Don’t blame the writers, some of whom are long dead, and some titles are long out of print.

Yes, I did try to install it on Windows.

Still, that really disqualifies it from being open source…

Like “free” software requiring installation of weird browser toolbars back in the day. I still have nightmares about those things.

https://vipleague.im/motorsports-schedule-streaming-links

https://freestreams-live.my/motorsports-streams5/

Requires installation of weird undefined “CutoutPro” shit.

That’s a nope from me, dawg.

Are you me?

The full disc images worked well, and hard drive space is so cheap these days, that I’d worry about getting the virtual drive emulator working first.

WinCDEmu is FOSS, so you might look into that first.

Back in the day, I bought Alcohol 120, and it worked great.

The mini-CD image trick (optional): https://forum.daemon-tools.cc/forum/copy-methods-questions-daemon-tools/general-copy-discussion/4900-

Those no-disc patches can be sketchy and infected, so watch out!

My preferred way to play games without CDs was virtual disc emulators, so you can store a copy of your game disc on your hard drive, and virtually pop that game’s CD image into the virtual drive in when you want to play that specific game.

One good trick with these, is that you don’t even need a full copy of the disc: There was some trick to creating a very small disc image that just has enough information to get past the game’s copy protection, but it’s been well over 2 decades since I did any of that, so you’ll have to do your own research.

Internet forums, TV shows, movies, and videogames are fun, but they’re not a good substitute for talking to real live humans, especially your peers of the similar age and background.

You gotta put yourself in some place where you meet the same people consistently to become friends with them.

It takes on average 8 encounters with conversations to become someone’s friend, so you have to be consistently there over a period of time.

Go volunteer anywhere, get a menial job anywhere. Especially if it’s something you think you’ll hate, you’ll learn something and at least you’ll be interacting with people.

You’re in college, and you should be thinking about your future. Summer is no time to waste, and you should be (or should have been) looking into internships in some career field that you’re interested in. Again, don’t turn your nose up at a company or type of work that isn’t the latest and greatest, because you’ll learn something by doing anything. If you have free housing with supportive parents, you can even ask a company to intern for free just to get in to some experience in a field that you’re interested in. Or maybe not interested in. For example, you might like computers, but you might find work on a farm or veterinary clinic and find out that you like animals even more.

When you do go back to school:

Does your college have a cafeteria on campus? Spend some time at the same one, every class day, for lunch and/or dinner, (preferably both) and join the same group at the same table. You’ll probably recognize people in some classes you’re taking, and you can use that as an “in” to get conversations started. Or even just overhearing people talking about something you’re interested in, in which case, just join in.

Hello, it’s just the middle of the evening on the West Coast of the USA.

I have also noticed some dips in brightness in some shows.

Sounds like an encoding problem, or some sort of form of copy protection in the streamed video that screws up the encoding algorithms, like the old Macrovision copy protection on VHS tapes.

It’s possible… Like someone who learned the Heimlich maneuver by watching House or something.

What does VLC have to do with piracy?

It’s just a media player, right?

The show has had some highlights, both action and emotional.

But some slow episodes too. Hopefully the writers have dialed in on what works, and they can steamroll the rest of the season.

I’ve also been posting discussion threads for each episode on !animationafter30@lemmy.world

But there were always these avenues that never came to fruition.

I find fault in that kind of thinking.

You cannot possibly do everything in real life that you fantasize about wanting to do.

Our minds are far too active for that.

Our ever-growing list of desires, particularly in the information age, far outstrips our limited time and resources to fulfill them all.

e.g. Do I want to climb to the summit of Mt. Everest? Sure! Am I in good physical shape? No Do I have lots of money for travel, equipment, hiring guides, vacation time, etc? No

Get focused and get something done outside of your routine chores, give yourself a little reward for doing it.

It may not be the most important or difficult thing on your bucket list, but get things done is an accomplishment and reward in and of itself.

By the same token, if some desire sits too long on the bucket list, and/or is completely out of reach, stop wasting mental energy on it, i.e. strike it off, you should just realize it’s not that important to you after all, and move on.

e.g. Is climbing Mt. Everest that important to me? I guess not Let me pull a book of my un-read pile and read that. Oh that one’s been sitting there a while and I’m never going to get to it, I guess I should donate it to a little library or a big library, while I read this one that I think I’ll like better

I have a vacuum cleaner like that.

The roller brush stopped working, I opened it and prodded the electronic shit inside, still didn’t have a clue why it stopped working, put it back together and it works unto this day.

Aw man, I am so glad I survived the work week and finally get to relax.

Could be a double meaning and mean both.

I always wondered where the name came from. I always assumed it was a real person, like craigslist.

That it’s short for Anarchist’s archive makes a lot more sense.

Usually x264 rips are available faster than x265, due to slower encoding time for x265, so depends on how long you want to wait vs download time and HD space.

The sites that I see get x264 first, then x265 of the same shows some hours later.

Code Monkey