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don’t worry, it will vanish soon and everything will be “in the clouds”
aren’t you excited?
Brother, I have those 40tb raid arrays at home. None of this crap will affect me. Oh and for games I don’t play those. But if I did I would stop buying Sony crap.
Neat!
There are open-source PC games, completely free, and they are awesome.
Do you mind sharing some of your favourites?
Many mentioned already, but also CDDA, 0AD, Beyond All Reason, Battle for Wesnoth
OpenTTD for transportation management is a favorite of mine.
Mindustry, Friday Night Funkin’, Xonortic, Luanti(former minetest), doom
There is an awesome list too which has a ton of stuff that would take me ages to list https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games
Wouldn’t that still be digital though? Just not on your computer and not in your direct control?
digital is pure semantics here, we are talking about control
Bluray is still alive and well because its the only format that has full quality basically 1:1 media encodes which ironically make up the backbone of full quality media piracy.
No streaming service will ever support 70Gb+ file sizes because they never bothered to implement multicast so it would shred their bandwidth or rely on predownloading which would shred the tiny local storage included on most smart TVs.
You could of course use jellyfin or any other file share protocol to DIY, but you’d better have a stable 100Mbps minimum upload/download speed lol.
I don’t have a source, but I do believe I’ve already seen articles about multiple studios reducing their bluray releases. I think there was one studio which wanted to completely stop all of them even.
Blu ray video is lossy compressed. Lossless video is huge.
Your mom is lossless.
Yeah she’s a classy lady
It’s still pretty good…but yeah lossless is like 1GB+ for 30 seconds.
Boy does it look good though.
all of those are digital
It’s meant to stand for “digital download”, but that’s what you get from trying to shorten everything to one word or less.
cassete tape, zx spectrum style:
modulated digital by same definition
They’re actually all analog, because they all get processed by your senses, which are analog.
But your senses are electrical impulses, which would be digital.
What exactly do you think analog signals are?
Cassette.
Meanwhile, vinyl is minding its own business…
Turns out pressing PVC into the shape of a sound wave is so cheap and so easy that people won’t stop doing it
cheap
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I was thinking of having a vinyl backup of my current favourite playlist but it’s ten hours long so it could take some time
You’re going to have forearms like tree trunks by the time you’re done.
Just make a larger record, easy.
Only ten hours? Nice. I’m having trouble getting mine below 24.
I want it a nice even 17 hours, but I don’t want to change anything. Yes, I know that doesn’t work.
Just need a couple to backup a few terabytes of data
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I don’t doubt that digital is more accessible and readily available than other formats. The biggest problem is that few services allow me to download locally what I’ve purchased.
So, for me, you’re not buying anything, you’re just renting for the long term.
Honestly, I’m tired of buying digital only to suddenly find out I can no longer use what I purchased. For these services, I prefer self-hosting or any method that allows me to have a working copy locally. At least I can decide what to do with the digital content.
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And Qobuz
It does streaming but can you buy and download mp3 or similar?
Yes, you can buy and download CD quality or HD quality (up to 24-bit, 192 kHz) FLAC from their store. From their homepage, there should be a link to the download store in the header bar: https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop
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Then become gog costumer number one, you could say we pay with our wallets and for the change, Gog is right there.
but honestly, I like valve enough, me, personally, not to worry that much.
Just make sure, that you don’t buy anything with unbroken DRM. If you ever lose access, you can just get it back from the pirates.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Sony is trying to kill Blu-ray before it enters public domain. (2028-2030 or so). Single-layer Blu-rays are invaluable for my cold storage backups. So I’m going to keep buying them. And thanks to them, entering public domain, innovation will be possible once again. So, in all honesty, I don’t have that much to fear, as mega corporations also use blu-rays heavily for backups, together with tape.
How’s the long-term stability of Blu-Ray? I know we’re running into problems with magnetic tape and CDs degrading.
Magnetic tape depolarizes over time. CDs were organic and they would literally rot away. But as long as your Blu-ray discs are high to low (HTL)/inorganic Then you’re really set for at least 30 years as well, just like professional tape, but at a fraction of the price.
There’s M-Discs which are supposed to last 100 years I’ve heard.
I have 30+ year old CDs still readable.
They still make CDs and Blu-Rays you know. The others are obsolete technologies.
And DVDs (movies get released as DVD, BR and UHD4K) and Floppies (New Amiga releases with a physical release) and Cartridges (evercade)
I miss HDDVDs. Their better error correction will be missed more, soon, as this stuff degrades a bit.
No error correction could compensate for Warner Brothers discs…
Also cartridges (switch 2)
true, forgot about the switch (2).
It is just a license though
Some of them, not all of them iirc
I think all games, even those in physical media, are licenses to play them, is what OP means. You might be thinking of download carts, which doesn’t contain game data, but makes you download games.
Well yes that’s what I assumed they meant, a non-download cart wouldn’t be just a license, it would be the license and the game data
Right, gotcha. My bad.
Bluray is higher quality than all the streaming bullshit that’s usually lower than default settings x265. Also for anime the bluray is a great way to support the creator and used as a metric for deciding if a series gets picked up for more releases.
Both of those are dying unfortunately
I like blurays but at some point we need go acknowledge the truth
Time to upgrade to reel-to-reel optical drives
Where’s MiniDisk?
*MiniDisc.
UMD you mean, i don’t think MiniDisk were ever used to distribute games or even general software.
No, music (unless you count Hi-MD) but except for cartridge i see no direct correlation between “games” or “general software” and the picture posted.
I know that’s not what you meant… But those are all digital…
The only one that is not a digital medium is “digital”, because it is not a medium.
It could be if we intentionally misinterpret the word digital
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Go to your local used game shops! There’s a treasure trove of good shit there.
You know, I haven’t tried requesting a video game through interlibrary loan and now I kind of want to just to try it. I love inter library loan
Hell, I want to try it now! Especially if you can find games that are generally rare at shops.
i only have one librarian at the local library i dare ask for battletoads. we’ve been friends since about when we were born.
That’s awesome! Hold onto that one. My childhood friends have all scattered to the wind since we all moved away.
well also if she tries to beat me up for being stupid, as i would deserve, my belly is larger than her. i need a large belly for professional reasons.
… all of them priced like brand new games. Some more expensive than their original retail price, thanks to inflation.
At least that’s the case in my local used game shops.
But that’s okay. I can find plenty of booty to plunder on the high seas.
Yeah, a lot of shops have gone off the rails with prices. The same thing happened with the vintage clothing market. All these folks started selling old shirts on eBay for like $50 minimum, and now all of the thrift stores are picked clean, or are selling those items at crazy prices themselves.
I tend to get games that aren’t in the sought after list and get lucky sometimes. You can still find games at thrift stores if you’re lucky. You just have to hunt and be okay with disappointment lol.
I have never been to a game shop with prices based in reality. They upcharge the hell out of their stuff and it’s insane.
Thrift stores used to be pretty good. It was a flat few dollars per game the last time I looked at them.
Yeah, used to. But people figured out years ago that old copies of pokemon go for 100€+ on ebay so they are basically hunting every thrift store or flea markets for elderly mothers who sell their sons stuff who moved out 10 years ago and hasn’t bothered picking his old stuff up.
You get lucky sometimes, but you’re right. Some shops are insane. It really depends on what you’re looking for.
Last time I was there they had Pokemon Crystal version for over $400, which is probably a fair price but reminded me the used games market is expensive :(
After digital: Direct brain implantation. IE all your games are stored in memory. And I don’t mean RAM. It also isn’t YOUR brain.
Definitive way to curb RAM prices, just use people’s brains.
You could also sell part of your brain to openAI to offload part of their models for the cloud.
It’s the matrix book but instead of cpu power is RAM storage.
What like on the brains on Indian children in those Matrix tubes?
All of these media are digital! Only digital is no medium but an encoding scheme.
Currently used media are HDD and SSD.
One day digital is also going to die and we will be forced to stream games on a crappy service that costs 50$ a month
Backups can always use all of these. Doesn’t matter how scrappy it is a couple of hard drives with a parity in running true as/freenas or just Debian with Mergerfs will last you a lot of years.
Cassettes made a bit of a resurgence recently for audio cassettes though I would never want to return to those days for games.
You don’t have to play their game just wait it out Sony and Xbox aren’t doing so hot financially ATM.
Yup, been running my
plexjellyfin server for like 15 years on Ubuntu server off of an 80gb mechanical boot disk.10TB RAID I storage tho
Cartridge is alive and well in the Nintendo ecosystem.
A lot of Switch cartridges now only have license keys.
Well at least Nintendo themselves still releases full game cartridges and it’s not like you buy a Switch for third party games anyway. Nintendo only introduced the Gamekey card because third party publishers, especially Acti and Ubi, were releasing their own version on Switch 1 and not using consistent packaging labels to tell a gamekey from a full game cartridge apart so probably confused many consumers. Hence why Nintendo created an official version.
Many are just Game Key Cards.
Which are like Carts, but they need to download digitally. The worst of both worlds :D
Nintendo has its own slew of ethical issues.
