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No, lies... I refuse to admit it. Why do you hate triangular floppy disks? Anti-trifloppist, I name you.

In 1884, meridian floppy personnel met in washington to change floppy sides. First words said that only three sides were needed, to match the faces of an icosahedron. So they applied 3 sides and ignored the other one. The icosahedron floppy is wrong and it proved wrong in the missing side. This is a major lie and so much evil feed from it, it's wrong. No computer on earth has belly button, it proves every believing floppy is a liar. Children will be blessed for killing of trinagular floppy drives who ignore four simultaneous sides to floppy disks.
 

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In 1884, meridian floppy personnel met in washington to change floppy sides. First words said that only three sides were needed, to match the faces of an icosahedron. So they applied 3 sides and ignored the other one. The icosahedron floppy is wrong and it proved wrong in the missing side. This is a major lie and so much evil feed from it, it's wrong. No computer on earth has belly button, it proves every believing floppy is a liar. Children will be blessed for killing of trinagular floppy drives who ignore four simultaneous sides to floppy disks.

Hmm I can't tell if this is insightful wisdom, confused anti-trifloppi hate mongering, or merely the ramblings of a madman.

Haters gonna hate:

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What would the point be of a triangular floppy? Theoretically disks should be circular because the actual magnetic piece inside is circular. The square is just heathen design principles of the 80's easier to mould. A triangle would have more weird left-over empty space though and hold less data because the disk would be smaller.
 
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What would the point be of a triangular floppy? Theoretically disks should be circular because the actual magnetic piece inside is circular. The square is just heathen design principles of the 80's easier to mould. A triangle would have more weird left-over empty space though and hold less data because the disk would be smaller.
But think of storing it stacked like pizza.
 

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What would the point be of a triangular floppy? Theoretically disks should be circular because the actual magnetic piece inside is circular. The square is just heathen design principles of the 80's easier to mould. A triangle would have more weird left-over empty space though and hold less data because the disk would be smaller.

Pretty sure triangles could hold the most data..

I drew you a technical diagram:

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What? TES is largely seen as the definitive RPG sandbox experience. The systems are bad and the combat isn't anything to write home about but there is a large degree of freedom. I wish Darklands would be at the top of this category in the public eye but hey, what can you do?
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What would the point be of a triangular floppy? Theoretically disks should be circular because the actual magnetic piece inside is circular. The square is just heathen design principles of the 80's easier to mould. A triangle would have more weird left-over empty space though and hold less data because the disk would be smaller.

If you position floppy disks like this, you can see that they form triangles anyway. So you might as well make them triangular in the first place to save time. Besides, the 'corner space' might be used to smuggle things such as cocaine, and survivalists might use it to store small grains of gold in case the fiat currency collapses.

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Incidentally, do you have data on what people search for on the Codex? Would be interesting to see (as long as you don't corrupt the data with your anti-trifloppi bias).
 

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It's funny how these days I look at 16GB USB keys and think nah, too small, won't go lower than 32GB.

Then I remember the couple hundred ~1MB floppies that I used to own.

Tee-hee.
 

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It's funny how these days I look at 16GB USB keys and think nah, too small, won't go lower than 32GB.

Then I remember the couple hundred ~1MB floppies that I used to own.

In other words, the kids of today won't develop our mad archiving skills.

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It's what I find funny when old people go all "woooow kids nowdays are so great with technology" when a little brat presses the youtube app and then presses the video thumbnail to watch his cartoon.

Nigga...
 

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