MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: I didn't even get mad.

> I'm sure I can look into recovery options. The point was, the damage was done. No
> point in getting mad. The loss affected us both equally.

It's not even about the loss affecting you two equally, it's simply that there's no point in getting mad when it comes to lost data. It's not going to get the data back, and it's not going to warp you to a few hours earlier to push Gatinha's hands away from the keyboard and mouse.

I have kind of an odd attitude towards backups, I just don't bother with them, as I don't hold any particular attachment to the data on my hard drives. I've lost enough data over the years that I've become numb to data loss. I've written plenty of programs, downloaded tons of things, and taken plenty of pictures and videos that I won't ever get back, granted. But ultimately the ones that actually meant anything to me wound up being uploaded to places like Imgur, or on other websites, so that I could share the good memories with the various friends I've got across the web. Everything else I can rewrite (and better), re-download, or recall from my memory; and as anyone knows, the grass in your memory is more green, the clouds in your memory are more shapely, and the women in your memory are more beautiful versus when you finally go and look back at the actual photo. So I'm kind of okay with that stuff staying in my head.