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32MB OF ESRAM posted:I thought they had made advancements with this because they had to slice and peel back my dad's cornea when he had it done 10+ years ago. I'm not sure if I find a teeny tiny Forstner bit going into my eye terrifying or fascinating. Or if I just played too much Dead Space. Either way I'm glad I can get contacts. Too scared of the old way and too scared of the new way too.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 21:55 |
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:Nowadays they dont slice and peel, they have this thing like the drill-bit you use to cut the doorknob hole out of doors, or one of those things that cuts out apple cores. slices a full circle of your cornea out
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 21:56 |
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pookel posted:I keep meaning to make an effortpost about obsolete sex toy technology, but then I post from work, so uh ... nope. Maybe tonight. (Anyone who wants to steal my idea is free to, there's a gold mine out there.) Wait, what now?
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 22:19 |
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19th century vibrators and the like. There's all kinds of weird stuff out there. If I ever remember this idea when I'm at home and not at the office, I'll make the post. I don't want to be scrolling through pages of dildos to find it when I'm at work.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 22:22 |
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picturing something brass with a very thick fabric covered wire plugging directly into the wall without a ground
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 22:35 |
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Plugged in? LOL. There were steam-powered and hand-wound vibrators.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 22:40 |
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The Gatling Anal Destroyer
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 23:03 |
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mng posted:The Gatling Anal Destroyer Don't doxx me please.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 23:06 |
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pookel posted:Plugged in? LOL. There were steam-powered and hand-wound vibrators. There can be only ONE!
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 23:15 |
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pookel posted:Plugged in? LOL. There were steam-powered and hand-wound vibrators. Someone was clearly having fun with the wiki page for vibrators though. The wiki page for vibrator posted:For centuries, doctors had been treating women for a wide variety of illnesses by performing what is now recognized as masturbation. The "pelvic massage" was especially common in the treatment of female hysteria in Great Britain during the Victorian Era, as the point of such manipulation was to cause "hysterical paroxysm" (orgasm) in the patient.[1] However, not only did they regard the "vulvar stimulation" required as having nothing to do with sex, but reportedly found it time-consuming and hard work.[2] Raygereio has a new favorite as of 23:20 on Jul 20, 2015 |
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Haha, from what I've gathered in occasionally reading about this stuff is that quote is pretty spot on. Hysteria was a "real" thing, and so was the local doctor fingerblasting your wife until he got carpal tunnel.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 23:21 |
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:I thought they had made advancements with this because they had to slice and peel back my dad's cornea when he had it done 10+ years ago. And they call it a biscuit cutter!
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 00:39 |
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Raygereio posted:I thought you were joking. But apparently not. They also made radium suppositories and wang/scrotal sacks for men to 'enhance virility.'
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 01:21 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:...and wang/scrotal sacks for men to 'enhance virility.' Those don't work.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 01:40 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:They also made radium suppositories and wang/scrotal sacks for men to 'enhance virility.' And the electric prostate warmer!
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 01:41 |
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tribbledirigible posted:I'd lime to draw attention to the Telex number at the bottom of this screen. Basically a point to point text messaging system that weren't unlike the telepgraph crossed sith a fax machine. A law firm I once worked for had one sittting in a closet with some casette based computers. Late I bet, but telex is still in use in the shipping world. I see places still list it as a POC.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 02:20 |
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Portable television are totally obsolete! I remember my father had a grainy black and white piece of junk we took on a camping trip one year. It was like trying to watch the grainy pornography channel you could barely make out if you didn't have a subcription to it from your cable TV provider. Only all the time. We tried to watch baseball maybe once and gave up. It cost like $300. Anyway here's a particularly handsome portable television I just stumbled across. The the practically named TX8-301! It was manufactured by Sony in 1959. No idea how much they wanted for it. But it's a beaut! This television and Sony's AIBO are both part of the Museum of Modern Art's design collection. Speaking of AIBO I just looked to see what those little guys are going for on eBay. They've maintained their value surprisingly well! You'll find them priced anywhere between $600 and $1000. Eve the pamphlets, brochures, boxes, and inserts are going for a price in the triple digits. They are a neat little engineering gimmick. A friend of mine got one for Christmas when they first came out. God, it sure was expensive for something that was neat for a few days or so. I remember thinking "what a disappointment." I look back now and think that they were actually beautifully designed and to Sony's credit it's probably the most well-known and most successful consumer grade household robot ever made. No company would ever dare take a chance on such a silly and expensive toy today. I could never justify it, but I really want one just for novelty and nostalgia. I imagine in 20 years they'll be looked on rather fondly. AwwJeah has a new favorite as of 03:04 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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AwwJeah posted:I look back now and think that they were actually beautifully designed and to Sony's credit it's probably the most well-known and most successful consumer grade household robot ever made. I could never justify it, but I really want one just for novelty and nostalgia. I imagine in 20 years they'll be looked on rather fondly. Cleaning today and decided to go through my binder of instruction manuals for things that are long gone or just unnecessary to begin with, and found the directions for playing with Meowchi, the robot cat version of Furby. I'll scan them when I get the chance. As much as I wanted to like my Furby (I genuinely was not freaked out by it, but I also never was afraid of clowns so I might just have poor taste) as a kid, it just wasn't fun for me to play with. I found a lot of virtual interaction toys to be that way- if they did too much of the "imagining" for me, it took a lot of the fun away. Meowchi likely suffered the same fate, especially since I had truly forgotten I'd ever had it until finding that instruction paper today.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 02:58 |
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AwwJeah posted:most successful consumer grade household robot ever made. Roomba
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 03:44 |
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AwwJeah posted:I imagine in 20 years they'll be looked on rather fondly. 20 years nothing. In Japan, AIBO owners can get so attached to their robo-pets that they hold funerals when the things inevitably kick the bucket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkX0Bg3mKEQ
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 03:56 |
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You know, I appreciate that AIBOs are a thing if only because my lovely avatar wouldn't exist without them. Doctor Bishop posted:20 years nothing. In Japan, AIBO owners can get so attached to their robo-pets that they hold funerals when the things inevitably kick the bucket. Japanese people have some problems when it comes to interpersonal relationships, it seems.
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Hahaha the first steam powered vibrator was invented in 1869. History is prefect and I'm still 13
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Wanamingo posted:Japanese people have some problems when it comes to interpersonal relationships, it seems. "Aoyama cites one man in his early 30s, a virgin, who can't get sexually aroused unless he watches female robots on a game similar to Power Rangers." I feel like I'm playing keno while trying to decide which thread this quote works best in.
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WebDog posted:And print screen? Code Jockey posted:Holy poo poo, that's amazing. I never actually used it. Ours was hooked up through a serial cable and some black magic analog-to-digital conversion to an iMac. It was glitchy as hell, but way better than the Loch Ness resolution you got from the console screen.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 09:52 |
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Dick Trauma posted:Those don't work. A++ #1 username/post combo
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 14:51 |
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Those screen capture devices remind me of microfilm and microfiche readers: My junior and senior year of college, I worked for a professor whose entire body of research was contained on microfilm. Hundreds of rolls of it, which needed to be transcribed and categorized. If I go blind by age 30, it's because I spent 15 hours a week staring at that loving screen.
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hailthefish posted:Non-currency-related post (also not mine): What is all that and how is it functioning?
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 20:24 |
drrockso20 posted:What is all that and how is it functioning? It's a handheld SNES emulator playing a Sega Card Game through a tower of region and system adapters.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 20:57 |
drrockso20 posted:What is all that and how is it functioning? Reddit OP posted:What we have here is clone of a SNES handheld.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 20:58 |
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hailthefish posted:Non-currency-related post (also not mine): Reminds me of the good times with the Game Shark on the N64 or GameBoy, or the GameBoy cartridge adapter to use your Pokemon in Pokemon Stadium on N64.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 18:44 |
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Sega Dreamcast, with the screen that goes in the controller, that of all different ones I played on (maybe 4) none of them had. Dreamcast was killed off by Sony and its PS2.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 18:49 |
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drgnwr1 posted:Dreamcast was killed off by Sony and its PS2. Piracy is generally just a response to an inefficient or overpriced market, but hooollleeee poo poo did Dreamcast screw the pooch on not making it at least marginally difficult.
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drgnwr1 posted:
The VMUs were fun. The Dreamcast was a great system with probably the best ratio of good-vs-crap games in its library of any system ever but it was definitely a failure, and definitely full of obsolete technology. The 1X or 2X GD-ROM (instantly failed and obsolete) drive that sounds like a jet engine in normal use, that SEGA went with when DVD was already on the horizon. The 56K modem instead of a LAN port. No options for wireless controllers. Only one analog stick on the controller. Everblight posted:Wrong. Dreamcast was killed off by the widespread availability at the time of CDRs and CD Burners, and the fact that they did absolutely no piracy control whatsoever, so you could just burn a game onto a 40c disk and play immediately. I'd like to see support for this because it sure sounds to me like it was directly falling hardware sales coupled with a new President of SEGA who was down on them being in the console business at all. The reported back that the average Dreamcast owner bought 8 games (which is phenomenally good for a console, I think) seems to say piracy wasn't too big of a hit. Wikipedia posted:
Imagined has a new favorite as of 19:17 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Sega also pissed off EA and didn't get any EA games. Not like Madden is a popular game.
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Everblight posted:Wrong. Dreamcast was killed off by the widespread availability at the time of CDRs and CD Burners, and the fact that they did absolutely no piracy control whatsoever, so you could just burn a game onto a 40c disk and play immediately. No. It was the PS2 and its DVD player that killed the Dreamcast.Their poor third party relationships after the disastrous Sega CD/32X/Saturn failures didn't help. The Dreamcast eventually became really easy to pirate things on, but it wasn't initially as trivial to do as you described.
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I thought part of the story with EA was that EA stated themselves they'd only support the DC if sold a certain number of systems at the launch window, which it ended up doing. Then EA declared, "Nope, still not going to do it." Didn't Sega eventually try to strike out at EA a bit during the post-DC PS2 era by releasing their own 2K Sports games at a much cheaper price that EAs similar offerings? edit: Sega had a tendency in the 90s to really mess up relationships with other companies, though. -The Nomad and Saturn had exclusive pre-launch deals with some gaming and toy stores. As a result, KB Toys pretty much refused to carry either device or any Saturn products at all when they officially released. -Sega made Hollywood Video the official video store of the Dreamcast. This lead several Blockbusters to not carry any DC games for the first 6 months or so of its release. JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 19:21 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Last Chance posted:No. It was the PS2 and its DVD player that killed the Dreamcast.Their poor third party relationships after the disastrous Sega CD/32X/Saturn failures didn't help. The Dreamcast eventually became really easy to pirate things on, but it wasn't initially as trivial to do as you described. This. The 1GB capacity of the GD-Rom discs meant that for games that took up the whole disc (Grandia, for example, or Skies of Arcadia), audio and cutscenes had to be cut or compressed by the scene to make them fit on 700MB CD-Rs, and often made a lot of the game look (or sound) like rear end. Also broadband internet was just becoming a thing for even big cities in 2000, and most people didn't have the ability to download 700MB files conveniently then. JediTalentAgent posted:I thought part of the story with EA was that EA stated themselves they'd only support the DC if sold a certain number of systems at the launch window, which it ended up doing. Then EA declared, "Nope, still not going to do it." Not to mention that the 2K Sports games on the Dreamcast were superior to their EA counterparts at the time. EA eventually beat 2K by buying up all the exclusive licenses to use official players and stats, not by making better games. The main people who bought Dreamcast were people who wanted to play those sports games. They even released a "sports" edition: Imagined has a new favorite as of 19:29 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Everblight posted:Wrong. Dreamcast was killed off by the widespread availability at the time of CDRs and CD Burners, and the fact that they did absolutely no piracy control whatsoever, so you could just burn a game onto a 40c disk and play immediately. It wasn't dead simple to get the game ready as an ISO, but once that work was done it was pretty simple. Better than the Sega CD I guess which had no copy protection what so ever, though at the time the fact it was on CD was its copy protection as commercial burners were approximately two console generations away. EA abandoning them didn't help either.
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drgnwr1 posted:
I remember the ads in magazines: "Buy a Dreamcast and get a DVD player for free!". Can't blame retailers for not trying.
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Last Chance posted:No. It was the PS2 and its DVD player that killed the Dreamcast.
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