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I was recently interviewed by the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social on the importance of physical media in light of Sony's recent decision to end production of it. It's awesome to see this issue breaking through into the mainstream. Keep fighting! 💿💾 www.tampabay.com/news/busines...

PlayStation is giving up on discs. Here’s what it means for Tampa Bay video game stores

An increasingly digital industry is affecting local stores built on selling physical games.

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> It's 2029 > You rent a PS6 for $199 a month > It only exists in the cloud > You hope you'll get lucky and it will be in one of the 7 new data centers on your street > You have no library - base subscription tier is 3 games a month > Play Has No Limits™

#Sony killing physical media during a storage crisis shows that the goal is to push all hardware and software into the cloud as quickly as possible. The media-less future planned for you is to own nothing, rent everything, and be datamined and surveilled by the worst people alive while doing so.

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Today in obscure #retrogaming in 1999, Racing Lagoon was released on the #PS1 by Square. A typical street racing game on the surface, Racing Lagoon hides a deep RPG experience, complete with an escalating plot of supernatural drift racing and existentialism; A truly surreal experience. 🌃🎡