34 points

can anybody give me the tldr on what they do?

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They take cracked games and compress their size down so that shipmates with low bandwidth can download them easier.

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nice.

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I only just noticed that they don’t work if you are offline so they are worthless. It means it’s connecting to a server that could disappear at any moment and make your downloads useless.

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Packing games for fellow shipmates.

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43 points

They don’t do crack only repack

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40 points

Don’t do crack, kids.

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“world economic crisis” what?, she is in russia?

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I mean, she’s never tried to hide the fact that she’s Russian. And she also hasn’t hidden the fact that she dislikes Putin. But lots of Europe is struggling right now. For instance, the farmers protesting across many parts of Europe, as a result of the war and Ukrainian exports.

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She called him an old madman in the link posted. She’s one of the good ones

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Ooo, can I be that too? I would use bad words for these people when I was a kid in 2007, you know, when it wasn’t mainstream, but everybody wanted to believe that Russia just has a flawed democracy.

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farms are angry because of cheap grains in the market no because of the war

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Take it a step farther. Why is cheap grain available on the market? Because European import regulations were relaxed to support Ukrainian grain exports.

In case you weren’t aware, grain is one of Ukraine’s largest exports.

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Latvia

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What’s her super secret method that she can’t share? Doesn’t sound very open to me.

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If i remember right from the many years ago i first came across her works, it’s a compression method she personalized and finessed over time.

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38 points

Middle out.

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It’s like jerking 4 dicks at once

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9 points

I just had to watch that scene again, I just love it so much

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I prefer and default to fitgirl, but I’ll admit that sometimes the long unpack time doesn’t seem worth the sometimes only 1-5gb file size difference.

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It’s primarily meant for people who have slow connections. If you’re downloading a game over DSL or satellite (which is often the only thing available unless you’re in an urban/suburban area) then the 5GB of extra compression could be a huge time difference. It’s also true for metered connections, where you have to pay by the GB, or where you have a data cap.

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I think there’s likely a lot of people still on slower links that benefit for sure.

But as gigabit and better Internet becomes more mainstream, it’s certainly less of a problem for those with that.

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Why would it be open? The whole point is that this is the service they provide.

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9 points

Is fitgirl even a girl?

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The real question is: is she fit?

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Her photo implies that she is at least lean.

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47 points

She uses photos of Audrey Tatou, a French actress.

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5 points

That’s absurd, the name clearly come from her deft skill at fitting games into compressable packages.

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Fitgirl presents as a woman therefore she is a girl. I don’t walk by people on the street and wonder what’s in their pants all day.

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I sure do that. Hope it’s a big meaty hog

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21 points

thanks for sharing

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The plumbing also doesn’t define which pronouns someone prefers.

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But is fitgirl one person?

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Woman and girl also mean different things, especially to law enforcement.

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47 points

Had anyone seen Empress and Fitgirl in the same room at the same time?

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actually after empress went crazy,fitgirl pledged that she wouldn’t reoack empresses games

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No idea sadly

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42 points

Who cares?

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Who cares who cares?

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21 points

Supernatural spirit from an alternate reality hell-bent on destroying video game monopolies.

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Only one way to find out: ask her if she knows any good MLP fanfics

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no call him fat guy

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Is there an alternative to fitgirl that doesn’t have the long uncompress / unpack times? I love that fitgirl has everything and is a trusted source, but the decompression takes too long and sometimes doesn’t even work on Linux.

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Isn’t that like 90% of the point of the repack? To heavily compress things and drastically reduce the download size of a game?

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Then I suppose I am looking for a download resources that aren’t repacks, or at least aren’t so heavy and convoluted on the way they pack.

What I liked about fitgirl is the reputation. A resource I can trust and quality is consistent.

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I thought 90% was defeating DRM and 10% was reducing download size. Doesn’t matter how quick the download is if DRM blocks you from running the game.

I don’t pirate games (any more) but my understanding is that FitGirl is one of the few crackers who can defeat denuvo, which means the only choice for pirates is repack.

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That’s just downloading the game and getting the crack.

You are mistaking Fitgirl (generally seems to be a pretty cool person) with Empress (transphobic shitbag but puts the time in to remove denuvo). Fitgirl repacks are generally more about massive compression and dealing with the mess that is (generally nintendo and) emulators for modern platforms. Like, I allegedly grabbed my copy of breath of the wild out of one of her repacks because I could not be bothered to figure out how to get all the DLCs set up.

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FitGirl only repacks; he doesn’t defeat Denuvo. The only crackers within the last twelve months or so to crack Denuvo have been MKDEV and EMPRESS, both of whom are no longer active in the scene.

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I am also looking for this. I default to fitgirl because its the only trustworthy source in the scene that i know.

Oc i can just try and find a torent myself but with so many fakers out there, people uploading game files even if there is no working crack available, it feels like gambling.

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DODI also has good repacks (has worse compresion but faster unpacks so is better on faster vpns)

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To me that’s fair, this is the price of good compression and to me it’s worth it.

However what I don’t like is the forced admin rights request, which is totally unnecessary. This is the reason I very rarely use their repacks. I know they are trusted, but I chose to not choose them.

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elamigos, you can find their repacks on most sites on the megathread

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Try Dodi.

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Any torrents you search for on a tracker that don’t say ‘Repack’ are relatively uncompressed.

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