Is buying media retarded?

Yes, but 'they' will tell you otherwise.

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consuming media is retarded

great way to get mkultra'd

Yes. I have more movies than that in a single hdd, and i can view them from anywhere that has an internet connection. They were all free.

No this is not based.

Based is massive torrent Based data hoarding of double or triple digit terabyte arrays running on raids in your closet with full offline backups of absolutely everything.

For the physical footprint of a household refrigerator I can have a complete archive of everything from the last thousand years. All games, all books, all movies, all music, all art, all useful information... literally enough to Jumpstart the human race back to a technical civilization from rock bottom, to say nothing about keeping me entertained for several lifetimes in complete isolation.

This can be had for less then the cost of a shitty used car and a few months of intensive bit torrent work.

Even pol routinely has a data hoarders general with massive archives of cool shit to he had on mega. OPs picture would fit on a single pocket sized m2 drive.

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I largely agree. But, I think there is something to be said for purchasing kinos from smaller, independent "boutique" publishers/distributors like Vinegar Syndrome, Synapse, at some point in time Arrow and Criterion, et cetera who ensure that films are scanned and edited for preservation in the highest quality possible.

Kino Lorber for example finally rescued The Good, The Bad and the Ugly from a history of shitty home video releases. I like supporting these operations. They generally come with a slew of special features which often can't be found on trackers, too.

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i started buying sealed vinyls last year as a hobby. a few of them have 10x'd and holding strong through all this bullshit. i didn't do it to make money though, i just frame them and hang in my office

Indeed

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Steam's own nuffin model is better. However I miss sniffing the fresh cases of video games and seeing the nice CD art.

it's okay, i still have my trainspotting bluray and i'll never gonna let it go.

I think ppl should so what make them happu
but yes it is retaurded
i download 1000s mowies and put them on large hdd
too much to watch but all feee

Damn, got shivers.

Used "book" stores will take your DVDs for like a dime each and sell em for 50c each. That's pretty much the only option, physical media is essentially WORTHLESS.

>good investment
Merely holding some value is not a "good investment". That's silver/gold bagholder logic.

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>buys click on dvd
The eye is drawn to the most egregious waste of money

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I agree with this. Also, for archival purposes, media packaaging is an important facet of media history. For most non-enthusiasts, an hdd and streaming software is the way to go though.

Chronological is the patrician way to organize media

Alphabetical by artist/director then chronological

Wait until the internet goes down for a 3 months and ask yourself if having everything streaming was a great idea. Although there's a difference between a soiboy mega collection and having a select library of actually good movies and TV shows.

Metal disk censorship?

I won physical books and have only small shelf row of nice blue rays, all either Criterion Collection or steelbooks etc. but I have limited it to a single row on one shelf for fear of ever ending up like OP's pic