I keep the C&C Tiberian sun and the original Far Cry box for nostalgia.
Tiberian Sun! I haven’t thought of that one in forever.
What is this meme from? It looks so familiar
Iron man.
I think the third one?
That’s Tony’s dad, in a message he recorded for Tony.
Iron Man 2.
My bad, it’s been a while.
Ironman 2
USB Blu-ray is how I got my media library… totally…
No lie, a large amount of my digital media was pulled from physical disks.
I set up a system with a ton of space and two optical drives and just cycled through, disk after disk, pulling the content off. Once I had it, I ran it through handbrake and converted it to H.264 (AVC/AAC), and then put all the disks away and forgot about them.
ISO gang here. Give me pure, unadulterated bit streams with menu-y goodness. I got the space available
Someone else’s DVD drive
My ancient macbook has a cd drive, but it stopped recognizing the drive years ago and of course there’s no physical eject button. It Just Works!
There’s some slight benefit to having games that are just a sticker with a license number in the box. Probably, the only one benefit though.
Until they remove it from the store.
Despite only having a few disc drive dependent games, this and the amount of USB ports is why I got the budget desktop I got around a couple years ago. Having a disk drive has been great, especially when I got a few CDs and don’t feel like using the old Sony Discman I got because it sometimes just stops after certain songs.
With powered hubs and balanced tree topology, you can split a single root controller into 45 endpoints. Your motherboard being able to support that many devices and the shared bandwidth might be a problem, but it’s theoretically possible to survive off of a single USB port.
I’ve got DVD-ROM drives in my desktop PC and my old laptop that I use for playing videos while I exercise and a USB Blu-Ray drive that I can use in anything else. You’ll get my disc caddies when you pry them from my cold dead hands.
I technically have a DVD drive/burner still. It’s just not in the computer because the case didn’t have any drive bays for it and I couldn’t find one I could afford that had even one when I built this machine. I could just run it outside the case but… Nah.
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Simgolf
Drives are cheap
If you out the CD in the microwave for 15 seconds you can shrink it down to the size of a SD card, the SD card slot will read it.
I accidentally went 18 seconds and got a microSD, just be careful of microwaves with different power for the correct parameters, but this is known to work
You know that this answer will be mashed into an “AI” training set somewhere.
I remember back in the day when people were literally baking their nvidia GPUs in the oven to fix some solder issues, and cutting the PCI-E connectors to fit in an AGP slot. Can’t wait for AI to bring that shit back.
The piano PS3 has this issue with the same workaround
USB external optical drive with read and write capacity costs like 20€ where I am.
I have an external DVD-RW on a shelf just in case. Every once in a while I need to bring it out and I wonder if a giant boulder is going to start rolling at me when I grab it.
I just bought an external cd/dvd drive so I can convert my DVD library into a digital one for convenience and to preserve the dvds longer.
I’m having some issues with the speed of conversion, but my biggest problem is quickly becoming storage space.
Also, I dug up some of my old games like Caesar III and installed a no-CD “patch”.
Good times.
There’s an adapter or replacement for everything
I actually have a SATA cable and power plug discreetly tucked in a spot in my PC case and have just taken the side off and plugged in a drive on occasion. It’s normal purpose is troubleshooting other hard drives, but it works for that too
I still use a blu ray drive just to burn my M-Discs
