I don't get it, what do you guys hoard? You can pretty much download anything in a reasonable time, so why hoard?

I don't get it, what do you guys hoard? You can pretty much download anything in a reasonable time, so why hoard?

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I
Want
All
The
Anime
On
My
Harddrive

>internet goes down
>want to watch degenerate cartoons
Just downl.... oh.

>suddenly that one thing you want is no longer available
>suddenly the entire internet is a drm proprietary binary blob botnet and you can't download anything without paying for it

>>internet goes down
Where do you live?

lately I've been finding my favorite porn vids being taken down
sumbitches think they're safe
heh

Planet Earth.

this though

downloading anime is primo, especially since you can utilize 10-bit viewing to get all the colors

and it will be hq without some shitty stream
and you dont have to hunt around for a place to stream it, you just watch it

You can do all that and still not hoard anime.

>popular capeshit movie comes out in 2017
>download it in 2017
>finish in under an hour

>unpopular movie comes out in 1992 (Conquest of Paradise, for example)
>download it in 2017
>lol, maybe it'll finish in a week?

Why would I delete it though?

I basically just hoard Anime

Why keep it though? It's not like you'll rewatch every anime you ever downloaded.

But I do. I've seen Haruhi like 25 times.

Comcast territory. shivers

I don't believe you.

Trust me, most Haruhiists rewatch at least once a year.

>what do you guys hoard?

EVERYTHING

Even if you're in a place where there is 100% uptime, and only visit places that have 100% uptime. There is no Internet on the plane. Besides, take down shit can affect the availability and you have to find another website that stores THAT porn clip. Or you can have it all available at any moment you want. How is this even a question?

No matter how fast your Internet speed is, opening a file on a drive will always be faster than looking for it online too, before we even get into downloading.

It's less effort to keep it than having trouble yourself with downloading something again if you decide to rewatch it.

Besides, if it's not something you're going to rewatch, while watch it in the first place? With movies you have the excuse that they are pretty short but if a series isn't worth rewatching, it's rarely worth watching in the first place.

I feel like downloading shit will be a lot harder in the future than it is now.

I live on a third-world and I'm already lucky if I can stream 360p without buffering. So every data from internet is important.

anime
manga
doujins
dating sims
eroge
visual novels
jav

also some non-anime movies and tv shows but that adds up to less than a TB

find me a dl for the game Galaxy Racer for PC
protip you can't and this is why i hoard

>no anime soundtracks
Negro, what?

I pray that the good you believe in forgives your shit taste.

only the good ones
i dont have any more than like 50 ost rips
i got maybe 200gb of various kpop and jpop too
but it doesnt feel like a hoard since my anime hoard ramps up to almost 6TB
sometimes it makes me want to re-evaluate my life

data caps and dcma bullshit means there's no guarantee that whatever you're interested in will always be freely and easily available, and if you catch a sale you can get a six terrorbite drive for like a hundred and thirty

There's only one God user.

Let's say you enjoy something on the web. In fact, you enjoy it so much that you think that you'll want to come back to it later.

You can bookmark the content. Odds are, you can come back to this content, even years from now. But the web isn't a stable file directory; rather, it's just a means of message transfer. As time passes, companies go out of business, content gets taken down, links rot, and history fades. Years from now, if you are reminded of the content and desire to watch it, you might not be able to, even if you had it bookmarked. The content lives on only in your fading memory.

On the other hand, you can download the content. So long as you have the wherewithal to maintain the content on your own private storage, you can be assured that you will ALWAYS be able to access it. Years from now, if you want to see the content one more time, all it takes is a perusal through your personal storage, and there it is. You have a chance to feel happy again, if only for a fleeting moment.

>if only for a fleeting moment
fuck you sayin
if I could just get my hands on my teacher's lewds from when Friendster was still a social media website then I can die happily

I only hoard a bunch of tutorials and books that I really enjoy.
I wish I was a NEET, there are so many things to do and learn and so little time for it all.

I've seen stuff literally disappearing from the internet, so now I hoard. Not even a long process - a couple of year old tracks on soundcloud that I faved no longer yield search results anywhere.

You really think it'll all be hosted forever?
The less people that own copies, the easier it becomes to delete it forever.
Especially if the content holders are all large corporations who love to delete shit for profit.

I never hoarded anything until I found out the games I buy I only buy a licence to play.

After that. It was fuck you.

Just in case Kim nuke us.
If a Nuclear World War 3 happens
I wanna be able to watch it in my comfy bunker
& preserve Anime to future generations.

Not on GOG tho.

>>since you can utilize 10-bit viewing to get all the colors
>source is 8bit
>his monitor is 6bit
dumb ass

>but user, why are you bothering to downloading and seed mangatraders entire manga directory, mangatraders will be around forever!

Yeah.

Yeah yeah.

>router dies
what do?

What's the place to effectively download manga, as in not single chapters.

Wait what? Explain

This, internet is getting faster and faster everyday, streamings are now viable
Why the fuck would you waste bandwith seeding shady torrents?

>as in not single chapters.


animebytes or bakabt.

ok, let's see you rewatch that slightly obscure anime you liked that's more than a few years old. what's that? you can't find it anywhere? guess you shoulda downloaded it

it's a mental illness. you'll get nothing but rationalizations here

Any public options?

I have an always-growing porn collection. the only thing I "hoard" are e-books. gentoomen's library and any good science/history book I can find for example.

what you can scrape of the nyaa trackers.

always MK but that's single chapters and occasionally volumes.

Scotland. Net is down each time it rains more than usual.

0 seeds say otherwise

I hoard anime, manga and ebooks.
Also porn, which is exclusively heartwarming tomboy vanilla and bro-sis incest h-manga/doujins.

If there's a lot of people who download shit in the present, the same people can upload the same shit in the future.

And the storage keeps down his prices. So, maybe not.

Used to think exactly like you OP until KAT went down. Finding obscure movies and TV shows is super fucking hard now that KAT is gone; and the clones that returned are all universally shit with half the catalog missing.

Also, nyaa. You have no idea how many fucking torrents I lost because nyaa's tracker went down. Hoarding is smart because the what's on the internet is only temporary.

Music, TV shows (anime and childhood cartoons mostly) and porn images/.webms. The best way to do it is by storing them on an external storage drive so you can plug it in to any of your PCs. Gotta save everything in case the internet is down, when net neutrality dies out and when everything on the internet has DRM.

>want to listen to Led Zeppelin's "Black Mountain Side"
>download the song using VideoDownloadHelper and Bing Videos, since YouTube doesn't have it because muh copyrites
Does this answer your question, OP?

>not having a nas, or at least an external with an ehternet port to be a personal cloud
why?

What if there was a ransomware attack and it started encrypting files?

is that even possible when a personal cloud/nas doesn't run windows and has your routers firewall to protect it?
also
>using windows

I still want to use my storage with older PCs as well.

>older pc
what's that got to do with anything? if it can connect to the network then it can connect to the nas

We've already lost more than terabytes of data on the internet due to people thinking "I can just download it later (again)"

>why hoard?
>YouTube doesn't have it because muh copyrites
>Does this answer your question, OP?
Download links of Pirated media often become dead links due to copy rights issues.
>
Hoarders also help others by uploading it again.
>
If nobody hoarded & uploaded piracy then all pirate links would be quickly dead & unavailable to others.

But it rains everyday in scotland doesn't it?

I don't watch or listen to things i don't download.

I could stream movies and listen to music on youtube but i know i won't. I don't have much time to mindless lurk on the internet anymore, so when i get the chance to do it i want to do it while interacting with people. Blogs, imageboards, textboards, IRC's, news aggregators, etc.

Everytime i get online i lose the will to do things i could do offline. So i let to watch chinese cartoons, read manga, books, play games to when i have no internet. All the music i download i transfer to my mp3 player, replacing the old stuff, so i am bound to one day listen to it. For anime, manga and games i use a RSS feed that download everything new automatically and only have to find what i want to keep afterwards. It's the optimal way to do it.

I watch, listen and read 10x more stuff now that i download things than before when i didn't. Not browsing internet at home also helped a lot.

Because you aren't going to get DMCA takedown requests on an external hard drive.

Another scotfag here, internet is fast but unreliable at times.

>I wish I was a NEET, there are so many things to do and learn and so little time for it all.
NEETs dont do and learn anything interesting, tho, they just sit around and watch japanese drawing of underage schoolgirls

real example:

The private tracker what.cd was the largest collection of music in the world. It had many songs that were literally impossible to find digitally anywhere else.


Last year, without warning, what.cd was shut down and all data deleted. If you didn't have the obscure music you liked saved, tough luck, because there's a significant chance you'll never find it again in your lifetime.

so do you really need a 2TB catalogue for a plane ride? a smart man downloads a few before the flight, hell, do it with airport wifi while waiting the 2 hours to board.

what more do you want to do with the fucking game you retard?

>You can pretty much download anything in a reasonable time
Really?

Also it's pretty comfy to be able to browse wikipedia and look things up even when the power is out.

which 3rd world country do you live in to have 6bit monitors.

Download your important shit before web DRM locks it up. Future generations will never know the convenience and power of youtube-dl muhmedia.com/saeiljhef

Ownership you steamcuck..

...

One word: GOG.

>implying its not anywhere
>what is google

Share it user, I want to preserve it as well.

Music, mostly. I've got some pretty weird tastes so it's hard to find most of the stuff I like for streaming. Plus, I like being able to listen to music while travelling without having my phone connected to the internet 24/7.

I also horde /tg/-related books and artwork. Recently been curbing that in, though, under the crushing realisation that my group will never play anything except D&D.

But degradation...

>under the crushing realisation that my group will never play anything except D&D
Deets

Everything suffers from gradual degradation. I can't do anything except make backups and cross-check them every now and then. Even then, though, one bit changing in an audio file changes the overall waveform by a minuscule amount. I can't even hear the difference between FLAC and 320kbps mp3 (which is what it's stored as); I won't notice a tiny change in a wobbly line. (Moreover, it's likely that the speakers/headphones I'm using distort the music more than any degradation would.)

What do you want deets about?

>degradation
Is this really a problem on digital systems?

Over the course of decades, if not centuries. You're more likely to lose all your data at once due to coincidental failure than suffer any real damage.

Your d and d group

I guess your weren't around when megaupload died.

>the absolute city of Britcuck internet

>Let me just save all these megaporn links so I can download them later

I never made that mistake again.

>hurr u can download everything!
No, you really can't. Go ask Sup Forums or /ptg/ how What.cd worked out for them.
There's plenty of obscure shit that eventually just stops being seeded/reuploaded. I'm sure you've stumbled across plenty of dead Megaupload links in your time.

what storage vps do you guys use? i have like 500gb of stuff i need to upload
also: why are the first 4 captchas i get the same 4 broken ones, is google running out???

Your right, I have like 100 anime I adore and just cycle re-watching them. If 100+ it keeps it fresh and I don't have to worry if he anime I'm watching is good or not.

Because there's no guarantee content on the internet today will still be available to download/stream in the future. How do you not get that? It's blindingly obvious. Like, you're either shitposting or genuinely retarded.

Got a few, actually. All suffering from the same problem: lack of curiosity. My first, and most 'fun' group, was formed by my friends and I from secondary school (brit here). We spent about a year building a fucking massive homebrew universe from the ground-up, along with mechanics. Admittedly, it was VERY broken balance-wise, but I have fond memories nonetheless.

When we all dispersed for uni, we played during the holidays like once a week. It was whilst we were all separated that our Forever GM rebuilt the homebrew and 'ported' it to D&D 5e. That's was all fine, and we've been doing more great campaigns using that system since then. The issue is that whenever I (or one other elegan/tg/entleman) suggest a different one-shot, we're met with complaints of 'difficulty' in learning new mechanics, or reading about new lore. It took a shit tonne of preparation and persuasion to play a short Shadowrun game, and people weren't entirely enthused with it. It even got to the point where D&D 5e was opted for things that make no sense. In between campaigns, Forever GM wanted to do a one-shot, and wanted us to decide the theme. After a few hours of brainstorming on our groupchat, we decided on far-future, tech-magic bounty hunters. GM decided to just remove the word 'Longsword' from the splatbook and wrote 'Laser Cannon' instead. Make no mistake -- it was the best one-shot he's done to date -- it was just that there could have been a better system to do it in.

Fucking mongoloid. You have no idea what you're talking about.

I use an external hard drive like a normal person.
>storing shit in "the cloud"
Retarded.

My secondary group was formed after a friend in uni found out that I was into RPGs. Behind my back, he gathered like 10 people, and together they 'asked' me to run a campaign for them. They were all complete rookies, so I opted for D&D 5e simply because I was more experienced in it, and it didn't require tonnes of reading. I spent many, many hours helping them all individually make characters, and grow into the setting. Both groups then suffered from Chronic Disorganisation Syndrome, and we met together only rarely. When I suggested other systems for shorter one-shots, they were resistant. Studies took priority, of course, so they weren't willing to put in the extra effort to learn something else.

Aaaand finally I'm part of a group made up of long-term online friends. We met on a Flash game dev's forum, and when that imploded due to said dev being a dick we just took off elsewhere. Soon after, we were playing D&D, because no one else knew about anything else. From there it's the same story as my first group.

The universe.

Only an offsite backup is a real backup you double retard. Your external won't survive a housefire or an earthquake.

OVH has some high-capacity servers, but I haven't tried them personally.
ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/storage/
Their business isn't exactly privacy though, so remember to sync your data encrypted as with any host. Seems good enough for a ZFS offsite at least.

That's why you leave your backup external in a safety deposit box at the bank, you double nigger.

>Your external won't survive a housefire or an earthquake.
Just put it in an internally padded, airtight, metal box. I store all my shit in these things.