{"id":11295,"date":"2011-04-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"garry-s-mod-outs-dirty-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11295-garry-s-mod-outs-dirty-pirates","title":{"rendered":"Garry\u2019s Mod outs dirty pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday a bunch of irate gamers began filling the Steam forums and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facepunch.com\/threads\/1078199-GARRYS-MOD-STARTUP-CRASH\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facepunch forums\">Facepunch forums<\/a> with complaints that their copy of Garry&rsquo;s Mod was no longer working. Garry&rsquo;s Mod is an indie creation which allows owners of Source Engine games to manipulate and experiment with the assets and physics.<\/p>\n<p>It all began when Garry&rsquo;s Mod creator Garry Newman posted innocently on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrynewman\/status\/57855405606445057\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>: &ldquo;Anyone unable to shade polygon normals?&rdquo; People experiencing problems with Garry&rsquo;s Mod were receiving the following message after starting the game: &lsquo;Unable to shade polygon normals&rsquo; followed with a lengthy integer, which many presumed was the error code.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that in a wonderfully devious twist of events, Garry Newman had intentionally implemented the so-called &lsquo;bug.&rsquo; This was a means of tricking dirty game pirates into revealing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just enabled this error in GMod today. It happens when you pirated it. Having fun watching people complain,&rdquo; said Newman via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrynewman\/status\/57917898215272448\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. The &lsquo;error code&rsquo; was in fact their Steam user ID, spelling bad news for the Steam accounts of the pirates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/12541-Garry-s-Mod-quot-error-quot-helps-flush-out-pirates\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Discuss Garry Newman's devious plan on the MyGaming forum\"><strong>Discuss Garry Newman&#8217;s devious plan on the MyGaming forum<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sneaky devil Garry Newman has managed to reveal a bunch of game pirates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}