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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’ve mostly been wanting to play Rocket League, but I’ve been super stressed and for whatever reason playing against real people stresses me more. I think it’s because I can’t just pause the game whenever I feel like it.

    So I’ve been mostly playing against ML bots with RLBotGui. As a gold/plat level player, it’s actually a great way to practice.

    I’ve also been playing through all of the Adventures of Lolo games(1-3 US and Japan, GB Lolo, eggerland series, plus all of the many rom hacks) on my Anbernic handheld. It’s my favorite puzzle game of all time.


  • Crackers mostly post the cracks to IRC sites, cs.rin.ru, and private torrent sites. Repackers are the main way releases make it to the mainstream torrent sites.

    Repacking isn’t that complicated anymore, it’s more about reputation. There was a time when games were big and internet speed was slow so saving every MB of size was important. Repackers would reencode video files and find other ways of dramatically reducing the file size. Nowadays they don’t do a lot of that, but repackers are still important for casual pirates who just want to easily play pirated games and not worry about malware.



  • Cracks are usually released separately from the uncracked game files. Repackers take those cracks and package them with the correct version of the game, compress the files and add an installer. Then they upload them to the more mainstream public trackers.

    Repacks have several benefits. They tend to be easier to setup and usually more reliable. They download faster and use less data because they are compressed. They are also sometimes packaged with extras like soundtracks, mods, etc.

    Fitgirl repacks are known to be more compressed, so the files are a little smaller but take a fair amount longer to install.


  • I have the same graphics card. I and others with 6700 and 6800 cards have been getting weird glitches/lighting artifacts in Rocket League since driver 23.7.1. I haven’t played much else since then, so I don’t know what else it affects.

    I got excited when 23.7.2 came out but it didn’t fix the issue. I tried to roll back the driver, but that caused a weird issue with the software I use to set fan curves, causing everything to spin up to 100% and stay there.

    I going to run DDU and reinstall my fan software, but I haven’t had the time yet.






  • Can you elaborate on why you blame Drake for the Astroworld crush?

    I just read the whole Wikipedia article about the incident. There is definitely a lot of blame to go around based on that article, but I doesnt have much about Drake’s role in it. It seems like he was only on stage for one song, and wouldn’t have been in any position to stop the show.

    I’m not defending Drake, I’m just curious about what context I’m missing.


  • I’ve had issues that I’ve been able to work around.

    I have previously had the error, “settings could not be applied”, which I worked around by uninstalling my YouTube updates, installing the recommended version and clearing revanced manager data. I now get an error about not being able to load the original APK. I work around this by deleting the two apks in /data/abd/vanced before patching.

    I’m rooted and have to repatch on each reboot. Not complaining, just want to share my experience in case it helps others.

    I love revanced, and feel so thankful for it. I can’t afford YT premium, without revanced I would miss out on so much great content.







  • I did a few meal kits subscriptions a while back when I got coupons that made them very cheap/free(can’t remember). Did them in my name and then my wife’s name, too. One was called Home Chef, I can’t find where I got the coupon, though.

    Privacy.com makes doing that so much easier. It allows you to create debit card numbers that have spending limits, and can be shut off. You can sign up for subscription plans and not have to worry about these companies making it insanely hard to cancel.