Go to someone house

Get with the times, grandpa.

Only my stack of OPM demo discs get that treatment.

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And so it was.

Hey, I grabbed the first image I saw off Google.

One of my friends stole my disc 3 of FF7 claiming his was broken and he lent it to me.

People like this are where the "optical media only lasts 10 years" figures come from. I've got CDs from the 80s that work great, but you get dipshits that don't take care of shit pulling out 3 year old disks with deteriorated label sides screaming about "disc rot."

you know those cd cases with a huge dildo stick
i stack cd-roms all day every day all including linux isos and questionable content

I was always a lazy shit, yet I always religiously took care of my game discs. So yeah, I can't understand these guys either.

ebin

Honest question, who the fuck uses optical media anymore? I literally uninstalled my disc drive from my new pc rig because I realized how worthless it is as a physical format.

We live far enough into the information age that digital distribution has too many advantages over physical distribution. Optical media is far too fragile and volatile as a medium compared to even cartridges of the old. I can't see value in a game disc because all I see is just a cheap storage format with software that could easily be stored on my drive or elsewhere. At least when you hold a cartridge in your hands you actually feel like its worthwhile to own a physical copy.

I don't understand why physical games don't start coming on SD cards or something at the very least.

I'd love to walk into a music store and buy and album and just have an SD card with a neat little picture on the front and stick it in my SD card slot in my car, phone, laptop, desktop or literally anywhere.

Best part about SD's, they're cheap to manufacture, easy to store, and don't break after forgetting to put it back into its case.