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)
- Wait a minute. Isn't this already mentioned in Strong Bad's bio? — Has Matt? (talk) 16:47, 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)
- 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)
- EDIT CONFLICT:I kanda like Strong Bad's Bad Technology better.--
Bkmlb(talk to me·stuff I did) 17:02, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
- EDIT CONFLICT:I kanda like Strong Bad's Bad Technology better.--
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)
- Cassettes are out-of-date technology. You can't skip tracks on them, you can ruin them by tearing or magnetizing the tape, and 95% of all new albums are on CD these days.
- Well, I guess the bottom line is what's the page meant to document? I mean, I can say some similar things about CDs (they are fragile, you can't send them anywhere without physically carrying them, and besides more and more people download off the Internet to their MP3 players) but I think we agree that such shortcomings aren't what makes them out of date. To me, at least, based on a reading of the opening paragraph of the page, if you can easily go out and buy it new, it's not out of date. 8-tracks are definitely outmoded. 16-color Atari games are definitely outmoded, as are the systems which played them. Even my Super Nintendo is outmoded. (Man, I loved that thing.) You could even say Windows 98 is outmoded. But cassette tapes are still in relatively frequent use, you can buy them in many stores, you can buy blank tapes and record to them on tape decks you can buy - for me, that's not (yet) out of date. - Qermaq - (T/C) 23:21, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I guess the bottom line is what's the page meant to document? I mean, I can say some similar things about CDs (they are fragile, you can't send them anywhere without physically carrying them, and besides more and more people download off the Internet to their MP3 players) but I think we agree that such shortcomings aren't what makes them out of date. To me, at least, based on a reading of the opening paragraph of the page, if you can easily go out and buy it new, it's not out of date. 8-tracks are definitely outmoded. 16-color Atari games are definitely outmoded, as are the systems which played them. Even my Super Nintendo is outmoded. (Man, I loved that thing.) You could even say Windows 98 is outmoded. But cassette tapes are still in relatively frequent use, you can buy them in many stores, you can buy blank tapes and record to them on tape decks you can buy - for me, that's not (yet) out of date. - Qermaq - (T/C)
- Cassettes are out-of-date technology. You can't skip tracks on them, you can ruin them by tearing or magnetizing the tape, and 95% of all new albums are on CD these days.
