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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
None of us collect games, nor do any of us have a desire to, so this game-specific thing is very subjective.
It is for sure. I'm a collector by nature. To me, video games are like literature and I don't like borrowed literature. I always want it to be something that I own so that I always have guaranteed access to it again or the ability to share with someone. That's very much a "me" thing. So it causes subscription services to be of far less interest to me. I hate the "let's see what's available this month" feeling. I like to know that I own something and can choose to play it whenever, forever.
It's a bit like Netflix perhaps. You use that I thought? That is worth it to many people who don't need to permanently own everything they want to watch.
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@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
None of us collect games, nor do any of us have a desire to, so this game-specific thing is very subjective.
It is for sure. I'm a collector by nature. To me, video games are like literature and I don't like borrowed literature. I always want it to be something that I own so that I always have guaranteed access to it again or the ability to share with someone. That's very much a "me" thing. So it causes subscription services to be of far less interest to me. I hate the "let's see what's available this month" feeling. I like to know that I own something and can choose to play it whenever, forever.
It's a bit like Netflix perhaps. You use that I thought? That is worth it to many people who don't need to permanently own everything they want to watch.
Yeah, but like Netflix, you need to have enough value to keep paying monthly.
For example, Star Trek is my go to sleep TV... so Netflix it worth it for me for now. But buying/then ripping it all to plex could end up saving me money, as I find less and less to watch on Netflix these days. But like Scott - I still have my ol' standbys that I like always have handy.
Sadly storage for all of this video content adds up, especially if I were to put it in the cloud... -
@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
None of us collect games, nor do any of us have a desire to, so this game-specific thing is very subjective.
It is for sure. I'm a collector by nature. To me, video games are like literature and I don't like borrowed literature. I always want it to be something that I own so that I always have guaranteed access to it again or the ability to share with someone. That's very much a "me" thing. So it causes subscription services to be of far less interest to me. I hate the "let's see what's available this month" feeling. I like to know that I own something and can choose to play it whenever, forever.
It's a bit like Netflix perhaps. You use that I thought? That is worth it to many people who don't need to permanently own everything they want to watch.
It is. However there are a few factors that push me to Netflix...
- I only really watch Netflix' own content which is permanent (for the most part.)
- There's no alternative, Netflix content can't be purchased.
- While I used to collect them, I feel that things like movies and TV shows are less "important" than video games and my inability to maintain access to them bothers me a lot less.
That said, I still maintain a very, very large library of media that I own.
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@nadnerB it needs an upgrade so it can do sudo apt
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Oldest thing in my Amazon Order history.
3 things in 2001.
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@nadnerB I'm looking like #11 ... but feel like #6.
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