I have now written about 9 emails and 3 tickets, and the third time they responded, but guess what? Well it wouldn't be Epic if they didn't ignore you, after that matter they sent an email, but I did not notice it, and neither did I notice the response.
There was a message they wrote about my ticket getting closed, so I replied so they would reopen it, but of course, they didn't, only after writing to the original "Re:" did they send me an email regarding no longer monitoring email support, like what the duck! They also made a change to the site from the better design which ASKED you if your account was compromised and if it was you could fill out the support form without logging in, but they've removed that feature, and nobody was told about it nor knew about it. I searched far and wide and found nothing, countless Reddit posts that now only redirect to the main support page which only has the menu for a ticket when you're logged in, but I can't log in, and if I choose that option, I get greeted with a "You can only change your email, but you must provide your CURRENT email & display/user name" Well how the DUCK, am I supposed to know that if he hacked me!
He won't just tell me it will he? TL: DR Epic Games Customer support is good for nothing!
Recommendation: Do not bother to send an email, they won't respond anymore!
All reports will be delivered using the Harvard University case study as per their website https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/
I have read receipts and or digital data flow that connects all of the child abusers together so as to create a new digital currency from the co-dependency that Richard Grannon confirms with the enclosed
EPIC GAMES – SUPERAWESOME -MAYFAIR EQUITY PARTNERS – TEAMVIEWER – LEGO – BT – EE – VODAFONE
Case No.: Number 18.18
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”
CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Before we commence the document, I must make you aware that I am dyslexic and this can lead to what you believe as grammatical errors, however I convey that this accentuates the etymology and semantics of my vocabulary and thus is the ring fence that holds all accountable.
This will be the first time I’ve delivered such a document and I am doing so with no formal legal training / accreditations; however, the TRUTH is very easy entity to deliver within a legal system where the ability to bend the truth is seen as truth and the acceptance of a lie the holds enough truth……………. the barometer of justice.
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES
The Children of the World shall be presenting the following arguments, however at this stage The Children would care to remind us all that they are CHILDREN and regardless of any legal counters, we are as a species and the most intelligent life force, AT ALL TIMES directly responsible for their well-being (both physical and mental) and all who follow in our footsteps.
Article 7 Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. 1 Paragraph 2 of article 5 (“The Court shall exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is adopted in accordance with articles 121 and 123 defining the crime and setting out the conditions under which the Court shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to this crime. Such a provision shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.”) was deleted in accordance with RC/Res.6, annex I, of 11 June 2010. 4 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1: (a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack.
The Children shall be focusing on the following to deliver their conclusive argument.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Excerpt) Done at Rome on 17 July 1998, in force on 1 July 2002, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, No. 38544, Depositary: Secretary-General of the United Nations, http://treaties.un.org.
Full Text: https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/Documents/RS-Eng.pdf
Article 7 Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act
referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in Article 7, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court/July 1998, Rome paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;
(b) "Extermination" includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population;
(c) "Enslavement" means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;
(d) "Deportation or forcible transfer of population" means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law;
(e) "Torture" means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;
ENSLAVEMENT
NOUN
the action of making someone a slave; subjugation.
“I feel tremendous guilt,” admitted Chamath Palihapitiya, former Vice President of User Growth at Facebook, to an audience of Stanford students. He was responding to a question about his involvement in exploiting consumer behavior. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works,” he explained. In Palihapitiya’s talk, he highlighted something most of us know but few really appreciate: smartphones and the social media platforms they support are turning us into bona fide addicts. While it’s easy to dismiss this claim as hyperbole, platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram leverage the very same neural circuitry used by slot machines and cocaine to keep us using their products as much as possible. Taking a closer look at the underlying science may give you pause the next time you feel your pocket buzz.
Never Alone
If you’ve ever misplaced your phone, you may have experienced a mild state of panic until it’s been found. About 73% of people claim to experience this unique flavor of anxiety, which makes sense when you consider that adults in the US spend an average of 2-4 hours per day tapping, typing, and swiping on their devices—that adds up to over 2,600 daily touches. Most of us have become so intimately entwined with our digital lives that we sometimes feel our phones vibrating in our pockets when they aren’t even there.
While there is nothing inherently addictive about smartphones themselves, the true drivers of our attachments to these devices are the hyper-social environments they provide. Thanks to the likes of Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and others, smartphones allow us to carry immense social environments in our pockets through every waking moment of our lives. Though humans have evolved to be social—a key feature to our success as a species—the social structures in which we thrive tend to contain about 150 individuals. This number is orders of magnitude smaller than the 2 billion potential connections we carry around in our pockets today. There is no doubt that smartphones provide immense benefit to society, but their cost is becoming more and more apparent. Studies are beginning to show links between smartphone usage and increased levels of anxiety and depression, poor sleep quality, and increased risk of car injury or death. Many of us wish we spent less time on our phones but find it incredibly difficult to disconnect. Why are our smartphones so hard to ignore?
The Levers in Our Brains – Dopamine and social reward
Dopamine is a chemical produced by our brains that plays a starring role in motivating behavior. It gets released when we take a bite of delicious food, when we have sex, after we exercise, and, importantly, when we have successful social interactions. In an evolutionary context, it rewards us for beneficial behaviors and motivates us to repeat them.
I have read receipts and or digital data flow that connects all of the child abusers together so as to create a new digital currency from the co-dependency that Richard Grannon confirms with the enclosed
EPIC GAMES – SUPERAWESOME -MAYFAIR EQUITY PARTNERS – TEAMVIEWER – LEGO – BT – EE – VODAFONE
Case No.: Number 18.18
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”
CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Before we commence the document, I must make you aware that I am dyslexic and this can lead to what you believe as grammatical errors, however I convey that this accentuates the etymology and semantics of my vocabulary and thus is the ring fence that holds all accountable.
This will be the first time I’ve delivered such a document and I am doing so with no formal legal training / accreditations; however, the TRUTH is very easy entity to deliver within a legal system where the ability to bend the truth is seen as truth and the acceptance of a lie the holds enough truth……………. the barometer of justice.
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES
The Children of the World shall be presenting the following arguments, however at this stage The Children would care to remind us all that they are CHILDREN and regardless of any legal counters, we are as a species and the most intelligent life force, AT ALL TIMES directly responsible for their well-being (both physical and mental) and all who follow in our footsteps.
Article 7 Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. 1 Paragraph 2 of article 5 (“The Court shall exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is adopted in accordance with articles 121 and 123 defining the crime and setting out the conditions under which the Court shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to this crime. Such a provision shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.”) was deleted in accordance with RC/Res.6, annex I, of 11 June 2010. 4 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1: (a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack.
The Children shall be focusing on the following to deliver their conclusive argument.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Excerpt) Done at Rome on 17 July 1998, in force on 1 July 2002, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, No. 38544, Depositary: Secretary-General of the United Nations, http://treaties.un.org.
Full Text: https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/Documents/RS-Eng.pdf
Article 7 Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act
referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in Article 7, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court/July 1998, Rome paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;
(b) "Extermination" includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population;
(c) "Enslavement" means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;
(d) "Deportation or forcible transfer of population" means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law;
(e) "Torture" means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;
ENSLAVEMENT
NOUN
the action of making someone a slave; subjugation.
“I feel tremendous guilt,” admitted Chamath Palihapitiya, former Vice President of User Growth at Facebook, to an audience of Stanford students. He was responding to a question about his involvement in exploiting consumer behavior. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works,” he explained. In Palihapitiya’s talk, he highlighted something most of us know but few really appreciate: smartphones and the social media platforms they support are turning us into bona fide addicts. While it’s easy to dismiss this claim as hyperbole, platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram leverage the very same neural circuitry used by slot machines and cocaine to keep us using their products as much as possible. Taking a closer look at the underlying science may give you pause the next time you feel your pocket buzz.
Never Alone
If you’ve ever misplaced your phone, you may have experienced a mild state of panic until it’s been found. About 73% of people claim to experience this unique flavor of anxiety, which makes sense when you consider that adults in the US spend an average of 2-4 hours per day tapping, typing, and swiping on their devices—that adds up to over 2,600 daily touches. Most of us have become so intimately entwined with our digital lives that we sometimes feel our phones vibrating in our pockets when they aren’t even there.
While there is nothing inherently addictive about smartphones themselves, the true drivers of our attachments to these devices are the hyper-social environments they provide. Thanks to the likes of Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and others, smartphones allow us to carry immense social environments in our pockets through every waking moment of our lives. Though humans have evolved to be social—a key feature to our success as a species—the social structures in which we thrive tend to contain about 150 individuals. This number is orders of magnitude smaller than the 2 billion potential connections we carry around in our pockets today. There is no doubt that smartphones provide immense benefit to society, but their cost is becoming more and more apparent. Studies are beginning to show links between smartphone usage and increased levels of anxiety and depression, poor sleep quality, and increased risk of car injury or death. Many of us wish we spent less time on our phones but find it incredibly difficult to disconnect. Why are our smartphones so hard to ignore?
The Levers in Our Brains – Dopamine and social reward
Dopamine is a chemical produced by our brains that plays a starring role in motivating behavior. It gets released when we take a bite of delicious food, when we have sex, after we exercise, and, importantly, when we have successful social interactions. In an evolutionary context, it rewards us for beneficial behaviors and motivates us to repeat them.
The human brain contains four major dopamine “pathways,” or connections between different parts of the brain that act as highways for chemical messages called neurotransmitters. Each pathway has its own associated cognitive and motor (movement) processes. Three of these pathways—the mesocortical, mesolimbic, and nigrostriatal pathways—are considered our “reward pathways” and have been shown to be dysfunctional in most cases of addiction. They are responsible for the release of dopamine in various parts of the brain, which shapes the activity of those areas. The fourth, the tuberoinfundibular pathway, regulates the release of a hormone called prolactin that is required for milk production.
Figure 1: Three dopamine pathways and their related cognitive processes. Most of your dopamine is generated deep in the midbrain, and it is released in many different areas across the brain. These areas are largely responsible for behaviors associated with learning, habit formation, and addiction.
While the reward pathways (Figure 1) are distinct in their anatomical organization, all three become active when anticipating or experiencing rewarding events. In particular, they reinforce the association between a particular stimulus or sequence of behaviors and the feel-good reward that follows. Every time a response to a stimulus result in a reward, these associations become stronger through a process called long-term potentiation. This process strengthens frequently used connections between brain cells called neurons by increasing the intensity at which they respond to particular stimuli.
Although not as intense as hit of cocaine, positive social stimuli will similarly result in a release of dopamine, reinforcing whatever behavior preceded it. Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that rewarding social stimuli—laughing faces, positive recognition by our peers, messages from loved ones—activate the same dopaminergic reward pathways. Smartphones have provided us with a virtually unlimited supply of social stimuli, both positive and negative. Every notification, whether it’s a text message, a “like” on Instagram, or a Facebook notification, has the potential to be a positive social stimulus and dopamine influx.
The Hands that Pull – Reward prediction errors and variable reward schedules
Because most social media platforms are free, they rely on revenue from advertisers to make a profit. This system works for everyone involved at first glance, but it has created an arms race for your attention and time. Ultimately, the winners of this arms race will be those who best use their product to exploit the features of the brain’s reward systems.
Reward prediction errors
Research in reward learning and addiction have recently focused on a feature of our dopamine neurons called reward prediction error (RPE) encoding. These prediction errors serve as dopamine-mediated feedback signals in our brains (Figure 2). This neurological feature is something casino owners have used to their advantage for years. If you’ve ever played slots, you’ll have experienced the intense anticipation while those wheels are turning—the moments between the lever pull and the outcome provide time for our dopamine neurons to increase their activity, creating a rewarding feeling just by playing the game. It would be no fun otherwise. But as negative outcomes accumulate, the loss of dopamine activity encourages us to disengage. Thus, a balance between positive and negative outcomes must be maintained in order to keep our brains engaged.
Figure 2: Reward prediction and subsequent dopamine activity. Unexpected rewards increase the activity of dopamine neurons, acting as positive feedback signals for the brain regions associated with the preceding behavior. As learning takes place, the timing of activity will shift until it occurs upon the cue alone, with the expected reward having no additional effect. And should the expected reward not be received, dopamine activity drops, sending a negative feedback signal to the relevant parts of the brain, weakening the positive association.
Variable reward schedules
How do social media apps take advantage of this dopamine-driven learning strategy? Similar to slot machines, many apps implement a reward pattern optimized to keep you engaged as much as possible. Variable reward schedules were introduced by psychologist B.F. Skinner in the 1930’s. In his experiments, he found that mice respond most frequently to reward-associated stimuli when the reward was administered after a varying number of responses, precluding the animal’s ability to predict when they would be rewarded. Humans are no different; if we perceive a reward to be delivered at random, and if checking for the reward comes at little cost, we end up checking habitually (e.g. gambling addiction). If you pay attention, you might find yourself checking your phone at the slightest feeling of boredom, purely out of habit. Programmers work very hard behind the screens to keep you doing exactly that.
Bought assassin's creed valhalla on the November 13th, was hacked on the 15th. Someone played my game for several hours. I was told by ubisoft that i was hacked. My hame was now permanently in Japanese from the hacker. Ubisoft told to me to ask for a refund from the epic games store because they couldn't fix the language change. The elic games store is now refusing my refund becauze they r saying ive play the game more than 2 hours which is 1.of the refund rules, which i knew. They still r refusing my refund even after being sent screenshots of clear hacking evidence. Try not to buy anything fro. These scam artist. Trying to be like steam, but without the customer services.
EPIC GAMES With no customer service phone number, they keep emailing me about a gift card I'm trying to redeem for my son's Fortnite. There was a mix up with my email. They keep make me jump through hoops, actually requested my IP address, tell me they know how to fix the problem, but still won't transfer the cash purchase of points after 3 weeks of emails.
It is impossible to contact them any other way, and they are fully capable of rectifying the situation, but won't.
My 9 year old grandson who is disabled (CP) was having trouble with his fortnite game glitching and freezing up on him so without consulting an adult he deleted the game and tried to set up a new account only to find out all his purchases had been deleted.
His mother found out about this and e-mail Epic Games and asked them to reinstate of refund him the over 300.00 that had been spent on the game. She was told they couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it but that he could reinstall the game for free like everyone else.
She is a single Mom and doesn't have money to purchase new skins most of his purchases where gifts from Grandparents. Epic Games customer service is a joke they don't care about anything but money not about making things right.
This game is a scam because EPIC GAMES has now allowed millions of hackers / cheaters (kids, teens mostly) to use these unfair advantages in the game to win. My and millions of other players' online experience is NOW RUINED FOREVER! They DO NOT have a legit report system in-game, and DO NOT have a working / active customer service hotline. You can't upload a video clip of the people cheating / using hacks, or nothing! All they allow us to do is submit the player's name, and what we're reporting. A BULLS*** notification comes up after saying, "you're great, thanks for reporting this to us, and keeping Fortnite safer." I've called Playstation several times to report hundreds of players cheating on the game, and even they are not able to do anything. Their choice of resolution is to contact: EPIC GAMES. When I did find a phone number, and chose an extention (or option) it hangs up, and does not connect me to any E.G representives. This game is a scam because they literally DO NOT allow you to refund your real money if the game forces you to unintentionally make a purchase you did not want to make. This game is a scam because, once again, they rather chose to focus on in-game purchases / releases, instead of the concern of the FORTNITE COMMUNITY. This game is unplayable, and filled with the following cheats:
AIMBOT, WALL HACK, ESP, SPEED HACK, DAMAGE DOUBLER, DAMAGE TRIPLER, DAMAGE QUADRUPLER, NO RELOAD HACK, INSTA / INSTANT BUILD HACK, DAMAGE REDUCTION HACK... and I'm sure there's more. I can't even get my money back. They're literaly NOT DOING ANYTHING to stop the millions of kid hackers in the game daily.
Below is report / post in the forums for Fortnite on the EPIC GAMES website.
28 years old, I play Fortnite on PS4, and my best skills are: Sniping, Evading and Keeping A Low Profile.
My favorite skins I play with are the: Cuddle Team Leader skin, Galaxy Skin, and the Spider Knight skin.
If I had to give an honest or estimated percentage about how much I enjoy Fortnite today, I'd say 6%.
I've been playing since Season 5, and I'm VERY OBSERVANT about everything in life, especially in this game.
One thing I just wanna say is, you can't be so naive and ignorant to believe that people (young & old) aren't cheating on here.
Season 5, all these kids could barely build 4 walls around them or nail shots...
Season 6, regular players still lacked advanced skill, but were gradually getting better.
Season 7, ALL OF A SUDDEN, EVERYONE'S A PRO PLAYER!
Thousands of players killing other players in 2 HITS, even when they had FULL SHIELD and GREAT HEALTH. 2 Hits....
I've seen THOUSANDS of players perfectly shoot someone with a pump shotgun, and INSTANTLY switch over to an SMG and spam the fvck outta the bullets, killing the other player....
This is the "PUMP SMG" hack / mod.
I've seen a player shoot a Heavy Sniper. NEVER RELOADED NOT ONE TIME, and shot several times after.
I've seen THOUSANDS of players MAGICALLY build walls around them while they were facing one direction, before they even jumped or ran up the ladder.
Building 5-6 story high forts effortlessly.
(BUT YOU LITERALLY HAVE TO ROTATE YOUR CHARACTER AROUND TO BUILD WALLS.....)
It's called the "INSTA BUILD" hack / mod.
I've seen THOUSANDS of players face a completely different direction away from where I was, and the bullets MAGICALLY redirected themselves to my character's head.
So, If they were facing directly East, and I was directly South, the bullets miraculously hit my head at perfect accuracy killing me instantly.
-----------> EAST
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South
This is the famous "AIMBOT" hack. Dang near over a million kids using this bull**** everyday on Fortnite, and I'm F****** TIRED OF IT!
I always come here to report this in-game foolery, and there's egotistical people responding to regular players who are victims of cheaters.
They just enjoy telling other people, "GET GOOD," "You Just Suck At The Game," "You're Trash," stupid **** like that.
Ironically they never encounter hackers..... (RIGHT.......OKAY, and I'm supposed to force myself to believe this lie?)
Lately, I've seen A WHOLE BUNCH of players shoot straight through my buildings, and kill me with less than 4 shots.
I've seen players use aimbot and QUADRUPLE the damage to my character, like....BRUH, GET THE F*** OUTTA HERE! NO F****** WAY!
I've seen WAY TOO MANY players with full shield and full health, with 500 in ammo, with 6-7 kills ALREADY at the beginning of the game, 4-5 people spectating them...
WHAT CHU THINK they watching them for.... DUH THEY CHEATING! Everybody's f****** using aimbot, and ****!
I think it's a shame, that I've spent my and my family's hard earned money to invest in these shop items and unlockables.
I've honestly spent over $2,000.00 USD on Fortnite, but it was all in vain thanks to these f****** cheaters using aimbot.
They've defiled this game with all the hacks! My online experience is ruined!
TEAM RUMBLE: All you gonna see is a bunch of bad *** kids in player form, bullying and ganging up on other players, killing 'em with aimbot.
EVERY F****** GAME, the enemy team usually stays ahead by 20 to 30 kills....
Every day, my friends getting tired of me whining, b******* and complaining about all these cheaters. I literally CAN'T and DON'T enjoy this game anymore.
It's NOT FUN anymore.
This game literally has me catching RAGE MOMENTS back to back, I'm always slamming my hand on the Playstation, all because of these cheaters / hackers and their aimbot.
Because they realistically lack skill, so they bought or downloaded the hacks to never lose again, but they've f***** up the online experience for everyone else in the process.
I will have to find another game to play and just take my loses. I may even have to stop playing Black Ops 4, because they've hacked the **** outta that one too.
I guess it's back to Team Fortress 2 on Steam for me.... I may even sell my playstation, and tell my friends that I met on Fortnite goodbye forever. DEAD AZZ SERIOUS!
For anyone that feels the same way, and knows how real this entire post is, I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND, you stop wasting your time and money on this game.
It's basically a gimmick. All the purchases are knock offs of others, everything costs high as hell, and EPIC GAMES is allowing this f****** to continue.
NOT TO MENTION, they don't even have a customer service hotline, but they're taking our f****** money... BOGUS AS F***!
TAKE IT FROM A MOVIE PRODUCTION COMPANY COMPOSED OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERS WITH DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, TECHNICAL ENGINEERING, AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING THAT HAVE WORKED ON MAIN FRAMES, MINIS, AND PCS USING MANY DIFFERENT SYSTEMS AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR BARE METAL PROGRAMMING ON UP SINCE BEFORE THE EARLIEST PERSONAL COMPUTERS WERE AVAILABLE ON THE COMMON MARKETS, WHO WORKED IN THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY ON PROPRIETARY COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND MILITARY SIMULATORS, WHO HAD TO FULFILL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND DEAL WITH ALL KINDS OF LEGALITIES AND GOVERNMENT BEAN COUNTERS, WHO LATER MOVED INTO THE FILM AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY WITH ALL THAT CONVOLUTED LEGAL DREG TO DEAL WITH:
WHAT HAPPENED IN FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR, STEPS TWO AND THREE IS NOT A GLITCH OR A BUG! WE KNOW ALL ABOUT GLITCHES AND BUGS! DO NOT USE THE WORDS GLITCH OR BUG IN REFERENCE TO FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR, STEPS TWO AND THREE! PROGRAMMERS DELIBERATELY WROTE THE CODE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF SENIOR PROGRAMMERS WHO PASSED THE WORK THROUGH A QUALITY ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT THAT WENT THROUGH EVERYTHING WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB BEFORE IT WAS PUBLICLY RELEASED TO THE CONSUMERS! WE ARE NOT GIVING YOU OPINIONS! WE ARE STATING FACTS!
THE FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR, STEPS TWO CLEARLY STATES THAT 150 BATTLESTARS WILL BE AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE AND STEP THREE CLEARLY STATES THAT 200 BATTLESTARS WILL BE AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE! WE REVIEWED THE RECENT HISTORICAL RECORDS THAT STATE THAT EPIC GAMES TURNED OFF THE AWARDS OF THE BATTLESTARS AFTER A FEW HOURS AND POSTED A CRPYTIC MESSAGE FOR A MOMENT! THE CRYPTIC MESSAGE THAT WAS POSTED FOR A MOMENT HAS NO LEGAL VALUE! THE FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR, STEP TWO STILL CLEARLY STATES THAT 150 BATTLESTARS WILL BE AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THAT CHALLENGE AND STEP THREE STILL CLEARLY STATES THAT 200 BATTLESTARS WILL BE AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THAT CHALLENGE! EPIC GAMES IS LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO AWARD THE BATTLESTARS TO ALL THE ACCOUNTS THAT HAVE COMPLETED THE CHALLENGES, 150 BATTLESTARS FOR COMPLETING THE SECOND CHALLENGE OF FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR AND 200 BATTLESTARS FOR COMPLETING THE THIRD CHALLENGE OF FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR! OPINIONS AND FEELINGS ARE IRRELEVANT!
ACCORDING TO RECENT HISTORICAL RECORDS SOME PLAYERS CLAIM NOTHING HAS BEEN AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THE TWO CHALLENGES WE ARE DISCUSSING SINCE EPIC GAMES TURNED OFF THE AWARDS AND POSTED A MOMENTARY CRYPTIC MESSAGE THAT HAS NO LEGAL VALUE! ALL THE FREE PASS ACCOUNTS THAT COMPLETED THE CHALLENGES MUST HAVE THEIR ACCOUNTS TIERED UP TO COLLECT WHAT LITTLE WORTHLESS VIRTUAL CRAP THEY ARE TO GET DUMPED INTO THEIR ACCOUNTS AND ALL THE SUCKERS THAT PURCHASED A BATTLE PASS MUST HAVE THEIR ACCOUNTS TIERED UP TO COLLECT THE LOAD OF WORTHLESS VIRTUAL CRAP THEY ARE TO GET DUMPED INTO THEIR ACCOUNTS! EPIC GAMES CAN CRY TOS, TOS, TOS, EULA, EULA, EULA, BETA, BETA, BETA, ALL THEY WANT TO IN COURT! EPIC GAMES CAN JUST SHUT THE WHOLE THING DOWN LIKE MANY OTHER INTERNET SUCKER TRAPS DO AND ALL THE WORTHLESS VIRTUAL CRAP SUCKERS WASTED MONEY ON WILL BE GONE! THE CLASS ACTION LAW SUITS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!
EPIC GAMES LIKE MANY OTHER VIRTUAL SUCKER TRAPS ON THE INTERNET THINKS THEY CAN TREAT ALL THEIR CONSUMERS JUST ANY KIND OF WAY, LABELING INNOVATION AS CHEATING TO COVER THEIR INCOMPETENCE AS PROGRAMMERS AND BANNING ACCOUNTS FOR NO REASON, EVEN RAISING THEIR OWN LAW SUITS AGAINST INNOVATORS WHO EXPOSE THEIR FLAWS AND LACK OF LOGIC! FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS THERE IS ONLY ONE RULE, IF THE SOFTWARE LETS YOU DO IT, YOU CAN DO IT! WRITTEN RULES ARE NOT A PATCH FOR INCOMPETENT SOFTWARE PROGRAMMING! EPIC GAMES HAS ALREADY BEEN ADVISED TO EXPECT CLASS ACTION LAW SUITS! IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF EPIC GAMES TO AWARD ALL THE WORTHLESS VIRTUAL CRAP THAT IS OWED TO THE ACCOUNTS THAT HAVE COMPLETED THE TWO CHALLENGES WE HAVE DISCUSSED!
THE HISTORICAL RECORDS WE REFERRED TO ARE POSTED AT Youtube.com/watch?v=zGJOEL5rv64 HOW TO GET 35 TIERS IN BATTLE PASS *FOR FREE* SEASON 6 - FORTNITEMARE CHALLENGE GLITCH !
youtube.com/watch?v=ctfn8jO5kqk How to get 350 Battle stars with Fortnitemare Glitch
youtube.com/watch?v=DCC_EervBms HOW TO GET 40 TIERS FOR FREE IN BATTLE PASS SEASON 6 - FORTNITEMARES WEEK 5 CHALLENGE GLITCH !
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youtube.com/watch?v=spc7h_oXXRQ Fortnitemare Challenge Glitch: We can keep everything
youtube.com/watch?v=ZOpJ72E5hrw The Fortnitemare glitch has been fixed. Good news is you keep your stuff! Fortnite Challenges error
epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/bug-reports/battle-royale-aa/800752-yet-another-challenge-bugIGHTS THAT WANT IN ON THIS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FUN CAN GO TO ForThePeople.com TO SIGN UP TO PARTICIPATE BY FILLING OUT THE POP UP FORM AND/OR USE THE CHAT FUNCTION ALL FOR FREE!epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/suggestions-advice/801042-i-lost-35-tiers-after-bug
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EVIDENCE: WE POSTED THE ABOVE STATEMENT TO ONE OF THE FORUMS ABOVE WITH A BRAND NEW ACCOUNT MADE JUST FOR THAT PURPOSE AND GOT THE FOLLOWING RESPONSE:
You have been permanently banned by Capt Gilligan for the following reason:
Epic Games, Inc. Reviews
I have now written about 9 emails and 3 tickets, and the third time they responded, but guess what? Well it wouldn't be Epic if they didn't ignore you, after that matter they sent an email, but I did not notice it, and neither did I notice the response.
There was a message they wrote about my ticket getting closed, so I replied so they would reopen it, but of course, they didn't, only after writing to the original "Re:" did they send me an email regarding no longer monitoring email support, like what the duck! They also made a change to the site from the better design which ASKED you if your account was compromised and if it was you could fill out the support form without logging in, but they've removed that feature, and nobody was told about it nor knew about it. I searched far and wide and found nothing, countless Reddit posts that now only redirect to the main support page which only has the menu for a ticket when you're logged in, but I can't log in, and if I choose that option, I get greeted with a "You can only change your email, but you must provide your CURRENT email & display/user name" Well how the DUCK, am I supposed to know that if he hacked me!
He won't just tell me it will he? TL: DR Epic Games Customer support is good for nothing!
Recommendation: Do not bother to send an email, they won't respond anymore!
Monetary Loss: $250.
Preferred solution: My account back.
All reports will be delivered using the Harvard University case study as per their website https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/
I have read receipts and or digital data flow that connects all of the child abusers together so as to create a new digital currency from the co-dependency that Richard Grannon confirms with the enclosed
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CkEDzGRLdDB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
For much more detailed information please see www.gv3tlove.com washington post II
For the SCIENCE and for ALL involved and to be revealed as we go
The Children of the World
The Children of the World
The House of the TRUTH
Under the eyes of GOD
[email protected]
Court name – ELIZA the new digital paradigm
PLAINTIFF'S NAME,
THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD (THE 500MILLION)
vs.
DEFENDANT'S NAME,
TIM SWEENEY
EPIC GAMES – SUPERAWESOME -MAYFAIR EQUITY PARTNERS – TEAMVIEWER – LEGO – BT – EE – VODAFONE
Case No.: Number 18.18
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”
CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Before we commence the document, I must make you aware that I am dyslexic and this can lead to what you believe as grammatical errors, however I convey that this accentuates the etymology and semantics of my vocabulary and thus is the ring fence that holds all accountable.
This will be the first time I’ve delivered such a document and I am doing so with no formal legal training / accreditations; however, the TRUTH is very easy entity to deliver within a legal system where the ability to bend the truth is seen as truth and the acceptance of a lie the holds enough truth……………. the barometer of justice.
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES
The Children of the World shall be presenting the following arguments, however at this stage The Children would care to remind us all that they are CHILDREN and regardless of any legal counters, we are as a species and the most intelligent life force, AT ALL TIMES directly responsible for their well-being (both physical and mental) and all who follow in our footsteps.
Article 7 Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. 1 Paragraph 2 of article 5 (“The Court shall exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is adopted in accordance with articles 121 and 123 defining the crime and setting out the conditions under which the Court shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to this crime. Such a provision shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.”) was deleted in accordance with RC/Res.6, annex I, of 11 June 2010. 4 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1: (a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack.
The Children shall be focusing on the following to deliver their conclusive argument.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Excerpt) Done at Rome on 17 July 1998, in force on 1 July 2002, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, No. 38544, Depositary: Secretary-General of the United Nations, http://treaties.un.org.
Full Text: https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/Documents/RS-Eng.pdf
Article 7 Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act
referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in Article 7, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court/July 1998, Rome paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;
(b) "Extermination" includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population;
(c) "Enslavement" means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;
(d) "Deportation or forcible transfer of population" means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law;
(e) "Torture" means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;
ENSLAVEMENT
NOUN
the action of making someone a slave; subjugation.
"the enslavement of millions of Africans"
synonyms:
subjugation · disenfranchisement · suppression · tyranny · subjection · oppression · domination · exploitation · persecution · slavery · servitude · bondage · forced labour · bonds · chains · fetters · shackles · restraints · yoke · dulosis · thraldom · thrall · serfdom · vassalage · helotage · helotry · helotism · enthrallment · duress
The Children reference the following – Science / Addiction.
REF - https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/
“I feel tremendous guilt,” admitted Chamath Palihapitiya, former Vice President of User Growth at Facebook, to an audience of Stanford students. He was responding to a question about his involvement in exploiting consumer behavior. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works,” he explained. In Palihapitiya’s talk, he highlighted something most of us know but few really appreciate: smartphones and the social media platforms they support are turning us into bona fide addicts. While it’s easy to dismiss this claim as hyperbole, platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram leverage the very same neural circuitry used by slot machines and cocaine to keep us using their products as much as possible. Taking a closer look at the underlying science may give you pause the next time you feel your pocket buzz.
Never Alone
If you’ve ever misplaced your phone, you may have experienced a mild state of panic until it’s been found. About 73% of people claim to experience this unique flavor of anxiety, which makes sense when you consider that adults in the US spend an average of 2-4 hours per day tapping, typing, and swiping on their devices—that adds up to over 2,600 daily touches. Most of us have become so intimately entwined with our digital lives that we sometimes feel our phones vibrating in our pockets when they aren’t even there.
While there is nothing inherently addictive about smartphones themselves, the true drivers of our attachments to these devices are the hyper-social environments they provide. Thanks to the likes of Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and others, smartphones allow us to carry immense social environments in our pockets through every waking moment of our lives. Though humans have evolved to be social—a key feature to our success as a species—the social structures in which we thrive tend to contain about 150 individuals. This number is orders of magnitude smaller than the 2 billion potential connections we carry around in our pockets today. There is no doubt that smartphones provide immense benefit to society, but their cost is becoming more and more apparent. Studies are beginning to show links between smartphone usage and increased levels of anxiety and depression, poor sleep quality, and increased risk of car injury or death. Many of us wish we spent less time on our phones but find it incredibly difficult to disconnect. Why are our smartphones so hard to ignore?
The Levers in Our Brains – Dopamine and social reward
Dopamine is a chemical produced by our brains that plays a starring role in motivating behavior. It gets released when we take a bite of delicious food, when we have sex, after we exercise, and, importantly, when we have successful social interactions. In an evolutionary context, it rewards us for beneficial behaviors and motivates us to repeat them.
CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
All reports will be delivered using the Harvard University case study as per their website
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/
I have read receipts and or digital data flow that connects all of the child abusers together so as to create a new digital currency from the co-dependency that Richard Grannon confirms with the enclosed
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CkEDzGRLdDB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
For much more detailed information please see
www.gv3tlove.com
Washington post II
For the SCIENCE and for ALL involved and to be revealed as we go
The Children of the World
The Children of the World
The House of the TRUTH
Under the eyes of GOD
[email protected]
Court name – ELIZA the new digital paradigm
Plaintiff's name,
The CHILDREN OF THE WORLD (the 500million)
vs.
Defendant's Name,
tim sweeney
EPIC GAMES – SUPERAWESOME -MAYFAIR EQUITY PARTNERS – TEAMVIEWER – LEGO – BT – EE – VODAFONE
Case No.: Number 18.18
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”
CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Before we commence the document, I must make you aware that I am dyslexic and this can lead to what you believe as grammatical errors, however I convey that this accentuates the etymology and semantics of my vocabulary and thus is the ring fence that holds all accountable.
This will be the first time I’ve delivered such a document and I am doing so with no formal legal training / accreditations; however, the TRUTH is very easy entity to deliver within a legal system where the ability to bend the truth is seen as truth and the acceptance of a lie the holds enough truth……………. the barometer of justice.
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES
The Children of the World shall be presenting the following arguments, however at this stage The Children would care to remind us all that they are CHILDREN and regardless of any legal counters, we are as a species and the most intelligent life force, AT ALL TIMES directly responsible for their well-being (both physical and mental) and all who follow in our footsteps.
Article 7 Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. 1 Paragraph 2 of article 5 (“The Court shall exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is adopted in accordance with articles 121 and 123 defining the crime and setting out the conditions under which the Court shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to this crime. Such a provision shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.”) was deleted in accordance with RC/Res.6, annex I, of 11 June 2010. 4 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1: (a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack.
The Children shall be focusing on the following to deliver their conclusive argument.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Excerpt) Done at Rome on 17 July 1998, in force on 1 July 2002, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, No. 38544, Depositary: Secretary-General of the United Nations, http://treaties.un.org.
Full Text: https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/Documents/RS-Eng.pdf
Article 7 Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act
referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in Article 7, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court/July 1998, Rome paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;
(b) "Extermination" includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population;
(c) "Enslavement" means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;
(d) "Deportation or forcible transfer of population" means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law;
(e) "Torture" means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;
ENSLAVEMENT
NOUN
the action of making someone a slave; subjugation.
"the enslavement of millions of Africans"
synonyms:
subjugation · disenfranchisement · suppression · tyranny · subjection · oppression · domination · exploitation · persecution · slavery · servitude · bondage · forced labour · bonds · chains · fetters · shackles · restraints · yoke · dulosis · thraldom · thrall · serfdom · vassalage · helotage · helotry · helotism · enthrallment · duress
The Children reference the following – Science / Addiction.
REF - https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/
“I feel tremendous guilt,” admitted Chamath Palihapitiya, former Vice President of User Growth at Facebook, to an audience of Stanford students. He was responding to a question about his involvement in exploiting consumer behavior. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works,” he explained. In Palihapitiya’s talk, he highlighted something most of us know but few really appreciate: smartphones and the social media platforms they support are turning us into bona fide addicts. While it’s easy to dismiss this claim as hyperbole, platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram leverage the very same neural circuitry used by slot machines and cocaine to keep us using their products as much as possible. Taking a closer look at the underlying science may give you pause the next time you feel your pocket buzz.
Never Alone
If you’ve ever misplaced your phone, you may have experienced a mild state of panic until it’s been found. About 73% of people claim to experience this unique flavor of anxiety, which makes sense when you consider that adults in the US spend an average of 2-4 hours per day tapping, typing, and swiping on their devices—that adds up to over 2,600 daily touches. Most of us have become so intimately entwined with our digital lives that we sometimes feel our phones vibrating in our pockets when they aren’t even there.
While there is nothing inherently addictive about smartphones themselves, the true drivers of our attachments to these devices are the hyper-social environments they provide. Thanks to the likes of Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and others, smartphones allow us to carry immense social environments in our pockets through every waking moment of our lives. Though humans have evolved to be social—a key feature to our success as a species—the social structures in which we thrive tend to contain about 150 individuals. This number is orders of magnitude smaller than the 2 billion potential connections we carry around in our pockets today. There is no doubt that smartphones provide immense benefit to society, but their cost is becoming more and more apparent. Studies are beginning to show links between smartphone usage and increased levels of anxiety and depression, poor sleep quality, and increased risk of car injury or death. Many of us wish we spent less time on our phones but find it incredibly difficult to disconnect. Why are our smartphones so hard to ignore?
The Levers in Our Brains – Dopamine and social reward
Dopamine is a chemical produced by our brains that plays a starring role in motivating behavior. It gets released when we take a bite of delicious food, when we have sex, after we exercise, and, importantly, when we have successful social interactions. In an evolutionary context, it rewards us for beneficial behaviors and motivates us to repeat them.
The human brain contains four major dopamine “pathways,” or connections between different parts of the brain that act as highways for chemical messages called neurotransmitters. Each pathway has its own associated cognitive and motor (movement) processes. Three of these pathways—the mesocortical, mesolimbic, and nigrostriatal pathways—are considered our “reward pathways” and have been shown to be dysfunctional in most cases of addiction. They are responsible for the release of dopamine in various parts of the brain, which shapes the activity of those areas. The fourth, the tuberoinfundibular pathway, regulates the release of a hormone called prolactin that is required for milk production.
Figure 1: Three dopamine pathways and their related cognitive processes. Most of your dopamine is generated deep in the midbrain, and it is released in many different areas across the brain. These areas are largely responsible for behaviors associated with learning, habit formation, and addiction.
While the reward pathways (Figure 1) are distinct in their anatomical organization, all three become active when anticipating or experiencing rewarding events. In particular, they reinforce the association between a particular stimulus or sequence of behaviors and the feel-good reward that follows. Every time a response to a stimulus result in a reward, these associations become stronger through a process called long-term potentiation. This process strengthens frequently used connections between brain cells called neurons by increasing the intensity at which they respond to particular stimuli.
Although not as intense as hit of cocaine, positive social stimuli will similarly result in a release of dopamine, reinforcing whatever behavior preceded it. Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that rewarding social stimuli—laughing faces, positive recognition by our peers, messages from loved ones—activate the same dopaminergic reward pathways. Smartphones have provided us with a virtually unlimited supply of social stimuli, both positive and negative. Every notification, whether it’s a text message, a “like” on Instagram, or a Facebook notification, has the potential to be a positive social stimulus and dopamine influx.
The Hands that Pull – Reward prediction errors and variable reward schedules
Because most social media platforms are free, they rely on revenue from advertisers to make a profit. This system works for everyone involved at first glance, but it has created an arms race for your attention and time. Ultimately, the winners of this arms race will be those who best use their product to exploit the features of the brain’s reward systems.
Reward prediction errors
Research in reward learning and addiction have recently focused on a feature of our dopamine neurons called reward prediction error (RPE) encoding. These prediction errors serve as dopamine-mediated feedback signals in our brains (Figure 2). This neurological feature is something casino owners have used to their advantage for years. If you’ve ever played slots, you’ll have experienced the intense anticipation while those wheels are turning—the moments between the lever pull and the outcome provide time for our dopamine neurons to increase their activity, creating a rewarding feeling just by playing the game. It would be no fun otherwise. But as negative outcomes accumulate, the loss of dopamine activity encourages us to disengage. Thus, a balance between positive and negative outcomes must be maintained in order to keep our brains engaged.
Figure 2: Reward prediction and subsequent dopamine activity. Unexpected rewards increase the activity of dopamine neurons, acting as positive feedback signals for the brain regions associated with the preceding behavior. As learning takes place, the timing of activity will shift until it occurs upon the cue alone, with the expected reward having no additional effect. And should the expected reward not be received, dopamine activity drops, sending a negative feedback signal to the relevant parts of the brain, weakening the positive association.
Variable reward schedules
How do social media apps take advantage of this dopamine-driven learning strategy? Similar to slot machines, many apps implement a reward pattern optimized to keep you engaged as much as possible. Variable reward schedules were introduced by psychologist B.F. Skinner in the 1930’s. In his experiments, he found that mice respond most frequently to reward-associated stimuli when the reward was administered after a varying number of responses, precluding the animal’s ability to predict when they would be rewarded. Humans are no different; if we perceive a reward to be delivered at random, and if checking for the reward comes at little cost, we end up checking habitually (e.g. gambling addiction). If you pay attention, you might find yourself checking your phone at the slightest feeling of boredom, purely out of habit. Programmers work very hard behind the screens to keep you doing exactly that.
Bought assassin's creed valhalla on the November 13th, was hacked on the 15th. Someone played my game for several hours. I was told by ubisoft that i was hacked. My hame was now permanently in Japanese from the hacker. Ubisoft told to me to ask for a refund from the epic games store because they couldn't fix the language change. The elic games store is now refusing my refund becauze they r saying ive play the game more than 2 hours which is 1.of the refund rules, which i knew. They still r refusing my refund even after being sent screenshots of clear hacking evidence. Try not to buy anything fro. These scam artist. Trying to be like steam, but without the customer services.
EPIC GAMES With no customer service phone number, they keep emailing me about a gift card I'm trying to redeem for my son's Fortnite. There was a mix up with my email. They keep make me jump through hoops, actually requested my IP address, tell me they know how to fix the problem, but still won't transfer the cash purchase of points after 3 weeks of emails.
It is impossible to contact them any other way, and they are fully capable of rectifying the situation, but won't.
My 9 year old grandson who is disabled (CP) was having trouble with his fortnite game glitching and freezing up on him so without consulting an adult he deleted the game and tried to set up a new account only to find out all his purchases had been deleted.
His mother found out about this and e-mail Epic Games and asked them to reinstate of refund him the over 300.00 that had been spent on the game. She was told they couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it but that he could reinstall the game for free like everyone else.
She is a single Mom and doesn't have money to purchase new skins most of his purchases where gifts from Grandparents. Epic Games customer service is a joke they don't care about anything but money not about making things right.
This game is a scam because EPIC GAMES has now allowed millions of hackers / cheaters (kids, teens mostly) to use these unfair advantages in the game to win. My and millions of other players' online experience is NOW RUINED FOREVER! They DO NOT have a legit report system in-game, and DO NOT have a working / active customer service hotline. You can't upload a video clip of the people cheating / using hacks, or nothing! All they allow us to do is submit the player's name, and what we're reporting. A BULLS*** notification comes up after saying, "you're great, thanks for reporting this to us, and keeping Fortnite safer." I've called Playstation several times to report hundreds of players cheating on the game, and even they are not able to do anything. Their choice of resolution is to contact: EPIC GAMES. When I did find a phone number, and chose an extention (or option) it hangs up, and does not connect me to any E.G representives. This game is a scam because they literally DO NOT allow you to refund your real money if the game forces you to unintentionally make a purchase you did not want to make. This game is a scam because, once again, they rather chose to focus on in-game purchases / releases, instead of the concern of the FORTNITE COMMUNITY. This game is unplayable, and filled with the following cheats:
AIMBOT, WALL HACK, ESP, SPEED HACK, DAMAGE DOUBLER, DAMAGE TRIPLER, DAMAGE QUADRUPLER, NO RELOAD HACK, INSTA / INSTANT BUILD HACK, DAMAGE REDUCTION HACK... and I'm sure there's more. I can't even get my money back. They're literaly NOT DOING ANYTHING to stop the millions of kid hackers in the game daily.
Below is report / post in the forums for Fortnite on the EPIC GAMES website.
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Hey everyone, I'm GOTeem__COACH.
28 years old, I play Fortnite on PS4, and my best skills are: Sniping, Evading and Keeping A Low Profile.
My favorite skins I play with are the: Cuddle Team Leader skin, Galaxy Skin, and the Spider Knight skin.
If I had to give an honest or estimated percentage about how much I enjoy Fortnite today, I'd say 6%.
I've been playing since Season 5, and I'm VERY OBSERVANT about everything in life, especially in this game.
One thing I just wanna say is, you can't be so naive and ignorant to believe that people (young & old) aren't cheating on here.
Season 5, all these kids could barely build 4 walls around them or nail shots...
Season 6, regular players still lacked advanced skill, but were gradually getting better.
Season 7, ALL OF A SUDDEN, EVERYONE'S A PRO PLAYER!
Thousands of players killing other players in 2 HITS, even when they had FULL SHIELD and GREAT HEALTH. 2 Hits....
I've seen THOUSANDS of players perfectly shoot someone with a pump shotgun, and INSTANTLY switch over to an SMG and spam the fvck outta the bullets, killing the other player....
This is the "PUMP SMG" hack / mod.
I've seen a player shoot a Heavy Sniper. NEVER RELOADED NOT ONE TIME, and shot several times after.
I've seen THOUSANDS of players MAGICALLY build walls around them while they were facing one direction, before they even jumped or ran up the ladder.
Building 5-6 story high forts effortlessly.
(BUT YOU LITERALLY HAVE TO ROTATE YOUR CHARACTER AROUND TO BUILD WALLS.....)
It's called the "INSTA BUILD" hack / mod.
I've seen THOUSANDS of players face a completely different direction away from where I was, and the bullets MAGICALLY redirected themselves to my character's head.
So, If they were facing directly East, and I was directly South, the bullets miraculously hit my head at perfect accuracy killing me instantly.
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This is the famous "AIMBOT" hack. Dang near over a million kids using this bull**** everyday on Fortnite, and I'm F****** TIRED OF IT!
I always come here to report this in-game foolery, and there's egotistical people responding to regular players who are victims of cheaters.
They just enjoy telling other people, "GET GOOD," "You Just Suck At The Game," "You're Trash," stupid **** like that.
Ironically they never encounter hackers..... (RIGHT.......OKAY, and I'm supposed to force myself to believe this lie?)
Lately, I've seen A WHOLE BUNCH of players shoot straight through my buildings, and kill me with less than 4 shots.
I've seen players use aimbot and QUADRUPLE the damage to my character, like....BRUH, GET THE F*** OUTTA HERE! NO F****** WAY!
I've seen WAY TOO MANY players with full shield and full health, with 500 in ammo, with 6-7 kills ALREADY at the beginning of the game, 4-5 people spectating them...
WHAT CHU THINK they watching them for.... DUH THEY CHEATING! Everybody's f****** using aimbot, and ****!
I think it's a shame, that I've spent my and my family's hard earned money to invest in these shop items and unlockables.
I've honestly spent over $2,000.00 USD on Fortnite, but it was all in vain thanks to these f****** cheaters using aimbot.
They've defiled this game with all the hacks! My online experience is ruined!
TEAM RUMBLE: All you gonna see is a bunch of bad *** kids in player form, bullying and ganging up on other players, killing 'em with aimbot.
EVERY F****** GAME, the enemy team usually stays ahead by 20 to 30 kills....
Every day, my friends getting tired of me whining, b******* and complaining about all these cheaters. I literally CAN'T and DON'T enjoy this game anymore.
It's NOT FUN anymore.
This game literally has me catching RAGE MOMENTS back to back, I'm always slamming my hand on the Playstation, all because of these cheaters / hackers and their aimbot.
Because they realistically lack skill, so they bought or downloaded the hacks to never lose again, but they've f***** up the online experience for everyone else in the process.
I will have to find another game to play and just take my loses. I may even have to stop playing Black Ops 4, because they've hacked the **** outta that one too.
I guess it's back to Team Fortress 2 on Steam for me.... I may even sell my playstation, and tell my friends that I met on Fortnite goodbye forever. DEAD AZZ SERIOUS!
For anyone that feels the same way, and knows how real this entire post is, I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND, you stop wasting your time and money on this game.
It's basically a gimmick. All the purchases are knock offs of others, everything costs high as hell, and EPIC GAMES is allowing this f****** to continue.
NOT TO MENTION, they don't even have a customer service hotline, but they're taking our f****** money... BOGUS AS F***!
I've Decided To Give Up Fortnite.
TAKE IT FROM A MOVIE PRODUCTION COMPANY COMPOSED OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERS WITH DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, TECHNICAL ENGINEERING, AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING THAT HAVE WORKED ON MAIN FRAMES, MINIS, AND PCS USING MANY DIFFERENT SYSTEMS AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR BARE METAL PROGRAMMING ON UP SINCE BEFORE THE EARLIEST PERSONAL COMPUTERS WERE AVAILABLE ON THE COMMON MARKETS, WHO WORKED IN THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY ON PROPRIETARY COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND MILITARY SIMULATORS, WHO HAD TO FULFILL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND DEAL WITH ALL KINDS OF LEGALITIES AND GOVERNMENT BEAN COUNTERS, WHO LATER MOVED INTO THE FILM AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY WITH ALL THAT CONVOLUTED LEGAL DREG TO DEAL WITH:
WHAT HAPPENED IN FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR, STEPS TWO AND THREE IS NOT A GLITCH OR A BUG! WE KNOW ALL ABOUT GLITCHES AND BUGS! DO NOT USE THE WORDS GLITCH OR BUG IN REFERENCE TO FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR, STEPS TWO AND THREE! PROGRAMMERS DELIBERATELY WROTE THE CODE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF SENIOR PROGRAMMERS WHO PASSED THE WORK THROUGH A QUALITY ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT THAT WENT THROUGH EVERYTHING WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB BEFORE IT WAS PUBLICLY RELEASED TO THE CONSUMERS! WE ARE NOT GIVING YOU OPINIONS! WE ARE STATING FACTS!
THE FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR, STEPS TWO CLEARLY STATES THAT 150 BATTLESTARS WILL BE AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE AND STEP THREE CLEARLY STATES THAT 200 BATTLESTARS WILL BE AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE! WE REVIEWED THE RECENT HISTORICAL RECORDS THAT STATE THAT EPIC GAMES TURNED OFF THE AWARDS OF THE BATTLESTARS AFTER A FEW HOURS AND POSTED A CRPYTIC MESSAGE FOR A MOMENT! THE CRYPTIC MESSAGE THAT WAS POSTED FOR A MOMENT HAS NO LEGAL VALUE! THE FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR, STEP TWO STILL CLEARLY STATES THAT 150 BATTLESTARS WILL BE AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THAT CHALLENGE AND STEP THREE STILL CLEARLY STATES THAT 200 BATTLESTARS WILL BE AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THAT CHALLENGE! EPIC GAMES IS LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO AWARD THE BATTLESTARS TO ALL THE ACCOUNTS THAT HAVE COMPLETED THE CHALLENGES, 150 BATTLESTARS FOR COMPLETING THE SECOND CHALLENGE OF FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR AND 200 BATTLESTARS FOR COMPLETING THE THIRD CHALLENGE OF FORTNITEMARES CHALLENGES PART THREE ITEM FOUR! OPINIONS AND FEELINGS ARE IRRELEVANT!
ACCORDING TO RECENT HISTORICAL RECORDS SOME PLAYERS CLAIM NOTHING HAS BEEN AWARDED FOR COMPLETING THE TWO CHALLENGES WE ARE DISCUSSING SINCE EPIC GAMES TURNED OFF THE AWARDS AND POSTED A MOMENTARY CRYPTIC MESSAGE THAT HAS NO LEGAL VALUE! ALL THE FREE PASS ACCOUNTS THAT COMPLETED THE CHALLENGES MUST HAVE THEIR ACCOUNTS TIERED UP TO COLLECT WHAT LITTLE WORTHLESS VIRTUAL CRAP THEY ARE TO GET DUMPED INTO THEIR ACCOUNTS AND ALL THE SUCKERS THAT PURCHASED A BATTLE PASS MUST HAVE THEIR ACCOUNTS TIERED UP TO COLLECT THE LOAD OF WORTHLESS VIRTUAL CRAP THEY ARE TO GET DUMPED INTO THEIR ACCOUNTS! EPIC GAMES CAN CRY TOS, TOS, TOS, EULA, EULA, EULA, BETA, BETA, BETA, ALL THEY WANT TO IN COURT! EPIC GAMES CAN JUST SHUT THE WHOLE THING DOWN LIKE MANY OTHER INTERNET SUCKER TRAPS DO AND ALL THE WORTHLESS VIRTUAL CRAP SUCKERS WASTED MONEY ON WILL BE GONE! THE CLASS ACTION LAW SUITS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!
EPIC GAMES LIKE MANY OTHER VIRTUAL SUCKER TRAPS ON THE INTERNET THINKS THEY CAN TREAT ALL THEIR CONSUMERS JUST ANY KIND OF WAY, LABELING INNOVATION AS CHEATING TO COVER THEIR INCOMPETENCE AS PROGRAMMERS AND BANNING ACCOUNTS FOR NO REASON, EVEN RAISING THEIR OWN LAW SUITS AGAINST INNOVATORS WHO EXPOSE THEIR FLAWS AND LACK OF LOGIC! FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS THERE IS ONLY ONE RULE, IF THE SOFTWARE LETS YOU DO IT, YOU CAN DO IT! WRITTEN RULES ARE NOT A PATCH FOR INCOMPETENT SOFTWARE PROGRAMMING! EPIC GAMES HAS ALREADY BEEN ADVISED TO EXPECT CLASS ACTION LAW SUITS! IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF EPIC GAMES TO AWARD ALL THE WORTHLESS VIRTUAL CRAP THAT IS OWED TO THE ACCOUNTS THAT HAVE COMPLETED THE TWO CHALLENGES WE HAVE DISCUSSED!
THE HISTORICAL RECORDS WE REFERRED TO ARE POSTED AT Youtube.com/watch?v=zGJOEL5rv64 HOW TO GET 35 TIERS IN BATTLE PASS *FOR FREE* SEASON 6 - FORTNITEMARE CHALLENGE GLITCH !
youtube.com/watch?v=ctfn8jO5kqk How to get 350 Battle stars with Fortnitemare Glitch
youtube.com/watch?v=DCC_EervBms HOW TO GET 40 TIERS FOR FREE IN BATTLE PASS SEASON 6 - FORTNITEMARES WEEK 5 CHALLENGE GLITCH !
.youtube.com/watch?v=F8cduAs8EB4 HOW TO GET 35 TIERS IN BATTLE PASS *FOR FREE* SEASON 6 - FORTNITEMARE CHALLENGE GLITCH!
youtube.com/watch?v=spc7h_oXXRQ Fortnitemare Challenge Glitch: We can keep everything
youtube.com/watch?v=ZOpJ72E5hrw The Fortnitemare glitch has been fixed. Good news is you keep your stuff! Fortnite Challenges error
epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/bug-reports/battle-royale-aa/793245-35-free-tiers-on-fortnitemares-challenges-round-3/page10
epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/bug-reports/battle-royale-aa/793446-fortnitemares-battle-pass-tier-bug
epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/battle-royale/royale-with-cheese/794810-fortnitemares-part-3-bug-unfair
epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/bug-reports/battle-royale-aa/793446-fortnitemares-battle-pass-tier-bug/page6
epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/suggestions-advice/794077-fortnitemares-challenge-week-3
epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/bug-reports/battle-royale-aa/793682-there-s-a-glitch-with-part-3-of-fortnitemares
epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/bug-reports/battle-royale-aa/800752-yet-another-challenge-bugIGHTS THAT WANT IN ON THIS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FUN CAN GO TO ForThePeople.com TO SIGN UP TO PARTICIPATE BY FILLING OUT THE POP UP FORM AND/OR USE THE CHAT FUNCTION ALL FOR FREE!epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/suggestions-advice/801042-i-lost-35-tiers-after-bug
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EVIDENCE: WE POSTED THE ABOVE STATEMENT TO ONE OF THE FORUMS ABOVE WITH A BRAND NEW ACCOUNT MADE JUST FOR THAT PURPOSE AND GOT THE FOLLOWING RESPONSE:
You have been permanently banned by Capt Gilligan for the following reason:
Threat / caps / linking multiple YT videos / conspiring.