Dimensional Traveler wrote:
You seem to be implying that there IS a difference between the two
other than organizing....
candycanearter07 wrote:
The only difference is the intent and in-depth ness of storage.
I stopped saving stuff when it felt like stuff on Internet would remain forever, but as "Internet Disease" / "Website Rot" worsens, update
systems for digital stores replace good versions with worse ones and no option to keep or redownload the old one (Rocksmith 2014 before the 2022 "remaster"), and forums get deleted and replaced with Discord, I keep
saving more and more stuff and become increasingly paranoid. From
specific versions of software to web pages with tutorials and commands
for server administration, laser discs rips, and building my own local network wiki with all the documentation I write.
I only used to save and maintain my photo albums. Nowadays it's more
like "I need to save everything", then share it at the annual lanparty,
and find that 4TB is not that much when you find somebody else has 40TB
on DC.
Have you considered uploading to archive.org?
candycanearter07 wrote:
Have you considered uploading to archive.org?
There was a preservation effort to scan a lot of old game magazines from
the eighties and nineties. Everybody was working in secrecy, and in the moment files were leaked, the copyright strikes fell like a hammer. Only
a few issues have ever made it to archive.org, and they get removed often.
It's not like they're selling them nowadays.. Feels cruel to remove
the only source for their history
like Nintendo
candycanearter07 wrote:
It's not like they're selling them nowadays.. Feels cruel to remove
the only source for their history
like Nintendo
It's exactly like Nintendo. Those publications have never been
reprinted, other than than the first issue for a limited event. They
don't sell them digitally, and yet they don't want them to circulate on internet. I don't know, maybe they don't want people to know about the
time they lied about having been invited by Capcom to Japan to try
Resident Evil 4 (they stole the article from a publication from a
different country). Or the time they lied about Zelda: Link's awakening releasing translated (which was a huge selling point in any european
country that is not Ireland or UK at a time where we sucked at english).
Still, they are important publications, and many times they will contain pre-release screenshots of stuff that never made it to the final game,
like Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic 2. OR the reader's mail section, which
shows how pissed gamers were about the inflated prices of cartridge games.
Sorry about derailing the original thread starting post.
Spalls loves a good train wreck and hopes the CRAP threads get
derailed. :D
On 10/16/2023 11:33 AM, H1MEM wrote:
candycanearter07 wrote:
Sorry about derailing the original thread starting post.
Spalls loves a good train wreck and hopes the CRAP threads get derailed. :D
On 10/16/23 05:27, H1M3M wrote:
Dimensional Traveler wrote:
You seem to be implying that there IS a difference between the two
other than organizing....
candycanearter07 wrote:
The only difference is the intent and in-depth ness of storage.
I stopped saving stuff when it felt like stuff on Internet would remain
forever, but as "Internet Disease" / "Website Rot" worsens, update
systems for digital stores replace good versions with worse ones and no
option to keep or redownload the old one (Rocksmith 2014 before the 2022
"remaster"), and forums get deleted and replaced with Discord, I keep
saving more and more stuff and become increasingly paranoid. From
specific versions of software to web pages with tutorials and commands
for server administration, laser discs rips, and building my own local
network wiki with all the documentation I write.
Completely fair, the internet is going downhill somewhat.
I only used to save and maintain my photo albums. Nowadays it's more
like "I need to save everything", then share it at the annual lanparty,
and find that 4TB is not that much when you find somebody else has 40TB
on DC.
Have you considered uploading to archive.org?
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