Played the shit outra this and descent 2. Sad its gone, but it gave us my favourite space sim: Descent FreeSpace 1 & 2

I wouldn’t put no mans sky on the list, multiplayer is almost absent and you can’t self-host a server

With or without deathcap mushrooms?

Yeah something like this is where my heart is these days.

Tech illiteracy today is insane. I had to help my parents connect up the TV as a kid, and now I have to help my kids connect up their TV/PC. Obviously a lot wrong with that statement (I. E. Not everyone leans techy) but it does make me feel like my age group is the only ones that have a vauge idea what is going on

Definietly not, but it dropped from the ‘mainstream’ knowledge base and people who only knew screaming are ‘discovering’ it now.

Wow they’ve made in 29 days so far, kudos

That’s cool, but what about a RSS forn War Thunder military leaks?

They absolutely can of course. However, its easier for them to go after the easier fish that are public and advertise/make profit off work, much the same way a theif will levitate toward the least secure/most attractive house to rob. That said, country makes a huge difference - risk profile between a US citizen and say a Romanian is very different.

• keep a eye on https://redlib.trux.dev/r/OpenSignups/ for sites that briefly open for anyone to signup
• keep a eye on https://lemmy.world/c/opensignups (not as trafficed as reddit sadly, might be better lemmy alternatives around)
• Look for sites that do IRC interviews (MAM, RED, OPS)
• Invite from a trusted friend (Note: I recommend being slow and steady and avoiding invites, its safer to ‘make it your own way’ - You can potentially lose your account(s) if someone youve trusted does something dodgy like buy/sell accounts - you have to absolutely 100% trust the person longterm and anyone theyve invited)
• Never ask for invites, especially publically/DM’s/unsolicited.
• Once into a reputable site and rank up a little through seeding/account time, look for invite/power user forums to request invites to other sites. This is how you branch out over time and ‘recruit’ your way through trackers.
• If your into ebooks MAM is a excelent starting place, its incredibly easy and forgiving and has a good invite section to springboard from (and friendly/welcoming community).
• TL is really good, has lots of freeleech packs, and is open semi-regulary, often when another tracker has issues/downtime.

Info:

• sites/acronym list (exhaustive) https://hdvinnie.github.io/Private-Trackers-Spreadsheet/
• https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Private_trackers (older but still interesting/relevant)
• https://redlib.trux.dev/r/Piracy/comments/19bl0dn/the_complete_guide_to_climbing_the_ranks_of/

reAdarr sorry. A radarr shutdown would have sent a lot of us into a meltdown

Really can’t say that’s the case. A lot of PTs have bonuses points and other things for long term seeding, and you can then buy upload or reduce download, or regular site wide free-leech, or free-leech over xGB, or Perma freeleech while you seed 1tb. You can do perfectly fine on a home connection as long as you don’t mind keeping some torrents seeding (like you ideally should be to share back) You can go from open reg PTs to mid or elite teir PTs off a home connection and no seedbox (if you out in some elbow grease).

Stick to private trackers, the risk of being caught is dramatically lower (harder to get it, smaller user base, companies target the big public ones)

I’m thrilled were still making games like this.

Ugh I mean I know we have block and are encouraged to do it, but there’s only so much I feel like doing. I’m at a point of nearly instant banning any community that sounds copy/paste from reddit

Not convinced the masses will go back, they will keep flocking to whatever’s hyped and new. Many countries only know web2.0 as the internet and never experienced the wild west, their world is Facebook and whatsapp

Starting to feel like reddit and its low effort crap is starting to make its way here too

I despise the centralized web and actively avoid it. Theres still plenty of WEB1.0 oit there, its just gettibg harder to find as years go on. But there are some things I don’t want to go back to, gore and other shock stuff comes to mind.

Posting on forums and finding random websites, GeoCities, tripod, chatting on IRC… These were the days.

I wish I’d never stopped using IRC for chat tbh

My hardcore windows only friend is discussing joining me on Bazzite really seriously. If it gets him, it will get a few tech savvy but windlass only people.

Still a long way off non-tech people though

We create tech these days to extract maximum value from the populace, not so much to make lives better