The year is 2028. You try to distract yourself from the taste of the day's bug ration by booting up Farm Simulator. The screen flashes red and the CD drive on your computer opens up. "PENIS INSPECTION REQUIRED". You tell the AI that you already did a penis inspection to start the computer and log into Steam, but it interprets that as pathological lying. Farm Simulator sentences you to 10 years in prison for penis fraud and the police shoot you upon arrival.
The police shoot you in the penis, right?
The year is 2028. Joe Biden is elected president by a 1% margin. I drink my water ration pretending it's coffee as I post on Hexbear. "Fuck the democrats. Their one campaign promise was that police would only shoot you in the penis and he already walked that back?". The police knock on my door and announce Farm Simulator has sentenced me to death by gun or dog. They kill me before I can say I voted for Biden so that they'd only shoot me in the penis.
starting my business of hyperrealistic dildos that will let u skip penis inspection right now
Penis piracy is a crime. You wouldn't download balls.
The files are stored in the balls.
many such cases
Wake up sheeple! Immigration Customs Enforcement is just a front to develop ICE for what they are really interested in: IP Cock Examinations
So...their "solution" is to punish people who did buy the games legitimately by spying on their usage of the game so they can sell that info to companies for profit and if it doesn't work, they miss out on the game while the pirates do not.
And these people wonder why piracy is becoming more and more socially acceptable.
So basically, ensuring that the cracked games are the superior product?
mandatory 14-day online checks
Lately I've been thinking about what a super power the Internet would be in a just world instead of the one we're in. Every show immediately has VODs on the singular streaming platform. It's also the place for streaming games, music, and podcasts.
Would you really bother botting and making a dead internet out of the 2 or 3 social media sites (message boards, tweets, professional)? Those, by the way, keep up with the latest in psychology to make sure it's not preying on your attention.
Looking for work kind of works because why on Earth would you need ineffectual nonsense like ghost jobs and lots of marketing, and whatever? The national project needs X so you go do X. Every couple of weeks or so you have presentations to elected officials either online or in person silo'd into different categories of desire for innovation.
The operating systems would be fast and sleek. It would be so nice.
It could be such a nice piece of technology.
I'd love it if, when I need information on a particular thing in history (I write historical fiction and hate being inaccurate when I include details), I could go to a database site that keeps primary sources and secondary analysis on every topic under the sun, and then navigate to the correct period and category, and find the concept I need information on, and be easily able to look at every period primary source or good secondary source that mentions that thing.
If both social space and Useful Information were centralized, by an authority that benefits more from making it usable and efficient than from dark patterns, "going online" and "looking something up" could both be such pleasant experiences.
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APIs are all public and freely available. Education isn't locked behind anything. Free encrypted cloud storage. No ads on the sites. No paywalls in the journalism. Flourishing FOSS. You get to see the chain of custody on information. You get access to all the scientific articles. People make widgets for all the science and technology. Freely fork everything and discuss your findings.
I've depressed myself
I think about this all the time, especially when I get that one tagline about logging on to Hexbear in 2024 communist America. I'm sure there's a billion reasons for why it didn't work out, but I always wonder how different the internet would be if the Soviet Union had survived and computerized early, like with the OGAS project. I'm sure enshittification wouldn't be as rampant. Just like how the USSR provided a progressive political example that the capitalist world had to somewhat keep up with, they would've provided an example of an internet not completely squeezed to death by rent-seeking companies.
I wonder so often how different things would be if the USSR had invented the Internet first and survived into the Information Age. Could they have won the cultural war that way? Who knows. But it damn well would have led to some neat Soviet state projects.
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Rejecting cybernetics was an actual Soviet L
Reminds me of Dems forcing gun barrels to be serialized and banning arbitrary gun lengths and accessories because of unrelated crimes committed with guns
Amazing, punish your paying customers for your incompetence.
finally I'll be able to play hello kitty island adventure
nice pic I like him
HOLY SHIT OMG HELL YEAH I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
So many games on my wishlist just made themselves available
EDIT: Ok seems like it's not that simple and many games still require that "hypervisor" method where you have to install a kernel or some shit (which I'm not doing) but hey RE9 was fully cracked
I waited so long for that RE9 crack just to finally get it, finish the game, and personally rate it a 7/10 
speaking of, Black Myth: Wukong just got cracked frfr none of this hypervisor shit
also:
Hello! DenuvOwO here.
In the article you shared by Bruno Ferreira for Tom's Hardware, he goes on to say:
"As a somewhat predictable response, Denuvo and 2K Games reportedly just added a 14-day mandatory online check to several titles, including NBA 2K25, NBA 2K26, and Marvel's Midnight Suns. This is impossible for the HVB to emulate, as it's a request/response call to Denuvo's servers and thus in practice can't be replicated. At some point, the code that executes this check could be removed, but that requires a full game crack rather than the HBP."
This is far from the truth. We can "emulate" it and we did in our crack fix releases. The releases in question were NBA 2K26, 2K25, Marvel's Midnight Suns and TopSpin 2K25, which have all had the time spoofed to reflect a date where the old token is still valid. Takes like a second to do.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/1sxx9h3/topspin_2k25_hypervisor_bypass_crack_fix_by/
He also wrote an even worse article before that claims the cracked version by voices38 uses less RAM and VRAM:
One thing Bruno Ferreira missed is that the test was flawed and compares an older version of the game against the newer one in voices38's release. It also wasn't a Denuvo vs voices38 comparison, rather hypervisor vs voices38.
The test was done again to address this difference, and wouldn't you know it? voices38's crack uses more RAM and there's no VRAM difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6H9paq8jcU
It's quite literally impossible for voices38's crack to use less RAM as the crack gets around 600 megabytes of heap memory, then proceeds to make a shadow copy of the game's executable to it. This is done to redirect Denuvo's integrity checks to the shadow copy.
He also claims Denuvo is totally removed, which is completely wrong.
He needs to get his head out his ass and actually fact check before making claims, not copy paste anything Pirat_Nation says on Twitter.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/1sy3wvj/denuvo_doing_14_day_online_checks/oirqd5v/
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Hell yes thank you for posting this. A week or so ago when I first saw the news about the hypervisor crack and saw it on the list of games I was initially excited, and then extremely disappointed when I looked further into it and saw how much bullshit was involved and that it won't run on Linux.
voices38-black.myth.wukong is the release name
I don't think this kind of virtualization works on the usable windows versions, and Linux is already denovo free, so I guess its good news for the 3 Mac os/windows10 users out there.
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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