Packing up all of my physical games had me thinking. Is it still necessary for me to hold on to these things? Sure, they are worth quite a lot to me. I have played a majority of them and as the saying goes, you can't take it with you, and in this rapid digital age, physical game ownership just feels quite limp, quite vapid. I know it's probably the exhaustion talking - I dare you to pack around 3,000 games and smile at the end of the process - but I want to entertain the thought seriously for a minute. Do I lose anything if I let go of these games at this point in my life? Sure, the void can be felt with such a drastic measure, but I have a majority of my games digitally these days, thanks to the fully evolved Personal Computer gaming distribution. Let's just pretend that I am willing to make this change in my life as a gamer, will I miss my physical games? I mean, once they are shelved, it's not like I caress them every single day, and it's not like I actually play them often. I get a lot of digital games nowadays, so it's not like I am ever going to run out of things to play before my eventual death. So then why are they still here? They are causing me a lot of headaches because I have to ensure that they are well taken care of both when they are stationary and when they need to be transported somewhere. This move involves a long, fantastical, epic, dangerous(?) journey that in itself will take a lot out of me - I am already feeling the effect of it - and it just feels like perhaps it's just not worth all the pain and hassle of taking these along with me.
Guess what's in all of these boxes?
