Thinking "What If?" In Detail

[@cenauge]

I had an interesting thought: what Tim describes about these item printers approaches a near utopia (there are either technological or intentional limitations on the printers that make things like boutique stores and restaurants still viable) but if you wanted to turn it into more of a dystopia all you would need to do is move the printer technology to a midpoint between non-existing-vs-perfect replication and then make the originals unobtainable by normal people. "I prefer an organic apple to a printed apple" becomes "the machine can do apple sauce, and a real apple costs more than I make in a month." The infinite personal wardrobe becomes "sure, the clothes fit perfectly, but there is only two styles and everything is linen gray; personalized clothing is outside my paygrade." Then you add a "how did we get to the scenario where this 'what if?' is possible?" and you've basically got the bare-bones of a backstory. How do we get to imperfect commodity printers? Well, either we developed up to a certain point and then stopped due to resource or technological limitations, or we developed far-closer-to-perfect printers and then regressed that technology for the masses (and pretty much every reason for that seems sinister/controlling as befits a dystopia.)

[@derekskelton4187]

I'm sure even if corporations can print everything they will find a way to make the cost exorbitant. Avenue 5 has a remarkably accurate take on how even with incredible technology of the future most of us will still be wage slaves

[@Spiderboydk]

This is great advice. It's so immersion breaking if you realize a setting doesn't make sense because these "what if"s were never asked and answered in the design process.

[@Janonas]

Hey Tim, Arcanum was extremely profound for me, even playing it decades later than when it came out, thank you for being a part of making it, and i hope the setting may get revived sometime.

[@LandBark]

Same here! Thank you Troika games!

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

Wearing Threadbare/worn out clothing with patches would be a sign of wealth, because it means you can afford to buy and wear antique clothing!

[@UlissesSampaio]

4:15 I kind of think the opposite: people would see what is trending and print a copy at home, so lots of people would dress the same. E.g. Imagine if you had a machine to copy a hairstyle. Lots of people would pick celebrity hairstyles.

[@All4Tanuki]

This sounds much more plausible to me, I don't think the majority of society puts much stock in being "unique"

[@UlissesSampaio]

@@All4Tanuki yeah, this is also evidenced by fashion. All throughout history, folks in a given time period chose to produce similarly-styled clothing within the period even though they could feasibly produce different styles. We can see this in the distinctive styles of the 50s, 70s, 80s, etc. People like to fit in.

[@hdbr1]

I agree. Actually, I think companies would make the blueprints and maybe an AI could mix things up, but people would prefer to wear brands because style is a social and status thing

[@BrandonDoran00]

Absolutely trends would still be a thing, but I don't think many people would want to wear the same exact clothing as someone else. They would chose small variations on whatever was trending, colours, patterns, textures, but you would never catch someone wearing a monk tunic when cowboy is the current trend.

[@nuhuhbruhbruh]

also, anyone who might want to wear a uniform, from waiters to gang members or twins

[@Leiska27]

I didn't know you wrote this weeks Futurama episode 😅

[@scamperly]

I was waiting for you to touch on clothing sweatshops becoming obsolete and those implications. It's wild just how deep this thought experiment can go!

[@felicianofrontado3134]

Possible Fun Friday question: who is your favorite videogame villain ?

[@oliorogue]

Irenicus BG2

[@FluffySylveonBoi]

Kane from C&C

[@pocketsizedweeb]

GLaDOS from the Portal series.

[@bruceschlickbernd8475]

You weren’t paying attention when Tim pontificated on heroes and villains and how he didn’t assign labels, were you? ;-)

[@felicianofrontado3134]

@@bruceschlickbernd8475 maybe I missed that video (?)

[@fab.r.b]

You can tell Timothy is good with this when you get real invested in how the world would be if his idea of clothing printers were real. Good stuff

[@oldmatttv]

That ending part is such a hugely important point! We still need to relate, one way or another. It's individual how much and in what way, but that touching point you talk about needs to be there. Personally, this is actually one of the reasons I think I enjoy LotR more than many other fantasy worlds; in it's absurdity, it still feels very grounded and the magic feels like it's in the world around us somehow rather than just in your face huge spells flying around everywhere, complete magical structures etc. It's almost like if you were a hobbit yourself, you could easily live through your life thinking nothin out of ordinary ever happened in this world.

[@DarkBloodbane]

The flaw of clothes printer is we still need space for the printers, material containers and pipes connecting them. Basically, with this system, we would be shifting burden and space from factory to household or hotel or whatever place who would have them. That being said, I get what you are saying Tim. This shift also could open up new possibilities and problems to face and make narrative interesting.

[@Santi.Strange]

I can only think of the disproportionally large warehouses containing fabric prime materials that would have to exist below every building on earth. Haha. But actually, this was enlightning. First give the players something they understand clearly, and then make the twist. Otherwise it's just a ton of new information with no reference point. The great sci-fi and fantasy stories work this way.

[@arcan762]

It would just be a network of pipes underneath buildings that connect them to a main source that the materials get sucked through on demand, like utility pipes for water, electricity, sewage, etc. Realistically it would likely even be the case that the clothes would be manufactured there and just sent along via pneumatic tubes in capsules, like how cash used to move around places like supermarkets and banks.

[@ChrisSmith-mi2zo]

​​@@arcan762Again thinking it through, and as a utility worker myself, you're making a lot of assumptions here. The medium would even be a liquid to be transmissible through pipes, or maybe it has to be delivered as a base and a reagent to be catalyzed into the final material on-site. None of these might have stringent temperature or pressure requirements which could necessitate a network of substations. Either the pipes or the medium would be robust or redundant enough that leaks or breakage don't cause widespread clothing outages or chemical hazards. These pipes wouldn't require frequent enough maintenance that they couldn't be buried instead of having huge above-ground systems. Factors like viscosity would make a colossal difference in the energy required to pump this stuff. Even for pneumatics, you're suggesting upscaling a system from a single large building to much larger widespread area. The reason we don't get pneumatic DoorDash is because it's impractical, that wouldn't change for clothing. Of course some degree of handwavium is acceptable. Tim never considered what sort of power plants are creating the energy needed to run millions of clothing printer/recyclers, even if you're saving some from eliminating washer/dryers, and if you saw clothing printers in a game, very few players are going to be thinking about the infrastructure to support it.

[@Santi.Strange]

@@arcan762 Of course one could go to any lenghts explaining the inner workings in a speculative way, but it would also require some suspension of disbelief. The implications alone of infraestructure and resources are astronomical if we get technical. t's better to just say it works and always did without delving deeper. I dig the pneumatic tube option though :D In Tim's video I took it more as such a fantastic scientific miracle that it almost works like magic.

[@disky01]

This sort of reminds me of The Diamond Age, one of the Neal Stephenson novels in his Snow Crash setting, in which many products are printable and recyclable thanks to the way that we've gained control of matter. The story is pretty heavily dependent on how this technology works and its effect on society. Its a great book!

[@pelicano1987]

And then, as usual per uncle Tim, the Apocalypse happens, the replicator is not an option anymore and people doesn't know how to knit, cook and such, leading to a rapid decline in society.

[@Tearlach87]

Huh. I've been doing this for a while. Yay, I've accidentally already followed this advice! For real though, it's cool to see you share this one, this kind of design thinking leads to some interesting places. The entire clothes thing, as you started going into the furniture and stuff, I actually looked at my nearby coat hangers and had a minor brain melt of "Huh, that'd save so much space just not being there." The little things, y'know? Love the vids and the ideas and encouragement of creating, Tim. Thank you for 'em.

[@derekskelton4187]

Highly recommend "Paris in the Twentieth Century" by Jules Verne. A really fascinating take on this concept by one of the most brilliant well researched writers of the 1800's

[@deffdepth824]

What a valuable video. Such great advice.

[@oliorogue]

I love the clothing thing this is a great video. We might be somehow painting clothing on which would be awesome. I love seeing people excited about ideas and what could be. I hear most of us are drinking and absorbing worms/parasites in our tap water every day. I hope we figure out that problem some day other than having to cleanses once or twice a year etc.

[@rasheedknox2140]

Hello good sir!! Thanks for sharing

[@Fallout7295]

the whole futuristic clothes idea is damn cool that would of been a perfect detail for back to the future 2

[@124354356435643]

Oh, Tim, you're such an optimist! I bet people in 100 still be people and wear same clothes as many other people and same as usual. I cant remember a day in last 10 years when i chose something else over my jeans. Also I am not sure how it is where you live, but boy oh boy people that i live with 100% agree that every man hate the day he should go and buy himself new pants. I hate buying new clothes, i wanna wear one thing all life. PS but i like your clothes 3d printer idea, i will ask a qr code from a stranger if i like how they look.

[@arit8009]

With the clothing printer idea, if you had like, a rayon cellulose recycler that used like, paper waste or textlie waste, or a polyester recycler that accepted like plastic bottles and used garments, combined with some sort of knitting machine setup, maybe? You could probably do a clothing printer that way, there was also a paper garment trend at one point for formal wear, which would be an easier adaptation to some sort of printing setup, if you wanted to go retrofuture about it

[@MegaJohnny74]

this episode is amazing , ty

[@PrettyGuardian]

Such a fun thought experiment!

[@blind_mel0n]

thanks for another great vid tim!

[@UlissesSampaio]

10:50 GURPS raises these questions that for magic/fantasy. E.g. for magic, it would make technological advancements be rarer (since magic can fulfill the role of tech). Also, fantasy race's characteristics could impact how they fare among others (e.g. how fast they can reproduce and how long do they take to mature can make them more or less suitable to dominate others through war).

[@asdfqwerty14587]

If magic existed, it wouldn't really be treated as a separate thing from technology/science. It would just be a part of technology. There would still be scientists that study all kinds of things.. and magic would be one of those things that they study. There would be machines that do all kinds of things.. and magic would be part of how they operated etc.. Pretty much the only reason magic is even called magic is that it doesn't actually exist - as soon as it does exist people will study it the same as any other force until eventually people decide that it's not really anything more special than electromagnetism or gravity.

[@jesseheinig4358]

And we have the Vault suit extruders!

[@CainOnGames]

I always thought extruder sounded better than printer or replicator. “Look at that lovely meal from the food extruder”. It’s just poetry.

[@jesseheinig4358]

What's not to love about extruded food? Pasta... sausage... dog chow...

[@MrLarsKoch01]

The one thing Arcanum lacked… clothes printers ! 😅 Seriously though, awesome video, a classic Fun Friday !

[@brianviktor8212]

So about that clothing thing - what would have value are clothing blueprints, settings, rotations or other programs that do it algorithmically (like matching the weather, location, day of time). And many people would probably just say "next" and the clothing thing would provide the next one. Or an index, and it would provide the n'th user preset. Because bothering with that much would rather be like a hobby, which many people won't have. Or it's a future where clothes are set to a certain standard, and you can choose 2-4 variants at best. So even though the technology exists, it was decided that having variety in clothing is bad for society.

[@brianviktor8212]

Also remember that 100 years is not much. To think we'd get all this modern technology and flying cars (aren't we supposed to have them for decades btw?) is very optimistic. Before we have any of that, we will have major conflicts that will cripple us for decades and centuries to come, so a direction like Fallout is not so unrealistic (minus the post-apocalypse high-tech stuff and vaults of course). Also people like their homes not being "smart." And wasting so much energy on replicating clothing may not be affordable for many, or even sustainable at all. It may cost more than buying actual clothes. Or the material will be something that can be replicated, and thus not even lucrative. If anything, a device using some basic material as input is way more realistic, similar to a 3D printer, but for clothes. That could even be efficient.

[@tepid7422]

I would say that people would still have the issue of coming up with very similar clothes. Sure, the number of clothing styles and choices would be vast, and maybe the clothes you picked would never be exactly the same, but the thought process we used to reach that clothing decision would be similar between like minded/experienced people. I think in this hypothetical future, it would become a funny, every now and then occurrence to come into work and find out that your coworker had a very similar concept for clothes, or you had both decided to base your clothes off a popular tv show or movie that you both had watched, completely separate from each other.

[@MAYOFORCE]

I had the idea that there'd be this menu full of preset patterns based on clothing from the pre-printer days but also you could use your own images, even pulling stuff like memes or random stuff from google images or even have artists sell commissioned prints specifically for clothing

[@tepid7422]

@@MAYOFORCE Yeah that makes sense. As gross as AI is now I can imagine in a hundred years the printer would have an AI that could use basically any medium you prefered as a prompt to create a clothing design, with you tweaking as it generates it

[@thewrongopinion2474]

I can help but imagine a Patrick Bateman melt down over someone having the same outfit but with a slight thickness difference on the pattern and a shade or two off in the colour, and subsequently obsessing over coding the perfect print

[@TranquilMarmot]

Did the latest episode of Futurama steal your clothing idea?! Almost beat for beat haha

[@CainOnGames]

That was weird. I put this video in the queue over six weeks ago, and then that Futurama episode aired this week.

[@jeremyjohnson9609]

I feel like an easy way to think of futuristic ideas is "What do we have to l today that we don't like doing". So yea, something as simple as laundry for sure is a goner but this extends to other things too from diseases to how entertainment is spread

[@JakobKobberholm]

My pet peeve is RPGs that allow characters to fly, but still portray towns as being defended by soldiers with spears standing on walls. The lack of imagination boggles the mind.

[@gwenstacyspidercat4294]

This is an episode of Futurama now...

[@chitschous]

There probably would be only one company that has patent for the clothes printers. There would be a bunch of patterns from the start and you would have to buy the rest in the online store, or buy a subscription to unlock 100 new patterns and they change every month. You can create your own patterns, but you have to buy the creator subscription. Also if you have a free version they would probably print ads on your clothes.

[@SyndicateOperative]

In a grimdark version of the future, they might think, "can you believe you used to be able to leave your domicile without an armed escort?" - after all, it wasn't *that* long ago that people used to leave their cars & houses unlocked. Within 100 years? definitely.

[@All4Tanuki]

"How To Survive Your Boring 9 to 5"

[@mozuynuk]

Hello Tim, I was wondering if you've ever discussed video games aging-whether they age well or not-on this channel. I find it an interesting concept, especially for older games once regarded as classics that may lose value over time because certain aspects, like mechanics or graphics, haven't aged well. In your game development career, did you ever consider how your games will age when designing mechanics, features, or choosing art styles?

[@mateusz73]

My immediate thoughts about this were"how much will the monthly subscription to access particular clothes be and how many other companies would have subscriptions. Would subscriptions for clothing be 'cabelized'." lol. With the monetization you might actually see most people be wearing much more similar clothes from a generic brand which is cheaper

[@chriswolfe351]

Did you ever read The Andromeda Strain? There is something kinda like the clothing printer in that, though when the protagonist inquires about it, his boss says it's making the clothes out of paper, though apparently it felt like real clothing.

[@DrTheRich]

Love how Tim goes immediately to all the amazing sides of these whatif's while my brain immediately thinks of all the reasons why those would be impractical or physically impossible, or how they would lead to a miserable society. Like flying cars, they sound awesome if you think about it for two seconds. But then you start to realize about noise pollution, accidents, irresponsible driving, law enforcement, and it quickly becomes a nightmare... Imagine the immense amount of extra waste and need for resources clothing printers would produce. The social pressure for people who can barely afford it. The amount shity, cheap versions of the machines would break down leaving you without clothes.. the loss of even the low paying jobs in developing countries...

[@asdfqwerty14587]

I'd argue flying cars do exist.. we just don't call them cars. We already have helicopters/planes, and they're built the way they are because they're the most efficient ways of flying that we know of - if we tried to create a flying car, we would just end up realizing "gee, we could improve this flying car by making it more similar to planes/helicopters" until eventually after finally optimizing it as much as we could.. it would be indistinguishable from a plane/helicopter.

[@KeiNovak]

Having touchstones is important. I remember reading a cheap kindle sci-fi series (pre-AI) and they had changed so many staples just to be different that it almost ruined the passable story (basically a popcorn flick in written form). The worst part of it was the nonsensical hoops they went through to explain the things.

[@jdbk1234]

4:00 the problem is if I just keep printing off the black T-shirt or a red and black flannel during the winter it’s simple and you don’t have to think about it

[@MAYOFORCE]

Got a few thoughts out of this video. The idea that you take a setting and make one significant change to it makes it a hell of a lot easier to pitch and explain to people for sure. As for the clothing printer idea, I think it may actually lead to a horrible future. If it were normalized to print out new clothing every day and throw out the old clothing, you're eventually going to need to go out to buy new materiel for the printer at some point. Materiel distributors might be incentivized to make clothing that isn't built to last as long as the clothes we wear today. And the worst part, if your clothing printer breaks down while printing your clothes for the day and you just got out of the shower, you're going to be naked for possibly quite a while. On the flip side, as an artist, I could see it being profitable to draw digital art for people who want to have specific art they can't draw on their clothing. Like if they're a big fan of a series I could make fanart designed to go on a shirt and they could keep that pattern and use it whenever they feel like in the future.

[@EtherealHaunting]

and to build on that idea of custom art, it also opens up the idea of "clothing piracy" of unique designs as well as a grey market of knock off designs. So now we've also created a whole new group of criminals to deal with!

[@MAYOFORCE]

​@@EtherealHaunting That idea is so on brand for the RPG idea I have I'm going to take it

[@EtherealHaunting]

@@MAYOFORCE go right ahead!

[@r.rodriguez4991]

To be honest that's a dark future in my opinion. It's further down the "everything is disposable, nothing is valuable" mindset that people have today. Think about all the heirlooms people appreciate today like their grandfather's leather jacket or a wedding dress that has been passed down through the generations. Gone. I think there's something very important about holding on to well made things made by humans and taking care of them.

[@charliek5964]

Hey Tim. Since you mentioned Instant Pots, do you have a favourite instant pot recipe?

[@HugoRBMarques]

The clothing stores would sell DLC for your clothing printer. You'd go in a store, a printer would print out a "demo design", you'd see if it was comfortable and looking good, and if you bought it, the design would be transfered to your home printer. Then you'd choose if you wanted to leave the store dressed with your new purchased design or the clothes you had when you came in. The spare would be scrapped. How would this work for glasses? Or would technology be advanced so that we'd no longer need glasses? How about sunglasses?

[@muzboz]

I'm convinced. Where's the Kickstarter? I hate washing day. I hate having to fiddle with the dryer every 15 minutes to check if it's dry. So disruptive!

[@saffral]

I can already see Clothing as a Service (CaaS) taking off in the modern day with clothing subscriptions shipped to your door, if it doesn't already exist.

[@justinhageman1379]

12:15 Holy shit ive had pretty much this same idea for a while now! I guess great minds think alike lol

[@Hjorth87]

What is the most common "wannabe" designer role? Setting, character or plot? I see myself as a wannabe setting designer. I love cooking up worlds with history, weird tech or magic and political conflicts and cultures, but I'm really bad at figuring out something interesting to take place (plot) or some interesting people to follow around (characters). But is this the most common, or are there a lot of people who loves creating plots but hates world building ect.?

[@jameswbii]

You could subscribe to a celebrity feed so you could wear whatever the celebrity chose to wear that day - sorry I went straight to monetization.

[@michaelbolland9212]

The clothes thing was on Psycho Pass

[@F00dstamp96]

Really valuable tool/idea! Saving this bad boy in my playlist/notes. Speaking of notes. How do you go about making notes? It's a weird fascination of mine on how people go about doing it.

[@CainOnGames]

About My Notes, Part 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/roWpXouAipZma6s The description has a link to Part 1.

[@JasonDeAthenrye]

I'm a professional writer, this is pretty much my go to advice for world building. Ask how and why. Just keep digging until you hit bedrock and start again.

[@kotzpenner]

I wouldn’t necessarily say that it would lead to insane levels of individualism. Humans are also social animals so there’s pressure to have similar clothing as other people. Maybe there will develop different cultures of clothing, depending on material and patterns and so on. Also consider memes, we post them a lot and it’s essentially copies of an idea. I’d fully expect that if such a society will appear, we’d have hordes of people wearing the same clothes with the same meme. Imagine thousands of people on the street with a Pepe the Frog shirt for example and then the next day it’s something else

[@LastOneNW]

we won't need an Iron? what is that? 😂

[@arcan762]

Damn millenials... 😅

[@imo098765]

I always thought about having laser wall that would clean you when you walked through it, kinda how they have lasers to remove rust now For what purpose, save water in a world were its been polluted and contaminated

[@conorfynes]

What about a person printer? I figure it could work a bit like the instant clothing machine, just with extra steps. They could be ordered and assembled in the morning in perfect healthy condition, then head off to their shifts at consumer focus group studies (or whatever passes for a 9-to-5 in this world of tomorrow). They would be a pleasant and agreeable workforce (that's what the factory order wanted them, after all!) and at the end of two weeks happily contributing to society, they would return back to the person printer to be melted down into modular biopaste to make a new set for the next two weeks.

[@DetectivePoofPoof]

Hmm well If memes are still a thing people are definitely gonna be wearing the same stuff sometimes. And I imagine there will be fashion designers that do interesting templates that people use and become popular because x thing is in style now, or maybe they would like the idea of wearing the same things as a king of uniform to signify that you're part of some group or another.

[@635574]

This clothes printer already exists but theres just one company and theyre not selling the machines. Its a lot more thread effective and recyclable too.

[@635574]

They're called Unspun. But I think the video that doesn't mention the name, search "the robot that will disrupt fashion" by Freethink describes it the best.

[@GepardenK]

Tim, I didn't use to mind how you pronounce 'detail', except now it has started to sound that way in my head whenever I see the word - not just the pronunciation but your voice. It's like you're interrupting me when I'm reading to pronounce that word and then disappear again. It's gotten so common I don't even take note of it happening in the moment anymore. I played Fallout for the first time when I was around eleven and the way you keep haunting my life is beginning to look like a cosmic conspiracy.

[@tedrow70]

1 luck

[@9Nifty]

Do you think that these what if, white board, setting design meetings are still happening within modern game design...and why might their loss be a bad thing?

[@9Nifty]

For Arcanum it would have been what if magic and technology co-existed and didn't get along. I just dont see these hypothetical, brainstorming, out of the box ideas being in Unreal Engine 5 games.

[@JademusSreg]

Since old tech never disappears entirely, instead non-printed clothes would likely be - oh, just got to 7:50, and yeah, that's what I was about to say. 🖤

[@AKKK1182]

I would 100% be the weirdo still hanging on to my 10 T-shirts, 5 polo shirts and 3 pairs of pants and a 20 year old washer/dryer of the whatever only model that's still in existence by one obscure company halfway across the world.

[@vieleanimations]

would we then have to buy a subscription to get the newest designs? Like season passes with unique skins but irl. And what happens if you throw things not designed for the recycling machine into it. Does it matter if you forgot a tissue in there? What about a ring. Will the recycling just not work as well as intended by the engineers and we end up having to create the source material from scratch every time depriving our planet of resources?

[@bruceschlickbernd8475]

The Andromeda Strain: toss the clothing into the insta-incinerator. *Poof*! “How was your day at work, George.” “Terrible. I had to push the button five times!” (I think this was actually in The Jetsons) “How do the food printers know if they got the flavor of Tasty Wheat right?” “Tired of being you? You can be Tim Cain for a day! Don’t go to that cheap knock-off, Total Recall, when you can be a *real* person at BrainWipe!” “Earl Grey tea, my ass! I’m French! Gimme some wine, pronto!” Ahhhh, the future! I have lived to see past the future I envisioned in my youth (no, really, I thought about the year 2001, but not 2024).

[@jacqueenie3310]

The 3D clothes printer malfunctioning is the perfect excuse not to go to work or miss an appointment

[@vast634]

Im going to print a coffee.

[@BeenanPeenan]

Thinking about copyrighting my fabricated lasagna recipe

[@stuartmorley6894]

No more food. No more artisanal chocolate. Are you sure you want this future Tim?

[@scottishrob13]

I fear the food printer dystopia where you have to pay a sizeable chunk of your wages every month to maintain a food pattern subscription or be stuck eating Nutri-paste (tm)

[@BuzzKirill3D]

Maybe people wouldn't even own the clothes printers, or if they did, they'd run on proprietary subscription-based software. Just think: clothes as a service. Yes, it's a dystopian twist.

[@IndusRiverFlow]

I love this video, but I have to comment that toothbrushes have been around since the middle ages. Chewing sticks have been used since antiquity. Another similar concept is spray-on clothing, (it exists irl) it has been proposed as a means of applying bandages mixed with medicine. I wrote a sci-fi story which featured living clothing. It took the form of a leafy ballroom dress that the wearer had to grow on themselves days in advance, and then trim it to the desired cut. It had flowers for decoration. Another possibility is clothing made of nanobots, utility fog, or gray goo.

[@CainOnGames]

The latest Futurama episode just featured printed clothing…but I recorded this video weeks ago!

[@playground2137]

Hey Tim

[@whynotanyting]

I never understood the concern around wearing the same thing as someone else. I mean yes "great minds think alike, fools seldom differ", but it's really not that big of a deal. Maybe if it was the same exact outfit, then it would be pretty funny.

[@TennessseTimmy]

100 years ago more clothes were tailor made specifically for a person

[@TennessseTimmy]

Okay maybe 200

[@docweidner]

I imagine the expense or size of the equipment might be big enough that apartment folks might have to use a common one. Not as optimistic as you.

[@ShmilS]

I imagine clothing stores will be too limiting for the owners when you can just put clothing vending machines everywhere.

[@Skiad-OpsGash]

There are only three possible futures: Cyberpunk Death Stranding The Outer Worlds 😉

[@John-i6m8k]

And then?...

[@zaphodbond]

Great now people will get stuck in front of the cloth creator forever the same way they do in the character creator in RPGs :)

[@AnnCatsanndra]

GOSH I WANT THAT CLOTHING TECH RIGHT NOWWW and then I realize I've pretty much simulated something very similar in Second Life and VRChat several times??? Weird!

[@MTAG]

Hmm, sounds like Star Trek Replicator, almost anything can be replicated and yet they still had a few restaurants with real food and tailors with real fabrics, because it was considered chic to eat el naturel and wear hand-made clothes. Collectibles were a thing too. But Federation had no monies, so connoisseurs had to go outside Federation space, earn some gpl and buy stuff the old capitalistic way. Or make it themselves.

[@GulaluSC]

Can someone invent a clothes printer please Maybe one for socks first!

[@Gijontin]

Tl;dr: programmer talks about if statements

[@lemonlefleur6236]

What if…Tim didn’t say “Hi Everyone” at the start of his videos? The ramifications are too nightmarish to even consider such a fate.

[@TheXentios]

It will be eating animals for sure.

[@BenWillock]

Toilet paper lol