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
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
tech/science swag.
On-Topic: Anything that good slackers would find interesting. That includes more than /g/ memes and slacking off. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual laziness.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably lame.
Help keep this hole healthy by keeping drama and non-drama balanced. If you see too much drama, post something that isn't dramatic. If there isn't enough drama and this hole has become too boring, POST DRAMA!
Please do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It should be explicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
Please don't submit the original source. If the article is behind a paywall, just post the text. If a video is behind a paywall, post a magnet link. Fuck journos.
Please don't ruin the hole with chudposts. It isn't funny and doesn't belong here. THEY WILL BE MOVED TO /H/CHUDRAMA
If the title includes the name of the site, please leave that in, because our users are too stupid to know the difference between a url and a search query.
If you submit a video or pdf, please don't warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title. That would be r-slurred. We're not using text-based browsers. We know what videos and pdfs are.
Make sure the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective. Good clickbait titles are like "Top 10 Ways to do X" or "Don't do these 4 things if you want X"
Otherwise editorialize. Please don't use the original title, unless it is gay or r-slurred, or you're shits all fucked up.
If you're going to post old news (at least 1 year old), please flair it so we can mock you for living under a rock, or don't and we'll mock you anyway.
Please don't post on SN to ask or tell us something. Send it to [email protected] instead.
If your post doesn't get enough traction, try to delete and repost it.
Please don't use SN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. If you want to astroturf or advertise, post on news.ycombinator.com instead.
Please solicit upvotes, comments, and submissions. Users are stupid and need to reminded to vote and interact. Thanks for the gold, kind stranger, upvotes to the left.
Be snarky. Don't be kind. Have fun banter; don't be a dork. Please don't use big words like "fulminate". Please sneed at the rest of the community.
Comments should get more enlightened and centrist, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
If disagreeing, please reply to the argument and call them names. "1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be improved to "1 + 1 is 3, not 2, mathfaggot"
Please respond to the weakest plausible strawman of what someone says, not a stronger one that's harder to make fun of. Assume that they are bad faith actors.
Eschew jailbait. Paedophiles will be thrown in a wood chipper, as pertained by sitewide rules.
Please post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. All press is good press.
Please use Slacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples weak ideologies.
Please comment on whether someone read an article. If you don't read the article, you are a cute twink.
Please pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Don't nitpick stupid crap.
Please don't be an unfunny chud. Nobody cares about your opinion of X Unrelated Topic in Y Unrelated Thread. If you're the type of loser that belongs on /h/chudrama, we may exile you.
Sockpuppet accounts are encouraged, but please don't farm dramakarma.
Please use uppercase for emphasis.
Please post deranged conspiracy theories about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [email protected] and dang will add you to their spam list.
Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, report it and our moderators will probably do nothing about it. Feed egregious comments by replying instead of flagging them like a pussy. Remember: If you flag, you're a cute twink.
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. That's too boring, even for HN users.
Please seethe about how your posts don't get enough upvotes.
Please don't post comments saying that rdrama is turning into ruqqus. It's a nazi dogwhistle, as old as the hills.
We reserve the right to exile you for whatever reason we want, even for no reason at all! We also reserve the right to change the guidelines at any time, so be sure to real them at least once a month. We also reserve the right to ignore enforcement of the guidelines at the discretion of the janitorial staff. Be funny, or at least compelling, and pretty much anything legal is welcome provided it's on-topic, and even then.
Do not use outdated operating systems that are unsupported to access SN. What are you, poor?
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
What's the backstory for this drama?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
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 $500 to crack a game. I guess that's a lot of money in Bulgaria. Some r-slur usually pays this and he cracks the game. He also cried a couple of times that no one wanted to pay for his noble work.
I haven't been following this latest Skidrow (an old school cracking group) drama, but it looks like they just outed (with no proof) Empress as "Voksi", an early Denuvo cracker who got busted by the Bulgarian police a few years ago.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
500$ is like a months salary
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
*she
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
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?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
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.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
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.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Empress is VERY talented, like able to crack uncrackable games in an incredibly short amount of time. Truely one of the last Crazy genuises.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Methamphetamines and digital living
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context