I was talking with a friend of mine over discord about hackers and from my point of view they are the lowest of the low, playing a competitive game based on skill with the only way they can feel accomplishment is by letting a program win for them.

My friend brought up a different view, he pointed out that it was a competitive game to me and other people with that viewpoint but that is now how some people view the thing. It doesn't matter about skill, its not even in the equation. What he brought up was those people are only interested in causing grief or a feeling of being better than another (its artificial in an already artificial setting, to me what makes it appealing is having some skill to win). While we have all seen cheaters and such it just strikes me as something of an ultimate failure when you can't even win at a game that isn't really real.

I come from America and real sports are what we care about, cheaters, like in the recent MMA scandal are taken serious because you are there to compete and not be some hack loser. So when I see hackers in games designed to be competitive it ticks me off because what is the point now other than grief or some fake sense of being better... you gotta be some damn worthless loser to get off on that.