Game Dev vs. The Friendly Neighborhood Pen Testers
Description
This is a two-person object-labeling meme using a dynamic photo of two soldiers. In the foreground, a soldier wearing a helmet holds a rifle, looking focused and unaware of his surroundings; he is labeled, 'Me trying to code a cool online game'. In the background, another soldier in camouflage is captured mid-air, executing a powerful flying kick towards the first soldier. This airborne attacker is labeled, 'My friends doing their best to find a security breach in my database'. The image humorously captures the classic conflict between a developer focused on building features and the ever-present, often aggressive, reality of security testing. It personifies penetration testing or ethical hacking as a surprise attack from one's own peers, a common experience for developers whose friends delight in finding vulnerabilities in their side projects. The joke resonates with anyone who has built a public-facing application, especially in the gaming world where exploits and database breaches are a constant threat
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Feature development is like building a castle. Security testing is when your friends show up with a trebuchet to 'check the structural integrity of the login page'
Invited friends to beta-test my shooter; five minutes in the real meta is a DROP TABLE speedrun - guess row-level security ships before hitboxes
Nothing says "production-ready" quite like your friends discovering SQL injection vulnerabilities through the chat system while you're still hardcoding player spawn points
When your security-conscious friend is running SQLMap against your hobby project's database while you're deep in the zone implementing procedural terrain generation - because obviously, parameterized queries can wait until after you've nailed the perfect Perlin noise algorithm. Classic case of 'I'll add input validation in the next sprint' meeting 'I found 47 injection vectors in your login form.' At least when your game gets pwned, the leaderboard manipulation will be impressively creative
Open 0.0.0.0:5432 for a 'quick leaderboard' and your playtesters become a free red team with sqlmap
Me wiring up WebSockets for real-time PvP, friends dropping UNION SELECTs for their own high-score exfil
Shipped a “cool online game” and tuned the tick rate; my friends speedran the OWASP Top 10 via /submitScore - apparently the leaderboard doubles as an RDS admin console
>cool online game >крестики нолики Comment deleted
you meant Tic-Tac-Toe. No Russian withou translation! Comment deleted
yeap Comment deleted
Put away your flamethrower, pal. Comment deleted
he's right though Comment deleted
He's about as right as if I were to start telling you to use English, because your punctuation sucks. Or in the case of the person before, apparently the vocabulary. The person clearly did its best but someone had to come and smack her nonetheless. Comment deleted
there was no translation, it was a quote and then the joke in russian Comment deleted
a proper translation would've been something along the lines of: > cool online game > крестики нолики (tic-tac-toe) Comment deleted
I don't follow: It was not posted in the actual chatting group where the rule applies, as far as I am concerned. And in the comments, there are no such rules. Comment deleted
> And in the comments, there are no such rules. yes there are Comment deleted
That's literally all I see. No rules. No rules in the channel with just the memes either. Comment deleted
that's why we tell people the rules before banning them, jesus. Comment deleted
It's way more effective than having them in the sidebar or group description, which nobody reads anyway Comment deleted
Actually, if it's in the sidebar it's visible from comments Comment deleted
cool thread guys, keep it up!👀 Comment deleted