daytripper
Kind of guy who is polite when people are watching but if not...
daytripper
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude#Scientific_studies
A New York Times article in 2002 cited a number of scientific studies of schadenfreude, which it defined as, "delighting in others' misfortune". Many such studies are based on social comparison theory, the idea that when people around us have bad luck, we look better to ourselves. Other researchers have found that people with low self-esteem are more likely to feel schadenfreude than are people who have high self-esteem.
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Brain-scanning studies show that schadenfreude is correlated with envy in subjects. Strong feelings of envy activated physical pain nodes in the brain's dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; the brain's reward centers, such as the ventral striatum, were activated by news that the people envied had suffered misfortune. The magnitude of the brain's schadenfreude response could even be predicted from the strength of the previous envy response.
From In Pain and Joy of Envy, the Brain May Play a Role
... when subjects were given a chance to imagine the golden one’s downfall, the brain’s reward circuits were activated, again in proportion to the strength of envy’s sting: the subjects who felt the greatest envy the first time around reacted to news of their rival’s misfortune with a comparatively livelier response in the dopamine-rich pleasure centers of, for example, the ventral striatum. “We have a saying in Japanese, ‘The misfortunes of others are the taste of honey,’”
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He told me that the site earns approximately $1.25 million a year, which is how it can afford customer service representatives like him to answer questions over TeamSpeak.
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Their last 10 Steam accounts have been banned, and the game is on sale for $3, so they'll buy 10 copies for $30 on 10 different accounts and they'll keep cheating.
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“Play like you're not hacking,” one user who's been cheating in CS:GO with the same Steam account for over 250 hours told me. “Play as you would normally, only you're able to see through walls. Act.”
That means don't stare at walls, don't use an aimbot (since it moves the camera erratically and results in unreasonable kills), and make sure someone kills you in every match.
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Another cheater suggested I practice cheating in free-to-play games. “That's what I love about free games,” he said. “You can just keep coming back and there's nothing they can do about it.”
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“Anti-cheat can't detect what it can't get its hands on,” as Slayer said. Between that and the proficient closet cheaters, I can guarantee that you've played with way more cheaters than you think.
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Ultimately, the most effective anti-cheat strategy is to make cheating feel unnecessary. That means either more sophisticated, accurate matchmaking or some kind of handicap system, which some fighting games (Street Fighter IV, Smash Bros.) already implement.
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