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   GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 02:38:48 JST GabeMoralesVR

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   The idea of cheap, affordable entertainment delivered to your home has been a thing for #generations now. I grew up in a time when a small black and white CRT TV could be bought for $30 and OTA TV was the norm, when recording stuff off TV onto VHS with a $50 VCR was a thing. You basically can't do one-time purchase of media anymore, everything will require a contract, be it your ISP or netflix (even if it's just a month) or whatever. This hasn't been luxury for 50+ years. #Capitalism sucks.

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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 02:38:49 JST GabeMoralesVR

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     This is terrible for #poor people. It means, effectively, there is a baseline cost to be entertained now. I think back to when I was in college, and my roommate and I had no cable, nothing to watch, except a lone animaniacs DVD my roommate had, that we watched on loop as background noise for *MONTHS*. I've been broke before and had to go a month without internet. So what now, those times, people just stare at walls? #TV and #Movies are now only for #middleclass? This sucks.

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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 02:38:50 JST GabeMoralesVR

     Looks like #Redbox is going out of business. Can't say I ever used one personally, but it really sucks that the last gasp of physical video rental is dead. With Target and Best Buy leaving the #DVD market, and walmart scaling back, #physical #media sales are basically a thing of the past. This particularly sucks because it raises the cost of #entertainment. No longer can you rent or buy a DVD and watch it on the cheap, you now need subscriptions and service contracts and isps and such.

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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 02:47:43 JST GabeMoralesVR

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     • Flash Mob Of One

     @FlashMobOfOne incidentally, there have been long periods without internet, like when hurricane harvey hit and we went several weeks without the internet being restored, where this kind of media hoarding was so worth it. I don't need netflix or youtube or anything, honestly, because I have literally years and years and years worth of content on my server available at fingertips. I mean that literally, I can put my stuff into a playlist and the runtime is several years long.

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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 02:47:44 JST GabeMoralesVR

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     • Flash Mob Of One

     @FlashMobOfOne Every game I've ever owned, dumped. Every movie, VHS, or DVD I've ever owned, ripped. Every floppy I had from back in the day, duplicated. I can go back and find files on my server with dates back to the 80's from some of those floppies.

     Backing up your own media at home is the only sane thing to do. I even sometimes record straight from netflix using screen capture software, oldschool VCR recording style, because I fear the day all this will be taken away from me.

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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 02:47:45 JST GabeMoralesVR

     • Flash Mob Of One

     @FlashMobOfOne I'm a notorious media hoarder. Been keeping data alive on harddrives going back to the late 90's now. Everything triple backed up, once with Raid-1 array, once with offline offsite duplicate at my brothers house that I update every 6 months. I had a huge DVD and VHS collection back in the day, my parents would religiously record HBO. So about 15ish years ago, I got a happauge card and spent about 2 years dumping everything into video files. Got about 25 tb of media on my server.

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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 02:53:15 JST GabeMoralesVR

     • Flash Mob Of One

     @FlashMobOfOne It's a constant battle, though. Drives fail regularly. Thanks to them being Raid-1 I can restore them, but it's never ending maintainence. I also spread everything out over 4-5 TB drives, so if any one drive is lost, the entire library doesn't get destroyed, but that makes for even more work. I'd love a permanent, resilient data storage medium that was also affordable.