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4183091 No.4183091 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a point in collected retro games if they're just gonna rot anyways?

>> No.4183108

>>4183091
There is no point in living, you're going to rot anyways and one day the universe will end.

>> No.4183115

lol^

>> No.4183119

>>4183108
>and one day the universe will end.
umm no sweetie that's wrong

>> No.4183124

>>4183091
>muh disc rot
>muh caps

>> No.4183137

>>4183124
This is what a well thought out and intellect counter-argument looks like

>> No.4183164

>>4183137
Maybe you should care about actual things that are more likely to happen

>> No.4183173

>>4183119
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

>> No.4183176

>>4183173
that's one of many, and generally considered to be one of the lesser probabilities anon

>> No.4183190

>>4183091
Just enjoy the games to their fullest while you can, anon. No point in that perfect CIB collection.

>> No.4183192

>>4183176
I mean the sun would kill Earth way before that anyway, so we'd need to solve that step one.
>implying we won't kill humanity ourselves way before it would come to any cosmic bullshit besides

>> No.4183197

>>4183091
>Letting discs get like this
Why did this turn into deep conversation when all we had to do was call OP a careless faggot for spilling fluids all over this disc and ruining it?

>> No.4183201
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4183201

>>4183108
>implying consciousness isn't eternal

>> No.4183203

>>4183192
The universe doesn't depend on humanity's survival to continue existing.
Nobody would give a fuck about us (Assuming any other sentient species were to still exist at that point)

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>>4183091
>It's yet another "I am a collector but don't play my games"-episode.

>> No.4183239

>>4183124
>muh caps
You've never seen bad caps in your life?

>> No.4183279

>>4183239
Nope, not one console, even the ones that are said to have bad ones

>> No.4183304

>>4183279
Even Game Gears?
The only time I saw a working Game Gear was 25 years ago when my friend bought one.

>> No.4183339

>>4183304
I don't/never had a Game Gear

>> No.4183345

>>4183091
ah good old "i didn't take care of my games and/or didn't store them properly but i will blame it on the boogieman disc rot instead"

i have cd based games working on almost 30 years old in mint condition.

>> No.4183349

>>4183339
If the console has no high voltage components like lasers or screens its caps will probably last until the heat death of the universe or the big crunch, which I am more of a fan of philosophically

>> No.4183407

>>4183279
I recently got used model 1 Mega CD, abd caps were just as bad as people usually say.
PC Engine Duo I got before was mostly fine, except for noisy sound. Replacing caps and volume pot helped.

These two consoles are famous for their bad caps.

>> No.4183413

>>4183349
it's really sort of a ridiculous idea that this would be the first and only kalpa that ever happened

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4183421

>>4183304
My game gear works, replacing the caps is cheap and easy

>> No.4183423

>>4183345
you sure are an early adopter

>> No.4183424

>>4183423
i think some my turbo grafx 16 cd games are from 1989

>> No.4183453

Hahaha
I love /vr/

>> No.4183469

>>4183119
Such a faggy way to sarcasm.
Also, fuck you, science has no firm evidence going either way.

>> No.4183472

>>4183201
Graziano makes compelling argument against consciousness being a thing in his "Consciousness and the Social Brain". You should read that one.

>> No.4183595

>>4183091
>is there a point in making babies if they're just gonna shitpost?
No

>> No.4183649

>>4183091
>posting the disc rot meme in 2017
Lol

>> No.4183679

>>4183119
>umm
>sweetie
really ?

>> No.4183687
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4183687

>>4183091
At last retro game collectors can recreate nearly the same gaming experience with emulators, flashcards or even repro cartrigdes.

I´m collecting vintage toys. Now think again and try to fix a Malaysian He-Man figure or yellowed vintage Star Wars items. That is the stuff I have to deal with.

>> No.4183754

>>4183091
thats not disc rot thats an asshole who doesnt know how to properly store his possessions

>> No.4183759

>>4183119
Tumblrposting should be a bannable offense.

>> No.4183817

Maybe me storage room and bins have a decent enough conditions that they'll last a long time.

>> No.4183837
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>>4183687
What's unique about Malaysian MOTU figures? Are they more fragile or hard to fix? I know the MOTC line had rubber parts connecting the hips together that could deteriorate, but I assumed that was common among all the figures in the line.

I feel you about vintage toys though. I'm afraid of getting certain vintage Chogokins for fear of GPS.

>> No.4183890
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4183890

>>4183837
The vintage Malaysia figures often have the issue with deteroiating plastic that results in the spots seen in pic related. They used some special kind of material for these toys. Many other figures made in Malaysia have this, too (Clamp Champ and King Randor are also notorious).

There are many other issues as well.
- yellowed blisters on MOC figures
- Figures loosing their legs. Even MOC figures loosing their legs inside the package... thus making high value figures pretty much uncollectable (that´s a nightmare!)
- loose figures getting dark marks near the pants ("crotch rot") --> pic related
- Rubber parts turning to bits and pieces (e.g. the dragon puppet of the "Fright Zone" or the wheel rubberbands of the Attak Trak.
- various discolorations on some figures (purple boots on Two Bad or Roboto, green hands on Extendar).
- Electric motors that stop working.
- there is also yellowing on He-Man figures which sometimes can be (temporarily) fixed with H2O2.

There are fixes for some of those problems and by now I´m pretty good at fixing my items but overall it´s getting annoying since that stuff is getting older and older.

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4183984

>Implying 97.3% of disc based games can't avoid data failure for 100+ years

>> No.4184369

>>4183472
Can you spoonfeed me a link?

>> No.4184372

Disc rot is horse shit. I have Judas Priest cds from the 80's that are perfect, how well you maintain something determines its life-span.

>> No.4184379

>>4183091
>Worrying about disc rot
>Can't really take care of your game, which you probably put through a washer or expose to sunlight.
>Being too lazy to put the disc back in it's case.

>> No.4184385

>>4183091
the only discs of mine that look like this are the blank cd-rs I left in the trunk of my car for 2 years.

>> No.4184496

>>4184372
I'm sure the CDs from the 80s are better quality, thicker.

>> No.4184532

Sell all your disc games now before it's too late. Sell your cartridges too while you are at it. :rubs hands together:

>> No.4184546

>>4184532
No.

>> No.4185031

>>4183173
Heat Death =/= nothing exists in the dead universe.

>> No.4185036

>>4185031
After heat death, eventually the bonds of atoms will decay and everything will be spread infinitely thinly across the dead universe.

Everything ends.

>> No.4185072

>>4184532

This. Give them to me, I'll take your garbage for free

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>>4183091
Discs don't rot if they're made properly and manufacturers didn't cheap out. Rot is common mostly with discs made in 2005+

>> No.4185129

>>4183091
I have more than 7000 game CDs and none looks like that.

>> No.4185137

>>4183091
>Nope
Nope. Just keep emulating on your moms iphone and leave the rest to the big boys.

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>>4184532

>> No.4185354

>>4185098
What happened in 2005 that resulted in a crap batch?

>> No.4185367

>>4185036
wrong, nothing ends if there was no beginning either, and matter does not create itself. at least not that we know

>> No.4185374

>>4183890
Interesting anon, I never knew there was so much involved in toy collecting. Does /toy/ regularly have threads about neat info like this? From a historical point its fascinating.

>> No.4185832

>>4183091
I own 2000 games on CD, this past week I recently did inventory and I didn't find a single disk that was "aged" or damaged by this crap.

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>>4185374
actually /toy/ doesn´t have that much content on vintage toy collecting as I would appreciate. Most of the time they are discussing modern stuff and collectibles.

For information I watch youtube channels or I visit sites that are dedicated to special toylines. We also have very specialized sites for certain topics like replacement stickers and so on.

What keeps me collecting, is that it can be very statisfying to restore some items. The two top pics in pic related show a lot that I bought recently very cheap. Dusty stuff. The lower pics show some stuff after I cleaned and fixed it. Sold some of it and kept the rare parts.

>> No.4185939

>>4185917
Very cool. I do the same with old furniture but never considered tackling toys, despite my appreciation for the 80's/early 90's lineups. That shark-tank-boat is awesome.

On topic: Realistically your disks shouldn't rot within your lifetime if they're stored correctly.

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>>4185939
Not trying to derail that thread but whatever... that "shark-tank-boat" is called "Land Shark". Don´t you own one?

http://www.stanceiseverything.com/2010/02/wtf-friday-by-the-power-of-gray-skull/

>> No.4185976

>>4185967
Sweet shit, I wish haha.

>> No.4185997

>>4185917
/toy/ is for faggot fucking weebs who want to collect anime display dolls not even real toys

>> No.4187275

>>4183091
They're good to collect for now