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Post by Vixo on Jan 27, 2012 15:44:13 GMT -5
It's something that represents a bunch of copies of the same file. You download the torrent, and then use a program to connect you to people who have those copies, and you download part of it from each of them. So it's faster than downloading the single file from one person.
At least, I think that's how it works.
Either way, I'm subscribed to HBO right now, and HBO Go comes free with the subscription, so I can watch it whenever. It's pretty cool. . .except they took Carnivale off of it right before my cable provider started participating. Bleh. Oh well, being able to watch Six Feet Under and The Wire is worth it.
Uh, the point of that is that I haven't had to look at less-than-legal sources for it, so I wouldn't know, haha.
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Post by Cei on Jan 27, 2012 20:23:43 GMT -5
Haha how have you been on the internet this long and avoided contact with torrents?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2012 15:21:03 GMT -5
I have no idea, but I'm just the worst with technology.
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Post by Vixo on Jan 28, 2012 15:29:48 GMT -5
I avoided them for years because I figured they were a flashing beacon of illegal activity and I'd definitely get in trouble if I used them. I'm not really into downloading anymore. . .I prefer looking for a streaming copy of whatever I want to see.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2012 15:39:51 GMT -5
Finally started season 1. Ugh, it's so good! I think they did a pretty decent adaptation of the book.
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Post by Cei on Mar 12, 2012 22:24:14 GMT -5
It's probably the most faithful adaption of anything I've seen in... ever?
Except for the character ages (understandable) and that bullshit with Drogo raping Dany.
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Post by Vixo on Mar 12, 2012 23:17:44 GMT -5
Yeah, I saw the show first and when I was reading the first book, it felt like a waste of time since the adaptation was so similar.
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Post by Cei on Mar 12, 2012 23:23:47 GMT -5
I found it useful for learning names, since I spent the whole series calling half the characters by descriptors. I also somehow didn't pick up that Theon was a Greyjoy ward the first time I watched it. And also Rickon, who I didn't notice at all.
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Post by Vixo on Mar 12, 2012 23:47:04 GMT -5
Yeah, the names especially were difficult. . .but I could've used the appendix for that I think.
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Post by kr on Mar 14, 2012 11:31:32 GMT -5
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Post by Cei on Mar 14, 2012 12:45:15 GMT -5
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Post by AKiminseattle on Apr 2, 2012 1:40:27 GMT -5
OMG.
Okay, so I haven't seen any of the episodes until this weekend and just watched the HBO marathon. I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS!
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Post by kr on Apr 2, 2012 12:29:08 GMT -5
I WANT TO KICK JOFFREY IN THE /DICK/ GOD I HATE THAT KID
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Post by Cei on Apr 2, 2012 12:32:29 GMT -5
And he just gets exponentially worse from here.
I thought the first episode was good but I'm a bit concerned how much the stories can all progress when there are so many of them and they're all getting pretty limited screen time. But I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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Post by kr on Apr 2, 2012 12:38:12 GMT -5
there was a loooot going on, yeah.
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Post by leoz maxwell jilliumz on Apr 2, 2012 12:40:44 GMT -5
great show
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Post by Super Nintendo Chalmers on Apr 2, 2012 16:49:02 GMT -5
And he just gets exponentially worse from here. I thought the first episode was good but I'm a bit concerned how much the stories can all progress when there are so many of them and they're all getting pretty limited screen time. But I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Supposedly they've condensed some of the storylines quite a bit to fit it all in. They already fast-forwarded on Jon's story in the North.
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Post by Katherine on Apr 2, 2012 19:46:38 GMT -5
I WANT TO KICK JOFFREY IN THE /DICK/ GOD I HATE THAT KID
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Post by leoz maxwell jilliumz on Apr 2, 2012 22:39:49 GMT -5
over/under on joffrey getting murdered is at even now
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Post by Vixo on Apr 2, 2012 22:41:47 GMT -5
Joffrey cannot die soon enough. Holy shit.
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Post by JoshShark on Apr 3, 2012 0:40:24 GMT -5
I must be dumb or something, but who's army was that at the end killing all the first-born?
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Post by Vixo on Apr 3, 2012 1:58:35 GMT -5
?? Are you referring to the soldiers who went into the brothel? Because the baby they killed was Robert's (Cersei sent them so there wouldn't be proof of incest). Unless I forgot something already.
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Post by sarinka on Apr 3, 2012 16:04:26 GMT -5
Probably could have spoiled that, Josh.
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Post by kr on Apr 3, 2012 16:27:43 GMT -5
?? Are you referring to the soldiers who went into the brothel? Because the baby they killed was Robert's (Cersei sent them so there wouldn't be proof of incest). Unless I forgot something already. how would that...get rid of any proof of incest though? i thought they did it just to eliminate all the bastards so none of them could eventually take the throne...though they wouldn't be able to since they were born out of wedlock right? idk.
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Post by Super Nintendo Chalmers on Apr 3, 2012 16:31:31 GMT -5
I think it was so if there's no black-haired kids, people wouldn't think twice about their blonde kids. Nothing to compare them to and all that.
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Post by leoz maxwell jilliumz on Apr 3, 2012 16:33:50 GMT -5
?? Are you referring to the soldiers who went into the brothel? Because the baby they killed was Robert's (Cersei sent them so there wouldn't be proof of incest). Unless I forgot something already. in the books, there's passing mention of killing all bastards so there's no other bastards of jamie lannister
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Post by kr on Apr 3, 2012 16:58:58 GMT -5
I think it was so if there's no black-haired kids, people wouldn't think twice about their blonde kids. Nothing to compare them to and all that. that makes sense in kind of a ridiculously stupid way
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Post by Vixo on Apr 4, 2012 0:56:14 GMT -5
Yeah, that was the big deal Jon Arryn found out anyway. . .he was looking in that book and figuring out there were no blonde Baratheons. It seems silly but I guess in a less educated time, it would be enough to make people suspicious and everything.
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Post by claire on Apr 19, 2012 14:33:36 GMT -5
There was an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine a week or two ago about Peter Dinklage (Tyrion). Apparently he hasn't read the books and doesn't know what's going to happen to his character in the series. Hah. Enjoying the second season, but I think the first episode was a bit gratuitous. I'll forgive HBO because I know it's an adaptation (also I haven't read the books), but like my boyfriend pointed out, they probs lost a great deal of young mothers as viewers. And in closing, here:
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Post by Cei on Apr 19, 2012 23:25:14 GMT -5
I cheered when Brienne was revealed. She is fucking huge.
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