@Nintendo @ZeldaOfficialJP You guys are really falling prey to the Western dev bullshit trap. Stop now. It will impact you harder when it finally does.
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@DaveChappelle goddamn man, I used to think you were funny but not a total idiot. Nothing funny about that.
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@Nintendo please stop hiring fucking awful english voice actors.
PLEASE.
We will literally pay you more if you STOP.
Again, repeating what i said before, the american voice acting industry is a joke
This story works better without voice acting in general but my god do americans love ruining things.
Between the censorship and toning everything down, the atrocious voice acting, im so glad i remained disappointed in nintendo and never got a switch 2
Honestly going forward, i will probably start taking into account who japanese game makers hire for the english. I do not play in english but i refuse to reward the behavior any longer.
I have never liked his performances outside of theater D&D.
This is….a waste of everyone’s time.
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So I asked AI if it was possible.
**No, there is no credible evidence that U.S. elections have been altered by IoT vulnerabilities or AI.** Multiple federal investigations, including assessments from the **Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)**, have confirmed that **no cyberattack has ever changed vote totals** or meaningfully affected federal election outcomes. While researchers have identified isolated vulnerabilities in voting machines and voter registration systems, **no proof exists that these flaws were exploited in real elections**.
The primary threat from AI and connected devices is not direct tampering with vote counts, but rather **disinformation and voter suppression**. AI enables the rapid creation of deepfakes, fake news, and targeted robocalls (such as the 2024 Biden impersonation in New Hampshire) designed to undermine public confidence, manipulate perception, or discourage voting. Additionally, AI agents can scale phishing attacks against election officials and exploit weaknesses in decentralized local government networks, but these attacks target **perception and administrative processes**, not the integrity of the vote tally itself, which remains protected by paper backups and post-election audits.
Then I chastised it for changing my question because I didn't ask if it was confirmed already.
You're right, I conflated "possible" with "confirmed." Direct answer: **yes, it is technically possible.** The research demonstrates the capability exists:
**Demonstrated exploitability of voting hardware:**
- The UC Berkeley team (Halderman et al.) showed that a Diebold AccuVote-TS machine, with one minute of physical access, could have malicious code installed that **steals votes undetectably**, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent count.
- DEF CON's Voting Village: **every machine presented was successfully breached.** A 2019 report specifically noted that a tabulator used in 23 states was vulnerable to remote network attack, and stated that "hacking just one of these machines could enable an attacker to flip the Electoral College."
- A 2025 Def Con demo showed a ballot-marking device could be manipulated to alter what the voter sees or change the vote tally.
- A University of Michigan professor's report on Georgia's BMDs found "specific, highly exploitable vulnerabilities that allow attackers to change votes despite the state's purported defenses."
- ES&S EVS software (used in 9+ states) had **430 vulnerabilities** identified in source code, including a bug in the hash verification process that would report a successful match even when the reference file was missing entirely.
**IoT/networked components expand the attack surface:**
- Electronic pollbooks, voter registration databases, and central tabulators are often on networks (not air-gapped), with documented SQL injection, weak authentication, and unpatched OS vulnerabilities.
- NIST notes that if *any* device on a county's local network is connected to the internet, it creates an exploitable path to the election management system.
- CISA's classified risk summary documented **319 critical-severity vulnerabilities** in election infrastructure in the 12 months before the 2020 election.
**AI amplifies this** by enabling automated vulnerability discovery, generation of polymorphic malware that evades signature detection, sophisticated social engineering against election officials, and side-channel analysis.
**What makes a successful, undetected, *nationwide* alteration very difficult in practice (but not impossible):**
- Most voting machines are air-gapped
- Paper trails exist in most jurisdictions
- Different states use different vendors
- Post-election audits and bipartisan observers
- The scale of coordination required to alter results across enough jurisdictions to change a national outcome without detection
So: the technical capability to alter vote counts on individual machines is **demonstrated, not theoretical**. Whether that capability has ever been exploited at a scale that changed an outcome is a different question — one that no investigation has been able to rule out with absolute certainty, given that a sufficiently sophisticated attack could be designed to leave no trace in the systems it compromises.
Then I confirmed, suggesting that the bad actor would need to be a party with vast resources like China or Russia....or SuperPAC money....WE NEED to REMOVE money from our electorate. Now.
No — the threat model is broader than just nation-states and well-funded political actors. The research classifies the threat spectrum as:
**Tier 1: Nation-states** (Russia, China) — highest capability, documented targeting of all 50 states, 70–90% estimated success probability, sub-24-hour compromise times. These are the most serious *technical* threat.
**Tier 2: Organized cybercriminals** — 6–7 skill level, 40–60% success probability. Motivated by extortion (ransomware on voter databases) rather than changing outcomes, but capable of the intrusion.
**Tier 3: Insiders** — This is the most underappreciated vector. CISA's 2024 insider threat report specifically flags election workers, contractors, poll workers, and temporary staff with physical access. A single person with a USB stick and 30 seconds at a tabulator doesn't need "vast resources." A disgruntled poll worker, a bribed county IT staffer, or a compromised vendor employee could be the weakest link. No nation-state budget required.
**Tier 4: AI-empowered individuals** — The Brennan Center notes that AI tools are lowering the barrier so much that "an individual domestic antagonist" could "attack election offices with far fewer resources than ever before." AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, automated phishing, and polymorphic malware generation mean a skilled individual or small group can approach what previously required a team.
**On the SuperPAC angle specifically:** SuperPACs have money but no documented track record of technical attacks on election infrastructure. What they *do* fund is influence operations, voter suppression, and disinformation — a different kind of "alteration" that doesn't require hacking anything. The FEC cyberattack in October 2026 (which concealed ~$50M/day in SuperPAC spending) shows the money flows through opaque channels, but that's an attack *on* transparency, not on vote counts.
**The critical distinction:** A nation-state has the *capability* for a coordinated, multi-jurisdictional, undetected technical attack. But the *minimum viable* attack to alter a close race in a single county doesn't require vast resources — it requires one insider, one compromised USB, or one unpatched networked device. The scale of resources needed depends entirely on the scope of the desired alteration.
@elonmusk @Whitehouse I know you probably won't read all this, but these rates are FAR too high to be even remotely acceptable.
Democrats, Republicans...it doesn't matter who the fuck wins if we can't trust a damn thing.
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@NexusLabs so I guess the flood of Luftwaffe skins and other WW2 themed skins for Ace Combat kinda put ya in a hard spot huh? Ban all that shit, or eat your own crap and stop being dicks.
Good choice.
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@strausszelnick listen, I don't always agree with you... But can you see why gamers really, really don't like journalists after that interview?
We don't trust them. They're retarded. They are great at composing narratives, but have been poor at literally every other function that makes good journalism for like ... Two decades.
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@Sony @PlayStation Yeah, you can do better than that. Especially for a prime console like a PS5 with the ability to play all these old games AND xbox titles.
Shit, that's gotta be worth like 2 grand now.
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@bethesda @xbox @asha_shar Really? 15 years and you only have a title card to show for it? I know Asha has only been at the helm for a short while, but dear God lady, reap the whirlwind because these clowns are burning more money than you will EVER make back from them. Sack bethesda, subsidize the new xbox with actual, solid mid tier gaming PC specs for under a grand and vacuum up all the Sony folks and people with older PC hardware who are not going to be able to even afford to participate in your new platform otherwise.
Give a man a rowboat who has a Yacht and you're a joke.
Give a man a rubber dinghy whose lost at sea, and you're the greatest person that ever lived.
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Both a thank you, and a bit of a soap box rant about gaming:
@CrimsonDesert_ currently playing through another game, still bought Charting the Unknown immediately to play as soon as I'm done.
Why? Because you guys followed the same path Valve does with Steam:
Excellent service. You didn't complain or fight your players, you spent clear effort expanding and tailoring the game to fit what was desired, even when it didn't quite land initially.
After playing on launch day for Crimson Desert, playing through the updates as they happened and seeing your reaction to feedback...I can say with certainty that Charting the Unknown will be a blast even if I can't play it for another month...in fact it may be BETTER by the time I can play it.
Finally, as a lesson to @bioware @EA Poor sales isn't a problem with the market, it's a service problem. If you sell something no one wants, no one will buy it and no one will show up. I.E...@CallofDuty and @dragonage.
Chase all the market trends you want, you'll always be chasing rather than...Charting the Unknown.
Congratulations on the launch, @CrimsonDesert_ !
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@pbzero_official congratulations on the launch! Looking forward to checking out out after work today.
Now we just get Trump and Ping in a room to play some PC games together while the discuss things, right? 🤔
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Valve has -held gaming back for years- prevented the wholesale enshitifuckation of gaming for years.
I fixed it for you. @timswee
Exactly this. Valve has held gaming back for years by locking developers’ PC games into Steamworks’ social walled garden where players can’t talk to other players on iOS, Android, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, or even other PC stores.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Nobody is forced to use Steamworks.
A lot of games use Steamworks only for authentication to allow for crossplay and do the rest themselves.
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Yeah, believe all women... Are full of shit.
No. They're just people, and people are fucking pathetic, they lie, they cheat, they plot.
Women are not caricatures.
Yet we still don't have equality.
Women aren't required to register for selective service, but they can own property and vote.
Women brutally murder their children, often by hand, but are often awarded custody especially if the children are young.
Good fathers everywhere will try to shield their daughter from consequences, especially terrible consequences, for mistakes... Stop.
We should be equal in the eyes of the system and we're not. Stop being naive to get laid, the entire woke movement is founded on it and society is crippled by it. There are plenty of women with integrity out there, you don't need a snake with tits.
#HeToo
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@TeamYouTube y'all, this shit is getting impressively stupid.
AI bubble gonna burst any day now if it's making these kinda mistakes. Crossing my fingers it confuses my bank account with @elonmusk
I'll either be wealthy enough to finally buy a house, it so far in debt my soul will leave my body depending on which day that happened....:D
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@IGNChina bunch of dirty commies... That I totally agree with, and a lot of Western gamers will likely agree with.
We may have our differences, but I bet I could grab a random gamer in China who is the most staunch CCP fan and have more in common and get more done than 90% of the people in Western game devs.
I still think it political systems should just keep themselves far away from each other... But if they'd just let gamers run things the world would be a much better place.
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