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Humphreys posted:This is for the Aussies. Received some neato old stickers from one of the main Aussie videostore chains (Video Ezy).
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Gromit posted:I think I've got a Nightmare on Elm Street VHS back when it was banned in Qld, as well as possibly a Betamax of the Halley's Comet Spotter's Guide presented by William Shatner. What does the Halley's Comet Spotter's Guide have to do with the current topic? It can't be.. surely it's not because it was banned in Queensland!? 
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Sweevo posted:Apparently what you need to succeed on youtube is to have an annoying high-pitched voice and shriek non-stop. I've posted about this already in this thread, but that poo poo drives me absolutely mad. I can understand being excited about a video when you are covering a new hit game or patch. I can understand being excited when you win some big multiplayer lobby. Why do these people insist on screaming until they are hoarse in the throat while reviewing/testing a game or computer from 30-40 years ago???
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Buttcoin purse posted:What does the Halley's Comet Spotter's Guide have to do with the current topic? It can't be.. surely it's not because it was banned in Queensland!? Banned for spreading heretical teachings.
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SuddenCactus posted:Banned for spreading heretical teachings. Well as a QLDer I got told off bigtime for 'pfft'ing and laughing when some religious family member was spruiking on about a comet being a sign from god blah blah when we all had telescopes in the yard to get a close look back when it was going over. Not Halleys, another one, can't remember anything except the arugment and watching ET. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 09:51 on Nov 11, 2020 |
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Humphreys posted:Well as a QLDer I got told off bigtime for 'pff'ing and laughing when some religious family member was spruiking on about a comet being a sign from heaven blah blah when we all had telescopes in the yard to get a close look back when it was going over. Not Halleys, another one, can't remember anything except the arugment and watching ET. Hale-Bopp? Would've been like 1997.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Hale-Bopp? Would've been like 1997. Sounds about right.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:Why do these people insist on screaming until they are hoarse in the throat while reviewing/testing a game or computer from 30-40 years ago??? And the videos are about 18 minutes long because that's a sweet spot for getting as many ads in as possible.
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Collateral Damage posted:Because the target demographic of every gaming youtuber is 7-15 year olds where being loud and obnoxious is a plus. I managed to convert my mates kid who constantly watches some dickhead game streamer named Jelly over to Might Car Mods.
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Nov 11, 2020 12:18
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Humphreys posted:This is for the Aussies. Received some neato old stickers from one of the main Aussie videostore chains (Video Ezy). Got them in a deal for an uncut Cannibal Holocaust “Video Ezy movie guarantee, get it first time or get it free!” That jingle is permanently burned into my brain. When my local Video Ezy shut down I snapped up a huge stack of blu-ray movies for like two bucks each. And yes, I refuse to admit that physical media is a tech relic.
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Bargearse posted:And yes, I refuse to admit that physical media is a tech relic. I buy any sealed HDDVD I find. I don't know why.
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When it comes back, you'll be holding all the cards. Technology is cyclical
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Humphreys posted:I buy any sealed HDDVD I find. I don't know why. You really enjoy opera?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You really enjoy opera? I don't get it?
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Humphreys posted:I don't get it? Last time I browsed, a lot of the later HD-DVD releases were opera.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Last time I browsed, a lot of the later HD-DVD releases were opera. Ah! Righteo, strangely haven't found any. I only pick stuff up if I find them in the wild as a curiosity. Hopefully this weekend I'll be going to a small country town video store that used to be a cinema. Owners told me they have a load of HDDVDs I can have and free to poke around and see if theres tapes or film reels up in the old projector room. Kinda excited.
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RandomFerret posted:When it comes back, you'll be holding all the cards. I know you can set up media servers and all that, and I know it's not difficult at all, but I just like the idea of walking into a shop, grabbing a disc off the shelf, popping it into a player and watching it as many times as I like.
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Bargearse posted:I know you can set up media servers and all that, and I know it's not difficult at all, but I just like the idea of walking into a shop, grabbing a disc off the shelf, popping it into a player and watching it as many times as I like. I have a 'very good' plex server hosting 5-10 remote users but still love watching a movie on disc, especially a Laser Disc to annoy that one friend who also collects them bitching I have a version he can't watch.
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Oh hey, new a new 8 Bit Guy vid- “Rare Commodore Systems Found at Electronics Recycler” OHBOYOHBOYOHBOY
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"I wasn't sure if this one-off toolroom prototype would be compatible with a Commodore 64 power supply, despite the identical connectors, but today I've brought FOUR paperclips."
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I took the rare pc to subway and shot it with a gun,but it still is not working. the police did not seem to understand that i was doing computer maintenance.
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I want to believe his restraint with the thing he had never worked with before was caused by the reaction to his last terrible experimentation. But who knows?!
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I just realized the end of Flash will be the end of the Gorillaz Kong Studios site.
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Bargearse posted:“Video Ezy movie guarantee, get it first time or get it free!” I still hum the MovieLand jingle "MovieLand has the movies you want to see! MovieLand! We'll entertain you!" and how long as that mob been out of business. I think they were dead before VHS was. I'd love a Banned in Queensland sticker
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Jokes on them, turns out we're all into that poo poo
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Reminds me of when my family decided to get an intercom. We started testing it out and then it turned out that the next door neighbors had one on the same frequency.
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I wrote a master's thesis in 2006 that included a line about how people hate having their private information leaked, but love giving it away. And to think, I was basing that on systems like 10% as efficient as ruining lives for no real benefit as what we have now!
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I don’t even have a landline and I still went to eBay to look for one of those Motorola phones.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I don’t even have a landline and I still went to eBay to look for one of those Motorola phones. bluetooth to POTS gateway and your cordless phone can have a cordless phone.
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Nov 14, 2020 04:22
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I’m the *squints* maybe real SSN?
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Qwijib0 posted:bluetooth to POTS gateway and your cordless phone can have a cordless phone. Plus providing me with the security I need in this modern world.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m the *squints* maybe real SSN? I found a higher-res version and...maybe?  I was about to tag myself as the Visa with 15 out of 16 digits visible but then I noticed it includes "0123 4567 8900" in the card number. That did make me finally realize that the random dude having a pleasant conversation on the cordless phone is Lee Trevino, lol.
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If it was a real card, hiding the first digit wouldn't do anything. You could just look up Citibank's prefix.
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Cojawfee posted:If it was a real card, hiding the first digit wouldn't do anything. You could just look up Citibank's prefix. No need - all Visa cards start with 4. American Express is 3, Mastercard is 5, Discover is 6.
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Social Security Numbers were treated about as seriously as the tickets you get at the deli counter until the late 1990s, so there is a very real chance that you have the first seven digits of Lee Trevino's actual number right there.
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Only the last four are unique to you.
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Porfiriato posted:I found a higher-res version and...maybe? Ball is in the parking lot. Would you like to play again?
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Porfiriato posted:I found a higher-res version and...maybe? If you want something to keep you up at night - There's a formula for card numbers and a lot of known patterns. Also some dude on a DEFCON video said he could figure out your NEW CC number after old one expires.
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Humphreys posted:If you want something to keep you up at night - There's a formula for card numbers and a lot of known patterns. Also some dude on a DEFCON video said he could figure out your NEW CC number after old one expires. It's a basic algorithm AFAIK. Not sure what the guy claiming to figure out new CC numbers might have been talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
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