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I don't own a switch but i played mario odyssey on the pc and it's a pretty good game
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Unless it's an Indie game then just steal it a little bit.
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Mar 3, 2022 17:22
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I’m serious, it’s not just my brother in law. I work in computer security and have seen all kinds of damage come from pirating games. Think 6 figure ransomware payments or multi-million dollar crypto thefts from people wanting to play Fart Simulator without paying. Hell, I’ve seen pirated games come with PuTTY configurations that no AV would ever hit on (including Defender) lead to massive losses. Ignore me if you want, but if you are pirating PC games you’re not being as safe as you think you are. Again, not a moral thing, no one cares. But you’re going to care a lot if something goes wrong.
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Mar 3, 2022 17:23
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^ Amazing how wrong this is Make sure you steal as many games as you can as fast as you can. If the installer looks sketch I would recommend installing your stolen game twice.
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Mar 3, 2022 17:26
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The Pirate Captain posted:I’m serious, it’s not just my brother in law. I work in computer security and have seen all kinds of damage come from pirating games. Think 6 figure ransomware payments or multi-million dollar crypto thefts from people wanting to play Fart Simulator without paying. Hell, I’ve seen pirated games come with PuTTY configurations that no AV would ever hit on (including Defender) lead to massive losses. Ignore me if you want, but if you are pirating PC games you’re not being as safe as you think you are. I'm sorry but those people are also idiots. If you have some basic computer literacy and a little bit of common sense you can pirate everything with no issue. I guarantee those people downloaded or clicked on something that was incredibly obvious .
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Mar 3, 2022 17:30
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It was proba pornography
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Mar 3, 2022 17:30
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You know, like porno.
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Mar 3, 2022 17:31
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tbf pornos are rad
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Mar 3, 2022 17:31
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:tbf pornos are rad Yes but stealing pornos is wrong.... Or cool... I forgot which.
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Mar 3, 2022 17:32
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Literally A Person posted:It was proba pornography It was literally pirated games, unequivocally, in all those cases. Like, you can see the chain in Carbon Black of torrent -> game exe -> Internet connection -> trickbot or something else nasty. Again, ignore me if you want. Maybe we’ll meet someday. Edit: I have also seen similar things from pornography.
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Mar 3, 2022 17:41
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:I'm sorry but those people are also idiots. If you have some basic computer literacy and a little bit of common sense you can pirate everything with no issue. I guarantee those people downloaded or clicked on something that was incredibly obvious . Everybody thinks they’re an expert until they get hacked. I’ve seen it hundreds of times.
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Mar 3, 2022 17:43
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The amount that Nintendo charges for poo poo is kind of criminal tbqh, you need a monthly subscription just to be able to buy old SNES ROMs for $30 each lol
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Mar 3, 2022 17:55
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I wish hackers targeted filthy rich swine instead of people who pirate videogames
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Mar 3, 2022 18:05
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QuarkJets posted:The amount that Nintendo charges for poo poo is kind of criminal tbqh, you need a monthly subscription just to be able to buy old SNES ROMs for $30 each lol Remember when they finally rereleased Earthbound on the 3DS, but then tried to tell everyone that the original 3DS didn't have hardware capable of playing SNES games? Lol
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Mar 3, 2022 18:09
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Rutibex posted:official games have more malware than pirated ones these days yeah it was cool when it came out that denuvo was causing bad stuttering and frame drops in resident evil 8...and the way this was discovered by the community was the pirate release had none because it stripped out the copy protection. the change caused such massive outcry capcom released a patch like two weeks later taking it out of legit copies
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Mar 3, 2022 18:10
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The Pirate Captain posted:It was literally pirated games, unequivocally, in all those cases. Like, you can see the chain in Carbon Black of torrent -> game exe -> Internet connection -> trickbot or something else nasty. how would a video file run code to do anything other than open your video player? is that possible? or are you talking about downloading some kind of torrent with a bunch of weird files in it that people for some reason a) download and b) run?
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Mar 3, 2022 18:15
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roomtone posted:how would a video file run code to do anything other than open your video player? is that possible? i'm convinced all these people pirate captain knows are visiting those dodgy websites that are full of DOWNLOAD HERE buttons that actually aren't a real download button. then they're running a 2mb .exe it gives them.
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Mar 3, 2022 18:17
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roomtone posted:how would a video file run code to do anything other than open your video player? is that possible? I mean people torrenting, downloading and running games, that’s what I’ve seen. The full game is there, but so are some malicious programs bundled in with it. Usually it’s just a bitcoin miner or small mail client used to send spam but occasionally it’s much worse. I read an article about a proof of concept attack where a researcher found a vulnerability in a video codec and made a file that, in conjunction with the vulnerability, could get arbitrary code to run on a machine, but I’ve never hear of that actually happening in the wild. What I have seen is attackers naming their malware stuff like porn.avi.exe, and since you can give a file any icon you want, at a glance it looks like a video file. Combine that with, by default, Windows doesn’t display file extensions, and what the end user sees is a file with the right icon labeled porn.avi. Zeus famously spread across networks that way. Pro tip: always enable visible extensions. Collapsing Farts posted:I wish hackers targeted filthy rich swine instead of people who pirate videogames If it makes you feel better, 99% of the time they do target rich people or companies.
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Mar 3, 2022 18:27
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:i'm convinced all these people pirate captain knows are visiting those dodgy websites that are full of DOWNLOAD HERE buttons that actually aren't a real download button. then they're running a 2mb .exe it gives them. I promise you, while I’ve seen plenty of that too (far more of it, of course) I have seen serious, serious malware bundled in with actual working copies of games hosted in torrents like any other. Edit: other than my brother in law, these aren’t people I know, they are clients who have paid me to respond to these incidents. The Pirate Captain fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Mar 3, 2022 |
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Mar 3, 2022 18:29
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Never pirated a thing in my life. Not out of moral character, the truth is I have always been really just too lazy to find out how to do it safely and successfully. And I've always managed to have the cash to get what I wanted, that helps.
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Mar 3, 2022 18:36
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The Pirate Captain posted:I promise you, while I’ve seen plenty of that too (far more of it, of course) I have seen serious, serious malware bundled in with actual working copies of games hosted in torrents like any other. fwiw I do believe you but i also still think pirating things is fine
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Mar 3, 2022 18:41
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The Pirate Captain posted:I’m serious, it’s not just my brother in law. I work in computer security and have seen all kinds of damage come from pirating games. Think 6 figure ransomware payments or multi-million dollar crypto thefts from people wanting to play Fart Simulator without paying. Hell, I’ve seen pirated games come with PuTTY configurations that no AV would ever hit on (including Defender) lead to massive losses. Ignore me if you want, but if you are pirating PC games you’re not being as safe as you think you are. the trick is to have nothing of value worth e-stealing. Lol oh no my crypto apes!!
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Mar 3, 2022 18:47
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I’m too stupid and scared to pirate games and don’t know how to do it “safely”, or where to do it, making me superior to and smarter than all who deign to pirate
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Mar 3, 2022 18:50
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:fwiw I do believe you but i also still think pirating things is fine Thanks. But please be careful. On a happier note, I’ve also never heard of anyone being hacked from using ROMs, like SNES or PS2 or whatever so go hog wild. Lol, I just realized the irony of my username + what I’ve been saying.
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Mar 3, 2022 18:51
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it does piss me off when some releases have broken controller support I paid nothing for this and it doesn't even work!!
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Mar 3, 2022 18:52
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The Pirate Captain posted:Thanks. But please be careful. you absolute buffoon! anyone should know acquiring these roms is a very treacherous process for amateurs. "oh golly i downloaeded the ps2 rom downloader.exe but i dont think my computer is fast enough to run it because now it won't start!"
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Mar 3, 2022 18:54
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The Pirate Captain posted:Thanks. But please be careful. ive seen lots of dodgy emulators though. especially on android
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:you absolute buffoon! anyone should know acquiring these roms is a very treacherous process for amateurs. "oh golly i downloaeded the ps2 rom downloader.exe but i dont think my computer is fast enough to run it because now it won't start!" Lol, touché. Rutibex posted:ive seen lots of dodgy emulators though. especially on android I’ve heard of that but never encountered it personally. I use iOS, not because I particularly like it but because the closed nature of it makes it more secure. Not that there isn’t malware on iOS because I’ve absolutely seen that too. Just less of it.
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Mar 3, 2022 19:00
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i do miss those sick chiptunes they used to have in cracks and installers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si6sTEOiuwk
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Mar 3, 2022 19:06
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:."oh golly i downloaeded the ps2 rom downloader.exe but i dont think my computer is fast enough to run it because now it won't start!" That's because you neglected to delete it within 24 hours you simpleton
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:i do miss those sick chiptunes they used to have in cracks and installers I miss cracktros. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AILV_-yCpVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5A8eAARFAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGS19atmFA
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Mar 3, 2022 19:28
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Dang those are really good I hope there's a Spotify list of those somewhere
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site posted:yeah it was cool when it came out that denuvo was causing bad stuttering and frame drops in resident evil 8...and the way this was discovered by the community was the pirate release had none because it stripped out the copy protection. the change caused such massive outcry capcom released a patch like two weeks later taking it out of legit copies That's literally every game with denuvo. Also won't be surprised if it's the same issue with Elden Ring and easy anti-cheat.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Dang those are really good not spotify but you can get a lot of things (and more) here https://www.pouet.net/search.php?what=cracktro&type=prod
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Collapsing Farts posted:Hmm, should I download EldenRing.exe (877kb) from this armenian website? I definitely want to play Elden Ring Make sure to take some videos of your epic battle with the straw man in Mistwood.
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Mar 4, 2022 01:48
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Look, I know this got lost in the piracy talk. But, where do I get a legitimate copy of Fart Simulator? Those COWARDS at valve won't put it on steam.
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The legitimate copy has been inside of you all along 
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Trollologist posted:Look, I know this got lost in the piracy talk. But, where do I get a legitimate copy of Fart Simulator? Those COWARDS at valve won't put it on steam. I'd pay full price for a generic AAA open-world fart simulator So long as the mission flow isn't Ahem bloated
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Trollologist posted:Look, I know this got lost in the piracy talk. But, where do I get a legitimate copy of Fart Simulator? Those COWARDS at valve won't put it on steam. the beans and chili section of your local grocery store
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Clowner posted:I'd pay full price for a generic AAA open-world fart simulator I'm sure there is a skyrim mod
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