>AIEEEEEEEE NOT MY PHYSICAL MEDIA NOT MY BLU RAYS HAVE MERC-Here's your physical media.>b-but that doesn't cou-It's literally physical, and I can freely move it between PCs and play the same games fully offline.>b-but Stea-Goldberg emulator is easy to apply to your purchased games, and GOG installers are DRM-free.>b-but corrupt-So? Just keep backups.Why do consoletards keep whining about physical "going away" when PC has had it for decades?
>>742367297Because they don't know any better, I assume.
>>742367297OP here, forgot to mention I LOVE crooked penises in my butt and mouth
>>742367297That's illegal though.
>12TB HDDThat will be $1000 dollars + tip and next year it will be $2000
>>742367591I can buy one for about 350 - 500 euros.
>>742367591i already have 4tb + 1tb nvme and 12tb + 4tb hdd in my pc, and a few externals (2x4tb and 8tb)
>>742367297microsoft will delete your pirated software on sight
>>742367297ok but what do you do when they only have the blu-ray of the tv show you like when you specifically want the dvd? Also a full blu-ray rip with makemkv is usually around 20gb which really eats into your space. and blu-rays just look cool.
>>742368510You care about pretty packaging. I don't. A DVD or Blu-ray is just a prettier looking HDD made out of plastic instead of metal.
>>742367297Arent they loud as fuck? Why not use a barracuda?
>>742369116>Arent they loud as fuckhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUHHatMy_zM
>>742369097but web-dls have different bitrates compared to blu-ray and pirated movies are often compressed so where you're getting the digital file matters
>>742369616this is only a problem for retards and zoomers who still don't have invites to private trackers
>physical media stops being made>no UHDs or blu-rays to rip>all movies and shows are only available in dogshit low bitrate streaming quality because that's the only release that existsFor games it's fine but the death of discs is a disaster for video content.
>>742369561Comfy.
>>742367426NTA but I have a crooked penis. ASL?
>>742367297GIGA TRUTH NUKE
>>742367297nigger this thing costs more than a ps5 pro now
Hard drives die you stupid mother fuckers. Discs, stored properly, last hundreds of years
>>742367297move your hard drive FREERY
>>742367297Yes, and no, i have a nas 4x12, so 24 gig in raid. And it's all but full, with games and shows i love. But now i want to have both the old and a 4k&hdr version of the movies&shows. And i'm running out of place fast. Thank god for hevc starting to become a standard. I wish i had money so i could download everything uncompressed, but +100gb for one uncompressed movie is insane.
People can use HDD's but they are prone to damage, decay and age just like discs.
>>742369706I shouldn't have to work to torrent a movie and yes I am a zoomerGOD unc
>>742370121ok then have fun living like a peasant i guess
>>742369991>But now i want to have both the old and a 4k&hdr version of the movies&shows.why keep the old? i'm also a hoarder but this seems excessive, i delete inferior copies regularly
>>742370550To compare the shit they delete or edit. For future generations.
>>742370412How am I living like a peasant? You're the one bending over backwards to get invited to some gay private tracker circlejerk.
>>742367765>eurosWe’re talking about the PvP server not creative mode.
>>742367297>here is your physical media>your software options are always online drm, totally safe and secure not malware cracks and a store which has a fraction of games witch various issues here and thereBTW storage is more expensive than ever
>8tb WDBlue is $325Computers are dead
Playstation is heavily locked down with DRM you fucking retard. PC is irrelevant to today's news
>>742367297If they put games on individual drives and sell them in stores I'll buy your console. Otherwise, go die.
>>742367875wtf is this real
>>742367875That's going to corrode the pipes.
>>742370745>How am I living like a peasant?maybe because you are struggling harder to find media online than my 13 year old self 20 fucking years ago?
>>742367297This would only benefit PC players, it's not going to do you any good if Sony and Xbox decides they want to revoke your access to the game. Physical media is not just for collecting, it's for ensuring you're actually able to own the game forever
>>742369741Well, that's when we can finally be free and go outside and touch grass, maybe take up writing, painting or photography.
>>742369906I always have two hard drives, for two back ups.
>>742371440and one hidden behind the drywall
G*mers picking up the fight against encryption algorithms is not a thing I was hoping to see in my lifetime. It's entirely pointless, but I love it.MY CHUDS RAGE!!
>>742371316Yeah, but me and other anons I seen have been warning about locked down reality of consoles. You need to get out of them.>>742371504What do you keep in that one, anon?
>>742371504>He doesn't know about the one in the floorboards
>>742371263>struggling I can get most DVDs from the library network lol. That's how I got all of Stargate Atlantis.
>>742370894>totally safe and secure not malware cracks goldberg is opensource you absolute retard
>>742371653>getting DVDs from the library asking how he's living like a peasantthis has to be bait jesus fucking christ
>>742367552its illegal to backup your own games you purchased? fuck off
>>742371653also through goodwill, thrift stores and cd stores (yes they still exist)bitter millennials just wanna feel superior because they're part of a secret club.
>>742371780who the fuck cares as long as I can get the movie I want for free/cheap and in the quality I want sorry but I'm not joining your discord cult!
>>742370003nowhere near as easily and if you arent a retard you will keep them in a format where they check for errors and warn you when a drive starts to go bad.if you want more stability go for archive optical disks meant to last for 50 years.more ideally, we should wait and see if the research into glass and quartz-based drives goes anywhere.
>>742371574Pictures of Spider-Man
>>742371316Uh? Yeah? Console players are literally retarded cuckolds. If they're still buying shitstations or hexboxes or shitches they're sub 80 iq tards who deserve every bit of punishment for letting these corporations fuck their assholes
>>742371891nobody mentioned discord zoomzoom calm down
>>742371891>in the quality I want do you know what resolution a DVD is?
>>742372054480i, so it's perfect for playing on a crt which is what most tv shows before the hd era were filmed for.
>>742367297how many midlife crises were triggered today with millennials remembering they cant take their games to heaven with them
>>742367297Because console retards don't know how a PC works that's why they buy shiny boxes with games that require 50 gb downloads.
>>742367765he said 2028 when sony stops doing physical.
>your whole 100 games collections would cost maybe 20 dollars of blue ray because they cost pennies when you are Sony and don't need a licence>O WELL I CAN JUST BUY A $500 DISK ON TOP OF THE GAME PRICE WHO CARESliteral cattle
>>742367297hdd prices are up bigly over the last 4 months thx to datacenters gobbling up everything in sight. not as bad as ram or ssds, mind you, but still an annoyance for a previously-stable market that was easy to buy in bulk quantities without dealing with supply or cost constraints.
>>742372698>load model into memory once>run everything off memorygenuinely wtf do slopcentres even need hdds for?
>>742367297I wouldn't call unmounting an internal drive "moving freely">external drivesyou mean literally the worst option to play a video game?
>>742372838muh page file
>>742367297blu ray could be like $5 per terrabyte if sony weren't jewsits still pretty profitable at that amount
>>742367552its not illegal to copy and paste a .exe retard
>>742369706NtaIt's kinda contradictory to say "this is the elegant solution to Blu rays and DVDs" and a second later say "only if you get your movies from my secret club hehehe"At first it sounds like you're honestly showing a good and easy solution, the next you're boasting about your connections
>>742372838Model training datasets and in-training model milestones. If your giganigga 200 billion parameter model takes 800GB to store each milestone and you're trying to store everything posted on the internet each day for training material you're going to run out of space really fast.
>>742369991You need a larger store for archived content.
>>742367297>*starts clicking because you move it around all the time*Nice physical media bozo
>>742373213Gatekeeping has to be established if we want anything good to remain online. I disagree with the taunting though, draws too much attention.
>>742369561That's a car
>>742367297>tick tick tick>%200 price increaseUH OH STORAGEFAGS
>>742367552So what?
>>742367765>buy one>cant back up>no raidyeah have fun with your one big disk thatll lose everything when it dies
>>742369561So? They are made for cold storage usage. You only connect them when you need to store/withdraw something
>>742373895So buy two, one for extra backup.
>>742374201we both know youre gonna need more than two if you want to ensure long (decades) term storage. the value is there for enthusiests, not for any normie that wants to play cod or fifa or whatever
>>742367552If companies are literally going along with the globalist "youll own nothing and be happy" bullshit, then piracy is fair fucking game. Dont be a retarded bootlicker.
>>742372838Ai is a black box nobody understands yet so instead of solving the equations when just brute force it with more and more time and data. When they solve the actual thing, you will only need one reading of each files to train your shit, and the files will be thousands of time smallers and faster
>>742374403onece the feds find a way to force id verification on the internet, pirating will be moot
>>742374502>he think internet is needed for piracyholy fucking broccoli head.
Is getting an M Disc pack and backing my games up on them worth it? The only one available is 100gb 6x (600gb in total if you're gen alpha and can't do math) for $75, and that's not including a bluray drive that I don't have.
>>742369561the hum is comfy but that other shit is annoying
>>742374706Nevermind I'm retarded, I thought 6x meant there were 6 discs, but it's actually 5.
This is literally only a snoy problem, same as having to log in every 30 days to play your games.
>>742367297Do PCtards really sell their entire hard drive in the second hand game market once they have completed a game?
>>742375217No? We hold onto it because we aren't retards who sell our things for less than we paid.
>>742375413So instead of receiving 80% of the price you paid for a game you will never play again, you receive 0%? And you call others retards?
>>742375217>redditors with their huge collections of cases and funko pops suddenly sell their gameslol
>>742375839>redditors out of nowhereHaving an argument with yourself?
>>742375217why would i do that? if i didn't want to keep it forever i would pirate it.
>>742371198Not his problem.
>>742375967A lot of Steamies buy games and never touch them again after finishing them. If they were on disc they could have sold them
>>742367875Stupid fucking cat
>>742375597part of the value of a game is replayability. maybe dont buy garbage games youre gonna play once? and how many games like those exist anyway? who is buying shoveware on disks?
>>742367765No. You can't, actually.
>>742375597what kind of broke bitch are you? either youre buying full priced games or youre buying games at a discount. if a, dont be a retard and buy games on sale of value is so important to you. if b, youre really gonna fight for 80% of 10$?
>>742367297>Goldberg emulatorGet it /pol/ guys? It's a anti-Jewish joke. Aren't we so funny and edgy you guys? When is the next islam cocksucking competition you guys?
>>742376290I have console games that I never got around to playing as well and I don't plan to sell them
>>742376390Once you get the platinum trophy, there is nothing left to do and you have seen everything. This goes for the majority of games>>742376668Keeping around a game you will never touch again when you can sell it and get a load of your money back seems just dumb
>>742376854>Keeping around a game you will never touch again when you can sell it and get a load of your money back seems just dumbby this logic: buying a game is dumb, just pirate it. as a bonus you get to play it at a respectable FPS when you do it this way!
>>742375217>>742375597...why would i sell my games?sometimes its fun to replay a game i havent touched in a few years.
>>742367297I found an external 4TB WD Black P10 at my target for $149 even though online places are selling it for like $168 at least. I feel that was a good purchase to try since I need another external anyways and prices will only increase because satan's favorites want more data centers.
>>742367297I have discs from the PS1, an HDD wouldn't last this long. Especially a 12TB HDD which are prone to break faster than smaller HDD's.
>>742379501So replace the HDD then.The whole point is that the storage medium itself isn't important, what's important is that you can put whatever data you want on it and do what you want with the data instead of having a gay little disc that only works on one gay little machine.
>>742367297>Just keep backups.you mean physical backups that I can store on shelves and that retain the data of the games I buy?damn I wonder if we could have something like that....
>>742376680Look bitch, Islam and Catholicism have more in common than your satanic judas ass religion.
>>742367297I'm I buy a digital playstation game after 2028 how do I make a .exe out of it to have it backed up?Oh wait I can't?Thanks.
>>742380238your fault for being a console cuck.we tried to warn you.
>>742367765>>742367591I bought the OP drive for $77 used on eBay in 2024 :)
>>742380238Your fault for being a dumbass
>>742367875My cat did this once.
>>742374605Be easy on the zoomers. They don't even know how to browse file folders.
>>742375597>pirate game>don't like it>paid nothing>you buy game>you don't like it>have to hope you get most of your money back at gamestoplmao @ your life, my dude.
>>742372649this implies that im using one HDD/SSD per game, which im not.im using the hard drive for everything, and its significantly faster than CDs as well.
>>742367297Retard.
>>742370412It is very discord-tranny coded to be required to join a private faggot clique all for the sole purpose of torrenting movies for free
>>742380238Damn, sounds like Console skill issue, huh?*Laughs in PC*
>>742369706I'm so glad that RuTracker and Porno Lab exist so that I won't have to download torrents from objectively shitty private torrent websites that are filled with butt hurt morons like you who have an objectively false sense of superiority! RuTracker and Porno Lab are objectively better than all of the private torrent websites anyway.>>742370121>>742373213This!
>>742387279RuTracker is where I found the correct coloring for LOTR Extended Edition without that green tint shit
>>742387190>it's very discord tranny coded to do something you've been doing for over 20 yearsretard>>742387279>RuTracker and Porno Lab are objectively betterLOL whatever helps you sleep at nightliterally neither of you retards have any idea what you're talking about btw, people who use private trackers keep to themselves. not sure why people think they are some kind of faggot social club
>>742387703>retardSorry not sorry. Nobody except for demented trannies wants to join a private circlejerk where faggots pass around the slightly higher quality of the newest tranny bipoc A24 film. lmao
>>742387279To be fair, private trackers can sometimes have stuff that others don't.Case in point: RED (music tracker) having a few very specific niche releases in FLAC that I couldn't find anywhere else (and yes, I'm on all the public places, as well as Soulseek, and even some private Russian groups, and some collector friends - and only RED had those specific releases).That being said, RED hasn't been too useful since my initial discoveries, and it's also the only sekrit klub I have access to (can't be bothered to "level up" my account), and the vast majority of other popular entertainment media (games, movies, series, etc.) can usually be found in public places.Private trackers are a massive pain with their autistic seeding requirements, and I'll usually exhaust every option to find what I want before using a private tracker.
>>742373154you need to copy and paste the entire folder anon. not just the exe...
>>742367875i wish cats were real
All I need is $40000 and I am download EVERY GAMECorrection: every game that mattersXBLA: [747 ROMs] 438.37 GBDreamcast: [1454 ROMs] 751.64 GBSega Megadrive: [542 ROMs] 175.72 GBSega Megadrive 2: [2356 ROMs] 781.56 GBNintend𐐬 Gamecube: [1966 ROMs] 781.56 GBNintend𐐬 Wii: [3770 ROMs] 1.47 TBNintend𐐬 WiiU: [490 ROMs] 5.86 TBPlaystation Portable: [2643 ROMs] 3.55 TBPlaystation 3: [3511 ROMs] 28.41 TBXbox: [2569 ROMs] 1.81 TBXbox 360: [3083 ROMs] 14.48 TBNintend𐐬 DS: [7346 ROMs] 216.26 GBNintend𐐬 Entertainment System: [4299 ROMs] 374.48 MBSuper Nintend𐐬 Entertainment System: [3846 ROMs] 3.43 GBNintend𐐬 3DS: [4007 ROMs] 1.32 TBPlaystation 2: [11064 ROMs] 15.76 TBPlaystation: [10703 ROMs] 2.94 TBTotal Memory Usage:78.68 TB
>>742367875noooooo my piperinos!!!!!
>>742370727based. but you better move your nas to a fireproof enclosure like a safe cause i'm coming to burn down your house anon!
>>742388391oh no not a folder.....
>>742367297This, hard drives are king and always will be.Hard drives are just discs with way more storage and none of the headache.>B-BUT SEPERATE PHYSICAL COPIES!!Buy multiple 128GB+ drives and back up your games onto those too.Discs will corrode to nothingness long before the options for backing up digital media expire.You can even get space online and put copies on there too, alongside your own physical copies.There's no reason to mourn physical for preservation purposes, it was always just there to ensure a copy existed to be backed up digitally. Console cucks have been raped since the 360 and PS4 made them pay for online play, I have no sympathy for them being raped harder they clearly like it.
>>742387973keep seething tranny. i'll keep enjoying my private trackers.
>>742367875I have 4 of this bad boys.Storage for security cameras, movies, music, Homelab with Immich instances and Nextcloud
WHY ARE HARD DRIVES EXPENSIVE? They're old tech.Games aren't even optimized to run on them anymore.
>>742367297honestly this was my first thought too. if someone is so mad about a corporation taking away their toys, just say fuck the industry and fill a hard drive with repacks. now youll never have to pay for shit you dont own again. magic.
>>742391970HDDs are expensive because of AI.https://www.pcmag.com/news/memory-shortage-now-wreaking-havoc-on-hard-drive-prices-too
>>742389550same but mine are 16tb which means my cock is longer and thicker than yours
>>742367297>Goldberg emulatorI tried downloading this and Windows Defender literally automatically deletes it every time. Not just refuses to open it or quarantines it somewhere, but actually permanently deletes it off my drive.
>>742367552nah, but did you know it's illegal to share copyrighted images on image board like 4chin? no one just doesn't care
>>742393317What I hate about this is that it's affected the USED storage market too.Time was I could spend a couple hundred bucks and buy like 10 6TB SAS drives but now a pack like that is $1000. For USED storage. That stuff can shit the bed just as hard as ever, the price of storage as a whole hasn't changed that, but cast-off enterprise drives were a great source for large storage solutions for data I'm just warehousing but not anymore...I was hoping to upgrade my storage server at some point to use eight 10TB drives down the line but now I can't.
It's genuinely only a matter of time, a decade at most, before home data storage is made illegal.>why do you need it, you can just use the cloud/streaming>there's no reason a normal person needs to store data unless they're trying to hide something illegal
>>742367765With 350€ you might get 2-4TB at most of a WD Blue brick
>>742393714You can always just bite the bullet and just buy all of the HDDs that you want.The HDD/SSD prices are going to stay like that for a long time.
>>742372698Fucking hell. At this rate there won't be any computer parts left that isn't eaten by the AI black hole.
>>742384638>one HDD/SSD per gameit doesn't. You are gonna overpay for storing when it was virtually free before. Go moo somewhere else.
>>742367297>Oh!, neat, my old HDD with games purchased, preserved from the internet to avoid getting patched.>What's this?, an update to my suscription?, cool.>Wait what?, games removed from my library due to expired licences?,> fuck that, they still can be opened from my HDD, what?, the new patch made them unusable?>you will own nothing and be happy, well, I guess I'll start over again, good ridance to old media, amrite?
>>742367297retarded nigger. your personal hard drives will be next. you wont be able to play anything unless its on their servers.
>>742376528>>742394507https://www.kilobaitas.lt/kompiuteriai_ir_komponentai/isorines_duomenu_laikmenos/isoriniai_kietieji_diskai/kategorija.aspx?groupfilterid=143&limit=40&price=36,45-9353,5&cf=3183
>>742372698>>742372838I think the hdd price increase is more because of people panic buying them seeing the state of ssds rather than the datacenters themselves. I'm one of those people.
>>742401217lmao Stop with your autism.
>>742367297>it's another zoomie is confused about disks and discs thread again
>>74236999124 whole GB??? Sheiiit.
>>742371685So there are still people who think if something is open source it means something...
Stop. You are triggering the tardhive OP.
>>742371316>This would only benefit PC playersgood
>>742369561I came...
Fuck AI niggers.
>>742369741Shit bitrate for shit content, who needs remux quality to watch modern slop
>>742367297>data centerfuck off
