I think it depends on the ISP. There are a few small ones that do not GAF what you do. I’ve been told “we do not care what you download, we only care that you can.” There are a few big ones that are too big to care what people do on their network.
That said, you should always take precautions. A VPN is a good place to start.
I can see it. They got caught in your use of from, which isn’t even incorrect. Via would have been a better word, but from works here just as well.
They’re reading it as you’re talking about pirating content that is owned by (from) your ISP, not what you meant, which is talking about pirating content from behind or via or even using your ISP. I guess through would have worked, too.
But the difference between me and them is, while I realise another word would have worked better, I understood exactly what you meant and didn’t think it was an issue. Though I admit I thought the first thing… at first. Hey, it’s early.
YouTube is not doing good. I get flickering on Apple TV. On my Mac videos play without sound (computer isn’t muted) or they take way too long to load. Granted I don’t pay, but wow. Google is not doing so well.
No, not those sexual predators. Not the rich ones who fight to oppress the LGBTQ+ and dark-skinned people. The sexual predators who are struggling to make ends meet. Those sexual predators. The ones that no one will miss.
Those are the ones the GOP wants to go after. Not the ones in their own ranks.
That’s the difference between the two parties. One will kick out perverts. The other embraces them, as long as their money’s good.
There are AI tools that can do that.
Look up the YouTuber “There I Ruined It.” They do stuff like what you’re talking about. Partly with AI. Partly with just mixing multitracks.
I really hate your idea, but damn, if I can help you pull it off… well, that’s what I know. Best of luck to you. And my condolences to your enemies you will smite with this creation.
I’m old school, I just get the subs and integrate them with MkvToolNix. I was always super picky about my files, so I’d go in there and change around what the active/enabled/default streams were, give the streams better names (e.g. Stereo, Surround 5.1, whatever was appropriate — I never included the language, since the tag handled that). I’d even use en-us or en-gb if it was specifically one or the other (e.g. James Bond, Harry Potter for the latter). I even insisted my subtitles be in English for English movies, and American English for American English movies. So like, the word “honor” in a Harry Potter movie would not fly with me, it must say “honour” because… that’s what the English specifically say. (Speaking of Harry Potter, no “Sorcerer’s Stone” bullshit in my library, I have the “Philosopher’s Stone” version because, of course I do. The first one was the only one with a regional title.)
So because of that, I can use Jellyfin and the subs work just fine.
I am familiar with Plex’s auto sub downloader. Despite owning a lifetime Plex Pass, it would put ads in the subtitles. That may be on the site’s end though, not Plex’s.
Still a Plex user, and I’m on a Mac, but all this shit works whether you’re a Windows user or a Mac user. Probably Linux, too. I tried Jellyfin recently. It’s fine if your clients are running Android, but they are just not there on Apple devices yet. My computer (M2 Pro) is plenty powerful enough to run both servers (servers use very little resources when not serving) but I just don’t see a need for Jellyfin in my rotation. I do root for the project though, I want it to succeed, so I’ll try it every year or so.
Don’t have one anymore.
For the longest time, it was an Amiga game that my brother played more than me. The bitch of it was, I wasn’t even good at the game. But I remembered it and I wanted to recall the name, but couldn’t. The other bitch of it was — I later learned, after finding it — that another game came out in the same setting (not the same kind of game at all) that had a VERY similar name. I’d heard this name, and it didn’t set off any alarm bells in my head.
TL;DR the game is called Stellaryx, and of course the more popular other game is Stellaris. I’ve still never played the latter one. But, the name of that game should have clued me in, but didn’t.
So anyway, I remembered an Asteroids clone with aliens, and these black panels called monoliths you could shoot. You’d enter a single screen stage where, like in Asteroids, touching one side of the screen meant you’d warp to the other side. You also only had thrust and shoot for controls, and, like Asteroids, controls were a bit wonky since you didn’t have brakes. There were asteroids, and ice chunks, but there were also other things to shoot. And gorgeous backgrounds. Oh, and there were powerups. After so many of these stages — clearing one sucked you up to the top/center to enter the next area — you’d do like a Lunar Lander thing and land on a platform to complete the level.
The only other thing I remembered was that at the beginning, you chose difficulty by flying into it on a special stage for selecting the difficulty, and if you flew into one of the side ones at great enough speed, you’d go through the middle choice as well. (I was not sure if that did anything special, or even which difficulty option it chose of the two, but it absolutely showed both being selected, the first was not unselected when you flew through the middle one, and the middle one was not ignored by flying through the one on the side.
For years and years I asked on forums. Also tried Googling various terms. Nobody had heard of this game. Until one day I found a YouTube video where someone played a bit of like 100 Amiga games. The game wasn’t shown, but I went ahead and asked the YouTuber. They gave me a list of 5-6 games it could be, and one of them was the right one. So, mystery solved. Just had to find someone who was as old as I am and who had similar memories/experience. Because I’ve found most people on the Internet are pretty young. You will find a few old timers out there who don’t get memes and who don’t know what “skibidi” means and at this point are afraid to ask… but they’re few, far between, and they don’t always know more than their younger peers. (And yet, I’ve often found I’m not the oldest guy in the comments most of the time. But often the most verbose.)
Oh, there are a couple movies I remember details of but I don’t recall the name of the movie, but they’re not movies I ever want to watch again. Like I saw something horrific once upon a time and later forgot what the movie was. I found what the movie was, but a better example was a show… I thought it may have been an episode of Supernatural because there was a big car (like Dean’s) but I wasn’t sure. I remembered a teenage girl running from someone through some pot plants, and someone getting put in a trunk, and someone being poisoned. Everyone told me I imagined it. Then by a pure stroke of luck, my wife and I decided to watch a show called Justified — what I saw was the first episode of the second season. But now everyone wants to say Justified is cool and they love it, but when I pretty accurately described the second season pilot they couldn’t tell me the name of the show? Make it make sense. Anyway, it’s an awesome show, and the teenage girl? Katelyn Dever, one of my favorite young actresses. She’s awesome in Justified (sort of like a little sister/niece type companion role for the main guy) and I’ve seen her in a few other things. Hearing she’s in something is usually enough to get me to watch it.
And people will still pay it, just like people bought Switch 2s in record numbers and just like the ROG Ally X (Xbox handheld) will sell well.
I’m sure those who say they won’t are telling the truth, but most of them were never planning on buying it. Those who were will roll over like they always do.
It’s sad, but I’m somewhat rooting for $80-100 games and other BS like this, because I know at some point the frog will jump out of the water, we’ll have another video game crash, and after a few years things will return to sanity. But unlike last time, we all have huge backlogs — it won’t hurt gamers nearly as much as it will big publishers. I think it may even be good for indies.
What I’m really rooting for though: more indie games, more weird games, more dumb games that appeal to a niche and are loved by them for years to come that most people don’t get. A shift away from platform exclusivity. A shift away from Windows to both Mac and Linux. Something like Proton (LInux tool for emulating Windows games) on Mac. I’m fine with gaming being fine on Windows and Xbox, but it should still be fine if you don’t want to throw any money at Microsoft.
I think you’re onto something. I’d take it a step further — OP should have put the same energy into making this post that they put into replying to everyone.
Are they speeding? Then they are committing crimes, ergo they are criminals by the definition of the word.
Even if you ethically limit crime to harmful behavior, the risk to pedestrians and other traffic still paints them as criminals.
There are reasons they aren’t racing at a track, and part of it is the thrill of someone potentially getting hurt, or arrested. So even by your definition, they are criminals.
Now skateboarding is not a crime. Public nuisance, perhaps, at worst, but not a crime.
BioWare needs to do what the Castlevania creator did. Konami wouldn’t give up the rights to Castlevania (or sell it — the Netflix deal was lucrative, after all) and just make their own studio “with blackjack and hookers.” Sure, the studio behind Bloodstained was problematic when it came to delivering on certain promises to Kickstarter backers, and sure, the mobile ports were abandoned and the Switch port was (apparently) never fixed… but on PC and Xbox at least, the game was fine. The best of Symphony of the Night and Aria of Sorrow, it’s the best Castlevania game not called Castlevania, and it’s among the best Castlevania games, too. I’m not sure there is even one that is actually better at everything. They really took all the good parts of Castlevania and, instead of a gimmick like an inverted anti-castle or entering paintings, they just made the castle stupidly huge, almost unreasonably so. The architecture doesn’t make sense, but it never did.
It happened with the developers behind Fallout as well. They became Obsidian, and I think InXile got some of those developers. Obsidian went on to make Pillars of Eternity and The Outer Worlds. InXile made a bunch of RPGs too, but I can’t name any without looking them up.
BioWare needs to take its talent and go indie.
Reminds me of when the Klan we’re on Jerry Springer and someone tried to unmask them and that seemed to be the absolute worst thing in the world to them. Letting people see them for who they really are.
Not hateful people — not just Klan, or Reddit mods for that matter — operate more openly. It seems the one hateful group still terrified of exposure is child predators. Release the damn Epstein files! No, I don’t think Reddit mods are on it. They do defend child predators on Reddit, but Epstein only rubbed elbows with the rich and powerful, not the pseudo powerful.
I’m not saying Washington/the US is better than China. But, the devil you know. Also, the devil we know (the west) has probably lied to us in a few ways about China. I remember as a kid I believed children in China were starving. I also remember hearing that they kill female babies (and often not humanely) because of their one child policy. My dream when I was a kid was to save all those girls and educate them and teach them basic fighting skills… may have been like a Charlies Angels kind of thing going on in my head.
I suppose I should have updated my information before saying that… last I checked, there weren’t, but I don’t know how old that information is.
I’m gonna go on record and defend the Deus Ex remaster. There’s no way to play it on modern hardware. The only game console that can run it is the PS2, and not even then. The PS2 version was a whole other game because DX1 was too powerful for consoles. So it was basically DX1 dumbed down. Maps were smaller, everything was reduced… it was like a “de-make”.
You can run it on Windows PCs with some tweaking, but if you don’t have a computer with spyware, you can jump through bigger hoops. Linux has Proton. On my Macs I can do it with Whisky. It’s really not hard, but I did need a third party tool called Deus Exe because the original DeusEx.exe was a complete no-go. I think it was made for Windows 98? Anyway, once I got Deus Exe up and running, I was even able to run Shifter, which was a mod for DX1 that tightened a few things up and added “legendary” versions of each weapon to various places around the world. I actually ran a mod of the mod, one I made myself that had more hacks to the game, like you could update your cyber link to rifle range, i.e. to use computers from across the room. Like V can do in Cyberpunk. Except DX1 wasn’t made for that so it was kinda game breaking. But fun. I mean the game was never hard.
Anyway, they’re bringing DX1 to Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch. And PC, of course. Hopefully Mac — the developer, Aspyr, has done Mac ports, but they were doing Mac ports of Xbox 360 games when Macs and Xbox 360s used the same PowerPC architecture, so that’s kinda cheating. That said, anybody porting to Switch is a stone’s throw away from porting to Mac since they’re both ARM64, and that’s part of why we even have Cyberpunk on the Mac now.
IMO the best way to do it is to acquire lossless (e.g. FLAC) and compress it yourself, if you want to. I use the MPEG4/AAC Low Complexity filter in fre:ac at 192kbps. Makes .m4a files about 10MB each. They sound great. AAC is supposed to be about twice as efficient as MP3 (and a looser license) but the files I make are about the size of MP3 320k files. Which tells me they’re about twice as good.
Apple gets associated with M4A/AAC a lot, but that’s just because they use it. I do use Apple hardware, but the same hardware runs MP3 without issue. The only issue I had with AAC was getting the old Winamp (2.x) to play it, back when we used Windows. But even then I found an input plugin and from there it was smooth sailing. It’s basically superior to MP3 in every way. (But for free licensing I think Ogg Vorbis will be a better fit.) (I also stream it via my Plex server, so if a device can’t play M4A — rare — Plex will transcode it.)
Anyway, I use Nyaa for a source (nyaa.si) but that is primarily Japanese/Asian media. That’s mostly what I listen to though. I do like some western rock from the 80s and 90s, but as the west stopped pushing rock music, I went where it was being pushed, which was Japan (and a lot of those guys sing in English, like ONE OK ROCK and Survive Said the Prophet — though, to be fair, 1OR is basically an American band now; while the guys were born/raised in Japan, they’ve lived in Los Angeles for years now, are signed to Fueled by Ramen, and they want to be more like Paramore and Fall Out Boy, which is fine, but it feels a bit disingenuous calling them Japanese rock in 2025).
TikTok was run by a fascist regime: China. It’s just, most Americans are not of much interest to Beijing. Their intelligence probably wants to know what is trendy in America so it can better appeal to us and influence our elections to serve their interests, but Beijing is probably not concerned at all with you or I as individuals. But if they can get us to vote for a candidate they support by showing us the parts of that candidate that we agree with, we can be used as a tool by Beijing. Now Washington wants that power.
I don’t like it either way.
Eh, I’ll “have at” TikTok for being shit because historically, it has been. It’s driven by memes and trash.
That said, over the past couple years I’ve heard lots of good things. “BookTok” and other -Tok’s being communities within the service — I admit I don’t know how it is because I’ve never used it — but also, the rapid decline of YouTube has made me seriously consider getting on TikTok just to have something different. My resolve to be anti-TikTok has greatly reduced over the last couple years, as an “old guy” who does not like “social media”.
So yeah, credit where it’s due.
I’d love for the Fediverse to have a strong alternative, but again, the costs of running a video server that is anywhere close to being “widely used”…
Oh look, an Internet bully!
See, nobody cares.
A Nintendo Switch running Animal Crossing. Assume it has some kind of perpetual battery, and they can figure out how to operate it/play the game, and read our modern English.
I’m thinking they figure modern civilisation is about (or back to) fishing and farming… and that animals are intelligent. Like validating TF outta the Egyptian pantheon. You’re a human but you have a dog for a neighbor, here’s a koala, a gorilla, an eagle… and they all talk and wear clothes.
(Of course, if we wanna blow their minds with a game AND we can assume they can play it, why not just go straight to Cyberpunk?)