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Stock market derivatives are essentially all betting. You won’t get someone to bet with no date to resolve the bet: after all, you might just hold on to it until you kick the bucket.

I was wondering who’s gaming on their thermostat.

don’t think it is such a pain point that it’s a frequent issue to prevent further use

I don’t have statistics, but:

• I myself didn’t do any research specifically on this matter, and only learned of these problems through osmosis by randomly reading various threads on Reddit’s r/all

• I installed one single game from a repack by FitGirl

• my experience right away exactly mirrored that of which I’ve read previously

I don’t have problems with FitGirl using this compression, in fact I find it fascinating that such an algorithm exists. However, it obviously doesn’t meet standards to which a commercial publisher or storefront are held.

Great rejoinder there. “I didn’t research how stuff works, but I have an irrelevant rebuttal, and when people point out that it’s not how stuff works, I will reply ‘alright’, that will really put them in their place.”

Oh really? How come it installed fine the second time from the same file?

It’s well-known that installation of FitGirl’s repacks can fail, and the recommendation is exactly that one don’t touch the computer while it’s going on, and retry again if it fails. Mock yourself for not knowing this, as this very thread contains more ‘anecdotes’ about the same.

It’s some kinda super wonky compression that gives extreme space savings but is so fragile that the result isn’t guaranteed, which is precisely why it isn’t widely used.

Wow, very mature.

“Developers should do compression like FitGirl does.”

“Oh no I didn’t mean developers should do compression like FitGirl does.”

At that point perhaps it’s easier to just not use FitGirl’s releases.

winetricks should be able to install all of those dependencies, including versions of .net and vcredist. But it’s a terminal script, so requires the environment variables that Wine uses for the paths and stuff.

do an extremely bad job at basic tasks like compression

I’ve installed one game from FitGirl so far. It took three hours to unpack while hammering all the cpu cores, failed, and required another three-hour go to install properly.

So you’re saying that all games should install like this?