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Photoplus Date Printing
So we know when a thing happened

It feels like there aren't a whole lot of people in the game that label photos with place or time or date or who's in it on the back. I can think of reasons why someone would intentionally not use the feature for some info, but maybe all photos should at least have the date it was taken on the back?

So, my idea. Make Photoplus cameras include the date on the back of every printed photo. The date it was taken, not the date printed. And then maybe also add a command reminder when you print a photo from any camera, so people not in the know get to learn that they can write on it. And I think it'd be cool to make picture labeling a bonus UE task too. I wish we had more people writing notes on their pictures.

That's all.

This would make photographs vastly more useful for providing facts and evidence and establishing a record as well. A simple photo with banal details can mean a lot more when it was certain to be taken at a specific time.

I think embedded dating would also be fair to have in the sense that Sindome's world space doesn't really change (mostly) as a real place would, you could have two photographs of places (and even people) taken 20 years apart that would be indistinguishable from one another whereas in-world they'd be filled with time-and-date context clues that characters would be able to distinguish but we can't as players because everything is much more static for us.

It's less common with how players use cameras as well but the other thing that an embedded time code would enable is timeline sequences for photos.

If, for example, your character took three photographs in sequence of a shroud sprinting across the road and dragging someone into the sewers, then in-world someone could look at those photos and understand from relative changes in the scene that they were in a particular order and took place all in a certain short period of time.

From the perspective of us the players though it could just look like a photo of a street with one person on it, a photo of a street with two people on it, and a photo of a street with no people on it, each of which could have been taken months or years apart.

I raise that examine because it's actually something that happened to me the first year I started playing and it was a lesson how little context is preserved no matter how active the surveillance on someone is.

My thoughts exactly.
Automatically dated photos would definitely be useful, but I think it should be optional when printing one out. There are reasons someone might not want a photo to be dated.
There are. I think the value of enriching the data game here offsets that loss of data control. We'd still be able to omit plenty. Data control is also a thematic reason why the corporation that manufactures cameras would force a type stamp function in the first place.
But certainly not optional. That defeats the purpose.
Oooh, deckers being able to manipulate the timestamp on those photos, so this newly gained evidence can be forged, and thus not 100% undeniable truth.
The way to do this would be change funcams and photoplus cameras to write to e-memory modules instead of device specific filesystems. The funcam e-memory module would only become accessible on trash (like photos do now) and photoplus would be able to do hotswap like e-notes and other e-memory devices do now.

Naturally, any file created on the e-memory module would create a file stamp in correlation with the file creation date now.

The final nuance would be enabling deckers to edit the timestamp of any file on an e-memory module.

Honestly, this is a lot of code and effort for a minimal ROI, but I think that's how it should be gone about if we go down this road.

At the risk of going against the grain I think cameras should be left alone. Cyberpunk technology and especially how it’s portrayed in Sindome, is clunky, outdated, archaic and most of the times, retrofuturistic. Just look at Blade Runner.

Let’s leave some things unanswered and some mystic to arise for lore items, for intrigue and for subterfuge. Because you don’t have to have the real annswers about everything.