from her telegram

  • Most AuspiciousEnglish
    146•4 months ago

    Following Empress’ bullshit via Telegram screenshots is a fun experience. I like to think of it as the B-plot of digital piracy.

  • Björn TantauEnglish
    107•4 months ago

    The world would be a much less interesting place if someone besides her was cracking Denuvo.

      • Björn TantauEnglish
        3•3 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 FwygonEnglish
    88•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.

    • CethinEnglish
      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.

        • CethinEnglish
          10•3 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.

  • LiveLMEnglish
    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.

    • AisteruEnglish
      43•4 months ago

      From what I gathered, she’s pretty much a genius at cracking

      • @cccc0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        17•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

    • RBGEnglish
      31•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.

        • RBGEnglish
          25•4 months ago

          I think you may need to add some more slur placeholders in there, but yes.

    • LiveLMEnglish
      12•4 months ago

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

    • Hotdog SalesmanEnglish
      4•3 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

      • @DudeDudensonEnglish
        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.

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮English
        4•3 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•3 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)English
      3•3 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.

  • @Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34•3 months ago

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

    But why must it be so

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
    33•4 months ago

    The only thing I was even looking for being cracked was Lies of P but then the devs themselves removed it from the game and also put the game on sale for super cheap so I just bought it anyway 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @SilentObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15•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.