Greentext is reductive, but at the same time DVDs and optical media in general are a paradox. In theory, they will last forever, but at the same time there are so many ways to fuck up with them that they’re basically only good as like a plan Z storage for really important files that you wrap in cardboard and leave in the closet.
rookie mistake :3
Codex are doing the real game preservation nowadays
This pops into my head everytime Mutahar goes on one of his “preservation rants.” My guy I do not care if the game gets deleted, it will be backed up digitally if it’s worth backing up.
When you pirate an entire console’s library at once but then are like “Oh no it’s okay if I say it’s preservation first”
Disc rot is so overblown I’m genuinely convinced companies are influencing discussion around it to scare people away from optical media.
In the, probably near 1000, discs I own
I have one with rot, and that’s a CD manufactured in a specific plant, within a specific timeframe known (for decades now) to have had issues.
So it’s not as if it’s a random occurrence which has caused that disc to fail, but posts like this always seem to push the idea that “your disc could just die at any time bro” and it’s simply not true.