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>I don't have anything against digital hoarders, but I do think in most cases it's compulsion more than anything driving them to archive all of the movies, tv s
by rnd0 3y ago
>I don't have anything against digital hoarders, but I do think in most cases it's compulsion more than anything driving them to archive all of the movies, tv shows, and music that they do.
The recent crunchyroll/funimation flaps would prove the wisdom of being a hoarder (of some sort), at least for things you're going to care about some day.
I mean, there is some truth to what you say. E.G. I have gigs of music in my digital collection that was simply "eh, maybe I'll wanna hear it someday" circa 2005 but then I never got to listening to; but that doesn't mean that in most cases it's only compulsion (at least for me, personally).
- least 3y agoI think it's fine to download those things. I still do sometimes. I just don't do anything to preserve them and I'm not buying a bunch of hard drives just to ensure that I can hold onto every anime I've ever watched on disk just in case I want to watch something again. If it's something that I do find myself going back to more than once, then I will try to keep it. Digital hoarders are great to have. The hoarders are the ones that often have been the source of otherwise lost media. I just don't think it's all that different from hoarding of physical items. As someone whose natural inclination is to hoard, I've taken measures to prevent that (both in the physical and digital realm).