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[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

so hardware cheats. gotcha.

might be good for those with physical impairments but will most certainly be abused by those who are just want to be better even though they aren't.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Zero chance of this becoming a real product. This is more like StuffMadeHere on YT, just making wildly impractical stuff that is still interesting.

You don't need a motorized pad, you can just run your video output and mouse through an external PC which does the image recognition and target acquisition then edits the mouse's input stream to insert the proper movement in order to hit the target, afterwards it's passed to the clean PC with the cheating PC pretending to be a mouse.

This is basically what all of the hardware cheat products do that don't use DMA access to read memory from the clean PC.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean yeah. He made this expressly as a way to cheat without cheating.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

just because it's hardware, doesn't mean it isn't cheating

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Nobody thinks this isn't actually cheating. He's under no illusions about what he has made.