The Obsession-Out: Bite and don't let it go.

[Beelzebub]

There's also the thing that the discs that you write yourself are more likely to produce read errors than factory pressed ones. All the ones that had read errors for me were back up discs...

Even then as long as you store them correctly, buy decent media, burn at slow speeds, and treat them well. Even burned discs should last you quite a while. I have decade old burned PS1 discs that play just fine still.

[Gare]

Gare y u no answer visitor message? I am of sadness.

I was replying to other stuff.

[Gare]

Don't put them in direct sunlight

Yeah I believe I fucked up with this bit.

[Jazzmarazz]

You know, its a really fun concept of post-apocolyptic data storage. As data of all mediums, whither its tape, eprom, SHUT THE FUCK UP CICADAS, (sorry) or Compact disc, the data does to some extent deteriorate and vanish. The card has been played many a time, but if it werent for us pirates, vintage video games would vanish. Even HDD's will crash and deteriorate, so the ROM's (being a rapidly outdated term) must be backed up over and over to keep them available. But to what extent do we keep them current? How many people spend thier lives backing up and archiving these ROMs which are (for the more reputable titles) Remade and sequel-ed? And for how many years do we post about reliving our childhood; our father's childhood, and in time; our grandfather's childhood? When do we drop this pipe dream and move on to the next big thing?

[gezegond]

Geeze I'll just reply to your question here because eh.

Thanks man.

自分は

Ah I keep forgetting that wa is actually written as ha

嫌いという事実に

Oh, this is a quote from an anime, and the dude says Kirai nandatte. I want to know the correct way to write that. I just went for all hiragana since I couldnt find any relevant kanji in the dictionary and google translate just gave me hiragana for nandatte.

[Gypsy]

They must be preserved for all time Jazz. Especially the terrible games.

[gezegond]

When do we drop this pipe dream and move on to the next big thing?

When people stop reading dante and digging earth to find AWESOME POTS WHICH HAVE REALLY UNIQUE DRAWINGS ON THEM!!!

[gezegond]

Even then as long as you store them correctly, buy decent media, burn at slow speeds, and treat them well. Even burned discs should last you quite a while. I have decade old burned PS1 discs that play just fine still.

I think I might have pressed them, since all my back up discs were in one of those cases which you fit 50 discs to. But asides that I kept them very optimally and with care since they were my backups.

But then again, I have ridiculously shitty luck. I think if they hadnt been pressed my house would catch on fire or something. I have permanent negative karma.

[Jazzmarazz]

It greatly depends on the quality of the discs. But yeah there are some really poorly made blank discs. Rewritable discs fwiw have a really brutal life span but it's still at worst 20 years if stored properly.

The motivation for technology is to create new devices in smaller packages while also building them faster and more powerful. The concept goes back to the statement that with each following year, the number of transistors on a single die will increase exponentially. If a CD is to decay more quickly than a ROM in your Atari cart, then we have failed. I want to believe that you can read a CD and click "verify bits" just liek you may with a ROM chip. If it takes more than 5 seconds and yeilds errors, then we need to go back to a more physical medium for data storage. Lets design a computer based solely on reading back handwritten 1's and 0'. The computer will prompt you to rewrite each file to a new location, even if they are fragmented. If a file is modified or moved or downloaded, rewirte.

EVERYTHING SHUOLD BE ANANLOG MUTHER FUCK

[Warrior]

Most importantly, you can play the console exclusives while avoiding being a dirty console peasant.

Exactly

[gezegond]

terrible games

PC Gamer has this column called Saturday crap shoot and I enjoy reading those more than I enjoy reading about new games and whatnot

[Gare]

Oh it's a quote? I thought you just wanted a translation, that's why I re-wrote it.

In that case it's 嫌いなんだって like you wrote it. なんだ here is is basically the same as the んだ you can put at the end of sentences to add a certain nuance/meaning. And って is sort of a quoting particle... well it's hard to explain. You kinda have to get a feel for it.

Edit: Oh and yes it's written with hiragana.

[Gypsy]

Pancakes for dinner.

[gezegond]

EVERYTHING SHUOLD BE ANANLOG MUTHER FUCK

I still kinda dont get it, were C64 games that were on analog tape analog?

[Jazzmarazz]

They must be preserved for all time Jazz. Especially the terrible games.

FOR THE TERRIBLE GAMES!

What I meant to say is that as a being, we have a very finite time on this earth, everything we do corresponds to a yet more finite percentage of our lives. If we spend the entire time reliving a the first 10-15 of our years, then we only experienced a limited amount of the diversity that is available to experience. we will die and the earth will also die. I understand the idea that "if the last humans living on earth experience what I believed to be the best of creation, then we have succeeded." I just want to say "what if we have not yet created the best tah we can create? What if we have not thought up the very peak of human-capability?"

When do we claim that we have peaked and when do we claim that our race will stop advancing? WHen the earth dies I think that we will too. I doubt that we will continue to explore the universe for intelligent life...or what-have-you. Are you happy peaking?