Hyperlynx posted:

gently caress, man, you're missing out. Hell Orbs is incredible. Well skeleton zone, at any rate.

e:

Right, which goes to my other point - that a good currency is easy to carry around and exchange. One of the reasons people these days don't tend to use heavy copper sheets, spears, or giant stones.

ee: although, I guess in a sense if you have advanced banking and good accounting maybe the giant stones would still work? I mean, I very rarely use cash these days, but instead exchange money by pressing a piece of plastic to a lump of metal and glass until it beeps, which means my number goes down and someone else's number goes up, but no physical copper, spears or giant stones has changed hands.

Lakedaimon posted:

Thats pretty interesting, never saw that before. The Laconians (Spartans) in the archaic and classical period used heavy iron skewers as their currency. It had little inherent value, it's believed that part of the reasoning was to make transfers of wealth (and underhanded things like bribes) difficult and cumbersome. When the Greeks adopted coinage, the standard coin or obol takes its name from these skewers.

In the South Pacific, the people of Yap used giant stones for currency that make the daler look downright convenient. The largest known weighs 4 tons. Because they are so difficult to move, trading them is largely based on agreeing that ownership has transferred and leaving it where it is.

Lakedaimon posted:

In the South Pacific, the people of Yap used giant stones for currency that make the daler look downright convenient. The largest known weighs 4 tons. Because they are so difficult to move, trading them is largely based on agreeing that ownership has transferred and leaving it where it is.

Peeny Cheez posted:

Kompressor was an almost perfect piss-take of bad mp3.com-era fruity loops industrial music.

Sininu posted:

Dannywilson posted:

A quote I reference to this day.

Bombadilillo posted:

As useful as the ps4 touchpad.

Memento posted:

I was trying to remember KOMPRESSOR DOES NOT DANCE the other day, thanks for reminding me everyone.

Solice Kirsk posted:

As one of those mp3.com-era industrial bands we all loved him too. I know he and one of the bands we used to hang out with worked together on some actual remixes and stuff, but I never got to meet the guy. I still remember the first time I saw KOMPRESSOR posted here and couldn't believe anyone else had heard of him.

new friend from school posted:

There used to be this “internet radio” jukebox thing strictly for industrial music called stoic radio or something like that. When I was 16 or so, I used to go on there and anonymously request various KOMPRESSOR tracks one after another, just to watch everyone in the chat get mad as hell after a while (and also because I liked KOMPRESSOR).

Guy Goodbody posted:

Essentially they invented the blockchain

Guy Goodbody posted:

theflyingorc posted:

don't post photos where the photographer died!

The Bloop posted:

All photographers die

The Bloop posted:

All photographers die

Lakedaimon posted:

Thats pretty interesting, never saw that before. The Laconians (Spartans) in the archaic and classical period used heavy iron skewers as their currency. It had little inherent value, it's believed that part of the reasoning was to make transfers of wealth (and underhanded things like bribes) difficult and cumbersome. When the Greeks adopted coinage, the standard coin or obol takes its name from these skewers.

In the South Pacific, the people of Yap used giant stones for currency that make the daler look downright convenient. The largest known weighs 4 tons. Because they are so difficult to move, trading them is largely based on agreeing that ownership has transferred and leaving it where it is.

TheManWithNoName posted:

God damnit

Elizabethan Error posted:

https://twitter.com/donniemnemonic/status/962909260907626496

The_Book_Of_Harry posted:

ToxicSlurpee posted:

I'll have the special.

Lakedaimon posted:

In the South Pacific, the people of Yap used giant stones for currency that make the daler look downright convenient. The largest known weighs 4 tons. Because they are so difficult to move, trading them is largely based on agreeing that ownership has transferred and leaving it where it is.

Phy posted:

Wasn't he also MR Crackers/I Like Frostys?

The Bloop posted:

Bad news


It's cepsis