Well there’s your problem. Those direct download sites will also impose things like daily download limits. Maybe you get 10Mbps for the first 10GB every 24 hr, and after 10GB you’re dropped to 100kbps. Something like that. Couple it with a VPN and you’re sharing that 10GB limit with total randos

Installing pirated games from sketchy sites is still dangerous

If it doesn’t use a BNC connector I don’t trust it

When I dig through ODs a ton of them are usually India based and have a whole bollywood subdir. Try palined

Youtubes fresh battle with adblockers has had me on a 6 month music video rip spree, with no signs of slowing down.

Right now Jdownloader2 plus a browser extension to copy cookie info to the clipboard is working half decently.

Once I started, I realized I can do a lot more with the videos now that they’re off youtube. No more ASR subtitles, I can time lyrics myself using Gaupol. I’ve also figured out how to pack the new subtitle, as well as original thumbnails and YT descriptions into the video using mkvtoolnix. Now a single video file can be dropped into jellyfin and fully provide its own local Metadata.

It’s going well and I’m not slowing down at all. Fuck you, youtube.

Steam forces game updates down your throat. It makes sense for competitive online games, but take fallout 4 for example. Totally offline single player. A million mods made for specific game versions, and all the guides for modding stress a half dozen little things you can do to your steam install to stop the updates but the shit happens anyway. Crap like modifying steam INI files and making them read only. Shit users shouldn’t need to do.

It’s not on Bethesda to just what…not update their game? It’s on steam to say hold up, maybe we shouldnt be pushing this update - it might break everything. Yes/no dialog prompts aren’t rocket science.

A few weeks ago Bethesda pushed a new update on a 10+ year old game, and it destroyed countless modded save files for everyone. This is on steam and their ham fisted updates.

Edit: don’t take my word for it, find some reviews here with 1000+ hours in the game:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/reviews/

910.3 hrs on record - “Bethesda? Please stop releasing updates to 10y+ old games. Just breaking mods and frustrating players at this point.”

1,565.3 hrs on record - ‘Well, after 1.6K hours spent playing, all the towns built, monsters killed and latex suits craftet for my beautifull girls companions, latest update destroyed all the 200 mods again…’

1,617.5 hrs on record - “The new update was hot rubbish. Leave well enough alone Bethesda, updating a ten-year old game and breaking a thriving modding community…”

Jdownloader2 is some horrid looking Java program that actually kicks ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KivCRqfFcqY

Weird ass article doesn’t even mention whoever is selling $500k in stolen shoes. Is he still out there stealing shoes?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-fines-google-20-decillion-world-gdp-youtube-kremlin-war-ukraine-rcna178172

Russian news: Putin said it so it’s true!

Yeah I was equally shocked by the revelation. Wait, didn’t they start the whole Mccarthism thing? But all the good ol boys out there think strongman putin is neat and based for bashing the gays or something. Every talking head on the right has repeated this for years. ‘We should try to be like putin.’ Tucker Carlson even went and interviewed him. Did you watch the part of that special where tucker goes to a Russian grocery and gawks at Aldi style shopping carts with the quarter locks? Tried to make them out to be the pinnacle of human invention. With the wrinkled brow, he was confounded that russia could possibly be this perfect. Dumbass has never been to an Aldi.

Tucker went over there because it wasn’t like putin was going to come over here right? Right? Oh wait, republican president, putin is in the US. He’d get arrested if he went to literally half of the world, but ya this normal.

What do you think MTG meant when she said “No funding shall be made available to Ukraine unless restrictions on ethnic minorities, including Hungarians in Transcarpathia, right to use their native languages in schools are lifted”?

Not a rhetorical question. Please decipher and understand each word in that statement. I guarantee she doesn’t. But you should try to understand the statement. That’s not something an American would even begin to have an opinion on, let alone leverage it against ukranian aide? Let alone from MTGs mouth? I mean come on who told her to say that be real with yourself right now lmao.

Then of course there’s the low level grifters like Tim pool and Laura loomer getting caught taking money for spewing russian talking points. Was kirk caught up in that? Maybe not, it just feels right.

There’s been a lot of Americans that defect to Russia. They’re all from the right. Either LARPers sent to the meat grinder or weirdos chasing the trad life just to be sorely disappointed. Anyone heard from Derek Huffman yet? He’ll probably end up like Russell Bentley

The targeted propaganda and disinformation has been massive and they’re out in the open about it. Republicans regularly share RT clones even though their main site got nuked. Margarita Simonyan will get on russian TV and straight up brag that they’re spinning up thousands of fake accounts to target Republicans and any republican I meet still scoffs at the very idea like it doesn’t happen.

If you’ve never experienced it, I dare you to install telegram and join some conservative channels on there. You think that’s not a pipeline? Don’t go no true scots-ing Republicans now, they’re all over that shithole. It’s freedom, baby.

Most certainly a giant heap of it across the board has also been some weird ass behavior of supporting russia to own the libs. Support for Ukraine had to become a partisan issue for them, because everything the left does is wrong. They’ve been buttered up by russian propaganda for years so saying russia good just felt right I guess.

Equally as shocking as ALL of this combined was the fact that the one republican that blew past it all and consistently wished nuclear rain against russia from the very start was Lindsey fucking Graham. What

It’s always neat to see how their propaganda reflects their fears and what they see in their daily life way more than what we see. Like the actual neo nazis part. If they were actually in the US they’d see all the far right neo nazis comfortably gobbling up the republican party position that - hey maybe russia isn’t so bad.

It’s only in Russia where they have massive amounts of neonazis directly opposed to the Russian government, who then decide to fight for ukraine. It’s massive amounts of RUSSIAN neonazis they are mad about. Because Russia has a massive neonazi problem.

They tell on themselves with their propaganda constantly.

I might be late to this party but I recently noticed a VLsub option in VLC itself that makes manually adding subs way easier. It’s not automatic like the other tools mentioned but it’s still a huge time saver. Protip I noticed if you’re struggling to find a movie with it, just drop the imdb tt code into the name search box.

At least co.uk is a real place.

Russian fanfiction is wild.

If any of these soldiers feel backed into a corner

They can always find the Dorner. 🎶

on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure

Let’s be really clear here, this wasn’t Microsoft Azure. By Microsofts own admission like a month ago, this was a custom product based on Azure that Microsoft specifically tailored for Israel’s Genocide operations. Fuck their attempt at distancing themselves now.

I had this movie at the top of my list stuck at 71% for at least two years. Hundreds of other torrents came and went. Its easier to find it these days.

Totally worth it

This was an appropriate position for this situation like 10 years ago before this image was public. Now I squarely blame them for being dumb fucks.