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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

I may not have any women in my life, but I know Fit Girl will never betray me.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago

Fit Girl is genuinely performing a public service. Not only are shitty games being given offline accesss, she's compressing them for optimal archiving

The world is a better place of FitGirl's efforts

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago
[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Just compressing the game files. They come as an installer you run. Sometimes they'll come bundled with other goodies/mods/etc. A lot of her repacks also have language packs/4k textures as optional extras.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So the actual cracking/security breaking of the software was already done (fitgirl doesn't crack software herself or at least that's not what she's offering), what Fitgirl does is that she compresses the cracked game down and reduces the file size so that it's cheaper to transfer over the network and store on people's machines. The savings can be upwards of dozens of GBs which translates into money and resources saved.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

and resources saved.

the extra compute compressing and decompressing might not make up for the transfers but it would be really hard to figure out your electricity delta, her electricity delta, the infrastructure, etc compared to the direct metering of data caps.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unpack a box full of gifts spaced apart loosely for presentation purposes, and then tetris them into a smaller box and ship that instead

Edit: Oh, I just got it -- they teach you that in school huh?

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

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