My dad has a huge tape collection with no player.

So they just sit in the basement

They are still used espacialy in industrial enviroments for backups

So they haven't switched to CD-Roms yet?

Well you can get a couple terrabyte on a tape you can fit in the palm of your hand.For backups perfectly legitimate

We might be thinking of different things then, I was thinking of VHS tapes and Cadets tapes.

Nah tapes evolved, too.

Still not suitable for quick access out of order but bigger.

6.25 Terrabyte for 30€ from what i can quickly find on amazon atm.

Dang, much better then a hard drive.

except itll take forever to access whatever individual file you may want to access

great for backups, sure.

But for gamers novdays, even HDDs can be impeding compared to SSDs.

SSDs are the only way to go if you care about performance

HDD should be backup only

yeah. Tbh, im lagging behind quite a bit myself

I do have one small SSD. But tbh, there is so much out there and i tend to prefer indie games anyways that lagging a few years behind is perfectly acceptable to me.

Cloud services are the next big thing - or already are

but for games you cant go around an ssd at the end

with oneDrive for example, i can extend my laptops memory virtually by one TB with ease, it synchronizes on demand. The only thing is that you need to have a good internet connection for

Yep. And let's hope that internet speeds get better overtime

God - the internet in germany is really fucking bad

comparable to some third world countries

Well, as i said, im lagging in terms of the types of games i play. Oxygen not included, crusader kings II, Prison architect, Fallout New vegas, Dont Starve, sheltered, rebuild 3, Cultist simulator, Kerbal Space program and The long dark being among my most played games for steam (of course, i dont just play on steam, old games in dosbox or games that are either open source or to un-PC to be on steam are also among the things i play)

Oh i dont play any video games <:608:480186137164382208>

Nerd! ;P

i jest, of course

Man I', behind you on computer knowlage

I was a huge fan of Diablo based games back when i was 15-18. Played a lot of Titan Quest, Path of exile, Grim Dawn. Anything besides diablo itself lol

Titan Quest and Age of Empires II are my favourite games of all time

Counter Strike for life

Age of mythology was a great game

Oh yea i also played that dead @the adventures male

Not that big on shooters myself for the most part. Though, when i was 13 i played Max Payne A LOT.

I didn't know english and played it XDD

Oh, its part of what taught me english

I can still speak along with the dialouge after all those decades as i recently noticed.

This is how I basicly studied English

Same. Im german and it was on the index here so no reason to try and translate...

By the way, "banned in germany" is how this is often advertised. No, it doesnt mean its banned. It just means you cant publicly advertise for it.

Though advertisment does include it being on shelves of a place where minors have access.