Ah..porn on VHS...

I remember as young teenager when my parents were not in, I stayed up late to record Porn movies on VHS while sitting there with a boner, the good days....

Huh, wait, what? I'm sorry? What was this thread about again?

Way to make an entrance.

I would if I could, but unfortunately I don't have that many livers to afford ebay'ing all of those sorely missed classics. So gog is a good temporary solution (and backup obviously) for now, but when I finally make that first mil, ooh I'm renting a warehouse!

Thankfully Kickstarter came along, bringing old timers back to making games, and actually putting them in bigboxes. That was pretty much the perfect substitute for me, getting (hopefully) quality, oldschool games in (hopefully) quality, oldschool packaging and actually supporting the developers instead of collectors.

I hear you. I remember ages 13 through to 15, every Friday night watching some boring foreign film hoping for maybe a glimpse of a nipple. It didn't pay off very often, but it was the best I could get at the time.

It really makes you appreciate broadband internet all the more. Kids these days will never appreciate how difficult it used to be to get even mediocre fapping material.

First porno I ever owned was eaten by a VHS player. "Catalina 5-0" what a classic! Ever since then I keep my smut digital.

I remember when I was 14 and I saw Dick Dagger for the first time.good times

Smudged files?! You're not supposed to handle the hard disk platters! XD

I own hundreds of games on GOG and other sites; having to find physical space for all of them in my tiny efficiency would be an enormous pain in the ass, and would involve junking stuff that can't be perfectly replaced with "smudged files" on my computer. Not to mention the expense.

Indeed, but I like to burn a copy to disc anyways, because I like having a copy that can't be erased. But, I think that's probably largely pointless at this time, I just like having a copy of important files on a Write Once Read Many storage medium.

I understand this point of view.

I enjoy having physical copies of games that are special to me though.
EDIT: The reasons are largely that I like to be able to proudly point at them when I have people over.

Ah, the perils of allowing Google Translate to write your post for you. Digital files are nothing but 0's and 1's stored as electrical charges. You cannot "smudge" those, unless you are talking about Heisenbergean uncertainty, in which case the electrons are already "smudged" due to the unpredictability of their position.

The format that "smudges" and decays is the physical media you tout. One good scratch and a CD is toast, even when 98% of it is fine. Sure, digital files can become corrupt, but that's why you keep backups. I have two terabyte-sized USB drives that I alternate backups to, and I feel a lot safer with those than I would with a couple hundred CDs scattered about. Plus an external hard drive is a lot easier to put in a bank safe deposit box if you are really worried about a disaster at home costing you your files.

There is no rational reason to prefer the clutter-fostering option of boxed games over digital ones, apart from (questionable) aesthetics. Plus the physical product requires manufacturing, which adds to the expense of the product and its environmental impact. If you are so determined to have physical media, then copy your GOG games to disc and print out the manuals.

I'm quite sure he's not saying that each individual game should be patched forever, but that developers in general should not stop making sure their games are relatively bug-free. A thousand years from now, game-breaking bugs will still appear in new games.

I used to have problems with porn magazines getting smudged. Now most of my porn is digital and DAMN! The files get smudged!

With porn if it's just getting smudged, you're not doing it right.

The best porn is mosaic'd. Just ask Japan.