I like your point about gamers being the worst customers on the face of the earth - much as I'm a gamer myself and love the community, as an ISP employee, I can

I like your point about gamers being the worst customers on the face of the earth - much as I'm a gamer myself and love the community, as an ISP employee, I can only testify to the truth of that statement. To the first, however, as a qualified software engineer and just general computer user - any dev worth his chops should absolutely be running backups more resilient than copying between two boxes in the same residence (with the likes of CrashPlan, it's so easy!), and at the very least using some form of off-site VCS. $20,000 easily covers a (decent) yearly github subscription, for instance, which would absolutely cover this instance.