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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 176 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (44 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."

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.

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