Trapped In America

Yeah, Denuvo is just a pain to crack. It’s not UNcrackable, just a giant pain. Not to mention the methed out psycho that was cracking them has probably gone to rehab or something.

The executables are basically running in an encrypted VM and require multiple keys from Denuvo’s servers to decrypt and run (hence why they want SecureBoot on now). With breaking the VM being the biggest hurdle as they’re each running their own pseudo-machine-code that the VM translates during gameplay. Meaning you can’t just make a universal unpacker/decrypter/patcher type tool that spits raw x86 executables out for you. Nope, it all has to be done “by hand” now. At least from the translation step and on.

Umm…

Yet* :P

It’s ego and they actually think they can win against cheat makers. But like it or not, there will always be cheats, for the same reason there will always be cracked copies of their games.

If it runs, it can be cracked. -An old 0day saying

PS - Just let us have our own dedicated servers again. Then we can just banhammer a bitch, instead of relying on a stupid lobby vote system and a report button.

Yeah, I gave mine (a whole $7) to Make-A-Wish. Don’t even use PayPal so…

Oh really? That’s good to know.

I wonder how they justify that on taxes lol…

“Yeah, we paid out $500 to 1337snipergodx6969@gmail.com. You’ll need to verify the other details with PayPal.”

Just make sure someone instantly takes it (work as a group, so you all know exactly who’s grabbing it). Then give them the basket right back. They’ll figure it out after the 2-3 run that they need to stop fucking around and get back to their other tables.

I’ve actually asked and they’ll do exactly that. It’s apparently policy for them not to ask and to only stop when you tell them. Even if they have those prefilled, hand-crank shredders they use now, they’ll just calmly set it down and pickup another, then go back to shredding.

I’ve been so tempted ever since, every time I’m dragged back there by family/friends/etc. Just to see the looks on their faces.

Yeah, that’s for their ad-free Premium thing, which gets rid of ads and lets you skip the nag screen you’re talking about. Which, fun fact, you can use uBlock Origin and a Greasemonkey script to skip (I’d recommend ViolentMonkey to run the script) ;)

Which reminds me, the top mods every game/month are eligible for a small cut of that money if you opt-in and give them your real personal info. I’ve only ever made the cut once so I completely forgot about it.

Dude, hell yes, thank you for this! The place is definitely going on the list for my next road trip now. I usually run a big loop and I’ve been to Texas more than enough, so I’ve been looking for other things to check out on my way through the south western states.

Long time modder here, so I’ve been keeping up with this very closely. The owner (Dark0ne) really just handed control over to the people that were already running everything with him. The company (Black Tree Gaming Ltd.) is still exactly the same, they just have a new owner/parent company now (Chosen Something). And I’m sure he negotiated ahead of time that they’re limited in how much they can interfere, because I’ve seen nothing on my side indicating they plan to. (There’s no option for me to monetize my mods outside of donations or Patreon, for example.)

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This is actually really cool. I would check it out next time I’m out traveling. But I can’t seem to find whether they’re open to the public or do tours or not. No observatory or restaurant on the top floor either, that I can find.

Guess it’s time to start “looking at office space” in the Tulsa area :P

Because they don’t need one. They just send a polite email asking for everything on Person X and they get an email back with EVERYTHING that person’s ever done on any of Google’s services.

Problem solved. No Backdoor or Warrant needed.

Cellebrite was used to crack the first Trump shooter’s phone. At the time, they openly talked about the latest iPhone being uncrackable and still in the “In Research” phase. So if the shooter had one, they’d have been screwed.

Take a look, it’s in a book…

I’m aware of the Penrose diagram and also watch PBS SpaceTime :)

But I was referring more to the frame of reference of our universe vs that of being inside a blackhole (assuming you could magically avoid being ripped apart by gravity). To an observer inside a blackhole, “time” on the outside would blink by almost instantly. I wasn’t talking about moving through an infinite universe or near/into a black hole. Just stationary, floating just beyond the event horizon, looking out. Hence the asterisk on basically*.

I was leading them to what MotoAsh posted. But they beat me to it while I was typing.

Edit: He even references what I’m talking about at 0:44 in the SpaceTime video. But from the frame of reference of an outside observer.

Yes, but if you’re beyond the event horizon of a black hole time becomes basically* irrelevant. You could literally turn around, look back out towards the rest of he universe, and watch all of time play out in the blink of an eye.

You know that scene in Interstellar where they land on the planet for 5 minutes, but 20 years passes for everyone else due to the planet’s mass? It’s the same thing, but a billion-billion-billion times more severe.

A good example: their SN30 Pro has a bad bluetooth chip in it that makes Xinput support really laggy (I don’t know the specifics). It’s been years now, and had a few firmware updates, but there’s still been no fix. It works great for everything else though, so I still keep it around.

Just a warning for anyone thinking of buying one after reading this…