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This isn't really a just figured out thing but it's still a pretty cool thing https://twitter.com/engineeringvids/status/1234191404550672385
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Figured out / read / realized years ago that the drat fedora m'lady guy was the fat smelly kid from Freaks and Geeks. But somehow not until making a lovely throwaway Mr. Show joke in an SAS baseball thread yesterday did I realize that the same guy played William Van Landingham in Mr. Show.  And despite seeing every episode of Mr. Show too many times to count, I never noticed that he also played the poor doomed son of Willups Brighton.  Poor kid has no idea what's coming for him. 
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The m'lady picture was done as a joke, I believe.
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Inzombiac posted:The m'lady picture was done as a joke, I believe. Things have clearly gotten out of hand.
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MariusLecter posted:Things have clearly gotten out of hand. Yeah, jokes have lost all meaning in the current timeline. Simultaneously everything is a joke and nothing is a joke, it's known as Trumpdingers Paradox
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Inceltown posted:Yeah, jokes have lost all meaning in the current timeline. Simultaneously everything is a joke and nothing is a joke, it's known as Trumpdingers Paradox I've identified a solution to identifying whether or not something is a joke, it's to simply turn off your monitor
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Captain Hygiene posted:I've identified a solution to identifying whether or not something is a joke, it's to simply turn off your monitor Strange how the test always up ‘joke’ for you huh?
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I would never test an experimental methodology on myself! 
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lol if you own a monitor in 2020
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:lol if you own a monitor in 2020 Lol Brazilian Navy! It has outlasted their aircraft carrier and that thing was also pretty old.
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Inceltown posted:This isn't really a just figured out thing but it's still a pretty cool thing Haha, I thought they had some other machine to pick it all up off the ground later.
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Beartaco posted:Haha, I thought they had some other machine to pick it all up off the ground later. How a Baler Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYTcWhOmER4
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The song is not Move My Jacket
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The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations "She's giving me the excitations", not "egg citations". Those at least sound similar, but why would I assume it was eggs? And then not question it for my entire life?
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One Swell Foop posted:How a Baler Works Yeah, but that's the lovely baler which does not work when you automate your field worker by pressing "H".
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Dip Viscous posted:The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations It was the '60s, maaan
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Dip Viscous posted:The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations I'll be home I'll play the xylophone waiting for you
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ELO's Showdown did it for me, to this day I can't hear "It's unreal, the suffering" as anything but "It's a real submarine". To be fair, this was before Jeff Lynne learned how to sing.
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I'm mildly obsessed with mondegreens, and one of my favorite bands has a vocal and lyrical style that somehow results in my hearing every other line as something more bizarre than whatever they actually wrote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7dXeT0W-hk If the opening line to this song is not "Her eye's gone, you discarded tumble-dog," I don't want to know what it is. Also, "No gecko, no mecko." Edit: Not embedding the video, because I can't tell if the album cover is  or not.
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https://giant.gfycat.com/TightGaseousCowbird.webm
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It looks like you can lock the cd draw closed.
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Inceltown posted:It looks like you can lock the cd draw closed. No, it's literally to rotate the logo to match the orientation of the ps2
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Len posted:No, it's literally to rotate the logo to match the orientation of the ps2 That was underwhelming
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Considering there's a sony logo right there that presumably doesn't rotate that seems pointless
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I dunno, I owned a PS2 for eight years and several house moves and never realised the little logo on the front could be rotated to match the orientation. Seemed pretty neat to discover it 12 years later.
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I found this out on day 1 of owning a PS2 
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bell jar posted:I found this out on day 1 of owning a PS2 congrats on your recent purchase of a vintage ps2
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I found out about the rotating logo when I removed the whole front cover from the disc tray so I could play copied games with the GameShark + crochet hook trick.
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Some washboards have glass fronts. In hindsight it makes sense as you can simply cast it into shape and it'll never rust or react with chemicals in the detergent. Anyway I wish I'd known this before throwing one down some stairs.
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Len posted:No, it's literally to rotate the logo to match the orientation of the ps2 Which is dumb because didn't keeping it in vertical orientation eventually break it? Something about one of the gears that spins the disc gets warped or knocked off its pin or something?
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DrBouvenstein posted:Which is dumb because didn't keeping it in vertical orientation eventually break it? Something about one of the gears that spins the disc gets warped or knocked off its pin or something? the Xbox 360 would eat discs if you turned it while it was running, I never heard anything like this about the PlayStations
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DrBouvenstein posted:Which is dumb because didn't keeping it in vertical orientation eventually break it? Something about one of the gears that spins the disc gets warped or knocked off its pin or something? Nah, PS2s are basically indestructible. I worked in a place with a couple of hundred of them running all day every day and they hardly ever broke down. For months I had one on my desk that would only detect the disc when the machine was horizontal but would only load it up when it was vertical, but once it was up and running, it was fine. One time there was a power problem in the building and no-one noticed until a game in test started showing really weird graphic distortions, he went to touch the machine and it was running so hot the memory card was almost too hot to handle. It was like the poor ol ps2 was having hallucinations due to a high fever. We'd similar numbers of xboxes and there was just a neverending stream of them being set back to ms for repairs.
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Pookah posted:Nah, PS2s are basically indestructible. I worked in a place with a couple of hundred of them running all day every day and they hardly ever broke down. For months I had one on my desk that would only detect the disc when the machine was horizontal but would only load it up when it was vertical, but once it was up and running, it was fine. I had an original PS that worked fine for 10 years until it just stopped recognizing discs anymore. Forget how I figured it out, but it loaded up just fine if you flipped it upside down and kept it that way. I ended up gluing little feet to the top so it wouldn't sit directly on the domed lid and rock after you flipped it.
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I think there was a run of PS2s, the one after initial US release, that burnt out lasers and or disc motors after 5 years or so, regardless of orientation. The rest were more or less bullet proof and maybe lost the laser lottery. The US release controller and memory card ports are kind of shoddy but I think you can home repair them because I think it was just loose wires. If you were a kid interested at all in the PS2 and reading magazines about you assuredly knew the logo rotated because it was nearly the headline of half the previews because noone really expected to sell magazines with screenshots of a fireworks simulator or technical navel gazing the emotion engine.
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Memento posted:I dunno, I owned a PS2 for eight years and several house moves and never realised the little logo on the front could be rotated to match the orientation. Seemed pretty neat to discover it 12 years later. I had a Wii for over a decade before I realized there's a little panel on the side that hides sockets for you to plug in your GameCube controllers / memory cards.
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I had a random thought pop up in my head today for no discernable reason: Usagi Yojimbo was the best part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles world. I haven't thought about TMNT or Usagi Yojimbo in years, and the strongest memory is from the 80s cartoon (when I was a single-digit-age child), but nothing more specific than "the rabbit samurai was pretty awesome." Thing I just figured out: Usagi Yojimbo isn't actually a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character, but an independently-created Animal-Person Hybrid Comic Book with Japanese Influences, that just so happened to have numerous crossovers with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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beats for junkies posted:
Mystery Men share a universe with TMNT. They debuted in a Flaming Carrot comic, and Flaming Carrot had a crossover with TMNT.
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Pookah posted:Nah, PS2s are basically indestructible. I worked in a place with a couple of hundred of them running all day every day and they hardly ever broke down. For months I had one on my desk that would only detect the disc when the machine was horizontal but would only load it up when it was vertical, but once it was up and running, it was fine. Wasn't that related to the wobble mark on the discs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGMR6FHey68
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