echinopsis posted:

oh poo poo




drat son

Sagebrush posted:

yeh wet the tip before every joint basically. just a tiny drop, enough to make a liquid connection so the heat conducts

if the tip isn't shiny, and instead is dusty gray/brown/yellow with old oxides, it's hosed up. melt solder (rosin-core only) all over it and roll it around until you get a bunch of black dross rising to the top and the solder starts to stick instead of balling up. then keep adding more and wiping it off until the whole tip is shiny metallic coated. always make sure the tip is shiny and metallic before you start soldering

tip maintenance is like 95% of getting a good connection

Werthog 95 posted:

also gently caress wet sponges, get yourself one of these

echinopsis posted:

Sagebrush posted:

i actually did make a point to complain to the parents last year that the creepier boys on the team were scaring off the girls and we needed to get that poo poo stamped out so they would grow up to be upstanding young men instead of terrible sperg mras. it seems to have worked so far cause we have a lot more girls now and the boys have quit using terms like "feminazi", thank god

just making a difference in my little corner

Sagebrush posted:

they're mostly 15 to 17 years old and they use those terms 100% because reddit. when they don't get along with another boy they say he's an idiot or whatever, but when it's a girl out comes the "feminazi" and "get back on the kitchen make sandwiches lol".
i think that most of it originally comes from two or three really unpleasant rear end in a top hat kids who are already fat bully creeps but it rubs off on the others because they're 15 year old nerds who have no other experience interacting with girls normally.

so anyway because I think at least some of them look up to me I try to emphasize that every mature person is just grossed out by sexism and in fact the girls will like you a lot better if you treat them like a normal person and don't try to belittle them etc

when it works, feels good man

echinopsis posted:

crank it and at least get half way in

Trig Discipline posted:

i called you echidna penis once but i don't think anyone noticed

Sagebrush posted:

i call him this every single time. look up my post history

NoneMoreNegative posted:

acetone smoothing success

echinopsis posted:

of course he only uses it to radio home on his way home "ill be there in 5 minutes"

Citizen Tayne posted:

*puts on KNOW YOUR ROOTS NES t-shirt*
*was born in 1993*

Dr. Honked posted:

the vibrators couldn't handle the mass.

Chill Callahan posted:

class a amps ftw

Wild EEPROM posted:

real talk buy an old professional audio amp like a hafler or a crown.

Corla Plankun posted:

(because you have a serious substance abuse problem)

Jonny 290 posted:

pure water is a dielectric. its the dissolved minerals and such that makes it conductive

echinopsis posted:

im serious weed has all sorts of associations with increased rates of psychosis etc while psychedelic use on the whole tends to lead to lower rates of mental illness than the general population. of course this depends on a number of things and of course there are exceptions

Dr. Honked posted:

hubris.height posted:

hubris.height posted:

so that this question would be asked so i guess mission accomplished

syscall girl posted:

it was definitely sega

i remember the white half height cab

fake edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holosseum

Sagebrush posted:

video signals into yr eyes wouldn't do it either unless the video machine has a way of reading the movements of your eyes and perfectly mimicking the natural changes in perspective and focus that would come with those motions. the nasty disconnect with stereoscopic 3d happens because the stereoscopic films only give you one of several cues you need, while all the others are saying 2d. video signals would do the same. holograms create the actual light pattern of the 3d object and let you look at it as if it were really there, so there's no mental dishonesty

like have you ever seen a really good transmissive hologram? the kind where you have to look at a glass window into a laser beam to see it? poo poo is phenomenal. it's like looking at the real objects just sitting there lit in speckly red light. if you're in new england the mit museum has a bunch of great ones.

enotnert posted:

likes to scream at my wife, but cowers around me, douchebag supreme.

Doc Block posted:

a wet, gaping vortex, filled with yeast

have fun lol

Jonny 290 posted:

enotnert posted:

Someone gave me this thing. It needs a little work, and some upgrades folks tend to do on it to make the sound a bit cleaner, but as it came it works alright. Just got a few things that I'll need to solder into it, and possibly acquire a better headset/cartridge for it.

echinopsis posted:

can u just scan a vinyl and play it from pc

Luigi Thirty posted:

the SID is a weird analog/digital hybrid. that's why emulated versions never sound right. its sound depends on a combination of analog hardware and manufacturing flaws. later revisions fixed some of the flaws which made commodore music people really mad!

in the 70s you just had analog sound circuits in your arcade games. no music, just percussive and wobbly beep boop sound effects built out of RC circuits and op-amps. sounds like this.

then they came up with PSG tone generators like the aforementioned AY-3-8910, SN74689, atari POKEY, or about a billion other chips in the early 80s. a couple sound channels and a noise generator for percussive sounds. envelope control, waveform control, fancy stuff if you had a good chip. if you really wanted to splurge or you were a good programmer you could get some PCM going too for sampled sounds by abusing the chip or throwing some more hardware on your board. if you're lucky, sounds like this. if you're not lucky, sounds like this since the chip literally can't produce a tone that's in tune.

then you had FM synthesis from yamaha. this is what your sega genesis, sound blaster, and everything else from about 85 on used, such as the YM2612 or YMF262 but there are a million models of them. many devices combined both the FM chip and a PSG chip for maximum versatility. the sega genesis had both a YM2612 and SN74689! they also generally had built-in support for PCM sound samples of much higher quality than you'd get out of loving with the envelope settings on a PSG. sounds like this.

to save money a lot of game companies tried to get away with just including an okidata ADPCM player as their only sound output. it sounds like garbage on the original hardware too. the super nintendo on the other hand had a 32KHz sony sample player chip inside it which gave it its unique sound.

another fun project might be digging up an old votrax speech chip and making it say cuss words. you string phoneme codes together and send them to the chip instead of having preprogrammed phrases. it sounds like a robit. kraftwerk used it a bunch on one of their albums.

enotnert posted:

holy poo poo that turntable.

Gonna have to figure out some better grounding cause holy drat does it generate some static just spinning vinyl.