There Is No Perfect Digital Distribution

[YellerDog]

Whatever it is, he's against it.

[Tain]

The thought that semantics are completely unimportant is adorable.

[Yoshi]

I often wonder what Yoshi thinks the word "semantics" means. </semantics>

I know exactly what it means, but thank you for your typical condescending bullshit. It hasn't started in this thread yet, but it's coming.

[Fe 26]

I really don't care as much as I used to. Let it all go DD. Movies, music, games. And if something happens to it and we can no longer play those games, whatever. Fuck it. I don't have to play those games or listen to those new bands or watch new tv shows. I'll find something to do. I don't really care if our entertainment culture from the years 2020-onward can't be preserved.

Fuck it. I have my own unimportant things to do. I can't be bothered.

[Opaque]

Fuck it. I have my own unimportant things to do. I can't be bothered.

This is actually one of the most enlightened thing ever posted on TNL and one of the worst things at the same time.

I both admire your ability to not give a shit about relatively trivial matters and hate you for not wanting to preserve our culture like any non evolutionary failure should want to. I am very conflicted right now.

[Fe 26]

This is actually one of the most enlightened thing ever posted on TNL and one of the worst things at the same time.

I both admire your ability to not give a shit about relatively trivial matters and hate you for not wanting to preserve our culture like any non evolutionary failure should want to. I am very conflicted right now.

Oh I love preserving things. Drew likes to joke that I'm a hoarder because I buy old books and magazines. And I collect pre CD games.

But this argument gets old. I get tired of trying to explain to grown adults why they should want to preserve things. They don't care and they never will care. They have stupid trivial shit to do. They don't have the time, energy or desire to pass anything along. Hell most of them can't be bothered to resell things or donate things when they are done.

If they want all of our entertainment output to be disposable, good. Whatever. I don't care. I'm tired of arguing with hippies, yuppies and fat lazy man children. They've won. They can have their world of smoke, mirrors and toilet paper.


And it isn't like anything right now is really worth passing on. God forbid if there were no physical copies of Transformers 2, Weezer's newest album, or Mario sports 12

[Yoshi]

[gamevet]

The music "industry" is having issues, but bands are making as much or more than ever, it's just divided between more people than ever before.

This is directly because of the death of mainstream radio. In the UK, the sales of albums have been fairly constant for the last 20 years and have even grown somewhat in the last 10. But in 1996, Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act and deregulated ownership of radio stations. Viacom, Clear Channel, and Time Warner bought up every station in the country, and let their marketing department try to pick their playlists, and they've been in a downward spiral ratings-wise ever since.

So now there's no mainstream. People just don't listen to the radio anymore, and a lot of them don't listen to new music at all. It's just a bunch of shitheads who are too stubborn to admit they were wrong to fire people who were good at picking hits in favor of fundamentally flawed "market research." People who do buy music listen to more obscure bands, and music is far more decentralized.

I'm not really sure that's a problem, by the way. I'm just saying it's their own fault and it's maddening that they'll never accept accountability for it.

Agreed!

Dallas/Ft. Worth is the 7th largest market in the US, yet it's corporate radio stations are some of the worst in the country. The Eagle plays the same old hard rock music they've been playing for the past 10 years; while in the 90's they'd play anything that was new. I travel to a place like Albuquerque, and their rock station is playing new music.

[Frogacuda]

I know exactly what it means, but thank you for your typical condescending bullshit. It hasn't started in this thread yet, but it's coming.

But no one was making a semantic debate of any kind. It's not the first time I've seen you drop the word in that context (or lack thereof) either.

[Andrew]

While I've warmed up to buying some games online, I don't want to live in a digital-only world. There's something to be said for ownership of a product versus renting it long-term.

I know exactly what it means, but thank you for your typical condescending bullshit.