The harder side of curation: Removal

I quite like Transparency Boo. They do video essays (mostly) about video games. If there is one thing I would say connects all their work it’s curiousity.

Some of my favourite videos from them are their essays on Spyro 1 Japan, Aquanauts Holiday and OutRun. They also recently dropped their long anticipated 6 hour Klonoa 1 video.

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They look pretty neat, I’ll def check them out! Thanks!

Okay PHEW. Yeah a full library metadata update would cause lots of issues, but tagging as you tip is the play. ^^; had me worried for a sec
But at the same time, I guess SOMEONE’s gotta do it - I need to be more mindful about doing it for discs that don’t pull metadata automatically and submitting it back.
I always think when I retire I’ll start cataloging my own database for TV shows and stuff
In fact, the whole original reason I started this site was to catalog demo discs this way and apparently I only ever posted one. I’ve also lost my original rips so I think I’m starting over this fall.

This is precisely what paralyzes me. Especially for stuff I can’t reasonably sell, so I either dump at goodwill or something or risk it getting trashed, which feels like worst case scenario.

I DID just dump a massive pile of stuff at Half Price Books - only got like $125 for it all ($114 after the kid got a Minecraft cup lol) but it’s money I didn’t have before and stuff out of my house, so that’s a win!

So I recently heard of a method someone uses for curation that I’m gonna try next time I am pruning my collection.

They basically ask themselves if they would buy the game again if they didn’t have it. In a position that is removed from any good deals or FOMO, as they already have the game.

See, I feel like I’d struggle to actually validate that operating from a place of already having the thing