[Vampyr]

So I was driving over to the gym to workout today, and I got a call from my girlfriend that the Wii wouldn't turn on.

My response:

"Aw, that sucks. I guess we'll have to get a new one - they just released those Black Wii's."

Her response:

"What about the virtual console games you bought?"

Me:

"We'll just redow - holy shit."

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Ultimately it ended up that our apartment has been having some power surge problems, so we had to unplug the Wii and rehook it up, and it started working again.

But one day, it will fail. Whether from old age, my house burning down, or the earth being swallowed by a black hole.

I'm so used to the things I buy digitally being tied to an account that is stored on a database somewhere and probably backed up three or four times.

I mean, just imagine if Steam games were tied to your PC, rather than your Steam account.

The VC was one of my favorite things about the Wii. It was practically the only reason I still own it, other than a select few other games. But what the hell. I can't keep investing in something that I know will eventually just be lost to me.