• MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    2 years ago

    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

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      2 years 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 😂

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      The other cracks football games? You mean like FIFA? Because I haven’t seen any cracks of those…

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      2 years ago

      Wait, so crackers don’t publish any documentation on cracking Denuvo? They just keep all the knowledge to themselves? Or is it just that nobody else wants to do it?

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        they keep it to themselves to remain on top. empress also accepts donations, even going so far as to refuse to crack a game unless she receives a certain amount of money like $500.

        she doesn’t release info because then she won’t be needed, and therefore won’t receive money for something that many crackers can do

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          Well her argument is, if Denuvo knows how she does it, they will patch it and it the process becomes more suicidal that it already is.

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    2 years ago

    Me, five minutes ago: “who’s this Empress?”

    Me, now: “I need to follow her, it’s free popcorn!”

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    2 years ago

    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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      2 years ago

      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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          2 years ago

          How right to repair is good for the consumer, complete lie. Daddy Tim Cook is keeping me safe with my glued in phone battery, anti-replacement display chip, Apple repair program required NDA, etc. He also bullies manufacturers into cutting off all direct-to-consumer sales of components, so that no nasty unsafe display ends up in my device. Thanks Tim, and fuck Louis! (obvious /s)