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<blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 7600831" data-attributes="member: 16760"><p>Every once in a great while, I come back to this game and look over the logs. I can still, after all this time, fall into character as Alex at the drop of a hat (pardon the pun). And each time, I get something new out of it.</p><p></p><p>This time, it was both amusement and amazement at how quaint the game feels, technologically-speaking, after 15 years! Here's a list of some things I sent to SP to laugh over. They made perfect sense at the time, but now they feel like something archaeologists would benefit from discovering!</p><p></p><p>1. Several times, Alex goes home to listen to messages on his answering machine.</p><p></p><p>2. David has a cell, but Alex doesn't. Even more amazingly, David sometimes *leaves his at home!* Can't easily picture a teen doing that any more!</p><p></p><p>3. The ubiquity of cell cameras is such that Mental Invisibility itself seems rather quaint. The Shadow would have a LOT harder time convincing people he's an urban legend these days!</p><p></p><p>4. Alex takes it for granted that a homemade website will have a guestbook. When's the last time you saw one of those?!</p><p></p><p>5. Hooking up a new computer to the household network takes an entire afternoon.</p><p></p><p>6. Floppy disks are still a thing. (Though admittedly, they were on the way out even in 2004.)</p><p></p><p>7. Pay phones are still a thing!</p><p></p><p>8. Perhaps most glaringly of all, the only way Alex could think of to find Twyla's number was to hunt up where David <strong><em>had it written down!!</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Also, David and Carlos would be in their 30's by now. This makes me feel positively ancient.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Shadow, post: 7600831, member: 16760"] Every once in a great while, I come back to this game and look over the logs. I can still, after all this time, fall into character as Alex at the drop of a hat (pardon the pun). And each time, I get something new out of it. This time, it was both amusement and amazement at how quaint the game feels, technologically-speaking, after 15 years! Here's a list of some things I sent to SP to laugh over. They made perfect sense at the time, but now they feel like something archaeologists would benefit from discovering! 1. Several times, Alex goes home to listen to messages on his answering machine. 2. David has a cell, but Alex doesn't. Even more amazingly, David sometimes *leaves his at home!* Can't easily picture a teen doing that any more! 3. The ubiquity of cell cameras is such that Mental Invisibility itself seems rather quaint. The Shadow would have a LOT harder time convincing people he's an urban legend these days! 4. Alex takes it for granted that a homemade website will have a guestbook. When's the last time you saw one of those?! 5. Hooking up a new computer to the household network takes an entire afternoon. 6. Floppy disks are still a thing. (Though admittedly, they were on the way out even in 2004.) 7. Pay phones are still a thing! 8. Perhaps most glaringly of all, the only way Alex could think of to find Twyla's number was to hunt up where David [B][I]had it written down!![/I][/B] Also, David and Carlos would be in their 30's by now. This makes me feel positively ancient. [/QUOTE]
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