Techspert

Myriad Reality

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Not until next year.

@Multifarious

It'll make sense then.

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You will. It takes a lot more effort to compensate for an entirely new part while keeping the functionality consistent, as opposed to removing a part and putting a new version of the same one in.

@Intrepid

If you designed it, hopefully it's modular enough to work with something different. Specific-use parts stop getting manufactured after a while and then your EMP gun will never work.

Myriad Reality

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But some of infinite possibilities is still infinity, right?

@Multifarious

Have you taken calculus yet?

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How often do you find identical garbage?

@Intrepid

The point is that you don't need to.

Myriad Reality

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Designing things for versatile functionality, or having replacement parts at the drop of a dime. I know which side I'll always take.

@Intrepid

Yeah, same. That's why I choose the steampunk version where you can swap things super easily because you built it from meaningless scrap.

Myriad Reality

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What good parts?

@Intrepid

Swapping out stuff to add new functionality, or super easy repair.

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Surely it is, if all the universes are different and stuff.

@Multifarious

Some of them are, and some of them aren't. It depends on where you go.

Myriad Reality

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Yes. You can still make it yourself and fit all my criteria.

@Intrepid

It won't have any of the good parts of making it from random stuff.

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Of course! There's a lot more of everything than there is of some of everything.

@Multifarious

But the question is whether that everything is all that different than your some of everything you get to see.

Myriad Reality

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Get something like that. It won't be worth. Get something practical or make something to fit your own needs yourself.

@Intrepid

Isn't that what this entire discussion was about? Making authentic steampunk stuff with scrap parts?

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The fact that everything is brand new!

@Multifarious

Newer than you'd get with traveling in your home world?

Myriad Reality

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Oh, never do that.

@Intrepid

Do what?

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Nope! I don’t believe it.

@Multifarious

What'll keep it fresh and exciting?

Myriad Reality

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It doesn’t have to be custom at all.

@Intrepid

I mean like the corporate version of custom. Not off the shelf.

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No way!

@Multifarious

Don't think so?

Myriad Reality

Driving home. I'll be back in about forty minutes.

Myriad Reality

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I suppose that much is true.

@Intrepid

Plus, if it's too custom, you won't be able to repair or customize it.

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Hmm...

@Multifarious

And you might get bored.