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Haven't torrented in over a decade. I've finally managed to find some free time to watch some stuff. (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

Are you aware of your operating system's ability to screenshot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Welcome back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Waiting for seeders is definitely a thing, I once waited 8 months for a seeder to show up (and they did!)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Joe Pera Talks With You is pretty gosh darn wonderful to fall asleep to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

I wish someone could rip and upload The Simpsons Complete Series Ultimate Collection Seasons 1-17 & Season 20

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Normal is a relative term. How many did the tracker say there were?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Then that's probably okay. Is your DHT enabled?