Though forgetting that way requires that people either aren't doing the thing anymore or they are but a more popular tactic has replaced the forgotten one. Which is what makes something like this odd because a weak point seems like obviously useful information whether you are solo or in a team.
Boomers failed to pass down even the slightest hint of knowledge to the next generation lmao. Probably just a personality thing.
That would make sense if their methodologies rendered the old ways obsolete...but they don't. We see these noobs struggling left and right and they all universally agree the old man's methods are so good its kind of absurd. Its like if we all reverted back to landlines then got shocked when some old fart suggested we use over the air transmission for our phones
I think the technologies and strategies just evolved too fast and moved in a direction towards safety, skills, and being in a party.
It's closer to a bunch of people using a LLM to generate fairly bloated but working "vibe code" and then being shocked when someone shows them how efficient coding in C++ can be. Jobs and Skills are in effect LLMs used to explore and the current crop of explorers has not redeveloped the techniques or knowledge the first generation "seekers" did.
Or they were widespread for their time but a sudden jump in number of explorers increased the difficulty to defuse the information until common knowledge was supplanted by Job and skill based information.
To also elaborate on the above: NASA didn't "lose the blueprints" or anything stupid like some people claim. We have all the documents you could want on the F1 engines and the Saturn V. The problem was that when every program moved away from the platform, the machines and the people (and by extention the tribal knowledge) was lost.
Oh totes! The old ppl will probably end up forming a super OP party with g-ma, g-pa and whoever else wants to get back into action
I still have anime from when I taught myself how to burn a DVD and as Subs to it so I could VLC something that hadn't even been licensed yet.
You can also see this in things like trying to follow historical recipes.
No point in telling them because the MTL couldn't read the handwriting. I'll post the text so you could feed it to Google Translate or ChatGPT. Or maybe @beachbear will update the pages.
I really hate it when 'translators' leave handwritten texts untranslated. They tend to give little tidbits that enrich the characters and story. It should be your job, not the readers'. I'm sharing this because I've already done the work to understand the text, so I might as well not let it go to waste, but I seriously hope that nobody throws any money at low effort scanlations.
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Tools:
Jisho.org (radical search)
Hanzicraft
ChatGPT
Google Gemini
Google Translate (it gives suggested kanji based on your chicken-scratch handwriting, no need to know the stroke order unlike Microsoft IME)
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P/S:
1. I haven't tried it, but considering Deepseek is from China, I'm sure it won't have much trouble recognizing handwritten kanji.
2. I've stopped using DeepL. AI/LLM is much better.
3. Knowing basic Japanese helps. It's never too late to learn.
Like how we had the full recipe first Roman concrete but it never worked until somebody tried salt water. It was just common sense tgat you used salt water so they just put 'water' on the instructions.
