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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

if you enjoy hoarding stuff like this then it's worth it. 8GB of space for such a massive archive is really not that much, so it's not like it is costing you anything to archive them.

If you don't want to hold on to these files for whatever reason, upload them somewhere such as archive.org then other people can hoard them if they choose to do so. I bet there is something in there that someone has been looking for, and I guess that's what hoarding data is all about, making sure that media, in this case games, don't get lost to time like many have.