#recent technology

[marzipanandminutiae]

thinking about Life Before Widespread Internet Access, as part of the last generation to experience that, is so weird

because like. one, it wasn't really; I was just a small child in a lightly Luddite household. there was indisputably Internet in the late 1990s

and two...I don't really remember what it felt like?

I can say "things came from stores or from catalogues, and if the latter, they took what felt like months to arrive [probably actually 2-3 weeks, I'm guessing]. if you wanted to see a new movie, you checked the newspaper for times at the three nearest local theatres. if you wanted to see an older movie, you went to Blockbuster for a VHS or bought it from the bookstore. music came on CDs, also sold at the bookstore or a specific Music Store (which usually sold merch, too, and sometimes nerd things like action figures). if the physical bookstore didn't have a book you wanted in stock, you ordered it from them and it took like three weeks to arrive. you made new friends exclusively in person, through friends you already had, or maybe through penpal ads in magazines- though kids weren't usually allowed to do that for Safety Reasons"

I remember doing those things

but what it actually felt like to not just be able to look things up if you had questions, look up directions (even on MapQuest), shop online, have the constant hum of awareness in the back of your mind that you could at any time access this vast knowledge base/community/commerce arena-

I don't remember

isn't that strange?

[cactuupng]

mumbo posted another snippet of promo for the merch (that you can go buy RIGHT NOW) on twitter and I'm losing my mind /pos

I need it oh my god he's just a little guy

[bean-face]

i hate when advanced technology looks streamlined

sorry you're telling me you have all these beautiful pieces, wiring, motors, lights, cameras, wheels, axels, gears, circuit boards, resistors, servos, potentiometers, speakers, buzzers, all this cool-ass fucking shit, working in tandem together, and you wanna hide her inside an edgeless white cube?

do you not understand the poetic power that comes with seeing so many different parts all working together towards a common goal, every single piece of her being spirring to life, each job so simple yet so important to enabling her to speak the words "i love you"???

and you want to hide all that away, as if the sterile cube can love by nature? NO! it's what's inside her that lets her love you idiot!

SHOW IT! let her nature be bared to everyone. show to her that this is a place of joy and acceptance where her insides are free to be outside and nothing is hidden.

[campgender]

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[llitchilitchi]

ngl while it's good that people are becoming more wary of new technologies and would rather take their time with integrating it into their daily lives I do fear that the climate of tumblr is turning many people into technophobes

[lime-bloods]

Intrusive thought for you: could the limeblood genocide have been Alternia's "Butlerian Jihad", riffing on Dune's anti-computer cults? as a means of explaining the green goo inside Alternian computers and general adherence to biotech/psychics for automation. Equius building robots only to ritually destroy them feels in line with this, in a loose sense

as in, a reimagining of the sopor theory wherein blood of the lime caste didn't just become bed slime, but also the data pus alternian computers run on? i bandied the idea around last time i was thinking about limebloods - somewhat jeeringly, but as far as limeblood conspiracies go it's probably among those i find the most believable. "lord english paints his conquests with his sister's green blood" is pretty solid ground and "there's patriarchal significance to the ooze that fills alternia's machines" is a pet tenet of mine, so there's certainly merit.

to my mind, i guess that would be more of a reverse butlerian jihad? where the mentats are done away with so that they can be replaced with far more ruly machines. the reversal speaks to my assessment that the extermination of the limebloods should be in some way linked to the extinction of humanity on earth, where the condesce consistently had to replace unreliable old biological machines with robotics; and the comparison to dune's jihad seems consistent with an ongoing theme we see on alternia where dramatic political change occurs as a reaction to social upheavel. first war with the signless sets the scene for hivebent's arc, and then the summoner's rebellion turns alternia into the creche planet we're familiar with; it makes sense to presume, as many have in the past, that the limebloods were done away with in response to some uprising of the organics that mirrors the rise of the machines on earth?

[nomairuins]

ive gotta stop starting so many posts with 'also' like they r not continuations of conversations or whathaveyou generally

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

me and my whimsical coworker who keeps daydreaming about me being hypnotized and at the complete mercy of anyone who requests anything of me like the good little drones he's so obsessed with

[nb2000]

"They can't cut the flag parade from the Grand Final, it's traditional!" Flag parade only started in 2013.

"They can't take away the slogans, it's traditonal!!" Slogans only started in 2002.

"The results are supposed to be chosen by the public!!!" Public voting was introduced in 1998 and the split Jury/Public system introduced in 2009.

"They should just cut down on the result announcements if they want to save time so badly!!!!" So, the one thing that can go is the one thing that has always been a part of the Eurovision Song CONTEST?

[bandsanitizer]

the bias is biasing

[bobmckenzie]

sorry if it takes me a long time to send/respond to the ask game, something is wrong with my laptop 🧍‍♀️

[minicorruptprogram]

So uh, late night doodles

Yeah

[welcome-to-green-hills]

I can totally see a series with Tails and JoJo together doing cool inventions and experiments!

But it would be a great opportunity for Tails to dig deeper into the Sonic lore and his own Backstory.

And give him some company along the way, I can imagine a fun adventure against some sort of evil human bad guy-or- another Mobian who has a thing for money and electronics… Fang the Sniper!?-Maybe…. What do you think Mystery?

Hi Hon!❤️✨

I like that idea a whole lot. I remember this was a concept shared on my blog a couple of days ago when we were brainstorming ideas for a Tails miniseries. (I think that we’ve shared that it would be a Dr. Who-like adventure with JoJo taking interest in astronomy?)

It still sounds like an excellent adventure to me! I’m all for it!

[blart-og]

pipipiplup (and friends)

[patricida]

using bing image generator to make depictions of judas kissing jesus and in one of them judas was the one with the crown of thorns... what was she cooking

[13eyond13]

the lawlight kiss edit was also from around then i think?

YES and FUN FACT but I'm in a Discord server with the person who made that Lawlight kiss edit! She told us all about it and I got to tell her how starstruck I was hahahahah