>>43604
It's not worthless. And I do. Enjoying them is about 40% of the motivation for collecting them.
Having content for review and sharing with others is the majority of the rest of the motivation.
Having absolutely perfect rips of anything at all is but a small portion of what I care about. I only ever go for that when it's actually feasible and reasonable. Such as with video game console collections small enough to fit in a few dozen GB like most of No-Intro; if the most perfect rip is right in front of me already without exhaustive search; or if it's the only version I can actually find.
Regardless of motivation, having the content accessible in the first place is the absolute goal. Perfect rips are just icing on the cake, so to speak.
Having things in a usable format is inherently desirable, even for archival.
Even if you consider it imperfect, even if you consider it of less worth than perfect data, it's still data, which is miles better than NO data. And it's usable data at that.
But I'd go so far as to say imperfections may actually ADD worth. Particularly with the including of subtitles or removal of anti-piracy messages and advertisements. Or in some cases, like this one rip of Qwaser I have, drastically cleaning up the fucking awful scaling for the bluray release by pre-filtering, so that I don't have to waste electricity doing it myself.
I do not like dealing only in absolutes like all or nothing. Because it's absolutely retarding. Literally so. And also generally impossible.
Worth less? Maybe; arguably at least. Worthless? Fuck no. All discernible data has worth, even if it's relatively worth less than other data.
>>44113
I'd argue that if you ONLY take your philosophy to its logical extreme then it's even more open to attack. Due to having no room for rationality and reason.
Hell, such extremist philPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
