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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I agree, it seems like they’re doing everything they can to force users into the mindset of “you’re going to have to spend money here.”

    However… I don’t think that’s going to work. It’s a tactic that relies solely on Apple not allowing the user to customize their icons, which combines into a double whammy of “give me money to fix the thing that I broke.”

    Why do I have to pay when Android users don’t?

    Why is Reddit being greedy?

    This other site is free and doesn’t make me feel like I’m being taken advantage of every turn.

    Reddit is trying to capitalize on goodwill they already spent months ago. And the quality of the site is just going to get worse from here.






  • If she is gone … What will the community do then?

    I think Empress disappearing would be a net-positive for the cracking scene.

    If there is nobody cracking the latest releases, the pressure will mount for new crackers to enter the scene. And perhaps we’ll get a new generation of crackers that bring some competition back into the space.

    There’s also a lot of money involved in pirated games, with shops in poorer countries selling cracked games for pennies on the dollar to people who would otherwise be unable to afford, or even download the latest games.

    So it’s my opinion that denuvo cracking will never go away, it’ll just evolve over time, like it has since the beginning.









  • Even in relatively corruption-free countries, there are often shadow mechanisms the governments uses to decide who they charge with a crime.

    Prosecutors can just say they don’t have a case, or they can fumble the case purposefully in the initial stages to give credence to the “no case” idea.

    We don’t have to look any further than how police charge themselves to see how the laws don’t fairly apply to everyone. And a simple google search will reveal that Sweden is not immune to police corruption, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.

    “Disobeying police orders”, which is what Thunberg was charged with, is one of those catch-all laws that are purposefully vague in a way that allows police total discretion over how to enforce it.

    I guarantee in this case that calls were made all the way up the top of the Swedish government before police decided what to do here.

    Basically, my point is that there are so many strings to pull, even in developed countries, that it’s often possible to suss out the motivations of the administration just by examining how charges proceed.

    What this says about Thunberg getting charged for her actions? Probably nothing significant. Sweden cannot allow activists to freely disrupt their economic infrastructure, especially those involving energy. So they charge her as “normal” regardless of her celebrity status. Though they will be very careful to do everything by the book with so many eyes on the case.



  • I believe the only instances that should be defederated are corporate, self-harm, profanely illegal, and political extremist instances.

    Anything further than that and the whole network is going to devolve into a series of micro echo chambers.

    Or maybe it won’t, maybe the vast and free instances will flourish while the restrictive instances die out.

    Either way, trying to control a community based on wishy washy ideology is not a good look.

    I think in these early days we’ll see a lot of power drunk admins who are too eager to push the button, just because they can.