Size of the drives?

Yeah, I have it turned off by default.

IDK where things stand regarding VR and FPS games… maybe it’ll gap the bridge, make them popular again.

I doubt it, but we’ll see.

People are into stories now, some FPS games have good stories, but not all. It’s mostly RPG nowadays that takes a huge slice of the cake. Plus a lot of play on their phones, and you can’t really play FPS games on a phone, a mouse and a keyboard is absolutely necessary for that.

People are not that much into FPS nowadays… or so I’ve gathered. Plus it’s a really fast reaction game, people aren’t used to that. You have to be really really fast.

Maybe I’m wrong, IDK, I haven’t played it in a while, or the original QIII Arena, but back in the day, finding players online for it was a problem as well. It was just too fast for most people.

Yeah, it’s a well known fork of Quake III Arena. It’s good.

What do you mean by that? Hardware wise? Except for the optical media, I can’t really see any hardware flaws…

Yeah, hardware wise they’re superb. Software wise… not so much… maybe that’s the reason why they fell so behind on broadcast equipment.

Have to admit though, when it comes to quality equipment, they do take the cake. I’ve never had a Sony product break on me (except my walkman, but that was my fault 😂).

But, to be honest, I’ve never consumed anything but audio and video equipment from them (receiver amplifiers and TVs). Things may be different in other departments, including their PS department.

We never got those things here, everything was already pirated 😂.

Yep, solid idea, could be done. And then you can get one of these to hook up to an old stereo.

Try rutracker.org or rutracker.ru. It may take a few days, up to a week sometimes, but they mostly have the latest releases from dance music. The most active though on rutracker.org is the Psytrance community, so the genres you mentioned might not get the latest stuff posted frequently.

Try pr0n sites, they usually have stuff like that laying around.

Here, 25GB BR is about $4. DVDs are about $0.20.

BR discs are still very expensive and will most probably be for a very long time. So are the BR drives. That’s why I still use DVDs.

rutracker.org, rutracker.ru

Might be an option, but I bet these things aren’t cheap.

I still backup on DVDs, make multiple copies so one doesn’t go bad. In adition, I also have a storage, so I think I’m good.

LTO most probably… but the tapes are expensive, so are the devices.

EDIT: We use them at work. They’re enterprise grade, so long term storage is not a problem, the price is though.

Really? I thought most of them did it for fun, as a challenge… but yeah, I guess you mught be right… there are some really hard copy protections and, to be honest, I have no idea how they managed to crack them, unless they have inside knowledge of the protection.

Well, to be honest, especially for warez, yes, it involves A LOT of knowledge. And that’s not easy to gain, there are no books on the subject and you can’t study RCE (I haven’t seen any courses that dive into the subject), so yeah, it’s pretty hard to actually gain some knowledge, and even harder since most of the tricks of the trade are shared between warez groups, and it’s hard to get into one.

So, yeah, I would throw money at that one or two people that actually did manage to crack a particular piece of software. Teams of engineers and programmers working on the software and a team of one or two guys managed to beat your copy protection… bravo 👏.