Lately, lots of scams on Discord DMs, and as a server owner I think I'm starting to see a new one. We all get reports of users who have their account stolen and are posting virus links. The natural reaction to seeing a screenshot of that just becomes. "Oh, not again.." and you ban them. Lately, I've been seeing situations where these screenshots are faked. It's not just as simple as harassing a person, they are using it to pretend to be discord/server staff with the ability to ban people. They tell staff a person is hacked, they get banned, then they reach out to that person pretending they are the one that banned them. No scam looks convincing from the outside looking in. We can all look at this and scoff it off, but given enough attempts, this sort of thing will fool someone at the wrong moment. So, if you run a discord server, do not trust screenshots. Have people use the forward feature to send you the real message from Discord itself.

Referring to people as john doe in situations outside of legal proceedings where the user is unknown. It's a term only used when another, like a username, is not known. Why use a name instead of the clearly showing username? And why say this afterwards? Is this a joke too? Who says "Their name is dropped. They get scared and bail." referencing the use of "John Doe"? Is this a fake screenshot?

And just because, here is a bonus!

In our @VRChat integration, an extra feature we plan on working on is the ability to use Hyperbeam to share gameplay directly into video players with nearly no delay. Here is @SonicFox using a test setup to showcase exactly that! (Thanks for testing it out!)

vrch.at/3snqq3tg I am testing this now for a brief time for anyone curious to check it out!

How to use Hyperbeam V2 to stream game play to any VRChat video player with VERY low latency. (A thread!) Set up OBS like normal with the following change Settings -> Stream (image included) whip.vdo.ninja/ mykey = any random set of letters Open a Hyperbeam V2 room In Hyperbeam, visit vdo.ninja/?hidemenu&whip=myk… Change "mykey" at the end to the same random string of letters you picked in OBS. Start your stream on OBS.

最新のテストバージョンのHyperbeamが、VRChatで使用できるようになりました！ LSMediaとProTVのサポーターは早期アクセスが可能です。 使用方法については、こちらのチュートリアル動画をご覧ください！

Hyperbeam is now fully functional in VRChat on the current test build! LSM and ProTV supporters have early access, check out this demo video to see how to start!

We have been silent, but we have been cooking! The UI and features are most likely going to change ever so slightly, but are near completion! Just a few rounds of bug fixes and adjustments to go!

Twitter is trying to out us... We had to get it so we could still DM people when they need help T.T