I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc

Interesting. Any idea why this is happening to SmokeAPI but not cream?

I used to use aptoide for piracy many years ago. I guess that's not a thing anymore?

A DNS blocker like pihole, nextdns, adguard etc might help with that.

Also even reccomended torrent search engine websites suck and only crawls through some websites is there any you would rec

Stop using these sources and learn how to use qBittorrent with Jackett. You can search hundreds of trackers all ata once in seconds. You won't miss anything unless it's literally just not available anywhere.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-configure-Jackett-plugin

creamapi and related tools will not get you banned.

Unless you use them on multiplayer games, wouldn't try that.

Honestly not sure about this. Seems a bit uninspired

Just block the ads with a DNS blocker, like NextDNS.

I still remember the ordeal of getting through the Fade portion of Origins... it was awful.

The rest of the game was top notch though

Outside of handhelds, I don't really see the use-case of consoles anymore, to be honest.

Dragon Age*

Ok, but it was planned as one. I'm very wary of this project, to be honest. Seems like they developed one thing, changed it, then went back to the original vision - not a good sign for a cohesive, stable project.