Thread 717927218

Do online games suffer from too many bots these days?

>>717927218 (OP)
>3/4 of twitter is bots
where the fuck is everyone going?

>>717927218 (OP)
It depends. Games with farming tend to be ruined by farming bots. Older MMOs that are just like playgrounds 20 years after release are enhanced by having the ability to drag bots with you. Games like DDO struck it just right by letting you pay to get AI companions.

More games need companions like DDO did.

>>717927503
Twitter still. The alternatives still don't rank on the top 500 trafficked websites which mean you are more likely to meet someone who shops using OfficeMax's website in 2025 than who has one of the alternatives. Bot traffic doesn't mean people left, it means bots increased.

>>717927503
most aren't going anywhere. that's just how many bots and paid agents there are now

>>717927503
Discord

>>717928226
*got rid of the non-bots

The only thing bots ever did right was siphon money from advertisers for trying to shove their shit in our faces constantly and subverting ad blockers.
Everything else is stupid.>>717928226

The uppercase i Internet is the perfect tool to manipulate people.
You're always being lied to.
Your thoughts and opinions aren't your own.
You've been neurolinguistically programmed.
It sounds ridiculous, but the government has been caught multiple times performing psyops online. The US government has spent millions of dollars over the years just to post HERE.
Treat every computer as though it's public, assume everyone is a federal agent or a federal bot, assume everything is untrue.

>>717927218 (OP)
I don't doubt that a big chunk of the internet is just bots but also I would love to see just how they're defining this "fake traffic".

>>717928683
Probably where it comes from, such as that one air force base in Florida where glowies post on 4chan 24/7

>>717928518
>the government has spent millions trying to tell me that my taste in anime is ass

>>717928791
Yeah, actually. Demoralization campaigns.

>>717927503
Never left, they are just being drowned out. Same as 4chan.

this is how they are going to force online IDs

>>717928984
I believe it. Full the Internet with bots on purpose, convince everyone it's a problem, then enforce the "solution" of erasing online privacy.

>>717929129
>online privacy.
I don't believe this was ever a thing, before bots and AIsloppa exponentially exploded it would be very easy to harvest data and spy on people because the chances of them being a bot was minimal

>>717928984
No they're just going to do it under the guise of "child safety." I don't even think anyone is falling for how 2 faced and transparent the intentions are there but it's still going to happen

>>717929424
>I don't even think anyone is falling for
You would be absolutely amazed by how ridiculously stupid the overwhelming majority of people are.

>>717928791
Duh, fattie. That's how you change culture. What do you think USAID was funding?

>>717929129
The solution is to go outside and touch grass, talk to actual people

>>717929424
it will trick boomers and they are the ones to vote more

>>717929543
>You would be absolutely amazed by how ridiculously stupid the overwhelming majority of people are.
you can just say jeets

>>717929583
99+% already do this every day. "touch grass" is a demoralization psyop.

reddit is also half bots

>>717928226
He did something right. We had a corporate Twitter for years and it was a fucking dump, random "people" would reply completely unrelated shit, there was a pattern of bots with LinkedIn profile pics posting links. It was a total waste of time, and it was so bad we opened a TikTok account and planned to move everything there. Musk bought Twitter and whatever he did actually worked and we could post product and outreach stuff essentially noise free.

>>717929804
Nigga, reddit is majority bots from its very conception. The creators didnt even try to hide it.

>>717929850
You post something and the first 100 responses are bots having fever dreams about the OP text.

>>717929762
>"touch grass" is a demoralization psyop.
That sounds incredibly indian

>>717930021
You glow.

>>717928683
>he's never viewed the catalog
you can easily go to /pol/ and observe bots in action. No real people make anti women, porn, fake article or le 12% are having sex threads (and many more)

>>717930052
touch grass is hardly a psyop. The people who you tell to touch grass are 24/7 online discord neckbeards who live on the internet and only know their little safespaces

>>717927218 (OP)
>Experts say about competing sites
shalom!

>>717927218 (OP)
>Do online games suffer from too many bots these days?

Generally for most online games... no.

Only for mmorpg where you can trade resource and shit... that's when you see bot miners. Like Warcraft or Runescape. Poor countries mine gold and other shit to resell to western players because it cheaper than working a real job over there.

Video Games?

>>717927218 (OP)
>cyberpunk predicted the death of internet thanks to corpos abusing the fuck out of AI.
>shit got so bad that the INternet 2 had to be invented a firewall made to not let the loose Ais to access it
I legit don't engage with other people on the internet anymore unless i'm in a small community. soon I'm gonna stop doing that too since zuckerberg wants to implement fake AI profiles across the board to generate data to sell. if one of them wants that, so does every one of silicon valley's cabal

>>717930263
Return to IRC

>>717927218 (OP)
>>717928226
>>717928397
>goyim now realizing why amazon bought twitch


>>717927503
>>717927776
This is every site now aside from tiny forums that've been run by the tiny group of autists/frens for decades. If they get a new user, they already assume its a bot unless someone invited them.

>>717928518
>>717928791
>>717928890
>>717929574

Yes, now consider why you liked said anime, or anything else, in the first place. The 'I'nternet in general exists for the USA's #1 export: "culture".

You'd be surprised to learn how many bots are already posting on 4chan 24/7, the captcha doesn't stop them whatsoever

mostly on /pol/ but ive spotted a few on here too

>>717930251
I dont get people like you. Why do you never post this shit in coomer or console war threads huh?

>>717928518
The internet is the government's dream. Most political discourse has moved online and so it is safely stored into small bubbles that are easily contained and importantly ignored by the government. Before you would have to gather in person. Now you can sit in some retards stream and think you have achieved something.

>>717928683
If you make a thread about a certain country in eastern europe with a yellow and blue flag you get brigaded by bots shilling their propaganda, this is website wide and outrageously blatant too.

>>717927218 (OP)
I fell for the bots tactic myself, I played for a week thinking I was just very good at the game until I decided to drop some bucks on the battle pass.
The moment I did I gained enough levels to be pushed out of the bots zone right into matchmaking against real players and I started losing every single match. The game wasn't any different than any other shit based matchmaking game after that

>>717927503
Nowhere, the internet is dead as fuck.
You maybe get like a week for a fairly notable website to exist before it gets completely shat up with sock puppet faggotry.
And this isn't even to say the ethical damage the google holocaust has done to people that make shit online.

>>717927218 (OP)
bring back region locking
it's too cheap and easy to run bot farms in 3rd world countries and still have access to 1st world services

>>717929947
PUSSY IN BIO
PERUSE MY PROFILE

>>717930420
Why do people just assume Captcha is to prevent bots? "Prove you're not a robot" doesn't mean they keep out bots, it just means you're proving you're not a bot. You can set up a mouse macro to click the box and it'll still work. You can use AI to click the pictures.
What Captcha does is track your mouse movements when you mouse over it. Real people can't make perfectly straight lines.
Captcha is just analytics.

>>717930597
You are right, and it's especially effective on the US population. I remember reddit around the election was 110% positive that Harris was going to win. Tons of propaganda, pre celebrations, and just general arrogance because they live in a echo chamber. Surprise surprise come election day... I'm sure more than a few abstained from voting because they were confident.

>>717930371
unironically it is gonna be the only option. IRC filters normalfags like no other and don't generate enough data to be harvested

I like how the cope by said same faggot retards every time is that it's some government plot and not that the internet is basically run by 4 completely incompetent retards who make everything completely fucking unusable.

>>717931057
That's one of the most Jersh things I've read in a while.

>>717927503
Boomers are on Facebook posting AI Jesus
Zoomers are on TikTok believing everything on there

>>717927218 (OP)
>>717927503
*flushing sounds*

>>717927503
Unironically discord. The only place you can actually talk to real people now are private invite only spaces

>>717927218 (OP)
>Faggot: "lol, this guy is lame"
>1.6 million likes, 1.4 million retweets, 95 comments (10 made by OP), 234 bookmarks

>>717927503
fedi if you're not retarded

>>717927218 (OP)
The problem isn't bots, but the fact that you can only tell them apart from players because the latter are worse -- performative, thin-skinned gaymers.
>>717927503
Most are stroking out due to mystery goo injections, the rest are signing out due to being sick and tired of incessant canned authenticity, turboslop propaganda and weird, competive obedience. I don't know a single person worth associating and spending time with, who is using any level of globohomian parasocial media and digital botfarm-daycares.

>>717931249
what happened on that dip?

>>717931306
>Believing ANY metrics on ANY major website when they've dozens of times over gotten in legal trouble for lying to advertising clients

>>717930710
>gatcha paypig
>is retarded
wow

>>717931553
Seriously?