fuck streaming services. just pirate it.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Anyone know where I can download the entire series for my server?
Edit: thank y'all I'll take a look when I get home!
I just downloaded the entire 130gb mega folder from 1337 lol
probably not gonna watch past the first few seasons but it gets my seed ratio up in the long term I'm not complaining
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What was the controversy in Simpsons Did It? All I remember is the epitomal line.
¥You sucked it out of a garden hose huh?"
I mean at this point, why even allow South Park to be streamed at all? The whole point of the show was deeply offensive tomfoolery and the social commentary.
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There are multiple series I liked on Paramount+ that are missing entire seasons, and not necessarilly the oldest or newest seasons either. Bob Abishola, which I started watching on Paramount+(or was it CBS? this was around the time they merged), suddenly had only the latest season available, right when it turned out I had somehow missed a season.
I hate a lot of Streaming services for various reasons, am constantly wrestling with password resets for my family's Hulu/Disney accouts, but Paramount+ is still the worst by far.
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The real surprise is why anyone wastes money on any of those overpriced steaming services. It's not a typo. I'd rather take a minor hit in resolution than pay those crap companies.
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I still remember Adult Swim removing the Cowboy Bebop episode where they are flying in the Space Shuttle Columbia.
I'm pretty sure that episode was put in rotation after while. It was very shortly after the real Shuttle exploded.
This is why I still pirate stuff.
And yet they keep the Scott Tenorman episode?
Well yeah, that's just murder/cannibalism. Nothing weird or immoral about that.
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Ahoy, Mateys!
That recent episode of The Reversal is coming to mind...
I think most of those episodes aren't available on Comedy Central's site either (can't access the USA version, it keeps redirecting me to the Brazilian, all of them still seem available)