FWIW, I've been using multiple private trackers over the past decade and have never, not even once, gotten a letter of doom from my ISP. I'm currently seeding probably over 1TB of shit on my UNRAID server to multiple private trackers as I type this. None of that is behind a VPN.

Now, public trackers are a whole other story, I always will use public trackers from behind a VPN. The couple times I have forgotten to download from behind a VPN using them I have gotten insta-emailed from my ISP to cut it out.

/r/fuuuuuu I think was called or something was one of the first subs I subscribed to back in the day, then I unsubbed after some time because I realized it was draining my IQ

At that point why don't you just play a pirated version on the game lol it seems like less of a hassle

I used to watch a lot of Angry Video Game Nerd back in the day, the old stuff still holds up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3n8-9JM5o&list=PLbQ-gSLYQEc4mnWapHJd0K-sPvLcEwOSS&index=1

The newer stuff he's been putting out is meh.

There's a coming recession?

Damn, check out this guy with his fancy embedded meme into his comment.