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Impermanence

6/26/2013

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I wonder how long things will last. In general. Things. This blog post—will you still be able to find it in another 200 years? My NES games—will I still be able to play Final Fantasy on the original hardware once I hit retirement age? The fun little notes my wife puts in my lunches--I'm saving them, but will anyone else, after I'm gone? Our legacy to our possible future children: a box full of Post-It Note doodles. What, you were expecting an inheritance?

I'm a pack rat, but not nearly as bad as I used to be. I've moved my collections of Who Knows What; Haven't Looked At It In A Decade from one home to the next over the last several years, and I've grown weary of hanging onto stuff that might become relevant again someday. When I trash or donate things, what happens to them? I wonder if that tiny Star Wars Dagobah playset I gave away is still in good hands, or whether it got swept away in a toy purge, half-eaten by the cat, or tossed into a forgotten container in a closet somewhere. Does a remnant of my first car still exist in a landfill somewhere?

People, even. At this moment, I have 4,895 subscribers on my YouTube channel. Will those same people be watching my videos a decade from now? Will I be making new videos a decade from now? Will there even be a place to upload new videos a decade from now? Part of me wants to still be recording when I'm an old man, playing Mega Man 38 for the grandkids of my original viewers, and complaining about how I can't get Final Fantasy to work on the original hardware.

Even if every tangible thing is destined to break down and wear out in time, how long will we be remembered—individuals, cultures, the human race itself? How far into the future will our influence reach? I think of all the time-travel stories where the littlest details of timeline disruption have no lasting impact on history, and then of all the time-travel stories where the tiniest action leads to a future where it rains doughnuts and Biff Tannen owns the world. It's interesting to think about the fate of our stuff and the legacy of the people around us. Makes the crucial seem less crucial, and the trivial seem less trivial.
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Tpcool link
6/26/2013 08:28:43 am

I try not to think about stuff like that, it tends to get me less motivated to do anything because I then feel like everything I do will be worthless in another century from now. But I do like the way you ponder things, it always gets me thinking, in a good way! Only time will tell what will happen. We can speculate, but the only sure-fire thing is to wait.

On a totally unrelated note (although slightly related to Mega Man 38), have you heard about Mega Man Unlimited? It's about the only Mega Man fan game that I've ever paid any interest to, and they just announced a release date after many years in development. I'm very excited, it looks promising.

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Nathaniel
9/25/2013 04:12:45 pm

True to form, here's my ridiculously belated response.

Glad I can make you think; that's usually a goal of mine when I write. :)

After one too many people asking my opinion on Mega Man Unlimited, I finally downloaded the game and spent about half an hour trying out the various stages. I love Glue Man's stage, but the rest of it feels like something I COULD beat, but probably wouldn't enjoy enough to balance out the pain of the excruciating difficulty.

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