Wondering if this is common with ADHD. maybe not only physical media but just things in general. I for one am not a fan that everything is digital and nonexistent so make it a point to own media I care about on physical copies.
I’m a broke computer nerd, always been more about being able to enjoy something than have it in my hands.
That said, I am going to save up for the Murder, She Wrote Blu-Ray set that just came out because the series takes up over 150GB on my media drive and I’m worried about not being able to find it online in the future since it’s such an old person show.
I certainly don’t. I actually prefer digital. It’s a lot easier (and cheaper) to expand and organize my digital storage space than it is to expand and organize my physical storage space.
Now, that doesn’t mean I like the whole “license vs owning” shit. I just like that I can have a thing without having a thing. The thing I care about is the song, the movie, the book, the game, etc.
It also helps against the tendency to hoard. Can’t fill my living space with junk if all the junk I collect is digital. 😌
I have a huge physical media collection. I don’t feel like I actually own something unless I can touch it. The only time I buy digital is when something isn’t available any other way. I think in my case it’s an autism thing rather than an ADHD thing since I’m both.
I long for the physical, but am tied to the digital. If you made me open a disk-drive, put a disk in, wait however long it takes to get something running I think I’d pull my hair out nowadays.
Im still listening to my reel to reel tapes and quite enjoy threading the tape and rewinding etc. Guess im weird!!
I remember I bought some tapes a hundred years ago from some sweet asshole (they exist) at some so and such. I used the codes for Bandcamp, and never touched those damn tapes. I swore I would try to curb any of that mindless “quaint” spending. I have, but in general I just wish we had less stuff on this planet as a whole. I love paper. So damn much. It’s my favorite thing to draw on. I make sure what I am using is explicitly used, instead of gathered. If you’re using your tape-y, tapes - then it’s working out. People used tape-y, tapes all the time back in the day. You’re not weird, you’re just a person who enjoys what they like and like I said at one point what you liked was the norm. Or actually, if you have ADHD - you are weird, cause we all are. So I take that back!
I would say it’s mostly because of ADHD that I prefer digital. I don’t lose it, it doesn’t turn into clutter, I can take it with me without having to remember (e.g. on the steam deck or switch)…
There’s the downside of publishers sometimes removing access to the content, but that’s more of a downside of bad actors rather than digital explicitly - people who bought The Crew as a physical copy still lost access because ubisoft sucks, not because it was digital.
Ah see, the problem for me with digital is I do lose it. I cannot standardize a naming or file format, so I end up with so much clutter. Id much rather organize my records by artist a to z and be able to physically see it. Maybe im just old
I think that’s just you. I’m like the exact opposite of that
Seems like a lot of people do! I guess I jist prefer the realness and not having to worry about it being lost In pile of digital mess or be gone forever if a drive fails then have to worry about 3 backup systems etc…
I feel the opposite, I wish more things could be digital. It is convenient and easy to backup.
But honestly I don’t think this is ADHD, maybe the fact that it can be taken to a certain absolutist level is the ADHD part.
If so I didn’t get the memo. I can’t even remember the last time I bought a physical game. I think FIFA 2014 got bundled in when I bought a PS4 like 12 years ago if that counts. Don’t believe I’ve bought a single one since. I love the convenience of my Steam and GOG libraries.
So, I’m actually a big fan of digital. My disks don’t get scratched, my tapes aren’t lost under the bed, and I don’t spill anything on my books.
That being said, I do feel the urge to collect things, and even though I’m not buying physical media, I see merch related to it and think “I should have that. I don’t know what I’d do with it, but I should have it.”
Fortunately, I’m too broke to act on these urges, but I totally understand them.
Absolute opposite for me - give me digital everything as it’s easier to store and organise and doesn’t make clutter.
