Do you guys not store any media locally? I'm not trying to be flippant - I can see justifications for physical books, but worry about e-books deletion or censorship seems totally unnecessary when I can trivially store millions of them.
Sure I do, I have many many things stored locally. But reading them in electronic form is genuinely more difficult for me than reading them in print. So I tend to print them out first.
IMO N64 emulation has more issues than that, but I get the point. I like old technology, and that goes for games, old stereo systems, VCRs, player pianos - things that you might see as space wasters - but they are my hobbies. I could watch all those movies, listen to all that music and play those games for free, but I like to see the actual item work and not an approximation of it.
Yeah, I’ve never understood the big deal with DVD’s. With storage being so damn cheap, I can easily store as many seasons of whatever the fuck I want and have it at my fingertips in a Plex server, OR I can spend thousands of dollars on DVD’s and have to dig through the boxes and switch disks if I want to watch something.
That's fair. For me, it's just a means to the end of experiencing the thing itself - I'm not as interested in the aesthetic experience surrounding it as some people are. I want the process to be as lightweight and convenient as possible.
I don't think there's anything preventing you from doing so. I'm happy to pay for good stuff, but I'm also going to pirate it simultaneously so I'm not arbitrarily limited in the future by byzantine megacorp licensing nonsense.
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There's not even anyting in this thread i would ban or make illegal, except maybe americans selling waxy plastic labelled as chocolate.
The guy built an altar to his slavish video game consumerism, but apparently that doesn’t belong in r/consoom.It looked that way a few months ago, but going there now they seem to be going in the other direction - "why actually own anything?" Like this post:
r/Consoom - ROMs are free, and can even be loaded onto physical consoles to be displayed on CRTs if you insist on the original experience.
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Yeah maybe that guy doesn't need every game, but overall that is a modest collection compared to alot of others I've seen. "Roms are free"! types are the same people who scorn those who may actually want to own the media they enjoy instead of e-'ownership' on globohomo's cloud that they can take from you on a whim.
Just one example, but the subreddit is full of that.
I concur, the random ice cream machines you find in markets here in Pak are 8 out of 10 times tastier than any branded "creamy treat"
Is it? I'd have figured being able to search the text would make it better for reference material, but then I haven't actually tried it myself.
They're usually well organised enough that using the index or table of contents isn't much slower.
well, if your other option is be poor and have nothing then artbooks and comic/manga volumes are great to have in ebook form but they really are much, much better in physical format. Pretty much all else i don't mind and i like reading on my tablet but digital is no match for print when it comes to illustration heavy books.
Nah. I read in the bath. I'll stick to paperbacks for fiction.
99% of books have a Glossary, Index, Table of Contents, or some mixture of the three. Being able to put in a book mark or organizer tab makes organizing a print book even easier and more convenient for rapidly and efficiently moving back and forth between different passages. Organization is one of the hallmarks of books and has been for hundreds of years, an electronic book is generally slower and most .pdf files aren't great for going to the exact page or passage you need, not to mention that you cannot quickly flip over to something and then flip back electronically the same way you can with print.
I have this dilemma where I vastly prefer printed books for a number of reasons - less eye strain, easier to follow because you can flip back and reread passages more easily, easier to focus because it's not on a device where distraction is a click away, and having a physical object feels more pressing to read than just a file on a hard drive.
I have both the money and the space and so I feel that there is no reason for me personally to have ebooks.
As soon as I saw this I wondered what happens when it's time to move. That's going to be the XL U-Haul.
I'd say there are fair arguments for keeping DVDs around, largely because they're full of supplemental material that that just can't be found elsewhere. Like, to this day it's still a toss-up as to whether or not a pirated movie will even have subtitles, and they almost never come with commentary tracks. Making-of featurettes and the like tend to get taken down on YouTube, and even a lot of rereleases, including Blu-Ray releases, tend to shun those. Streaming services never have them for anything older, either. It's not unheard of to have to buy multiple special editions of a movie to get every single extra, either. There was just a short, golden point in time where it'd be disappointing to look at the back of a DVD case and see that the only extras were trailers and Interactive Menus as if that's a selling point, and the adoration for all that shit just kinda fell by the wayside over time and I never hear anyone talking about it anymore.
