Looking for shows I can fall asleep too with my husband.

The little stuff we did watch in the past couple years was through the easy streaming sites. But those are always prone to missing episodes and random glitches so I thought getting back into torrenting would be fun.

Sidenote: if I remember correctly, its quite normal for some torrents to take a couple hours before a seeder turns up, right?

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    couple hours? oftentimes a torrent with zero seeders is as good as dead, and a seeder might show up in days or weeks, most times never. best to find another torrent. also, and this is just a personal preference it’s worth the download time to kick it up a notch to 1080.

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      It doesn’t hurt to keep the torrent running if you can’t find another source. There is still a very small chance that someone will seed it eventually. I’ve had stuff download after waiting for months.

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      it’s worth the download time to kick it up a notch to 1080

      In general? Yes, 100%. For cartoons on a small screen? Debatable.

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      10 days ago

      That is one of the reasons why I relay on usenent rather then on torrenting

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      Would it still work with subtitles? My husband is deaf so if the comedy works a lot of with tone and stuff it wont work for us.

      Thanks for the suggestion though!

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        I think it might work. A lot of what Joe Pera does is sort of deadpan humor anyway, so part of the joke is lack of tone or emotion. His voice is very calming because he’s sort of monotone.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSUilYKcRMA

        Here is a link to the full episode of “Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep” which is a beautiful episode. Give it a shot and see what you think. The autogenerated closed captioning available on this episode seems mostly accurate to me. DVD copies have great subtitles, not sure about digital variants.

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        Hmm it’s not very “haha funny,” it’s more the vibe of it and the charm lies in his mundane but interesting demeanor. Watch a clip on YouTube and you’ll see what I mean. I have no idea how deafness would affect the experience, I’m sorry.

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      I’ll never stop being sad it got cancelled. I wear my Tree TV sweatshirt with pride.

      Dr. Katz Professional Therapist is also in that wheelhouse of quiet, calm, and sweet. It also features H. Jon Benjamin of Bob’s Burgers fame.

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      Most of them had between 5-50 active seeders, the majority around 20.

      I’ll wait and see. I’m in no rush anyways.

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        It could be that your torrent program is firewalled, and unable to fully connect to all sharing peers.

        If you’re using qBittorrent, to display the Status Bar, go to the menu item View > (check the box for) Status Bar

        The Status Bar should appear a the bottom.

        Just right of center, there should be an icon where if you hover your mouse over it, tells you your Connection Status, i.e. whether you’re connected or firewalled.

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        Some trackers don’t update seeder info on the web page. Another possible reason is you are behing cgnat and most (all) of the peers are behind it as well, so you just can’t connect with each other.

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        I though the same too, but realized that it is easier than looking for torrents with seeders. I used to pay more for netflix than what I currently pay for Usenet. Torrenting these days isn’t the same as years ago, many public torrent sites closed. I selfhost a server that basically does everything for me I only need to pick the show to download. You can try usenet for free, usenet.farm offer a 10 GB block to trial Usenet, also the indexer NZBGeek offer a trial if I am not wrong.

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          Don’t you need an indexer and some other service too. I’ve got a server too, and to be honest, I’ve noticed the decline. But right now, even 15 dollars a month is a bit much for me.

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            NZBGeek an indexer offer a trial and Usenet farm offer a 10 GB trial if you want to test it. If you want usenet to get it you look for deals. You got two ways for usenet either ultimate or block (basically prepaid you pay for data and they don’t expire you get them forever)

            Block 6 TB for €15 (2800+ retention ) : https://bulknews.eu/en/  and use the code bf241.

            NZBGeek an indexer costs $12 a year they also offer deals throughout unfortunately black Friday is over so no deals now.

            If you got this you get a total of $27.62 for the year which is $2.3 per month.

            Of course if you are comfortable with torrent just stay on torrent and maybe use IRC for anything you can’t find a torrent for.

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      Could you explain what this is? A torrent aggregator?

      I was using torrent galaxy.

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        IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for messaging and XDCC is a file sharing method that it uses.

        IRC: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/k08hje/when_people_say_irc_is_dead

        Usenet is basically the first forum to exist on the internet and people discovered that they could share files by encoding them into messages, for example lets say I take a file encode and divide it over a 1000 tweets. I would also make a file called NZB to find the messages and share it, so people could download it. Usenet still exists for file sharing, but it is paid. You would need an indexer that finds the files and a usenet service. Honestly you could get both indexer and the usenet service for as cheap as $2.5 per month way cheaper than Netflix.

        For more info about usenet check out: https://reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/faq

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    I usually have 4 torrentleech invites that go to waste every month, hmu if you want one. All I ask is you dont hit n run.

    EDIT: all gone for December.

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    Uh-huh. Wait till you realise that the 1080p streams you saved a decade ago have a higher file size, lower bitrate, and noticeable encoding artefacts. Compare that to the 1080p streams you can get from various cartoon sites today, and you shall see that you’ve bamboozled yourself!

    (I mean, you can just update your archive with newer higher quality stuff, but I need this moral grandstanding)

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      How is it moral to pay for a service that doesn’t give you the option to buy a physical copy?

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        I’m not saying it is. I’m saying you lose on quality with archived rips.

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    Man, I gave up on torrenting. I can’t figure out how to keep my ISP from seeing it and every time I try, I get a threatening email. They don’t give a shit about Soulseek, apparently, so at least I have my music.