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)

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, they aren't standard anymore. Does that help?

Not sure what you're trying to "help" here, but CDs are hardly "standard" anymore either. Heck, the OS your puter's running will not be "standard" in a year, but it won't quite be "out of date" either. I think we need more voices in this discussion to reach any sort of concensus. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  01:23, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, if somebody came from the past in a time machine or something and asked "What is the best technology you have", you're not gonna say anything about cassette tapes, are you? You'd say something about CDs or MP3s or something. Salty^Talk! 01:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

True. But does that make it "out of date"? Try buying a "book on CD" - they're still generally on tape. There are plenty of applications of cassete tape still extant. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  01:55, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Cassete tapes are absolutely out-of-date. I haven't used/had one since I was about 6. · · T²|_Things

Context. We're talking about a book on tape. Do you really see books on CDs more often than cassete? - Qermaq - (^T/C)  09:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes. I do. · · T²|_Things

They don't release albums on tape anymoreRetromaniac 22:07, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

(Indents are getting big) I wonder if people have read my other posts here... My whole point is that yes, there is more modern technology available, they aren't "state of the art" but does that make something outmoded? Another example is VHS. Can you record a TV show or movie on DVD? Sure. But are video rental stores still renting VHS? Of course they are. In the context of this page, we want to document what's outmoded. And as I said earlier, "if you can easily go out and buy it new, it's not out of date." I can go buy cassette tapes today, pre-recorded or blank, and that suggests to me they're not yet outmoded as 8-tracks are. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  15:38, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

VHS tapes were just discontinued. Retromaniac 06:15, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Just? Do you have a date or time on that? - Qermaq - (^T/C)  03:00, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Made-up technology

The examples from senior prom and haircut seem out of place on this page because he made them up to try to fool someone into believing that he owned an answering machine and a light pen/scanner. I'd like to see what others think before I act boldly and remove them. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 02:45, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

You're distinguishing between tech that SB fools others into believeing but knows they're not real and tech that SB seems to really believe are real. I don't see that as necessarily excluding these two from this page, but perhaps noting the distinction is in order. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  02:50, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

puppets

where are the other puppet computers? Im a bell 01:28, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I think the only puppet computer is the office one...I didn't know there were more than one...· · T²|_Things 01:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

dude... okay, so the Lappy and what i think is the compy have been puppet-fied. Im a bell 00:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Where? -Brightstar Shiner 00:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)