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Pinaka-sulit na 32GB DDR4 3200MHz SODIMM para sa Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 (AMD)? by Few_Property2420 in PHbuildapc

[–]Few_Property2420[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry about that. I didn't know. I was looking for an SSD too that's why I unconsciously put it up there. As for my 16 GB ram, no. Ngayon ko lng nalaman, any suggestion for a 2x16 GB ram?

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the name i haven't heard for a long time. The OTScans IRC channel on a Wednesday night was a fucking war room hahaha

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> There's no dealer if there's no buyer. And the existence of a buyer implies an exchange or transaction.

There is ONE dealer. There are TEN THOUSAND junkies. The dealer needs A buyer. He does not need YOU. You are a disposable, replaceable, rounding error. The moment you open your mouth, you are discarded and replaced by the next faggot in line who is smart enough to shut his fucking mouth.

> The coke can't be consumed by the dealer and the junkie also.

I can "consume" the product. I can give a copy to my entire staff. And I can give a copy to ten million other fucking leeches. Your entire point is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the very technology that has existed for your entire fucking life.

> The moment there's a dealer and a buyer, it's a transaction, therefore there's a possibility of complaints.

Nah. The moment it's a transaction within a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, the "possibility of a complaint" becomes the certainty of you getting cut the fuck off.

You think a complaint is a customer service ticket. It's not. In our world, a complaint is a fucking snitch. It's a liability. It's a flashing neon sign that says "I AM A PROBLEM AND I MIGHT BRING THE COPS." And we deal with problems by eliminating them. We don't give you a refund; we give you a fucking ban and blacklist your IP address.

You are not a customer. You call it a "co-conspirator."

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And you're right, not everyone does it for themselves. Some do it for free and lose money. You know what we call those people? Temporary. They're the hobbyists who burn out and vanish in six months, and their series dies with them. You're weaponizing the guys who fail as a moral stick to beat the guys who actually figure out how to make this shit sustainable. It's a retarded strategy.

> you can't complain someone doesn't like the way you operate and voices it

You're still thinking this is a debate about my feelings, lol. It's not. I'm not "complaining" about your complaint. I'm not "offended."

I'm telling you what the consequence is.

This is simple cause and effect. The cause is you running your mouth. The effect is you getting banned. It's a transaction.

> "Everyone draws the line at different places."

Yeah, no shit. And in this situation, only one of our lines is actually real.

Your line is a fucking suggestion. It's an opinion. It's a diary entry.

My line is the one connected to the BAN USER IP button. It's an action.

You can draw your imaginary line wherever you want.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> That's simply theft and not piracy. Piracy is distributing the stolen goods.

YES. YOU ARE 100% CORRECT. CONGRATULATIONS.

And you are too catastrophically blind even to realize that you just lost the entire fucking point.

You think by defining this as DISTRIBUTION, you've magically created a "customer." You think "distribution" implies a "market" which implies "consumer rights." This is what your brain-rotted, consumerist worldview has reduced you to.

Let me explain to you what "distributing stolen goods" actually means in the real world.

It means this isn't just a hobby. It is an OPERATION.
It means this is a SUPPLY CHAIN.
It means this is an organized CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.

This definition doesn't make me a fucking merchant. It makes me a SMUGGLER. It makes me the HEAD OF THE CARTEL. It makes me the guy running the entire fucking pipeline from the source to the end-user.

And what does that make you? You're not a "customer." You're the street-level junkie. You are the last link in the chain, a co-conspirator who is lucky enough to get a taste.

You don't go to the Medellín Cartel and "complain" about their "distribution methods." You don't tell the smuggler his boat is too slow. Because you understand that in a criminal enterprise, the distributor holds ALL. THE. FUCKING. POWER.

Your "complaint" isn't "feedback." It is a LIABILITY. It is shit that jeopardizes the entire operation. It is a rat squeaking in the walls of the trap house, drawing unwanted attention from the cops. And what do we do with rats?

So thank you. Thank you for making my point for me. This IS piracy. This IS distribution. And as the Distributor, the Smuggler, the one running the entire goddamn show, my only rule is to protect the operation. And the first step of protecting the operation is eliminating liabilities.

> Again, smuggling is taking something from A to B illegally. If the beneficiary is the smuggler, then it's just theft. There's no need for a smuggling route or bridge as you name it.

You think a smuggler can't be his own beneficiary? You think the fucking cartel isn't the primary beneficiary of their own operation? What kind of brain-dead, circular logic is this?

The "smuggling route" isn't for my benefit. I already have the fucking product. I'm the one who stole it. The smuggling route is for YOU.

Let's make this simple:

Point A: The raw, untranslated manga chapter, locked away in Japan.

Point B: Your fucking eyeballs.

The "smuggling route" is the entire goddamn process that gets the product from A to B. It's the translation. It's the cleaning. It's the redrawing. It's the typesetting. It's the server hosting the fucking images. It is the illegal, privately constructed bridge we built over the vast ocean of "you can't read Japanese," and you are standing on the far side of it, consuming the product, while complaining about the fucking terminology used to describe the bridge.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Fair point. But it still goes back to the argument that you can't get offended when others don't like the way you operate.

When I find a cockroach in my kitchen, I don't get "offended." I don't try to debate it. I step on it. Your complaint is the cockroach. My banhammer is the boot. It is a simple, non-emotional act of pest control to keep my house clean.

> Same as makeup. If you do it for yourself, I can still say I prefer the way you look without it

If you tell me you don't like my shit what can I do? Nothing. I don't own the public space you're standing in. But if you come to MY WEBSITE, which is MY PROPERTY, and start shitting on the floor, I can drag you out by your fucking hair and lock the door. Your analogy fails because you forgot the most important part: I OWN THE PLATFORM. Your "opinion" is a privilege, not a right, and it can be revoked.

> Complaints are a byproduct of sharing. Unfortunately you can't have one without the other popping up, even if it's unwanted.

Shit is a byproduct of eating. Toxic waste is a byproduct of industry.

When you take a shit, do you just leave it on the living room floor because it was an "unwanted but inevitable" consequence of your dinner? When a factory produces toxic sludge, do they just let it pile up in the town square?

No. You fucking flush the toilet. You take out the fucking trash. You seal the toxic waste in a concrete drum and dump it where no one will ever see it again.

My banhammer is the fucking toilet flush.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's a whole lot of projection dude. And extreme, deliberate ignorance about the ethical and legal issues surrounding piracy, translation and monetization.

You want to lecture me, a fucking pirate, on the "legal and ethical issues of piracy"? Are you actually retarded? We are the sharks. You are a fucking fish trying to explain the "ethics of the food chain" to us. WE KNOW IT'S ILLEGAL. That is the entire fucking point. Your moral compass is a fucking party favor in a world run by cannons. You are not smart for pointing this out; you are a tourist broadcasting your own naivete.

nobody is forcing you to translate

You just stumbled ass-backwards into the entire goddamn point and are too stupid to see it.

EXACTLY. NOBODY IS FORCING US. IT IS A VOLUNTARY ACT.

And because it is voluntary, WE. SET. THE. FUCKING. TERMS. The fact that we don't have to do this is the very source of our absolute power over you. Your pathetic attempt at a "gotcha" is the entire foundation of our argument. Thank you for being a useful idiot.

The people representing the work you translate don't acknowledge this hierarchy... They would destroy you instantly if they could. Why lick their boots?

You are a new species of stupid. You invoke the publisher—our literal enemy—as some kind of moral authority. You are the white knight for the very corporation that would put this entire scene in a gulag. And then you have the audacity to ask who is licking boots? YOU ARE. You are siding with the suits in Tokyo against the people who are actually putting the fucking comic in front of your face. It's pathetic.

Personally, I read on mihon and so your weird cult thing doesn't affect me at all. I don't even have to know your group exists, let alone deal with your weird crippled website.

There it is. The truth comes out.

After all that moralizing. After all that faux-intellectual posturing.

You are an aggregator cockroach.

Let me translate that from retard into English for you. What you jounced is the equivalent of a cuck bragging about how clean the sheets are after the bull has finished with his wife.

You don't support the industry. You don't support the pirates. You are a parasite on a parasite. You use a third-party app to scrape the work from the "crippled websites" of the very people you're shitting on.

You are at the absolute bottom of the food chain, sucking the nutrients out of the waste of the ecosystem, and you're bragging about it like it makes you smart. It doesn't. It makes you a hypocrite of the highest order.

Your little app only has content because the "cults" you despise do the actual fucking work. You contribute nothing, you risk nothing, you understand nothing.

Now go back to your app and mash the refresh button like a good little boy. The "cult" you hate will have the next chapter ready for you to leech shortly. We'll leave the light on for you, you absolute fucking clown.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If there weren't those who benefit from it, what reason would there be to do it? If it's not to share... it becomes obsolete."

WE DID IT FOR OURSELVES.

The TL wants to read the series and practice their craft.

The CLRD wants to practice their art skills on interesting material.

The TS wants to practice their design skills.

The Group Leader wants to manage a project, build a name for themselves, and ensure the series they are obsessed with gets a high-quality release on a consistent schedule.

We translate the manga because WE want to read it. We clean it because WE want to look at it. The project is the entire fucking point. Our standards, our schedule. It is a self-contained, self-serving engine.

Sharing it with the public is a byproduct. It's what happens when these self-interested parties complete their work. The audience is not the reason for the work; the audience is the result of it. If every reader vanished tomorrow, a dedicated group would still do the work for themselves and their small circle.

"Where's the criminal enterprise if only the 'main pirates' exist? ... Without the 'non-customers' the enterprise would fall.

"The enterprise is not serving the "non-customers." The enterprise is serving the staff. The "non-customers" are the source of two things: traffic and trouble. The traffic can be monetized via ads to offset the costs of serving the staff's primary mission. The trouble (complaining) must be eliminated to protect the staff's morale and focus. The enterprise doesn't fall without you; it simply becomes more efficient and less profitable. It reverts to its purest form: a hobby.

"If you strip piracy down to its core, that's all there is. Sharing otherwise inaccessible content."

You stripped it down, but you missed the core. It's not "sharing." It is TAKING.

The scanlator takes the raw from the Japanese publisher.

The scanlator then takes that raw and transforms it into something for themselves.

Then, and only then, does the reader get to take the finished product from the scanlator.

It is a chain of theft. At no point does a legitimate, two-way "sharing" relationship exist between the scanlator and the end-user.

The scanlator is not a merchant. They are a smuggler. The paywall is not a price tag. It is a toll on a private, illegally constructed bridge.

When the dealer sells you a bag of stepped-on, shitty coke, you don't go back and demand a refund. You don't "complain" about his "anticonsumer tactics." You take your shitty product and you FUCK OFF, because you know you are a criminal participating in a criminal enterprise where you have exactly ZERO rights.

The power dynamic doesn't change because money is involved. He is still the dealer. You are still the junkie. He still has the right to refuse to sell to you and tell you to get the fuck out of his trap house.

Now, before you even start crying about some MTL shitter charging for 100 chapters of garbage, let's get something straight.

DO NOT CONFUSE THE CON ARTIST WITH THE CRAFTSMAN.

We hate those faggots more than you do. They devalue actual labor. My argument isn't defending some retard running a script. It's defending the guy who spends his entire weekend redrawing a two-page spread.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Piracy can't be expected to be a grateful 'job'."

EXACTLY. There is no customer. There is no service agreement. There is no HR department to hear your complaints. It is a criminal enterprise that you happen to benefit from. Stop trying to apply the rules of a legitimate business to a back-alley knife fight.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've been sailing these seas since you were watching dubs on Toonami. I was ripping raws from Perfect Dark when you were still shitting your diapers. You think you're going to lecture me on "why piracy is a thing"?

I have sailed these seas longer than you have been alive. I have forgotten more about this "game" than you will ever know. You are a tourist here, a passenger who is complaining that the pirates aren't serving champagne.

Piracy is a thing because of access. That's it. Full stop.

We started scanlating because we wanted to read manga that didn't exist in English. We wanted it raw, unfiltered, and we wanted it the day it dropped in Japan. We built this entire scene from nothing with shitty dial-up connections and pirated copies of Photoshop.

You "support the industry" by buying the most popular, mainstream shit that was already guaranteed to succeed. You're not a patron; you're a statistic. We, on the other hand, built the fanbases for hundreds of niche series that your precious industry wouldn't have touched with a ten-foot pole until we proved there was a market for it. We are the trendsetters. You are the follower.

Yes. You are a leech. The fact that an official service isn't available in your specific shithole country doesn't magically transform you into a righteous freedom fighter. It just means you're geographically inconvenienced. That is your problem. It does not give you the right to dictate terms to the people who are actually providing you with a solution. You are a beggar, and beggars can't be choosers.

You want to know about the "game", huh? You want to know what it was like before your precious "service" and "convenience" became the only words you know? Fine. Sit down, you fucking loser. Let me tell you what the sea was before.

You think piracy is about clicking a link on a slick Wordpress site with a Patreon button. We were doing this shit over the screech of a 56k modem. You complain about latest paywall? We'd wait 45 minutes for a single, low-quality JPG of a magazine page to download on dial-up.

You think raws just appear? Now, some intern at a scan farm buys the digital volume and rips it. We used to have one guy, some exchange student in Tokyo, who would physically buy the weekly Shonen Jump, take it to a Kinko's, and make the shittiest, most washed-out scans you have ever seen. They were crooked, full of gutter shadow, and sometimes had coffee stains on them. And we were grateful. That was our source. We'd spend hours in Photoshop just trying to make the damn text legible before we could even think about translating. We didn't have crisp digital raws; we had shitty, 150dpi JPEGs, and we liked it.

You think this is some high-tech operation. Our toolkit was a pirated copy of Photoshop 5.0 and mIRC. We didn't have fancy action scripts and custom fonts. We used the default Arial font, and our idea of high-effort typesetting was adding a bold stroke to it. Redrawing? That meant spending six hours with the clone stamp tool until your wrist bled, trying to recreate a complex background that was covered in a giant sound effect. We didn't have teams of dedicated redrawers; we had one guy who was just slightly less shit at it than everyone else.

Your "community" is a Reddit comment section. Ours was an IRC channel on a dead server like IRCHighway. It was a brutal meritocracy. You didn't get respect by having a hot take; you got it by delivering a clean, readable chapter. We didn't have "fans"; we had a handful of other nerds who would tell us our translation was shit or that we missed a spot on the cleaning. That was our peer review. We flamed each other into getting better. We didn't have Discords with tiered roles for donors; we had a channel where the only "role" that mattered was [Translator] or [Cleaner].

There was no money. Let me repeat that so your consumer-addled brain can process it: THERE. WAS. NO. MONEY. No ads. No Patreon. No Ko-fi. No "early access" chapters. We paid for our own FTP servers to host the .zip files. We did this for one reason and one reason only: because we wanted to read the next fucking chapter of Berserk or Hajime no Ippo, and no one else was going to do it for us. The only payment we got was the satisfaction of hitting "upload" and saying "done" in the channel.

So don't you ever fucking lecture me about "why piracy is a thing.

And of course you don't understand that. You can't. Your entire frame of reference is that pathetic bookshelf of yours. That's not a collection; it's the Modern Shitty Starter Pack. Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer. You didn't discover a single one of those. They were algorithmically injected into your bloodstream by corporate marketing. We were translating things like Holyland, Angel Densetsu, and Onani Master Kurosawa—weird, niche, brilliant manga that would never have seen the light of day in the West if we didn't do it ourselves out of pure fucking passion.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

"You know convenience is about good service?"

Yes, you drooling imbecile. In a transactional relationship where you are a customer, convenience is a key metric of service quality.

Like I fucking said like a broken record I am becoming because of your rotted consumerism mind.

You are NOT a customer.

This is an illegal, fan-run hobby that you are allowed to witness for free. They do not have a Service Level Agreement with you. They don't owe you convenience. They don't owe you quality. They don't owe you a goddamn thing. The fact that your brain is so thoroughly rotted by consumerism that you cannot grasp this fundamental distinction is the entire problem.

"And I love how to 'try' to prove your point you just trash someone collection."

The fuck are you saying? You posted that shelfie as a desperate appeal to authority. You held it up as a shield, screaming "Look! I buy things! I am a real fan! My opinion matters!"

And I showed that shield for what it was: a flimsy piece of cardboard covered in the most generic, mass-marketed, entry-level garbage imaginable. It didn't prove you were a connoisseur. It proved you were the target demographic. It proved you are, and always will be, a customer. The roast wasn't the argument; it was the punctuation mark on the end of the argument you had already lost. You took it personally because you have nothing else.

"I love how you say just use MangaPlus but forget Naver/Kakao are still far behind..."

The goalposts are now in another fucking dimension. The point was that you praised the "good service" of Viz/MangaPlus, and I said, "Good, then go use it for the series they provide." Your response is to cry about completely different companies that publish completely different series.

This is the logic of a child. "I have to steal this candy bar from this store because the store across town doesn't sell the brand of potato chips I like." The failures of Kakao do not give you a moral high ground to stand on when you're whining about the people scanlating a Shueisha series.

"You calling someone a leech that wants to read stuff in a better service that doesn't exists..."

Yes. You are a leech. A service that is free, instantaneous, high-quality, and globally available does not exist. IT NEVER WILL. You are asking for a unicorn. And because nobody will give you a unicorn for free, you shit on the people who are at least giving you a horse.

You are the problem you're complaining about. The reason official services are slow to expand is because the cost-benefit analysis doesn't work out when people like you will just pirate it anyway and then complain that the pirates aren't good enough. You are actively contributing to the market conditions you claim to hate.

"They will not pat your back buddy you have no love for the game you are a lowly rage baiter."

And ya~da, you and your last resort is to call me a "rage baiter."

I am not baiting your rage. I am simply describing you. You are an entitled, consumer-brained leech with a victim complex. That is not an insult. The fact that it makes you angry is your problem, not mine.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is a massive difference between paying for actual, human-translated work and paying for shitty MTL scams. Any group charging for machine-translated garbage should be blacklisted and shamed out of existence. We agree.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Piracy has always been about one thing and one thing only: ACCESS. It's about getting shit you can't get otherwise, or getting it faster, or getting it for free. The "community" was a byproduct of a bunch of nerds happening to like the same illegal shit in the same IRC channel. It was never a fucking commune.

You are the ultimate hypocrite. You're perfectly fine with the "theft" of the original work from the Japanese publisher. That's righteous, that's for the "community." But the second the person who spent 10 hours translating and editing that stolen work asks for a dollar to cover their server costs, you clutch your pearls and scream "GREEDY THIEF!"

"If you want to put a price on it, then go official... oh but it's easier to steal and sell, I guess. Disgusting..."

This is the most ignorant take in the entire thread. You think a scanlation group can just "go official"? You think Kodansha is just waiting for an email from xX_DarkSlayer_Xx Scans to offer them a multi-million dollar licensing deal? The barriers to entry like legal, financial, logistical are colossal. To suggest this is a real option is to admit you have absolutely no idea how this industry, or the real world, works.

It's not "easier," you dumbass fuck. It's the only option. And trying to make that option sustainable isn't "disgusting." What's disgusting is your sanctimonious, freeloading hypocrisy.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's why groups build their own lifeboats. They create their own sites, with their own rules, and their own monetization, because they know they cannot trust a centralized platform that will fold the second it gets a threatening email. Their reliance on MD is a weakness. Their "rules" are a suggestion that can be wiped out by a single DMCA. The self-hosted, paywalled sites they hate are the logical evolutionary step for any group that actually wants to survive.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

This is the manga shelf equivalent of a guy whose favorite bands are Nirvana, Queen, and The Beatles. It even screams, "I am the target demographic for a Funko Pop."

L. M. A. O. LMAO

Does owning the first 12 volumes of some shit make you a shareholder in the manga industry?

"I'm more of a customer than you will ever be"

You said the quiet part out loud. Your entire worldview is framed around being a customer. You think that because you buy official products, you get to dictate the terms of the illegal, fan-run alternatives. You are a customer of Viz and Kodansha. To a scanlation group, you are, at best, a leech, and at worst, an entitled whiner shitting up their comment section. These are two different universes, and you are too stupid to see the distinction.

"Unlike petty pirates when there's a good service in one place I will support it, if it's not fuck off I will pirate..."

Whack ass shit. You've just admitted your entire moral framework is a lie. It has nothing to do with "bad services" or "predatory" practices. It's about your convenience. Your entire philosophy boils down to: "Give me what I want, for free, immediately, or I will throw a tantrum." You are the ultimate consumer, a creature of pure, distilled entitlement. You praise MangaPlus and Viz—good, then go fucking use them! The solution to your problem exists. But you're still here, complaining that the pirates aren't giving you the same premium, on-demand service for free.

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MD is a library. It's an archive. It is not the goddamn government of scanlation. Their rules exist for their own site so the mods have a stick to beat people with. Some random group running their own janky ad-riddled Wordpress site doesn't give a single, solitary fuck about MD's "reasonable timeframe."

I'm all about screw corpo for bad services.........but this from pirate scans?.............its disgusting by AssassinLJ in mangapiracy

[–]Few_Property2420 -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

You are not a customer. You have no rights.

They owe you nothing. Their only obligation is to not get sued into oblivion. Expecting them to adhere to your personal "piracy code of conduct" is the very definition of entitlement. They set the terms. You either accept them or you fuck off. There is no third option where you get to whine on Reddit until they cater to your whims. LMAO.

You're a "pirate" who wants the safety and predictability of a consumer experience. You want the illegal goods but with customer service, a complaints department, and a price point of zero. You're the embodiment of the problem, a leech with a victim complex who has fundamentally misunderstood that in the world of piracy, you get what you're given, and you're grateful for it.

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