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Gravityqueen4life said:
am i the only one who used bearshare? downloaded my first hentai from that
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Most of those filesharing apps (Limewire, Kazaa, Bearshare, etc.) used the same network back end, so it didn't really matter too much which one you used.

Whichever one I was on, I remember that when whichever filesharing service lost their court case in fall 2000/spring 2001, I was maxing out my 10Mbit network connection in my dorm room because people were just wholesale downloading other people's collections because OMG FILESHARING IS GOING AWAY!!!

In any case, DC++ was where the real action was.
 
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I hate paying money for digital media, I've been collecting physical copies of music (specifically CDs) and books since my early teens, and most people I mention this to find it antiquated.

I still have one of those big CD books in my truck, my partner constantly gives me shit for it because they were born around the time the mp3 phenomenon overtook "traditional" formats and now "CDs are for old people"

What's even worse is I still collect cassette tapes because they're cheap and I like the sound better.

I don't understand how anybody could unironically opt for digital over physical, even for the convenience factor. It's not even necessarily a generational thing either, there's people I know in their 30s and 40s who sold off all their media collections and just stream everything now.
 
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porn. i still remember how i would pretend to go asleep and wait until 00:00 and turn on the movie channel that would show porn for a few hours. i did not even jerk off too it at first. i just watched it for a few minutes being fascinated of what i was watching. almost got caught a few times too. now days, jerking off to porn is more of a routine rather than something i used to be excited about. it have come too a point were most normal porn bores me and i have too see something out normal too get me excited (like cosplays for example).
 
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Lugging a computer downstairs, plugging out the phone to use the internet, and that was the new computer replacing an Olivetti 286 with a 20mb hdd and 3.5" floppy drive. It was branded with some of EEC or Maastricht 1992 branding and that seems years away.
 
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Pale Empress said:
I don't understand how anybody could unironically opt for digital over physical, even for the convenience factor. It's not even necessarily a generational thing either, there's people I know in their 30s and 40s who sold off all their media collections and just stream everything now.
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I do like ebooks, but only pay for them if I really like the author and/or they aren't dead. And I still like having the physical copies. I know the paperback/hardcover won't have stealth editing like an ebook can have. Or like streaming video can have as seen with stealth edits most noticeably on Disney+.

Plus with everybody being off work and at home right now streaming is fucking shit. I tried, but unless it's available to download on my mobile device and watch later it's impossible to watch anything using home wifi. Thankfully I had been buying DVDs of Criminal Minds series, so I have 10 seasons to go though of that.
 
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Pale Empress said:
I hate paying money for digital media, I've been collecting physical copies of music (specifically CDs) and books since my early teens, and most people I mention this to find it antiquated.

I still have one of those big CD books in my truck, my partner constantly gives me shit for it because they were born around the time the mp3 phenomenon overtook "traditional" formats and now "CDs are for old people"

What's even worse is I still collect cassette tapes because they're cheap and I like the sound better.

I don't understand how anybody could unironically opt for digital over physical, even for the convenience factor. It's not even necessarily a generational thing either, there's people I know in their 30s and 40s who sold off all their media collections and just stream everything now.
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You don't own anything when you stream it all and other people decide what you have access to. Sure you don't have to get off your ass and put in the disk but the minute service goes down you're fucked. I was looking for Blazing Saddles the other day and no one is streaming that except KODI and that can take forever. It's clear what I have to do now.
 
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neverendingmidi said:
I do like ebooks, but only pay for them if I really like the author and/or they aren't dead. And I still like having the physical copies.
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Yeah, all these fucking millennials can get back to me when the Paladin Press back catalogue is available in a non-editable e-book format…
 
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I'm a lot older than most of you here. The 90's and 2000s' are a big blur because I was just working. So I know I'm old when people talk about pop culture from those years.

I still have a landline, but I mostly use my cell. I have hundreds of DVDs. I've never thought streaming was that great if you loved film. Look at all the great old movies that got yanked off youtube when monetization went in. Some you can't find anywhere not even on Netflix or their DVD branch. So I hope I always have a working DVD player.

Just for fun, to see how old you are, how are a penny and a record player related?
 
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