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[–] Gellis12@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop, what's the context for all this?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Empress is pretty much the only person who cracks Denuvo DRM - the only other person who publicly releases cracks only does it for Football Manager games. However, Empress is just a little unhinged, as this post demonstrates.

There was an r/HobbyDrama reddit post that covers much of the history: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/rowk83/digital_piracy_the_rise_of_empress_how_one_woman/

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When are we going to get a Hobbydrama community on Lemmy?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see in the world

[–] S0berage@mstdn.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I liked the idea of hobby drama, but most of the posts were too long for me to want to get through. I'd end up leaving the tab open for weeks and then just closing them.

BORU on the other hand became something of an addiction.

[–] liminal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

r/BestofRedditorUpdates. They tie together posts from other subreddits where the user came back some time later and posted an update.

[–] Pipsqueaker@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I came to the comments to see if there really could be a person this deranged, and looks like she has a long history of this shit. What the fuck. Thanks for posting that link.

[–] Gellis12@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, she's even crazier than I thought, yikes