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Only click this if you're absolutely sure you want to know https://steamdb.info/calculator/
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Winty posted:I once went through an IRC 'interview' to get access to what.cd, involving telling them about what kind of music I liked, what kind of stuff I planned to share, and screenshots of my uTorrent ratio. (I was accepted) IRC is also a tech relic. I only use it to chat with people on these private trackers
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Whenever I want to feel sad and old, I run my circa 2003-2005 mIrc installation from an old hard drive. It connects like before, but all the old channels are empty. I stare at the empty userlists for a while, shudder and close the window feeling like I need a stiff drink.
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Winty posted:I once went through an IRC 'interview' to get access to what.cd, involving telling them about what kind of music I liked, what kind of stuff I planned to share, and screenshots of my uTorrent ratio. (I was accepted) Did you get to the user class where they give you access to a subforum where they'd post particularly funny clippings of the things people would say in the interview? I miss w.cd (and Oink), the current replacement is solid but it's gone very FLAC-heavy and there's less free leech periods which is the only real way of building good ratio there. I had enough on wcd that I could've gone 10 years without worrying I expect, but alas good things come to an end. The collages that people make on those sites is invaluable though, I never used Spotify enough to see if the playlisting feature was comparable but having things from genre introductions to things like 'Tiny Mixtapes Best 10 Albums of the Year' one click away were awesome.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Did you get to the user class where they give you access to a subforum where they'd post particularly funny clippings of the things people would say in the interview? I miss w.cd (and Oink), the current replacement is solid but it's gone very FLAC-heavy and there's less free leech periods which is the only real way of building good ratio there. I had enough on wcd that I could've gone 10 years without worrying I expect, but alas good things come to an end. i miss the w.cd collages more than the site itself to be honest, i discovered a ton of bands i wouldn't have otherwise
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Does anyone remember the mIRC "Easter Egg" where you could right click on one of the buttons and it would say different things in some sort of popup? I think it might have been the Help button?
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flavor.flv posted:Only click this if you're absolutely sure you want to know $1016 — $4446. Fuckin' A.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Whenever I want to feel sad and old, I run my circa 2003-2005 mIrc installation from an old hard drive. It connects like before, but all the old channels are empty. I stare at the empty userlists for a while, shudder and close the window feeling like I need a stiff drink. A few months ago, I remembered an IRC channel I hung out in throughout college. I chatted there pretty much exclusively for 5 years or so, even though it was ostensibly a channel for the megatokyo forums (another phrase that makes you feel old) and I was not a member there. I logged on and found the channel almost entirely empty, zero activity, and the topic set to a note about how so-and-so had died and they're taking collections for flowers. Just like you said, it left me feeling sad and old. I know at least a few of them have ended up on SA, though, another sad, old, dying community.
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The difference between being an IRC newbie and veteran is whether you're falling for, or tricking others, to join #bearcave or #2,000 for the top fresh warez. I kinda feel bad for the regular bearcave members who probably just found it annoying.
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Years ago I'd climb mountains to pirate a TV show, but now if something isn't on Netflix or the iPlayer I'm just not going to see it. Is that maturity, laziness or both?
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I just have a network of shared accounts for streaming, plus my Spotify is covered under my BiL’s family plan. I only pay for Hulu, but I can use every major service. If there’s anything not covered by that, then I may dust off my old torrent client but that’s rare these days.
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Lmao at pirating TV. IT'S FREE!!!! HOW IS A BROADCASTER GOING TO STOP EVWRYONE FROM WATCHING IT?!?!??
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Lmao at pirating TV. IT'S FREE!!!! HOW IS A BROADCASTER GOING TO STOP EVWRYONE FROM WATCHING IT?!?!?? What?
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The first IRC network I ever joined, which formed the basis of a significant amount of my early online friendships, was on an RP server. It lead to a rather twisted idea of how people interact online.
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My first IRC network was one where I wanted to hang out in a room with people I liked but kept getting kicked by one person who didn't like me for whatever reason.
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I did my piracy primarily on GamingForce by logging in to an FTP server and getting what I could manage on a 56k connection. My family got cable internet in spring 2004 and it became so much more bearable and I was finally able to share. Then I got a LUElinks account and had access to practically anything I wanted until I abandoned it in 2016. I was only interested in pirating game soundtracks. Eventually I got a job at the rnd of my sophomore year of high school and blew all my cash on gas, junk food, music, and games. My exigency for pirating game soundtracks at first was because I had no other way to get them, but even on my minimum wage job in 2003 I could swing it for something imported from Japan every once in a while. Everything else I was into I could get at my local record store, even if they had to order it. Me and my girlfriend probably drove them nuts with the metal albums we were buying on order. I really hate streaming music and I just don't use Spotify. I'll use YouTube for music on my PC because I can dodge the advertisements, and it's led to me buying several CDs by artists on their Bandcamp or CDBaby stores.
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The first IRC server I joined was for fans of Daggerfall. m0use.net represent losers.
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I am not sure if it is better or worse that like a half-dozen of the people I hung out with on IRC in the 1990s are still on IRC in the same channel in 2021. To their credit(?) they clearly almost never use the channel unless someone pops in from the past or something else weird happens, but it is definitely surprising. Horace posted:Years ago I'd climb mountains to pirate a TV show, but now if something isn't on Netflix or the iPlayer I'm just not going to see it. Is that maturity, laziness or both?
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The only significant pirating I did was on the Commodore 64. We had various cracking programs and there was a certain challenge to it that was kind of fun. Between the BBS days and the Internet maturing I had a chunk of years where I kind of ignored computers for the most part, so missed the IRC heyday and such. I think the last significant pirated software I had was Photoshop 5 on my first Windows XP machine, and that was more because a friend had given it to me and it was close to the version I used at work so was familiar.
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This is related to Tech Relics I suppose... If you were a fan of the late 80s/early 90s "Secret Life Of Machines" UK series, the main host of that show, Tim Hunkin, is making a similarly inspired series on his own YouTube channel called "The Secret Life Of Components". https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGrpLw1W3P1_BC4J-Hpytww He just posted the first episode today.
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We decode, we transfer We copy and crack, Download me 'arties, Yo Ho. We DVD and MP3 Download me 'arties, Yo Ho. Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me. Napster gone, But Aimster Is here Download me 'arties Yo Ho. With IRC with DCC Download me 'arties, Yo Ho. Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me. Cd-rom burner and soon DVD Download me 'arties, Yo Ho. Movies and Software and Everything else Download me 'arties, Yo Ho. Were boys and girls at microsoft Download me 'arties, Yo Ho. Were kids and hacker, and Really cool guys Download me 'arties, Yo Ho. Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me. Were average joes And record execs Download me 'arties, Yo Ho. Were Teens doing it For mom and dad Download me 'arties, Yo Ho. Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me.
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Humphreys posted:We decode, we transfer i remember rocking this one in computer club freshman year of high school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M2rjKDCT58
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stevewm posted:This is related to Tech Relics I suppose... And he'll soon post upscaled version of the SLoM that he says are really good. Looking forward to all of it.
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SubNat posted:Streaming services are also massively, massively worse the moment you move out of the US.  Star Man posted:I did my piracy primarily on GamingForce by logging in to an FTP server and getting what I could manage on a 56k connection. My family got cable internet in spring 2004 and it became so much more bearable and I was finally able to share. Then I got a LUElinks account and had access to practically anything I wanted until I abandoned it in 2016. Pretty good has a new favorite as of 07:08 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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Gromit posted:And he'll soon post upscaled version of the SLoM that he says are really good. Looking forward to all of it. Its gonna be grand!
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Streaming is noticeably worse than uncompressed, especially in movies with lots of dark scenes. There were parts of Blade Runner 2049 that I found unwatchable on Prime.
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The real pro move is to have a Russian or Chinese friend who can direct you onto their pirate streaming services.
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Xerxes17 posted:The real pro move is to have a Russian or Chinese friend who can direct you onto their pirate streaming services. Or me who hosts source material and streams to friends 4K HDR.
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Holy hell, I had totally forgotten about this technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1pehz1hNtk
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 I may have a Steam Sale issue.
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Gonz posted:Holy hell, I had totally forgotten about this technology. this was the last burner I ever owned, and I was real miffed when I paid extra for the scsi internal version and it was just IDE with an adapter thrown in the box.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:
LOL that never played category, wtf 
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stevewm posted:This is related to Tech Relics I suppose... yessssss Gromit posted:And he'll soon post upscaled version of the SLoM that he says are really good. Looking forward to all of it. YESSSSS
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I think I mentioned it before in this thread, but I use soulseek to this day for music. It's not my primary source of  ; it is my option of last resort when I can't find some obscure album or track elsewhere.It feels archaic/anachronistic to use it, but when I can't find something anywhere else, someone is sharing it on soulseek
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WITCHCRAFT posted:I think I mentioned it before in this thread, but I use soulseek to this day for music. It's not my primary source of I was using it today on a laptop without my shares and holy cow the second I clicked on a download the sharer was being a dickhead demanding I share or be blocked. Shits changed on there man.
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My theory that Teachmoan is an offsite bookie is cementing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SHv3N-cVc4
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https://nickireda.itch.io/return-to-castle-monkey-ball
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Got the RasterOps Paintboard Lightning video adapter, rocking a cool 1024x768 24 bit resolution on a very long card. Obligatory thread screenshot using a modified Awful.Web install (with non-caches images turned off):  Getting this video adapter working was a bit of a trip. For some reason it doesn't output video in anything less than "thousands of colors" mode, it scans just fine but the video lines are completely dead. Eventually I figured out that if I put the old video card in a higher numbered slot, it will be the primary display. Once that's working I could set the display mode for the secondary display and get an image. Then, rebooting and pulling the old card made the new card boot in color mode as the primary display. I guess the mode is stored in PRAM so the ROM can set it up correctly, and Mac OS will use that setting when it finds a new configuration that isn't stored in the Display Preferences file. I know it uses the pref file, since I ended up having to delete that file to get back to a useful configuration after messing around too much. Also some weirdness with the VGA output, seems like the video output filtering isn't amazing, so I have to fine tune the clock/phase setting to avoid vertical pinstriping (probably caused by RAMDAC clock feedthrough?). Future mod could be to add better low pass filters on the output signals, even if it sacrifices a bit of sharpness. Another issue was that the card had some display glitches in the boot ROM mode, random horizontal lines across the display, and I could see the pixel-grid pattern smearing randomly indicating poor synchronization. I think I solved that issue completely by adding more decoupling to the clock generator chip PLL power supply pins, seems a lot more stable now. All in all I added 20x10 µF ceramic bypass caps, and replaced all the tantalums with modern replacements, though I think the PLL chip decoupling was the only actually useful mod.
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Fallom posted:I should look for one of these. I have an Amiga 1000 with a 15 mb hard drive that I can’t figure out how to set up properly. You're probably better off sticking with either 1.3 or 2.0 with the 1000. I am sure you can run 3.1 on a 1000 with hacks, but it may not be the best fit
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Humphreys posted:I was using it today on a laptop without my shares and holy cow the second I clicked on a download the sharer was being a dickhead demanding I share or be blocked. Shits changed on there man. The real dicks are people who hoard rare/obscure stuff and leave their shares visible, but refuse to let you grab anything unless you have something they want to trade for. There's one particular 80s JP smooth jazz album I've been trying to find for like five years and literally the only place I've found any trace of it is this one rear end in a top hat on soulseek with a cartoonishly hostile bio who blocked me when I messaged him asking if he could please help me out. I just googled 'soulseek trade only bio' to try to assess how common a phenomenon this is, and it was this exact guy lmao https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulseek/comments/kwoatw/how_i_scammed_one_of_the_biggest_trade_only_users/
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