^Sure. Everything is relative. And established conventions can be bent to the point at which reality falls apart.
For example, in physics, any object moves.
To make things stand still would require acceleration.
Likewise matter and energy can be substituted at wish.
Or batteries.. In school we've learnt there's physical electric flow and technical electric flow,
because people/electric pioneers back then got it wrong ways.
So things flow from minus to plus, as proved by electron tubes.
Or what we think negative ground might be positive, really. What do we know?
Old English cars used a positive chassis ground, didn't they?
So everything might be upside down, after all. We may realize if we just look close enough.
So anything is meaningless. And meaningful, simultaneously. Life equals death and vice versa.
And flower plants uses quantum physics.
On the other hand
I just don't want posts about Windows 95 with Pentium MMX chips to get drown out by "guys what is the best retro USB 3.1 PCI cards to buy so I can build a retro Windows 10 system"
also makes sense.
Because, it's really confusing and irritating at times.
As if steam engines, diesel engines and electric motors were in same category.
I mean, let's imagine this was a forum about trains..
Seeing a topic about a fragile 1860's electric tram from Berlin followed by topic of an EMD SD45 (a 3600 HP monstrosity) from the states is irritating.
Same goes for XT builds running ROM BASIC and some Windows 10 "retro" builds from 2015.
So we're in a situation in which there's more than just one truth. 🤷♂️
How does someone cope with such a situation? React or ignore?
I'm not sure, the philosophy says that indifference is the worst of all things.
So it's a good thing if people/users share their thoughts, at least.
It doesn't need to result in a change, whatsoever.
I mean, on the other hand what is "Marvin", exactly?
Is it a place to actively support people into old hardware or to keep them off of the more valuable forums?
A separate dump for 'hardware hoarders' so to say.
This may sound a bit provocative and it surely is. But so was DOSFreaks 'who's "we" ?', as well.
And both questions equally have some weight, maybe. They make sense and they're worth to think about, I believe.
I mean, the original idea of Vogons was not to be an old PC hardware forum*,
but a place to discuss how to get classic games to run on current hardware of the time.
-> Hardware which has become equally dated by now, by the way, making posts from the 2000s in non-Marvin forums a relic, as well.
(*Meaning that we users of Marvin can be kind of grateful that it exists, at all.
Marvin was rather an afterthought, a concession to users.
Not something that had been wanted originally.)
Which might be something to consider when sub sub forums are being wished for.
Introducing them to Marvin would also make other forum visitors asking for something similar to their favorite forums.
Which in turn would make managing Vogons
as a whole forum more complicated, maybe.
So how about figuring out a compromise ?
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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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