Talk:Strong Bad's Technology

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I'm not going to demand that this be baleeted, but I always looked at it as just a part of Strong Bad's character, and not deserving of its own article. We'll see if this article gets better later on, who knows? But ususally elements of a character's personality don't get their own article. — Has Matt? (talk) 16:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

This could fit in the Strong Bad article easily. A whole page? Eww. Plus the page title is a mess. —FireBird|Talk 16:38, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I second. We should definatly merge this one. — Lapper (talk) 16:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Wait a minute. Isn't this already mentioned in Strong Bad's bio? — Has Matt? (talk) 16:47, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Sort of. I really don't think a merge is even necessary, maybe just an extra sentence or two. —FireBird|Talk 16:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I think this page has the potential of becoming similar to Making Out. It just needs a lot of cleaning up. And a new name. - Joshua 16:48, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, My title was a little, meh, awakward. TotalSpaceshipGirl3 16:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

What other title could we use? Let's see, there's Older Technology, um, Strong Bad's Technology? — Has Matt? (talk) 16:59, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I thought of "Strong Bad's Technology" before you suggested it. I'll use it and see what happens. - Joshua

EDIT CONFLICT:I kanda like Strong Bad's Bad Technology better.-- Bkmlb(talk to me·stuff I did) 17:02, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Although I'm still up for merging. —FireBird|Talk 17:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Two "bads" next to each other? Looks kinda weird... — Has Matt? (talk) 17:04, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I have some nagging problems with some of the assumptions of this page. First of all, when I hear "Strong Bad's Technology" I think of the Light Pens (why do they not have a page?). But moreover, most of the time he seems to show a defiant preference/passion for 80s/90s-technology, as well as the pop culture of said decades in general. He doesn't use these computers because he's unaware that anything better exists; he uses them because he darn well wants to. Making things even more problematic, this attitude can be traced upwards to TBC themselves; thus the Halloween costumes, the Videlectrix phenomenon... etc. The whole site really is an oasis by and for nostalgic 80s-born 20-somethings. And I promise never to use that many hyphens and/or slashes in a post-type thing again. —AbdiViklas 17:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, they were born in the mid-70's, but I'll grant that point! Two comments: books on tape are still usually on actual cassettes, not on CDs (though that's starting to happen) so "Things I Said" does not belong here. (The '05 Elantra came standard with a tape deck!) Secondly, in portrait he recognized that in his "rich-guy newspaper" picture he was holding a really old cellphone. Strong Bad is not ignorant of technology. He simply prefers the older stuff, and maybe likes to pretend a little. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  20:08, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, three months after my above comment, I still have a problem with it, and you seem to be agreeing with me, Qermaq. So I'm going to get in there an' mix it up... Only one of the examples on the page, "burning" the DVDs, makes him appear "unaware"; the rest are attributable to stubbornness. —AbdiViklas 20:34, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Cassette Tapes

Cassette tapes are NOT outmoded technology. They are still for sale and my new car came standard with a tape deck. Can we agree on this? - Qermaq - (^T/C)  21:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I still use a casette every once and a while. I mean technically, Cds are outmodeled. MP3's are the pretty much "best" music format to most people these days. And, I believe you still can buy MP3's on Cd's, but, nothing's really outdated until it's not sold as a new product. Bluebry 21:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)