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axolotl farmer posted:Another thread reminded me of this: the worst joystick of the 8-bit era- Le Stick. God, toxicity aside that sounds like it would be horrible to use. Having to keep your joystick perfectly vertical unless you want to move in a direction would suck.
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Phanatic posted:God, toxicity aside that sounds like it would be horrible to use. Having to keep your joystick perfectly vertical unless you want to move in a direction would suck.
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Feb 23, 2023 21:47
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SLOSifl posted:What the gently caress I'm on my SIXTH Le Stick and I'm literally shaking constantly 24/7 making it even easier to break them. I look like a prick in Ultima Online. If a game doesn’t work with le stick I’m not playing that game
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Feb 23, 2023 21:48
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SLOSifl posted:What the gently caress I'm on my SIXTH Le Stick and I'm literally shaking constantly 24/7 making it even easier to break them. I look like a prick in Ultima Online. Oh poo poo, I forgot that it would probably have been the perfect stick for home versions of Track & Field.
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Feb 23, 2023 21:58
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https://twitter.com/man_vhs/status/1628567607308652544?s=20 EDIT: :3 https://twitter.com/SarahWoods66/status/1628704509349314560?s=20 Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 22:46 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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Feb 23, 2023 22:15
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Series: Tips for programming ----------------------- Write a Top-program. Appreciating the old non-buzzwordy IT stuff.
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Feb 24, 2023 10:19
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Yeah, I'm old enough to have typed in programs from magazines like that. Had fun doing it, too. For a while we didn't even have any kind of external storage so had to do that stuff every time we wanted to run something.
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Feb 24, 2023 10:34
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le stick sucks le dick nothing like the posting coital afterglow I kind of have a similar issue; we do have a Betamax, but it was bought at a yard sale and is a hunk of junk with no automatic tracking. I ain't got the time to sit constantly twaddling that knob while capping video, which is a shame because the MTV top 20 from June of 1986 probably has some good stuff. But good lord is an ebay Betamax expensive.
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Feb 24, 2023 17:11
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what about one of those companies with the ghoulish commercials about how much work your relatives did to capture film and video; they digitize stuff like that memory box or something?
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Feb 24, 2023 17:55
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My parents' living room had one of these, installed by my dad. That is a GE Super Switch, whose gimmick was that it didn't make a loud "snap!" when you used it. The secret? Mercury! A blob of it inside the switch, just like the joystick upstream. Now, I don't know why anybody cared that the lightswitch made a noise, but they did. My dad probably bought it because Rule of Cool. It had a neat gliding movement when you turned it on and off. I seem to recall that if you didn't push it hard enough, it could stop in between the two points and do nothing.
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Feb 24, 2023 17:58
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I remember taking the cover off of a thermostat when I was a kid so I could see the little flash of light when the mercury switch completed the circuit. I wonder when they stopped making that type of unit.
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Feb 24, 2023 18:41
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SLOSifl posted:…and I'm literally shaking… Whoah, did Trump get elected president or something?
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Feb 24, 2023 19:14
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:nothing like the posting coital afterglow If they want after-glow they should try connecting a monitor! 
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Feb 24, 2023 19:30
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Arsenic Lupin posted:My parents' living room had one of these, installed by my dad. Lots more old switch designs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWZwCrhwLew
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Feb 24, 2023 21:32
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The secret? Mercury! A blob of it inside the switch, just like the joystick upstream. See also pretty much every thermostat prior to, like 2010.
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boar guy posted:what about one of those companies with the ghoulish commercials about how much work your relatives did to capture film and video; they digitize stuff like that Can't speak for those, but I recently got some VHS tapes digitised into DVDs just at my local photo shop, same place I got my passport photos taken. Did one, it worked, then I gave them the other 15 or so, total was about 120 euro I think. I converted them from DVD to file on my own, using Handbrake, after beating my head into the wall with VLC
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Feb 24, 2023 22:57
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 https://twitter.com/mccrabb_will/status/1629171195731120129?s=20
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Feb 24, 2023 23:03
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Bouncing up and down on that didn't look right, so they advised the actors to pretend to gently caress the horse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ3K-tXjvFc I had to make sure to google that link in an incognito window btw.
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Feb 24, 2023 23:58
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Phanatic posted:God, toxicity aside that sounds like it would be horrible to use. Having to keep your joystick perfectly vertical unless you want to move in a direction would suck. It certainly was bad to use. I tried using one on a VIC-20 a few times and it was dire. I seem to recall that you could also squeeze it to fire along with that top button.
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Feb 25, 2023 00:06
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Arsenic Lupin posted:My parents' living room had one of these, installed by my dad. Extremely old wall mounted push switches and rotate switches are loud as gently caress I love them they will last forever
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Feb 25, 2023 09:09
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:le stick sucks le dick Send it to me if it's not too expensive to ship to Australia. I'll have that thing sorted in a jiffy.
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Feb 25, 2023 17:10
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Interesting bathroom wallpaper at the bar last night.
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Feb 25, 2023 21:50
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Phanatic posted:Interesting bathroom wallpaper at the bar last night. That’s awesome, where, if I might ask, is the bar located? Reminds me of working at Radio Shack in the early 80’s.
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Feb 25, 2023 22:23
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JnnyThndrs posted:That’s awesome, where, if I might ask, is the bar located? Reminds me of working at Radio Shack in the early 80’s. This was La Chinesca on Spring Garden in Philly. What's up, Tandy brother? I worked at Incredible Universe in the mid-90s.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Extremely old wall mounted push switches and rotate switches are loud as gently caress I love them they will last forever I don't trust quiet switches in general. It's usually really easy to tease them in a position where they start arcing inside, which isn't great. I always pick out nice clicky ones with good positive action.
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Feb 26, 2023 21:18
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So glad that this technology became obsolete and failed. https://twitter.com/Karaszewski/status/1629914248368521216?s=20 Source: , J. K. Raymond-Millet’s film Télévision: Oeil de Demain (“Television: Eye of Tomorrow”)
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I don’t agree with the breathless Twitter Take there. That clip seems like it’s predicting something like the Sony Watchman (itself obsolete technology), not a modern cellphone. Everyone is passively watching television/videos on their magic box, no one is playing Candy Crush or shitposting on dying forums.
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Feb 27, 2023 05:13
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Yeah but it does predict people defeating the lockout on their in car infotainment system to play videos while driving.
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Porfiriato posted:I don’t agree with the breathless Twitter Take there. That clip seems like it’s predicting something like the Sony Watchman (itself obsolete technology), not a modern cellphone. Everyone is passively watching television/videos on their magic box, no one is playing Candy Crush or shitposting on dying forums. What I like about it is that it looks very much like modern day folks staring at their phones oblivious to what's happening around them. https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1630321699634683912?s=20
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Phanatic posted:This was La Chinesca on Spring Garden in Philly. I should have known it was Philly when looking at your username.  quote:What's up, Tandy brother? I worked at Incredible Universe in the mid-90s. It was a decent HS job, had to wear a tie and dress shirt/slacks in those days, but it paid better than fast food and I took all kinds of busted poo poo home and fixed it. Plus I learned I’m not cut out for retail.
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I had to wear khaki shorts and a purple shirt with teal collar. Which someone stole out of the apartment laundry machine one night. Bunch of loving savages in that town.
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Feb 28, 2023 01:44
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Purple with a teal collar? Sounds like they did you a favor.
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Feb 28, 2023 05:21
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Apparently the internet has not preserved a picture of the staff uniform. I am okay with this.
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Arivia posted:Purple with a teal collar? Sounds like they did you a favor. I'm imagining they stole the job to along with it, too. Like just show up to Phanatics regularly scheduled shift in his clothes but with altered name tag. That's his job now.
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Dick Trauma posted:What I like about it is that it looks very much like modern day folks staring at their phones oblivious to what's happening around them.
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Dick Trauma posted:What I like about it is that it looks very much like modern day folks staring at their phones oblivious to what's happening around them. Yeah, it's a pretty cool clip regardless. Speaking of the Watchman, just look at that thing:  This being the "sports" version now I'm imagining someone going for a run wearing earbuds with that thing strapped to their upper arm like a cellphone (or in earlier times, an iPod). e: hope you don't poke yourself in the eye with the antenna!
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Feb 28, 2023 10:52
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How else am I supposed to stay fit and also stay current with "L.A. Law"?
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I think adding the camera and social media was really the point cellphones started to go wrong, go to wiki
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Porfiriato posted:Yeah, it's a pretty cool clip regardless. Speaking of the Watchman, just look at that thing: Why bother with earbuds when it has a speaker? You just hold it while running
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But what if not everyone on the trail wants to listen to Evening Shade??
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