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   GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 06:54:40 JST GabeMoralesVR

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   @FlashMobOfOne I lived and died by the VCR. After a few months with a VCR and an HBO subscription, I had a cabinet full of movies to watch at my fingertips. I would record every episode of stuff like MST3K or The Simpsons and had entire seasons on call thanks to my VCR. I was so prolific about recording stuff on VHS that I'd routinely get blank VHS packs from family members as stocking stuffers during the holidays.

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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 07:01:23 JST GabeMoralesVR

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     @FlashMobOfOne Thats why an HBO subscription was amazing. Uncensored movies with no commercial breaks and even stuff like stand up comedy. HBO + VCR was a legitimate life hack back in those days. I could fit sometimes 3 movies on a tape, and I'd write down the start and stop times of each movie on every tape so I could easily pull up a specific movie haha. I was very meticulous with my labeling.

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     Bex (bexcommunicated@toot.community)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 07:29:32 JST Bex

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     @FlashMobOfOne ok but how do you do this? I tried to look into backing up my digital movies but couldn’t figure out a good way to do it

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     Bex (bexcommunicated@toot.community)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 07:33:18 JST Bex

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     @FlashMobOfOne ok. I guess that’s different than the kind of backup I was thinking. Like if I backup all my iTunes movies, I still need iTunes to play them. So if iTunes decides to take away my movie, having it backed up on an external drive won’t help me because it won’t play without iTunes. So I was trying to figure out a way around that. How do I back it up independently

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     Bex (bexcommunicated@toot.community)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 07:37:06 JST Bex

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     @FlashMobOfOne yeah I was trying to avoid that because it seems silly to need to resort to that for movies I already paid for. Not that I’m opposed to it for other reasons. Just annoyed that they have created this situation