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The switch has local wifi that usually performs better than using the internet - but, not quite the same as a LAN party
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Mister Speaker posted:Do kids in highschool these days still bring game consoles to each others' houses on weekend nights? My (now 20-year-old) brother just plays a lot online with his friends. My son marches his Xbox one and a small lcd to his buddies house for all night game athons. Even if not LAN, they enjoy playing like it is
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Jul 17, 2023 21:22
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Oh, I also make sure he walks it over there and doesn't get driven. Boy needs to pay his dues
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I used to strap my entire Compaq Presario to my back, balance my tiny 14 inch monitor on the handlebars and then ride my bike to my buddy’s house, keyboard safely stowed in the leg pocket on my sweet cargo jeans.
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Jul 18, 2023 13:13
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I lived a couple miles from my friends neighborhood and had to hump over there carrying a 17" trinitron in a duffle bag
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Jul 18, 2023 14:05
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shame on an IGA posted:I lived a couple miles from my friends neighborhood and had to hump over there carrying a 17" trinitron in a duffle bag Wha-?! HOW? You must be HUGE. I have a 20 inch Trinitron and the thing is a beast. I can’t imagine a duffel bag that could hold it let alone carrying it for several miles.
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Jul 18, 2023 16:04
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Der-Wreck posted:Wha-?! HOW? You must be HUGE. I have a 20 inch Trinitron and the thing is a beast. I can’t imagine a duffel bag that could hold it let alone carrying it for several miles. Timbuk2 and Chrome both made suitable bags
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Jul 18, 2023 16:10
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While all of my classmates were getting iPods, I had one of these: An iRiver H320. I think I had the breakout remote as well. Sometimes I wish I'd never gotten rid of it, because it was rock-solid and I'm pretty sure some people have replaced the HDD with a big SSD. The only thing it's missing is Bluetooth. I could definitely stand to get some sort of portable MP3 player; Spotify on my phone is all right but I'd like some way to carry around my own music like the old days, such that I can listen to the newest tunes I've added to my DJ library. Bonus if it's FAT formatted and my CDJs will read media off of it. TraderStav posted:My son marches his Xbox one and a small lcd to his buddies house for all night game athons. Even if not LAN, they enjoy playing like it is :3
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Jul 18, 2023 19:40
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I got a Sony Walkman and it's just a little android device with an SD card slot that plays FLAC files and stuff and I love it. I don't have to keep anything on my phone or use up its battery, it sounds good overall and has physical button controls on the side. Best of all, it has a loving headphone jack.
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Jul 18, 2023 19:51
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Heath posted:I got a Sony Walkman and it's just a little android device with an SD card slot that plays FLAC files and stuff and I love it. I don't have to keep anything on my phone or use up its battery, it sounds good overall and has physical button controls on the side. Best of all, it has a loving headphone jack. I really like mine too
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Jul 18, 2023 19:54
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I think people really underestimate the appeal of having a dedicated device for music because not having to hear a single advertisement, ever, is a blessing
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Mister Speaker posted:While all of my classmates were getting iPods, I had one of these: I had a 32gb Creative Zen Vision M, and while I was looking for a picture of it, I found a picture of my cat with my extremely '00s Guitar Hero controller 
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YeahTubaMike posted:I had a 32gb Creative Zen Vision M, and while I was looking for a picture of it, I found a picture of my cat with my extremely '00s Guitar Hero controller They're rocking out 
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Der-Wreck posted:Wha-?! HOW? You must be HUGE. I have a 20 inch Trinitron and the thing is a beast. I can’t imagine a duffel bag that could hold it let alone carrying it for several miles. Sounds like something someone with a girlfriend would say
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The only game I can clearly recognize is Spyro: A New Beginning which came out in late 2006? Which still seems kinda late to have that much shelf space for GameCube stuff, which also makes me think that this photo may be from just after Spyro came out but before the Wii blew the dick off of 2006's Christmas retail season
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Jul 25, 2023 00:50
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I miss dedicated toy stores. I'll never forgive you mitt romney!
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Milo and POTUS posted:I miss dedicated toy stores. I'll never forgive you mitt romney! We still have them in Canada! And now toy stores are just depressing because there's no stock of anything and the employees don't give a poo poo so they never clean up after the kids This article made me feel REAL Old, which i think is the intention because its the Beaverton, but all those albums are bangers and good intros to Canadian indie rock/pop of the late 2000s https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/07/classic-canadian-indie-rock-albums-ranked-by-how-old-it-makes-you-feel-to-see-them-called-classic/ Jesus christ that Metric album is from 2009??? I feel like they only released like, poo poo 4 albums since then? Oh god i'm closer to 50 than 40 now. EDIT: at least that album still rocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqldwoDXHKg
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twistedmentat posted:We still have them in Canada! lmao that article hits hard
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Both Metric and New Pornographers have new albums this year But yeah, oof on Fantasies and Twin Cinema being 20 goddamn years old
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Happy Landfill posted:Both Metric and New Pornographers have new albums this year I really really REALLY didn't think I'd ever fall into the 'oh you'll stop being cool and just listen to what you liked when you were 19 forever' trap but god dammit here we are. New Stars too for all my fellow ageing jangly Canadian indie rock enthusiasts.
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Aug 8, 2023 10:41
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Well most of us were never cool so they were compeltely wrong
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Aug 8, 2023 10:57
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Man I need to listen to Twin Cinema again
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great album! one of those ones i lent out to a friend and never got back :/ had a bunch of albums that happened to
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Milo and POTUS posted:Well most of us were never cool so they were compeltely wrong  Snackula posted:I really really REALLY didn't think I'd ever fall into the 'oh you'll stop being cool and just listen to what you liked when you were 19 forever' trap but god dammit here we are. New Stars too for all my fellow ageing jangly Canadian indie rock enthusiasts. It's not that there isn't good new stuff (just bought a bunch through Bandcamp Friday) but all my favorite bands from growing up are still putting out new stuff and sometimes it feels like I'm more interested in going back and listening to acts I missed the first time around. It's me, I've turned in to my dad 
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I just cancelled my DirecTV service last month after having been a customer since 1999. They dropped our two favorite local channels with no end in sight and football season is coming up. We had three of those remotes for two TVs. I'm still not used to the Xfinity remotes after nearly a month.
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I remember seeing the New Pornographers and Aesop Rock and I think Boris at Pitchfork festival in Chicago in like, 2006? I had really long hair and I rolled my own cigarettes. My pants were so baggy. Unrelated question, how many of y’all have kids now? My son was born in March, and this thread is yet another reminder that my SA account is almost 20 years old and time comes for us all.
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There were no new Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes being made in the 2000s. It was a hellish time.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:There were no new Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes being made in the 2000s. It was a hellish time. Holy poo poo move over to #2, 9/11
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credburn posted:Holy poo poo It's the only decade this is true for since the 1970s.
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Xbmc connected to a samba share running on debian to stream dvd rips of Hollywood video rentals
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A $10 thrift store find Laserjet 4 raw dogging the internet with a public IP and no firewall
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Nothing will take the place of the 90s Sears "I'll call now" commercial in my brain (I'll probably be quoting it in my dementia-riddled death bed) but this one comes close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYS5NtRXlZQ
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DrBouvenstein posted:Nothing will take the place of the 90s Sears "I'll call now" commercial in my brain (I'll probably be quoting it in my dementia-riddled death bed) but this one comes close: I have to wonder how their business model worked since from an outside perspective it seemed to just be Googling the word "college" with extra steps.
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I remember everyone going on about the overstock.com woman. I might have been one of them
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