Video Games

I recently read a blog post entitled Kernel Level Anti-Cheat is an Overreach. This blog post is a solid technical dive into the underpinnings of what kinds of personal data privacy too many gamers willingly sacrifice for an experience that is essentially substandard - one that catches too many innocent folks in dragnet-style surveillance and doesn’t protect gamers effectively enough. It got me thinking a little more though about why game cheating has become so prevalent. ...

I used to listen to a fair amount of metal music back in my middle and high school days. I remember getting made fun of for liking KoRn and Marilyn Manson in grade school. I also remember getting my first copy of Rammstein’s Mutter album in middle school and listening to it on repeat. My first stereo system came with a 5 disc CD player that was loaded with a “permanently borrowed” (sorry Cecil) Hybrid Theory album, and much much more. Being the weird, smart kid, I didn’t really know how to be cool with popular folks, so instead I leaned into my weird with my music selections. But, during and especially after high school, I fell away metal in lieu of trance and other EDM genres, which translated to when I started producing music. So, after finally being able to attend the Rammstein concert that had been delayed for two years thanks to our good friend COVID, my brain had re-entered a space it had filed away for a long time. Which made the release of Metal: Hellsinger super fortuitous. ...