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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
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
You have to be crazy to crack denuvo, and Empress fits the bill
Football manager uses a really old version of Denuvo too.
that was a great read, i recommend it to everyone who sees this post
Welp, that was a wild read. Thank you for sharing!
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 😂
What a crazy fucking read. Thank you for posting that.
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.
empress every few days:
Don't forget the: "I'm the greatest philosopher who ever lived" and "I use visions and astral-states to crack my games" parts
If the second one is true, even in a subjective sense, I'm honestly just impressed. I mean, if it works, it works.
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.
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.
shit, what happens when she kicks the bucket? maybe someone else will emerge but it's been so long already, and they haven't, so it could take years and years
Demand is what causes Supply. Somewhere out there is someone with the skill to crack Denuvo, but no need to, because this lunatic is already doing it. And being the competition means being on empress' radar, which is really something a sane person would not want.
It was kind of funny the first few times, now I just kind of cringe at her whenever she has one of these meltdowns.
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.
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:
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.
Me, five minutes ago: "who's this Empress?"
Me, now: "I need to follow her, it's free popcorn!"
Man, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There's a whole writeup about Empress, and she used to be 10x as psychotic
I miss CPY :'(
Idk who this lady is, but does what she says hold any weight or am I still good on 1337x?
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.
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.
you know whats sad - there are no denuvo crackers right now other than this psychopath bitch
Mood :
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
Ha, classic Empress
I love me some good Empress drama.
what an existence.
