from her telegram

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        713·
        4 months ago

        Go into the notes of almost any of their releases and you’ll find borderline schizophrenic screeds full of hate and bigotry. Racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, thinking the Harry Potter series is good, all kinds of shit. Also, at least once she said she was going to jail because she was caught cracking something but kept putting out releases without any disruption. Here’s one from the time she was accused of being a trans woman (cw: all of the above)

      • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        It’s genuinely a lot. EMPRESS has an ego, and has started shit with anyone they can. This ranges from other crackers, to repackers, to the people requesting cracks. They see themselves as the hot shit because “I’m the only one who can crack Denuvo”.

      • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        she pretended she got arrested by some guys on reddit who leaked her address

        some serious people ON REDDIT managed to report me to authority with my real address, i am not quiet sure how it happened, but even with putting my philosophical side aside, i think i pissed off the entire internet just by trying to control “MY” own crack for 24 hour is actually something i am still not able to believe. in less than an hour, i will be dragged out of my home here with my lawyer, but considering i was caught red handed while preparing version 2 fix for my immortals crack, i don’t think there will be much of hope against it at all.

        Her message to those who had insulted her was totally not at all bitter – she thought they were ‘all beautiful people’ who she definitely didn’t hate, because they had just made a mistake. This was all somewhat rich for a woman who was rapidly developing hints of megalomania and power-madness.

        And then she made an Obi-wan-esque speech about ‘remembering me’ and ‘contuing on my path’.

        Everyone was quick to point out the flaws here. The police generally don’t bust down your door, catching you ‘red-handed’ cracking Denuvo, then call you to tell you they’re going to arrest you in an hour, so you have time to write out a long and dramatic letter blaming others for your woes. —this write-up

        empress good cracker

emperess get big head

empress thinks shes plato reincarnate

she is not

empress mad she isnt seen as brilliant as she feels

empress gets banned from reddit


empress drip feeds latest crack out of spite

empress hates repackers for taking attention she deserves

repackers turn their backs on her

empress is """""""raided""""""" by police

empress is miraculously freed the next day

        also went on a weird ass transphobic rant in one of her nfos

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        • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
          121·
          4 months ago

          -day/night, etc

          Once she pieces together that dusk and dawn are in there too she’ll figure out day should be mid-day and night should be mid-night. She’s right there to becoming history’s second timecuber. All she needs to do is move past duality, from two to four.

        • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          4 months ago

          Literally everything she listed there except life/death has gradients. Like does she not realize that words like Day, Night, Hot, Cold, are all just terms humans applied to describe something? Has she not heard of cool, warm, dusk, dawn, twilight, noon, afternoon, evening, morning?

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Copy protection software that is very hard to crack because it seems to be everywhere in the game binary so you have to meticulously go through the whole thing to weed it out.

        It’s been known to slow games down because it’s called too often to check if your game copy is not pirated.

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.oneEnglish
    931·
    4 months ago

    She’s such a narcissist that she couldn’t stay out of the spotlight. lol.

    Regardless; I doubt that any game she could develop would be any good; and I shudder to think of what deranged DRM scheme she will cook up to protect her own game. It’ll probably be worse than Denuvo, knowing how unstable she is.

    Genuinely, the scene is better without her hate filled screeds polluting the web. Her abilities might be appreciated more if she got some mental help and she could rejoin the scene as a positive force; not someone who lets their ego run rampant and spews hate at the slightest provocation.

    Unfortunately the scene is too cowardly to NUKE her output into obscurity until she cleans her spew up.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      36·
      4 months ago

      Well, MMOs don’t really need DRM. They mostly just need anti-cheat. The server can check for legit ownership or not. Usually it’s only single-player games that get cracked.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          10·
          4 months ago

          They can. It’s a lot harder and different though. It requires emulating the server software and replicating it. It won’t be the same servers as the main game, and also usually requires knowledge of something not provided with the game.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    72·
    4 months ago

    Op… She said she will return AFTER her MMO is ready and is going well.
    That won’t happen. There’s no way it doesn’t get stuck in development hell. She’s never coming back.

      • cccc0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        181·
        4 months ago

        Cracking Denuvo isn’t particularly hard as much as it is extremely tedious. Checks are baked everywhere in the game code, so there are (at least) thousands of little edits you have to make, and if only one of them was implemented wrong or hasn’t been located (this is gamecode, tied to in-game events), no more game. (This is a flawed explanation, but you get the deal)

        It’s enough to drive most crackers insane… hence EMPRESS.

        • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago

          I only took 1 Reverse Engineering class in my CompSci program, so I could be wrong… but I am pretty sure it is both extremely tedious and also extremely difficult to crack Denuvo

    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      311·
      4 months ago

      It is pretty entertaining though, isn’t it? Like, this is the closest we will ever get to the movie Hackers, but in real life.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      Cracking Denuvo is hard as fuck!
      No matter how unhinged she is, she’s very talented.

    • Hotdog Salesman@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      It doesn’t help that almost everyone good enough to crack it gets paid really well to improve it.

      Empress being a notable exception cos she’s insane

    • padge@lemmy.zipEnglish
      241·
      4 months ago

      I’ve switched to indie games or older releases in my backlog

      • DudeDudenson@lemmings.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        100% there are a lot of indie games worth trying

        Sadly most of them are in early access and never get finished but they’re still fun

        • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Shoutout to Slay the Princess. It was honestly one of the best games I have played in years and it was created by a husband / wife duo so it is as indie as it comes.

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        4 months ago

        I have switched to movies. Sold gpu and built a home theatre.
        I just can’t be fucked to sit on my butt and press the keys anymore. Not after being in the game in VR which is in hiatus. Flat games are just seriously the worst from both storytelling worlds.

        • Hax@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          I have trouble sitting down and forcing myself to watch a whole movie or TV show. Just like games, no movies really interest me. I’ve tried to get into anime but a lot of them have weird cringy tropes I can’t get past.

    • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Basically nothing AAA as far as I’m aware. Only major AAA releases I’ve had any interest in are the Sega relaunches (JSR, Crazy Taxi, etc), but some of the rumors I’ve heard aren’t good so I dunno how much hope I should put into it. Everything else is either indie or old console games.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Yep and I’m all for it, lol.

      She is fucking insane and it’s pretty damn entertaining (and a bit sad).

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    33·
    4 months ago

    Man,I understand why only like 2 complete lunatics are still willing to crack denuvo

    But why must it be so

  • SilentObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    151·
    4 months ago

    As unhinged as her rants are, I find them enjoyable. Especially this post. Though I suppose this post is far milder than many of her previous works. 🤣

    I look towards the future with some hope.