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1. just an actual husbear (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Apr-2022 11:45:54 EDT just an actual husbear
   @Moon I'm moving in two months and I'm looking at my collection right now and wondering if it's all worth moving and keeping. It's not gigantic, for the most part I can fit it in one bookshelf and a couple of boxes of accessories. I kept building it up thinking someday I'll really have the time to dig into it and appreciate it all fully, but it feels like I'm never going to have that kind of time until retirement, and will I even care about all this then, or would I not have more fun spending my days fishing, building a cabin or whatever else old men do at retirement?
   1. just an actual husbear (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Apr-2022 11:51:05 EDT just an actual husbear

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      @Moon But then I start thinking about what to get rid of, and thinking about just throwing away the time investment in researching and buying all of this, getting functional kits with all the cables I could need, controllers, flash carts, etc... it makes me wince. Some of these are rare or needed lots of time and research to get all the accessories put together into a nice setup; a Genesis with both the CD and 32X. A functional C64 setup with a disk drive, SD card reader, all manner of accessories from Wifi modem to MIDI input. One of the rare North American MSX, complete with music keyboard, SD card adapter... A Dreamcast with a working DreamPi and all I need to play stuff like PSO online.
      
      Others are not that special but feel essential: can you be into retro games and not own a NES or SNES?
      
      And others I have less attachment to, but I get more use out of those than all the rest of the retro stuff: the PS2 mostly. I actually play that one more frequently; it's not emulated on hardware I have and I completely missed out on its excellent library when it was new.
      
      So when I think about pruning my collection, I start trying to find excuses to exclude this or that console, for one for these reasons (was too difficult to put a kit together, is too essential, is actually being somewhat used). And almost all of these are well emulated on the MiSTer, in a format that actually feels to me like handling original hardware. I could even keep my CRT and original controller and my experience would be almost indistinguishable from the hardware. I feel it's mostly sunk cost (in both money and time) that's keeping me in.