https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Data_retention https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Data_retention Overtime the the electrons in and flash dissipates if not powered. The amount of time it takes varies.

All storage dies eventually. Flash memory (which is solid state) slowly has its data decay when it is not powered. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation

Oh, Steve Gibson gave an excellent description of this in Security Now two weeks ago: [Security Now #1023: Preventing Windows Sandbox Abuse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpHDYkQruhE&t=60m31s) and this is the Tom's Hardware article he's referencing: [Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups)

I know people love this guy but it's just so pretentious.

Isn't he a well known troll? I can see that flashdrive burning out whatever machine it gets plugged into.

Can't wait for his disciples to butcher the unclear message left by the boss and turn it into the opposite of what he would've wanted

The list: * Death Stranding, but everyone's a baby * Metal Gear Solid, but the boxes fight back * Death Gear Stranding Solid

Leaving my fans a USB killer, telling them it is to help them move on after I am gone

That guy's still at it?! Fairly sure I listened to him (and Leo... Laporte ?) podcasting 15-20 years ago. Crazy

Left-rightman's AI ghost sends you to the battlefield as a reborn baby clone of Abe Lincoln.

That's so Death Gear Stranding Solid... but with babies.

Still waiting for zone of the enders 3. We got an AC game out but thats the zoe we got at home for me. I need the speed and carnage that made my ps2 stutter!

You're right to ask for a source, it should not be an offensive thing to ask for. Luckily others have answered with citations. I was surprised and dismayed to learn that solid state memory isn't so solid in the long run.

Maybe a better word would be Sturdy State - It can still topple.

Honestly, I've always felt Kojima's greatest strength was his ideas and his greatest weakness was his execution... If someone with a little more, uh... discretion, I guess? was given the seed of a Kojima idea and allowed to run with it *without* Kojima's incessant need to over explain and over indulge, I think we'd end up with something really magical.

All storage dies eventually. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

I asked ChatGPT and got a few wild ideas: * **Timefall Symphony** - You play a deaf conductor in a future where time is tied to music. You must sneak through collapsing timelines by conducting symphonies that rewind or fast-forward reality. Meta Twist: The game's soundtrack is dynamically composed by the player’s performance and affects NPC memories. * **Agent Ø: The End of The Author** - You play an AI agent in a post-literature world where all creative writing is outlawed. Your job is to assassinate remaining authors hiding in simulated story-worlds. Meta Twist: At a key moment, the game deletes its own script and asks you to write the ending — but the NPCs begin resisting your choices. * **Neon Genesis Logout** - Set in a VR world where logging out is illegal, you're a rogue program trying to find the “Exit Protocol,” which is rumored to cause the death of your real-world body. Meta Twist: The game links with your real-world social media data and uses it against you as blackmail from in-game NPCs. * **Cognitive Espionage: Synapse Eater** - You are a "Neuroleptic Diplomat" — an interdimensional agent hired to broker peace between collapsing timelines by entering sentient thought-constructs that have gained independence and now wage war against their original hosts. These constructs — known as Ideovores — eat ideas, replicate memories, and begin overwriting reality. Your mission: infiltrate mental realms that believe they are real, neutralize rogue ideas, and plant “cognitive malware” to reestablish consensus reality. At a critical point, the game begins reinterpreting your dialogue choices from hours ago as if they were implanted ideas — and characters confront you for "things you never said." The main antagonist turns out to be your own future self, who defected and now works for a rogue nation of self-aware conspiracies. Final boss: defeat your own consciousness before you come up with it — a battle in “Pre-Thought Space,” where thinking too hard makes the level collapse. I mean, any of these are probably more coherent than a Kojima plot.