Forum.Rojadirecta.es has nodes dedicated to pretty much any major sporting events: Soccer, NFL, MLB, F1, NBA, Rugby Union, et al.
Mostly they’re direct downloads from sites with way too much advertising, too many popups and misleading links, so they’re best handled with JDownloader2
Actual torrent links are available sometimes.
Why not both?
Avistaz has the a great selection for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai, Hong Kong content.
Get thee to eD2K.
They have a smattering of magazines back to the 70s.
It’s far from a complete archive, and the scan quality varies tremendously but it’s there.
Otherwise, try to get an empornium account. Nearly everything porn ever is there.
To continue my travails:
Httrack didn’t do a great job: It was slow, even copying from the same machine, and it flattened the directory structure of the website it was writing, making it almost un-navigable.
Here’s where Cyotek WebCopy shines: It’s copying the website from SurfOffline’s database webserver quickly, so I should have the entire website re-extracted very soon!
Then ye need plenty of wenches! And he-wenches and nonbinary wenches, if ye be that way!
And grog! Plenty of grog!
The problem with older media is that you have to actively create torrents, the tracker might fold, etc.
With eD2K, it’s very old school P2P filesharing, just give it a directory and the files on it are shared on the network.
Of course, the “push” part to torrent tracker sites isn’t as active.
I use both torrents and eD2K, depending on what I’m looking for.
Okay, I found SurfOffline that does the trick without too much hassle, but…
It’s verrrrrrrry slooooooooow.
It uses Internet Explorer as a module, and calls each individual resource separately, instead of file copying from IE’s cache, which is weird and slow, especially when hundreds of images are involved.
And SurfOffline doesn’t appear to be supported anymore, i.e. the support email’s inbox is full.
edit: Aaaaand SurfOffline doesn’t save to .html files with a directory structure!!! It stores everything in some kind of sql database, and it only saves to .mht and .chm files, which are deprecated Microsoft help file formats!!!
What it does have is a built in web server that only works while the program is running.
So what I plan to do is have the program up but doing nothing, while I sick Httrack on the 127.0.0.1 web address for my ripped website.
Httrrack will hopefully “extract” the website to .html format.
Whew, what a hassle!
And cryptocurrency mining. That drove a lot of GPU prices through the roof before the pandemic.
Also, most young kids play games on phones and tablets, because parents don’t need to buy an expensive console or PC.
Check this out this short by a game developer if you want to feel old…
https://youtube.com/shorts/h8ElOpITBjQ