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the autism voice makes it hard for autistic/low Iq individuals to tell when you're doing a bit I guess jersh.
also if anyone thinks "getting involved with egrifters to appeal to the youth" is a good strategy, I have a ukip membership to sell them.
It's a an absolutely vital strategy that requires very thorough vetting to assure you don't attach uncharismatic retards like Carl "I wouldn't even rape you" Benjamin, Laura "wet breadussy" Loomer or Steven "there's no solid argument against incest" Bonnel as anchors to sink your party. It's akin to the domestic auto industry trimming their econoboxes because they don't profit as much and wondering why year over year foreign trucks continue to make gains on their turf.
 
I only got to play it for one month too because my parents figured out it was a subscription model and wouldn't let me use their cards
Boomers, I take it? Mine thought there was no such thing as legitimate online purchases because they didn't understand how their own debit cards worked and thought anything and everything online was a scam. They had no issue handing over their debit cards at some shady little restaurant to be whisked away out of eyesight in person, but some big, reputable company online was 100% a scam because the internet was scary.

physical media is king.
A good rule to have is to only pay money for what you're physically being given, whenever applicable/possible. If you don't own a physical copy of it, then you don't/barely own it; especially if whatever it is connects online and can be disabled by the rights managers like Steam or Amazon. If buying isn't owning, pirating isn't theft. Copyright faggots need to be strung up next to the bankers, CEOs and IRS after legal due process brought about by the ideal revolution.

Basically, sell a working, complete copy of what someone's trying to buy, or they have the right and the moral imperative to pirate it.
 
@Null your take on the PS5 missing disc drive made me a bit MATI. To be exact - I don't give a flying fuck about the nogamestation itself. However bringing up steam as an example of things being right? Can you resell your steam games? Can you play them offline? Can you guarantee they'll work in 20 years time?

I mean how many examples of this shit do you have to forget to be for digital distribution. My GameCube copy of Resi 4 will work until time immemorial. As will all of my SNES or even Switch cartridges. Can't say the same for people who bought digital for PS3 because if their console battery runs out and Sony takes down their NTP servers.. well sucks to suck. Or how about people who had Warcraft 3? Remember how Blizzard fucked over those people?

Physical is the only way to own a game. Digital is lending and in reality has no sense until it's purely DRM free like on GoG, and even then it's only one step removed from simply pirating shit. Which I'll admit is a totally different discussion.

And no, Gameboy carts work fine, it's the *save game* battery that needs changing. Which is a 5 minute job

CDs just fucking rot

No, they're plastic, that shit doesn't just rot. The reflective layer oxidizes because it's on the outside layer (on the artwork) instead being in the plastic itself. That was remedied in DVDs and Blurays. And even in CDs you can counteract it
 
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I'm sure I remember a MATI in which Jersh lamented (I paraphrase) the lack of physical games media with all games being on Steam etc., and if Steam ever went down you would be left with nothing despite having spent $$$.

Did this exist? Does anyone remember it, or did I Mandela effect myself?
 
Sorry to necro a dead topic;

I used to think I knew what good coffee was but then a coffee roaster/Cafe opened near me this year. They make >gourmet< coffee, the best you can get. They have a bean that was natural processed which means it was dried while still in the cherry, fermenting it slightly.

on my first visit, I got it in a shot of espresso, then another, and then a pourover to take with me.

The pourover tasted like a blackberry tea, and the espresso tasted like distilled blackberries. I had no idea coffee could be that good. There is not a single store-bought coffee that compares to it and now I can't enjoy a coffee unless it's from them. There's levels to this shit
 
CDs last like 20 years. It's not the same as vinyl.
>Not just backing up everything on 1000 year Archival 100GB M-discs.
You want your grandchildren's grandchildren to be able to watch butterdog don't you?

Verbatim ended up buying their tech, and make the discs now. They use some kind of rock-like substrate that the data gets etched into, and this doesn't breakdown for a very long time. You do need a special writer to be able to etch the discs yourself. They baked the disc into a lasagna for their tech demo, and showed it still worked afterwards.
Old youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@millenniata
 
No, they're plastic, that shit doesn't just rot. The reflective layer oxidizes because it's on the outside layer (on the artwork) instead being in the plastic itself. That was remedied in DVDs and Blurays. And even in CDs you can counteract it
Someone who owns a CD and hasn’t transferred it to digital storage either as MP3 or as a cue file style rip of the entire disk in twenty years deserves what they got.
 
>Not just backing up everything on 1000 year Archival 100GB M-discs.
You want your grandchildren's grandchildren to be able to watch butterdog don't you?

Verbatim ended up buying their tech, and make the discs now. They use some kind of rock-like substrate that the data gets etched into, and this doesn't breakdown for a very long time. You do need a special writer to be able to etch the discs yourself. They baked the disc into a lasagna for their tech demo, and showed it still worked afterwards.
Old youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@millenniata
It's worth mentioning by "special writer" it's not some seperate or insane thing, the last 5.25 drive I bought was m-disk certified despite it being a normal drive. Time will tell if it holds up to millenia.
 
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A good rule to have is to only pay money for what you're physically being given, whenever applicable/possible.
When it comes to digital purchases for me, it is either a digital only release, on sale, or upgrading the ps4 version to ps5. In which case I own a ps4 disc and can just throw it in the drive and then get a digital copy for free. As for the copyright stuff, I think america letting corps run tampant and control that shit was the worst idea ever. You own what you create, but not the idea.
I treat gas station food as probiotics.
It's a right of passage. Gotta eat that Gas station hot dog every now and again to strengthen gut bacteria.
 
@Null your take on the PS5 missing disc drive made me a bit MATI. To be exact - I don't give a flying fuck about the nogamestation itself. However bringing up steam as an example of things being right? Can you resell your steam games? Can you play them offline? Can you guarantee they'll work in 20 years time?

I mean how many examples of this shit do you have to forget to be for digital distribution. My GameCube copy of Resi 4 will work until time immemorial. As will all of my SNES or even Switch cartridges. Can't say the same for people who bought digital for PS3 because if their console battery runs out and Sony takes down their NTP servers.. well sucks to suck. Or how about people who had Warcraft 3? Remember how Blizzard fucked over those people?

Physical is the only way to own a game. Digital is lending and in reality has no sense until it's purely DRM free like on GoG, and even then it's only one step removed from simply pirating shit. Which I'll admit is a totally different discussion.

And no, Gameboy carts work fine, it's the *save game* battery that needs changing. Which is a 5 minute job



No, they're plastic, that shit doesn't just rot. The reflective layer oxidizes because it's on the outside layer (on the artwork) instead being in the plastic itself. That was remedied in DVDs and Blurays. And even in CDs you can counteract it

I'm sure I remember a MATI in which Jersh lamented (I paraphrase) the lack of physical games media with all games being on Steam etc., and if Steam ever went down you would be left with nothing despite having spent $$$.

Did this exist? Does anyone remember it, or did I Mandela effect myself?

That's a caveat, how does possession of game files which work perfectly well offline and with no authentication compare to physical media?
Is it better or worse?
Also I would say Steam is not bad in ittself in terms of ownership, they have directly charged corpos like Sony for refunds when they decide to make their game not work anymore such as the case of Helldivers.
I say how bad the game is is up to the dev's descision to use DRMs. A positive exa.ple would be Rimworld, yes it technically is inside Steam, but nothing stops you from copying the game files onto a flash drive and running from the executable off that, there is seriously no difference aside from lack of steam workshop features.
In other words, if I can routinely back up my game files with the full knowledge that I could later pull a game out and know for a fact I could still play despite Steam suddenly deciding I was strictly forbidden from playing and deleting it off my PC. This has never happened with Steam and I really do not think it will ever happen while Gaben still reigns.
 
in regards to the latest MATI, the last time i bought and installed something from a CD-ROM was like 3 days ago. it's my preferred method of game installation and i wish more modern games came out that way. i like steam but nothing beats having my vidyaslop on an actual disc that i can put on my shelf and share with my friends

EDIT: jersh is right about consoles. they provide zero benefits over a pc nowadays and have a ton of drawbacks. pc gaming is more accessible than it's ever been and the steam deck is fantastic for portable use cases. the only scenario a console makes sense for in 2024 is having a young kid, in which case a switch works fine.
 
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