have MapReduce? I hope so.)"

Is that a * sentence?

What does it * mean?

Where did map reduce come from?

I HATE FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING EVANGELISM!

  "All this anti-cheating stuff is mostly a scam to stop the dumbest of the dumb cheaters and probably collect information from your computer that's useful to advertisers/investors/law enforcement agencies."

ARE YOU SHITTING ME

"dumb cheaters" are the ones who don't want to spend 1000 hrs and hundreds of dollars on a fucking learning algorithm running on an FPGA reading from your fucking HDMI output! Like WTF! That HDMI output is outputting at a bitrate of something like 1080 * 1920 * 60 * 256 * 3 = 11GB/s of data.

I probably made a math mistake, but on the order of magnitude of 10GB/s which you have to fucking neural net down to a cursor position ON DEDICATED FPGA HARDWARE.

All those challenges are before you get to making your results look like a real player.

Note: after re-reading this more times than I would like to I realized he doesn't necessarily propose using a ML solution for identifying targets, so maybe some of those criticisms are unfair.

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