explosivecombat: (Someone needs to listen more carefully)
Solf J Kimblee ([personal profile] explosivecombat) wrote 2013-05-10 05:48 am (UTC)

In many ways it's far less technologically advanced - for example, we have cars, but they're very expensive, and it's mostly those in the employ of the military that have access to them. I don't know how to drive, and I know relatively few that do; it's strange to me that most people in other worlds are almost expected to know how. Horseback riding isn't uncommon, however, and we still do have something of a cavalry in our military. These...motorcycles you've mentioned are something I've heard of only in passing, from people from this world - I'm unfortunately not familiar with them myself, though I have enough of an idea of what they are to be able to visualize them.

We have trains in Amestris, but they're steam-powered; we have electric power, but some still use gas-lights, and we're not nearly to the point of using electricity for the trains, like they are here. We use mostly coal and steam power, not oil. We don't have any of those...flying things, either - helicopters? Those. I've been in one since being here, but we don't have those where I'm from.

We don't have video games, though the ones here amuse me, and I've had a few described to me from other worlds that seem rather interesting. We do have movies, but no television.

Although I will say that we also have technology that most here have never heard of and seem to consider alarmingly advanced, and we have ways of doing certain things that are far more efficient than anything in this world. So at least there's that.

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