Go into developer mode on your android and you can toggle see hidden Bluetooth devices. Anyone can see all the by devices around them same with wifi. Jamming them is a federal offence; Logging them and Scanning them isn’t.

Anyone can make a jammer or buy one off of aliexpress at your own expense, I stay away from them even though I’ve been tempted to build one. Alas, I’d rather read about people who do, than be the one who did.

That’s deep

But now people want them back… It’s not like people didn’t enjoy them. They fell out of fashion because of the niche audience that kept using them and because eventually everything went digital and selling things like action replay and code breakers and game shark was a hassle to load the codes onto at the time because the cables were very specific but now everything has been transferred to Type C, computers are cheap, wifi isn’t shit there’s two young generations at play and digitally adding in mods is harder than using an sd card with a preloaded cheat code system ready to hack your games or plugging in a cartridge to a flismy cartridge that if you bumped it your game would fuck up (action replay 2006). The n64 game shark destroyed games. For any online system, if you got caught online with cheats you were still subjected to potential bans.

I get why they, “fell out of fashion” but they’re a niche thing that is still oddly enough an enjoyable part of gaming.

Not if it’s blood is smiley faces, you fall down you land on a roof, your head gets bigger, omg you can fly!, everyone has a clown nose, you reveal a hidden set of armor that has no actual stats but is purely for looks.

If it’s, it skips you ahead, defeats a part of the game, unlocks achievements and has an effect on the online servers then I understand not leaving them in. If it’s fun garbage Easter egg bullshit, then it should be left in.

I thought about this the other day. We can only hope that genius people keep making ways to pirate games.

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Then 9/11 happened and suddenly we have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth competed with infrared before it dominated. Bluetooth’s wlan not getting good is still sad to me.