When I am browsing the groups and forums of the high seas, I come across quotes like these:
FitGirl my love, my muse
I saw people cry when this song played. Holding their loved ones, while their machines got close to a near death experience unpacking the games.
I saw people asking "how fit is FitGirl really?" Or "is FitGirl really a girl?".
On my search for truth I found this FAQ on this site.
Only read if you are prepared
Here’s a little FAQ about me, since I’m making repacks from 2014 and I’m getting a lot of similar questions.
Q: Are you really a girl? A: [sigh] Next question, please.
Q: When will you crack game N? A: Never. I’m not a cracker, I’m a repacker. I can’t even program things. My knowledge is about compression, not cracking.
Q: Please-please-please repack game M, I want it so much! A: I don’t accept requests. I mean it. Don’t ask me to make a certain repack, I will ignore it. Wait for “Day of Requests”, when I allow requesting.
Q: How do you decide to make a repack for a certain game? A: Too many variables in each decision: complexity of the game, compressibility, weather and so on.
Q: Could you please reupload repack Z – all magnets, torrents and filehosters are dead! A: If this repack was released more than 3 months ago – sorry, no reuploads and no seeding. My seedboxes are space limited and I don’t have enough donations to get more.
Q: What’s your name and where do you live? A: My name is not important and currently I live in Latvia, though I was born in Russia and lived there for almost all my childhood.
Q: Do you have a Facebook page? A: I didn’t, don’t and won’t have a Facebook page. The same applies to Twitter, Instagram, whatever else. This site is the only official FitGirl Repacks source. If you happen to come here from “Facebook FitGirl Page” – you’ve been fooled by an imposter.
Q: Why do you make repacks? A: I found data compression fascinating. Yes, it’s very strange for a girl, but as you already noticed, I’m not a usual girl.
Q: How do you compress games? With what tools? A: I use mostly FreeArc for compression and Inno Setup as an installer. Some games require other compressors, but in 99.9% of cases it’s FreeArc.
Q: I also want to make repacks, what would you recommend? A: Brace yourself, young padawan. Here’s the shortlist of sites you should visit:
http://fileforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=55 (English-language forums)
http://krinkels.org/ (Russian-language forums, use Google Translate)
http://encode.su/forums/2-Data-Compression (English-language general compression forum)
Q: What other repackers would you recommend? A: RG Mechanics, RG Revenants, RG Catalyst, Xatab, El Amigos, Kapital Sin, KaosKrew (rips). You’re pretty safe with those.
But is this actually the source of truth? It might well be, according to this wikipedia article.
That also links to this torrentfreak article that goes so far to call her "The Repack Queen Of Pirated Games" and "The most productive pirate online today" in this article.
In following article, Andy Maxwell reports how even Google acknowledged Fitgirl as a musical artist, giving her a special display on searches.
But I feel there might be dark paths, charlatans claiming to posess the wisdom of FitGirl and owning "The ONLY official site for FitGirl repacks", like this (which my guardian uBlockOrigin blocks as a "Badware risk") or this random Github repo linking to another suspect website.
I warn you to be careful, as this is the ONLY official website for FitGirl repacks.
Do you believe in FitGirl too? And have you donated to her already? But do not forget the crackers that we are thankful for, as they give us the gifts of free entertainment.
Note for the haters
This is obviously ironic
Tried to make it worthwile anyways
Of all the places in the world, she/he lives in the same small state with 1.8 million people as me. TIL