Quote:Cobalt Greywalker wrote:.... D'OH!!! I had a feeling I'd missed something about the time line. Thanks for catching that for me. I'll change it up so instead he'll remark that the G1 iMacs hadn't even debuted. And those that remember those delightful technicolor monstrosities will get an even better idea of just how messed up that is from a technophile's standpoint. 486DX chips are still floating around as a budget option... and then there's what Garrick has.
BA, just re-read the thread and spotted that your timeline is very out of whack. In the second segment, Garrick mentions that the 1st gen iPods were coming out. This was 2001. Later on in the fifth segment you mention the crew being in Tokyo during the Sarin gas attacks. That was 1995. Which one is it?
Even if Washu got Garrick some sort of untraceable satellite connection to the Internet, I'm not sure any of his software would have that sort of legacy support.
One interesting thing is that it has been shown that Washu finds the old computer tech to be absolutely fascinating from a historical perspective. In fact, I'd hazard to say that the tech is so obsolete to her perspective that for us it would be like watching someone working on an IBM 1401 along with all it's intended peripheries. (And I suspect that if Garrick ever took her to a museum with a functioning 1401, she would absolutely fan-gasm. Especially if they could get it to 'play music' as was the inspiration for one of Jóhann Jóhannsson's symphonies.)
Quote:Cobalt Greywalker wrote:I've actually been giving that some thought, and the Yakage arc could be what spurs them into that direction.
Second, how much of Garrick's various media came with him? Books,
manga, videos/DVDs, games (plus consoles/PCs)? If he doesn't want to
upgrade too much (I can see why, given GP Body Modification is easily
detectable by Earth science. It's WAY beyond
Captain America levels.), why not use the various media to inspire work
on a powered armour for him? Get it right and you could market it to
the GP. In Gatrrick's case I'd ask for one of those armour rings like
Tenchi has and modify it to pull the armour out instead of a Jurai
battle suit (stealing some of said battle suit's functions. Vacuum
support without helmet? I'm down with that, but I'd use a helmet
anyway).
Plus you could introduce the non-locals to more than that period-detective story from the Bizen/Yume arc.
Although Garrick would probably go the same route ATC did with the suit. The bonus would be that Garrick's body is already reinforced to handle the stresses... But I do like the ring idea. That keeps it both out of the way and ready at a moment's notice.
BTW: it would be Garrick's complete collection. When he transitioned he was relocating from San Antonio/Austin to Seattle, and he'd be damned if he was gonna have to go back all that way for anything. We're talking about two institutional-sized book cases full of books, comics, video, and audio media, as well as about four terabytes worth of anime, manga, music, and writing.
I'll be blunt here: going by ATC's definition of temporal mass, this makes Garrick into the equivalent of a three-mile long cargo-container train traveling at 70mph with the legend 'Eat Me' emblazoned on the lead locomotive's nose and each container loaded with Murphy's Law, Pandora's Boxes, and Chemical X.