I remember starting Genshin and given identical abilities, I preferred to look at a female character for the first few hours. I don’t project myself into games, I always feel like I’m playing the characters as themselves.

Paying for usenet access and an indexer is worth it to me. My ISP’s only ever gotten on me about torrenting so that’s a last resort for me and it doesn’t work well with “file sharing” nodes on my VPN anyway. Nothing saturates my 500GB plan like usenet downloads.