a tribute to human culture free from concern over profit or accalaim
[Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering.]
― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 19 November 2016 00:43 (seven years ago) link
A eulogy for What.cd, the greatest music collection in the history of the world—until it vanished yesterday
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 19 November 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
I was then subjected to a 20-minute grilling, in which the moderator lodged obscure audio encoding questions at me: What is the difference between constant bitrate and variable bitrate mp3s? Look at these two spectrograms—which of them belongs to an mp3 that was encoded poorly? How can you tell? If you encode a lossless file at 320 kilobytes per second, and then again at 256 kilobytes per second, is this the same as encoding at 256 directly? And more.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha fuck these dicks
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 12:42 (seven years ago) link
lol the mods were convinced my friend was some notorious banned user named JAGGERMONSTER and they berated him over chat saying stuff like "we know youre JAGGERMONSTER, JAGERMONSTER" and banned him
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
BAN L0U1S JAGGERMONSTER
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
I never had to go through some sodding 'exam' like NV pointed out. What.cd definitely was like the Stanford Prison Experiment, in that users who bought their way into the crew or got admin rights or whatever became these nasty fascist overlords. The banality of evil etc. That was the truly terrible side of it.
On the other hand: the staggering collection, man.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
a friend of mine got banned because they said he was manipulating his ratio ...despite the fact that this guy was so computer illiterate that he needed my help to move files onto an external harddrive
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
dude had a huge collection of rare punk cds that he ripped and uploaded as well, so it wasn't like he was just a random freeloader
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
whole thing sounds like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre tbh
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
later my friend who was accused of being JAGGERMONSTER got another account but they somehow caught him and they were gonna ban him for having two accounts and also being JAGGERMONSTER but he told them he had a ton of rare rap tapes he was gonna rip and they let him stay
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
maybe a bit of Reservoir Dogs in there
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
lol this confirms so much of what I suspected about this trash
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 19 November 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
the level of fascism there was extremely high
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
thread of What is fascism
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
if you're okay with the immorality of stealing music it seems churlish to complain about the thieves' club rules
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 November 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
au contraire this would be much less funny if the thieves were chill and friendly
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
smh mookie clearly never heard of chill amongst thieves
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
i was banned prelaunch because i wrote about the oink crew acting like babies. men gotta men
― maura, Saturday, 19 November 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
lol qed
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
oink crew indeed
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
lmfao
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Sure didn't expect What would be so divisive on ILM of all places.
The only thing that bothered me were the extreme ratio requirements. I mean, sure it incentivises retention but it's not much use when most people can't download anything until the sitewide freeleches or token giveaways.
octobeard and spacecadet otm
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 20 November 2016 01:10 (seven years ago) link
The ratio requirements were the least extreme thing about these sites
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 09:36 (seven years ago) link
Always seemed pretty easy going to me considering the standards they were looking for.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:07 (seven years ago) link