Empress's identity REVEALED as Voksi the Bulgarian! Is it over for piracychads?
Empress's response (Reddit): https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/15ssekk/empress_response_to_skidrow/?sort=controversial
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EVERY. FRICKING. TIME.
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What is this r-slur talking about? Does he think DRM is a made up thing that does not exist?
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I have no idea. It's also bizarre how he writes in support of Denuvo and DRM while literally cracking games.
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That's where I stopped reading lol. Everyone involved should do the needful
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Noooooooooo you have to keep reading
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I think he got himself mixed up and meant Sisyphus instead of Don Quixote?
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That would make far more sense, but the way he mentions the windmills makes me think he really does mean Don Quixote, somehow.
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I read that as syphilis and i like my version better
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This is clearly a reference to the proverb "tilting at windmills" as in attacking imaginary enemies. Empress believes that DRM and those who make it are enemies whereas skidrow is saying that they're just people doing they job.
The phrase itself comes from Don Quixote, which is the entire metaphor.
Try being more neurodivergent.
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Did you not understand what I wrote? I obviously know what "tilting at windmills" means. DRM is a real thing and not imaginary so his metaphor makes zero sense.
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The windmills were real too but Quixote thought them to be the monsters he was after.
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Maybe you should read the nfo. It's pretty clear.
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Well, I guess me thinking his metaphor was completely r-slurred and nonsensical is a subjective opinion then, isn't it?
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You asked what is he talking about, I responded by explaining. That doesn't mean you have to agree with the analogy dummy
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lmbo jfc. For you, king
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I think xhe is tilting at your windmill King, I recommend you joust their bussy
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maybe you should
lick my bussy 
neighbor 
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Windmills were an enemy of the people. They put folks out of work and enabled whoever controlled the windmills to hold power over the farmers who were forced to come to them.
Don Quixote was fighting a real enemy but time has tricked us all into thinking he was a fool.
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Down with the windmilloisie!
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He writes on his nfo for a game he cracked from some semi-indi game company or guy.
This is funny and all but how little self aware do you have to be to preach about how DRM is to ensure businesses get their profits in a document for a game you cracked so people can play for free?
New longpost bot quote?
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Believe it or not, most of the crackers don't do it for ideological reasons. Most do it because it's for the challenge itself.
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Then they would do it privately and never release anything. Maybe the binaries to prove it or something, but they releasing a cracked game.
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That's how it started. But then people would then leak their scene releases, so it's changed a lot.
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They do it to install weird shit on your computer. No one is that altruistic, and piracy fans are r-slurred for thinking otherwise.
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What's the backstory for this drama?
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Empress is a schizo Denuvo DRM cracker, pretty much the only one left since other groups quit.
He always writes crazy rants in his release NFO notes and has gained a following of 15 year old redditards who find it hilarious.
Couple of years ago he got into a fight with one of the repackers, FitGirl, over not getting enough credit for actually cracking games. FitGirl has since stopped repacking Empress releases.
A few months ago, he also started demanding $500 to crack a game. I guess that's a lot of money in Bulgaria. Some r-slur usually pays this
and he cracks the game. He also cried a couple of times that no one wanted to pay for his noble work.
I haven't been following this latest Skidrow (an old school cracking group) drama, but it looks like they just outed (with no proof) Empress as "Voksi", an early Denuvo cracker who got busted by the Bulgarian police a few years ago.
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*she
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Yeah skidrow been around forever.
So FitGirl doesn't actually crack stuff they just repack? (I've downloaded games from there before I think they have like their own blog or smth with releases).
And Skidrow is group who actually does cracking and this "empress" guy was working with them but now they're both flinging shit at each other and working independently.
That about right?
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Yes, Fitgirl only just makes compressed installers for cracked games. That's it. Their blog is pretty convenient to find all their torrents post on x1337 and whereever.
Empress worked with CODEX at some point or was paid by them to crack denuvo games.
Empress did not work with skidrow or was with them. I actually have no idea how Skidrow got pissed enough to write up a rant but I'm guessing Empress dropped something doxable on skidrow in one of "her" nfos.
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500$ is like a months salary
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Empress is an independent game cracker not associated with the "Scene", while SKIDROW is a scene group. Empress is one of the only people cracking Denuvo-protected software, and is also a total lunatic and dramaqueen (examples: 1, 2, 3). Empress claims to be a woman, but it is hard to believe. As for the proximate cause of this current drama, I have no idea, but Empress has apparently pissed skidrow off enough for them to write this up.
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Empress is VERY talented, like able to crack uncrackable games in an incredibly short amount of time. Truely one of the last Crazy genuises.
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Methamphetamines and digital living
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Empress, famously the only one who could crack Denuvo? This ''''''''''doxx'''''''''' is r-slurred. Plus Empress has written a lot, and gender detection tools always rate her schizoposts as female. Whole thing reads like a scenestrag REEEing that a) their community got btfo by a foid (female), b) she dared break muh precious honour rules by demanding payment.
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Ehhh those are fun for memes but not really evidence of anything.
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This is amazing, though I do prefer having Empress as an ethereal schizophrenic internet being, knowing all these details about the specifics of the individual takes away from the mythos of Empress
On the other hand, why is skidrow expressing support for DRM and shit, all I see is people commenting and joking about it but is there like a history here
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EMPRESS has always been a massive cute twink so it's funny to see that someone ranting about
s was actually a bulgarian man pretending to be a woman.
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Has anyone seen QuadNarca lately...
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Where
are her nudes 
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'her'
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*his
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So Empress was a tranner afterall? People denied it so passionately for so long I actually believed it.
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He could also just be a man pretending to be a woman on the internet. Thin line, I know.
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Mimic doesn't like my low effort postings! AHHHHHHhhhhHHH!!!!
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Wait it's not THAT voksi is it
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The real question is… is she hot?
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Are Bulgarians considered slavs? Anyways, always told y'all it's a man
Yes, you may tell me how great and wise I am 
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Yeah they're all Slavs around there except the Romanians, Albanians, and Greeks.
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You can call a Hungarian many things but don't ever call him a Slav.
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Mongolian horde wins again
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well this confirms my theory that the person doing the cracks is some autist supa hax0r (male), but I'm still holding out hope the one writing the schizo rants is some batshit foid (female)
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To me it looks like the scenecute twinks are seething that empress can do shit they cannot and is a deranged schizoid who probably refused to work with them at some point so they started making shit up
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dont kill him before he cracks lost judgement
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lol there is a game called "Ship Graveyard Simulator" and it was popular enough for a sequel
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2201940/Ship_Graveyard_Simulator_2/
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Empress will always be a biofoid in my heart
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The HRT cocaine effect strikes again
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