Seriously? their attack against an asshole transphobe is… calling her tr*nny and being exactly as shitty as her?
That’s why it’s so juicy, they’re all such terrible people we don’t have to pick sides
Literally Jersey Shore for nerds… Why do we primates love trashy drama so much???
not all of us. this shit is embarrassing. once again proving the old web was better.
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
Yeah, the anti-gay and anti-trans commentary really made me repulse.
Most of the old scene thought of cracking DRM in games as a challange within themselves, and did it for the competition. Skidrow’s thoughts align with this mindset. You can’t blame skidrow for that.
You definitely can blame them for the slurs, and defending DRM really doesn’t win over your fanbase.
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.
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.
I don’t get why people here are expecting pirates of all people to be polite company.
What the fuck? First they call out Empress for actually being a man from Bulgaria. Then they drop a transphobic slur. Then they defend DRM and publishers.
I can understand supporting the developers and promoting buying software you enjoy when you can. But one of the big motivations for cracking software is software preservation and removing DRM that harms legit user experiences. So I say again, wtf?I didn’t understand the DRM part neither.
The worst thing is that, compared to empress, they were quite moderate. I don’t know what’s wrong with them or why they’re all so mad… but I love the drama, I’m looking forward to the next episode.
There’s this thing where they pretend they actually do it to be first and not because they want people to download their cracks. And that’s how you get the crazy talk where they pretend they’re pro-DRM.
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…!?
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.
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.
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.
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.
What is bottles flakpak?
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)
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.
That’s the way. Just keep your head down and don’t engage with morons.
There are a lot of other legit crackers besides these two
If they feel like they have a moral high ground, they’re mistaken. Both empress and skidrow are a piece of trash.
I guess the takeaway is that Empress is deranged weird and Skidrow are creepy weird.
I don’t really understand how can a pirate defend DRM
DRM cracking is treated as a sport by the Scene. They don’t actually care about pirate philosophies and such, only the challenge.
They like to pretend so.
Could someone please write a tldr?
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
Plus some decent ascii art
And some not so decent transphobia when they called him a “tranny”
Empress is a just a transphobic piece of shit of a woman, rather than a “he/him” kind of person.
Both parties are wrong here even if Empress is by far the worst of the lot
I want to pirate their Ascii header, anyone have a link? All I can find is the text version.
You forgot the most important part. They are pro DRM… Wtf
okay, that TL;DR didn’t make much sense.
now we just need someone to give us Context lol.
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”I scrolled a lot to find this request, who is insane enough to read this?
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.
So… no disrespect but, are all scenes/crackers really creepy and angry people then?
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.
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