dark thunder break phenomenon🇵🇸

tensai.neocities.org I was greatly inspired by a mutual of mine on here (inspiration struck me like lightning) so I threw together a lil site on neocities. P sparse rn (one fun joke page if u can find it) but i hope to upload my writing on it soon!!

reflexive arcade was a casual games download portal from the 2000s. think bejeweled, diner dash, luxor, mystery case files. they worked with hundreds of devs and distributed thousands of games as shareware versions. each game was wrapped into a time-limit and registration shell that allowed you to online buy it and keep playing. the service shut down in 2010, leaving the games unplayable behind dead drm. i stumbled upon a very complete dump recently on rutracker. someone had all the installers saved days before reflexive shut down. it's an impressively complete collection counting 1700 games. the problem with it is it comes with a choose your own adventure 80+ different patches/cracks/keygens and no instructions for which key fits each hole. the side quest was clear: write the best tools to preserve this collection. first i made it easy to unpack the games without running the installers. this saves around 13,600 times of clicking "next". then i discovered most games are merely encrypted behind the reflexive wrapper, so i wrote a static unwrapper, that can strip the now defunct reflexive libraries and pluck the full game out of the encrypted .rwg file. some games have integrated the reflexive libraries, so there was nothing to unwrap. for these games we needed a keygen. the wrapper used per-game rsa keys for registration. the public key was embedded in a dll shipped with each game, and the moduli were only 160 bits, which can be cracked on modern hardware in under a second. so i factored them all and recovered the private exponents for 1,653 titles. with the recovered keys i built a full toolkit: a keygen that generates valid offline registration codes, a static unwrapper that strips the reflexive shell to extract bare game executables (works for 1,661 out of 1,697 games), and a binary patcher for the remaining integrated wrappers. the project also includes detailed docs explaining the copy protection mechanism, as well as complete inventory of the collection. github.com/banteg/reflexi…

@Chungalette @crazgrad I could only wonder. Also it’s crazy that this person is saying this because when I was a boy I was told to never ever say it like I’d get in more trouble for that than “fuck” etc etc so makes sense it’s so popular now

@DoDoEscapade So funny bc it was on torrent sites within five minutes

The broke mfers without Netflix are going insane rn bro

dipping faeries in molten copper rn

trust me, i’m a master tactician. now everyone rush in. charge all at once everyone

start adding periods to the end of all your texts to your loved ones right now

@hldstdy Huh…? Rest of the city…? Isn’t it dangerous to go too far south or north or west or east…?

IT SHOULD BE ME

I’ve had this poor bald neurotic bus driver two commutes home in a row and he’s supposed to have someone relieve him at a certain stop but nobody every does so everyone on the bus just gets angry at him as he makes phone calls and tries to figure out what’s happening

@hldstdy $30 one drink River north #lfggg

@hldstdy It’s a shame any attempt at participating in nightlife will be swept up in the great crowds emerging for that same weather

@SwiftistRealism You wouldn’t believe how serendipitous the timing is

@hldstdy I think ur right Lowkey couldn’t believe it upon exiting work today

@evilvillain1231 Literally all of this I like mechanically driving and if there’s someone else I like in the car then traffic isn’t even bad but every other driver on the road makes me think the project should be abandoned

Hell even being stuck in traffic isn't too bad if you don't need to urgently be somewhere. You're sitting down comfortably with air conditioning, listening to music or a podcast and playin with your phone, that's probably about what you were going to be doing anyway

I'm a chud who likes cars and I like driving my car (when I'm not stuck in traffic) and I think global car ownership should he reduced by at least 75% so chuds like me can better enjoy ourselves. And also for the environment and stuff

nana says if i eat another dippin dot then i’ll have to run on the treadmill

@Exceleena o7

They’re revoking my license as a warrior of love

@FootjobTherapy They’re monsters over there but they’re monsters over here too so it’s lose-lose

@FootjobTherapy And I’m supposed to like him less?

@FootjobTherapy Wonder what halpened to him