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[–] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 240 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)

I saw this tweet a while ago that was like "Piracy lore is crazy, there's only like 2 people who know how to crack Denuvo. One of them is a psychotic transphobe who speaks like a JRPG villain, and the other only cracks football games"

I'm paraphrasing, but honestly it's so accurate...

Edit: For anyone confused, here is a great writeup on the history of Denuvo cracking, and Empresses lunacy

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only two people willing to crack denuvo games. And publicise their cracks.

Usually talent like that leads to well paying jobs, well paying jobs usually lead to wanting to not go to prison.

That doesn't mean people don't have the skill, it means they're not willing to use it, when someone else is already taking the heat

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[–] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

You have to be crazy to crack denuvo, and Empress fits the bill

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 35 points 1 year ago

Football manager uses a really old version of Denuvo too.

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aside from balking at the audacity of using a platform for piracy as her own personal blog, the community was quick to knock her down a peg.

So I guess you read them all? The great thinkers? To verify how you are above and beyond their thinking? Do you understand how utterly arrogant this post makes you? I will tell you why. To put yourself above thinkers like Arthur Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, John Locke, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Francisco de Vitoria, Friedrich Nietzsche and so many others. Human beings who have helped shape the foundation of the world we live in today. I am talking about the most basic of basic stuff we now take for granted like property, human rights, democratic governance and rule of law. Without these ideas and those who dedicated their lives to refine them, our world could not be like it is today.

This was a strong argument, but as someone else jokingly pointed out:

removed shut up, they pirated rdr2

Which, to be fair, Hobbes and Kant never did.

I'm fucking dead 😂

[–] safesyrup@feddit.ch 15 points 1 year ago

and the other only cracks football games

I actually LOLd at this

[–] clitoris@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

that was a great read, i recommend it to everyone who sees this post

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[–] JelloBrains@kbin.social 80 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I miss mostly anonymous people cracking games without running around screaming from the rafters about gremlins in their modems stealing their breakfast bars. I can't believe most if not all Denuvo releases are now only cracked by this person.

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[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why I don't trust her releases. God knows what she'll put in them to try and get at her "enemies" during some psychotic episode.

[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 48 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Don't forget the: "I'm the greatest philosopher who ever lived" and "I use visions and astral-states to crack my games" parts

[–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the second one is true, even in a subjective sense, I'm honestly just impressed. I mean, if it works, it works.

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[–] stratoscaster@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 year ago

She unironically needs to get help. I can't imagine what she's like IRL if she's this unhinged over something so small in the grand scheme of things.

Gets denied a loan: shits on the loan approvers desk Gets fired: merks her boss

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[–] theharber@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

I’m torn between this and thinking she wouldn’t want to risk the hit to her reputation.

FitGirl refused to repackage her content out of similar fears, though I’m sure the thought alone of FG getting to make a “told you so” post drives enough rage in her to ensure it likely wouldn’t happen.

[–] sarvo99@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 year ago (30 children)

you know whats sad - there are no denuvo crackers right now other than this psychopath bitch

[–] NoTime@lemmy.one 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this what cracking Denuvo does to people?

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[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

I'm just going to assume if she disappears, at any point, that she is in rehab for meth. Lots of meth.

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[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was kind of funny the first few times, now I just kind of cringe at her whenever she has one of these meltdowns.

[–] FinalFallacy@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Genius and insanity are close bedfellows.

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[–] totallynotfbi@lemmy.fmhy.ml 40 points 1 year ago

Lol, this sounds like a grandma complaining that Facebook is deleting her posts

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Empress is a neurotic narcissist who needs to be NUKED at every release and HARD MUTED, IGNORED, AND DEPLATFORMED by every sociopathic rant she makes.

We should not be giving her attention by talking about her; she needs to be SHUNNED into OBSCURITY. Let her fucking philosophize in her own damn isolation. Her behavior is unacceptable by most social standards and her contributions to society are not so significant we can't do without them.

[–] icogniito@lemmy.zip 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would agree except for the fact that the only person out there who cracks denuvo is a delirious psycopath. The denuvo piracy lore is so fucking hillarious

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me, five minutes ago: "who's this Empress?"

Me, now: "I need to follow her, it's free popcorn!"

[–] totallynotfbi@lemmy.fmhy.ml 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There's a whole writeup about Empress, and she used to be 10x as psychotic

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[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I may or may not have done some cracking since the early 90s.
Back then three things were true for me to start that hobby:

  1. Had a computer and lots of free time.
  2. Had 0 money but friends that would lend me a game for a week or two.
  3. Had access to burnable media.

This was mostly me trying to keep playing games after giving the disk (or disks) back.
However, once I might have cracked GTA (the original), the rush of finally understanding how a debugger worked and figuring it out, made actually playing less apealing than the whole figuring it out.

It made me rent games then just try figuring out how to crack them, but that was financially killing me as again I had nothing to begin with and I was now at minus some.

Granted that none of the early protections were anything similar to Denuvo.
In most cases, it was just a case of blocking a cd check here and there. Some had hilarious protections where the game would screw the player if detected: RA2 would be probably the most famous I remember. Often than not it made me paranoid if I had triped a trap and the game was being unfair or bugged.

Somehow I kept going until I shifted towards the Hackintosh scene.

Then when the first humble bundle appeared and people pirated it, it disgusted me to no avail and finally left this part of my life.

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[–] foxfell@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago

Words not a lady but a Pirate!🦜

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This reminds me of the conflict between Graphene OS's Dev and Louis Rossmann, and now Rossmann had to uninstall Graphene OS because he fears of the Dev injecting malware.

Edit: Video link, same one as the one in the replies below:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0

Mirror: https://onion.tube/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0

[–] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (17 children)

As someone who uses GrapheneOS, and likes Louis Rossman, this is very concerning. Could you link me to some info on this?

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[–] Coeus@coeus.sbs 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember when everyone was simping over her when she was cracking Hogwarts Legacy but no one cared once the crack was released.

[–] IYeetKids@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago

I miss CPY :'(

[–] MetalHead77@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With CPY and Codex gone the PC cracking scene is dead and gone as far as AAA games are concerned. Denuvo is too difficult and time consuming to crack. The scene lost.

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[–] clitoris@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk who this lady is, but does what she says hold any weight or am I still good on 1337x?

[–] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Darranged, racist and borderline-transphobic Denuvo cracker who goes off on unhinged rants pretty often. Generally what she says doesn't hold much weight.

Check the FreeMediaHeckYeah wiki, but as far as I know 1337x is still generally safe.

[–] Egg_In_Question@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 year ago

Not borderline transphobic, absolutely transphobic. Not an ounce of good will in her. She absolutely sees herself as superior to anyone and everyone and will hate anyone who is different.

[–] jormaig@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm out of the loop. What happened this time?

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Can somebody enlighten me on who this is and why I should care?

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[–] sh3ll@feddit.it 15 points 1 year ago

🤔 is there any evidence of what empress told?

[–] Cl1nk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't mind the rants, it's fun if you take it as it is: Part of the Spectacle. I don't believe empress is a single person with schizophrenia, most likely a group of people with a specific sense of humor

[–] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disagree. But, if true, we have been trolled to an elite level.

[–] stratoscaster@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it really elite trolling if it's literally just saying things that are generally offensive? Lmao

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