_cryptagion [he/him]

In all my years, I’ve never been forced to donate to a private tracker. Most of them throw ratio at you, because you get it for seeding even if nobody is downloading from you. Shit, on MAM, I actually only have a 0.3 ratio, because everything is seeded so well. But I’ve been given credit for a 23.1 ratio.

If a person feels like they’re being forced to donate, it’s probably because they’re a leecher, and used to being able to just quit torrents whenever they want.

Private trackers have more torrents at better quality than public trackers. MAM has more books in more formats than anyone else. AvistaZ has more Kdramas than anyone else. This is the benefit of private trackers. If I want a book series, I know I can go to MAM and not only find the books individually, but also packaged together as well. I can get them in ebook or audiobook. I can have my choice of narrators, if multiple ones recorded the book.

You say you’ve never needed a private tracker, and that might be true. But what’s also true is that you’ve made do with whatever scraps have been uploaded to public trackers, in whatever quality and format you can find. And you’ve never even had a taste of the choice that comes with a private tracker.

Well, it IS linkedin, so it’s mostly just corpos bullshitting each other anyway.

I mean, a few months back somebody posted a linkedin, mad because they were looking for a prompt engineer, so apparently it is a real job.

Literally none of the private trackers I’m on are like this. And I only use automation for finding, downloading, and managing my torrents.

You’re absolutely full of bullshit on this.

See, that’s the thing. I don’t listen to music by Nazis.

Wait, so now they have a crisis of conscious? After they stop getting paid, suddenly they have an issue with the horrible shit Palantir does?

Nah, fam, you don’t get to back out of responsibility.

Sorry, I should have phrased that a little differently. What I mean to say is the game should not be limited to just the mechanics of the older games. There’s so many small mechanics they’ve added since the days of the 2D games on GBA that shouldn’t be ignored just because they aren’t retro.

One mechanic I’ve always loved in any game it’s been in is the ability to have a hideout/home/etc that you can deck out with furniture and whatnot to make it your own. It’s just a comfy mechanic to have.

Old mechanics? No. Old aesthetics? Yes. Pixel graphics are best.

Through this lens it became clear: stablecoins will become a financial backbone for the $500B global gaming economy.

The people interested in alternatives to SteamOS for Linux gaming probably aren’t going to be the sort of people who are interested in cryptocurrency or more micro transactions. I don’t think they have much of a clue what their target audience likes.

I lost a parent to a spiritual fantasy. She decided my sister wasn’t her child anymore because the christian sky fairy says queer people are evil.

At least ChatGPT actually exists.

You mean they’re going to turn Androids into Chromebooks.

Honestly, it sounds horrible, but for people who don’t have a PC, I guess it could be a benefit.

if they’re on a VPN, it doesn’t matter if their ISP looks into it. and with the plethora of streaming apps out there today, it’s uncommon if a customer isn’t downloading dozens of GB of data every day. just a single movie on netflix is several GB right there, and if you’re the sort of person who is bingwatching shows, you’re going through dozens, maybe even a hundred or more gigabytes daily if you’re a real couch potato.

and if your ISP did care enough to investigate why you were using a VPN, all you would have to do it tell them you’re watching netflix and there’s nothing they can do to prove otherwise unless your VPN is shit and is leaking your DNS.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick.”

—Mikhail Bakunin

GOG also doesn’t support Linux. And I’m not gonna hold that against Epic if I don’t hold it against GOG.

Piracy isn’t an issue at all, because I don’t recognize or consider either of those concepts.

Because intellectual property is a ridiculous capitalist notion. You can’t own intellect.

Not unless you support slavery, which I am sure you don’t.

The only effort it takes to join private trackers is usually in the quick application you have to do. After that, there’s no more effort than normal.

All the sweaty middle-aged dudes with unwashed asses see GabeN as the only good billionaire. They’ll protect him with the same fervor that they use to try and keep women and POC out of gaming.

Or just fucking turn off trading stupid weapon skins? Idk, seems like the bare fucking minimum of effort.