• Dryad [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I kind of like that she exists. She's part of the world's deep lore now. Imagine reading in a sci-fi story that there's a super high-tech anti-hacker measure and only 2 super-mega-hackers certified by Hackerman himself or whatever are able to get through it.

    And one of them is this fucking person.

    Idk I just think it's magical

  • ImOnADiet
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    1 year ago

    Drives me insane that of the 2 people cracking denuvo in the world, one only cracks fucking football manager of all games and the other is a racist, homophobic, and transphobic woman who goes on unhinged rants in her .INFO's :angery:

      • ImOnADiet
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        1 year ago

        I meant currently cracking but you're right rip to a legend

        • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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          1 year ago

          nah you right on that front for sure

          edit: but i can't believe they got voksi and can't get empress. i bet she's interpol or something. not that i want them to get her but she's way more unhinged than he ever was.

          • ImOnADiet
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            1 year ago

            Idk if she actually is Russian who's going to come arrest her right now? You know for a fact that the Russian government isn't going to dedicate resources to arresting a pirate who steals liberates IP from western game companies

            • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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              1 year ago

              correct again afaik russia endorsed piracy sometime into the ukraine conflict, but before that they weren't exactly giving a fuck

              • ImOnADiet
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                1 year ago

                Of course I'm correct! I'm never wrong. If I was it means a revisionist dog took over my hands for a second

                :troll:

              • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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                1 year ago

                I know you do not, under any circumstances, have to "hand it to Putin" but...

                :putin-wink:

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, but like, it's fine. They have a unique set of abilities and patience/need for validation. They can't really gain any wider purchase with people, they can't really afford to be deanonymized because they'd spend years going through hell.

    There's no need to antagonize them, just don't pay attention to them and be glad someone's preserving software in the absence of any forward-thinking policies.

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      1 year ago

      They have a unique set of abilities

      It's not that unique; many cybersecurity experts regularly have to reverse engineer the binaries of various malware, and it's just as fucked up and uses much of the same tricks as DRM.

      It's just that you need the right combination of the skillset, the motivation to crack it, and the time to do it. Empress has all three.

      And agreed, it's better to just ignore their insane communiqués.

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      From what I understand, Empress isnt' entirely unique from a "skill set" point of view. However Empress is one of the only people who is motivated enough to apply said skill set to crack videogames, rather than go work for either a government agency or some sort of cyber security consultancy. Also, if Empress is ever caught they are likely to get drawn and quartered, so if they seem on edge I sort of understand it.

  • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    lmao I remember the people saying back when she released hogwarts that this must be a sex thing, because she went ham on the slurs and humiliation in the txt file that came with it

  • HornyOnMain
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    1 year ago

    ngl, kinda :bottom-speak: rn. but also from what i know of her it sounds like she'd be a fucking awful dom in terms of respecting the sub ngl (but i can fix her)