I wasn’t at first, but after seeing this comment and it’s replies curiosity got me.
Acorr
7 days ago
I distinctly remember QR codes being used to lead to websites abusing a vulnerability infecting phones with malware. I think this got patched real quick but I wonder if his phone is now compromised
Navigating to any website is already opening up your device to attack. QR itself doesn’t need to have the vulnerability. Anything can be downloaded from a site that can target a vulnerability on your device.
Simply put, never trust QR. It is worse than clicking on an unknown link, as you can at least see the address of a link.
Many qr code readers these days don’t just open url immediately, but show it on screen as text with a button to go there. So it’s not really any different from opening other links.
I should have clarified. QR has universally a short link, which hides the true link. “Regular” links can be short links, but many are not. This can give you extra information, like whether it’s a tracking link.
QR has universally a short link, which hides the true link.
As someone who has spent a lot of time with the bare to the metal QR code specification, nothing about it mandates link shorteners.
A lot of companies DO use them, because they can’t be arsed to just use an actual generator correctly (online free generators are infamous for using their own link shorteners without asking)
But there is nothing in the spec that makes this “universal”
Are there really QR codes scanner that don’t show you the address and don’t require a manual validation before opening the link?
I feel that it is safer than clicking a link on a touch screen.
On a device with a mouse pointer, you can hover to see the content of the link, but on touchscreen, you can’t see the address hidden in the text.
On a touch screen on Android you can long press and copy the link, among others. If this isn’t the case for a device, it’s a shortcoming in the design. In the end the link was there, even if the device couldn’t show it.
There was an actual vulnerability in the Google Lens QR Code parser, if I remember correctly.
It was not just some malware on the website that opened if you followed the link in the QR Code. That hasn’t been patched (there really isn’t anything to patch – it works as intended)
There’s no vulnerability to fix with QR codes, it just needs public awareness of the potential dangers. Scanning a random QR code and going to the link without exercising any caution is the same thing as blindly clicking a link in a random email (including spams and scams) or clicking a random link on a webpage (including the obvious fake download buttons and all kind of trash). Scanning a code will not install malware by itself, you first need to open the link it contains. Once you open the malicious website, there are 3 possible outcome. If it’s a very… Read more »
I guess the issue was early apps just opening the link then. I also distinctly remember a time when browsers on PC (Internet Explorer at least) would download files by default without asking (you could manually set the browser to ask). Let’s just say, there suddenly was a sexyladies.exe file on my desktop on more than one occasion. Learning how to internet in the early 2000s was a gradual process
I feel like their “guy in the chair”/tech designer has proofed their equipment for such attacks. Besides something like Zeke or so.
Ghostforge
7 days ago
Here’s how i expect this will play out. First, Ethan’s new girlfriend is The Troll, and she’s acting like she is to both screw with him and set up her “killing joke” equivalent scenario. Said scenario is to have a showdown happen with those two other villains that busted out, and attempt to have Ethan no-show to appease his girlfriend. If he no-shows, the plan is to overwhelm Lucas, inflict grievous injury or worse, and torment Ethan with the knowledge that he could’ve possibly averted it, and then spring the knowledge that it was the Troll the whole time. If… Read more »
I recall that on the occasion/s(?) they’ve met with The Troll physically that they were a completely different body type and size from Ethans current partner, that’s a much more difficult thing to change.
You did just remind me of that, and that does indeed shift my perspective on my theory’s likeliness- that said, depending on the exact height of both personas, someone like ethan’s girlfriend could very easily slouch and wear baggy clothing to heavily obscure their exact size and body type, And someone untrained in what to look for, and/or not knowing they need *to* look for that is generally pretty easy to fool with that trick. Still, it’s significantly more unlikely with that reminder. Thanks for the input!
The Troll was 90lbs soaking wet, Ethan’s girlfriend is a 6ft something Amazon woman who can probably bench press twice that.
Now it IS possible that she’s a fan of the troll, which would instantly end the relationship if revealed.
What is up with so many people here thinking Nicole is actually the Troll? There’s no resemblance whatsoever, it’s visually obvious they’ve two opposite sexual genders, and Nicole has a much different physical build, towering well above the Troll’s height. And even if you still somehow think they’re one and the same, keep in mind that Ethan saw Nicole in fairly revealing clothing multiple times early on, and just saw and felt her in the nude when they slept together at the start of this issue; That completely rules out any ridiculous ideas of a body suit or other implausibly… Read more »
In my case it’s bad memory combined with it being a *while* since the last troll appearance in irl time- plus her face is *just* similar enough that if you squint, someone might think it was her with face paint on if they couldn’t recall those details you mentioned.
Bad memory is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that sentence. There’ve been regular check-ins with Troll. (Lucas visiting him, Elijah being wheeled in)
And even if she was exactly the same body size, it still wouldn’t make any sense for Nicole to even be affiliated with the Troll.
Seriously, why is it so hard to consider a character might not be the Troll, and possibly have their own storyline? At this point the baseless Troll yelling almost feels like people are pinning everything on him purely because they are too lazy to memorize more than one character.
My two cents is that it’s because films and series are now more akin to those cheap drama series. Films and series have a limited time to develop characters, so having someone do multiple roles means more efficient time. Though they have gone so far that any character introduced is now the long lost stepfather “presumed dead” in series/movie one, having an affair with the ultimate bad, and is now actually pulling the strings. Death is just a “how will they return” question. We expect the bizarre and the outlandish, because it’s all we get. Subtlety, context and true stakes… Read more »
Realistically, Troll would just get the death penalty. Probably an expedited execution given his history of escaping justice. If not a ‘accidental’ double tap by a police officer arresting him saying he was going for a concealed weapon. No Jury would determine he is so insane he doesn’t understand what he is doing. He’s not talking about lizardmen disguised as people, he’s just a freak who gets his jollies fucking with people. He’s much to coherent to be treated as too insane to stand trial. But that also means they can’t have a rotating roster of super villains to tell… Read more »
Welcome to the civilised world everybody! Where we dole out crimes against humanity as “justice” based on our feelings. In the worst light he’s still less bad than Elijah, a serial killer. The Troll is a public nuisance, 3 counts of attempted murder and 1 actual murder, that last one according to the Troll himself. He’s definitely dangerous, but immediately calling for someone’s death is simply extreme. After his first escape from the hospital he didn’t even try to murder anyone. What he did was bad, but death penalty bad? That easily? Based on such easy dispensation of the death… Read more »
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Glurglenuts
7 days ago
Thank god we live in age where people can’t just spew poisonous rhetoric on to the internet completely unchallenged and face no repercussions for doing so.
Well I certainly wish more people used their free speech to help others rather then make up lies and hurt people for fun.
DerGrimmigeZwerg
7 days ago
As much as I dislike Ethan’s girlfriend, this time it might work out.
The best way to deal with trolls is to “not feed them”, aka ignore them.
If Ethan’s too busy making sure his toxic relationship doesn’t implode any given second, he might just destroy the Troll’s plans.
Then again, this advice is for non-homicidal-superpowered-villain type trolls, so it might not work here…
This is how the Troll ended up being thrown from the roof. They ignored him, he upped the ante until he strapped some people with explosives, one of which failed off screen and killed a person (though our only source is the Troll), which forced their hand. In the saving that ensued Ethan prevented the Troll from falling off a building, and in the chaos he might have dropped the Troll or he simply slipped from Ethan’s grasp. Ignoring doesn’t seem to be a true option. That being said, what should be an option is to invoke police and other… Read more »
I mean, there’s tons of police and other supers out there, why aren’t they helping instead of the Trolls target? If an escaped murderer taunted a police officer and made it his mission to troll that police officer, would any competent law enforcement force keep him on the case? Or instead remove him from the situation and catch the murderer?
Exactly what I was saying. Other supers should get involved.l, as well as the police giving it a higher priority. The first time the Troll wasn’t a threat to lives. He was just trolling people. It was a surprise to everyone that he suddenly made explosives and threatened to blow several people up, and allegedly blowing someone up while making the trap. I can imagine police and superheroes alike were unprepared. Now however he’s escaped with the possible help of Elijah, a known super and *serial killer*, and a kid with superpowers that can easily be influenced by two older… Read more »
He had already driven at least one super through enough misery to make them to end their own life, so Troll really wasn’t harmless even before Analog.
From what Prime told Analog, seemingly people, including supers, have actually tried to find Troll, but he is usually pretty good at staying hidden. Analog might be one of the first times he put himself in the open.
I forgot he drove someone over the edge. In which comic was this? It’s bad, but I don’t think it’s that bad that a full police force is hunting him and supers are on standby to aid in his arrest. It was a surprise to everyone he came out in the open. Now that he’s broadcasting that something’s happening I hope they are on high alert, and that Lucas is sending all information to the police.
Prime told about it when they asked her for help/advice on dealing with Troll, can’t remember the exact issue. I don’t think Troll was citywide manhunt level, but I’m sure at least some of his previous targets would’ve tried to retaliate. (and apparently failed to find him). Threat level gets a bit weird in super city anyway. Troll is dangerous, but a world with skyscraper-sized eldritch abominations tends to skew the scales quite a bit. In another city a guy like Troll might be the biggest threat in decades and warrant full attention, but for Omnitropolis it might just be… Read more »
Good points. Though I think the Troll is still a high level threat. Prime was going for a rooftop disturbance instead of searching for an Eldrich tentacle bomb. They have time for the smaller stuff.
Dan Major
7 days ago
Sure what could go wrong running the Troll’s QR code on your own smartphone. I can’t possibly imagine he or someone with him working up a tracker that injects itself on all phones reading the code – the cross-relates that to when Analog or Dpad show up… Then he can tail them home…
Ziveron
7 days ago
Here’s hoping Lucas isn’t just standing there in the open watching that. Sure, he’s still airborne, but that doesn’t mean that someone couldn’t ambush him while his attention is on the message. Watch it somewhere else, dude!
papabear
7 days ago
I mean if that wasn’t a perfect rick-roll opportunity I don’t know what would be.
MrMeng
7 days ago
Just spitballing here but I think it would be really cool if Nicole finds out about Ethan being a superhero and is totally into it but when The Troll brings Ethan to the point where he’s ready to end it all Nicole winds up ending The Troll once and for all in order to protect Ethan. Ethan can’t forgive her for doing so which leads to Nicole going full villain and she winds up being his ‘Joker’ instead of The Troll.
Killiak
7 days ago
Imagine Nicole finding out Ethan is Analog, and she goes off the rails about it against him…. but then he gets hurt by the Troll, or she sees these videos he recently has been making…
And goes to murder the Troll, because nobody gaslights Ethan but her! That gets her sent to jail, and now Ethan has a new murderous villain in the wings that has this sick obsession with him.
Yandere++
MercuryGreen
7 days ago
It’s a setup (obviously) – he used their ACTUAL codenames!
Zequeins
7 days ago
Kudos for Elijah spraypainting a QR Code though. That can’t be easy.
Entercoven
7 days ago
So as annoying as these villains are, I gotta ask… just how hard would it be to SPRAY PAINT a QR Code onto a building? I have to assume you have to be Very precise with the pixels in order to properly create the QR Code…
Can’t you just put a piece of cardboard against the wall so you can paint the edges of shapes flawlessly? Or is there something about spray painting I’m missing? There’s plenty of much more complex shapes on the sides of buildings.
on that scale it wouldn’t have to be that precise. simplest thing would be finding a wall with a regluar structure that you can use to align rows and columns..
You can even go by putting round spots in the correct raster. see online code generators for examples.
I don’t know about OP, but for me it’s less about precise paint placement, and more about, y’know, faithfully reproducing a QR code. That pattern is way too big for a stencil, and recreating a QR code is about up there with faithfully transcribing 23,000 binary digits. (Well, maybe 20,000 if you lean on error correction.) While dangling from a rope. Many stories up. Shit, I have trouble accurately transcribing a couple hundred data points from a pdf to an excel sheet. I guess what I’m saying is either Elijah also has super speed thinking and is therefore a Speed… Read more »
Oyee
6 days ago
Wonder when it registers to Elijah, that the Troll is just as insidious as he thinks video games are. Or when he does a casual search on the Troll driving other heroes to suicide
I think it’s a case of “ends justify the means.” Two gaming superheroes he thinks are part of the problem have thwarted him. He might put up with the Troll as long as it furthers his anti-gaming agenda. Taking Analogue and D-Pad out of the equation is part of that. As soon as the Troll is not needed anymore, he’ll just speed away. Unless he thinks the Troll is a direct danger to children, he’ll leave him alone I think. Not that it’s likely to get that far. If this fails, I don’t know if they would continue to work… Read more »
Kai
6 days ago
So is no one going to ask how the actual hell someone managed to paint a QR code meticulously enough that it actually scans? That is the most tedious task I think I have ever seen completed.
ReyMonoArdilla
6 days ago
Well, at least nothing bad has ever happened to Lucas when he’s out patrolling without Ethan. 😑
West
6 days ago
Kind of amazing a known prison escapist, troll, and murderer is still trying to gaslight the people.
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Raise your hand if you’re “some of you”!
One of us!
Some of us! Some of us!
Raises hand 😀
Rise hand, but expected a rickroll
Me too.
But it doesn’t matter, the expectation of it was enough to get it running on repeat on my brain for the rest of the day.
It would have been extra funny if the QR redirected back to this page, actually
Guilty.
Ah damn, got me
Yep!
I wasn’t at first, but after seeing this comment and it’s replies curiosity got me.
I distinctly remember QR codes being used to lead to websites abusing a vulnerability infecting phones with malware. I think this got patched real quick but I wonder if his phone is now compromised
Navigating to any website is already opening up your device to attack. QR itself doesn’t need to have the vulnerability. Anything can be downloaded from a site that can target a vulnerability on your device.
Simply put, never trust QR. It is worse than clicking on an unknown link, as you can at least see the address of a link.
Many qr code readers these days don’t just open url immediately, but show it on screen as text with a button to go there. So it’s not really any different from opening other links.
I should have clarified. QR has universally a short link, which hides the true link. “Regular” links can be short links, but many are not. This can give you extra information, like whether it’s a tracking link.
As someone who has spent a lot of time with the bare to the metal QR code specification, nothing about it mandates link shorteners.
A lot of companies DO use them, because they can’t be arsed to just use an actual generator correctly (online free generators are infamous for using their own link shorteners without asking)
But there is nothing in the spec that makes this “universal”
Are there really QR codes scanner that don’t show you the address and don’t require a manual validation before opening the link?
I feel that it is safer than clicking a link on a touch screen.
On a device with a mouse pointer, you can hover to see the content of the link, but on touchscreen, you can’t see the address hidden in the text.
On a touch screen on Android you can long press and copy the link, among others. If this isn’t the case for a device, it’s a shortcoming in the design. In the end the link was there, even if the device couldn’t show it.
There was an actual vulnerability in the Google Lens QR Code parser, if I remember correctly.
It was not just some malware on the website that opened if you followed the link in the QR Code. That hasn’t been patched (there really isn’t anything to patch – it works as intended)
There’s no vulnerability to fix with QR codes, it just needs public awareness of the potential dangers. Scanning a random QR code and going to the link without exercising any caution is the same thing as blindly clicking a link in a random email (including spams and scams) or clicking a random link on a webpage (including the obvious fake download buttons and all kind of trash). Scanning a code will not install malware by itself, you first need to open the link it contains. Once you open the malicious website, there are 3 possible outcome. If it’s a very… Read more »
I guess the issue was early apps just opening the link then. I also distinctly remember a time when browsers on PC (Internet Explorer at least) would download files by default without asking (you could manually set the browser to ask). Let’s just say, there suddenly was a sexyladies.exe file on my desktop on more than one occasion. Learning how to internet in the early 2000s was a gradual process
I feel like their “guy in the chair”/tech designer has proofed their equipment for such attacks. Besides something like Zeke or so.
Here’s how i expect this will play out. First, Ethan’s new girlfriend is The Troll, and she’s acting like she is to both screw with him and set up her “killing joke” equivalent scenario. Said scenario is to have a showdown happen with those two other villains that busted out, and attempt to have Ethan no-show to appease his girlfriend. If he no-shows, the plan is to overwhelm Lucas, inflict grievous injury or worse, and torment Ethan with the knowledge that he could’ve possibly averted it, and then spring the knowledge that it was the Troll the whole time. If… Read more »
I recall that on the occasion/s(?) they’ve met with The Troll physically that they were a completely different body type and size from Ethans current partner, that’s a much more difficult thing to change.
You did just remind me of that, and that does indeed shift my perspective on my theory’s likeliness- that said, depending on the exact height of both personas, someone like ethan’s girlfriend could very easily slouch and wear baggy clothing to heavily obscure their exact size and body type, And someone untrained in what to look for, and/or not knowing they need *to* look for that is generally pretty easy to fool with that trick. Still, it’s significantly more unlikely with that reminder. Thanks for the input!
I think she is in on it. I mean, the worse thing for a superhero to do, is not be there when he is needed…
The Troll was 90lbs soaking wet, Ethan’s girlfriend is a 6ft something Amazon woman who can probably bench press twice that.
Now it IS possible that she’s a fan of the troll, which would instantly end the relationship if revealed.
Okay yeah no I’m totally wrong then.
What is up with so many people here thinking Nicole is actually the Troll? There’s no resemblance whatsoever, it’s visually obvious they’ve two opposite sexual genders, and Nicole has a much different physical build, towering well above the Troll’s height. And even if you still somehow think they’re one and the same, keep in mind that Ethan saw Nicole in fairly revealing clothing multiple times early on, and just saw and felt her in the nude when they slept together at the start of this issue; That completely rules out any ridiculous ideas of a body suit or other implausibly… Read more »
In my case it’s bad memory combined with it being a *while* since the last troll appearance in irl time- plus her face is *just* similar enough that if you squint, someone might think it was her with face paint on if they couldn’t recall those details you mentioned.
Well here’s another nail to the theory.
The Troll was in jail the moment Ethan met Nicole.
We can go on about speech patterns and that it wouldn’t make sense story wise.
Bad memory is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that sentence. There’ve been regular check-ins with Troll. (Lucas visiting him, Elijah being wheeled in)
And even if she was exactly the same body size, it still wouldn’t make any sense for Nicole to even be affiliated with the Troll.
Seriously, why is it so hard to consider a character might not be the Troll, and possibly have their own storyline? At this point the baseless Troll yelling almost feels like people are pinning everything on him purely because they are too lazy to memorize more than one character.
My two cents is that it’s because films and series are now more akin to those cheap drama series. Films and series have a limited time to develop characters, so having someone do multiple roles means more efficient time. Though they have gone so far that any character introduced is now the long lost stepfather “presumed dead” in series/movie one, having an affair with the ultimate bad, and is now actually pulling the strings. Death is just a “how will they return” question. We expect the bizarre and the outlandish, because it’s all we get. Subtlety, context and true stakes… Read more »
Realistically, Troll would just get the death penalty. Probably an expedited execution given his history of escaping justice. If not a ‘accidental’ double tap by a police officer arresting him saying he was going for a concealed weapon. No Jury would determine he is so insane he doesn’t understand what he is doing. He’s not talking about lizardmen disguised as people, he’s just a freak who gets his jollies fucking with people. He’s much to coherent to be treated as too insane to stand trial. But that also means they can’t have a rotating roster of super villains to tell… Read more »
Welcome to the civilised world everybody! Where we dole out crimes against humanity as “justice” based on our feelings. In the worst light he’s still less bad than Elijah, a serial killer. The Troll is a public nuisance, 3 counts of attempted murder and 1 actual murder, that last one according to the Troll himself. He’s definitely dangerous, but immediately calling for someone’s death is simply extreme. After his first escape from the hospital he didn’t even try to murder anyone. What he did was bad, but death penalty bad? That easily? Based on such easy dispensation of the death… Read more »
Thank god we live in age where people can’t just spew poisonous rhetoric on to the internet completely unchallenged and face no repercussions for doing so.
Oh wait, I was thinking of the other timeline.
It’s an unfortunate tradeoff for living in a society that values free speech.
Well I certainly wish more people used their free speech to help others rather then make up lies and hurt people for fun.
As much as I dislike Ethan’s girlfriend, this time it might work out.
The best way to deal with trolls is to “not feed them”, aka ignore them.
If Ethan’s too busy making sure his toxic relationship doesn’t implode any given second, he might just destroy the Troll’s plans.
Then again, this advice is for non-homicidal-superpowered-villain type trolls, so it might not work here…
This is how the Troll ended up being thrown from the roof. They ignored him, he upped the ante until he strapped some people with explosives, one of which failed off screen and killed a person (though our only source is the Troll), which forced their hand. In the saving that ensued Ethan prevented the Troll from falling off a building, and in the chaos he might have dropped the Troll or he simply slipped from Ethan’s grasp. Ignoring doesn’t seem to be a true option. That being said, what should be an option is to invoke police and other… Read more »
I mean, there’s tons of police and other supers out there, why aren’t they helping instead of the Trolls target? If an escaped murderer taunted a police officer and made it his mission to troll that police officer, would any competent law enforcement force keep him on the case? Or instead remove him from the situation and catch the murderer?
Exactly what I was saying. Other supers should get involved.l, as well as the police giving it a higher priority. The first time the Troll wasn’t a threat to lives. He was just trolling people. It was a surprise to everyone that he suddenly made explosives and threatened to blow several people up, and allegedly blowing someone up while making the trap. I can imagine police and superheroes alike were unprepared. Now however he’s escaped with the possible help of Elijah, a known super and *serial killer*, and a kid with superpowers that can easily be influenced by two older… Read more »
He had already driven at least one super through enough misery to make them to end their own life, so Troll really wasn’t harmless even before Analog.
From what Prime told Analog, seemingly people, including supers, have actually tried to find Troll, but he is usually pretty good at staying hidden. Analog might be one of the first times he put himself in the open.
I forgot he drove someone over the edge. In which comic was this? It’s bad, but I don’t think it’s that bad that a full police force is hunting him and supers are on standby to aid in his arrest. It was a surprise to everyone he came out in the open. Now that he’s broadcasting that something’s happening I hope they are on high alert, and that Lucas is sending all information to the police.
Prime told about it when they asked her for help/advice on dealing with Troll, can’t remember the exact issue. I don’t think Troll was citywide manhunt level, but I’m sure at least some of his previous targets would’ve tried to retaliate. (and apparently failed to find him). Threat level gets a bit weird in super city anyway. Troll is dangerous, but a world with skyscraper-sized eldritch abominations tends to skew the scales quite a bit. In another city a guy like Troll might be the biggest threat in decades and warrant full attention, but for Omnitropolis it might just be… Read more »
Good points. Though I think the Troll is still a high level threat. Prime was going for a rooftop disturbance instead of searching for an Eldrich tentacle bomb. They have time for the smaller stuff.
Sure what could go wrong running the Troll’s QR code on your own smartphone. I can’t possibly imagine he or someone with him working up a tracker that injects itself on all phones reading the code – the cross-relates that to when Analog or Dpad show up… Then he can tail them home…
Here’s hoping Lucas isn’t just standing there in the open watching that. Sure, he’s still airborne, but that doesn’t mean that someone couldn’t ambush him while his attention is on the message. Watch it somewhere else, dude!
I mean if that wasn’t a perfect rick-roll opportunity I don’t know what would be.
Just spitballing here but I think it would be really cool if Nicole finds out about Ethan being a superhero and is totally into it but when The Troll brings Ethan to the point where he’s ready to end it all Nicole winds up ending The Troll once and for all in order to protect Ethan. Ethan can’t forgive her for doing so which leads to Nicole going full villain and she winds up being his ‘Joker’ instead of The Troll.
Imagine Nicole finding out Ethan is Analog, and she goes off the rails about it against him…. but then he gets hurt by the Troll, or she sees these videos he recently has been making…
And goes to murder the Troll, because nobody gaslights Ethan but her! That gets her sent to jail, and now Ethan has a new murderous villain in the wings that has this sick obsession with him.
Yandere++
It’s a setup (obviously) – he used their ACTUAL codenames!
Kudos for Elijah spraypainting a QR Code though. That can’t be easy.
So as annoying as these villains are, I gotta ask… just how hard would it be to SPRAY PAINT a QR Code onto a building? I have to assume you have to be Very precise with the pixels in order to properly create the QR Code…
And doing so on a damn wall, several stories high
They do have powers that might help.
I could imagine Black Hat having some copy paste and enlarge functionalities on his hacking glove, that’d make this fairly easy.
Can’t you just put a piece of cardboard against the wall so you can paint the edges of shapes flawlessly? Or is there something about spray painting I’m missing? There’s plenty of much more complex shapes on the sides of buildings.
on that scale it wouldn’t have to be that precise. simplest thing would be finding a wall with a regluar structure that you can use to align rows and columns..
You can even go by putting round spots in the correct raster. see online code generators for examples.
I don’t know about OP, but for me it’s less about precise paint placement, and more about, y’know, faithfully reproducing a QR code. That pattern is way too big for a stencil, and recreating a QR code is about up there with faithfully transcribing 23,000 binary digits. (Well, maybe 20,000 if you lean on error correction.) While dangling from a rope. Many stories up. Shit, I have trouble accurately transcribing a couple hundred data points from a pdf to an excel sheet. I guess what I’m saying is either Elijah also has super speed thinking and is therefore a Speed… Read more »
Wonder when it registers to Elijah, that the Troll is just as insidious as he thinks video games are. Or when he does a casual search on the Troll driving other heroes to suicide
I think it’s a case of “ends justify the means.” Two gaming superheroes he thinks are part of the problem have thwarted him. He might put up with the Troll as long as it furthers his anti-gaming agenda. Taking Analogue and D-Pad out of the equation is part of that. As soon as the Troll is not needed anymore, he’ll just speed away. Unless he thinks the Troll is a direct danger to children, he’ll leave him alone I think. Not that it’s likely to get that far. If this fails, I don’t know if they would continue to work… Read more »
So is no one going to ask how the actual hell someone managed to paint a QR code meticulously enough that it actually scans? That is the most tedious task I think I have ever seen completed.
Well, at least nothing bad has ever happened to Lucas when he’s out patrolling without Ethan. 😑
Kind of amazing a known prison escapist, troll, and murderer is still trying to gaslight the people.