Nobody stops you from uploading stuff and sharing it. But certain communities like for example private trackers have a process to allow you to become an uploader.

As for money, ask yourself, it's piracy, which by definition means that you want to download stuff without paying for them. Why would they pay you instead?

There's a few cases that it worked before but is generally frowned upon, as if holding the files hostage. Now if it's a service that nobody else can do, or files that nobody else has laying around or easy access to buy and share for free, you could try that. Again, nobody stops you, but most people wouldn't see kindly to that. From leechers to other uploaders.

Sonarr and radarr can use torrents just as much as they can use usenet. I used them for both, now I dropped usenet altogether.

I find it easier to either DDL or torrent, plus a lot of the stuff I'm after recently proved hard tto find on usenet for whatever reason.

It's more hassle to search usenet for my usecase and while it's true that maxing out download speeds is awesome, I'm not in a hurry. I let the .arr apps do the work while I'm busy with life and when I get back home I have it all ready anyways.

It's not. Most of the time it's fine, but there have been cases in the past that they added their own DRM in the games.

I'd hazard a guess that most people down vote you not because you don't want to use steam or that you want to pirate, but rather because it's most likely something wrong with your setup and you can't be arsed to figure out what the problem is. Which might end up being a lot more serious than simply being unable to launch steam.

IMO, figure it out, get your system to work properly and then go pirate if that's what you prefer.

Can't see the video right now, but considering the old thief games are some of my favorite games ever, I don't think I'd disagree much. Still haven't found a better stealth game, 23 years later. Deus ex can come real close in terms of quality stealth if you play ghost, but while encouraged, it's not the point of the game.

I went with Antennapod and it seems good so far. It couldn't find one of the podcasts I liked by name, but when I searched for category it showed up. The rest were all found. Thank you all.

I mean..I could understand that question a handful of years ago, but now? There's a long list of games that only have a loading screen when you open the game and never again.

Even as far back as minecraft for the most well known ones. TLOU iirc was like that as well, back in ps3. Now with nanite I bet it will be even more common. But I doubt we'll ever get to a point that ALL games are like that. Sometimes it's even done for artistic purposes. Or continuity reasons.

You will not get banned for not sharing. What actually happens is that some people have scripts to see if you're sharing, if not they refuse you access to their files until you start sharing. That has to do with each individual and nothing to do with the network itself, other than the fact that it gives you the option to deny access.

No it's not. You can find literally everything on torrents. Even with Kodi/Stremio, I could always find what I wanted to stream when my debris ran out.

There's only one case that I can't think of a way without premium link generators and without waiting for months on end, and that's switch emulation, and that only if you want the latest updates/dlc.

Meanwhile, 162 days and counting for dead space.

Doesn't make me want to buy it, without trying it out first, but saying hours to days for denuvo is..a joke really. Sure there were a couple of games that were cracked in a couple of days, but that's a handful of them in the last 6 years or so. Most take a long, long time.

Not wanting to spam by replying to every post, this one is an answer to both TheOneCurly and solarvector. It seems I also figure out how to tag, yey me.

So you're both saying that this is normal and not something I'm doing wrong, right? In that case, that's fine with me, I can wait and totally understand the lack of numbers, I just assumed that even before reddit decided to fold over, there'd be some stuff around, even on niche communities. I wasn't expecting a huge amount of content or discussions, but in the example given, there's not even news posts about updates on software etc.

I'll keep looking around. Seems interesting as a concept so far and I'm much more willing to spend time in lemmy compared to reddit or twitter or whatever gets plastered on my screen daily without my consent that I have to go out of my way to not interact with.

It's been a decade. And I made general assets like couches, tables, cloth simulations etc. I have no idea which missions used them since. But I can vouch for Springheel's, Bikerdude's, Grayman's and Obsttorte's missions. At least the ones before 2012. Haven't played it since, I should do it soon. But from the ones I know for a fact, Grayman and Dragofer used them often in his missions. And the latter made a pass on my old stuff a couple of years ago to fix/update them. And did an awesome job at it.

It was a great team to work with, especially Springheel, he had a lot of patience with me having to learn the tools they used and spamming him with questions. :)

Best I've seen so far is 16TB for 30 bucks on Mega. Don't know how okay they are with piracy however, I've seen a few DMCA'd links from it in the past.

I'm not Irish, but there's quite a few things that are not similar in those parallels. That is, if you're talking about the Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921.

1st) Irish didn't have the support they needed. Ukrainians have both EU and US trying to make sure Russia comes out of it with as much resistance and casualties as possible. At the same time, giving up part of the country is a lose-lose for Ukrainians since they'd have lost part of the country and also be in a century long debt to NATO and EU for the support they have taken already. I don't think anyone expects that those 80+ billion the NATO has spent already is going to be a gift. They will absolutely milk Ukraine for that after the war is over.

2nd) There were about 1200ish casualties total. Nowhere near the extend of the Ukrainian-Russian war.

3rd) It was a war of independence. IRA wanted to liberate Ireland from the British, Didn't try to stop them from occupying Ireland. They won, even if they lost 1/4th of the country in the negotiations. If Ukraine negotiates a part of it becoming Russian, they lose in the eyes of almost everyone and renders all the dead and the destruction and the sacrifices useless, since that's what Putin wanted at the start. Of course things changed down the line, but they could have agreed the first week to give up Donbas and avoid it all.

I could go on with the differences here.

Mine would be Anarchy Online. Still around, though FC has ran it to the ground and not too obscure, considering it used to be quite big before 2005ish, but almost nobody talks about it in EU and the few times they do is to comment on the dreadful launch.

But I doubt there's a game I've sunk more hours into, playing constantly from release up to 2011 and then on and off until last year. Eventually I figured out it's just nostalgia and it's not worth it anymore, the time, let alone the sub.

After my last visit on r/piracy, I'm of the mind to close it down for good and if reddit wants it back they can do so themselves.

Sure, there's a few people there that honestly ask question about the community since they weren't checking reddit at the time, but any attempt to explain has people insulting me. They want to stay there? Fine, cut ties and let them moderate it. That means they inherit a community someone else worked hard to build but whatever. With the attitudes I notice, they are not going to manage to keep it running for more than a few months anyways.

How are those emulation devices? I really want to buy that rg35xx but I think it'd really bother me trying to play say ps1 in such a small screen. And of course ds stuff wouldn't be that good considering the one small screen.

That's a leap if I ever saw one. I could ask the same question and substitute AI with god or aliens and I'd be ridiculed by the tech community and with good reason.

And you don't need to take it much further to fall into the holographic universe principle or the simulation hypothesis and for those there are big discussions to be had in science communities.

To be clear, nothing stops you or me, or anyone for that matter from assuming so, but down that road the only answer I can think of is that nothing matters and might as well lay down and die.

I'll keep that in mind and wait. And if say a month from now things look the same on the subjects I'm interested in, I might give it a try at building something or most likely start posting stuff on existing but slow communities. At the very least, covering news wouldn't be that hard and even if there's no interest I can still use it as a personal repository later down the line.

I doubt my s9+ is going to work well, even if it falls within the requirements. But will give it the good old college try.

Edit: Still on the old one here, will have to wait for the mainline and I'll post results then. For reference as it is now, even something as simple as FFVI runs at 15fps.