This shit didn’t go away. I let 2 people borrow my Oculus Quest and both of them deleted all my games and put their own accounts there with a PIN code to access the device without any permission to do that.
This reminds me of a semi-friend I knew in highschool, dude really thought he was a cool guy and everyone was always up his ass even though he was a huge jerk all of the time (like a wannabe Tosh.O kinda style). For some reason I let him borrow my WC2 Battle chest and after a few months I asked for it back and got only one disc that was so thoroughly scratched it never even registered.
Started hanging out with him like a decade later when he moved next to my bestfriend, got to tell him I thought he was a piece of shit in school because of how he treated my stuff but doubt he actually cared or really remembered.
Interestingly, had a meth head who was visiting my roommate for some drugs (had taken shit from our place in the past) who borrowed one of my vhs sets while I was at work (was thoroughly pissed thinking it was gone forever), he brought it back the next day and had even wiped down and fixed the broken flap on the box. I try not to judge people borrowing stuff because of that and only let people borrow items I’m ok with losing and wouldn’t sour a relationship over.
This is why you help your friends mod their console and give them copies of your games.
Damn this pic made me think of the struggle and how we wished for there to be a good format without this problem.
Then came bluray, famous for being scratch proof, and then we all decided optical disks aren’t as easy as little thumb drives.
It’s just not as satisfying as burning something new and then labeling it.
and then we all decided optical disks aren’t as easy as little thumb drives.
I just couldn’t watch The Hobbit on linux, i guess because the new keys used aren’t leaked yet (Video too new) or my drive (running a whole fuking VM) is too new, who knows?
Now imagine what they would’ve done with thumb drives? Just a remember; SSD are still running a blackbox firmware emulating a HDD.
Brass cleaner, a microfiber cloth, and some elbow grease can fix any scratched disc. Apply liberally, rub in a circular, outward motion (against the “grain”, i.e. against the pits where the data stream is stored). Repeat until disc works again.
I had a friend who didn’t take very good care of his games. When the game would stop loading, he’d let me keep it. They always came back to life using the Brasso technique. Got to enjoy a lot of free Xbox games thanks to him. Halo 2 was an especially memorable experience. My brother and I got many years of entertainment out of that one.
