riotaredherring

riotaredherring



03 May


30 Apr

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Originally posted by Jannesvde

Feels disingenious towards the tons people who had/have to work in Riots toxic environment.

I don't make the comment to diminish the experiences of people who have had poor experiences at Riot, simply that you will always hear more about the poor experiences than the good ones.

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Originally posted by 97012

Honestly as much of a bad rep as Riot's work environment gets on Reddit I can't imagine it isn't immensely enjoyable for the most part.

I don't want to go off making grandiose public statements but I would say that you should remember selection bias. You rarely hear about when things are going well, only when things are bad.

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Originally posted by 97012

Like most creative jobs at riot - I would assume.

Trust me when I say that that feeling goes beyond what you would consider creative jobs like art, music etc


29 Apr

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Originally posted by untamedlazyeye

Look we would rather thank you than the cactopus, he'd probably come here with a shitty meme he made in ms paint or something

I made this in mspaint

That's a good point, I would never do something like that


28 Apr

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Originally posted by SulkyJoe

Wouldn't have happened without you all keeping this 'dead game' running!

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Congratulations on 4mil!


23 Apr

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Originally posted by Notfunnyhomie

This opens up for the possibility of 4 groups of 6 teams, which would allow for every team to have a guaranteed 10 games at worlds, with all the 1st placed teams going directly to the quarterfinals and all the 2nd and 3rd placed teams battling it out for the last 4 quarterfinal spots. If this somehow could be fit into the schedule, without drawing out worlds too much, this could be insane.

Just thinking about this possibility makes my former amateur shoutcasting throat hurt


19 Apr

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Originally posted by SouvenirSubmarine

The Realtek HD Audio Driver package is present on all Windows machines that feature a Realtek sound card, rendering all of them vulnerable to attacks. Exploitation, however, requires the attacker to have administrator privileges.

Isn't this is exactly why I should be wary about granting software like Vanguard administrator privileges?

You should be wary. You should carefully consider anything you install on your computer, user-mode or ring-0.

The comments about other drivers are just meant to put the risk into perspective; you already have lots of drivers with vulnerabilities running in ring-0 already and you probably didn't know about it.


18 Apr

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Originally posted by JFZephyr

EU fans are the most insecure I've ever seen tbh

didn't you start this thread by complaining about how people talk about the LCS?

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Originally posted by JFZephyr

The team doing it looks about as competitive as TL did this split

if TL wasn't already eliminated I'd agree

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Originally posted by JFZephyr

Seeing this from the team that won makes me feel like PVB would've won it if they played G2 :)

The team doing this is the same team that beat TL 3-0 :)

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Originally posted by JFZephyr

If this happened in EG-FLY they'd be talking bout how we should be a wildcard region.

I think you'll get more credit when y'all win MSI :)

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Originally posted by LowSeason3

couldn't this also mean that riot has worse programmers that allow so many vulnerabilities to slip through?

it could also mean that maintaining the infrastructure for one of the biggest games in the world is fraught with risk and that we pay generously on bug bounty :)

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Originally posted by Same--Advice

Ok i must have misunderstood your first point (1.VALORANT).

I'm really not qualified to answer that kind of question.

Let's be honest between you and me. Tencent own Riot. They can do whatever they want with it. Don't answer because you could get in trouble, but everyone knows that Tencent can do anything they want with your software. They OWN Riot.

Vanguard is owned and developed by Riot.

And Tencent own Riot, including assets. That's what ownership means. Can you confirm this.

Edit: This is an serious advice here: don't answer any of this, you could be in trouble.

Respectfully, it appears that you're trying to get a sound-bite out of me to confirm your suspicions and run with it (as you did with this thread).

This is way out of my area of expertise so I'm going to avoid replying to this. If you have questions specifically about application security, software engineering or privacy I am happy to answer them, but I'm not going to be able to reply to questions like this.

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Originally posted by Same--Advice

So just to make it clear, you're saying Vanguard isn't owned by Riot, but by Tencent. Is my understanding ok?

  1. Tencent do have a majority fiscal stake in Riot but we retain full control of what we build and how we build it.

Indefinitely? Or could Tecent decide at any moment that they are in control, since you know, they own Riot.

I'm not some crazy conspiracy theory, I'm just a dude who wants to know exactly what's running 24-7 on my PC, including who owns it, and who makes the decisions about it. You made it seems like Riot owned the software and was the full decision maker, when in reality it's pretty clear that it's Tencent.

So just to make it clear, you're saying Vanguard isn't owned by Riot, but by Tencent. Is my understanding ok?

Vanguard is owned and developed by Riot.

Indefinitely? Or could Tecent decide at any moment that they are in control, since you know, they own Riot.

I'm really not qualified to answer that kind of question. Like, technically, yes, Tencent could become very authoritative over Riot, in a similar way to how the Queen of England is technically in charge of the UK.

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Originally posted by ModsNeedParenting

/u/riotaredherring

can you look into this please? Plenty of people suddenly started having issues starting Vanguard.

When checking in services.msc we get this error: https://imgur.com/faCGU3M

hey friend, I've raised with the team, but I would recommend anyone experiencing issues please open a ticket with Player support, which will get your issue resolved faster than pinging individual rioters!

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Wanna clarify some things here before it hits front page.

  1. VALORANT :) not Valorant
  2. I'm not a VALORANT dev. I'm an application security engineer at Riot. Whilst I have reviewed VALORANT and Vanguard, I do not work on it full (or even part!) time.
  3. Tencent do have a majority fiscal stake in Riot but we retain full control of what we build and how we build it.
  4. Ultimately, I'm a Rioter and paid by Riot. If you think that Riot is a propaganda arm of any particular government, an employee coming out and saying that it really isn't probably isn't going to convince you. We really aren't, but I'm not sure me just saying so is going to convince people.
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