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Unperson_47 posted:How the gently caress? I feel like all everyone talked about for a while was how great their insta pot was If everyone has an instapot it becomes hard to sell more instapots.
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They torpedoed Pyrex at the same time too. It's pretty much the standard private equity bullshit, load up with debt, use it to buy the company, saddle the company with the debt you used to buy it, pay out massive dividends and then go down in flames. https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/instant-pot-pyrex-maker-lands-bankruptcy-through-debt-private-equity-maneuvers
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Pyrex was never the same after they stopped using borosilicate glass in their cookware.
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Yeah new Pyrex pieces are not as durable or as fire resistant as the old stuff using borosilicate glass.
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i think you can tell the good stuff at the thrift store by what case the P in the logo is in?
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Kwyndig posted:Yeah new Pyrex pieces are not as durable or as fire resistant as the old stuff using borosilicate glass. Sucks to be American. Pyrex in the civilised world is still the same.
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Once when I was drunk I cooked rice in a big glass bowl made of regular, rather thin glass. It was the same colour as my borosilicate kettle (or pot as you Anglo fucks would call it for some loving reason). It only broke when I poured the rice out. Very crunchy rice!
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Killingyouguy! posted:i think you can tell the good stuff at the thrift store by what case the P in the logo is in? Private equity VC bullshit pyrex is lower case. Borosilicate pyrex is upper case.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:VC bought it and since they need infinite growth started trying to branch out from the one thing anyone knew instant pot for (a pressure cooker) and burned through all the money, not a small amount of which went back to the VC folk. 
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Holy lol just don't even bother pretending to stay in business at that point
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Sentient Data posted:Holy lol just don't even bother pretending to stay in business at that point You can extract more value by overleveraging a company while saying you're trying to find efficiencies than you can from liquidating.
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the perfect poo poo talking device
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Logging ON
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Finally I can have the right side of the TP roll argument while using it.
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I’m 90% certain I had a woodgrain version of that phone. Didn’t have the buttroll platform/radio tho 
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hell yeah goth poo poo
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If anyone would have it it would be you weirdos: anyone have audio of a data CD being played in an old-school 80s CD player that DGAF about things like "is this PCM audio"?
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what like you mean you can put in a data disk and hit play and it does that wild bullshit? e: Is there some certain amount of length u need i think i still got my sony with the amber leds but gotta find cables
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SniperWoreConverse posted:what like you mean you can put in a data disk and hit play and it does that wild bullshit? Dreamcast games normally had a special track 1 on them saying "Don't be a dumbass and play this in a music player!" Oftentimes even recorded by the voice actor(s) of the game. Some games were cool and you could play their music, though.
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Explosionface posted:Dreamcast games normally had a special track 1 on them saying "Don't be a dumbass and play this in a music player!" Oftentimes even recorded by the voice actor(s) of the game. Some games were cool and you could play their music, though. Ah the times before the other book colors started taking hold
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I had to check and see if John Laws was still alive. He is, unfortunately.
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Laws was old in the 1980s, he must be nearly 100 years old
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George RR Fartin posted:I'm not an insane person about it, but I do like that I can find terrific old stereo components at thrift stores and have the listening experience my ancestors had to spend like $500 on for twenty bucks. Obviously this sort of thing is only good for certain hobbies - some stuff was expensive and bad and even at $20 not worth it - but it's nice to look at hifi equipment that was made to be all shiny and tactile and sounds decent. The 5.1 receiver is in the living room; I can have an old rear end hifi in the office and not feel especially silly about it. With stereo equipment it's even crazier once you factor inflation into the equation, my vintage Sony set-up would have cost the equivalent of $4800 CAD back in 1975, I spent a little under $300 CAD on it, and that's including getting the amplifier recapped/restored. Sounds great too. 
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Golden Mic? More like Olden Tripe
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Someone isn't going to get to come along to the world of the future!  EDIT:VVVV 
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Everything you need to know about John Laws: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cQBK2wEMxK0
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Explosionface posted:Dreamcast games normally had a special track 1 on them saying "Don't be a dumbass and play this in a music player!" Oftentimes even recorded by the voice actor(s) of the game. Some games were cool and you could play their music, though. A lot of old pc games put the music in regular cd-da tracks. I remember putting the xwing vs tie fighter disc into my cd player to listen to the soundtrack.
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Sometimes you could switch in an audio CD after a game loaded and listen to that while the game played
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Armacham posted:Sometimes you could switch in an audio CD after a game loaded and listen to that while the game played I used to play Quake with a Slayer CD in the drive all the time.
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Quake 1 would play without the game CD in, but it would play the audio tracks to whatever CD was inserted. For months I could not understand why the soundtrack to Quake was Fleetwood Mac's Rumors
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credburn posted:Quake 1 would play without the game CD in, but it would play the audio tracks to whatever CD was inserted. For months I could not understand why the soundtrack to Quake was Fleetwood Mac's Rumors That must have been one hell of a contrast from what was intended.
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My brother had some Richard Scarry's Busy town "game" that also had CD audio. It started playing "welcome to busytown" over the Quake demo.
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Lots of dos games installed the whole game on hard drive for shorter loading times and then just played the music from CD. I used to play Micro Machines 2 while listening to Offspring 
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Lowen SoDium posted:That must have been one hell of a contrast from what was intended. It was the first time my father showed any interest in the pewpews I was playing.
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I seem to remember that at least a couple old games could delete your HD by mistake, anyone knows what I'm talking about?
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Phanatic posted:I used to play Quake with a Slayer CD in the drive all the time. Major downgrade imo
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By popular demand posted:I seem to remember that at least a couple old games could delete your HD by mistake, anyone knows what I'm talking about? Myth 2 and Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor had badly coded uninstallers that could delete all data on your hard disk instead of just the game. An Eve online update had a different problem with similar results - it would delete the boot.ini file Windows needs to start up.
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