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Vanagoon posted:You don't know Mr Blobby? Now you link that I remember seeing him once on something, I think! taqueso posted:I used to trade (really low quality!) wavs over IRC before mp3 existed I remember short clips from songs, low sampling rates, mono, passed through a codec designed for voice, and only 8 characters for the filename. I don't think I ever heard anything and went "wow that's a great song I'd like to hear more of that", I think it was only good for songs I already knew 
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90s Solo Cup posted:Barely related to CD chat, but I've grown to appreciate DIN and double-DIN car CD player designs that make straight swaps to newer and better audio systems much easier. DIN/Double-DIN systems feel like obsolete technology in the face of cars with tablets tacked onto dashboards. 10 years from now scrapyards are going to be full of perfectly good cars that are unusable because the touchscreen that controls everything broke.
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Sep 27, 2020 10:08
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Some Goon posted:Anything with a needle can play a record. You'd just have to affix a needle made of something that won't damage it. And with no preamp you wouldn't have anything to offset the riaa curve. Yeah, you can just tape a sewing needle to a piece of stiff paper and play a record with it once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaqmdcaF87w
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Sweevo posted:10 years from now scrapyards are going to be full of perfectly good cars that are unusable because the touchscreen that controls everything broke. You can get complete HVAC controls and DIN radio slot third party replacements for a lot of car models with touchscreen or otherwise nonstandard layouts. I predict that we're going to see a lot of hoarding of functional OEM units, both from scrapyards and now old stock, and an increase in availability of third-party options. Still, just give me a DIN or double DIN slot for a radio and knobs/buttons for the rest.
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Sep 27, 2020 11:14
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KozmoNaut posted:You can get complete HVAC controls and DIN radio slot third party replacements for a lot of car models with touchscreen or otherwise nonstandard layouts. Literally just posted this in AI Humphreys posted:So new bits for the commodore!
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Sep 27, 2020 11:27
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How's the general quality and knob feel?
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Sep 27, 2020 11:31
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Sweevo posted:10 years from now scrapyards are going to be full of perfectly good cars that are unusable because the touchscreen that controls everything broke. 10 years from now scrapyards are going to be full of perfectly good cars that are unusable because the online server that controls everything no longer exists.
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Sep 27, 2020 11:38
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KozmoNaut posted:How's the general quality and knob feel? Ask your mom for me.
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Sep 27, 2020 11:42
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Moo the cow posted:10 years from now scrapyards are going to be full of perfectly good cars that are unusable because the online server that controls everything no longer exists. Sounds like a fun Arduino project to me!
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Sep 27, 2020 11:46
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KozmoNaut posted:How's the general quality and knob feel? It's surprisingly good. There was a VERY janky option a few years ago but this actually has some QC. Feels like OEM. Aerpro have been around for ages and aren't some chinese fly-by-night operation. Even an install video with an Aussie showing the whole procedure. Got the kit for $299 down from $429. Really happy now it's done. The one bad thing is the typos in the written manual that ask for a 3/8th drillbit.... um thats 9.5mm-ish. We need a 2.5-3mm at most for that pilot hole. EDIT: Obviously not including the Headunit or adaptor loom. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 13:59 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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Sep 27, 2020 12:22
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Buttcoin purse posted:Yeah, my P166 at work couldn't really play an MP3 and do other useful things at the same time, but there were 486s lying around and I could dedicate one to running X11Amp, the Linux rip-off of WinAmp. Oh god yeah that's it! The later ones didn't have anything to do with this release but the name 'Blobby' just became synonymous with pirate compilations here
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Sep 27, 2020 14:35
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Moo the cow posted:10 years from now scrapyards are going to be full of perfectly good cars that are unusable because the online server that controls everything no longer exists. Sorry I don't have power brakes, I couldn't afford to keep paying the BMW subscription for them.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I have a distinct memory of helping a friend convert songs to .WAV because his system wasn't fast enough to run MP3s. Didn't that get fixed later when decoders using fixed-point maths instead of floating point, so it was all integer arithmetic and would work more quickly on processors with low performance or no FPU? I remember playing mp3s on a terrible Windows CE PDA when madplay was created, or something similar. Not 100% sure but I think that also worked fast enough on 486s too 
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Sep 27, 2020 15:01
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Vanagoon posted:You don't know Mr Blobby? This explains Brexit.
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Sep 27, 2020 15:09
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They were grim times, they accidentally hit on something that became popular and ran it into the ground, they opened Blobby World which in itself quickly became failed and obsolete  It was not a good time
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Sep 27, 2020 16:07
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Here's a video on that theme park I ran across. As an American who had never heard of Mr. Blobby I was making this expression  pretty much the whole way through the video when I first watched it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prr59WolXv4 Mr.Radar has a new favorite as of 17:20 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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Sep 27, 2020 17:15
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I was a kid at the time and literally nobody wanted to go there, they got a fluke xmas number 1 song and ran with it, and no one else did lol Edit: The idea behind Mr Blobby was sound, he was a bit part segment on a Saturday night shao that was popular, he was basically a fall guy who made celebs look stupid, he could get away with stuff like humiliating famous people, custard pies top the face, falling over, all that poo poo, but like I said they thought it was much much bigger than it really was or had any right to be, funny really peter gabriel has a new favorite as of 18:30 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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Sep 27, 2020 18:28
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peter gabriel posted:Edit: The idea behind Mr Blobby was sound, he was a bit part segment on a Saturday night shao that was popular, he was basically a fall guy who made celebs look stupid, he could get away with stuff like humiliating famous people, custard pies top the face, falling over, all that poo poo, but like I said they thought it was much much bigger than it really was or had any right to be, funny really I'd say it went further than that: he was designed as the worst-possible character to be involved with. It was part of Noel's 'hilarious' pranks where he would set up celebs in situations and Mr Blobby was created to be a 'oh christ, what is this poo poo?' character to wind them up. They underestimated just how low the British TV-viewing public was and they accepted him as a real character. E: I think this was his first appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7r7yKU22BA&t=1236s Moo the cow has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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Sep 27, 2020 19:07
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I've only known Mr Blobby from this and I think it's probably representative of the average reaction to him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97fw8xjB5u4
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Sep 27, 2020 19:12
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flatluigi posted:I've only known Mr Blobby from this and I think it's probably representative of the average reaction to him Yeah that was my introduction to Mr Blobby as well.
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Sep 27, 2020 20:08
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Wasabi the J posted:Yeah that was my introduction to Mr Blobby as well. Same -- and that still got a laugh from me. Poor Jack. Terrified. And that clip somehow explains everything about Mr. Blobby even if you have no clue what it's about.
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Sep 27, 2020 20:22
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The blobby costume being slightly grubby and falling apart makes that much better.
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Sep 27, 2020 21:06
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if I recall the shittiness of the costume was part of the bit originally. the prank victim would be told they were meeting with a super popular character and the blobby character would come out with a deliberately terrible costume and theme music and catchphrase. they're expecting mickey mouse and that pops out and then behaves inappropriately. of course this as-bad-as-possible character became hugely popular and successful.
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Sep 28, 2020 01:07
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Moo the cow posted:10 years from now scrapyards are going to be full of perfectly good cars that are unusable because the online server that controls everything no longer exists. Related topic: perfectly good video games that are unusable because a)the online server that controls everything* no longer exists or b)you lost the copy protection code book. *multiplayer
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LifeSunDeath posted:My mom has a Victrola as well, it works too. Hers looks more like this one: I used to play with my great-grandma's Victrola back in 80's. She was long dead, but we had it in a closet on the farm. Holy crap they are loud without any electronic amplification. You just use the doors for volume. It didn't work initially when I was a kid but I figured out how to to fix it. It was just a problem with the mainspring. I liked to use a sewing needle and a cone made of paper to listen to old records. That way it wouldn't be so loud. I still have the 78's with recordings from my great-grandma from the 40's. She had a freaky high pitched voice and spoke like people did in movies at the time. You have to be careful listening too much though. The old needles are heavy and eventually the record will play out and will be no good. Best to make an electronic copy and save the old records. That's what I did with my great-grandma's recorders. All you have to do is record them at 45 then speed them up to match a 78 for pitch if your turntable can't do 78.
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mostlygray posted:I used to play with my great-grandma's Victrola back in 80's. She was long dead, but we had it in a closet on the farm. Holy crap they are loud without any electronic amplification. You just use the doors for volume. It didn't work initially when I was a kid but I figured out how to to fix it. It was just a problem with the mainspring. I liked to use a sewing needle and a cone made of paper to listen to old records. That way it wouldn't be so loud. I still have the 78's with recordings from my great-grandma from the 40's. She had a freaky high pitched voice and spoke like people did in movies at the time. Ours was purchased at some antique sale, and came with some old records like the waltz and poo poo. I DJ scratched the hell out of that record on there. Haven't messed with it in a long time since there's an antique slot machine that weighs a ton on top of it now.
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mostlygray posted:
Victrolas and other antique gramophones had a tracking force measured in OUNCES.
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mostlygray posted:I used to play with my great-grandma's Victrola back in 80's. She was long dead, but we had it in a closet on the farm. Holy crap they are loud without any electronic amplification. You just use the doors for volume. It didn't work initially when I was a kid but I figured out how to to fix it. It was just a problem with the mainspring. I liked to use a sewing needle and a cone made of paper to listen to old records. That way it wouldn't be so loud. I still have the 78's with recordings from my great-grandma from the 40's. She had a freaky high pitched voice and spoke like people did in movies at the time. Other way around on those  On old phonographs the needle is was got worn out, not the record. If you have old pre-50s 78s you absolutely should not listen to them on a modern record player or else you'll run the risk of literally destroy your pickup. Because the tracking force was so heavy as you mentioned, the records were manufactured with abrasives stuck in the material to wear out a soft steel needle because that was cheaper than wearing out the disc.
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ishikabibble posted:Other way around on those Techmoan taught me that you could also control volume with the choice of needle, the thicker the needle, the louder the sound! He has a good info dump on all this in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYn7aZZBMRA
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Buttcoin purse posted:I keep noticing stuff like https://archive.org/details/blobby11_cracked where they talk about needing to crack the disks. Did you need to use their menu application to be able to access the .zip files so that you couldn't just upload the .zip files to your local BBS or something? Goddamn pirates implementing their own copy protection I remember having to "unpack" games which seemed to unvolve converting jpegs to textures, mp3 to audio files (see: machines of that time wouldn`t have been able to run both mp3 audio AND the game itself) and maybe other stuff. It`s all a bygone thing now that you can buy and download games within minutes through Steam or other stores.
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Wipfmetz posted:Wasn't that partially done because they rolled their own compression and file structures? Oh man I remember this.  all while sweet sweet tracker music played.
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I had to choose between playing Grand Theft Auto One, or listen to Fear Factory mp3s on Winamp with my Pentium75 with 16MB RAM.
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Wipfmetz posted:Wasn't that partially done because they rolled their own compression and file structures? That's still a thing, repackers like Fitgirl will do stuff like re-encode video files for lower bitrates and rip out multi-lingual voice acting then compress it a lot more tightly than commercial releases tend to be and it usually saves gigabytes compared to the normal scene release, sometimes tens of gigabytes. The drawback is that big boy compression like this takes serious CPU grunt to unpack so it's not unusual for the installer to just run for 45 minutes even on a beefy modern octa-core machine.
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I remember playing a version of Kingpin: Life of Crime that had been packed like that, the textures had been converted from tga to jpeg and back again, which meant things such as chain link fences now were no longer transparent but had black areas instead; enemies could shoot you through them but you couldn't see them.
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High Protein posted:I remember playing a version of Kingpin: Life of Crime that had been packed like that, the textures had been converted from tga to jpeg and back again, which meant things such as chain link fences now were no longer transparent but had black areas instead; enemies could shoot you through them but you couldn't see them. I had that version! I remember it took over an hour to install because it ran all the texture files through the jpeg2tga conversion program one by one. And then I think I played it once for about 15 minutes before realising that loads of swearing isn't enough to cover for the fact that the game was poo poo.
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CoolCab posted:if I recall the shittiness of the costume was part of the bit originally. the prank victim would be told they were meeting with a super popular character and the blobby character would come out with a deliberately terrible costume and theme music and catchphrase. they're expecting mickey mouse and that pops out and then behaves inappropriately. of course this as-bad-as-possible character became hugely popular and successful. I remember when I was 14 they tried to put him over in the US briefly, and I found the conceit hysterical, this hideous pink unit jumping all over Larry King
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Snackula posted:That's still a thing, repackers like Fitgirl will do stuff like re-encode video files for lower bitrates and rip out multi-lingual voice acting then compress it a lot more tightly than commercial releases tend to be and it usually saves gigabytes compared to the normal scene release, sometimes tens of gigabytes. The thing with Fitgirl is most are lossless, which when you see the amount of compression in the package - is quite amazing.
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You're walking alone in the woods, it's getting dark and your phone is dead. You look behind you and there you see Mr. Blobby
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I have a need to drill some small holes to build a chicken coop Old tools are very cheap and I don't like relying on electrons and batteries because I have strong memories about getting half way through a project and having batteries run out I got these for 15 dollars and they should suffice for my job and I have access to a work shop so I'm gunna make a new handle and an adaptor for a keyless chuck to mix the old and new 
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Jestery posted:I have a need to drill some small holes to build a chicken coop Not obsolete if you work for the CIA. Read a book about how they be drilling holes in walls quietly with hand drills.
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