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CloseDamn, it always hits me when I realise how recent the net actually is, and how impermanent it is as well. Still, perhaps this is an easier way to think of it.
Just imagine the corollary. It's the year 2032, and rpgmaker.net still exists. It's just passed it's 50,000th game, in fact. Some new users occasionally log in and stare at the now-20-year-old reviews for games like Alter Aila Genesis, Star Stealing Prince and Legendary Legend. Pom has passed a million downloads a long time ago, while the newly submitted games are...
Honestly, even I can't keep this going for long. I think this is partly related to the relative popularity of the (post)-apocalyptic literature and settings: it's easier to imagine something, whether a world or a website, end outright, then to envision that it'll persist, but transformed by the passage of time in some way or another, even when it doesn't need you. Just the thought of some crazy person reading this very post in 2032 might be strangely unsettling - to the point that if the website does manage to have such legs, quite a few people can probably be expected to go all "it's not what it used to be back in 2010s!" and slowly hate on it from the sidelines, as that seems to happen with anything long-running.
And if the worst comes to pass, and it does get to the brink earlier, there's still The Wayback Machine, preserving what's important.
Just imagine the corollary. It's the year 2032, and rpgmaker.net still exists. It's just passed it's 50,000th game, in fact. Some new users occasionally log in and stare at the now-20-year-old reviews for games like Alter Aila Genesis, Star Stealing Prince and Legendary Legend. Pom has passed a million downloads a long time ago, while the newly submitted games are...
Honestly, even I can't keep this going for long. I think this is partly related to the relative popularity of the (post)-apocalyptic literature and settings: it's easier to imagine something, whether a world or a website, end outright, then to envision that it'll persist, but transformed by the passage of time in some way or another, even when it doesn't need you. Just the thought of some crazy person reading this very post in 2032 might be strangely unsettling - to the point that if the website does manage to have such legs, quite a few people can probably be expected to go all "it's not what it used to be back in 2010s!" and slowly hate on it from the sidelines, as that seems to happen with anything long-running.
And if the worst comes to pass, and it does get to the brink earlier, there's still The Wayback Machine, preserving what's important.
Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
9192
"Does anyone remember RPG Maker?"
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
from Greek "heliko" meaning cartoon cat and "pteron" meaning dinosaur
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
We invented flying cars in 1912, we just called them "helicopters" instead of "flying cars" because we are terrible at marketing.
author=pianotm
I wish I could forget...what happened...
No website should end like that.
It sounds so gruesome when you put it like that. ;w; I thought how RMN ended was kind of beautiful.
karins_soulkeeperpianotm
I wish I could forget...what happened...
No website should end like that.
Lemme guess... a stolen sweetroll?
Blueberry muffin.
author=Kevincalanorauthor=karins_soulkeeperMankind aren't able to survive without internet anymore, we would just upgrade to some VR-alike equivalent. Not sure if I want to see the full-scale VR version of some avatars though. Or what you'll be using by then.
Either we don't have internet by 2032, or we've left this planet (for good or bad).
I called it first.
And... we were expected to have flying cars by 2k, so I wouldn't expect to nail space travel that fast, but please do complete the hoverboards.
I was thinking more on the we can't have, internet anymore, rather than won't use it.
author=pianotm
I wish I could forget...what happened...
No website should end like that.
Lemme guess... a stolen sweetroll?
Kevincalanor
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author=karins_soulkeeper
Either we don't have internet by 2032, or we've left this planet (for good or bad).
I called it first.
Mankind aren't able to survive without internet anymore, we would just upgrade to some VR-alike equivalent. Not sure if I want to see the full-scale VR version of some avatars though. Or what you'll be using by then.
And... we were expected to have flying cars by 2k, so I wouldn't expect to nail space travel that fast, but please do complete the hoverboards.
Either we don't have internet by 2032, or we've left this planet (for good or bad).
I called it first.
I called it first.
