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PC died on this hill... (i.redd.it)
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[–] 30 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Do people do this outside of videogames? For me the main reason was always that, instead of burning finite resources, I could always solve the problem burning infinite resources (retrying with quicksave)

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  • [–] 28 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Do people do this outside of videogames?

    All the time. Check that bottle of fancy liquor in the cabinet, the one that's being saved for a special occasion ... but ends up never opened, covered in dust, because its owner died before a special enough occasion ever came.

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  • [–] 14 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

    Yes. It's worse with niche hobbies that used to be popular because you can still get older parts that are still good but no longer made. If you pass up something now you may never have a chance to get it again.

    Vacuum tubes would be an example.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

    Interesting! What hobbies require vacuum tubes, and they are not made anymore at all?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago

    Guitar pedals and amps would be one example of a place where tubes are still used. Audio or RF amplifiers, etc. Honestly the wikipedia page isn't that bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube#Vacuum_tubes_in_the_21st_century The transistor largely replaced vacuum tubes.

    And it's not that they aren't made anymore, they're just not made in the quantity and variety they used to be. You can find auctions on ebay where there are random assortments of tubes that are probably part of some estate sale. If you know the numbers you can get a picture of the person's life: some tubes for ham radio person, some for audiophiles, but carefully curated and held onto until the end, just in case.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I don't think many people drink health potions, no.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Those fine China tableware grandma kept in her cabinets for special guests that never saw the light of day. I guess no one was special enough. :'(

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    I read "my Chinese grandma" first and I thought oh, that guy also has a Chinese grandma with a hoarding problem.

    My Chinese grandma would save all good and expensive food like foreign chocolate until it has gone absolutely bad and then give it to us to eat or gift it to other people.

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