u/KayRice

You didn't answer his question.

Wow! Blizzard posts in their own community again. Welcome back! 🤣 How long until you give up and run off again like a dad at the cigarette store?

Making a new account doesn't even require the email to be verified for USA 🤣 

Based on the quality I would have guessed gpt-oss-20b with reasoning off. 

You might be able to use the numlock trick if you rebind Q to a number. 

I hope you know that the vast majority of your system is currently operating on code that hasn't been modified for decades. Sure, a few layers up you're seeing some nicer looking user interfaces, but under the hood the vast majority of the software is ancient by your apparent standards.

What a terrible name. Should have just called it "Toilet Key"

Use Linux daily for work and you'll distro hop a lot less. 😏

The game and community are mostly unmoderated for years. The only people who seem to routinely forget this are those that are tricked into thinking the game is supported "again". It was never supported to begin with really, because it has never made any money. Blizzard doesn't know what to do or how to support this game because it never makes a dime. 

Anxiety depression attacks made you do it. 

Reasons nobody spends money on HOTS. 

Mostly unmaintained. A few number changes here and there, but no new heroes or maps for half a decade. Recently a few changes to make the upcoming on stage event at Blizzcon less embarassing, which has the community full hopium.

The Microsoft acquisition inspired too much hope. Nothing significant has changed. 

Its actually much worse. There are discord channels that weaponized this and you can nuke any account you want.

These kinds of things are why many won't put a dime near the game. 

What a pathetic state where this is viewed as acceptable. 

My understanding is that there is dispute about how or if an app should install multiple desktop files when they support many different mime types and if the desktop environment should interprent them as separate apps. 

Steering wheel.

It's important that different teams (XDG, KDE, etc.) agree on the specification for what an "app" is and if an app needs to be listed multiple times in different ways. This is the reason that when you open this dialog it often has many duplicate and pointless entries.

The entire point of MIME types is to make these kind of things work with ease and it's failing.

KDE will get this resolved and is working around the issue, but Gnome often takes a very strange and slow path with these kinds of things. Sure, it would have been nice if XDG made a perfect standard the first time around, but that never happens and teams need be committed to making the real world work until those specs are improved.

Only in the garbage populated cities in the trash states. The rest of us living in normal civilized cities don't have any of these problems.

Probably the stranger part is that HOTS is also on GamePass and gives you the 30 hero bundle.

Who designed this ramshacke facility?

Source

It's entirely possible for Blizzard to fix the issue and actually check if you've ever played with the player or something similar, but they don't do it and it would probably require changes to the backend they are unwilling to make.

AFAIK there is no "catch", once you have that user ID (the one you get by blocking them) you are free to perform the exploit. Prominent players have been banned using it.

HOTS actually has a quite interesting hacking scene. For hackers the game checks a few different boxes that make it a good target for those newer to the scene. On the one hand it's woefully outdated and doesn't use many modern anti-hacking techniques, while on the other hand it's technically a Blizzard game and runs a very very outdated version of the Warden anti-cheat. This makes it a great target for those looking to perform more sophisticated exploits on games that are more sought after as a target like WoW or D2R. The game being F2P also makes it a no-brainer to exploit since getting caught just burns a fresh account, whereas getting banned in a $60 game or one with a subscription is a much larger setback.

Nope. If you have the gamer tag and can send the packet manually or trick the game client into sending it then it counts. It's similar to how when you add people to your ignore list you will see their user ID (not the gamer tag) in your list of block list. HOTS was strangely built on top of the SC2 engine in most ways.

You won't get people banned for anything in HOTS. It's virtually unmoderated. However, if you want to weaponize the system and drop a gamer tag into a "secret" Discord group and get the account nuked that's totally doable. 🤣

You can cover the same amount of material in a 3-minute song:

Geto Boys - G Code

In a similar way they gate GMail being accessed by IMAP/POP they require a user to jump through hoops, throw up scary "unverified" banners with anti-patterns requiring a user to type the name of the app, etc.

At one time there was a real flow that allowed a user to click the link and authorize the token, but Google axed it in favor of the new methods used to push Google Drive usage to their walled garden.

The reality is that Google has already captured most of the users it milks for money and they aren't going to expend resources to people who use them as a commodity. Those of us using rclone and similar to just store our encrypted bytes on their servers are disrupting their bottom line. We're a vocal minority that has no value to them.