(Untitled)

[quasigeek]

I devoured the Steampunk Bible this week (a pretty good read, though elitist at times) and there's one interview that asks, "why do people get into Steampunk?" And the short answer is, because we like to create. Because we live in a society where things are created for us-electronics, computers, even our phones-and we want to go back to a time

Comments

[cirobi]

This is part of why, when it's time to replace my computer, I still build it. But, since it's my profession, I have to admit that I like how easy it is to swap stuff sometimes. Cases where you don't have to move a gazillion screws to replace the hard drive make my professional life so much easier. But, I'd probably feel the same as you if it wasn't my job. I am the laziest about my home computer. I got so pissed off last night when the sound wasn't working on my home machine... but I just didn't want to tinker anymore for the day. LOL

Building your own machine is fun. Even researching and fretting over which parts to get is fun. Compare this, compare that, hunt a better price, ordering and tracking shipments, etc...

:)

[queenlua]

but you can still tinker, yo, and i'd argue you can do that now more than ever

re: building a computer: seems like that's partially a differing social circles thing? like, most my college friends just had laptops, because they're just easier to carry around and do stuff with, but all my gaming buddies still build their own machines, and i built the desktop back at home in kentucky

with laptops and mobile, the unfortunate reality is that, since those products are optimized to be small, as in only-a-machine-could-put-this-together-consistently, they're hard to tinker with-but that's more of a realities-of-physics constraint than the-companies-want-everything-to-be-the-same. there's nothing to stop you from popping open a laptop and fix stuff, but it's a whole nother level of difficulty from building a desktop

and anyway, if you still wanna tinker, you should totally look into arduino and the cool stuff people have been building with that-growing up, i certainly didn't have the resources or equipment or access or anything to where