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[–] Majorllama 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I feel like as a guy that's been gaming since floppy disks I have seen them slowly change from floppy's to a hard drive symbol more often. Hell I think I have played games where the save icon was a flash drive.

I know it had its downsides but I kinda miss physical media. There was just something nice about shoving a VHS into the VCR and listening to it clunk and whir before your family watched a movie together.

[–] glitchdx 1 points 5 days ago

turns out, the inconvenience was part of what made it good.

[–] thermal_shock 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

the biggest benefit was you had limited selection, easy choices. my Plex has 5000 movies, deciding what to watch can be a chore if you don't have a system.

I watched SPEED and Judgement Night over and over at my aunt's during the summer, wore out the tapes. easily two of my favorite movies.

[–] Majorllama 2 points 5 days ago

I have lost count of how many movie nights start with 15 minutes of choice paralysis lol.

Back when my friends and I didn't regularly we had a rule that the movie had to be a movie that at least one person in the group hadn't already seen and then we just put everyones choice for the night into a random number picker and let RNG choose the movie we were watching that night.c