@blablarg18 said in Pope Emeritus (aka former Pope) Benedict XVI dead @ 95:
I also can't think of any unique or exceptional way that the Church damages gay people.
Really? REALLY? REALLY?
Perhaps you need to think harder. If you want to continue this topic, move it to the Religion forum group...but I won't take part in that.
In honour of my mother:
Gezegende kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuwjaar!
@Xezak Welcome! I hope you enjoy being part of the site.
There are probably some specific help pages/comment threads that can answer your question in detail, and I'm sure another Gentle User will step in here and point you there.
For now, let's look at some very general concepts: None of the thousands (millions?) of videos or images featured on the torrent pages are stored by the gaytor.rent website. Instead, individual users (like me, and now you) have some of them on their computers. Think of this website as a "matchmaker," connecting your computer to other computers so files can be shared back and forth between users.
The small "torrent file" you've downloaded from this site isn't a video. It's sort of like a passport that lets your computer connect to the other users so that you can download video material directly from them, and then the video (a much larger file) will show up on your computer.
This requires having a software application running on your computer (a "torrent client") that does the actual connecting-to-others and sharing files. I'm afraid that I don't know anything about iPads, but other users here do and they can probably point you to a web page that has the directions you need. The setup can be tricky, but if you get stuck, don't be afraid to ask questions in the forum. All of us had to learn this stuff when we got started.
Good luck, and again, welcome!
@cinemacapman said in covid vaxx don't stop covid, says NY Supreme Court:
no vaccine whether it's COVID or flu, etc., prevents you from catching it or getting sick. No vaccine actually kills a virus. It prevents you from becoming seriously ill, hospitilization, or dying. Your body's immune system eventually wears down the virus. You actually just naturally heal yourself. They've been saying this for a long time, and people still are stubborn about accepting what the COVID vaccine actually does. Yes, you can still catch and transmit the virus. The vaccine simply protects you and your health.
This is the medical fact, and that's what belongs in a Health and Fitness forum thread.
If you want to call people liars, spread conspiracy theories, or espouse "alternative facts," there's another forum board for doing that.
"Snit" might not be a highly precise term, so one could argue for or against its applicability here. (@flozen could well have used a different second consonant in that word, which, while more inflammatory, might also have been appropriate.)
But let's look at the specific flow of the thread. In the first post, the OP says, in essence, "Please help me find something. I looked in X [IAFD] and it wasn't there." (Bonus points are awarded for use of the term "please.")
The first response said, "Take a look in Y (adultdvdempire), it might be in there."
The OP responds, "As I already said, I looked in X, and it wasn't there." This post adds nothing to the thread, as its contents had indeed been "already said." It does not say, but perhaps implies, that the OP looked in Y and didn't find the desired thing there. If that were the case, a better response would have been, "Thank you; I looked there, and and I didn't find it there either." Another approach would have been to not respond at all.
While it's not required that people use common courtesy in this forum, it doesn't hurt. In fact, it might even help: Courteous responses can encourage other Gentle Members to respond to requests for information, whilst non-courteous ones can discourage that.
I don't expect anyone else to jump in with an answer the original question of this thread.
@lololulu19 said in Gay expectations:
OK... I WILL DO THAT. (I send the money).
P. T. Barnum once said, "there's a sucker born every minute." With gullible chat consumers, it's probably every microsecond these days.
@ikpooo When the torrent file is downloaded and running in your client (such as uTorrent or whatever you use), you can select some or all of the files that you want to download--just make sure it's in your torrent list, and it will probably say something like "connecting to peers" and show zero seeders.
It will not affect your ratio until someone responds to your reseed request. Once they do, the system will record how much you've downloaded from them. You won't get any upload credit, though, because those people who connected already have the files and it's unlikely that other people will hook up to an old torrent.
Downloading the torrent file and loading in your client will count against your limit for how many torrents you can download in a given day, as well as how many torrents you can have downloading at a time. (It counts as "downloading" even if there's nobody sending you data.) You can find the limits that apply to your account by going to https://www.gaytor.rent/rationator.php
Don't be discouraged: People do sometimes respond to reseed requests. If you're not having luck, though, I recommend against sending additional requests. If somebody got a request once and didn't respond, getting another one likely won't work.
Good luck!
@deliverator9 said in Greetings from somehwere in the US 
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@bi4smooth I'm south of Hell, MI - one state downward lol
That might be Indiana? I lived in South Bend for two years.
Another great place name for @bi4smooth's list: Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
Unfortunately, there is no more Fucking in Austria; the residents of that town voted last year to change its name to Fugging. You can, though, still visit Fucking, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AZbO2rcbX8.
@kalayaan The "pause" symbol in the first image over the guy's asshole is amusing. Does it mean, "stop fucking me?"
@lololulu19 said in My position on torrenting gay porn.:
that person needs to disable their account and leave
Perhaps you could set a good example for us and do this yourself.
I have now blocked you from my forum display, so your frivolous and frustrated fecal foolishness will not tarnish my monitor.
@ricky said in Costly Mistake for Homophobe Actress:
@flozen Wow, that's progress! Looks like her beliefs and her job were at odds.
Ms. Omooba had to be living under a rock if she wanted to be an actress and a homophobe at the same time. There are LOTS of LGBT people in cinema, theatre, music, and dance. Some of them might have been her friends...
I am confused, which is nothing new. I don't understand the original comment, with references to California, sobriety, and multiple accounts.
Perhaps you meant to make this a comment on a specific torrent? There's a box at the bottom of each torrent page for that.
@kulmel36 If you didn't choose to download all of the files in the torrent (i.e., if you de-selected some that you didn't want), that tracker software will consider you to be leeching the torrent even though you have downloaded the bits that you want. This will take up one of your download slots. There's no way around this other than to remove this torrent from your active torrent list, but that also means that you won't be able to seed to other users and get credit for that.
@raphjd Fact check: The US national debt is about $28 trillion. See https://www.usdebtclock.org/, or any other reliable source.
That's still a huge number. If only the Americans had elected Donald Trump as President in 2016: He promised to pay off the debt within eight years. (https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/275003-trump-i-will-eliminate-us-debt-in-8-years )
Instead, the person who was in the White House from 2017 to 2021, with the consent of a Republican Senate, increased the national debt by 36%.
This connection problem absolutely must be fixed. I'm sure admins notice that the traffic on the forum has gone way down with the new system, both because of the connection issues and the clumsiness of the interface.
Once connection issues are resolved, I suggest two more fixes:
Good luck as you work on these issues.
@manhandler said in Terrible News for the Vaxxed: by 2025:
https://principia-scientific.com/most-who-took-covid-vaccines-will-be-dead-by-2025/
This "principia-scientific" website is a festering swamp of baseless conspiracy theories. No educated person takes it seriously. The linked article, which is unsigned, does not have any credible references. It lists some web domains, but no links to papers.
I expect you to reject any scientist who doesn't tell you what you want to hear, it's human nature.
No, it's the reaction of dogmatic non-thinkers. We have examples of that in this thread.
@ianfontinell said in It's just too bad to stay as it is:
Browsing the forum as it is at the moment is just... Not worth it. It's too annoying. Each 30 seconds connection is lost, then you're randomly kicked out and have to login again but each time this happen there's an unnecessary captcha to make things even more annoying.
I really want to browse the forum, there's lots of interesting stuff but I guess people won't have this bs for much longer. Just close it already until it's fixed or at least revert it back to the old one. If it's so hard to fix make another one, I'm sure there are lots of people here who would gladly help with that, myself included.
I sadly agree. The forum is pretty much useless now. It's a real shame, because it used to be that people posted lots of thoughtful comments--some gay-related, other household hints, etc.
It's especially tragic given that occasionally there would be a post from someone, likely young, experiencing serious depression and seeking support, or at least conversation, from people in the forum. This new forum software has likely destroyed that mechanism.
Even if things got fixed, I think enough people have been alienated from the forum that it will probably never return to its previous value.
@raphjd said in Co-founder of Christian TV network that railed against vaccines dies of Covid-19:
But fully vaccinated people have died too.
But what about....?
Yes, some fully vaxed people do get very ill and die--but the undeniable fact is that people who are vaxed are much less likely to do so.
Public health and safety issues should be seen as risk reduction, not risk elimination. People who follow traffic signals might still get into a crash at a junction, but they're less likely to. People who exercise might still get heart disease, but they're less likely to. The fact that preventive measures don't always work doesn't mean they aren't effective and should be taken. This might be a difficult concept for some people to understand.
Who are YOU to say that he would have survived?
@bi4smooth did not say that. But it is a fact that people who are vaccinated are less likely to become very ill and die.
@drekkin I share your frustration. While I'd like to always thank people for sharing their content, some torrents are simply garbage. I wish people would apply some sort of "golden rule" to their uploads...meaning "only upload a torrent with content/description/images/etc. that you would want to download yourself." I don't see why anyone would want to download a 50 GB torrent called "my favourite porn" with 20 cryptically named files and one or two pictures (that aren't necessarily related to any of the files). Surprisingly, though, there are people who download stuff like that.
I don't think the solution is to sanction uploaders of garbage torrents, but perhaps there's a way of rewarding uploaders of really good ones. Some torrents are clearly the result of much care by their uploaders, with clear description of the content, including thumbnail pages for each video file (and that's very easy to do). It would be nice to have a reward for these superstar uploaders. Perhaps more use of the "thank you" button is enough.
