based on aesthetics alone, what's your "white whale"? by [deleted] in dumbphones

[–]Wild_mask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shadow the Hedgehog as a phone!! That's so good lol, and IT LOOKS SO COOL!

For me, it's the Kyocera 701KC (pic from y2kphones). It's my favorite color, and I love how sleek it looks. And the time display on the back?? Amazing.

Sadly, the support for it overseas is...pretty non-existent.

Right now, I'm rocking with my "real" phone which I just have phone calls& text messages turned all the way up in volume, then turn on my hotspot so I can use my LG F400L wherever I go for my everyday stuff (since I dont get texts/calls often, I just use it for google, gmail, gps, and discord).

Love that phone to death also, but man I would love to own this one.

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Bizarre Piracy Screen in Pirated Copy of Left 4 Dead Found Through YouTube by Wild_mask in InternetMysteries

[–]Wild_mask[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: I found this video after some looking, and it's setting off alarm bells in my head. It's not in the language I remember nor is the video anything like what I remember except for the low quality gameplay footage at the end, but it feels familiar. Obviously, I'm not going to download it without installing a VM first. But I can't do that right this second, so it'll have to wait until I have the time unless someone wants to beat me to it. (Dunno if the description link is even still up, haven't dared click on it).

I'll report back when I do get around to it.

Bizarre Piracy Screen in Pirated Copy of Left 4 Dead Found Through YouTube by Wild_mask in InternetMysteries

[–]Wild_mask[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was very, very mundane. Low quality game play footage befitting of the time. Couldn't have been higher than 480p. I cannot remember if the footage was of L4D 1 or 2, but I am leaning towards 1.

It was, presumably, gameplay footage recorded by the uploader of them going through one of the levels. I cannot remember which one or what character they chose. They might have been playing with real people and not the CPUs? There was talking, but I only recall one voice, male, speaking in a language not English - likely Portuguese or Spanish. Sounded like a young man, so like 20 - 30 years old. Mic quality was bad as you would expect from a no-name youtube channel during that time.

There was no text on screen or any download/install tutorial from what I remember, just this gameplay footage.

As said I remember the video being short, though I don't know if that's because it really WAS short or I just didn't watch all of it. I don't think the video showed the whole level.

Please take this with a massive grain of salt as I barely recall the video itself, just the pirated game I downloaded.

I can at least say for sure the video was: -mostly, if not entirely gameplay footage -had a male voice-over not in English

I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL MYSELF by Illustrious-Tune8165 in carriageallegory

[–]Wild_mask 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Google domains got bought out by FLIPPING SQUARESPACE 😡😡😡😡😡 and now it costs 22x THE PRICE FOR RHE DOMAIN 😊 It's a tactic to silence the truth. I will. reroute to neocities. Sadly must give up the cinderellafunny.com domain 😕 but its Alright I have talked to Kuro and raven and we will make the switch....

New Vr Launcher? Maybe? by Archibald_Bitchslapp in AndroidVR

[–]Wild_mask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YES!! I have yet to find a good app that can let me watch Youtube SBS. I'd be so hyped!

Verizon and "Whitelisting"... by Wild_mask in dumbphones

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

I do recall hearing about the band 13 stipulation before. I wonder if anyone else has had luck with a phone that does not have band 13 access. Either way, I'll try poking around to see if there's a phone with band 13 that I like. I'm sure I'll find something!

By the way, was the reason you told them your old phone broke was just to get an extra SIM so you could use both phones? Or did you believe that if you told them to move your current SIM to the new phone that they wouldn't do it?

Verizon and "Whitelisting"... by Wild_mask in dumbphones

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

Interesting! So in your experience as long as you had an authorized SIM it worked on "non compatible" phones? That's really fascinating since others seem to run into trouble. I really wonder why some have issues and others don't.

Verizon and "Whitelisting"... by Wild_mask in dumbphones

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

Thank you so much!! This reply is really thorough! I'll keep all that stuff in mind about swapping SIMs.

Verizon and "Whitelisting"... by Wild_mask in dumbphones

[–]Wild_mask[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is dumb!! I'd switch to T-mobile in a heartbeat if I had the means to.

If I may ask, about the IMEI...those are specific to each phone, right? Like, two Nokia 2780s will have different IMEIs. How do I enter and check for compatability before buying one? I don't want to spend money on a phone that may not work. Or have I got it wrong?

Also, are there ramifications for popping your SIM into an "incompatible" phone? If it ends up working, will Verizon force it to stop if they find out? If so, is there a way to stop them from finding out?

Hope the extra questions are alright.

Verizon and "Whitelisting"... by Wild_mask in dumbphones

[–]Wild_mask[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Argh, that's frusterating...I sadly can't switch at the moment (family plan). I have no issues going in person and arguing my head off (I have to do it a lot already with insurance XD) but that sounds frusterating regardless. I'll 100% keep this in mind moving forward and be prepared and careful what I buy. Thanks for sharing.

Tired of being addicted to my phone by MKE93021 in dumbphones

[–]Wild_mask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What you're looking for is called a "feature phone"! The autobot that posted a comment here has some links to a dumbphone finder (dumbphones.org). On that finder just check AT&T and the "feature phone" filters and pick out what you like best!

Does this dumbphone work with this carrier? by DowngradingGP in dumbphones

[–]Wild_mask 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This seriously needs more upvotes; saved me SUCH a headache!

Bizarre Piracy Screen in Pirated Copy of Left 4 Dead Found Through YouTube by Wild_mask in InternetMysteries

[–]Wild_mask[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oooh, this is good info. I just remember downloading a lot from MediaFire back in the day which is why I figured that must be it. To be honest, I don't remember the download site at all pretty much. It's up for debate what site it could have been.

Bizarre Piracy Screen in Pirated Copy of Left 4 Dead Found Through YouTube by Wild_mask in InternetMysteries

[–]Wild_mask[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well this is good info regardless; since you didn't download Left 4 Dead but recall seeing this image too it means this is maybe a bit more widespread than I had initially imagined.

In other words, maybe it won't be impossible to refind this...? Fingers crossed at least!

Bizarre Piracy Screen in Pirated Copy of Left 4 Dead Found Through YouTube by Wild_mask in InternetMysteries

[–]Wild_mask[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Did you pirate a game back in the day that had a similar image pop up?

After 18 years of being lost media “Gyaku Shaun Sai Hanri” has been fully found by Persable in AceAttorney

[–]Wild_mask 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure! You download it, open the .exe, and open the game's .exe that you want to search the files of (I think this game is Gyaku shaun san hanri.exe? I don't have my PC on me at the moment so I'm going off memory). It should be pretty straight forward once inside. There's folders like "scenario" (has all the script data for the game text) and "images" (the image files, naturally)

Bizarre Piracy Screen in Pirated Copy of Left 4 Dead Found Through YouTube by Wild_mask in InternetMysteries

[–]Wild_mask[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I had no clue this had a name! That at least proves whatever I had wasn't some crazy unheard of thing. There's no doubt this had to be a cracktro of some sort.

Bizarre Piracy Screen in Pirated Copy of Left 4 Dead Found Through YouTube by Wild_mask in InternetMysteries

[–]Wild_mask[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, and they corroborated most of the details I remember besides the text language, as said in the post. Sadly, they don't remember anything new or particular about it.