Honestly I do think piracy is a good path to a girl’s heart. Almost all of the girls I’ve met were unaware you can just get overpriced media for free and we usually became closer after pirating the sims and all it’s DLCs :stalin-approval:
My sister asked me if you could get in trouble using an ad blocker.
Every few months I completely blow up a person's brain by showing them emulators exist. Every person so far has asked if the can get Mario on their phone. It's actually kind of magic.
It's genuinely my favorite small thing to help people do.
The joy I've gotten to experience from people realizing they can re-play their favorite childhood games is worth it every time and usually brightens my day up as well.
Super Metroid is now available on the PC in the office at my work cause I showed people how to do it.
What emulators do you recommend on phones?
I've used emulators for decades but I spent like 5 minutes a day on the phone, so I know nothing of this world.
Android or iOS?
If Android, for about as simple as you can go from a setup perspective, Lemuroid has solid support (through retroarch cores) for essentially everything through the PS1 era. It's essentially a pared-down version of Retroarch for people not interested in fiddling with as many settings who just want to scan a folder for roms and play games.
If you're looking for more fine control or a broader list let me know and I'd be glad to elaborate.
Retroarch and Lemuroid are good frontends for a bunch of emulators. There are others if you wanna have more individual control over controls or shaders or whatever, but just avoid the SNES emulator SuperRetro16 like the plague.
Reminds me of back in high-school when I was the stupid foreign accent girl who's dad wouldn't buy any expansions but the girls who don't know the location of any thrift stores were maxed out and hover vacuuming my cringe walletcel tears.
Help me get The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker on my laptop oh wise one
For sourcing roms/isos/whatever: https://r-roms.github.io/
To play Windwaker you'll want to use Dolphin (a GameCube and Wii emulator): https://dolphin-emu.org/
If you have more questions feel free to drop them here and I/someone else can surely get you up and running.
The biggest thing here will be if your laptop can run it. Emulating takes more out of your computer than just playing the game, it also has to do the work of pretending to be a wii. How to has been addressed, I have a molded wii that I use for GameCube emulations/homebrews so I'm not really sure how beefy of a laptop you'll need.
became closer after pirating the sims and all it’s DLCs
literally had this experience multiple times with exs
Come with meeee
And you'll beeeee
In a world if pure imagination
It's pure as we can get today
Cause at least you never pay
For the exploitation
Every day of my life is I say to someone "Hey, watch/play this thing I like."
"Is it on Netflix/Xbox Live?"
"I have no idea. It's definitely available for free via torrents."
And then they walk away
When I was in rehab I tried to get people to use the internet archive and they looked at me like I had two heads.
One time I cited a book in an essay I did in college, making sure to cite the book properly as the digital version accessed through the internet archive. Professor told me to go back to the library, find a physical copy, and confirm the citation was valid.
Ouch, what a dick move. The books is literally scanned contents and all and uploaded, NOTHINGS CHANGED.
That’s funny because I’ve never once held a copy of a book I’ve cited. It wasn’t uncommon for me to not even read them
Honestly I'm too scared to torrent because I'm on college wifi, but if someone recommends me a show/movie on a certain streaming service, I'll bite $10 for a month and make the most of it by watching other stuff there. I usually switch it up anyways, constantly cancelling and uncancelling for whatever streaming service or two I feel like this month.
You can get a decent VPN for around $10 a month and you can just go nuts.
Eh it's more work though, streaming is pretty instant so I prefer it, if a good vpn were $0 a month I might but 🤷♂️
Is that better than a 123movies mirror or soap2day? The videoplayer loads every, like 20 seconds, on those sites for me, and the quality is usually ass
Hmm, works fine when internet is working fine (I sometimes forget to switch to wifi). It’s not 4k, but fine for laptop/reasonable size tv
:yea: I dated a woman who was subscribed to every one of them I've heard of. Even Peacock, the NBC one that Comcast has to give away. Didn't even want to learn how to torrent despite complaining that the streaming services didn't have anything she wanted to watch.
Peacock is the only streaming service to have Puss in Boots 2 free to watch legally right now it's a necessity
Real PussinBoots2heads still find cinemas showing it. It's the Rocky Horror Picture Show of our generation and I love shouting all the lines in the theatre.
Peacock is worth the price if you watch WWE, since it includes all the PPVs.
I pay for all of the streaming services because I give the logins to my parents and now they barely watch TV news. Thank you, Taylor Sheridan.
🎵 Can I make it any more obvious?
She subscribed
He downloaded
What more can be said 🎵
pretty much the only thing i personally prefer about streaming is how "easy" it is sometimes. i say, sometimes, because there's definitely enshittification happening to those stream app UIs to push crap content where i am just scrolling through heaps of trash. in contrast, torrenting is very intentional. and yeah, sharing a bunch of streaming services easy mode. i have a rule against paying for more than 2-3 of them.
sometimes i think about getting one of those curated subscriptions like mubi to more easily sift through arthouse indie stuff. but i also enjoy some brain-off slop, and the only option for that besides torrenting seems to be picking 1 or 2 of the big slop troughs.
This is why I’d like to build up a collection of movies and shows offline. Then if I ever have kids, we can enjoy kino together and they won’t get sucked into the brain damaging world of YouTube unboxings and Elsa soft core porn
Then if I ever have kids, we can enjoy kino together and they won’t get sucked into the brain damaging world of YouTube unboxings and Elsa soft core porn
Don't worry, they'll get into the Frozen x Spiderman mpreg experimental dentistry through their friends at school
I think it's mainly kids who can't read who watch that stuff
it's what happens when you put a 2 year old in front of a tablet playing peppa pig and then just walk away for a couple hours and let the algorithm ride
I cleaned out the last non chain rental places for about 5 hours around for cool stuff back when they were all ending and have a really cool movie collection. It was cause I had a retro game hustle going at the time, but I kept the tapes.
I generally have kept one streaming sub active as an indulgence to pay for my decades of downloading. And I still download stuff mostly. I even sometimes am surprised to see something I downloaded available on a service. Oh, guess I could have just streamed that one. Oh well.
