• Maho@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Seriously? their attack against an asshole transphobe is… calling her tr*nny and being exactly as shitty as her?

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    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.

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      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
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        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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      I don’t get why people here are expecting pirates of all people to be polite company.

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    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

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      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.

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        You definitely can blame them for the slurs, and defending DRM really doesn’t win over your fanbase.

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          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.

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            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.

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            When I torrent skidrow cracked games I usually don’t even download the NFO

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    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?

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      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.

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      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.

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

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    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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      Is there some correlation with this insane low level understanding of software engineering and a mental health issues? A lot of the scene seems to be like this and good old Terry Davis (rest in peace you racist)

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        Unironically, yes. Multiple studies dating back years have found a link between high intelligence and various mental health issues.
        There was one particular paper I read about a decade ago, where researchers surveyed a bunch of collage students to find demographic trends based on their preferred operating system. From what I recall, the demographics of Windows users were not too far off from those of the university as whole, and Mac users were similar, aside from women being significantly over-represented. Linux users on the other hand, were almost all men, and nearly every mental health issue imaginable was over-represented by a huge margin.

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          That’s funny, but I’m betting my nutsack that you just made that up, or it’s copy pasta.

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          As a CS dude who uses Linux and is around way too many people who seem like they genuinely are in need of some therapy on a daily basis, this entirely checks out, tbh.

          I’m now mildly worried for my own mental state

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            It’s ok amigo, from this one comment I’ve read of yours you seem like you are just fine

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          Well there’s a million ways you can interpret that data. Apple usually makes very opinionated stuff (“this is how it works and this is how you’re going to use it”). Autistic folks tend to do have big issues with that sort of stuff, so it’s only natural they’ll gravitate to something else where they can use it whoever they feel is better.

          And women in general have been pushed away from IT for a few decades due to how they’re treated in those groups, so it’s only natural they’ll be underrepresented among Linux users.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        In my experience, mental health issues are epidemic. The only question is if someone has been assessed, and then had a professional admit to them they have a diagnosis. Mind you, it’s hard to be healthy, and most people are still functional (as much as our late-state capitalist society will let them) but we noticed that mental illness was epidemic in the 1990s, likely due to major societal shifts in the industrial age: We’re used to having more of a social support system than we do. So I suspect that we’re all mad as hatters, and it’s intergenerational.

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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.

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      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.

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

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    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…!?

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    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.

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    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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      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

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    So… no disrespect but, are all scenes/crackers really creepy and angry people then?

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        Don’t get me wrong, even thought I don’t pirate as much as I once did in my younger days I’m super appreciative of the work they do, free mostly if I understand it correctly. But some of the things they say on this nfos (mostly homophobic slurs and name calling) are super out of place, but at the end to each their own lol