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Jul. 2nd, 2026 12:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asuraidhearing the whole playstation bullshit happening with them nuking (BOUGHT) movies off people's accounts + them and xbox opting to not do physical disks anymore ... like, it's a bit of a tangent, but even with tracking my gaming, reading, other stuff through sites ... those could just. be gone. even watching 'the fifth element' on netflix today had me thinking to go find the movie and download it because it could just. be gone
i wish there was some way to have infinite space and not have things suffer degrading. i know there's physical DVDs for movies but that requires Space. i do have a lot of space on my PC, but that ... also requires ... space
i'm making a spreadsheet to just log games/movies/books (not to track active progress), but backloggd is suffering something on their server right now and it is SUCKINGGG ass. it's mostly cause i fear one day what if the sites where i've been media logging just ... go down? i'll lose access to all of my info of stuff i've played/tracked (well ok, gaming i also track through GamingGaiden and calibre has a small portion of my books but like ... tv shows? my anime lists? etc etc...)
it's definitely not a fancy spreadsheet, i wish i could make it more visually nicer (like obsidian bases) but that'll become a busy system that if i overcomplicate, will just make it a chore to fill out. this is just. plop in info. move on w/life
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Date: 2026-07-02 03:41 pm (UTC)I think a lot about what you're talking about and store a lot of my watch lists on Notion, but it's about as reliable as anything else with online storage..I've been thinking about changing to physical notebooks for media tracking in 2027, but it's also a matter of SPACE that I don't have / want to use lol. We're at a really interesting time where physical media feels like a luxury!
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Date: 2026-07-02 04:39 pm (UTC)i do have a 1TB external SSD but even that i know can fill up quickly 💔 esp since i also hold onto art assets and now movies as well and maybe even tv shows (hell my art folder takes up 55gb on its own)
in terms of Notion, there's AnyType which is an actual app on ur computer that can export all your data as markdown or their own data type, though it is a bit of a learning curve in comparison to Notion (same kinda layout tho and databases etc)
i sorely wish i could use physical notebooks as well but i know id forget to use them if they arent in my face... its what happened to me and my journal
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Date: 2026-07-03 02:07 pm (UTC)I'm worried about the same thing with notebooks, lol. Digital journaling is just so much easier to organize and maintain
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Date: 2026-07-02 04:01 pm (UTC)And same about tracking stuff online. I used trakt.tv for my TV series and films and it at least didn't go down, but they changed their design and the site has become pretty much unusable for me. So I basically did all that work of listing my shows and stuff was for nothing /sigh
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Date: 2026-07-02 04:41 pm (UTC)and yeah....... its just making me realize theyre Nice, but you need a backup of it somewhere on your pc/hard drives... or physically in some form
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Date: 2026-07-02 04:05 pm (UTC)Nodding so hard at this. Pretty much the reason why I'm so neurotic about keeping copies of everything I post. I've had to much so much information from sites these few years and some I haven't event finished—looking at my half a decade old Evermore export files on Obisidian.
Kinda feeling like we're going back to the 80s and we're like old men who saved all those VHS with movies and home media and whatnot.
Part of me wished I could use Backoggd and Letterbxd like everyone else seems to be doing but I just CANNOT. If those go down... what then?! So I'm using a plain CSV file after I downloaded those databases off Notion.
Your table looks pretty similar to mine! Ohhh, like the review section you got there. Maybe I'll steal that haha.
Also the whole thing about physical media and space and the pressure folks like you and me feel to save the stuff that matters to them... makes me think of how important libraries are more than ever!!! Because instead of individuals having to collect and maintain collections which requires certain amount of priviledge (physical space, digital space, time to maintain it), a community resource to that does that would be awesome imo!!!
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Date: 2026-07-02 04:35 pm (UTC)god knows if poor tumblr goes down at any point im gonna have to pull out the big guns (last time i exported my old blog it was unironically 60GB of stuff accumulated over 13 years)
as someone who has a dad that burned CDs of movies and games... yeah, its probably why i have it rooted in me somewhere, especially as now seeing that same dad has caught the 'subscription services' bug whereas im like .. guys ... please u can watch these movies for free online (but the convenience of it won out for them, plus im sure if i asked them to google up places to watch movies theyd end up with viruses)
but yeah... :( speaking of, an oomf of mine on tumblr is also annoyed (as a librarian) that with the whole physical CD ban from playstation, they wont be able to get new games to lend to people to play and it rlly does strike a blow to them
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Date: 2026-07-05 01:00 am (UTC)Ohhhh, okay I gotta check Gaming Gaiden then.
Ramble: I'm struggling with finding a way to share the gaming log whether as Markdown or HTML so that "spits it out as an html on my drive" sounds really interesting 👀
... WOW (just realized i haven't exported my blogs)
Gah, yours too?! I know there're ways but I haven't put the braincells together to establish a non subscription way to watch stuff. Although we watch plenty of stuff on non subscription services.
that sucksssss :(. Much respect and well wishes to your librarian friend.
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Date: 2026-07-02 08:16 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2026-07-02 09:55 pm (UTC)Many businesses are trying to erase ownership (except for themselves of course) by switching from products you buy and own to services that you pay to use. This isn't just bad for your entertainment, it's bad for your budget because recurring fees effectively raise your fixed expenses until you cancel them. That's much less flexible than "My car needs new tires, so I'll skip buying new entertainment this month."
>> even watching 'the fifth element' on netflix today had me thinking to go find the movie and download it because it could just. be gone <<
If you want security, then prefer physical objects, or at least digital things that exist entirely on equipment you own. That way people can't adulterate or delete your things from a distance, and would have to break into your home to steal things.
>> i wish there was some way to have infinite space and not have things suffer degrading.<<
Sadly, not attainable in a universe with entropy; all things degrade with time. Even if a human law tried to protect human data in storage, laws can be changed, and indeed right now the American government is tampering with or destroying many things that were meant to be held in perpetuity for the public good.
>> i know there's physical DVDs for movies but that requires Space. i do have a lot of space on my PC, but that ... also requires ... space <<
Well, storage space is one of the things those cloud services are selling. You have to think about which is more important to you: money, physical space, security, ownership, storage space, etc. Some people compromise by purchasing or downloading only their favorite things that they would really miss if they lost, while leaving more casual content in the cloud. It really depends a lot on what you like and how your personality works. Me, I've lined my house with paper books, because I can.
>> i'm making a spreadsheet to just log games/movies/books (not to track active progress), but backloggd is suffering something on their server right now and it is SUCKINGGG ass.<<
That's exactly the same problem from a different angle -- the software is on their end, not yours. If it was on your computer, it'd run even with your internet connection down.
>> it's mostly cause i fear one day what if the sites where i've been media logging just ... go down? i'll lose access to all of my info of stuff i've played/tracked (well ok, gaming i also track through GamingGaiden and calibre has a small portion of my books but like ... tv shows? my anime lists? etc etc...) <<
Credible threat. Anything you consider important should be stored in a way that you control it and other people can't easily destroy it. But that can be a lot of work, which is exactly how these companies convince people to use the cloud versions. My partner has spreadsheets and lists for all kinds of stuff on his own computer. I'm bad at tracking things, so I just have a few lists. But I have thousands of pages of writing notes which are saved on my computer. I don't know what would work best for you, but if current shifts make you uncomfortable, it would be prudent to explore different options to see what does.
Most crucially: some is better than none. Even if you can't purchase, track, or save all the stuff that you would like to, securing your most favorite or essential information is a big help.
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Date: 2026-07-05 03:28 pm (UTC)going crazy about this. i back-up stuff very often (cloud / laptop / flash-drive), but my storage is soooo limited X_X
my personal arts, writings, small gamedev projects? okay, i have space for that.
but as for videos, software and especially GAMES???? oh man... i should be VERY picky with that
i'm afraid Sony could be like the pioneer of full digitalization, and some services/stores will see that and decide they'll do the same
i see a certain backlash, but is it enough to affect Sony's budget? i don't think so. unless PlayStation users will massively stop buying stuff to boycott it (i doubt it)
i guess it's time to burn some CDs... (and then re-do this every 5 years or so?)
anyway, 🏴☠️
p.s. thank for sharing gamegaiden :P
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Date: 2026-07-05 09:07 pm (UTC)we rlly are going back to cd burning era 🥀 tbf i also grew up w/that, we have a shitload of cds of random crap (software, movies, old games) so it's always Been There. shame that for most laptops you need an external cd player
but yeah i love gaming gaiden!!! and the developer is pretty responsive since i brought up a bug that didn't allow multiple pcs to be listed w/o fucking up the UI in some way