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[–] 3TH4Li4@feddit.ch 100 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Seems like no cracker or repacker is ever mentally sane. Like, defending DRM and trans-slurs? Really? Not like Empress is normal either but wtf

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Most of the old scene thought of cracking DRM in games as a challange within themselves, and did it for the competition. Skidrow's thoughts align with this mindset. You can't blame skidrow for that.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You definitely can blame them for the slurs, and defending DRM really doesn't win over your fanbase.

[–] daq@lemmy.daqfx.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What fan base? A thousand or so people that read the NFOs? 99% of crack users don't even pay attention to the group that released it.

[–] 3TH4Li4@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago

Most people almost never download NFOs that's true. But if you're a regular then you pay attention to which team does the work at least, so you're not hacked or injected with cryptoshit.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

When I torrent skidrow cracked games I usually don't even download the NFO

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