10 - Don't humiliate women in any way, shape, or form
16 - I'm allowed to rape and violate you
Who the fuck is this toxic person?
The only person on this planet who cracks denuvo :_D
She is a misandric, homophobic, transphobic, extremely irascible, conflictive, psychotic, rude, narcissistic, paranoid, conspiratorial, liar and a long etcetera that probably includes schizophrenia and drugs. Oh, and she has a cult, she is multifaceted ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You seem to have dropped this arm: \
and imagines herself as a rapist, and is proud of it (per her posted content)
She’s the one
My m8y in pilfering, not even I reckon I could patch the holes in that bilge sucking wench
One of the most popular sources for game piracy unfortunately
Popular feels like the wrong word. If you're the only game in town for a specific service, that doesn't inherently mean you're popular.
If you have no other competition in a specific service whatsoever, no matter how many people despise you, you'd still be the most popular by lack of competition.
Depends on how exactly you define popular.
If you use a definition that includes anything like "liked and admired" then she doesn't fit. Her service is busy but as this thread shows, most people openly state they only go to her because they have no other choice for these cracks.
Using popular hides how many people actively want to jump ship if only there was competition. It's like saying that Comcast is popular because they have so many customers who don't have a viable alternative to using them.
Holy fuck go back to Reddit
I'm sorry for, pointing out how popular isn't the best choice of word?
But no matter how you slice it, popular isn't a great descriptor. Whether you choose the prescriptivist "the dictionary says x thus the word means x no matter what" or the descriptivist "most people use the word to mean y thus the word means y no matter what", in this case they both agree.
Both groups agree that when I say "Jim is popular" it makes you think that people generally like Jim. It evokes some level of communal approval. The dictionary literally defines the word to mean likeable, and the general usage still seems to denote general approval.
So either way, it doesn't represent the Empress situation. A situation where the majority of the community at best doesn't care and at worst openly dislikes her as a person because of her behavior, but still comes back for the games. She has a monopoly, but that doesn't make her inherently popular. Most people who know seem to dislike, and most who don't will also have no bearing on her popularity.
He’s not saying she has a popular personality she’s saying her cracks are popular because they are, you pedant
The only person that can crack denuvo right now.
Clearly fucked in the head but there's no other option.
I'm really really surprised nobody else has hunkered down to learn how to crack Denuvo just to give this toxic shit the middle-finger. I mean, piracy groups are full of autistic weapons, and nobody has taken up the challenge?
I think it’s more likely that there are others who don’t publicly share their cracks because they doesn’t want legal trouble/attention.
I don't buy this. It's easy to upload files anonymously.
Yeah but why take that risk? They don’t really gain anything.
They can't gain recognition, uploading anonymously. But if someone purely wants the crack for the game to exist they could do it
Once again, why would they share their cracks if its for personal use?
Do people create mods for games or create open source software solely for recognition?
Mods and open source software are not illegal.
You're missing the point I've made completely.
My point is that a contributor to open source software can contribute just to help people because they don’t have to worry about legal repercussions.
Cracking Denuvo requires being there from the start, since with every new release new obstacles are added. If you try to crack denuvo now you’ll be completely lost, and getting copies of old Denuvo doesn’t seem this easy I guess. Empress had been there since Denuvo v1 so 🤷♂️
Not can but is willing to. Denuvo's legal team is going after anyone who reverse engineers any part of their DRM and they have gotten a lot of groups to back off. Empress is in Russia so she won't face any consequences unless she pisses off any of the Russian oligarchs, which also means she probably will never crack Atomic Heart but then again she is crazy.
Imagine if you rounded up all the hateful, power hungry, bigoted misanthropes from the Warez forums of old and combined them into one. That's Empress.
Imagine the absolute reckoning if someone managed to touch her with a blade of grass. The singularity would reverse the big bang.
The singularity would reverse the big bang.
Now that's a funny comment, haha.
No gay content? What is this, Nazi Germany 1984?
She's a huge bigot. Was on reddit as well to the point she got banned. Which is saying something.
I dunno, these days getting banned from reddit is more of a rite of passage.
I got banned for quoting a subreddit rule to a mod (as a reason the mod was out of line) after they posted why they banned someone. I may not be good at sports or computers, but I'm part of the team now!
The classic one is the code of conduct stating "Set reasonable rules and expectations" which most bans don't meet.
I got banned from a subreddit for pointing out to the mod that their comment equating "receiving a poor-quality product" to "rape" was unnecessary and short-sighted. They then told me that they were a victim, thus it is okay.
Lol. Reddit moderation is a joke.
Btw that mod frequents lemmy too, now.
I once got tempbanned for making the joke "You live at 127.0.0.1", but that may be the admin not knowing about localhost
"Hey I know how to access ur router, be spooked: 192.168.0.1" LOL
Is she really a bigot? To me she just appears to be someone who can not seperate porn from other aspects of her life. Does she really hate all these groups of people even outside this "Mother" persona?
Saw someone the other day say something like "she's the only one who cracks denuvo. She's insane but it's best not to bite the hand that feeds you."
My brother in christ the hand is biting YOU. I would not trust ANYTHING she cracks anywhere near my PC. Consider it all malware.
unless this is an extremely long con. I haven't heard of any reports of her cracks being malware. in the case of RE village her crack improved performance vs capcom's DRM.
I swear to god I can’t tell anymore if she’s actually insane or if this is an elaborate act.
It reeks of both.
Why u swearing things to me 🤔
Because I want answers, God!
Then God's the last person you should ask.
No gayness? Count me out
Do not ask about cracks or technical questions
So then what are you supposed to do on this Telegram channel?
Well you're supposed to feed her ego by just being there and doing exactly as she says of course!
maybe some fetish rp channel? i dunno
a femcel
Everyone in that Telegram group, including her, needs help.
Especially her.
Its ridiculous, dont know why people bother with that, just wait for the cracks...
True man I am wondering how little self dignity one must have to still stick around after this.
Do I need more context? This just sounds like a BDSM relationship to me.
Most sane telegram user
I don’t care about his “rules” or his attention seeking addiction. All I care about are the games that he cracks.
Straight to business. I like it.
Problem is the damage what this unstable person can do. She's distributing binaries that are executed on windows PC with security measures disabled on purpose. If she went rogue and started inserting malware or cryotominers, tons of people would be affected.
Bet they are gonna complain that there were no signs. No one could have predicted this.
Whether that would be worse than running Denuvo malware is up for debate lol
I can't stand her. Wish people would just stop posting about her since she seems incapable of staying quiet and well-behaved like the rest of the scene.
I'm out of the loop, what's the context for all this?
Empress is pretty much the only person who cracks Denuvo DRM - the only other person who publicly releases cracks only does it for Football Manager games. However, Empress is just a little unhinged, as this post demonstrates.
I liked the idea of hobby drama, but most of the posts were too long for me to want to get through. I'd end up leaving the tab open for weeks and then just closing them.
BORU on the other hand became something of an addiction.
What is BORU?
r/BestofRedditorUpdates. They tie together posts from other subreddits where the user came back some time later and posted an update.
I came to the comments to see if there really could be a person this deranged, and looks like she has a long history of this shit. What the fuck. Thanks for posting that link.
Holy shit, she's even crazier than I thought, yikes
Lmao what the actual fuck is this?
@gravitas_deficiency an insane narcissists fantasy world that people keep feeding into. End of thread.
More specifically: how is this relevant to piracy…?
Edit: also why the @ mention when it’s clearly me you’re replying to? Or is this how cross-platform fediverse content (lemmy <-> mastodon) works?
Empress is the only person that cracked denuvo games, and recently they've decided to stop cracking them and become a cult leader.
Holy shit, I thought this was supposed to be a list of cult warning signs in increasing escalation and was like this makes no sense. I didn't realize this was actually rules for their cult. WTF.
I see. Of all the choices they could have made… that’s one of them, I guess…
@gravitas_deficiency I'm using mastadon over lemmy. Sorry. It's a new thing. This person in particular was basically shaking the community down for crypto donations and when they weren't getting what they wanted they decided to stop doing it and now they've resorted to a demigod complex I guess?
Cool to learn a bit how Lemmy via Mastodon behaves. I accidentally subscribed to a Lemmy community via my Mastodon account, but I just ended up unsubscribing and resubscribing via my Lemmy account.
No worries! I was mostly just curious - I had seen that comment pattern recently once or twice, and that was the best explanation I was able to hypothesize, which I guess was accurate-ish.
The rest of the dynamic seems… Eesh.
@gravitas_deficiency it's a denuvo crackers private cult page filled with smooth-brained idiots who feed into their malignant narcissism. They were a member of CODEX, only person who cracks denuvo games properly at the moment. Led to their narcissist behavior. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I wouldn’t really call that “absolute power”, but it is definitely super weird, and somewhat comical to come across out of the blue.
@gravitas_deficiency the last 6 years has been the right wing community seething with anger and resentment. Were seeing a resurgence of strong-arm politics and a return of a cold war. Hard times are ahead my friend. This is a crazy time to be alive.
I mean, in the broad sense of “what’s going on in the world”, I don’t disagree, but how’s that relevant to this piracy community drama…?
@gravitas_deficiency if you read the original post, there's a bunch of stuff relating to anti-lgbt comments, which in light of the recent controversy over the anti rainbow flag protests in the USA and abroad, it is relevant. It's coming into the piracy community now, and I guess the point of this post was to make a decision as a community to continue endorsing this person, or conscientiously stop associating with them. Sorry if I wasnt clear. I will never use EMPRESS releases personally
Fair. I was just chalking it up to that person apparently being a wingnut psycho.
But regarding “it’s coming into the piracy community”: uh… I’m pretty sure I remember a lot of super weird shit being somewhat common in the piracy community even a decade or two ago. There was always a lot of crossover between piracy communities and the darker parts of the web (e.g. 4chan).
yes mastodon clients automatically inject those username references ('@')
So what's her actual name? Didn't know she shared it
FSB agent Ivan Ivanovich. But her friends call her Iva.
There should be legal limits to this level of narcissistic assholism
My Eve Online alliance leader says no.
I get it that it is supposed to be a joke but damn she is too edgy.
I'm glad you're telling me it's a joke. I don't like it when things are taken out of context and some post is basically asking me to form an opinion on someone.
To be fair, this "joke" is a pretty accurate representation of her online personality. Just read any of the NFOs on her cracks and you'd see. She's wild but she's all we have :(
I think it's pretty obvious that this is edgy satire humor...
Seems like a lot of effort to make an unfunny cringe post.
I doubt it, they've posted stuff like this before and she's just pure insane
I don't know... I get that rule 1 and 16 are just edgy humor, but I can't imagine what she's satirising in this message. What other crackers ask people to only call them 'Mother'?
I would assume that this is just some kind of femdom rp channel or something. The whole Mother thing is not that weird from that context. There are many different online Goddesses and Mothers, that get really popular and find success under these fetishized personas.
It is just weird tho, to combine her DRM cracker online presence with her fetish persona.
Edit: Nevermind, it seems the Mother thing is not a persona, but something she genuinely believes in or at least she protrays it as such. The more I read about her, the more I get the impression that she is some kind of Terry Davis type unhinged computer genius.
Nice to know I'm not the only one that realised this
At this point she must be trolling, right? RIGHT?
Mental illnesses is hell of a drug...
We can only hope
I fucking hate Empress man. Glad I dont give a damn about pirating games that much anymore. Atleast not recent games.
So do I call her Mother or Goddess.
The game was rigged from the start.
Rules 10 and 16 seem to be contradictory. What if one of her "followers" was a woman and she humiliates her?
I am sure she will come up with a way to justify that.
Its asking me to login and I don't have an account
Apologies, it was a link to a reply further down in this thread by TWeaK@lemm.ee that is as follows:
Empress is pretty much the only person who cracks Denuvo DRM - the only other person who publicly releases cracks only does it for Football Manager games. However, Empress is just a little unhinged, as this post demonstrates.
If you ignore the racism (0.01% of it), she sounds pretty based
Is the anti gay shit not just as bad?
Empress, and shes crazy. Shes also the only one who can crack denuvo
What does this have to do with anything
empress is sadly the only current person who can crack denuvo DRM
What is that
The worst of all the DRMs
It's only for games, right?
Yes. It's a pain in the ass though since the pirated versions run at nearly twice the frame rate sometimes
Denuvo is a digitial rights management (DRM) tool used by game developers to ensure that their game can only be played by legitimate users. It operates by constantly communicating with a server that validates your log in info. Since it is extremely difficult to remove from the game, it is normally gotten around by setting up a spoofed server that the game can talk to instead.
The issue is that this communication takes resources and clock cycles from the user. That means that by implementing denuvo into your game, you are actively slowing it down. Whereas on the spoofed server, that is a local server(meaning it's on the same machine running the game) so they can communicate much more rapidly, basically instantly.
Tl;dr by implementing denuvo you are ensuring that pirates have a better version of the game than your legitimate users, thereby driving otherwise legit users to piracy.
Aye, the darkness of the days draws ever closer as the seas are left barren. 'Nary a crew unfurls their sails to pilfer. Preferrin' to pledge to a mad bilge rat rather than fly colors that be their own.
Typo in 3 that makes her look a fool with rule 0.
Internet rape?
Ok, now I need examples of "internet condoms"
SFTP?
HTTPS?
SSH?
nah, use SOCKS
TOR
I2P
LOKINET
Does she post nudes or why does anybody care about this person?
Shes the only one who can crack denuvo.
She's the only one actively doing it because it's a pain in the ass no one is willing to do while this nutter butter is doing it.
(From what I'm told)
I downvoted, and got banned. Worth it. Wish I was banned for "mistakenly calling her Empress, or "yo big girl" or something to troll her.
A hybridization of a findom/femdom twiiter user, a reddit nsfw sub moderator, a hacker named 4chan and a discord mod all in one. Impressive really
Can it get worse than this?
I'm starting to prefer denuvo to her, i mean the purpose of the scene was all about competions and respect for cracking denuvo. Wtf is this shit, i can't handle this.
I agree completely except about denuvo. I follow only out of respect for cracking skills and surrounding knowledge. I always hoped she more of a grey hat.
Hi from all, umm, what the fuck am I looking at??? 😂
Empress is currently the only person who is cracking Denuvo DRM. She's also insane. This is the rules from her Telegram channel.
All the other (better) crackers were either hired by tech and security companies, or threatened with legal action until they stopped cracking. This is a large part of why Denuvo is seen as uncrackable these days, when three years ago you had games cracked the day of release.
Ah okay, I remember seeing a meme about how only three people were able to and one is a Nazi, one is a furry, and one only cracks football games. Sounds even worse now lol.
Internet feces, excrement
This is discord, right? So what do they even discuss there? I don't know what there is to talk about.
Telegram and who cares what they discuss it's all baloney I bet.
@B3_CHAD you are all part of the problem. You keep giving this bigoted homophobic goof a platform to spew hatred and you keep on lapping it up like idiots. Stop downloading their content, don't acknowledge they exist. You're feeding into a malignant narcissist's fantasy world.
You think Empress is relevant because of meme posts mocking her?
This isn’t some random podcasting nazi. She’s known for a reason. That doesn’t go away because of lack of attention to her bigoted nature. In cases like this failing to acknowledge and attribute her bigotry would just be akin to hiding it. I’d downloaded tons of her stuff before I found out she sucked from something like this.
@AngrilyEatingMuffins@B3_CHAD what? Are you high? They do this because people validate the behavior. Notoriety works. Simple as that. Shaming them will embolden them. Stop validating their behavior that's clearly seeking attention.
Embolden them to do what? You’re acting like this didn’t all happen before the broader community became aware of her antics.
Thanks for your lovely contribution, though
@AngrilyEatingMuffins@B3_CHAD seethe more, goofy. My comment is pretty clear. Share your verbally diarrhetic comments with someone else.
>Thanks for the lovely contribution
Speak for yourself.
Not sure that you’re a bot but you definitely fail the Turing test.
Can you stop tagging me, I haven't been rude to you at all. You have point of view ,I have one. Let's just leave it there.
@B3_CHAD lol your shit post started this. Removed.
Started what ? You find some thing annoying voice it or ignore it and leave, why be mean and abusive.
@B3_CHAD mean and abusive? You live a sheltered life. Stay indoors and order a pizza.
So assuming negative stuff about strangers and then insulting them isn't mean ? Dragging someone's mother into a conversation isn't mean ? Would you not feel bad if someone took the same tone with you as you are taking with me? would you consider it polite ?
I understand what you are saying and usually never post or bother with her rants, I was just trying to look for updates on the Dead island 2 crack and this popped up and for some reason I found this too funny to not share. As for not downloading her content, we don't really have an alternative she is the only person who cracks Denuvo. If there were someone else who cracked Denuvo, trust me I wouldn't download her shit even if you paid me. Also part of why she is so unhinged is because she knows this,you can hate her but can't ignore her.
What's this "English" thing? Is it some sort of knockoff English?
This is like one of those crazy "demands for a relationship" posts
I find it hard to believe that a person with such a mindset exists, I can't open her group for more than a few minutes it is just too much like oh god I can't take more of this WTF
Plenty of men have this mindset, so why not women?
This is not an excuse nor a justification for having such a lunatic behavior
Didn't say it was. Just that this shouldn't surprise you.
Oh Empress you never change...
Is that for real? Got some serious crazy going there.
Who tf is this?
An absolute psychopath who also happens to be the only person willing to crack Denuvo.
Isn't there another person who knows how, but just restricts themselves to very specific games? I wonder if there's any way to convince them to help replace the too-far-gone Empress. I understand they probably also don't want to just make the cracking info public, as it would presumably just accelerate the cat-and-mouse game, but perhaps they could be convinced to help bring a new person up to speed? I wonder if they could be convinced by donations to mentor an Empress replacement?
From what I've read (take this with a grain of salt), the person you're talking about cracks games with a much older version of denuvo. They're apparently a lot easier to crack than those being done by this psycho.
Who the fuck is this toxic person?
The only person on this planet who cracks denuvo :_D
She is a misandric, homophobic, transphobic, extremely irascible, conflictive, psychotic, rude, narcissistic, paranoid, conspiratorial, liar and a long etcetera that probably includes schizophrenia and drugs. Oh, and she has a cult, she is multifaceted ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You seem to have dropped this arm: \
and imagines herself as a rapist, and is proud of it (per her posted content)
She’s the one
My m8y in pilfering, not even I reckon I could patch the holes in that bilge sucking wench
One of the most popular sources for game piracy unfortunately
Popular feels like the wrong word. If you're the only game in town for a specific service, that doesn't inherently mean you're popular.
If you have no other competition in a specific service whatsoever, no matter how many people despise you, you'd still be the most popular by lack of competition.
Depends on how exactly you define popular.
If you use a definition that includes anything like "liked and admired" then she doesn't fit. Her service is busy but as this thread shows, most people openly state they only go to her because they have no other choice for these cracks.
Using popular hides how many people actively want to jump ship if only there was competition. It's like saying that Comcast is popular because they have so many customers who don't have a viable alternative to using them.
Holy fuck go back to Reddit
I'm sorry for, pointing out how popular isn't the best choice of word?
But no matter how you slice it, popular isn't a great descriptor. Whether you choose the prescriptivist "the dictionary says x thus the word means x no matter what" or the descriptivist "most people use the word to mean y thus the word means y no matter what", in this case they both agree.
Both groups agree that when I say "Jim is popular" it makes you think that people generally like Jim. It evokes some level of communal approval. The dictionary literally defines the word to mean likeable, and the general usage still seems to denote general approval.
So either way, it doesn't represent the Empress situation. A situation where the majority of the community at best doesn't care and at worst openly dislikes her as a person because of her behavior, but still comes back for the games. She has a monopoly, but that doesn't make her inherently popular. Most people who know seem to dislike, and most who don't will also have no bearing on her popularity.
He’s not saying she has a popular personality she’s saying her cracks are popular because they are, you pedant
The only person that can crack denuvo right now.
Clearly fucked in the head but there's no other option.
I'm really really surprised nobody else has hunkered down to learn how to crack Denuvo just to give this toxic shit the middle-finger. I mean, piracy groups are full of autistic weapons, and nobody has taken up the challenge?
I think it’s more likely that there are others who don’t publicly share their cracks because they doesn’t want legal trouble/attention.
I don't buy this. It's easy to upload files anonymously.
Yeah but why take that risk? They don’t really gain anything.
They can't gain recognition, uploading anonymously. But if someone purely wants the crack for the game to exist they could do it
Once again, why would they share their cracks if its for personal use?
Do people create mods for games or create open source software solely for recognition?
Mods and open source software are not illegal.
You're missing the point I've made completely.
My point is that a contributor to open source software can contribute just to help people because they don’t have to worry about legal repercussions.
Cracking Denuvo requires being there from the start, since with every new release new obstacles are added. If you try to crack denuvo now you’ll be completely lost, and getting copies of old Denuvo doesn’t seem this easy I guess. Empress had been there since Denuvo v1 so 🤷♂️
Not can but is willing to. Denuvo's legal team is going after anyone who reverse engineers any part of their DRM and they have gotten a lot of groups to back off. Empress is in Russia so she won't face any consequences unless she pisses off any of the Russian oligarchs, which also means she probably will never crack Atomic Heart but then again she is crazy.
Obviously she only rapes and violates men
Imagine if you rounded up all the hateful, power hungry, bigoted misanthropes from the Warez forums of old and combined them into one. That's Empress.
Imagine the absolute reckoning if someone managed to touch her with a blade of grass. The singularity would reverse the big bang.
Now that's a funny comment, haha.
No gay content? What is this, Nazi Germany 1984?
She's a huge bigot. Was on reddit as well to the point she got banned. Which is saying something.
I dunno, these days getting banned from reddit is more of a rite of passage.
I got banned for quoting a subreddit rule to a mod (as a reason the mod was out of line) after they posted why they banned someone. I may not be good at sports or computers, but I'm part of the team now!
The classic one is the code of conduct stating "Set reasonable rules and expectations" which most bans don't meet.
I got banned from a subreddit for pointing out to the mod that their comment equating "receiving a poor-quality product" to "rape" was unnecessary and short-sighted. They then told me that they were a victim, thus it is okay.
Lol. Reddit moderation is a joke.
Btw that mod frequents lemmy too, now.
I once got tempbanned for making the joke "You live at 127.0.0.1", but that may be the admin not knowing about localhost
"Hey I know how to access ur router, be spooked: 192.168.0.1" LOL
Is she really a bigot? To me she just appears to be someone who can not seperate porn from other aspects of her life. Does she really hate all these groups of people even outside this "Mother" persona?
She's apparently from Russia, so basically.
Gross lmao
Saw someone the other day say something like "she's the only one who cracks denuvo. She's insane but it's best not to bite the hand that feeds you."
My brother in christ the hand is biting YOU. I would not trust ANYTHING she cracks anywhere near my PC. Consider it all malware.
unless this is an extremely long con. I haven't heard of any reports of her cracks being malware. in the case of RE village her crack improved performance vs capcom's DRM.
I swear to god I can’t tell anymore if she’s actually insane or if this is an elaborate act.
It reeks of both.
Why u swearing things to me 🤔
Because I want answers, God!
Then God's the last person you should ask.
No gayness? Count me out
So then what are you supposed to do on this Telegram channel?
Well you're supposed to feed her ego by just being there and doing exactly as she says of course!
maybe some fetish rp channel? i dunno
a femcel
Everyone in that Telegram group, including her, needs help.
Especially her.
Its ridiculous, dont know why people bother with that, just wait for the cracks...
True man I am wondering how little self dignity one must have to still stick around after this.
Do I need more context? This just sounds like a BDSM relationship to me.
Most sane telegram user
I don’t care about his “rules” or his attention seeking addiction. All I care about are the games that he cracks.
Straight to business. I like it.
Problem is the damage what this unstable person can do. She's distributing binaries that are executed on windows PC with security measures disabled on purpose. If she went rogue and started inserting malware or cryotominers, tons of people would be affected.
Bet they are gonna complain that there were no signs. No one could have predicted this.
Whether that would be worse than running Denuvo malware is up for debate lol
I can't stand her. Wish people would just stop posting about her since she seems incapable of staying quiet and well-behaved like the rest of the scene.
I'm out of the loop, what's the context for all this?
Empress is pretty much the only person who cracks Denuvo DRM - the only other person who publicly releases cracks only does it for Football Manager games. However, Empress is just a little unhinged, as this post demonstrates.
There was an r/HobbyDrama reddit post that covers much of the history: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/rowk83/digital_piracy_the_rise_of_empress_how_one_woman/
When are we going to get a Hobbydrama community on Lemmy?
Be the change you want to see in the world
@Corkyskog @TWeaK make one yourself on here. It's easy
I liked the idea of hobby drama, but most of the posts were too long for me to want to get through. I'd end up leaving the tab open for weeks and then just closing them.
BORU on the other hand became something of an addiction.
What is BORU?
r/BestofRedditorUpdates. They tie together posts from other subreddits where the user came back some time later and posted an update.
I came to the comments to see if there really could be a person this deranged, and looks like she has a long history of this shit. What the fuck. Thanks for posting that link.
Holy shit, she's even crazier than I thought, yikes
Lmao what the actual fuck is this?
@gravitas_deficiency an insane narcissists fantasy world that people keep feeding into. End of thread.
More specifically: how is this relevant to piracy…?
Edit: also why the @ mention when it’s clearly me you’re replying to? Or is this how cross-platform fediverse content (lemmy <-> mastodon) works?
Empress is the only person that cracked denuvo games, and recently they've decided to stop cracking them and become a cult leader.
Holy shit, I thought this was supposed to be a list of cult warning signs in increasing escalation and was like this makes no sense. I didn't realize this was actually rules for their cult. WTF.
I see. Of all the choices they could have made… that’s one of them, I guess…
@gravitas_deficiency I'm using mastadon over lemmy. Sorry. It's a new thing. This person in particular was basically shaking the community down for crypto donations and when they weren't getting what they wanted they decided to stop doing it and now they've resorted to a demigod complex I guess?
Cool to learn a bit how Lemmy via Mastodon behaves. I accidentally subscribed to a Lemmy community via my Mastodon account, but I just ended up unsubscribing and resubscribing via my Lemmy account.
No worries! I was mostly just curious - I had seen that comment pattern recently once or twice, and that was the best explanation I was able to hypothesize, which I guess was accurate-ish.
The rest of the dynamic seems… Eesh.
@gravitas_deficiency it's a denuvo crackers private cult page filled with smooth-brained idiots who feed into their malignant narcissism. They were a member of CODEX, only person who cracks denuvo games properly at the moment. Led to their narcissist behavior. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I wouldn’t really call that “absolute power”, but it is definitely super weird, and somewhat comical to come across out of the blue.
@gravitas_deficiency the last 6 years has been the right wing community seething with anger and resentment. Were seeing a resurgence of strong-arm politics and a return of a cold war. Hard times are ahead my friend. This is a crazy time to be alive.
I mean, in the broad sense of “what’s going on in the world”, I don’t disagree, but how’s that relevant to this piracy community drama…?
@gravitas_deficiency if you read the original post, there's a bunch of stuff relating to anti-lgbt comments, which in light of the recent controversy over the anti rainbow flag protests in the USA and abroad, it is relevant. It's coming into the piracy community now, and I guess the point of this post was to make a decision as a community to continue endorsing this person, or conscientiously stop associating with them. Sorry if I wasnt clear. I will never use EMPRESS releases personally
Fair. I was just chalking it up to that person apparently being a wingnut psycho.
But regarding “it’s coming into the piracy community”: uh… I’m pretty sure I remember a lot of super weird shit being somewhat common in the piracy community even a decade or two ago. There was always a lot of crossover between piracy communities and the darker parts of the web (e.g. 4chan).
yes mastodon clients automatically inject those username references ('@')
What's the female version of a neckbeard?
femcel
That's the equivalent to incel.
Legbeard is the neckbeard equivalent.
So what's her actual name? Didn't know she shared it
FSB agent Ivan Ivanovich. But her friends call her Iva.
There should be legal limits to this level of narcissistic assholism
My Eve Online alliance leader says no.
I get it that it is supposed to be a joke but damn she is too edgy.
I'm glad you're telling me it's a joke. I don't like it when things are taken out of context and some post is basically asking me to form an opinion on someone.
To be fair, this "joke" is a pretty accurate representation of her online personality. Just read any of the NFOs on her cracks and you'd see. She's wild but she's all we have :(
I think it's pretty obvious that this is edgy satire humor...
Seems like a lot of effort to make an unfunny cringe post.
I doubt it, they've posted stuff like this before and she's just pure insane
I don't know... I get that rule 1 and 16 are just edgy humor, but I can't imagine what she's satirising in this message. What other crackers ask people to only call them 'Mother'?
I would assume that this is just some kind of femdom rp channel or something. The whole Mother thing is not that weird from that context. There are many different online Goddesses and Mothers, that get really popular and find success under these fetishized personas.
It is just weird tho, to combine her DRM cracker online presence with her fetish persona.
Edit: Nevermind, it seems the Mother thing is not a persona, but something she genuinely believes in or at least she protrays it as such. The more I read about her, the more I get the impression that she is some kind of Terry Davis type unhinged computer genius.
Nice to know I'm not the only one that realised this
At this point she must be trolling, right? RIGHT?
Mental illnesses is hell of a drug...
We can only hope
I fucking hate Empress man. Glad I dont give a damn about pirating games that much anymore. Atleast not recent games.
So do I call her Mother or Goddess.
The game was rigged from the start.
Rules 10 and 16 seem to be contradictory. What if one of her "followers" was a woman and she humiliates her?
I am sure she will come up with a way to justify that.
I demand the source and context
it’s empress and she’s just off the rails
You didn't answer my question
I think I did
This
Its asking me to login and I don't have an account
Apologies, it was a link to a reply further down in this thread by TWeaK@lemm.ee that is as follows:
Empress is pretty much the only person who cracks Denuvo DRM - the only other person who publicly releases cracks only does it for Football Manager games. However, Empress is just a little unhinged, as this post demonstrates.
There was an r/HobbyDrama reddit post that covers much of the history: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/rowk83/digital_piracy_the_rise_of_empress_how_one_woman/
If you ignore the racism (0.01% of it), she sounds pretty based
Is the anti gay shit not just as bad?
Empress, and shes crazy. Shes also the only one who can crack denuvo
What does this have to do with anything
empress is sadly the only current person who can crack denuvo DRM
What is that
The worst of all the DRMs
It's only for games, right?
Yes. It's a pain in the ass though since the pirated versions run at nearly twice the frame rate sometimes
Denuvo is a digitial rights management (DRM) tool used by game developers to ensure that their game can only be played by legitimate users. It operates by constantly communicating with a server that validates your log in info. Since it is extremely difficult to remove from the game, it is normally gotten around by setting up a spoofed server that the game can talk to instead.
The issue is that this communication takes resources and clock cycles from the user. That means that by implementing denuvo into your game, you are actively slowing it down. Whereas on the spoofed server, that is a local server(meaning it's on the same machine running the game) so they can communicate much more rapidly, basically instantly.
Tl;dr by implementing denuvo you are ensuring that pirates have a better version of the game than your legitimate users, thereby driving otherwise legit users to piracy.
Aye, the darkness of the days draws ever closer as the seas are left barren. 'Nary a crew unfurls their sails to pilfer. Preferrin' to pledge to a mad bilge rat rather than fly colors that be their own.
Typo in 3 that makes her look a fool with rule 0.
Internet rape?
Ok, now I need examples of "internet condoms"
SFTP?
HTTPS?
SSH?
nah, use SOCKS
TOR I2P LOKINET
Does she post nudes or why does anybody care about this person?
Shes the only one who can crack denuvo.
She's the only one actively doing it because it's a pain in the ass no one is willing to do while this nutter butter is doing it.
(From what I'm told)
I downvoted, and got banned. Worth it. Wish I was banned for "mistakenly calling her Empress, or "yo big girl" or something to troll her.
is this like a sex thing ?
@Lemmyboi NO GAY CONTENT!!
A hybridization of a findom/femdom twiiter user, a reddit nsfw sub moderator, a hacker named 4chan and a discord mod all in one. Impressive really
Can it get worse than this?
I'm starting to prefer denuvo to her, i mean the purpose of the scene was all about competions and respect for cracking denuvo. Wtf is this shit, i can't handle this.
I agree completely except about denuvo. I follow only out of respect for cracking skills and surrounding knowledge. I always hoped she more of a grey hat.
Hi from all, umm, what the fuck am I looking at??? 😂
Empress is currently the only person who is cracking Denuvo DRM. She's also insane. This is the rules from her Telegram channel.
All the other (better) crackers were either hired by tech and security companies, or threatened with legal action until they stopped cracking. This is a large part of why Denuvo is seen as uncrackable these days, when three years ago you had games cracked the day of release.
Ah okay, I remember seeing a meme about how only three people were able to and one is a Nazi, one is a furry, and one only cracks football games. Sounds even worse now lol.
Internet feces, excrement
This is discord, right? So what do they even discuss there? I don't know what there is to talk about.
Telegram and who cares what they discuss it's all baloney I bet.
@B3_CHAD you are all part of the problem. You keep giving this bigoted homophobic goof a platform to spew hatred and you keep on lapping it up like idiots. Stop downloading their content, don't acknowledge they exist. You're feeding into a malignant narcissist's fantasy world.
You think Empress is relevant because of meme posts mocking her?
This isn’t some random podcasting nazi. She’s known for a reason. That doesn’t go away because of lack of attention to her bigoted nature. In cases like this failing to acknowledge and attribute her bigotry would just be akin to hiding it. I’d downloaded tons of her stuff before I found out she sucked from something like this.
@AngrilyEatingMuffins @B3_CHAD what? Are you high? They do this because people validate the behavior. Notoriety works. Simple as that. Shaming them will embolden them. Stop validating their behavior that's clearly seeking attention.
Embolden them to do what? You’re acting like this didn’t all happen before the broader community became aware of her antics.
Thanks for your lovely contribution, though
@AngrilyEatingMuffins @B3_CHAD seethe more, goofy. My comment is pretty clear. Share your verbally diarrhetic comments with someone else.
>Thanks for the lovely contribution
Speak for yourself.
Not sure that you’re a bot but you definitely fail the Turing test.
“Seethe more” fucking lmao
@AngrilyEatingMuffins your mom failed at producing intelligent offspring.
Redditor spotted. Ugh. Go back to reddit please.
Can you stop tagging me, I haven't been rude to you at all. You have point of view ,I have one. Let's just leave it there.
@B3_CHAD lol your shit post started this. Removed.
Started what ? You find some thing annoying voice it or ignore it and leave, why be mean and abusive.
@B3_CHAD mean and abusive? You live a sheltered life. Stay indoors and order a pizza.
So assuming negative stuff about strangers and then insulting them isn't mean ? Dragging someone's mother into a conversation isn't mean ? Would you not feel bad if someone took the same tone with you as you are taking with me? would you consider it polite ?
Ahhhh, yooth
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I understand what you are saying and usually never post or bother with her rants, I was just trying to look for updates on the Dead island 2 crack and this popped up and for some reason I found this too funny to not share. As for not downloading her content, we don't really have an alternative she is the only person who cracks Denuvo. If there were someone else who cracked Denuvo, trust me I wouldn't download her shit even if you paid me. Also part of why she is so unhinged is because she knows this,you can hate her but can't ignore her.
What's this "English" thing? Is it some sort of knockoff English?
This is like one of those crazy "demands for a relationship" posts
I find it hard to believe that a person with such a mindset exists, I can't open her group for more than a few minutes it is just too much like oh god I can't take more of this WTF
Plenty of men have this mindset, so why not women?
This is not an excuse nor a justification for having such a lunatic behavior
Didn't say it was. Just that this shouldn't surprise you.
Oh Empress you never change...
Is that for real? Got some serious crazy going there.
Who tf is this?
An absolute psychopath who also happens to be the only person willing to crack Denuvo.
Isn't there another person who knows how, but just restricts themselves to very specific games? I wonder if there's any way to convince them to help replace the too-far-gone Empress. I understand they probably also don't want to just make the cracking info public, as it would presumably just accelerate the cat-and-mouse game, but perhaps they could be convinced to help bring a new person up to speed? I wonder if they could be convinced by donations to mentor an Empress replacement?
From what I've read (take this with a grain of salt), the person you're talking about cracks games with a much older version of denuvo. They're apparently a lot easier to crack than those being done by this psycho.
Ah interesting. That is unfortunate.
@B3_CHAD @backhdlp most denuvo secured games suck, that's why
Doom 2016 didn't suck.
But they did remove Denuvo, and I didn't buy it until they did.
@backhdlp @B3_CHAD 0xEMPRESS on reddit, used to be a member of CODEX
Wait, this is real?
I wish she'd just drop a tutorial on how to crack Denuvo so that a few more could try it lol.
You mean so denuvo could immediately fix whatever vulnerability she's exploiting
there are youtube videos reverse engineering much older versions. look up Voksi if you're interested
This is literally how I read most of them. Thank you.
Has anyone tried to call himself "i" and reply to people with "I'm gonna put you in the trash" or "trashes you"?