Bamboozled again by Ea-Nasir
The intent was to give people a sense of pride and accomplishment for making anything useful out of sub-standard copper.
I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.
“What’s a few words changed here and there among friends?” - Ruin, probably.
That’s a Mistborn reference isn’t it? That sentence seems familiar
I am afraid, however, that all I have known - that my story - will be forgotten. I am afraid for the world that is to come. Afraid that Alendi will fail. Afraid of a doom brought by the Deepness.
I knew this was going to be top comment.
Can steel really be trusted if it can be rusted?
The last one is actually a real example, right?
!reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world
There’s even a community just for memes about it!
It’s a real reference.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir
“Inscribed on it is a complaint to Ea-nāṣir about a copper delivery of the incorrect grade and issues with another delivery”
It worked perfectly 3,774 years later and people still don’t want to buy copper from this guy.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/complaint-tablet-to-ea-nasir has the translation.
What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt?
Future archaeologists will wonder at how ‘literally’ became defined as its own antonym, and why there were no other adverbs for a decade.
This, literally
It’s hyperbole
“I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.”
I’ve been re-reading WoA the past week and as soon as I saw this post I was like “holy shit Kwaan is on tumbler!”
WoA
What’s WoA?
Well of Ascension
Well of a sissy nation
Haha, I came in here to comment the same exact thing.
That would be a good thing for historians so they’ll be able to know for a fact that we had nothing interesting to say.
Now that you mention it, are there laser etching, or engraving tools that may be available outside of industrial applications should one want to record their silly thoughts in a more permanent form?
Doubt laser could etch deep enough to survive wear and tear for thousands of years.
I mean, we have thousand years old paper and clay tablets.
I’d be less worried about the depth of the laser than the depth of the corrosion that the metal might face over time.
Glass or ceramic might work better.
laser etched ceramic is just modern clay tablets
They’re not cheap, but you can definitely get a very capable laser set up nowadays that you could etch a non corrosive material with. Some are pretty cool and even are able to etch curved surfaces rather easily on the user end.
Tbh it wouldn’t necessarily have to be lasers (not that I’ll say no to lasers), but it followed from the OP so thought I’d ask. Do they use lasers for some tombstones…? 🤨
Fast forward 400 years and a new religion gets started when someone unearths the metal blog tablets.
Full circle
I imagine that, given enough time, fundamentalist religious assholes will figure out a way to destroy everything, including themselves.
Huh? What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?
I’m going to 3d print the internet with PCV boards and promptly throw it away.
