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Posted October 04, 2010
This act must be avenged
Posted October 04, 2010
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Wishbone: I must confess that I myself threw away a whole bunch of game boxes the last time I moved. Since I hadn't even unpacked them from my previous move, I figured I might as well get rid of them. I kept all the contents of course, but the boxes themselves went, with a few exceptions (like my Beneath A Steel Sky box, that was much too cool to throw away).
You could have sold that stuff for good money. There are several ebay sellers who cater to the collector's market and they buy anything related to old PC games and rebuild the complete sets.

It's a shame people throw this stuff away even if they have zero interest in it because for people like me who do care it just makes it harder for us to find the old stuff, and makes it cost more when we do. Daggerfall goes for like $80 complete and someone just tosses the box away? Not cool
Posted October 04, 2010
Ermmm... Why did you take pictures of my trash :/?
Posted October 04, 2010
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Rondel: Ermmm... Why did you take pictures of my trash :/?
You heartless bastard!
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Posted October 04, 2010
What kind of a world do we live in. People are very disturbed these days. I blame all the violent video games kids are playing.
Posted October 04, 2010
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Rondel: Ermmm... Why did you take pictures of my trash :/?
TERRORIST !!
Posted October 04, 2010
With GOG grabbing every awesome old game, I imagine all of our trashcans will be littered with things like this. My ultimate goal is to have everything I own stored on the cloud. I almost have all my movies ripped to my hard drive, and the only games that I buy physical copies of are console games.

I hope that the next Xbox has no disc drive. Instead, we will transfer all of our games onto their mainframe, and we will have hard drives that are 1 TB or larger. That would be Gaming Mecca for me. No more GameStop, no more mail delivery, no more middle-man. Just give me my games and let them last for eternity. I will pass my account onto my grandkids, and they will be able to experience all the joy, wonder, and excitement I had when I played Mass Effect. They will revel in the battles on Sera and New Mombasa. They will thrill as they take down the colossal monster in Oblivion.

In fact, one day I hope Sony and Microsoft form a union and it all forms into one magical box of entertainment. Every episode of Dexter, 30 Rock, LOST, every second of The Godfather, Indiana Jones, Pulp Fiction, all ready to be gobbled up and consumed the way mass media was meant to be consumed. I want consumers to have the biggest archive on the face of the Earth, with every book, TV show, movie, game, news report, blog post, joke, etc., organized into neat little bundles. I want people to have better options staring them in the face so they stop watching that Charlie Sheen trainwreck Two and a Half Men (How the hell is it watched so much?).

Then we can burn all our physical media and live a life of simplicity and excess. Having nothing while having everything. True nirvana.
Posted October 04, 2010
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TheCheese33: With GOG grabbing every awesome old game, I imagine all of our trashcans will be littered with things like this. My ultimate goal is to have everything I own stored on the cloud. I almost have all my movies ripped to my hard drive, and the only games that I buy physical copies of are console games.

I hope that the next Xbox has no disc drive. Instead, we will transfer all of our games onto their mainframe, and we will have hard drives that are 1 TB or larger. That would be Gaming Mecca for me. No more GameStop, no more mail delivery, no more middle-man. Just give me my games and let them last for eternity. I will pass my account onto my grandkids, and they will be able to experience all the joy, wonder, and excitement I had when I played Mass Effect. They will revel in the battles on Sera and New Mombasa. They will thrill as they take down the colossal monster in Oblivion.

In fact, one day I hope Sony and Microsoft form a union and it all forms into one magical box of entertainment. Every episode of Dexter, 30 Rock, LOST, every second of The Godfather, Indiana Jones, Pulp Fiction, all ready to be gobbled up and consumed the way mass media was meant to be consumed. I want consumers to have the biggest archive on the face of the Earth, with every book, TV show, movie, game, news report, blog post, joke, etc., organized into neat little bundles. I want people to have better options staring them in the face so they stop watching that Charlie Sheen trainwreck Two and a Half Men (How the hell is it watched so much?).

Then we can burn all our physical media and live a life of simplicity and excess. Having nothing while having everything. True nirvana.
*Raises glass* Genius. Pure genius.
Posted October 04, 2010
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TheCheese33: cut cut
I would smile if something happen to your HDD :).
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Posted October 04, 2010
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TheCheese33: cut cut
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Rondel: I would smile if something happen to your HDD :).
That's why I'm getting an external hard drive. I will keep everything alive and wonderful by backing up my media like a smart consumer until everything is in the cloud. Then I will never have to worry.
Posted October 04, 2010
If you guys aren't going to get them . . . I will . . . =)
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Posted October 04, 2010
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TheCheese33: With GOG grabbing every awesome old game, I imagine all of our trashcans will be littered with things like this. My ultimate goal is to have everything I own stored on the cloud. I almost have all my movies ripped to my hard drive, and the only games that I buy physical copies of are console games.

I hope that the next Xbox has no disc drive. Instead, we will transfer all of our games onto their mainframe, and we will have hard drives that are 1 TB or larger. That would be Gaming Mecca for me. No more GameStop, no more mail delivery, no more middle-man. Just give me my games and let them last for eternity. I will pass my account onto my grandkids, and they will be able to experience all the joy, wonder, and excitement I had when I played Mass Effect. They will revel in the battles on Sera and New Mombasa. They will thrill as they take down the colossal monster in Oblivion.

In fact, one day I hope Sony and Microsoft form a union and it all forms into one magical box of entertainment. Every episode of Dexter, 30 Rock, LOST, every second of The Godfather, Indiana Jones, Pulp Fiction, all ready to be gobbled up and consumed the way mass media was meant to be consumed. I want consumers to have the biggest archive on the face of the Earth, with every book, TV show, movie, game, news report, blog post, joke, etc., organized into neat little bundles. I want people to have better options staring them in the face so they stop watching that Charlie Sheen trainwreck Two and a Half Men (How the hell is it watched so much?).

Then we can burn all our physical media and live a life of simplicity and excess. Having nothing while having everything. True nirvana.
Hopefully this never comes to pass, although it's exactly what the entertainment industry would like.

With everything in the cloud and no longer on a physical medium that you own and can do with as you will, you'll be seeing a charge for every time you access it, monthly fees, regional restrictions, limited options, and less personal control, more restrictions, and more lockdowns than in your worst Orwellian nightmare.
Posted October 04, 2010
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Stuff: If you guys aren't going to get them . . . I will . . . =)
Haha.
Posted October 04, 2010
I am guessing that some parents of a basement dwelling gamer got tired and threw his stuff out and told him to get a job. ;-0
Posted October 05, 2010
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TheCheese33: With GOG grabbing every awesome old game, I imagine all of our trashcans will be littered with things like this. My ultimate goal is to have everything I own stored on the cloud. I almost have all my movies ripped to my hard drive, and the only games that I buy physical copies of are console games.

I hope that the next Xbox has no disc drive. Instead, we will transfer all of our games onto their mainframe, and we will have hard drives that are 1 TB or larger. That would be Gaming Mecca for me. No more GameStop, no more mail delivery, no more middle-man. Just give me my games and let them last for eternity. I will pass my account onto my grandkids, and they will be able to experience all the joy, wonder, and excitement I had when I played Mass Effect. They will revel in the battles on Sera and New Mombasa. They will thrill as they take down the colossal monster in Oblivion.

In fact, one day I hope Sony and Microsoft form a union and it all forms into one magical box of entertainment. Every episode of Dexter, 30 Rock, LOST, every second of The Godfather, Indiana Jones, Pulp Fiction, all ready to be gobbled up and consumed the way mass media was meant to be consumed. I want consumers to have the biggest archive on the face of the Earth, with every book, TV show, movie, game, news report, blog post, joke, etc., organized into neat little bundles. I want people to have better options staring them in the face so they stop watching that Charlie Sheen trainwreck Two and a Half Men (How the hell is it watched so much?).

Then we can burn all our physical media and live a life of simplicity and excess. Having nothing while having everything. True nirvana.
You depress me.
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