>>16597522Am I one of the few that actually cleanses older machines when their time has come?
And no, I don't mean wiping the hard drive. Sage doesn't just go in the email field, after all. You spend hours, days, months, years communing with a computer, pouring your words and thoughts and emotions through it.
Did you think that all that would change nothing? Machines develop their own ghosts- not just computers, but all sorts of faithful, unspeaking machine-servants one happens to have around the house.
Lay them to rest before you consign their bodies to the fires of a recycling center, wipe the slate clean. You wonder how those gremlin-plagued items you buy got that way? Something in there remembers being discarded without respect by a previous owner, and will make you regret it. Is it animism of a sort? Sure. But if you've ever read any of those "machine spirits in RL" threads on /tg/ (this one included), you might understand.
