JcDent

@JcDent

A T-55 experience

He/him
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Military history, video games and miniature wargaming.

RPGs, single player FPS, RTS and 4X, grog games.

Passionate about complaining about Warhammer.

Catholic, socialist, and an LGBT+ ally.

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Fortified Niche: a podcast covering indie miniature wargames

www.anchor.fm/fortified-niche

Grognardia: the current place to order my t-shirt designs [until I find a better one]

www.zazzle.com/store/grognardia

Hellsite 2 account:

bsky.app/profile/jcdent.bsky.social

JcDent @JcDent5/17/2023, 5:10 AM

Man, I missed out on so much back in my piracy days

Was RELOADED just three squirrels in a trench coat? I don't know, and I don't care to check. If it's funny, someone will post a twitter thread about it.

To me, they were just faceless weirdos that did ASCII art in their .nfo¹ files, added obnoxious music anytime they made an app to work with the cracking process, and sometimes did funny stuff like replacing the Red Alert 3² pre-loading window art with a lingerie model.

Those were the DAEMON TOOLS days...

Nobody ever told me why .nfo and not .txt
If you're a babby, Red Alert 3 came out with a batshit DRM scheme that combined limited installs with verification on the server, making legal copies more annoying to use than pirated ones.

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Boris Bezdar @Bezdarbor5/17/2023, 6:49 AM

I remember people made compilations of music tracks from various cracks. It was a whole subgenre that we've lost. Good times!

JcDent @JcDent5/17/2023, 7:12 AM

I remember game rips that actually cut cutscenes/audio from games. Wild times.

Boris Bezdar @Bezdarbor5/17/2023, 7:22 AM

Yes, and also there was something called repacks when everything was jammed into one easy-to-use executable instead of CD images.
Pirates sometimes even made the game more playable via those repacks, solving lots of booting problems by integrating self-made patches and whatnot.

Also, I remember downloading an ISO of Revenant (a Diablo-clone with the neat battle system) with a hidden folder in the disk root filled with hundreds of pornographic photos of Ron Jeremy from the 80s.

JcDent @JcDent5/17/2023, 8:15 AM

Now that's a day-one DLC lol

~@modulusshift5/17/2023, 3:27 PM

wow fitgirl is my hero, she's always been my favorite cracker but this takes it to the next level lol

@wooby5/17/2023, 3:50 PM

unfortunately i think the tweet kinda just pulled "trans girl" out of nowhere, there's nothing saying that fitgirl is even a girl to begin with. still iconic though

@elena5/17/2023, 6:40 PM

it's .nfo because it's a holdover from the BBS days where BBS software would store metadata about a given file or files with a corresponding .nfo file - in large part because of 8.3 file name constraints

Tokyoscarab @tokyoscarab5/17/2023, 9:32 PM

What's wrong with keygen music? 😢

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