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    • @harry_balzac@lemmy.world
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      1091 year ago

      Empress is considered the best Denuvo cracker in the world. Mostly because she’s the only one that is consistently successful.

      There are two major trains of thought regarding her. The first: she’s a batshit crazy narcissist who is more toxic than a Kardashian-Jenner family dinner where Kanye and Pete Davidson show up unannounced. The second: she’s the goddess and the most wonderful woman on the planet and one day she’ll recognize my loyalty and I will have a place in her New World Order.

      • @screamname@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        121 year ago

        I wouldn’t be surprised if Empress is a group of two or more people. At least one to handle the “persona” of Empress and the rest to do the cracking. Artificial personas and obfuscated identities are Internet 101.

          • wolfshadowheart
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            91 year ago

            I think that user may be referring to Empress herself, not the commenter.

            As in, Empress doesn’t need to be using slurs to make her points.

          • DroneRights [it/its]
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            -601 year ago

            Narcissist is a slur when it’s used in a derogatory sense by someone who does not have the disability. You can say “person with NPD”, or pwNPD for short, or you can avoid insulting someone by alleging mental disability in the first place.

            • @PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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              161 year ago

              Narcissist is a real psychological term. It describes a pathology. Slurs aren’t words you don’t like to be called. You don’t get to make up what is and what isn’t a slur.

            • DebatableRaccoon
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              141 year ago

              Narcissism is generally seen as a negative trait so there already isn’t a non-derogatory way of calling someone a narcissist. Also, there is an acknowledged difference between being a narcissist and having NPD so as much as many here would probably say Empress has some kind of disorder, I bet very few have the credentials to diagnose which means it’s the former, and if we’re being completely honest, it’s a very practical word to describe a person’s behaviour. So I guess it has to be a “chill out, snowflake” moment for you.

              • DroneRights [it/its]
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                -131 year ago

                All disabilities are seen as negative, but it’s not derogatory to call someone autistic, paraplegic, or blind, unless it’s a deliberate insult. I find your argument unconvincing.

                • DebatableRaccoon
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                  61 year ago

                  I don’t really care if you find what I say convincing but to make this as simple as possible, name one time it’s considered good to be identified as narcissistic. And please let’s stay relevant and leave out physical disabilities. Only assholes insult the two you named.

                  • DroneRights [it/its]
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                    01 year ago

                    pwNPD are, on average, better at magick than neurotypicals. I also generally respect most pwNPD for the trauma they’ve endured and survived. It’s a disability that leads to a lot of suicidality, so being a living pwNPD is an accomplishment.

            • @retrieval4558@mander.xyz
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              91 year ago

              Another place where this view falls short is that a person doesn’t need to have NPD to act like a narcissist on a regular basis, the same way a person can be volatile and not meet the criteria for BPD.

              • DroneRights [it/its]
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                11 year ago

                No, that’s not true. It’s not true because that’s not how we use disability language. Neurotypicals do not act autistic, and they don’t act ret**ded. Some people do use words that way, because those words are slurs. Likewise, when you insult someone by likening their behaviour to disability by calling them a narcissist, that’s a slur.

              • DroneRights [it/its]
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                21 year ago

                pwNPD are not assholes at any higher rate than the general population. What you’re describing is a stereotype about a disability.

        • Bo7a
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          161 year ago

          You don’t get to decide what is a slur. Go away.