Telinc1

@telinc1.com

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I develop software. I write stories. I play games. May these three one day combine into a game of my own. Sysadmin at @smwcentral.net he/him | ace at code and ace in life 🖤🩶🤍💜

- The importance of drawing.

- Yes?

- This is one of the primary rules of exploration. Why?

- You see, drawing lets you see things. It lets you slow down,
focus, tune into the surroundings. See details you'd never
notice otherwise.

- But... Taking pictures and three dimensional scans of
locations lets you archive everything.

- Archive, yes. All those thousands of archived pictures
gathering proverbial dust on surveillance data discs, not
seen by anyone since the day they were created. Taking
photographs is the opposite of drawing. It forces you to stop
looking at the object, puts a literal barrier between you and
the thing you want to see. You take a picture and move on.

- But... The amount of data saved is unquestionably of
greater value.

- I don't care about data. If it were data we're after, we would
just tap into the subbot route-mapping system. We're looking
for the human touch. Human hand in the sea of silent data. I
want someone to tell me: Look at this, I found it and it's so
important I decided to spend my time drawing it. Nothing
that can be done instantaneously has any value.

SNESPride running in SuperZSNES with a horribly distorted interlaced high-res image. Text at the bottom says "The gay flag of Brazil", which the image decidedly does not resemble.