thefarshore | tags: tech stuff, questions, I give up

can you carry a computer and use it not matter where you are? and yes, a laptop can be carried around but even they can be too bulky for certain places or not viable in some situations.
tablets and phones have their uses

don't be ridiculous. there's a use for everything unless you like being useless

Depends what you call a computer. But if you can't deal with a situation without needing the internet on hand, I'm not sure what to tell you anyway.

In what way are games or increased memory useful to anything we have to do in this place? It's just pointless time-killing that could be used on more important things.

computers always have a cpu, keyboard, mouse, and a monitor. you could possibly go without the monitor and hook up to a tv but it's still bulky. laptops are portable but still have some bulk to them. tablets are very portable with some being the size of a paperback book, and then there are smartphones with the same capabilities of a tablet fit in the palm of your hand.

researching on site makes it a very useful tool, especially if you need it right at that moment. as does the help it can give if you are unfamiliar with the languages.

there are games that teach languages, games that teach puzzle solving and flight control. several armies use games as a way to safely teach their soldiers cooperation, how to identify hidden enemies and the use of various tactical weapons. spies use computer games to look up and research histories, locations and populaces of their intended targets. war games, crime games, social interaction games, all of them can prove useful to get a feel for the humanity we're suppose to be protecting.

besides, a lot of the communication people do these days come through their phones and their computers. letters aren't used as much any more.

You obviously have a specific interest in computers, though. Not everyone's going to make those same divisions - because they're uninformed, maybe, but we've already established there's plenty of ignorant people. I'd put laptops and computers under the same group, for example, and there are convertible laptops that are really both that and a tablet.

[He's dredging most of this information up from several years ago and also briefly hanging around a major tech company in another dimension, so while he's not banking on its accuracy its what he personally knows of it.]

Things like flight control, sure, and there's no way in hell I'm saying they're useless for communication, but we're here to fight and, yes, to protect people. You can't replicate that experience with something as basic as a game. You can show someone the very basics, but nothing beats lived experience or live training when it comes to the battlefield.

i've found that it pays to evolve and keep up with the humans and their toys

they might be similar though i've found their workings past a certain point as being far too different. the same between a tablet and a convertible laptop. they may start out the same but there are a few differences between the two.

the problem with real battlefield experiences is the injury rate of the inexperienced and the fact that we aren't some kind of army, and barely even fighters for the most part. the same can be said for a live training, especially if you are proposing of luring those ayakashi here to test various skills. i'm pretty certain that can't be done and if it is, we'll be suffering more. however there are a few programs that are geared to giving a virtual experience without the added injuries outside of a loss of points.

You say that like you weren't even human before you came here.

It's still possible to stagger live experience. Throwing people into the deep end isn't what I'm suggesting, and there's no point to luring ayakashi here if people can either go to the other shore and start with smaller ones or tag along with more experienced fighters without endangering this place. Besides, if there's a virtual system for that sort of thing in existence here, nobody's mentioned it at all. If there was and it was realistic enough, it could work as a supplement, at least, but something on that scale would be more than just a portable game.

of course I wasn't. i was born from magic and desire over 800 years ago to serve a power-hungry king

nobody probably thought about it. a system like that would need a lot of controlling computers to act as mainframes and several people to keep it running smoothly. as it is the training and information on what we're suppose to do is shit with a fair number of the more experienced people acting like anyone coming into this needs to swim fast or sink.

[He's not entirely sure how to respond to that, but somehow it doesn't end up being an insult or five.]

Explains this post, then. If an 800 year old can learn this, nobody else has any excuse.

There's similar systems in the world I came from. I agree it would need a lot of mainframes and staff, and I doubt we have enough people familiar with those sorts of systems to make building one not a waste of time.

Usually I'd be on the side of the people saying swim fast or sink, but there's plenty of us here. There's no reason people can't team up with or learn from each other.

humans evolve all the time, so it stands to reason to evolve with them

yes, which is why i am suggesting games that can at least give people a better understand of where to start and what it all means. of course, you can't force them to actually do anything after offering it, but at least it will be there

no reason unless people decide to act that they cannot because of some kind of stupidity about pantheon rivalries.

Most of the gods seem to have been humans before, anyway. Games for understanding humanity might be useful for people like you who weren't, but most of the others won't need something like that. Or at least, not urgently.

...Are you seriously telling me there are people throwing around pantheon rivalries when they haven't even been gods for more than a month or so?

maybe or maybe not. aren't the shinki suppose to be our guides with humanity to remind us and make sure we are not harming humans or ourselves?

there does seem to be a lack of cooperation among the various groups, though that could also be because we're stretched out so much over the Far Shore

Hah. Mine's a soulless shell that couldn't tell a damned child how not to harm itself. If that's really what they're for, they wouldn't make ones that function only as empty weapons.

It is a big place, but none of the gods seem to have any trouble getting around. Distance isn't much of an excuse.

that's what they are for. which makes me wonder why you would have gotten a soulless one. did you do something wrong?

i suppose not
oh well, humans or gods, they always find something to conflict against.

I only just got here, I didn't have time to do something wrong. My guess is this is their lazy cover-up for miscounting shinki to gods.

I can hardly argue with that, as ridiculous as it is to manufacture internal conflicts when this place already gives us plenty to fight.

that does not surprise me at all

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