Scene Blog

everything after the last - in a release name is the group name. No tags can be after that.

EOS and EOSiNT are two different groups by scene standards. Stupid fucking P2P cunts.

MiNT is a release group. It's not M's internal stuff. Why the fuck do shitey MP3 groups think they can invent tagging?

all tags describing the release should be before the final - in the release name.

Bollocks to credits, I'm stopping trading stuff released by bad taggers, p2p cunts etc.

I got added to a new site, as a racer. I do site rules first off, as usual, and have a read.

In one of the sections, there's a list of what's not allowed, followed by etc.

I see it quite often, sections saying etc, or "not allowed: crap".

How the fuck am I meant to know what a siteop thinks is crap? I think swedish TV is crap. I think PDA software is crap. I think fucking telesyncs are crap.

Most siteops are retards. This we know.

What the fuck is with these guys who ask you to affil their leet leaseweb site, and act all surprised, or even offended, when you say no?

Even more annoying is the twats who you share sites with, but who you've never fucking spoken to before, who pm you out of the blue to ask you if you've got any sites with opendb?

I'll gladly help out people i know with trials where I can, but:

a: why the fuck should i help a complete stranger? 99% of these dicks are just asking, and offering nothing in return. If they do have something to offer, it's shitty fucking colos or 10/10 .se rings.

b: how ludicrously insecure is it to ask a stranger to get you added to a site? And how secure would that be for the site?

I'm not saying you have to offer something in return right now, but it's polite to at least offer.

Even after all that, I'd be embarassed to ask some random stranger. I'm far from the leetest guy around, but I do ok, and I got there by racing hard and being invited to nice new places. I've never asked anyone for sites, not even someone I know.

Just because I'm pwning all the races, they assume i have l33t sites. Even if I did, there's no way i'd be sharing the wealth with a stranger.

Oh, and another thing I hate is arseholes asking me for my auto. My auto's coded from the ground up, tailored for my sites, their rules etc. It's not modular, and it's not easy to setup because it doesn't have to be - it's only me using it.

It works fucking well, but why would i give it to someone else, really? There's every chance that as soon as i give it to them i'll find it on every pastebin, but no, fuck off, learn to code, like i did.

Pricks. You want something, fucking learn something.

I hate siteops who know nothing.

There are plenty of guys who know what they're doing as regards teching a site, and people who don't know what they're doing should sit back and let someone else do the tinkering.

The one thing that pisses me off the most is retard siteops who delete stuff from the site.

Not wipe.

Delete. As in remove the files, while bypassing the ftp server. rm -rf'ing the fucking folders at a shell, instead of site wipe-ing them.

If you site wipe them, it removes the entries from the database fine, so it won't show up in site search, you useless cunts.

It was going to be a matter of time before i bitched about it, wasn't it?

I don't care about sites like RlsLog or Nforce or VCDQuality etc bringing the scene into the public eye.

People in the scene have been doing that forever. Leechsellers, and people actually leaking the stuff.

What pisses me off is their blatant lack of knowledge. They think WPi are a new group. With thousands of releases. There was another similar occurrence i corrected them on a few days ago. It's just pathetic, if you're going to discuss something and report on it, at least know what you're talking about.

What a fucking useless section.

128kbps rips of all the new albums in the UK top 40 or whatever. I'm not even sure what the thinking is behind it, but if i ever meet the guy who releases it I'll fucking murder him.

Sure, it saves lazy chart monkeys from looking for, and downloading the top 40 albums, but really, at 128kbps?

128kbps vorbis maybe, but 128kbps mp3 is rotten. My gran can tell the difference, and she's deaf. And dead too.

UKMP3 = for cunts.

The only reason i can think of for compiling everything in the top 40 is to sell it. The fact that whoever compiles it goes to the bother of scanning the covers, even though the actual audio sounds like ass, leads me to that conclusion.

Now that i mention it, the sites I've seen it on are mostly (all? can't remember) rented sites... Draw your own conclusions.

The rules for each section are pretty freely available outside the scene, never mind inside it. If you want them, even if the site(s) you're on doesn't have them, ask someone and they can send them. There's absolutely no excuse for breaking the rules.

NOTE: I'm not saying every rule for every section is correct. They're the rules though, so either follow them, get the fuck out of the scene, or work to get them changed. If a rule's outdated or whatever, do something about it, but in the meantime don't pre stuff that breaks the rules.

The latest offender is TiNMaN.

Tin.Man.Part.2.HDTV.XviD-TiNMaN
Tin.Man.Part.3.HDTV.XviD-TiNMaN

Another thing I don't like is shitey no-name groups like this. Pre it as iND if you're not going to have a proper group name.

Back to my original point though, TiNMaN used a custom quantizer matrix on both these releases.

They're far from the only culprit, but they're the latest, so they get picked on.

This is one of the more sensible rules, because custom quantizer matrices can really fuck up playback on a lot of standalones. Who uses standalones? Perhaps a valid point, but there's practically no visible advantage to using it. It introduces problems while having no tangible advantage.

a custom CQ matrix is a common byproduct of using the encoding tool AutoGK - an encoding app that makes encoding video easier. It uses a custom matrix by default, and the setting to turn this off is in a hidden menu, apparently.  Nice and helpful, that.

It's not as if normal Gordian Knot is so hard to use. It's baffling at first but there are stacks of guides at Doom9 etc, so it's just laziness on the part of TiNMaN et al. All that happens is time, bandwidth and credits are wasted, someone else propers them, and the people who use standalone xvid players have to wait a little longer to watch the show, but it's still a pain.

Even if GK is too puzzling for you, StaxRip is a very nice app, way more customisable than GK and doesn't make an arse of things by default.

Bottom line - if you're going to do something, do it properly. Cunts.

So yeah. A scene blog.

Not sure what'll go here, but I have lots of opinions on stuff and way too much free time, so fuck it.

Welcome to here.

I know what won't go here. P2P stuff. There are already a few blogs with P2P news. I couldn't see one from our perspective, so here it is.