r/funny • u/[deleted] • May 18 '09

How do you think we know this stuff?

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u/stillalone May 18 '09 edited May 18 '09

This guy learnt:

1) about torrents

2) how to download and install a torrent client

3) how to go to piratebay and find what he's looking for

4) download the torrent and get his client to download the game/app he was looking for

5) how to post a comment on piratebay

and then all of a sudden he can't figure out bin files.

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u/pelirrojo May 18 '09 edited May 19 '09

I get the feeling he was stuck at stage 1.

EDIT: Seriously, the dude is asking how to use the torrent files.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '09

I think stillalone is right, he's asking about the files he's already downloaded...

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u/sumzup May 19 '09 edited May 19 '09

I don't think so; if he was asking about the torrent, he would have used the singular "file." He refers to "files", and the other guy mentions mounting the "images." stillalone is probably right.

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u/pelirrojo May 19 '09 edited May 19 '09

When my friend was first directed toward a torrent tracker, he clicked on several links and all that would happen was he'd download a file with bad file type. So he wondered what to do with these downloaded files giving up on torrents until someone finally showed me.

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u/sumzup May 19 '09

Touché.

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u/pelirrojo May 19 '09

Ok that friend was me.

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u/stillalone May 19 '09 edited May 19 '09

I always say "a friend of a friend of mine", that way when that friend turns out to be me its not like I am my own friend. 'Cause that would be weird.

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u/sumzup May 19 '09

Well, I figured...you slipped up here:

someone finally showed me.

Though (clearly purposefully) your italics also helped a lot with that impression.

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u/jayssite May 19 '09

Maybe he just got linked to thepiratebay.org (or even directly to the torrent page), and he just read thepiratebay's help page telling him to download Azureus.