This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Noaqiyeum: ...How are the links (especially Steampunk) related?
Sci Vo: No idea. Pulled the line that said, "Compare to Upgrade Artifact, Steampunk."
Another way to tell it's the future is to make money 'weird', if not get rid of it. This is a somewhat discredited trope at this point, since now many of us really 'do' pay with cards for any sizeable amount of money when possible. Especially since replacing paper money with credits just means you're carrying around a lot of cards (instead of the more sensible one).
Joeyjojo: sorry i don't get this. what more sensible one? in what way weird? why numerous cards?
Ninjacrat:
Or is, you know, non-existent. Why do people always assume that electronic copies are more frail/will always be more frail than bits of cellulose with organic compounds stuck to the surface? Paper burns, has to be 'in the clear', is a hassle to put back in the system. A distributed, encrypted filesystem has none of these problems. RAID done properly is much more safe than ape-men's 'paper'. (Warning: the preceding few sentences were an unashamed Author Tract by a new troper, who's fed up with paper fanboys.)
I've seen Conversation In The Main Page and I've seen raving egotisism, but this, which was shitted right into the first paragraph of the trope, takes the cake.
Where the hell else was I supposed to put it? Didn't you think about what I was trying to say before completely removing every trace of it?! There is a blatant and idiotic pro-paper bias in that first paragraph, I was merely pointing out how idiotic it is. I could understand toning it down, but now we're back to having a page that sounds like it was written by a Luddite. I mean, really, why do you need 'hardcopies' in the 21st century? YOU FUCKING DON'T! Only individuals without the money to make digital backups, redundant systems, etc. need them. By the time 'the future' comes around, that'll be a non-existent demographic.
Furiko Maru: ... The mother of your children has my sympathy.
