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Hey folks,

our team has worked tirelessly for a year to bring you Crackpipe, the open-source, decentralized, and liberal alternative to conventional cloud-based game platforms like Steam and Origin. We're thrilled to announce that Crackpipe is now available for everyone, and we're delighted to share it with the community as an open-source project.

With Crackpipe, you and your friends can enjoy playing and tracking games on a shared file server, free from the restrictions of traditional platforms. Embracing "alternatively obtained" games, including DRM-free titles, Crackpipe offers a flexible and open approach to gaming - think Jellyfin, but for Videogames.

Take full control of your gaming experience with Crackpipe's self-hosted approach. Explore your server's game collection, securely download, launch, and play games, and monitor your playtimes and progress - all even when the server is offline. Compare stats and play states with other users on the server for added fun.

Our server features include automatic indexing of games, metadata enrichment with RAWG API, multi-user authentication, configurable logging, health monitoring, full-text search, filters, sorting, pagination, and a fully documented API. Crackpipe's high configurability ensures it fits your specific needs.

Join us on this journey to embrace a more open, flexible, and enjoyable gaming experience for all. Try Crackpipe today and share your contributions, feedback, bug reports, and feature requests.

Link: https://crackpipe.de

You can also check out our launch at producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/crackpipe

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[–] lordcommander@waveform.social 89 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Cool idea, problematic name. Have you considered any others? There’s a ton of racist/problematic connotations in the US with this name that probably wouldn’t be well understood in DE/EU…

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Agreed. As an American, cool concept, rough name. There is no way I’m recommending a software called crackpipe at work.

And let’s say I wanted to use it, I’m going to install this and instruct my kids how to use crackpipe? I’m sure that will go over great with little Timmy’s school when he tells his teacher and friends.

I’d strongly consider changing it.

[–] LegendofDragoon@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it's not like you can even abbreviate it since cp has its own problematic connotations when it comes to the Internet

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

LMAO. Also are you excited for the LoD remake? I got some sources that say it's happening

[–] charles@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And when we are troubleshooting, we'll be searching "crackpipe _____"... I can definitely think of a few scenarios where that'll return very different results than expected.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Would be kind of funny to skew Google results for crackpipe towards a game platform though.

[–] aski3252@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And let’s say I wanted to use it, I’m going to install this and instruct my kids how to use crackpipe?

I mean I get your point, but if you instruct your kids how to use a tool for managing pirated games, they are probably going to see a lot harsher stuff than the word "crack pipe"..

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

This is a tool for hosting pirated games. It's not meant to be safe for work or kids.

I get that the name is offensive, but it doesn't really matter. They're not going to hire a marketing team and do an IPO.

Also, the name makes sense. It's a pipe to transport cracked games.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

It's actually more racist to be afraid to bring up crack pipes when Breaking Bad counts as totally tame watercooler talk.

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[–] lemmy@lemmy.quad442.com 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Crack pipe isn't racist. People of all Skin tones can enjoy that sweet sweet crack.

[–] lordcommander@waveform.social 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In the US specifically there’s some historical connotations back to the 80’s and how the US government fucked over black communities by flooding them with crack. I’m sure you all didn’t mean anything racist/negative with this, but wanted to flag this to y’all since you were based in the EU and likely wouldn’t have the same connotations with the term :)

Anyways, best of luck with this! It’s a cool idea.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Agreed. Not doing the least bit of research and choosing an edgy name makes this seem extremely amateurish.

[–] dsemy@vlemmy.net 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

“Amateurish”? This is literally a server for hosting pirated games, who gives a fuck.

Also, if your first thought after reading the word crackpipe is black people, maybe you’re the racist one.

And even if in the US it does have this connotation (IDK I’m not American), why should Europeans care?

[–] Kaizar@tezzo.f0rk.pl 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's absolutely hilarious, for me as a European the first image that comes to mind when i hear crackpipe is some skeletal looking white dude with half his teeth missing jittering in a bush somewhere.

really shows how internalized racism is for them, and it's sad - rather than try and use Lemmy to break that pattern they just move it over from reddit...

[–] Stuka@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm from the US and have never heard crackpipe used as a racial term...certainly doesn't immediately bring black people to mind.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are you trolling? If you think of a white person, why would an American, with an entirely different set of experiences and culture not think of something else? How is acknowledging an atrocity by our own government against poor blacks a bad thing? Is the goal of this project to have people use it? If so, they should reconsider the name.

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[–] KluEvo@wirebase.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even as an american, my mind went to cracked (as in /c/crackwatch, cracked games, etc) as the piracy term, and pipe, as in pipeline (like newpipe, etc)

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[–] SigHunter@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

well, you can't keep every weird american racist issue in mind, there are too many

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

tthat's why it's always best to say fuck the fascist pigs that poured crack into the streets of minority populations as a form of cynical political maneuvering at the end of every comment, just in case.

[–] lemmy@lemmy.quad442.com 1 points 1 year ago

Crack is smoked regardless of skin tone. As a US resident even the backwoods hicks around here smoke crack. Just because something happened to a certain race in the past doesn't make that thing racist.

Crack is bad regardless

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

i'll take one please

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[–] exu@feditown.com 14 points 1 year ago

Even without the racist connotations in the US it's a weird name.
Obviously not as bad though

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the US they can change it to MethPipe

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[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The name is fitting because it's for cracked games, which are piped in a single programme. I don't think it needs changing.

[–] 7egend@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can rationalize it all you want, at the end of the day when you say crackpipe there’s only one thing that comes to mind.

I’m just imaging a conversation at work talking about a new game, and someone saying they haven’t picked it up yet and a colleague overhearing their co-worker say “just hit the crackpipe”.

[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly even calling it CrackedPipe would be better than straight up crackpipe, lmao

I'm envisioning the possible reverse scenario where you get someone wanting some crack and won't take "Uhhh, I was just talking about a video game thing" as an answer

[–] BruceDoh@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I had the same thought, but honestly it's software for pirated games. Pretty tame in the context of that landscape...

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

i know right? It's so awkward for me to talk about blasting folks heads off with my assault weapons in the latest gore simulator. If the word crack even enters the conversation you better believe it'll cause some stares

[–] starstough@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Everyone gets that. It's just that sometimes things can be clever and stupid, unwise, and an automatic NO

[–] immibis@social.immibis.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@starstough @LoafyLemon @alfagun74 this naming thing reminds me again of DeepCreamPy, which was a version of Deep Dream (written in Python) that fills in gaps in hentai

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

lmao that's fucking brilliant. Might get some glances on your resume until your next future boss hires you because he is a dedicated deep cream py user

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I like to commit crimes while screaming that I'm committing crimes.

It makes the crimes more obvious so that everyone knows I'm committing crimes.

CRIMES

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As a European, I honestly don't get what you're saying. Maybe it's worth thinking about not forcing your opinions and societal problems onto other people?

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Care to explain? I'm curious.

[–] JawnDoh@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Here’s a wiki article about the incident they are talking about. Basically it’s believed that in order to get money to arm rebels in Nicaragua the CIA assisted with importing cocaine to the US and specifically primarily black neighborhoods fueling the crack epidemic.

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[–] alfagun74@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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