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I was a fan of the matte white top printable taiyo udens. Back in my sharing early days, I probably had like 1000+ dvds of anime, movies, hk film, games etc ea

I was a fan of the matte white top printable taiyo udens. Back in my sharing early days, I probably had like 1000+ dvds of anime, movies, hk film, games etc easily. I had so much media that I didn't have time to watch it all, let alone watch it again in the future (there are some gems that I actually went out and purchased retail copies). Plus alot of the shit would get released at higher quality making my archive obsolete (not always) One day I just chucked it all out.... Years of archiving, downloading, burning ripping. Was a waste of time and money in hindsight

pcf 4y ago
Exactly the same here, except that I gave all those discs to friends. And I shudder to think how much time I wasted on all that archiving, when it ultimately wasn't worth it at all. Now, I'm still doing much of the same, but this time downloading movies, TV series, documentaries etc. via Snahp to my archive on an external HDD. The other day I suddenly had a realisation: Why on earth am I downloading 1080p films to watch sometime in the future when I'm probably going to buy a 4K UHD TV in six months or so from now? So I need to stop doing so much of this digital hoarding. In the end it's not good for me, and I could instead download whatever I want to watch when I'm actually GOING to watch it.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  The problem is that many times, the "originals" (or official sources) become unavailable. There's a ton of old 80s/90s DOS games and 8-bit games that we still have now because of digital hoarders. If it weren't for them, they'd be lost because the original companies are long gone and most people just trash stuff. Now look at how much stuff regularly disappears from video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime.
  - nordsieck 4y ago
    I'm just glad that netflix is still operating their disc rental plan. If you want to watch niche, hard-to-get stuff, that's one of the better options, IMO. I legally can't recommend anyone copy/rip discs that they rent.
kikokikokiko 4y ago
In my case it was early MMA fights, I was obssessed with martial arts in general, and up to 2007 I literally had a 500+ collection of burned CDs and DVDs, with every single fight from every major promotion in the world, catalogued by date, fighter's involved, styles, results etc. Until someday I realized that I probably would never rewatch any of those fights, I would simply watch the new ones that are happening everyday. Hoarding is hoarding, be it of "real things" be it digital ones. Some time later I gave all of my collection to a BJJ colleague of mine, and I never burned another CD since. Life's too short, and accumulating stuff is just a massive waste of time.
- mmcgaha 4y ago
  I recently left my home for an apartment and came to the same conclusion about accumulated stuff. Watches, guns, calculators, shirts, shoes were all bad but worst of all trying to cram 1000 lbs of books into a two bedroom apartment is ridiculous. I am working on minimizing but it is hard to let go of these objects that I love. Thankfully I have long since moved my data hoard off to cloud storage so at least that only costs money.
- anthk 4y ago
  In my case I've got the complete collection from The Twilight Zone and Star Trek:TNG among the movies. Everything else it's just a rehash from these scripts.

pcf 4y ago

Exactly the same here, except that I gave all those discs to friends. And I shudder to think how much time I wasted on all that archiving, when it ultimately wasn't worth it at all. Now, I'm still doing much of the same, but this time downloading movies, TV series, documentaries etc. via Snahp to my archive on an external HDD. The other day I suddenly had a realisation: Why on earth am I downloading 1080p films to watch sometime in the future when I'm probably going to buy a 4K UHD TV in six months or so from now? So I need to stop doing so much of this digital hoarding. In the end it's not good for me, and I could instead download whatever I want to watch when I'm actually GOING to watch it.

midoridensha 4y ago
The problem is that many times, the "originals" (or official sources) become unavailable. There's a ton of old 80s/90s DOS games and 8-bit games that we still have now because of digital hoarders. If it weren't for them, they'd be lost because the original companies are long gone and most people just trash stuff. Now look at how much stuff regularly disappears from video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime.
- nordsieck 4y ago
  I'm just glad that netflix is still operating their disc rental plan. If you want to watch niche, hard-to-get stuff, that's one of the better options, IMO. I legally can't recommend anyone copy/rip discs that they rent.

kikokikokiko 4y ago

In my case it was early MMA fights, I was obssessed with martial arts in general, and up to 2007 I literally had a 500+ collection of burned CDs and DVDs, with every single fight from every major promotion in the world, catalogued by date, fighter's involved, styles, results etc. Until someday I realized that I probably would never rewatch any of those fights, I would simply watch the new ones that are happening everyday. Hoarding is hoarding, be it of "real things" be it digital ones. Some time later I gave all of my collection to a BJJ colleague of mine, and I never burned another CD since. Life's too short, and accumulating stuff is just a massive waste of time.

mmcgaha 4y ago
I recently left my home for an apartment and came to the same conclusion about accumulated stuff. Watches, guns, calculators, shirts, shoes were all bad but worst of all trying to cram 1000 lbs of books into a two bedroom apartment is ridiculous. I am working on minimizing but it is hard to let go of these objects that I love. Thankfully I have long since moved my data hoard off to cloud storage so at least that only costs money.
anthk 4y ago
In my case I've got the complete collection from The Twilight Zone and Star Trek:TNG among the movies. Everything else it's just a rehash from these scripts.