Asking for myself.

I don’t know why you’re trying to protect your perverted friend with such a transparent ruse.

They have replication technology, so their resources are infinite, provided they have enough energy.

But at the end of the day, tricks and manipulation can only get you so far. When quarterly filings show poor performance and stores start shutting down, I don’t see how they (and by extension their share price) could possibly recover or increase. The issues they face aren’t some temporary storm they have to weather, it’s a permanent change in consumer’s buying habits and the market as a whole. Even outside of retail sales, the entire gaming industry has been in shambles for several years now with no change in sight.

I really just threw in my covid check but what really made me think it’s still worth is the original guy who saw value when the stock was worth less than $7 doubled his position and still to this day is holding on. He knows more than me and he saw this happening and probably sees something else too that I don’t understand so whatever I’m still holding a good amount of GME.

But if you step back and see the forest for the trees, what place do they have in this economy when most new games are digital purchases and trend more and more toward that with each day? They aren’t selling retro game and only deal with current stuff and their prices are insanely high compared to the digital storefronts. The chotchkis alone (Funko pops and TShirts) aren’t enough to sustain all the overhead for a company this large. They’ve tried to branch out into PC gaming accessories but who’s going to go there versus online?

Maybe you guys need to take a page out of the mole people’s playbook and build more underground lairs. Think of all the space down there!

Jesus $300k for 474 square feet?

I’m not sure if this is considered a good practice or not, but what I ended up doing was occasionally torrenting something that was really popular, even if I had no interest in it, just so that I could seed something.

This is absolutely recommended in order to build ratio. Find and download brand new torrents to get the best chance at upload credit, especially if they’re freeleech files that don’t count toward your download ratio.

Also every tracker I’ve ever joined has some sort of bonus point system that allows you to buy upload credit and improve your ratio with points earned from seeding, uploading, leaving forum comments, etc.

I’ve been able to build super high ratios even with garbage upload speeds just by seeding things for a long time to the point that I don’t have to worry about it even with automated downloading via sonarr/radarr.

The last post was from a year ago and the next last one from two years ago.

/r/opentrackers /r/opensignups to find openings and read the rules of wherever you’re joining. Typically, they just want you to seed for X amount of time within Y days. I’ve also been temporarily banned once for not having any activity several days after joining on one of the more popular sites.

Yes you’ll need everything to be exactly as you received it including extra things like .txt files and the like. This is to prevent someone from replacing a legitimate file with something malicious.

On the technical side of things, in order to create a torrent, you can just use something like QBittorrent to do the job. I’ve never uploaded something to a public tracker, but private trackers just have you fill out a form and upload the torrent file. Be sure to seed it, obviously.

This is a great question and quite funny as I’m at 100TB now (including parity drives and non-media storage) and needing to figure out a solution fairly soon. Tossing a bunch of working $100-$200 drives in ‘the trash’ in order to replace them with $300-$400 drives isn’t much of a solution in my eyes.

I suppose the proper solution is to build a server rack and load it with drives but that seems a bit daunting at my current skill level. Anybody have a time machine I can borrow real quick?

He also wasn’t a whistleblower he was just downloading scholarly articles from a service he had legal access to use.

The theory that he would be murdered over this is pretty wild as any college student or person with a JSTOR account has access to these same articles, so what necessitates murder in Aaron’s situation? He wasn’t exposing anyone or anything. It was just some douche of a federal employee trying to advance his career by “making an example” out of some kid who arguably didn’t even do anything illegal.

How much are you paying for that if you don’t mind my asking? I looked into seedboxes very briefly in the past and they typically didn’t offer much storage. It was either lots of storage and little bandwidth or lots of bandwidth and little storage when looking at options to configure some sort of remote media server.

Have you ever considered uploading some of this? The original Beavis and Butthead was patched back together using a combination of sources including VHS and DVD releases and uploaded to the high seas as the “King Turd Collection.” This stuff could be valuable to others.

Fair enough, but you’re talking about replacing streaming services with DVDs, and unless you’re relegating yourself to SD content made over a decade ago and prior, you’re going to have a rough time.

There are much better ways, and that involves the high seas.

Where are you finding DVDs in 2025?

Wow what kind of ghetto ass shit is that in a house like this. I’m guessing this place is being used as an AirBnB or something.

Which one is the pheasant room?

But to be honest I think I’d rather have this than the soulless minimalistic monochromatic design we see everywhere these days

You mean one of those homes that strives so hard to make it look like nobody lives in it?