• lichtmetzger@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    A good quality version of the “VR.5” tv series from 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR.5

    It’s a TV show about virtual reality and has peak 90’s aesthetic. They shot the scenes in "virtual reality"on black and white film and colorized them manually afterwards to create a very distinct and vibrant look. That must’ve been so much hard work.

    Sadly, there is only a 240p VHS rip with extremely terrible quality out there. I’ve always wanted to watch the whole thing, but it’s too degraded to enjoy like this.

    • QuikxSpec@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Your potato version is on Archive. There is one result in the Bay here but size indicates it’s likely the same and it says VHSRip. I watched a couple minutes… holy TV stars of today lol

  • Ian00@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Edit: After a really long time I finally stopped being lazy and figured out how to upload the book to ABB myself.

    I actually managed to find mine a while ago.

    I pirate a lot of hard sci-fi/cyberpunk audiobooks using stuff like Mobilism or AudiobookBay and using Sirin Audiobook Player to listen to them, one of the first series I added to my library was the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy by Richard K. Morgan.

    See everything was fine with the first two books (Altered Carbon and Broken Angels) which were readily avaliable on both those sites, but it was the final book Woken Furies that I was really after, reason being there were two versions: One was everywhere I looked and is narrated by William Dufris and the other that I was actually looking for is by Todd McLaren.

    Basically people really hated how the first version by William sounded (there was an unnecessary reverb effect in some parts and he pronounces the main character’s name wrong throughout the whole book) to a point they started a petition to get Todd McLaren (who did the first two books) to redo the final one. McLaren actually says the guy’s name right in all the books and generally is a better narrator, also the weird reverb effects were gone.

    It took months of searching but I eventually found it through Mobilism (second result in the image), using a burner e mail I got a free trail of their premium service to directly download the file. Now I can rest easy knowing I have all three books read by the same person.

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        AND I got approved. Holy shit I’m so excited.

        You have no idea how dead one’s dating life becomes when they are 40 and have no place of their own. But mostly I’m looking forward to whatever untold levels of mental health await me when I get alone time every day, and don’t have to worry about the rent.

        I’ve had apartments before … and I was always late on the rent.

        I had a really high-paying job once … but I was moving from couch to couch because it was so high stress I couldn’t navigate finding a place, and I lived paycheck to paycheck, and that went on a year and a half and then they fired me. I might have been able to make it if I’d had an apartment, could truly rest each night.

        Now, it’s all coming together:

        The apartment
        The job
        AT THE SAME TIME

        Holy shit I have never been stable in my entire life.

        For my mother money was chaos. She worked for herself. It was boom and bust. We’d splurge. We’d scrape. We’d go without when money didn’t come in. She saved nothing. Ever. My grandfather died and the family decided to sell his land to a suburb developer. She got $35k. The money was gone in a flash, as was my grandfather’s beautiful land.

        My model of success in life was “be brilliant, get discovered, rocket to the stars”. I saw the world as chutes and ladders: lucky breaks catapulting me into new social strata. I went to a fancy college, took out loans.

        After I got out I quit my first full time job. Too boring. Moved into a techie frat house. Started writing code. Worked freelance because I wanted to be free.

        My friends and peers got jobs. Took vacations. Had their evenings free. I was a businessman! with no boss! I was free!. But I was always broke. Occasionally I’d get a big contract.

        But I didn’t follow through. I cut corners. I smoked weed like a chimney, and procrastinated my work. I worked super short days. I’d go to a coffee shop, open the computer, code for an hour, decide “eh I’ll get cracking tomorrow” and then I’d leave.

        I constantly drank coffee, thinking it would motivate me. I had no idea that anxiety was a bigger problem than any “lack of motivation” I had. So I’d sit there and drink coffee and eat simple carbs and get into a miserable state.

        But I was that glitzy, glamorous figure: the dude with the computer making bank in hourly. I kept cranking my rates up.

        My zen teacher said to me, repeatedly, “I think a good move for you would be to just get a full time job”. I ignored his advice.

        Then in 2017 I got my hands on some acid, and microdosed for a while. I suddenly realized: all my financial problems come from the irregularity of my income. The acid blew my mind with a new realization: I’m getting old and this working-for-myself shit isn’t working. (Thanks LSD!)

        Anyway, it’s been a long hard road and I now make almost nothing compared to when I made senior software dev money, yet my finances are healthier.

        I could go on and on. Thank you for your encouragement!

  • Musclewizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    A cracked version of Hatch. It’s embroidery software that my GF has wanted to use for her hobby / tiny side hustle but a license costs literally hundreds of dollars.

    • Grey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Plenty of options for embrilliance which seems to be a major competitor, maybe have her give that a try?

    • QuikxSpec@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Interesting! I’d probably recommend VM route another posted suggested but if they are diligent with authentication and updates that may be difficult. Old school serial cracking a demo version may be viable here.

      • Musclewizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m not too proficient with cracking it myself but the software phones home and installs driver level stuff before it runs. It’s wild.

  • ???@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Digimon World 2003. I never owned a PlayStation (was a Nintendo-only fanboy for years until I bought a PS2 in the mid-00s a year before the Xbox 360 was announced) and tried to run an emulator of it for over a decade before it was fully supported. I also had trouble because I found out the only English version that didn’t have that stupid “once you start fighting the final boss, you can’t explore the game world anymore” thing they used to do in JRPGs was the European version. Now I can actually play it, even using gameshark codes, easily… if I could only find the time to play it!

  • zos_kia@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Kind of shameful but there is this one porn movie I used to have on a CDR that got lost between apartments. It’s stupid cause it’s #17 of a 20+ series and you can find #16 and #18 in like 2 minutes, but this one has disappeared from the face of the internet. The studio stopped listing it some time ago then they were bought out and the new owners never listed that one. Believe it or not I literally sent an email to the male star of the movie, but he never responded. There goes my holy grail. It must have gone out of stock and maybe the masters got lost or something. I know one rip was made at some point cause I found a filename in a listing, but it is long lost. Farewell lost porn 🙋‍♂️ farewell…

    • QuikxSpec@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      No shame dude! Maybe write the production company if they’re still around. Feel free to share the name or an embedded link to an info page. Never know if someone can help.

      • zos_kia@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Actually i found a phone number to the new studio so i might just give them a ring and ask about !

        It’s a French series called “Sacrées Coquines”, volume 17 :D i doubt anybody’s heard of it

  • ChickenBoo@lemmy.jnks.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    A late 80’s TV show called Monsters

    Caught a handful of episodes when I was a kid. It’s available on Amazon, but I’d like a local copy. With as many TV shows have the word Monsters in it, it’s hard enough to even search for.

    Edit: ROFL and as I post this I decided to google it, and archive.org has all 3 seasons archived.

  • Zefrem23@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It’s not a white whale, it’s a Holy Grail. The white whale is something that occupies your every waking moment and you wish to eliminate so you can get on with your life.

  • sparvin69@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    A BBC art history documentary series called “Private Life of a Masterpiece”. I have about half in a mixed bag.

    Also the 5th season (I think) of an old Food Network show called “The Thirsty Traveler”.

    • QuikxSpec@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The Life of a Masterpiece has a result in PBay and on 1337x. Didn’t test if the seeders are still good.

      Food network is always huge hit or miss on public trackers.

  • Schleppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Heil Honey I’m Home!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I'm_Home!

    Pilot on the BBC. It’s a sitcom about Hitler and Eva moving into an English neighborhood next-door to a nice Jewish couple. I had a copy from BTN but can’t find it anywhere now.

    Chad’s World

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0960743/

    Super-fucked pilot from DEN. A studio that was attempting a streaming business in the 90s or 00s, and abusing minors.

    It stars fucking Stiffler. It’s about a teen who’s friend kills himself over the pressure/reaction of coming out to his parents. The teen is rescued by his brother and whisked any to LA.

    It’s an insane groomer story that matches the scandals at DEN. I have a 240p copy, but I SWEAR I had a better one before.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Pierce

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Entertainment_Network

  • cuchilloc@vlemmy.netEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    One game I do not even know the title of. My brother used to play it when I was 6 years old. I remember the game being monochrome, not sure about the crt itself. But it was a kind of XCOM if I’d have to describe it, about some crew that lands on an underwater planet. It’s still my white whale coz I still have not found even the name . I tried chatgpting suggestions recently to no avail.

  • Nihilistic_Mystics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hypernauts (1996). It’s an old TV series that was cancelled part way through airing. I found a complete season on a TV archive project website, but it’s 480p and has baked in Japanese subs that obscure a lot of the screen. The show itself isn’t great, it’s just something I’d like to collect.