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Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Netflix my in-laws pay for and share the account with three other households. My dad lets me use his HBO account and I pay for Hulu (which I'll likely convert to whatever paring D+ does). Prime is an easy one for me to keep since it's paired with shipping and I split that payment up with three other people.

Like if I had to pay for everything, I'd likely only have Netflix, Prime and Hulu/D+. EVerything else I'm happy to pass on because gently caress paying for any one service just to watch one major show.

NBC and CBS thinking I'm going to pay them 8 bucks a month to watch the office or Star Trek are having a laugh.

Xenoborg posted:

We'll see if it lasts. Just about every AAA publisher is trying to make their own steam clone and make their games exclusive to it.

EA has already back peddled on this. They are bringing their games back to Steam.

I think Epic is the only launcher/company that has a realistic shot at staying in the marketplace but I've managed to avoid using it this long, so I doubt they'll bring anything to it that will pull me over.

Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Nov 8, 2019

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EBB
Feb 15, 2005

yarr me mateys

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones
I have Netflix and Hulu that my kids use, and Prime is just a perk that I have for abusing Amazon.

I dont see myself paying for HBO, or the other premium channels.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
I think AMC is making their own streaming service too

El Mero Mero
Oct 13, 2001

KirbyKhan posted:

Edit: I feel like piracy was at it's best back in the late 2000's and should be a model that we hope to maintain. God drat I miss those days, peer to peer was in it's post Napster and kazza era of having competing warez communities. My kat.ph ratio was a fair metric of giving back as much as I brought in.

gently caress, took a look at the torrent tracking landscape a week ago and poo poo is bleak. I actually got took me a while to figure out which of the links in each listing wasnt the bogus one. I think I've gotten too old and out of touch to pirate. All my old hook ups either flipped, are dead or in jail.

That's my piracy story. Bill Gates shared his.

Just find a private tracker.

We actually live in a golden age of piracy because now there are insane tools that automatically find and download new content and services like Plex or emby that let you make your own Netflix.

The continued balkanization of streaming services is also driving a resurgence here too.

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Handsome Ralph posted:

EA has already back peddled on this. They are bringing their games back to Steam.
"already"

How long has Origin been around? 5 to 7 years at a minimum.

E: 8. Eight years for them to backpedal.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

"already"

How long has Origin been around? 5 to 7 years at a minimum.

E: 8. Eight years for them to backpedal.

This week I opened it for the first time in...I dunno, 6 months probably. It's still poo poo. I was curious how much BF5 was now, but I couldn't locate a loving price anywhere.

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

El Mero Mero posted:

Just find a private tracker.

We actually live in a golden age of piracy because now there are insane tools that automatically find and download new content and services like Plex or emby that let you make your own Netflix.

The continued balkanization of streaming services is also driving a resurgence here too.

The gently caress are the words to search nowadays?!? What is this Plex and Emby? Only thing I remembered to check is TorrentFreak, a blog which currently serves as an obituary of every tracker I was familiar with. Is Fitgirl a legit repacker?!

For me and my history, looking into the piracy scene of today felt exactly like the first time I went to the old home after years in the military. Places have changed signs, but are still fundamentally the same. Like, the Sinclair gas station is now a 7/11 and everyone you know either moved on, went legit, or fell down a meth hole.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

"already"

How long has Origin been around? 5 to 7 years at a minimum.

E: 8. Eight years for them to backpedal.

They really, really wanted their game subscription model to work off but why the gently caress would any sane person do that

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

KirbyKhan posted:

The gently caress are the words to search nowadays?!? What is this Plex and Emby?



Plex is a media player that lets you organise a file server very easily, tracks last watched, lets you swap transfer rate and resolution in the media player itself, its very useful. Works on pc, smart tv, and consoles with their own apps. Leta ypu have a file server set up at home and watch stuff from it via internet hence the netflix comparison. Also has a phone ap but you have to pay premium to stream from your file server to the phone ap. Pm me so i dont forget and ill SS what the dash looks like on my laptop tonight when i get back from working

Stravag fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Nov 8, 2019

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Plex is basically a fork of Kodi. Think of it as a streaming service you set up on your PC. It's pretty dang simple and you can toss torrents into folders and play them on your ipad or phone or ps4/roku/whatever. Theres a library identification scraper that identifies everything and puts in netflix style titles and actor lists and poo poo and its super fast

also legit companies like WB and poo poo have streaming channels through it


basically pirating now requires a private tracker to find stuff quick. prolly wanna ask in the discord if you wanna know more

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
PB is still around and pops up and down, I still find valid torrents through it.

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

I last used pb and demonoid but that was like 8 years ago. I figured pb was deaddeaddead by now with how hard they were going after it

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

its a shell of what it was, or maybe everyone else just got way better

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
I've never had a problem finding torrents on PB but using other sites is a nightmare with 1/10th the results so I dunno where you get that from.

Maybe I'm missing out on other good torrent sites that no one seems to mention?

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Vindman's and Hill's testimony was just released

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

2020: the year that WDMA, NMP3S and DPPH come back, leading to SA’s second third fourth fifth eighth renaissance.

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.
BTB is coming back?!

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

BTB is coming back?!

Who gives a poo poo when DPPH is coming back

Imagine torrenting porn in 2019.

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Fun Shoe

pantslesswithwolves posted:

2020: the year that WDMA, NMP3S and DPPH come back, leading to SA’s second third fourth fifth eighth renaissance.

Is DPPH really needed when Pornhub and Xnxx are a thing?

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Pornhub and Xnxx only exist to feed the bing results.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbbYYh2SuzQ

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
:filez: huh

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

quote:


Vitamin E acetate, in combination with THC, may be to blame for a national outbreak of e-cigarette-related lung injuries that's linked to dozens of deaths, according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director of the CDC, said she would characterize it as a breakthrough in the agency's investigation, although more tests are necessary.


from cnn

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT




heroes live among us

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Nostalgia4Butts posted:




heroes live among us

How much would it cost to incorporate "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself LLC" in Delaware and then file for the dba "John Ellis Bush Did"

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1192857688180477952?s=19

https://twitter.com/stephanie_murr/status/1192883747902906368?s=19

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1192886501060857857?s=19

Quiet Friday.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
lol bannon is basically contradicting what he told the grand jury to be a giant rear end

https://twitter.com/awprokop/status/1192888845941059584?s=19

Tryzzub
Jan 1, 2007

Mudslide Experiment
can i still score a free blooming onion from outback on monday or did that gravy train pass?

A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:

Tryzzub posted:

can i still score a free blooming onion from outback on monday or did that gravy train pass?

The gravy is an extra charge.

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

Oh hey if you have verizon you may be able to get a year of disney plus free i got an email about it

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Bored As gently caress posted:

Is DPPH really needed when Pornhub and Xnxx are a thing?

Looking forward to the multi-page debates about what’s grosser- goon homegroan porn or all the weird “I banged my stepsister” videos on those sites.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Its ALWAYS goons

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

You can skip forward and miss "youre my sister". You cant skip and make goons not goonbodied

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Stepsister? Pffft get on the mom train.

Radical 90s Wizard
Aug 5, 2008

~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Casimir Radon posted:

Steam and GOG seem to have put video game piracy to bed for the most part. Unlike the balkanization of the streaming market the only thing you might have to worry about is the service dying out.

Nah, the majority of games are being cracked on the reg still, every now and then some drm like denuvo will take longer, but even then, it's just a matter of time generally. Uh, from what I've heard anyway...

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
The ability to watch people play a game cured me of pirating a game. I'm not spending $60 let alone pre ordering something sight unseen

Proud Christian Mom fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Nov 8, 2019

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

Nah, the majority of games are being cracked on the reg still, every now and then some drm like denuvo will take longer, but even then, it's just a matter of time generally. Uh, from what I've heard anyway...

The only real deathknell to piracy I've seen is for games that have an online component. I haven't attempted to pick up a crack for anything that requires a log in.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


LingcodKilla posted:

Stepsister? Pffft get on the mom train.
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Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB



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