Ka-pi96 said:
Ganoncrotch said:
I think the main way we survived without having gigs of data pouring into our houses was because back in the 90s our video games were 512KB of Sonic the Hedgehog which arrived in a cartridge sold by a nice person at a game shop, now our games are either sold at gamestop along with trying to sell you an upgrade to your loyalty to gamestop and disc insurance for laser burn (on a 3ds cartridge) while you just want your damn game, so more and more people are going to the internet to download their games direct instead, but... long gone are the days of the 512kb Sonic and now we have 40+ GB battlefield and 80+GB Witcher and Fallout 4 on the PS4.
If it wasn't for games I would be happy around the 250gb mark I would wager.... but even still, the majority of the TV watched in our house is from Netflix or one of the other streaming services, terrestrial channels here in Ireland are just gone to shit, not only are they funded by a 160per year fee but they also incorperate advertisments which can almost double the run time of shows, big bangs 20 min episodes are over half an hour here because of it, after streaming without adverts I found it impossible to go back to such disjointed entertainment.
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Isn't that... normal? 
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Our next door neighbours main TV provider gets funded solely by the fee paid, most countries do either one or the other, ours does both because greed.
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