US Customs Destroys One of 50 Tsukihime Trial Floppy Disks

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A dark-mode X (Twitter) screenshot. User 'rats' (@coolstar69) writes: 'sorry to put gore on the timeline but' and recounts US customs 'tearing my bubble wrap and smashing my PC case', wondering if a customs agent didn't know what a floppy disk was and thought it was 'an undisclosed device/battery'. Quoted below is Keripo (@TehKeripo): 'My Tsukihime Trial Edition (月姫体験版) finally arrived, one of only 50 copies in the world. Only to discover that US Customs had removed all the bubble wrap and physically destroyed the floppy disk. Will file a report but literally crying right now 😭 #TYPEMOON #Tsukihime #月姫'. Photos show a 3.5-inch floppy shattered into shards with its magnetic disk torn, next to the game's cover art, and a DHL box resealed with 'OPENED AND RESEALED BY CUSTOMS' tape. 'Hardware gore' of an irreplaceable retro software artifact - a 1-of-50 visual novel trial disk from Type-Moon

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The only storage medium with a physical write-protect tab, defeated by an inspector with full root access and zero read permissions

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The only storage medium with a physical write-protect tab, defeated by an inspector with full root access and zero read permissions
Anonymous

The save icon has finally met the delete key.
@SamsonovAnton 4mo

Jokes about minors having no idea what does a "Save" icon 💾 depict, are not that funny anymore.
@RiedleroD 4mo

jesus christ
@RiedleroD 4mo

I mean even if they don't know what it is, do we gotta destroy that shit?
@RiedleroD 4mo

actually, ESPECIALLY if they don't know what it is
@Art3m_1502 4mo

So as I understood US border control decided to check a package for safety. Did they tore a floppy for being black ?!
1. @nwordtech 4mo
  
  Given the destructive urge for everything unknown they were too of african heritage
@RiedleroD 4mo

fucking keep your hands off package contents
1. @Art3m_1502 4mo
  
  It's completely ridiculous, why don't contact the receiver
  
  @RiedleroD 4mo
  
  fr. unless it's obviously illegal (drugs, weapons, dangerous substances) just fucking ask either the sender or the receiver
@gorqmorq 4mo

49 copies left, value go brrrrrrr Sorry for your loss, paste-kun 😞