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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • How much easier it’s gotten and most of what you download nowadays is usually exactly what you’re looking for. In the 90’s/00’s, alot of what was pirated had the potential to just be total BS or mislabeled, so you were never entirely certain what it was you were getting. I think Madonna had even gotten into it and released a one of her own albums as a fake download with her telling the listener “What the fuck are you doing?” At the time I mostly got music, though the Dreamcast pirating scene was pretty big for me for awhile. I think anymore though I’m probably more interested in obscure RPG books now.

    I think with torrenting, there’s a certain amount of trust that’s inherent with some torrents by virtue of the number of downloads/seeders there are on a torrent. At least for me, I can assume, ok, there’s 100 people seeding this thing, chances are this is exactly what it says it is, otherwise this many people wouldn’t be still seeding it (you can fool some people some of the time, or something like that). I don’t pirate nearly as often as I did when I was younger, but now I feel the need to use protection (via a VPN) because you just don’t know who might be watching. In my entire time having pirated stuff over multiple decades, I had only ever gotten a single letter from my ISP, so it’s not something that I ever felt particularly afraid of, but you never know and it’s better to be safe about that stuff.

















  • I’d be happy to write you a poem about meters:

    In every line, a rhythm beats,
    A pulse that guides our wandering feet,
    From soft iambs that gently sway,
    To trochees bold that lead the way.

    Anapests with a quickened pace,
    Gallop through with urgent grace,
    While dactyls, with their falling sound,
    Plant roots deep in the fertile ground.

    The syllables dance in measured time,
    A metronome of verse and rhyme,
    Counting out the poet’s heart,
    Where every beat becomes an art.

    In meters, life’s cadence is found,
    A melody both soft and profound,
    For in each measure, strong or sweet,
    Resides the music of our feet.