A lot of old school demo enthusiasts cried. These guys cracked all the games we couldn’t afford as kids/teens and did the coolest demos and cracktros to show off how cool they were. I saw them as high tech Robin Hoods. Hope you were around for that!

The game was notoriously hard to crack too. Rockstar had a lot of former demosceners, so they put all sorts of protection that would mess with the game.

I recall my friend describing Nico being randomly drunk, or vehicles suddenly accelerating. Razor eventually nailed it iirc

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How many inkjet printers did Da Vinci use for the Mona Lisa?

None. That would defeat the entire purpose

Of course they used none.

Tell us you don't understand the demoscene without telling us you don't understand the demoscene.

Ty. I pinged the mods and they updated it