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[–] Maho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 116 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seriously? their attack against an asshole transphobe is... calling her tr*nny and being exactly as shitty as her?

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 109 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's why it's so juicy, they're all such terrible people we don't have to pick sides

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Literally Jersey Shore for nerds... Why do we primates love trashy drama so much???

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[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 115 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I have half a mind to start releasing cracks just so there's 1 cracker who isn't a fucking bigot.

EDIT: btw, didn't Voksi get arrested back in 2018? And EMPRESS started releasing cracks in like 2019. So are we to believe that Voksi goes to jail for a year, and immediately comes out and starts cracking again, all without receiving another visit from the feds? Doubt.

EDIT2: lol here's Voksi's response: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2218172

Fuck EMPRESS and SKIDROW, SKIDROW for dragging Voksi into the petty bullshit and both of them for their childish, edgleord bullshit.

[–] yukichigai@kbin.social 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have half a mind to start releasing cracks just so there’s 1 cracker who isn’t a fucking bigot.

I have had this exact thought, but that would undoubtedly eat up what little free time I have these days. I don't have as much of it as I used to.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

And that's why all those folks have mental issues. Having the skill is not enough, you need to pretty much dedicate your whole life to "the craft"

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[–] 3TH4Li4@feddit.ch 108 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Seems like no cracker or repacker is ever mentally sane. Like, defending DRM and trans-slurs? Really? Not like Empress is normal either but wtf

[–] Helix@feddit.de 51 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the anti-gay and anti-trans commentary really made me repulse.

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[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Jesus, everyone involved in this shit is so deranged. God I hope the "Scene" dies out with the next generation, just chill people releasing cracks without following a tome of rules and schizoposting.

I don't even pirate anymore, I'm just here with the popcorn

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[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Drama aside, Skidrow really does "cracks"? I thought they were only repackers.

Voksi, you fokkin prick, DRM exists for a reason in this world, it protects legitimate interests of actual hard working people, that are entitled to get a decent income from their hard effort!!!!

I'm not on any "side" but wut? We are talking about a repacker to a cracker, I think they can be considered equally "guilty" in the sense of "making hard-working people lose money" by distributing the games themselves. And what the hell, I'm pretty sure that's not the reason DRM exists, and if it is, it's to secure the income of companies, not their workers.

[–] miracleorange@beehaw.org 23 points 2 years ago

A lot of scene people say they only do it for the "competition and glory" (which they said in here) because none of them really play the games they crack, but obviously it's hypocritical as fuck.

[–] monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

They cracked Denuvo on Fe recently. Granted that is a Unity3D game so the modular approach makes it slightly easier to crack.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 39 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I don't pirate games but after reading this, I DEFINITELY will not pirate games. If these clowns are the ones cracking/repacking the games then I do NOT trust the games to not contain malware/bullshit/whatever. Maybe I'm being paranoid but I wouldn't go anywhere near software put out by these people. They sound like the types to include malware just to frame the other group or whatever. Idk. These people are morons.

[–] miracleorange@beehaw.org 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only repacks I trust are FitGirl's, mostly because they're compressed to all hell and she's always just... kept her head down.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 7 points 2 years ago

That's the way. Just keep your head down and don't engage with morons.

[–] iliketrains@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

nowadays I assume cracked software (unless if the crack script is fully open source) to likely contain some kind of malware and I just sandbox them since I play cracked games with bottles flatpak anyway.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Flatpak is a linux package format. Bottles is a gui software that makes it easy to run windows software (especially games) on linux (it is a very good gui/management tool for wine)

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[–] YoMismo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 years ago

Personally I don't give a fuck about all this drama, it's like a cockfight for me, but a scene group defending DRM !? Finally may be they got paid to avoid denuvo releases...!?

[–] laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 2 years ago

I guess the takeaway is that Empress is deranged weird and Skidrow are creepy weird.

[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop. Is there a tl;dr version of what has happened so far?

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is and it's too long.

But basically software hacker taking money and has some weird takes on stuff. Also says they're a girl but probably a guy apparently. Word on the street is they are the only one who can crack some type of DRM so they remain relevant for the moment

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they feel like they have a moral high ground, they're mistaken. Both empress and skidrow are a piece of trash.

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[–] B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 years ago
[–] noctisatrae@beehaw.org 21 points 2 years ago

It’s crazy to be talented at reverse-engineering and needing all the attention. Guys, stop fighting a second, you need to be united if you want to defeat the DRMs!

[–] VampireHunterB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

well if they´re trying to get me to stop pirating and buy games even with drm in them well good job. I´d rather pay extra to avoid this stupid drama. Seriously all I wanted was some free games not seeing them showing off their hate boners for the trans community.

We get it you secretly wanna fuck trans people, you´re just too chickenshit to admit it.

"sighhhhh"

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[–] TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Had quite a great laugh reading that and the empress channel firing back. I just love sitting back and watching it all unfold. I don't care for either group i just want the games. I could care less who does it.

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[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What the actual fuck is wrong is people? What even are these idiots mad at each other over? I couldn't care less about this stupid bullshit. Absolutely fucking unreal behavior here.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Could someone please write a tldr?

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Here is the shortest tldr I could make (I am not a bot):

Ur a Bulgarian dude, not a chick

U don't understand our work

Bounce them titties

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Plus some decent ascii art

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[–] Aatube@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Better TL;DR:
"Empress is Voksi (a man who used to crack denuvo but arrested July 2018)"
"We decrypted the denuvo'd game logic (not 'generic code') and put it in a dll, not whatever you accused"
"send nudes tranny and we'll crack non-unity denuvo"

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[–] sourcery@lemmy.one 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I did not have defending DRM on my bingo card. Transphobia is especially vile though.

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[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] hempster@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I ain't reading all that shit. Just crack and distribute is what I'm here for.

[–] AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I like how everyone is concerned about the trans slurs but completely ignores them dropping the n word. Sounds about white for the crowd here I guess

[–] GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 years ago

Tbf, I simply didn't see it because I stopped reading halfway through. On the other hand, "tranny" is right at the beginning (and I think somewhere else too), and they seem to intentionally misgender Empress quite a few times, so they stick out quite a lot.

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Idk I stopped reading and immediately assumed the rest was horseshit when I saw the t word. Didn't even get to the n word.

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[–] Sharmat@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Anyone has a link to what prompted this response?

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