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.

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.

Watching flash animations and playing flash games on Newgrounds.

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.

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

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”

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.