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Not cheating! Boosting/account sharing.
This is a troll account with a post history of straight trolling. Report and block is the only appropriate response.
Not everyone who has a different perspective from you is a troll, buddy.
The users on this site are so cooked. Mans is getting downvoted for using the correct terminology lol.
IKR. Unreal!
sarcasm doesn’t work well in text… that’s why we have /s
And even then... Sometimes it doesn't work haha
Whatever you want to call it, it's inherently dishonest to take credit for skills you don't have and achievements you didn't earn.
No one is arguing that it isn't dishonest. NO ONE.
I'm just arguing that cheating is a different thing than boosting/account sharing. I'm not even arguing which is worse. I sometimes wonder if people can even read. I just corrected the terminology and BAM 14 dislikes. SO dumb.
It is cheating. I'm not sure what this weird take is. He used means that are against the rules of play to become statistically better than other players and rise in the ranks. Boosting and account sharing are against the rules. it is cheating.
Cheating would be if he used external software to modify the game state/gained knowledge about the game state he wasn't supposed to have.
Other things beyond that can also be cheating. That is one kind of cheating but other things can be cheating as well.
When I hear that someone cheated in a videogame I think about using external software. When I hear that someone boosted in a videogame I think about account sharing. Maybe that's just me, idk.
It's irrelevant to the overall point and comes across as a defense of Musk by attacking an irrelevant piece of semantics.
For example if people are arguing about pineapple on pizza and you say "pineapple is food so it's ok on pizza" it's not addressing the actual arguments being made.
If you think I'm defending him for boosting and account sharing - you are simply wrong. I just want the facts to be correct. Maybe it's going over peoples heads cause I'm autistic (I think) or something idk.
Why yall disliking this? Have I said something that is not factual or something?
Yes, you are trying to be pedantic by pointing out that account boosting is not cheating. But it is cheating so not only are you being pedantic, you are wrong .
Here's what ChatGPT says (and I fully agree with it):
In PoE 2, cheating involves breaking rules with unauthorized tools or exploits, while boosting is getting help from stronger players. Boosting isn’t cheating unless it involves exploits or paid services that violate the game’s rules.
So you agree that paying someone to boost your account is cheating?
I believe ChatGPT was referring to buying cheating software when it said "paid services". It may have lost that part of the response when I forced it to condense it into 2 sentences.
You can't even get the idiot AI to agree with you on this, but you're still going for it. And that thing will agree with whatever you tell it if you argue long enough.
Alright, you won cheating = boosting. Are you happy now?
SIKE! You didn't win! I still believe cheating is different than boosting.
I'm always happy.
He was boosting and account sharing. We don't have the evidence that he was cheating. Both bad. Just not the same thing.
i downvoted because your semantics, while technically truthful, are dishonest to the spirit of the accusation
Well, I wasn't trying to be dishonest. I just like my facts correct. If that makes you happy, downvote all you want.