The bit where it asks you whether you'd chose to have only your book collection or your computer or your dvd collection and the others never again is quite possibly the most evil and demented question ever devised. How are you supposed to choose?!
It was hard. Really hard. But then I figured that with the computer, you could download illegal copies of most books and movies (and if they're old enough, legal copies for the books), so I went with that. Plus there are these things called libraries that I've heard are rumored to exist, for those books that aren't online. It was tough giving up my copies of all seasons of stargate and firefly, not to mention my Harry Potter and Bujold books, though.
My theory was that in time the DVD's will be replaced by a new format, so I could start collecting whatever that was and that computers get outdated pretty fast too, so there wasn't much point in sticking with the same one of those either (I'm pretty sure it wasn't multiple, so I'm theorising that I'd have been stuck with the same computer forever). That left the good old books, which just keep going and going assuming you don't accidently destroy them, have a fire or a flood.
Plus I'm pretty sure my book collection is worth a whole lot more than my DVD's and computer. Quite possibly combined.
I figured I'd be allowed to replace the computer since for DVD and book collections you'd be allowed to add to them, presumably. It only said specifically that you were not permitted to replace the options that you decided not to keep.
I also have two computers (1 laptop, 1 desktop) and figured I'd have to toss both of them if I chose either of the collections. As they were both moderately high end systems, I figured they were both worth more than my collection of novels (probably the cheapest of the three, especially since I don't think I bought more than about a tenth of them myself) and my DVDs (with all the tv seasons I've been buying lately, this probably outstrips the book collection) combined (easily; together they might match the laptop or even the desktop, but not both).
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Plus I'm pretty sure my book collection is worth a whole lot more than my DVD's and computer. Quite possibly combined.
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I also have two computers (1 laptop, 1 desktop) and figured I'd have to toss both of them if I chose either of the collections. As they were both moderately high end systems, I figured they were both worth more than my collection of novels (probably the cheapest of the three, especially since I don't think I bought more than about a tenth of them myself) and my DVDs (with all the tv seasons I've been buying lately, this probably outstrips the book collection) combined (easily; together they might match the laptop or even the desktop, but not both).
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So thou shalt bow down before me....
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