[ SECRET POST #5843 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5843 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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03. [WARNING for discussion of IRL war/current events/2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]




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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 12 secrets from Secret Submission Post #836.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a troll in the thread for #3? Some of the anti Ukraine comments sound similar.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/DUDljut.png

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhhhhhhhh. Preservation, especially digital preservation, has always been a challenge. But at least when you actually own media, you have a right to take whatever steps you need to take to preserve it, instead of being legally at the whim of some megacorp.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who just bought a used iphone 11 off my coworker when they upgraded to replace my dying iphone 6s, and who can't fucking transfer some of the ebooks I bought from apple because the rights are no longer available to apple users in the US, yeah, no.

Physical media absolutely breaks down and transferring from format to format ranges from "mildly difficult" to "fairy tale quest," but at least my ownership is harder to revoke if there's a rights dispute.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you miss the point of these arguments. I don't mind digital media. In fact, I prefer it to hard copies. I mind having to lease my media rather than own it outright. If I buy an ebook, I should always own a copy of that even if the publisher decides they no longer want it sold on Amazon. (Should be tough shit for them.) In that sense, we were always better off when he owned our stuff outright.

[(Anonymous)]

I have shellac '45s that still play fine, on brand-new record players. (Unless the shellac chips off, but we don't talk about that.) And books from the 1850s that are more readable than ones from the 1970s (Even under LED bulbs!).

Stuff that's made to last will last, and stuff that doesn't rely on specific encryption or encoding is a lot more resilient. (A lot of media from the last seventy years wasn't made to last. But that applies many times over to digital.)

[(Anonymous)]

I'd rather deal with something naturally breaking down many years later, with some chance and every right to recover it, than a greedy corporation revoking my access for arbitrary reasons months later. If something is important to you, and you actually own it, you can usually take simple steps to minimize the chance of future inaccessibility anyway.

Ideally, digital ownership would have been an upgrade in longevity, but in practice, it's been a lot of bullshit.

There are other issues with "access" vs. "ownership", such as not being able to easily share with friends or return it, but that varies based on the type of content/service (for example, Steam being generous about refunds and mentioning they would let you download offline copies if they shut down, though who knows if they'd stay true to their word). At the very least, I wish the _option_ to own was more common and practical. Streaming services and subscriptions are here to stay, but that shouldn't be the only way to acquire most media.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh...on the one hand yeah, time marches on and physical media degrades. On the other, if you have things on VHS there are various ways you can transfer them to digital format. CDs can be converted to mp3 before they degrade, and if it is degraded for some at least you can probably still find a secondhand one and use that. I have binders full of burned fansubs that still work, and if my computer doesn't have a disc drive I can buy an external one. I can transfer my media as many times as it takes and won't ever lose it barring something catastrophic like a fire or complete hard drive meltdown (and for the latter I have more than one backup).

By contrast, when HBO takes a show off streaming it's gone unless the pirates saved it. Amazon can take books off my Kindle, Apple Music can overwrite my own mp3s with different versions. That's a whole different level of unable to preserve beyond simply tech degrading.

[(Anonymous)]

This is laserdisc erasure!

[(Anonymous)]

So yeah, maybe individual medias won't last forever - but I still prefer to actually own what I bought then to pay to rent just to temporarily own it, or have it removed by the corporation that decides you can't watch it 'because they say so.'

Also, cloud storage isn't some magical thing that's immune to fault. It's all on machines that could break - like if a magnetic bonb goes off in the right place that could take it all down.

[(Anonymous)]

OP is right, and y'all need to do more piracy.

[(Anonymous)]

My cassettes from 1983 and my VHS tape of Vincent and Theo dubbed off of Cinemax thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a difference between time and entropy taking my media, like it takes all things, and some douchebag deciding that they don't want to pay the artist anymore and removing media from their streaming service and into a vault forever. It's not actually about the physical media, it's about the control.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/mjxbyGb.png

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen some discussion when it was first announced, but thankfully seem to have missed most of it since then. Yeah, it's one thing for hype to start ridiculously early, but wank, discourse, complaints? Please at least wait until you've seen the damn thing.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/Km8GbpP.png

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not into politician RPF but dang! I hope someone writes that story, with Trudeau hanging out with Zelensky, the two men talking about war and loyalty and sacrifice, waiting to see if the bomb does exist and will explode, and then having wall slamming sex in the conference room with their bodyguards outside. That would be *awesome.*

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04. https://i.imgur.com/fqq2KCJ.png

[(Anonymous)]

The theme is amazing. I'll turn it there just to hear the music, tbh.

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05. https://i.imgur.com/z5j1hc6.png

[(Anonymous)]

Which Star Wars are we talking about that's grimdark exactly? Is this something they did in the TV shows?

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06. https://i.imgur.com/a6UuKgf.png

[(Anonymous)]

They're very different characters, but imo Scanlan is definitely better, I agree with you there.

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NS, NF, etc.

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General comments:

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Kevin McCarthy is a loser

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Kevin sucks, for real.

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Games thread!

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