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???
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Yeah, I agree but at the same time I can’t look away from shit like this either…
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I don’t even pirate software anymore, just here to pass the popcorn.
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.
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.
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”
I don’t get why people here are expecting pirates of all people to be polite company.
Fair point.
No need to crack games but hear me out: fork goldberg emu and maintain
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.
What fan base? A thousand or so people that read the NFOs? 99% of crack users don’t even pay attention to the group that released it.
Most people almost never download NFOs that’s true. But if you’re a regular then you pay attention to which team does the work at least, so you’re not hacked or injected with cryptoshit.
When I torrent skidrow cracked games I usually don’t even download the NFO
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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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.
They cracked Denuvo on Fe recently. Granted that is a Unity3D game so the modular approach makes it slightly easier to crack.
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.
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.
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)
Casual wine/proton W
There are a lot of other legit crackers besides these two
I thought I read there’s only like 1 that does DRM cracking anymore. That’s not the case?
This is for a specific DRM called Denuvo. Most games don’t have it, but the big titles do
Is there only 1 that does denuvo?
Anymore? Yes. Used to be more, but at this point it’s basically just the shittiest person of the bunch.
It appears only the most deranged of the bunch are willing to dedicate their time cracking Denuvo.
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…!?
I guess the takeaway is that Empress is deranged weird and Skidrow are creepy weird.
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PLEASE, CRACK A GAME AND PUT THIS ON AN NFO!
The world needs this
Can be something simple like steamdrm
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I’m out of the loop. Is there a tl;dr version of what has happened so far?
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
If they feel like they have a moral high ground, they’re mistaken. Both empress and skidrow are a piece of trash.
Only goldberg was wholesome, till little kids did their thing
Man Voksi got fucked for absolutely no reason(https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/15szahz/voksi_denies_having_any_relation_with_the_empress/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), let the man live his life. Skidrow and Empress both are Idiots.
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!
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”
What drama? Some random footnotes in an .nfo file? How does it effect you at all?
Footnotes? Lol, it’s nearly the entire .nfo!
It’s generally a good idea to check the included materials whenever you’re using any software, including cracks. If those materials are packed with several paragraphs of pointless name calling it absolutely effects the end-user
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.
I wish I was part of it 😭
Missing out on so much drama
