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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

These open questions are always kinda crap to draw conclusions from because we don't know how the question was interpreted by the people answering. In this case we also don't know the sample size of the groups. Could also be a multitude of other variables at play like location because there are few places where you can find all these religions while getting a good sample size and controlling for other variables like income, education, age etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Very true, and even if they could replace/remove libraries and dependencies that muck up the build process there are no guarantees that it'll play the same. So many games rely on strange quirks to function the way they do that would be nigh impossible to replicate purposely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading the supporting data behind the video all he's refuting is that it was a conscious genocide. But I don't think most think of the period as genocide, more as a failure of the economic system. Of planned economy. Much in the same way as the famine under Mao Zedong in China.

From one of the research papers linked in the video

"[..] indicate that the famine was real, the result of a failure of economic policy, of the "revolution from above" "

That excerpt is part of the closing statements.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274856099_The_1932_Harvest_and_the_Famine_of_1933

I really can't understand the fascination with Soviet and early communist China. I have very little issue with socialism and Marx & Engels had a lot of interesting ideas but to go from there to idolizing Soviet and China is to me baffling. Cuba I can sort of understand at least.

[–] [email protected] 286 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I love the implication here, that they don't have the proper source (or skills left in the company) such that they can remove the DRM which doesn't play nice themselves so they rely on a cracked copy of the game instead. Been quite a bit of news lately about how game companies have failed to keep the original source code for their games. Diablo 2, the Transformers games etc and those from active companies, there's bound to be 1000s of games where the source is lost due to publishers closing down studios.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sure, 1000 anime bullshit intact, 500 manga tight, 200 story tight, 50 abridged

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More like 500 if we skip the filler and keep good pace unlike the anime which is and has been complete bullshit for close to a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And I agree, I have multiple TB both ways but if he gives away invites to whomever don't expect them to have seedboxes / a good torrent VPN etc without asking. It's hard if you're the person who only downloads the movies they want to watch and haven't ever thought about seeding more than leaving the torrent on for a few days. That "works" on RARBG style sites but of course doesn't work on a tracker like TL which bans permanently and do not give a fuck about your reasons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I'm saying that's a big if.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sure if you use a seedbox or have a port forward VPN and a good connection. If you have a free VPN without port forward or just a slow connection then you won't be able to seed much due to everyone finishing their downloads super fast. Then building ratio can be really hard. Either way if you go in there just downloading the movies / games etc you want and leave them on to seed you won't, generally reach even 0.8 ratio. You need a strategy be that build ratio for days / weeks using the freeleech stuff or set up rss download of torrents for popular shows such that you get in on the seeding action early etc.

Edit: I've been a member for 14 years, I've seen countless people fail to maintain a good ratio despite trying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yeah just be careful, Torrentleech has been know to ban the guy inviting people who fail to follow the rules. So maybe do a rule pop quiz or something? Or ask how they plan to build ratio since that isn't exactly super easy on TL.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone watching porn in a public place has clearly passed some kind of threshold from which I doubt they'll come back. Absolutely no fucks left in those white hairs.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can't imagine it was a concert he wanted to go to. Must be taking his kid to see whatever kids go see these days. Harry Styles?

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