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Probably wouldn't have been cheaper back then, though. Now, yeah, without a doubt -- there's a reason automation is cutting into the service sector, and it's because it's flat out cheaper (and often faster and more accurate, to boot) to have a program do paperwork when there's one that can. Flesh and blood paper pusher just can't compare, on pretty much any level. I mean... surprise surprise, something designed to do endless repetitive actions is better at doing them than something that isn't. And from competence comes efficiency, which drives down cost per unit of action, even if there is a higher initial startup cost -- and there's no guarantee that there will be, and going into future likely to be even less of one (FOSS expansions, etc., so forth, so on.).

Yeah, I'll have to see what I can do about it. The thing's... probably older than I am, and insofar as I'm aware has been sitting under a barn, mostly exposed to (Florida) weather, for, well, decades. It's probably a minor miracle of engineering the thing's as functional as it is.

Entry twelve, showing one of the reasons the matrix is awesome:
Also cheers, Nenjin!

I'd probably be up for it, sure.

The latest unsounded made me giggle. Heeheehee.

Nah, they're probably making that comparison because of an incident a bit back where a couple people revealed that they had no idea that <3 was intended to be a heart and had instead thought all this time it was... some small other thing. Because <3 is kinda' that other ascii scribble missing some equal signs, et al.

Well... for what it's worth, TL2 does have a demo, if you haven't checked it out yet. Might as well give it a shot first, perhaps. Don't cost'cha nothin' but the bandwidth and electricity.

Yes, yes it is.

And yeah, that was fairly fun, for all that I had no bleedin' idea what the blazes was going on. Just spewed spawns at random crap and... it seemed to work. Somehow. I don't question it~