Punks using hacks on HL2 piss me off/

It always happens. It's an inevitability that some asshat will write a hack to get a leg up in a deathmatch game. It's happened in Half Life 2. Well, it's my first experience of it in HL2. Now, I'm not the best player ever in a deathmatch game, but I ain't no n00b. And I'm usually cursing to no one and everyone who kills me that they're a f*@kin cheater because my egotism will not allow for the very real fact that most are just quicker on the draw than I am. But these three guys - Nikita, Hunter Killer, and whoever the other guy getting the drop on me was - were definitely using some kind of hack that gave them super speed.

They were just a blur running around the arena. I would see a hint of them and in the split second it took the info to transfer to my itchy trigger finger, they would blast me. It got to the point where I would just stand there and let them frag me if I happened to spawn in the same room they were in. I don't understand what the fun is in using a hack to win. It's the wussy way out. I communicated that very thought to them. I don't know why. They couldn't care less what others think. It's the same thing as cursing at the computer screen when I get killed. I stroke my own ego and pretend I'm the superior player. Even though deep down I know that without the cheats, those same players would probably make a pile a steaming flesh out of me.

It's just the principle of the thing.