silent_clash

joined 1 year ago
 

The general sidebar and the c/piracy sidebars are empty of guidance. If piracy links were clearly allowed, more people would post them. If piracy links aren't allowed, we keep ourselves safe from C&Ds, legal action, etc.

Right now, we have the worst of both worlds: we are vulnerable to legal action AND there is no clear mandate what forms of piracy are allowed so some people don't feel comfortable doing so, so posts trickle.

These I gather are okay because the sidebar links to r/piracy megathread backups:

  • Links to a directory of sites that host pirated content
  • Links to sites with direct downloads

Are these okay?

  • Links to specific releases via bittorrent
  • Links to specific releases via sites with direct downloads
  • News of specific releases but not linking

Some new users don't even know whether advocacy of piracy is okay. The only thing I've sort of gathered is that in practice, anything goes short of actually hosting copyrighted material on Lemmy servers. And that magnet links are apparently okay according to Dessalines' pinned post (but that should go in the sidebar if true).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I played the demo. After the amazing trailer they had I thought it would be great, but it's a mission-based point and click adventure game with some multiverse and role-playing elements and a basic turn based combat system. It didn't appeal to me that much, but I thought the writing and art style was alright.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

S tier phone, my only complaint is that the bootloader is locked down and downward facing speaker. Next phone I buy will be able to be de-googled.

The battery life is head and shoulders above 99% of the market, oled is a killer feature, so is 120 hz.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Watching flash animations and playing flash games on Newgrounds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The way somebody is socialized and raised isn't inextricably linked with their sex. Also, intersex people are routinely assigned a gender, although thankfully that's changing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This isn't niche at all, but gbatemp is fantastic. Lots of emulation, modding, romhacking, general gaming discission, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seasons 1-3 are on the private tracker I use, torrentleech.org

If you're desperate you could pay for a seedbox membership to get a "free" invite. You must not cancel in the first month or they will ban you afterwards.

Edit: I just did a search on Yandex and found a few promising results. Search for something like "departures torrent travel show"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I buy CDs and encode them myself with Lame or buy from Bandcamp. They live on my computer and I add them to my phone as desired. I also have spotify because tbh you can't buy everything.

I used to use Google music for streaming my own files, but they put that into YouTube Music. I can still stream the files I uploaded using the YT music app but it's clearly not the main intended purpose of the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pros: Good selection, direct access to a few scene groups (scene groups upload mostly on private trackers and these are leaked to public ones systematically), a base level of trust that long time uploaders won't upload viruses, fast download speeds.

Cons: most have requirements on keeping your ratio high which is hard to do if you don't have good upload bandwidth, there may also be a requirement to seed torrents for 10 full days (total, not consecutive) if you can't get to a 1.0 ratio on a given torrent. Your account can be deleted for inactivity.

There are some sites with a freeleech tag which means that downloads tagged with that don't harm your ratio but seeding helps your ratio. In the one I use, you still have to seed for the 10 days. In my experience, because I don't have a seedbox or a good up connection, I rarely can successfully seed at all to build ratio so I am somewhat limited in what I can actually download (only torrents larger than 14 GB or a box set) without throwing my ratio in the toilet.

I could pay for a seedbox or a premium membership to fix this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just checked and it's not on my private tracker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/books seems to have a anti-nonfiction bias that I could do without.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would post on something like substack and then post those as links, personally. Someone mentioned Mastodon but that's a micro blogging site so posting a full blog there directly is hard.

Keep in mind if you start a community you will have to moderate it or find helper mods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

torrentleech.org lets you stop seeding after 10 days regardless of the torrent's ratio. They just closed open sign ups though...

Regardless, the struggle is real on private trackers if your upload speed sucks super bad like me. It's maybe 1/100th as fast as my download speeds.

 

So you want to run Tears of the Kingdom on PC or Atmosphere?

If you come across any links that look like a long list of random characters, you will need to use https://www.base64encode.org/ to translate them to plain text.

What determines performance? Mainly Single and multi-thread CPU performance and Graphics Card VRAM amount. I get a decent 40fps+ experience using a Ryzen 5 3600 (12 threads) and RTX 3050 (graphics card is not THAT important though) and you can probably eke out 30-40 fps on older/worse hardware. Just don't expect solid 60fps without something better than I have.

Good general source of links and info: https://rentry.org/128bb

I'm going to skip some of the basic setup stuff, but you will need to get a prod.keys file. 128 Bit Bay has some of the basics you will need. Check out the "protecting yourself during piracy" guide, but you will want a VPN active while you are torrenting nowadays, as well as a good ad blocker extension.

Download Yuzu (or Ryujinx): https://yuzu-emu.org/downloads/ https://github.com/pineappleEA/pineapple-src/releases. Keep in mind you cannot ask official Yuzu channels for support on Pineapple builds because they are an unofficial source. However, EA/pineapple builds can offer significant performance improvements. They only provide support for EA builds (subscribe to their patreon) or the main build (free). Also, do not discuss piracy on the official Yuzu subreddit or their discord. This will jeopardize their ability to continue operating at all, ruining Switch emulation for everyone! If anyone asks, you dumped the game and keys from a soft modded Switch running cfw.

Download prod.keys or dump them from switch: https://github.com/Abd-007/Switch-Emulators-Guide/blob/main/Yuzu.md#keys Follow the guide to install them in your yuzu folder.

Download or dump ToTK NSP or XCI file: I usually use the Yandex search engine as they rarely/never censor piracy links. 128bitbay above has some links to Roms as well. Point Yuzu to the folder where you keep Switch game files. Then, install the update file to NAND (should end in .nsp). The current version is 1.1.2 with the best performance, but 1.1.1 has the "Y+B" dupe glitch.

OK, here's the fun part. Mods!
https://github.com/HolographicWings/TOTK-Mods-collection Easiest source of general-purpose mods. Click on releases on the right-hand side to go to the download page. Choose the version matching your game update. The page linked has descriptions of each mod. I personally use:

-720p Cheat method - Turn the resolution scaling to 2x in settings and you've got 1400p which is my monitor size. 60 FPS Static - Required for DynamicFPS to go higher than 30fps, or you can target 30fps by using the 30fps static mod + DynamicFPS. Alternatively, you can just use FPS++ without the static fps mod, they do the same thing but YMMV
-Island Fix
-LOD Improvement
-Shadows 1024x
-Anisotropic Filtering Fix
-Disable Internal FSR Downscaling
-UI Blackscreen Fix OR one of the controller UI mods which include it

Mods I use not on HolographicWings Github:
Serfrost's Defogger: https://gamebanana.com/mods/446995 Removes fog from nearby if that bothers you. Some people prefer to keep it, but I like the added clarity. See also: Better Fog mod on nexusmods

TotK Camera photo/jpeg quality increase mod: https://www.reddit.com/user/ChucksFeedAndSeed/comments/142cgde/totk_camera_photojpeg_quality_increase_mod_v112/

Other general ToTK Mod sources:
GameBanana
Nexus Mods
SomeRandomPeople Gbatemp thread (GBATemp is a great forum for emulation talk)
Chuck's Feed and Seed, prolific mod creator
TheBoy181 Prolific mod creator/remixer. Got a lot of undeserved hate because he paywalls a few of his mods, but he has HUNDREDS of great mods for other games completely free on GitHub. For example, I got an actually playable experience on Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity using his mods.

Recommended Yuzu settings: https://github.com/HolographicWings/TOTK-Mods-collection/blob/main/SETUP.md#gh-dark-mode-only Take note of the ASTC Recompression setting. You will need it if you have less than 8 GB of VRAM, especially if you are targeting a high resolution.

Yuzu Vulkan Shaders download: aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWVkaWFmaXJlLmNvbS9maWxlL24xdmpydzRoMWgxNTg2cC8wMTAwZjJjMDExNWI2MDAwLjd6L2ZpbGU=
Put vulkan.bin in your TOTK shader pipeline cache folder. If it causes problems, you can clear the pipeline cache and make your own, but you will have some stuttering at first. Sharing shaders is piracy, FYI so don't talk about it on yuzu channels.

 

r/128bitbay remains, as well as their rentry.org page. But for a brief, glorious moment, thousands of people shared tips for how to get Tears of the Kingdom running smoothly!

Edit: Come to think of it, I could probably do a quick roundup post of relevant links to mods for TOTK emulation on Lemmy. I'll do that later.

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