Many people consider physical media like records and discs to be antiquated technology which have no place in a modern setting with good digital consumer rights. I, however, beg to differ, like please can we have physical media? I, and many of my friends, don’t end up watching or experiencing anything and just end up browsing and then calling it a session. Like please can we not consider physical media something which doesn’t have a place in a better world? I am making this post because I have seen one too many socialist gaming people say ‘digital is future, you can just as borrow a digital game on a playstation. I am glad and proud I bought a digital only ps5’ like come on
I really preferred life before all of this. CDs instead of downloads, going to Blockbuster instead of streaming, post instead of emails, books instead of scrolling. Everyone at school talking about the tv show we all watched last night because there were only 4 channels, whereas now there are so many endless shows that you ask someone have you seen this? And they’ve never heard of it. It unified people, all doing the same things and doing them in person, whereas people are now more isolated all doing different things alone at home online.
That’s so true, I used to play my PS4 a lot. Like I played so many games back but now on digital I own much more than I have played like I just just feel like something is lost from the experience. I have like 22 discs for my PS4 but I have like 50 games on epic games store but I haven’t even played like 5. I watched so many memorable movies on tv, on dvds, even with piracy when dvd of a film wasn’t available but now I have soooooo many options from Netflix and I haven’t watched two films in months. It just seems so weird.
There definitely seems to be some psychological thing going on with humans and too much choice. Back in the 90s when I only had 4 channels and the choice was a bit crap, I would happily watch some boring old thing like Rawhide because that was pretty much all that was on. But with an abundance of choice it’s much harder to find anything to watch.
Yea and no one wants to confront it and create a world with less and less agency. Like we might be the only animals who give up our joy to machines for promise of more joy and entertainment.