Own your media physically, NOW.Own your movies/TV on blurayOwn your music on CD'sOwn and burn your games on discs.Own your retro games physically, and buy the physical games.
>>109600548>eh, i guess i don't want SLUS-8256 to run anymore, better send a patch
>>109600548unrelated but a few weeks ago i obtained a collection of movies on the side of the street and i suspect they are 4chan anon's collection also they're was an old dell workstation from 2008 next i didnt take it cuz it was too heavy and when i came back to the pc, it was gone
>>109600548Sorry I'm not a rich zoomer girl.
>>109600548I OWN IT FOREVAAAAAAAAAA-ACK
>my media>my precious media
>>109600548https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4Just copy it over an over.You can make a physical copy too, but have several copies.RAID1 if you must.
>>109600562lol true why are women so fascinated with this shit
>burn your media to a physical disk so you can heckin OWN IT, and literally touch it with your fingers and stuff>downloading it to a SSD where it'll last longer doesn't count as owning it for some reasonIt's insane to me how badly fake nostalgiazoomers missed the point of physical media
>>109600548Obsession with physical media is an immediate and massive red flag to everyone that you're a midwit.Do you think in 40 years your blu ray discs and dvds will still all be well preserved? Do you think it will still be as easy to obtain a player for this already archaic media format?No, instead we all need to prioritize DRM free digital media, which can generally only be acquired via piracy.
AI will shred everything so you have to subscribe. Mark my words. It's already eating all the books and microfiches.
>>109600578>>109600581
>>109600562Is having $300-$700 being rich?A sony 1080p HD bluray player is $120 new on amazon, most CD's, movie blurays are all under $10. A klim modern portable CD player is $60 thats on par with sony walkman quality. To get started with bluray/CD collecting all you need is like $300 and you get a good sized collection with all the hardware.Even a retro setup isnt more than $200 and most of the stuff like a retroscaler 2x, portable 16" monitor and games are all buy once for life. You can use other consoles on it, its reusable. PS2 is like $130 on ebay and games are $7 locally. I bought 5 games under $7 each at my local retro store and I got lego batman and lego star wars for $6.99 sticker price. Some games there are $5
>>109600585if you're not schizo enough to be prepared for this you should leave this site.
>>109600629You have failed to justify why anyone should spend a cent on that trash instead of torrenting their shows and movies and downloading game roms they can emulate.
>>109600629>A klim modern portable CD player is $60 thats on par with sony walkman quality.no
>>109600581>>>109600548 (OP)>Obsession with physical media is an immediate and massive red flag to everyone that you're a midwit.>Do you think in 40 years your blu ray discs and dvds will still all be well preserved? Do you think it will still be as easy to obtain a player for this already archaic media format?>No, instead we all need to prioritize DRM free digital media, which can generally only be acquired via piracy.>Obsession with physical film is an acutely glaring crimson flag. A confession to everyone that you are a boob.>Do you think in two score years, your panchromatic film reels will be well preserved enough for viewing? Do you think the availability to acquire a kinoscope will even exist by such time?>No, instead we all must prioritize the legitimate theater companies whom can only be enjoyed by live audience.
>>109600671What on earth are you talking about
>>1096006481. Because its a trusted source and its the only legal way to buy the media currently and many people don't want to break the laws of their country 2. Native hardware is how the developers originally intended games to be run and emulation isnt perfect. All the flaws of retro consoles and their various resolutions can be fixed like increasing distance or decreasing screen size and using an upscaler.3. Its not expensive and is very affordable to own your own media physically4. Having the disc is cool and its decentralized and can be shared physically.5. Because its physical and you can own it on a shelf6. You can sell it so you really do own it.
>>109600680times change; media formats too.
>>109600629anon, at this point it makes literally no sense to buy old games, anything cheap is terrible and stuff literally no one wants. Shit like silent hill 2 will sent you back $200 cad, and if anyone lists expensive games cheap they have literally 20 people trying to scalp them within an hour, unless you some how live somewhere without these subhumansI mean spend 5 mins looking at how scalped any wanted titles actually are and you will want to kill yourself, considering how easy it is to just pirate them online it makes no sense to bother, and if you still want to play on original source like n64 you can just buy one of those summer carts/whatever china puts out now and put them on it I mean every other year it's just some new retarded reason why physical media is scalped and filled with resellers, the most recent one was cassettes because of stranger things retard larpers, but everyone remembers what happened to vinyls in the 2010s, games in the 2020s, and it'll probably happen with something else whenever the cattle find something else to bother with, lately it's been vhs
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>>109600548I'll just own it on the hard drive I physically own.
>>109600700Thats only a few games though. Even the most popular titles for the gamecube like luigis mansion, double dash, super mario sunshine are still around $40 market price local. My local game store had super mario sunshine for $35 and time splitters 2 for $15.
>>109600683>1. Because its a trusted source and its the only legal way to buy the media currently and many people don't want to break the laws of their country Those people are pussies. Why should I care about obtaining media from a "trusted source" when the creators almost universally want to end physical media so they force you to pay for a timed license? >2. Native hardware is how the developers originally intended games to be run and emulation isnt perfect. All the flaws of retro consoles and their various resolutions can be fixed like increasing distance or decreasing screen size and using an upscaler.How do you run a Wii game at a higher than native resolution? How do you use an upscaler there? Ironically these are both things emulation can easily do.>3. Its not expensive and is very affordable to own your own media physicallyYou would get far more value from spending money on hard drives which can store all types of media (music, movies/shows, games, etc) rather than spending money on hardware specific for each category. Not to mention the benefits of p2p filesharing for preservation of media and the easy ability to backup your data on the cloud or more hard drives. >4. Having the disc is cool and its decentralized and can be shared physically.Sharing a disc is vastly inferior to seeding a torrent for hundreds if not thousands of people across the planet. You can also always burn a CD with the files you have obtained via piracy. >5. Because its physical and you can own it on a shelfThis is meaningless and once again you can simply burn any digital media onto a disc. >6. You can sell it so you really do own it.Same as point 5
>>109600729I'm not paying 40 bucks for merryo sunslime
>>109600767I dont need to archive media or be a hoarder hosting the modern alexandria library lmao. most people just want to own their media, some other autist will do this, these are retarded points. Also you must use emulation and rely on ROMS which is inferior to native, and if not have to spend a shit ton of money to mod all your consoles when the carts and discs work forever.Why is it my job to host a NAS and pay a subscription per month in electricity and drive cost replacement? Your precious internet goes out and then how will people get the content if they didnt download it(which they didnt and wont because its too much and people dont have 16TB of NAS to spend money on. They'll look for the physical versions of magazines, books and game carts. $15 a month I can buy a new PS2 or NES game. $260 spent on an 8TB HDD you don't even have it functioning yet, You have to spend $1000+ on a NAS and then you start "collecting" lmao. Literally hoarders mindset, you dont want to play or experience the media.
>>109600774Its cheaper than retail. You should be grateful. If a game is below $20 today, thats like getting that game back then for $5-10. If its $7 today its like getting it for $4 back then.Literal bargain bin prices and you still complain about the price of retro games?
>>109600548Goodwill just raised the prices of their BluRays and DVDs from $1.99 to $4.99; something's going on with the normies...
>>109600671I inherited my grandfather's 16mm home movies. All of it was in the process of turning back into acetic acid, some of it too curled and shrunk to even to through the projector once. I did not have the money to get a wet gate copy made, so I did my best. It all went into the trash afterwards. Maybe later film was done on polyester stock, but this stuff was ethyl acetate and doomed to disintegrate. Apparently the old super-flammable nitrocellulose stuff hold up fine so long as you don't it catch on fire.
>>109600813Inflation is a meme
>>109600815Because people are buying bluray and physical enmasse and fucking abandoning streaming. Normies are turning on digital. Even steam is getting shit on recently people are becoming militant over hating digital.Retailers died because they cant keep up with the $7 brand new blurays amazon sells by the truckloads with overnight shipping. Literally order it at 5pm and its on your doorstep at 8am if you live in a city, dont even have to go to the store and waste gas.
>>109600823The stuff I'm interested in often is sold out quickly at Amazon, stopped by a store and got it there, and as a bonus I could view the condition since Amazon likes to send things in flimsy paper bags where the stuff gets crushed.
>>109600548>on-disc DRMNow what?
>>109600839When you have prices like this, most people would rather just buy on amazon.
so this is all a psyop to benefit used media sellers on ebay right? I already have all my shit in DRM free digital versions, why should I be in a panic to buy a CD
>>109600548"Physical" is a meme. You want multiple DRM free copies on any storage medium in multiple locations. Having one heavily DRMed copy on a disc of anything isn't going to do shit for having ownership.If you want legal ownership of games. Buy from GOG and store the offline installers. If you want legal ownership of movies. Tough luck. You have to break DRM, which is illegal in many jurisdictions or get a copy of someone who has already broken it (also illegal). Same goes for DRMed Games and software.
>>109600846Bluray has been cracked for over 15 years now and its fully offline playback. So I wouldnt consider it to have any real DRM because you can rip the files with one click and have fully offline playback.DVD has been cracked for over 25 years to where even VLC just plays them out of the box now.
>>109600873So with all said, you'll stop buying on steam which has pervasive and disgusting DRM in their games right?
>>109600566>leave disc in the sun on a window sill>oh no how could this happen theres holes in my discEvery argument against physical is just people proving they cant take care of their own stuff.
>>109600884NTA, buying from Steam directly funds the advancement of PC gaming on Linux. Plus, Valve is an American company while GOG is just some euroslop nobody cares about, not even Europeans, most of which prefer Steam.
>>109600906Mantaining disc requires massive autism
>>109600974>put a disc in its case in a normal climate-controlled roomvery difficult and autistic
>>109600979>normal climate-controlled roomIf only
>>109600992I have some CDs that were kept in a very hot and humid attic for about a decade at least, only one disc had disc rot and it was some weird off-brand burned CD, the rest were fine
>>109600578>stick on an SSD>leave unpowered for a month>charges "leak" out of the nand and read errors make the SSD go into kike-mode and turn read-only "to protect your data">can't reset the controller, have to buy a new one like a good goy
>>109600906It's just as easy to take care of a couple of hard drives, and with a harddrive I can store a few hundred movies on one of them instead of just one movie. Plus with something like zfs it's much easier to periodically check for issues in the data
>>109600548if your house catches fire, are you going to prioritize your movies or your music?
>>109601133Don't have to prioritize either if you properly maitain the 3-2-1 strategy
>>109600884I'd buy a DRM free copy if it exists, otherwise use piracy. But contrary to popular believe, many steam games don't contain any DRM and can be backup up and launched without steam. Especially Indy games.For online games that rely heavily on the publishers centralized servers, I usually just avoid them. For some games the servers have been reverse engineered and clients modified, which I applaud. Anything for preserving history. But at the same time, some games just aren't playable anymore, period.
>>109601040Never happened
>>109600821sorry you lost the original. was any of it salvageable?
>>109601276>denys damage to SSD>OoH DiSK rOT MaKe PhySiCAL BaaAaAAdDo hypocrites really?
>>109601332yeah, they do, because they can't fucking fathom the concept of storing your SSD, then plugging it in and seeing that it's a fucking read only brick, and when it happens to them they'll be about as angry about shitty fucking SSDs and closed, proprietary SSD controllers as I am>durrr just keep it plugged in 24/7, just buy a 256 TB enterprise SSD if you run out of space and copy all your shit over and throw the old one away!
>>109600548I don't see the advantage of it being on Bluray/CD.Aren't HDD and/or tape drives vastly more practical?
>>1096011463-2-1on Bluray/CD/... costs you like $2/1h per disc AND then the cost and time to drive to the other locations eventually.I honestly think you can only bluray the topmost important data... and even that maybe.Realistic approaches are probably constrained to HDD+SSD plus maybe tape (with maybe a tape robot or sufficiently large tapes that the time consumption doesn't become insane).I'm not actually sure you can guarantee the "2 media types" either BTW. It was often possible that you'd have to take hdd and not internet connected hdd as "media" at best.
>>109601453Or how about the actual sane solution: put backups on harddisks and only put things that need to be accessed quickly on ssds
