The site operator is non-responsive to ESA take-down notices and runs a backup version of the site at dodi-repacks.download.

Well, depending on where the website host is located, they may not need to comply. I wasn’t aware of the backup site mentioned above, though; maybe Dodi and FitGirl are one and the same? ;-)

EDIT: Grammar.

There is a torrent floating around but availability is 20.9% at the moment.

CODEX is defunct these days. I can’t seem to find a valid source of X-Plane at all at the moment.

Reported on The Register, too: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/polish_trains_geofenced_allegation/

HOTD = Haiku of the Damned?

A lot of games where either not available at all or we had robots, green blood or missing assets in them.

We even had that problem in the UK with Carmageddon. It wasn’t a problem to locate the correct files, though!

I’ve been sailing the high seas, or at least skirting the shores, since the late 1980s when my classmates and I were swapping BBC Micro software on 5¼" disks! Moved onto PC in 1990 and carried on. I even cracked a few games back in the day :-) These days I don’t pirate so much, and I have quite a collection of legitimate music and software.

Here.

Woman and girl also mean different things, especially to law enforcement.

Yes.

FitGirl only repacks; he doesn’t defeat Denuvo. The only crackers within the last twelve months or so to crack Denuvo have been MKDEV and EMPRESS, both of whom are no longer active in the scene.

I used to torrent Linux ISOs, but lately I have been using the network image of Tumbleweed on a USB stick and installing over t’internet.

From a Linux user’s point of view, Epic refuses to support Linux. They also refuse to support their own games using EAC on Linux (via Proton) despite EAC being Linux-compatible.

EDIT: Grammar.

I hope AirVPN can still stay in business. I also hope that other governments don’t start getting ideas.

I’ve been using AirVPN for quite a while and they are reliable and very Linux-friendly. The Linux GUI (Eddie) is easy to use, too.

My dad was driving automatic Jags back in the late 1970s, but he did work in the motor trade. I am seeing more and more automatics around but I still think manual is king (at least in the UK) for the time being. If nothing else, you can save some fuel driving an auto!

I use grip, generally.

I’m not familiar with Macs, but are you able to download the source and compile your own version?

Agreed, I have my jackett daemon wired up to qbittorrent and all is good!

They’ve been around for a while. They often release Linux and Mac games, and I think they might be affiliated with Razor.