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[–] jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 hours ago

I love fitgirl.

Truly fighting the good fight.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Back in my day, we had RELOADED, Razor1911, DEViANCE! Haven't pirated games in forever though, I mostly buy "indies" today and steam + gog facilitate that nicely.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Piracy is the response when companies refuse to serve market needs.

I mean, there will always be people trying to get something for free when they normally have no problem affording it or obtaining it personally. It’s why the Parasite Class continue to drive down wages while raising prices for that sweet labour-free profit margin, even though they already have obscene amounts of wealth. Their boundless greed demands they squeeze even more out of the Working Class whose labour is the source of all wealth.

So yeah, there we’ll always be some people who will pirate purely for the fish.

But in the end, any significant piracy is 100% the fault of those very companies that complain about it.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I am in the process of moving to pc from ps. I wont buy the same games again, it doesnt make sense to me. Where it is cheap and easy I have done but I feel I bought the right to buy them and also I hate some of the features with logins and always on connections.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe fitgirl is the bbw porn actress named fitsidney or fitsid for short.

Both are girls.

One fucks on camera. One repackage games. Same thing probably.

Think about it.

Edit: I'm doing a thorough and deep investigation of her videos for any clues and I'll report back on any findings.

Edit2: the results are inconclusive and I'll need to perform more research. It's worth mentioning that fitsid is adorable and very enthusiastic in what she does, and is also kind of adorable much like fitgirl's photo of Amelie. But, like, with cum involved.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

For science to be accurate we need a peer-review, we need all hands on deck for this one.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 34 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I suspect FitGirl is a morbidly obese 58 year old man with a twisted sense of humor.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

Hopefully less old. We want him to keep them repacks coming

[–] Wubwub@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 hours ago

Omg He's just like me fr fr

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 72 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Folks here are like "everyone uses it. Eventually all gamers realize it's better"

Me, having never even heard of this in my 30 years of gaming: 🫣

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, do you pirate games? If you've never gone to a torrent site in your life it's not surprising, but FitGirl's repacks are so numerous that it's hard not to notice them if you do pirate.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I am so wary of downloading them though, exe files are scary for fools like me

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I used to torrent frequently, but rarely software.
Since I graduated and started making adult money I haven't really at all. When I want to vote with my wallet, I just don't play it at all (usually these are live service games anyways).

Although I'm going to start torrenting music and video again on principle.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I know, it doesn't actually work, because capitalism is a joke. But you get the idea, I think

[–] eah@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a catch 22. If everyone uses it, game companies get it shut down, and then it doesn't exist, and then nobody uses it. The only existing methods of piracy are little known. That you've never heard of it is expected.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

I was so upset when the vault got dmca'd

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[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yesterday I tried to mod persona 4 golden on Linux. After a couple hours of headaches and some help from the developer, I finally managed to fix the problem and launch persona aaaaand denuvo shut it down.

Denuvo literally shut down my legal version of P4G because I used one too many versions of proton. This is why I support fitgirl

Euy even buy games anymore if you can't play them?

If you paid, it's not really yours.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They still pay for Denuvo for Persona 4? What a waste of money.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Atlus, like many Japanese companies, is very protective of their ips, for worse. There is no better

Yeah, Denuvo registers every version of Proton as a different computer. So when you cycle through a bunch of different versions, Denuvo sees you booting it on a bunch of different computers back-to-back. IIRC Denuvo’s ToS allows for 5 different computers to boot a game within 24 hours. So it locks you out for 24h, as an anti-account-sharing measure. It has hit the spotlight a few times recently, because of the Steam Deck users needing to cycle through Proton versions.

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used fit girl for a game I didn't know if my first pc build would run a game I wanted to buy. It didn't work, I upgraded my pc and tried it again and then it worked.

I'm glad they are around now that I'm trying to learn about pc gaming.

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago

As a Loonix enjoyer I prefer a pre-installed game folder compressed in a 7z archive or whatever instead from cs.rin.ru, it just werks. In Lutris.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 170 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (43 children)

Note plenty FitGirl repacks are lossless; as in, she isn't taking less important files out of the game, she's compressing it better. 90GB→35GB seems accurate; you often see ~1/3 of the original size, like this. And it shows plenty game devs

  1. do an extremely bad job at basic tasks like compression.
  2. give no flying fucks about players, who might have really slow connections.

And then those same developers get amazed at the fact FitGirl is so popular. "Maybe we're doing something wrong? ...nah."

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 37 minutes ago

The downside of the compression is the install can take way longer than the download. But if you're on a slower connection the smaller download would be a big benefit.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The EA/Ubisoft/Rockstar servers are so shit and their games so large that it's actually near impossible to download their games on a slow internet connection, because they would just timeout after 3~4 hours.

Downloading a cracked, compressed FitGirl repack over P2P and just ignoring the crack was unironically the only viable way to legally enjoy the games I had purchased back when I had slow internet.

The repacks are windows .exes, yet even work flawlessly via wine. FitGirl truly GOATed.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of devs stopped giving a flying fuck to disk space and performance a long time ago. "32GB of RAM and 500GB of disk space? Don't mind if I do!" - for a pixel art 2D platformer

[–] Wubwub@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

It's so infuriating I've either got 3 brand new games or 30 older games installed on to my device.

Even mobile gaming is getting out of hand

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