You can play them in any order, but I’d recommend playing the English games before the Japanese market games because the Japan games have more difficult levels.

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.

I had a physics class that required Mathmatica and a stupid expensive textbook. The professor said the college forced him to use those because the college gets a kickback for it. Luckily he was awesome and told everyone that we could buy the much cheaper older version of the book and pirate the software.

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.

If when you run a fingernail over it, if your nail catches in the scratch, the scratch is very likely too deep to fix with paint correction(like buffing/polishing).

A proper fix will require prep, painting and blending, which you shouldn’t try to do yourself. You could buy a touch up stick that matches your paint to cover the scratch. It won’t look perfect and won’t last forever without clear coat on top, but it will prevent rust.

Before you decide how you’ll deal with this, you can bring it to a body shop for an estimate, most shops will do that for free. Most shops can give you an estimate from photos emailed or submitted to their websites.

Continuing Republican’s embrace of deeply unpopular policies.

Ettingermentum has a great article about the history of transphobic legislation. It’s been a losing strategy from the beginning, but Republican’s are so addicted to hate, they cannot stop trying different ways of selling the same transphobic shit in different packaging. Even when it’s caused them to lose easy races.

https://www.ettingermentum.news/p/the-modern-electoral-history-of-transphobia

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 wouldn’t say I am ashamed, but I cannot believe I liked Insane Clown Posse and thought it was legitimately good music.

If you’re going to try Authelia and a reverse proxy, I recommend using SWAG. It’s a docker container that includes Authelia, nginx, fail2ban, geoip restrictions, and has premade config files for most of the selfhosted software that people run. The config files are especially useful since they include comments that describe the settings you need to change within the services you run, like changing the external domain in Emby for example.

https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-swag