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At this point, saving video games seems like saving examples of drinking glasses from you local discount store. Humanity simply can't save a copy of everything
by linuxftw 7y ago
At this point, saving video games seems like saving examples of drinking glasses from you local discount store.
Humanity simply can't save a copy of everything from all time. We should let more go. By preserving everything, we're decreasing signal to noise, IMO.
- stordoff 7y agoIncidentally, a point raised in Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001): > But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible.[...]All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. > an overabundance of digital information -- the world will drown in the coming flood of information