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
I oscillate between: “it’s done for the lolz”and “only somebody like this would actually dedicate themselves to cracking denuvo for (almost) free”.
I totally agree that it makes the world more interesting. It’s like if Tom Bombadil had a pegging fetish. The unexplained is needed to add some magic to the world, and if it were to be understood the allure would be lost.
It’s like if Tom Bombadil had a pegging fetish.
That has to be a new sentence that no one has ever typed before.
I kinda think it tracks that one of them would just be out and open with their narcicissm and kinks
It kinda makes sense now that I think about it. If her real identity were ever to be revealed, she’d be thrown in prison so fast that some kinks floating around online would be the very least of her problems.
Honestly I don’t trust people who wield great power without being a little corrupt. Like don’t tell me you’re not corrupt, no one believes that. Just tell me that you use your absolute power for relatively harmless shit like cutting to the front of the line at movies or having the security forces smuggle illegal cigarettes for you.
If I ever become General Secretary of the World Communist Party I’m definitely using my clout for getting free house cleaning service, I hate chores.
Wizard class hackers have always been extremely weird people.
Pegged In The Butt By My Cracked Video Game Provider by Chuck Tingle
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:
3 people. don’t forget voksi who retired after getting raided.
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.
When I said “it’d be cool to put a minigame in the crack installer,” I did NOT mean like this
It’s a game about installing something in your crack. What’s the problem?
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.
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.
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.
