Because the end of the industry.

Why are you still breathing if you will never reproduce?

because it's mine now

I keep them in hopes of watching them some day with my significant other.

really though, i do rewatch certain shows quite often, but I do'nt know about the rest.

that being said I only keep maybe 1/3 of the shows I watch.

I ADMIT IT. I HOARD.

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW????

>bitches don´t know about my streams

>>46498364

>significant other

That will never happen for you.

external HD

streamers dont know

I've watched all the anime on my hard drive. I keep it on there so I can share it with friends, or if I'm in the mood, watch some random scenes.

That's a good question, OP, and I wish I could answer you, I really do, but I don't even know myself. Each time I finish a series, three more get downloaded and needless to say, 2/3 of what I download probably won't be watched for months or even years.

>>46498364
Protip: the captured women you keep in your basement don't count as significant others.

>>46498364
i know that feel bro

>>46498364
Same here. I've met the person I want to watch it with, all I have to do is ask them.

But I never will ;_;

>>46498345
exactly.
>>46498342
It will come slowly, we are slowly creeping into moe death.

because

iv rewatched hajime no ippo several times

I keep series mainly to share with others, but sometimes I'll rewatch one.

Streamers gonna stream

Because there might be a time that I will feel like watching it or watching it again. You can never be too prepared

Digital media allows me to express my obsessive pack-rat tenancies without shitting up my living area any longer.

Actually, all of that data is nothing until you actually watch it.

So, you're basically filling up space that only really matters when its full because you can't store anymore.

So why fill a glass of water up to the rim if you won't even drink half of it?

Mere capacity means that since you can, it's not possible to avoid this happening no matter what you do.

Needless to say, I now want to download NEEDLESS again because that show was fucking awesome.

I don't.

>download anime
>watch right away
>download another series while watching current one
>repeat

so I can take screenshots of stuff I don't like and complain about it later on /a/

Some I rewatch. Others it's nice to have on-hand, as I recommend a lot of anime to people.

Because one day I hope to share it with someone.
forever alone.

Rainy day etc.

I'm a back rat when it comes to computer files


hell I still have papers I wrote from high school on my hard drive

>>46498312
because I'm a HOARDER, and this is most positive manifestation of that trait I can exhibit w/o losing my home/family

*8+TBs worth*

fuck, I don't even know man

in case the internet breaks down.

The only anime I keep in my HD are the ones I rewatch.

>>46498657
Download, watch and delete brofist

>>46498683
this.

"one day someone will appreciate it with me..."
;_;

>>46498711
Shit. I'm paranoid this will happen eventually. I save every fucking thing.

Why do you have clothes other than your t-shirt, boxers, and sweatpants if you're never going to go outside?

Actually, I will watch it all eventually. I got through three series this reading break. It would've been more but I was feeling really sick, and kept getting headaches.

I swear to god I was going to watch them when the download finished

1) Rainy day.
2) Introducing to friends.
3) Random urges.

True, I barely ever touch them again. But, you never know. A couple months, I had a random urge to rewatch Eden of the East, even though I had seen it before, and I was thankful for it being on my HD.

>>46498763
That will never happen, ISPs always have a failsafe.

I watch everything I download and delete the vast majority of it. I hate having useless shit around and I hate collecting things. That's just the way I am.

When internet censorship finally gets passed, I will have contraband to remind me of the good ol' days.

Hell, I could be the Al Capone of anime.

Im Canadian, HDD space is cheaper than bandwidth.

>>46498854
touche, motherfucker, touche

>>46498854
makes perfect sense, in fact its probably faster to put like 40 BDs on a hard drive and fly them to their location

kids these days. i used to put stuff on CDs. do you have any idea what that's like?

>>46498911
the twelve 256cd zippered cases still in my closet say, yes.

kids these days. i used to put stuff on Floppy Disk. do you have any idea what that's like?

>>46498911

>CD's

3.5 floppy disk master race here

>>46498991

>>46498911

Yes and it's terrible.

punch card elder race here

Lots of people come to me about anime stuff, asking for animes, etc.
Plus we usually use my external hard drive for anime club.

I will watch it! I'm just going to wait to do it until my internet goes out again or something.

>>46499004
>>46498991

>installing game
>your installation is almost complete
>please insert disk 5 of 14

I translate all of my anime to morse code and save it as .mid files. That's how I compressed Legend of Galactic Heroes to 3.6MB.

so I can procrastinate in style

>>46499124
>installing windows 7
Please insert disk 53 of 2025

Because what else am I going to put on my HDD?
Porn, games and animu is all that makes it onto my hard-drive. And I always feel more inclined to delete some porn or uninstall a game than my precious animu.

I've been hoarding files for ages now. I still have some stuff from my DOS times around.

Anyway, occasionally the old files are useful for screenshots to post to /a/. As a reminder of things i liked. And if nostalgia hits me to rewatch them. You'll never know WHAT you'll want to rewatch in the future.

The same reason I don't throw out books after I read them.

remember how when you booted a computer it used to boot to DOS. You then had to

c:\win

to launch windows

>>46498991
Yup, I remember those 8 inches pieces of plastic

I could write in a sheet of paper more data then in one of those

>>46499241
Im pretty sure this is the best argument I've heard in defence of keeping anime on your HDD.

Well done, good sir.

Because I might feel like watching it again, or I might want to share with friends.

I've rewatched NGE recently, and will probably do so again, and I'm reqtching S&W right now.

>>46499067
I used to retype illegal books, on a typewriter, with several sheets of carbon paper stuffed in to make copies.

No I didn't, but that's what they did in the USSR from the 60s all the way up to the mid-80s. I just learned that today.

>>46499243
cd \windows
win.com


And then there was the optimizing config.sys/autoexec.bat so you had enough memory below 640k to still execute games...

yeah... good old times.

>>46499298

>8 inch floppy
>http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&biw=1440&bih=716&q=8+inch+floppy&um
=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=13309562695090515130&sa=X&ei=lAlrTfTGKsKB8gbr3cn3Cw&ved=0CEYQ8wI
wBw#

>>46499241

ahah wow good one. i never realized why i do it either. I don't really rewatch them either. Its more of keeping what i like as if it were a dvd. Also recommending animes for friends is easy when you actually have the series instead of their dumbasses going to go stream it somewhere in low qual.

>>46499403
wingcommander. 1,2, and 3.
oh yeah baby, 3 was a total trip, 4 CD's!

There was a time when I did not have the luxury of saving, let alone downloading anime due to limited hard drive space. So now I save everything as a big "Fuck you!" to my past.

Old PC: 30GB
Current PC: almost 2.5TB

I don't, because I don't download anime like a faggot.

I just watch it on youtube.

>>46499313
No it isn't. How many books do you re-read? Keeping books is as pointless as keeping anime.

>>46499493
Boy do I know that feel. My old computer was 20GB, and I'm near 2TB now. Thinking I need to get me a new external soon, too. Only about 200GB left, and I need that for a video series I do on YouTube.

Because bad manga to anime adaptations might become relevant
some
day

... i dont.

...because i stream

>>46499423
Dude this was back in 76

why would I use a format that can only hold 1mb of data?
my cellphone has a flash card that holds 8gigs and its less then a inch^2
TECHINOLOGY

damn my computer is old now it only has 1.5 Gb of ram and 250 of disk space

I cant wait until 1TB hard drives get cheap enough. I'll start saving all my anime instead of the ones I'm currently watching.

>>46501308
1TB drives cost around 60-70$ now, still too expensive?

I don't know why.
I have collected almost every show from 2009 all the way up til now. and i've only seen like 10 shows in total