But I know that electronics might just fail out of nowhere for some random reason. I just hope that isn't the case for the SSD due to the current prices. I have no idea how long the current spike will last due to the AI Data Center shortages.
It seems these adaptors aren't very expensive, so maybe it's possible to get one. I think this could be enough if the problem is in my motherboard because I did test the SSD's health when I started having boot problems, and it was in good condition.
Besides getting another SSD, which is impossible as of now due to the prices, it seems the only alternative that I can try is getting a PCIe to M2 adaptor that I can use in hopes that the SSD is fine, but for some reason the M2 slot in my motherboard got a problem.
I didn't note that today was actually the 4-year anniversary of my blog account. The 4th anniversary of the blog's first post is on March 7th, which is very close.
Interesting, had I been able to post today as I intended, it would have been a special day. I literally had no idea.
I looked to see how different were the prices from the same place I got my SSD last tome, and it's crazy that it's 3x more expensive.
And I thought technology was supposed to get cheaper over time.
Also, besides the rising prices in electronics due to AI Datacenters, my country is also about to add even more taxes to electronics, which is expected to rise even more the already very high prices.
And I thought it couldn't get worse.
Tried removing and putting again, and other stuff, but nothing. Since my Sata was having problems, I was considering to just leaving it be and formatting my NVME to have it as my bootable device. I guess it's good I didn't, because maybe now I wouldn't have a PC anymore.
I don't know why, but every time when it feels like I'm making big progress in my projects, something needs to happen to stop me. I was hoping to release the post this weekend during the month change, but it seems that won't be possible anymore.
I updated the bios to see if that could solve the problem, but no. Yesterday everything was fine, and last time I checked the SSD health, that one was fine. The only difference is that last night the PC stayed unplugged because of the thunderstorm.
Could that be it?
I checked to see if the SSD still was being recognized in tbe BIOS, but no luck. I removed it from my pc and put it back, but also didn't solve.
Since my boot SSD still is with problems, rebooting also takes a lot of time and I can't check in another motherboard.
And I was thinking it was stable.
For some reason, after I turned on my PC didn't recognize my secondary SSD, where I kept all my data. I hope that this isn't a big problem, and it'll be back after I restart it.
It was that one that was shown to still be fine, so I have no idea why it wouldn't be recognized.
Sometimes I reckon that there was actual considerations going on, but such instants were too small to affect the franchise.
I believe that there could be a future in being more open-minded on Digimon and trying to create a bigger picture, but I don't believe in this happening.
And there are times it feels like some staff knows this, and we have the instances when the Digital World is depicted as "fluid" and able to take any shape, but it's almost never used in an interesting manner to me and sometimes feels like just an excuse to not having to think.
This is why I never had a problem with works that tried to fit together with a different work, even if not intended. The truth is, I feel that the Digital World is too vast to be limited by what any series shows, you just need to figure out a bigger picture.
And to me, that is great. A blank canvas that can contain anything you could ever imagine as long as you have the imagination and the ability to do it. And if you can't do alone, you can cooperate.
Isn't this what is great about computers after all? Or even, imagination itself.
Consider a computer. You can play all kinds of games using it, turn-based RPG, First Person Shooter, Dancing, etc. They all have different rules, but the mode of existence is fundamentally the same.
Digimon works try to be different by changing rules, and that isn't enough to me.
Personally, what I think is great about this is that things can feel familiar even if they appear different. Many works try to set themselves apart with different rules, but I never felt that this actually made a difference. To me, it needs to be more fundamental.
Before Beatbreak, I feel that the work that was the closest to actually be set apart from the others was Appmon, especially if you take into account the early interviews about the project. But as it progressed into the Leviathan plot (even more in the manga), it fell apart to me.
The reason why I think Beatbreak can be different is because of the time period it's taking place and that they are giving more thought to the worldbuilding, while also understanding the past ones and trying to feel different. It's not certain, but maybe they can do it.
But there are other times when more thought was put into it, and I get the impression that somehow different creators reached the same conclusion, or at least something very similar. I wonder if it's something more fundamental or just an example of them being somehow like-minded.
For some, I feel it's just a consequence of not developing the world while following the same tropes as previous works, and so the vagueness needs to be filled with something, that ends up generalizing to what happened before.
I know that most of the time, it wasn't intentional in the slightest. A few of them I can understand how two works unintentionally had somewhat of a convergent evolution (Like Adventure and Tamers).
But for others, I wonder what makes them converge.
The most interesting cases are exactly the ones that are intended to feel different, like Digimon Tamers, which contrasted directly with Digimon Adventure, but after I finished writing about Tamers' worldview, the more I thought the two aren't fundamentally different at all.
The more I look behind what is shown and said, the more all of them felt like they are just different developments of the same idea. Of course, some superficial rules are different, but when it's about the mode of existence of the Digital World, they are about the same.
Before the projects made by fans after the Digimon Comic Award, the only work in Digimon that had a complete story that I felt like could be said to be different was "C'mon Digimon". After the Award, a few of the fan works felt like they could stand more apart. But before it?
A thing I noticed from comments on Digimon Beatbreak's latest episode that fits with my Digimon Tamers post.
As I learn more about Digimon, the more I feel that almost all worlds are fundamentally equal, but with a different surface.
I wonder if this will actually be different.
Not counting non-Japanese games, almost no Digimon product referencing X-Evolution ever addressed the other Royal Knights actions during it, and so Lord Knightmon is almost never mentioned.
Except for one Digimon Jintrix art by Sasaki Shin that references the meeting and includes Lord Knightmon.
The movie barely has any space for the events of the game, and in the game itself the truth behind the Royal Knights is almost never mentioned, with only a post-game dialogue acknowledging Lord Knightmon's presence and that maybe, the Royal Knights were behind it all.
The game and the movie were promoted as being fully connected, with Digimon World X being said to "happen at the same time as the movie, in another world".
The theory was that since the Royal Knights traveled to different and regions, the game took place in Lord Knightmon's area.
In Digital Monster X-Evolution, there's a single line in the movie from Lord Knightmon answering to Omegamon, only acknowledged in the credits.
The common theory is that it's a leftover of the movie's connection with Digimon World X, which featured Lord Knightmon as an enemy.
