I remember "Tha Forum" where tons of cool shit got posted. You could browse the threads there and just find cool shit to download.

I also miss really minimal and fast public trackers like mininova. It was so fast to load an search. In general I miss when piracy websites were just good, minimal, fast websites. They were all function.

I'm in the same boat. I pay for a couple streaming services just because they have the shows my kid enjoys. It's so hard to find good sources for kid's shows that are actually quality and not either ancient or abandoned. Even popular/new shows can be hard to find, whereas every throwaway netflix original has seasons available from multiple different release groups.

Kid's shows are really the weakspot of piracy for me. Thrift store DVDs help a lot, but it's always older stuff and never whole seasons of shows.

On TV? What TV? Cable TV? Where do you think you are lol

While I don't have love for meta/facebook/instagram/whatever corpo name they're deciding to lead with this month, the fediverse blocking off people who want to join it seems odd. Like, we want the fediverse to be a thing so that everything can talk to everything else and the content itself can be king without having to worry too much about where that content lives. So we have a standard (ActivityPub, among others) that we want people to use so it all Just Works(tm), and we have a large entity adopting it and we shit on them for it? Like I said I don't have any love for threads or meta at all, but shouldn't we be at least a little happy that the very concept of federation isn't able to be ignored in this way? What's the benefit of building all this that we want the world to use and then getting mad and booting people who choose to connect to it?

I don't have strong feelings about this one way or the other I just don't see the danger or damage in letting federation happen and just letting users decide what they want to view and what they don't.

Gold does not oxidize in atmosphere. You are spouting nonsense you do not understand.

I'm not "okay with it". Empress is a psycho the scene would be better without, but when they're gone, it doesn't all just burn down. There'll be someone else. There always is.