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8 dollars for a TB of storage, man. It still makes me feel awestruck sometimes when I see stufff like a $23 3TB HDD.


The fun thing about DRM, is that people love to defeat it.

They (the general public AND 3DM, to TorrentFreak, bunch of whiners IMO) said Denuvo was the death of cracking and piracy. 3DM: No games crackable in 2 years time, said the headline.

now the cracking scene, which was mostly dying, has seen some revival.

It has adapted, but it's a slow moving ship.

Now a new generation (or the older generation, who knows, I'm just relaying my own observations)) are taking everything being thrown at them: encryption, virtualization, obfuscation, changing keys each patch, etc and making it look like light work to crack properly.

They make short, short work of it for the amount of complexity involved. So I hope they continue to throw new things at them with Denuvo, to keep them interested.

One group cracks the base game, sometimes someone else grabs all the updates and rolls them into a cracked patch, etc.

It's nice to see some life return to something that was basically dead, made automated.


"No games crackable in 2 years time, said the headline...now the cracking scene, which was mostly dying, has seen some revival"

Do you have a citation for this? Every game, dvd, stream, book etc ever has been cracked. Software protection has a 0% success rate.


Excerpt from wikipedia's article on Denuvo

In January 2016, 3DM reportedly nearly gave up attempting to crack Just Cause 3, which is protected with Denuvo, due to the difficulties associated with the process.[8] They also warned that due to the current trends in encryption technology, in two years' time, the cracking of video games may become impossible.[8][9]

[8] Owen S. Good (9 January 2016). "Piracy group nearly gives up on cracking Just Cause 3, warns of bleak future". http://www.polygon.com/2016/1/9/10741274/just-cause-3-crack-.... Retrieved 17 January 2016.

[9] Robert Purchese (8 January 2016). "Finally, tide turns in war with PC game crackers". http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-08-denuvo-game-cra.... Retrieved 18 January 2016.


Oxxide is actually arguing against this headline: https://torrentfreak.com/no-more-pirate-games-in-two-years-g...


how do you know the prescriptions don't exist/weren't verified?


because most of the artists are gimmick acts.


Always loved that song.

My personal favorite Canibus track is Master Thesis, though.


Yey! I'm not the only Canibus fan! Seriously though Mic Club is awesome.


thank you for this level-headed response. some of the vitriol around here is toxic.


It's pretty clear you only have a surface understanding of the e-cig industry, the big tobacco owned e-cig lines are crappy disposables. You might start with one, but pretty soon you move on to a proper personal vaporizer with a decent battery life.

It's not clear how exactly harmful they aren't, either. The truth is, no one knows. They certainly haven't done any harm to me thus far, and we aren't yet hearing reports of vapers dropping dead, so I think it's safe to assume they're relatively harmless. (at least in the short term.)


> so I think it's safe to assume they're relatively harmless. (at least in the short term.)

Cigarrettes are basically harmless in the short term as well!

None the less, and contaminants from crappy manifacturers not-withstanding, I'd be surprised if e-cig's turn out to be harmful (in a meaningful way).


Please be fully aware of the risk of precipitated withdrawal when considering taking bupe. If you're an addict, you shouldn't take it until the withdrawals hit full swing.


Did you also read the part where it said "If she doesn't, I'm afraid she'll miss out on one of the most important rites of passage."

Psychedelics are a tool to be used for self discovery, not some seedy thing only losers use. Maybe you are the one who is blinded by preconceptions here, not him.


You are literally spouting bullshit out of your ass. Insanity? Are you fucking kidding me?

Blow it out your ass pops, you're making shit up.

This kind of flatout lying is even worse than people who pretend drugs have no risks. Making risks up to scare people into agreeing with you is no better.


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