I need a distraction right now. What's something positive that's been happening recently?

Ideally something in your life, specifically, but any good news is good news. :boost_ok:

@Crash Hmm... We just got a new (old, was donated to us a while ago but hasn't been needed yet) external hard drive set up for our media archive! Probably going to devote this one to things like tv shows and stuff? might also get some spillover from the video game archive drive since that one's almost full

@Felthry I am envious of your networking and data organization skills. Fantastic!

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@Crash ahah this was just luck, happened to know a tech-minded friend who was willing to help out and had a bunch of spare hard drives, and then I just archived all the torrents I could fit

we have zero skill at organizing things

@Crash I think archiving things and preserving them for future people to be able to experience is just really important to us

seeing things like video games that got really limited runs and now cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to get a copy makes me really upset, especially combined with the fact that they just don't *make* copies of a lot of things anymore and even if they did you can't play them on modern hardware, unlike movies (as long as they got a dvd release)

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