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Old Technology Styles?

InfamousDSInfamousDS
edited November 2008 in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
I don't expect this thread to last.... unless it becomes like "The Bottomless Bottle of Mountain Dew" discussion.

Anybody else notice that SB has a *said with a shudder* digital camera, aka the Snappy? What possessed him to buy new technology? Digital Cameras aren't 30-year-old electronics, how dare he have one?

And I know that Laptop Computers existed at least 10 years ago, because we bought an old one in 1996 for my older bro for Christmas so that counts as an old technology.

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  • someguyfromazoosomeguyfromazoo
    edited August 2008
    Hey, who said it was new?It only has enough memory for four pictures, it looks like a piece of crap when it comes up (is that a camera or a black tablet?),it can't record video, and can't zoom in.Seems extremely low-tech.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited August 2008
    someguyfromazoo wrote: »
    Hey, who said it was new?It only has enough memory for four pictures, it looks like a piece of crap when it comes up (is that a camera or a black tablet?),it can't record video, and can't zoom in.Seems extremely low-tech.

    The Snappy has the same amount of storage space as your hard drive in the PC version. ;)
  • someguyfromazoosomeguyfromazoo
    edited August 2008
    *looks around*Oh cwap.*runs like heck.*
  • Ben AgainBen Again
    edited August 2008
    Maybe it isn't his. He's never holding it. Maybe it's yours, the view looks as if you pulled it out. And SB is never holding it.
  • deleted_jlodidob52212deleted_jlodidob52212
    edited August 2008
    Ben Again wrote: »
    Maybe it isn't his. He's never holding it. Maybe it's yours, the view looks as if you pulled it out. And SB i never holding it.

    umm... why are we spying on strong bad?
  • ShmehShmeh
    edited August 2008
    fiapey wrote: »
    umm... why are we spying on strong bad?

    Because he is so awesome. ;)

    (Shouldn't that be 'why did we pay money to spy on Strong Bad?' :p)
  • HolyxionHolyxion
    edited November 2008
    We pay money to control his actions. The website lets us spy on him for free.
  • Strong MaxStrong Max
    edited November 2008
    Mabey it was a prototype digital camera from the 70's
  • MouldcubeMouldcube
    edited November 2008
    umm...if he has that camera, why does he need strong sads in episode 3?
  • BiggerJBiggerJ
    edited November 2008
    Mouldcube wrote: »
    umm...if he has that camera, why does he need strong sads in episode 3?

    Because he doesn't have a printer that isn't either a dot matrix printer or perpetually running out of ink. And Marzipan probably would trust any image being shown on a soulless high-tech device like the Snappy.
  • HolyxionHolyxion
    edited November 2008
    But doesn't it seem odd how that's never addressed in-game?
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2008
    For what its worth, early on I think the Cheat was supposed to be the photographer. I don't think that ended up in the final game (the camera in the end was a more abstract thing, and the Cheat's photography duty was scaled down to just being the guy who provides help in the photo booth), but that's one reason it was allowed to be a decently-modern digital camera. If it makes you feel better to imagine that the Cheat is always taking the pictures, then you can do that. :)

    Ignore the fact that then, in your imagination, the Cheat could potentially be taking the picture while also being in the picture itself, of course. Hrm... come to think of it, that might be one reason "the Cheat as photographer" was dropped. I can't remember, though.

    Also, that camera isn't that new. It takes forever to start up, and the buttons are all laggy.
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