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What drew you to the high seas? (reddthat.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Vanth@reddthat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing.

The earliest desired media I can remember that drove me to figure out sailing was DC Talk, a Christian rock band. Pop music was not allowed in my house, so a Christian group was tantalizing and scandalous to a rebellious, young Vanth. Things escalated from there.

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[-] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Exactly the same here too. As a teenager we also all pitched in on a CD burner when they first came out and kept it at the BBS's owners place, I just remember a single CD took forever back then when it was 1x and 2x recording speed. That allowed us to share a ton more without everyone having to get together on the LAN.

[-] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Absolutely. I was thinking of the CD/DVD burning speeds back then. For example, I learned through trial and error that burning at 52x speed for a PS2 game often made it impossible for the console to read the disc. So I had to resort to slower burn speeds like 4x and it worked like a charm. Never got around to actually understanding the reason behind this.