Random thoughts thread

malmon wrote
Oni wrote
malmon wrote
Oni wrote

Not looking forward to downloading anime later. Something is always wrong with the sites.

What're the problems you have?

The sites servers could be down, streaming won't play correctly or the playback has an error. The quality could be lacking on back up sites. etc. It's not always annoying. I haven't actually checked today, everything could be fine.

Oooh, those sites. I just use torrents or XDCC

Torrenting scares me.

Lokorfi wrote
Oni wrote
malmon wrote
Oni wrote

The sites servers could be down, streaming won't play correctly or the playback has an error. The quality could be lacking on back up sites. etc. It's not always annoying. I haven't actually checked today, everything could be fine.

Oooh, those sites. I just use torrents or XDCC

Torrenting scares me.

Ehh? How come?

Comes from when I was young. Friends always hassled me like, "You know, if you get caught torrenting, you go to jail. Gotta be careful with that shit." It's dumb, I know. But I just have a mental aversion to it.

Oni wrote
Lokorfi wrote
Oni wrote
malmon wrote

Oooh, those sites. I just use torrents or XDCC

Torrenting scares me.

Ehh? How come?

Comes from when I was young. Friends always hassled me like, "You know, if you get caught torrenting, you go to jail. Gotta be careful with that shit." It's dumb, I know. But I just have a mental aversion to it.

Using a VPN (if you can afford a few monies per month) will pretty much eliminate the risk. If you don't want to use torrents, XDCC is good as well.

malmon wrote
Oni wrote
Lokorfi wrote
Oni wrote

Torrenting scares me.

Ehh? How come?

Comes from when I was young. Friends always hassled me like, "You know, if you get caught torrenting, you go to jail. Gotta be careful with that shit." It's dumb, I know. But I just have a mental aversion to it.

Using a VPN (if you can afford a few monies per month) will pretty much eliminate the risk. If you don't want to use torrents, XDCC is good as well.

I can not afford a few monies per month, but good to know.

Oni wrote
malmon wrote
Oni wrote
Lokorfi wrote

Ehh? How come?

Comes from when I was young. Friends always hassled me like, "You know, if you get caught torrenting, you go to jail. Gotta be careful with that shit." It's dumb, I know. But I just have a mental aversion to it.

Using a VPN (if you can afford a few monies per month) will pretty much eliminate the risk. If you don't want to use torrents, XDCC is good as well.

I can not afford a few monies per month, but good to know.

Your ISP likely won't give a shit about you torrenting anime. They only really care about "hot" items, like recently released movies or albums, things that can get them sued by the copyright holders. And even then I've heard the extent of what they do is write you a stern letter or throttle your internet for 24 hours.

All in One wrote
Oni wrote
malmon wrote
Oni wrote

Comes from when I was young. Friends always hassled me like, "You know, if you get caught torrenting, you go to jail. Gotta be careful with that shit." It's dumb, I know. But I just have a mental aversion to it.

Using a VPN (if you can afford a few monies per month) will pretty much eliminate the risk. If you don't want to use torrents, XDCC is good as well.

I can not afford a few monies per month, but good to know.

Your ISP likely won't give a shit about you torrenting anime. They only really care about "hot" items, like recently released movies or albums, things that can get them sued by the copyright holders. And even then I've heard the extent of what they do is write you a stern letter or throttle your internet for 24 hours.

Also good to know.

All in One wrote
Oni wrote
malmon wrote
Oni wrote

Comes from when I was young. Friends always hassled me like, "You know, if you get caught torrenting, you go to jail. Gotta be careful with that shit." It's dumb, I know. But I just have a mental aversion to it.

Using a VPN (if you can afford a few monies per month) will pretty much eliminate the risk. If you don't want to use torrents, XDCC is good as well.

I can not afford a few monies per month, but good to know.

Your ISP likely won't give a shit about you torrenting anime. They only really care about "hot" items, like recently released movies or albums, things that can get them sued by the copyright holders. And even then I've heard the extent of what they do is write you a stern letter or throttle your internet for 24 hours.

When I was younger I used to pirate games until I got my connection blocked for 24 hours. I don't pirate video games anymore but that really taught me the lesson of VPNs lol.

Yuu wrote
Oni wrote

Torrenting scares me.

Oni wrote

Comes from when I was young. Friends always hassled me like, "You know, if you get caught torrenting, you go to jail. Gotta be careful with that shit." It's dumb, I know. But I just have a mental aversion to it.

I don't think you need to worry much. As long as you don't live in Germany. That's probably one of the few places you might get a fine. Also besides if we're talking anime, if I remember correctly it's kind of hard for them to go after foreigners for this due to their copyright laws. I think it's more directed to their own domestic population.

Besides, even if your ISPs were to notice. You would most certainly get a letter of warning first before any action. And that's what keeps me doing it too :p If I get a letter, I will just chill out. But from all my years of downloading I haven't gotten a single notice.

Imo I think what DMCA hunters in hollywood really care about is uploading, not needing. So you might be in more trouble if you were having a seedbox at home uploading for public trackers. Just beware of some vigilante's that might try to blackmail you for money, it isn't legal so just ignore any of those intimidations.

Makes sense. Thanks for the advice.

It's real annoying having longish hair and standing in the wind, I might layer my hair into an afro look soon

Having a dream of your gender bended self. The outcome is not what you expect.

Sakuya Izayoi wrote

Having a dream of your gender bended self. The outcome is not what you expect.

The only dream I've ever had of gender bending was also one of my most memorable ones. So many questionable things happened in that dream...

Ceres wrote
Sakuya Izayoi wrote

Having a dream of your gender bended self. The outcome is not what you expect.

The only dream I've ever had of gender bending was also one of my most memorable ones. So many questionable things happened in that dream...

Lewd? Lewd.

I hate doing long mathematical proofs, and I'm considering using my napping dog as a pillow or arm rest (she already looks like a pillow).

Lokorfi wrote

Snow's coming in full force for the second time this month. I'm not used to such frequent snowy weather :S

Living in New England, the Midwest, Europe? ^^

Ahegaliant wrote
Ceres wrote
Sakuya Izayoi wrote

Having a dream of your gender bended self. The outcome is not what you expect.

The only dream I've ever had of gender bending was also one of my most memorable ones. So many questionable things happened in that dream...

Lewd? Lewd.

Hey man I don't get to control what I dream about

This whole sex bot fiasco is dumb. Theres going to be bots of both genders (hopefully futa too) so no reason to be angry at them.

Sakuya Izayoi wrote

This whole sex bot fiasco is dumb. Theres going to be bots of both genders (hopefully futa too) so no reason to be angry at them.

Do these people even exist in real life? Sometimes, I feel like they're just magnifications of shitty Twitter accounts people

Sakuya Izayoi wrote

This whole sex bot fiasco is dumb. Theres going to be bots of both genders (hopefully futa too) so no reason to be angry at them.

People are angry about them? Really?