"Daniel Rudy" <dcrudy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Somewhere around the time of 10/13/2003 23:30, the world stopped and
> listened as cr88192 contributed this to humanity:
> > "IndigoParadox" <alexanderb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>"cr88192" <cr88192@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>"IndigoParadox" <alexanderb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>>news:voklhaj2d6hh4b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Does anyone know if there will ever be a .hack MMORPG? That would
> >
> > be
> >
> >>>>>>schweet! Oh well, just idly wondering... I finished .hack and now
> >
> > I
> >
> >>>have
> >>>
> >>>>a
> >>>>
> >>>>>>strange desire to join Everquest or FFXI (When it's out.) If there
> >>>
> >>>were
> >>>
> >>>>to
> >>>>
> >>>>>>be a .hack MMORPG, though, I would wait for that for sure!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>.hack invoked me to play some mmrpg's, but then I discovered:
> >>>>>the free ones I could find sucked;
> >>>>>the pay ones cost money (I am not able to pay for them at
> >
> > present...).
> >
> >>>>>this put a bit of a damper on things.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>I looked at a bunch. One called Plain****ft
(http://www.plane****ft.it)
> >>>
> >>>looks
> >>>
> >>>>like it might be okay... Someday... For now my friend's letting me
> >
> > mooch
> >
> >>>off
> >>>
> >>>>of one of her Shadow Bane accounts. :OP
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>yes, I had played this one.
> >>>I would want things like monsters, a larger world, stuff to do, ...
> >>>last I used it, it was not much more than a kind of 3d chatroom.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>Indeed. Not quite "The World" yet, eh? Like I said, someday... Like in
> >>2007... When does .hack take place approximately, anyway? I know in
the
> >>knowledge quest episode they mentioned 20MB hard drives as being
within
> >>Bear's lifetime...
> >>
> >
> > I think it is around 2007, but someone else probably knows better than
me
> > about this.
> >
> > I am not sure exactly when 20MB harddrives were new, but quite
possibly
they
> > were within my lifetime (I was born in 1983), so for one who I guess
is
a
> > bit older sometime around 2007 this would not be that major.
> >
> > I think reference was also made to older styles of rpgs (late
80's/early
> > 90's?).
> >
> > of course, all this is outside what I know.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Around 1985 or 1986 I think is when IBM first came out with their 10MB
> harddrive and PC-DOS 2.0 to handle it. I think the 20MB harddrives came
> out in 1987. 20GB drives were comming out in 1997, and today, you can
> get 250GB drives reletively cheap. Bear would probably be in his 40's
> or 50's during the timeframe of .hack//SIGN. At least that is my guess.
>
I think the idea was that bear was supposed to be pretty old...
in 1997 I remember the typical hd being a bit smaller than 20GB (I would
have guessed closer to 6 or 8), but I may be wrong on this...
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