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Lekhaka wrote:Global news headline in 2653:

ANCIENT FILIPINO ARTEFACT FOUND, CONTAINING DIGITAL COPY OF FABLED "Bishoujo Game"

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Also, I was reading a few days ago that DNA is becoming a new way of storing long-term data..
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#17 Post by LateWhiteRabbit »

Hijiri wrote: Also, I was reading a few days ago that DNA is becoming a new way of storing long-term data..
Well, why not? It's been storing data for millions of years already. :lol:

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#18 Post by Lumen_Astrum »

Put strands of your hair in the capsule. There, DNA information. And who knows, maybe the technology when it is opened would be Assassin's Creed style and they can go through your entire life with just your DNA.

And a question: why the hell did you put a porn magazine in there? O_o

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Lumen_Astrum wrote:And a question: why the hell did you put a porn magazine in there? O_o
It was the only thing at hand. This is my first major construction project so I wanted t do something special like a Time Capsule. Unfortunately during the groundbreaking ceremony I actually forgot to bring the copy of the blue print for the building, the thing I was planning on inserting in there. So I just picked the porn magazine in my car which I keep for emergency purposes and rolled it a white plastic bag, secure it with masking tape, wrote my name in it and drop it into the tube and hope someone will make good use of it in the future. I'm not gonna deny that my intentions that day were sort of malicious and I have this really wide grin in my face when they finally sealed the tube... GREAT SUCCESS!... :mrgreen:

This is also the first time I started doing this sort of thing and somehow it evolved into this tradition where not only me but I also get the Architect(s) and in two cases the owner of the Building / House involved in tossing things in Time Capsules...

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mugenjohncel wrote:So I just picked the porn magazine in my car which I keep for emergency purposes
Why would you.. ? Uuuh... on second thought, nevermind.
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#21 Post by Crocosquirrel »

Tom, you're welcome to toss in the six pieces I've posted here over the last couple of years as well. That gets us to 20-ish percent of the number you need, yes?
I'm going to get off my soap-box now, and let you get back to your day.

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mugenjohncel wrote:
Lumen_Astrum wrote:And a question: why the hell did you put a porn magazine in there? O_o
It was the only thing at hand. This is my first major construction project so I wanted t do something special like a Time Capsule. Unfortunately during the groundbreaking ceremony I actually forgot to bring the copy of the blue print for the building, the thing I was planning on inserting in there. So I just picked the porn magazine in my car which I keep for emergency purposes and rolled it a white plastic bag, secure it with masking tape, wrote my name in it and drop it into the tube and hope someone will make good use of it in the future. I'm not gonna deny that my intentions that day were sort of malicious and I have this really wide grin in my face when they finally sealed the tube... GREAT SUCCESS!... :mrgreen:

This is also the first time I started doing this sort of thing and somehow it evolved into this tradition where not only me but I also get the Architect(s) and in two cases the owner of the Building / House involved in tossing things in Time Capsules...

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Oh no, when future Earthlings finally find the time capsule, they will think Earthlings in the past are all perverts like you, Uncle Mugen... jk ;P
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LVUER wrote:Oh no, when future Earthlings finally find the time capsule, they will think Earthlings in the past are all perverts like you, Uncle Mugen... jk ;P
Future Earthlings will probably just be perverts, like modern Earthlings.
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#24 Post by mugenjohncel »

Greeny wrote:Future Earthlings will probably just be perverts, like modern Earthlings.
Maybe Past Earthlings are perverts, just like us... :mrgreen:

Every time someone digs up some Ancient Roman civilization there is porn everywhere in form of naked statues...

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#25 Post by Taleweaver »

mugenjohncel wrote:Every time someone digs up some Ancient Roman civilization there is porn everywhere in form of naked statues...
Only that the Romans, like the ancient Greeks, didn't consider nudity in itself pornografic. Their porn looked like this:
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#26 Post by Lekhaka »

That might not be porn, since if I recall correctly, the romans considered large penises to be unattractive. Big dicks would be found on more satirical images.

On the other hand, there is tentacle hentai that dates from 1814.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_t ... n%27s_Wife

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Donmai wrote:Among that 50 VNs I would like to include my current project, "The Maker". It is a VN partly inspired by the song "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans. As they say in the beginning of that song:

"In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find"
... a 21st Century VN interesting (or my story predictions very laughable). :lol:
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mugenjohncel wrote: It was the only thing at hand. This is my first major construction project so I wanted t do something special like a Time Capsule. Unfortunately during the groundbreaking ceremony I actually forgot to bring the copy of the blue print for the building, the thing I was planning on inserting in there. So I just picked the porn magazine in my car which I keep for emergency purposes and rolled it a white plastic bag, secure it with masking tape, wrote my name in it and drop it into the tube and hope someone will make good use of it in the future. I'm not gonna deny that my intentions that day were sort of malicious and I have this really wide grin in my face when they finally sealed the tube... GREAT SUCCESS!... :mrgreen:
Ah, Mugen... That's really bad but... I'm over here trying really hard not to laugh...
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Aww... now I'm sad that I'll probably not finish anything good in time to put it into this... then again, maybe I can use this as incentive to work harder... unless the thought of having something PERMANENTLY ARCHIVED makes my perfectionist tendencies worse :cry:

Do you plan on submitting once you reach 50 or waiting around a bit for stragglers?
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It isn't like we need to hit 50 all at once. And it's not like you can't update - or at least add new versions - as we go along. And I don't think we should strive for perfection. I mean, if your game is mentioned in the memoirs of some future President of the United States, I think people should be able to find it and play it if they want to - even if it isn't perfect.

Because nothing is perfect, and everything deserves to exist.

So, once I get a little more free time, a week from now, I think I'm going to seriously work on this for a day or so.
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#29 Post by Taleweaver »

Lekhaka wrote:That might not be porn, since if I recall correctly, the romans considered large penises to be unattractive. Big dicks would be found on more satirical images.
However, they liked big butts and they could not lie, the other Romans couldn't deny...
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To give this posting at least a shred of on-topic-ness, a mosaic is actually a rather reliable way for long-term data storage.
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#30 Post by Samu-kun »

It takes a real Roman to bang while balancing a huge tub of apples on one hand.

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