Posts made by csrdan

@Zeitgeist:

So far, Freeleeching the video has given me 1.2GB (instead of the 2.5GB that I could've bought), and we have six more hours or so until the Freeleech expires. What's a Seedbox, btw?

a server with a good network connection so you can seed 24/7 with 100mbit/1gbit+ upload speeds; and/or download your torrents for you so you can just download them directly without any torrent traffic on your home connection.

for instance my home connection can only manage upload at ~2.2MB/s, but a server can do ~12MB/s, thats 1GB in 1.5 minutes (if people are actually downloading)

as i said though, if you don't break even with your freeleech seeding: just be happy to know that you shared the video so others who might have bad upload too could get it without worrying about ratio. give-a-little: get-a-little xD

@Zeitgeist:

Is using Bonus Points on Freeleech worth it?

puts on economist hat

if you have good upload, or a seedbox… sure, it can get you more upload than buying it directly will; by attracting interest from others to download it because its "free".

but honestly, i view freeleech more as a way to "gift" a cool video: you get upload credit of course for sharing it, but the primary thing i think is it can encourage ppl to check out something that they might not otherwise have invested their precious GBs to see.

freeleeching something for the purposes of getting more upload could backfire if your upload is poor: others can just seed it instead. a seedbox will have uploaded 90% of the file already before you even connect to the peer xD

having said that, if you have good enough upload to benefit from investing in freeleech vs buying GBs, probably, you don't have ratio problems anyway in the first place and so SBP is useless except for gifting freeleeches and invites.

so yeah... if you have low raito because you have low upload: freeleeching is highly unlikely to be better than buying GBs straight up.

i would add, even if you have terrible upload: there is great value in seeding that one file you have that no-one else has (or is seeding), the amount of torrents on this site that people seem to religiously keep seeding is one of the attractive things here over certain other sites which seem to have more of a hit-n-run culture.

i guess this is one point for seedbonus: if you stay seeding the file, even if you're not uploading: you are avaliable, and that provide value to the community.

isnt the point to donate: if you have no other way to contribute to the community you download from? (cant upload, cant stay seeding…) well you can contribute some other way.

i don't mind to download something at 10KB/s, if it's 10KB/s all night and not going to leave me with half done download and no seeds coming back for weeks, or just an hour at a time or w/e

I just wondered… what people use it for?

giving seedbonus to uploaders of course just moves the question to another person: what do THEY use it for?

i pretty much am spending mine just to make something i really liked freeleech to share... i personally been introduced some real gems (and some really bad XD) that i wouldnt have noticed if it wasnt on freeleech.

its quite expensive though but i think quite a gift. but you don't really know who is making things freeleech like giving seedbonus thanks... so its sortof just seeping back to the community i guess the seedbonus points.

but really. is there any other use for this i am missing?

just noticed i said you alot, this is in general and not directed at anyone

this seems like this a problem with pompous bars imposing dress code to "keep out the riffraff" or something, and the bouncer maybe abusing that a little bit.

hate to break it but this is a cancer on the "straight" scene aswell…

sorry but i don't want to wear uncomfortable "smart"/"semiprofessional" clothes to dance in a sweaty pit.

if a place has a dress code, please do not give it your patronage... do you really want to be in this pretentious place anyway?

also hate to break it, but as a private enterprise and not a universal communally owned "queer space", the owner is free to impose whatever restrictions they want bigoted or not. you can also boycott this, and try and convince others of the same, if you really care.

as for the gentrification or normalisation of queer culture... well... honestly i don't identify with this and that the perpetuation of the notion of some universal queer culture is inherently damaging to the individuals in the group. the image of gays portrayed in popular media is a disgustingly shallow and laughable caricature. Not that "being weird" (all in different ways) is enough to bind any group together. I mean, straight people aren't all a universal homogeneous community bound by the fact that they all like the opposite sex?

i am who i am; the fact that i like dick has nothing to do with my identity, personality, interests or mannerisms. this also means just because someone is gay or runs a gay bar, doesn't mean they identify with or even like drag queens and so on, it's an error to assume so…

besides, if enough of the group in question are excluded from said venues: there will be a large enough group to split off and populate their own venue. if they don't want you there; probably you don't want to be there either. I mean, you don't find heavy metal moshers in a "basic" club, do you. It's the same thing.

some of the best nights out, with the friendliest and most fabulous people have included those going out in a bathroom robe... or even a onesie (barf); and they can go to those places because there isn't a judgement on them. And they aren't even explicit LGBT events, but have plenty of gay/trans etc folk there because of the accepting environment.

accepting in general, from your washed out 50 year old smelly hippies, chavs, goths, queens… not just of LGBT or any specific group. All that matters is those at the venue don't harass others or cause trouble.

TLDR: venues policing dress code sucks in general and is nothing inherently to do with LGBT. many bouncers are dicks and will use any excuse to refuse entry "are those trainers?". assumption that LGBWTFBBQIA+ is a single unified group with a shared culture is inherently damaging to the individuals in that group.

what is this heteroflexibility?

plenty of guys will at least go for blowies if they drunk/high enough.

although i seem to have the frustrating ability to draw admiration and awe from straight friends who WOULD (and/or have) but somehow find me way too intimidating xD

but what is it supposed to mean? if its "almost always hetero but sometimes do homo stuff" well… depend on how often you require the homo stuff to be actually plenty of guys have messed around at least once  :cheesy2:

imo the barrier is that some guys are just way too hung up on the "if i do this does it mean im gay" internal battle. the ones who don't give a shit are the ones who will occasionally mess around

in something that would otherwise be totally fine or even hot, badly edited/obviously looping sound really kills it…

like, hearing the exact same set of sounds looping over and over is somehow super distracting.