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They might be giants released their latest album in a bunch of obsolete formats including a limited edition signed 8-track, I pre-ordered one and after nearly a year it turned out that the one guy they found who had the equipment to make them got overwhelmed with the project so I got a refund instead  (Not that I had any way to play it or ever even seen an 8-track player in my life, but it looked cool)
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DGP Space Lion posted:They might be giants released their latest album in a bunch of obsolete formats including a limited edition signed 8-track, I pre-ordered one and after nearly a year it turned out that the one guy they found who had the equipment to make them got overwhelmed with the project so I got a refund instead should've bought the release on edison cylinder instead
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Chemmy posted:On my car I had to buy a $20 Bluetooth to OBD adapter and a $10 app and I could code all those settings. I turned off the warning screen that made me wait 10 seconds before I could see out of the backup camera, for example. I have an aftermarket Kenwood DDX9020DABS - which I can't really find anything except a custom boot logo
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Z 104 clock radio that looks like it's struggling against a very strong wind.     
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Arivia posted:should've bought the release on edison cylinder instead You joke, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWtOAWWY010
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Mar 9, 2023 09:33
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lobsterminator posted:Z 104 clock radio that looks like it's struggling against a very strong wind. C'mon this is just a normal radio you messed up with Photoshop skew
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Trabant posted:You can choose between Jethro Tull and a bunch of nobodies. My favourite song is "Elton John" by Honky Chateau.
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Mar 9, 2023 12:22
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lobsterminator posted:Z 104 clock radio that looks like it's struggling against a very strong wind. I want to replace that piddly lightbulb with a modern LED.
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Mar 9, 2023 12:27
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lobsterminator posted:Z 104 clock radio that looks like it's struggling against a very strong wind. Is this a real thing or a series of ai generated images derived from the prompt in your post?
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That was the joke, yes.
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Vooodoo 2 inside this thing lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNB-9QEGDrA
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LifeSunDeath posted:Vooodoo 2 inside this thing lol I'll never forget showing up with a TNT2 and blowing everyone's minds playing Quake at triple-digit FPS at LAN parties. I knew Nvidia was going to destroy Voodoo.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Vooodoo 2 inside this thing lol gently caress yeah Hydro Thunder ruled.
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lobsterminator posted:Z 104 clock radio that looks like it's struggling against a very strong wind. The radio only plays Smooth Criminal. (I really want one)
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:no, Obscured by Clouds is the most underrated album. Animals is more overlooked than overrated (and still tied with WYWH for best album) */Puts on Interstellar overdrive to get all jacked up. Alright! Come on bitch let's rock and roll!
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gently caress yeah. Interstellar Overdrive is great. Also great for making white suburban dads shout at you to turn it down. Atom Heart Mother and all before it is much more "weird arts teacher who helps students occupy the university building"-music, than dad rock. At the very least i've never heard my dad play any of it, while he had all of the later albums. Live renditions of Atom Heart Mother with the brass ensemble are hit or miss. Sometimes you can hear how the brass ensemble is trying to really play their loudest, which is not necessarily 'pretty' to listen to but definitely adds charm to it. I guess with the noise of the band on stage, they were barely able to hear themselves... I used to have loads of bootleg recordings, downloaded from the PFCO forums hub - itself being obsolete, though not failed. One of my favorites is titled 'Atom Heart Mother on the Road' I think barely 10% of what was easily accessible back then can be found on youtube. Agreed that obscured by clouds is way underrated. It's worth looking up some bootleg recordings from the obscured by clouds era. They played very little of it, but it's also interesting to hear the beginnings of dark side of the moon's songs pop up here and there before they were all polished up. Still love Dark Side though. LimaBiker has a new favorite as of 18:28 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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lobsterminator posted:Z 104 clock radio that looks like it's struggling against a very strong wind. the most esoteric PS4 accessory wesleywillis posted:*/Puts on Interstellar overdrive to get all jacked up. puts on Careful With That Axe, Eugene from Boeblingen 11/15/72 and begins to levitate LimaBiker posted:I used to have loads of bootleg recordings, downloaded from the PFCO forums hub - itself being obsolete, though not failed. One of my favorites is titled 'Atom Heart Mother on the Road' oh god is PFCO affiliated with the old #PinkFloyd&Co IRC crowd, Sandy and Joe? Good lord is that ever a saga. As far as bootlegs, uh....my collection is a smidge embarassing and probably shouldn't be mentioned in polite company. Happily the old CDR-tree/vine system is obsolete.
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Arivia posted:should've bought the release on edison cylinder instead
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:the most esoteric PS4 accessory Holy gently caress is all that your collection? Looks like the Pink Floyd ROIO database. I always liked AHM, but I never listened to it much besides the title track (makes me feel sophisticated) and Summer '68. Me and a couple guys I was "internet friends" with used to do a bit of trolling on the pf&co boards like 20+ years ago. It was hilarious not giving a gently caress. I used to poo poo post at the Neptune PF boards too (with my two internet friends). It was fun, loving with the owner there. He seemed like a pretty good dude though, and the boards seemed well run compared to some of the other places around. He had a good sense of humour about my poo poo posting for the most part. Some of the other boards fuckin S*U*C*K*S though. E: Did they ever play AHM suite live? I seem to recall reading in the PF encyclopedia that that was one of those songs that never got performed live by them. wesleywillis has a new favorite as of 00:22 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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wesleywillis posted:Holy gently caress is all that your collection? Looks like the Pink Floyd ROIO database. Yep...accumulated between 1997 and Yeeshkul's shutdown last month. And my dude get on some Fat Old Sun loving posthaste. wesleywillis posted:Me and a couple guys I was "internet friends" with used to do a bit of trolling on the pf&co boards like 20+ years ago. It was hilarious not giving a gently caress. I was kicked/banned from PF&Co's IRC channel a dozen times or more; in the late 90s/early 00s Sandy and Joe pretended to be bestest buddies with Gilmour, and they or some imitator who knew gently caress-all about guitars for planes would pretend to be him on the channel. My favorite bit of theirs was "oh yes, there was a big world tour scheduled...and then 9/11 happened". I preferred to hang around alt.music.pink-floyd on usenet, which was a fun cesspool for 4 or 5 years. IRC and Usenet, now there's some old obsolete internet poo poo. wesleywillis posted:E: Did they ever play AHM suite live? I seem to recall reading in the PF encyclopedia that that was one of those songs that never got performed live by them. It was a live set staple for awhile in 1970-72, albeit in reduced 4-piece form. They did a few performances with choir and orchestra, but they were few and far between. The 'An Hour With Pink Floyd' special from KQED (widely bootlegged, released legitimately on the ludicrously overpriced low-quality 'Early Years' box set) featured the 4-piece version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J57_TjXq3_c One of the full-out performances was for John Peel's show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcsd-6KlcgQ Ron Geesin performed it with choir and orchestra a few times some years back, with Gilmour helping on guitar and Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets (best goddamn setlists for admirers of old weird PF, they only play pre-Dark Side material) is covering it on their 2022/2023 tour.
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The skewed clock reminds me of this clock: My aunt had it, but I'm not sure where or when she got it, besides before 2011 which is the earliest I remember it. It might have been my late uncle's which would make it 2002 or earlier. It just started working out of the blue in 2021 after having it for two years or so. 
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Maigius posted:The skewed clock reminds me of this clock: whoa that's sick af
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LifeSunDeath posted:Vooodoo 2 inside this thing lol I am insanely jealous, though realistically while I loved it in the arcade I imagine I'd get kinda sick of it playing it all the time..
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Hirayuki posted:I can hear you, just barely hear you. I can just barely hear you. This is a warning. Step away from the car. This car is protected by Viper.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:
I also vaguely remember some drama but i was too young to realize it and pay enough attention to it. What was it about? I got two backup dvds sitting around from that time, i wonder if there are any chatlogs on there. Let me find an optical drive and figure it out... In interviews, Pink Floyd members stated multiple times they really disliked playing the Atom Heart Mother suite live with an orchestra, because they could not get enough rehearsing time in, and they would get a different orchestra for each performance because you can't haul a whole orchestra around the world on tour. Meaning you gotta go through the motions of instructing the orchestra time and time again. Despite that, i do think they're among the best live performances ever. LimaBiker has a new favorite as of 10:51 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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LimaBiker posted:Yeah, i think so. I've never used the IRC chat unless that was the integrated chat with the file sharing hub software. It was around 2005-2006 that was active there. Don't know if it's this particular drama, but Sandy and Joe, the proprietors, claimed to be best buds with Gilmour who would fly directly from the UK to their town in bumfuck Florida to visit. "Gilmour" would join the IRC channel and clearly had no idea what he was talking about (for instance when asked some pretty specific musical questions would just answer that he played what felt right for the situation; when the actual Gilmour was asked elsewhere he would answer in detail). Part of the reason "Gilmour" was there was to confirm that Joe and Sandy had solved the Publius Enigma: the solution was apparently "evangelical christianity is the answer". They kept this up even as the actual Gilmour was being openly agnostic/atheist (and even as the dude had an entire song about it). They would promise open access to the band if people just believed in them when their next tour happened (which was always just about to be announced, any day now). It was intensely stupid and mocking them was a favorite activity on the newsgroups.
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No joke, I swear I remember some fan fic where gilmour boned sandy
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Not trying to silence y’all in any way cause this is super interesting, but we would absolutely adore this topic in https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4025108 as well if anyone felt inclined
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Trabant posted:The radio only plays Smooth Criminal. Clearly, it only plays “Jump” (same)
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wesleywillis posted:No joke, I swear I remember some fan fic where gilmour boned sandy My fave exchange on the matter was when someone on usenet pointed out that Gilmour's plane was completely unsuitable for transatlantic flight, much less straight to Florida. Sandy: with his resources, do you seriously think he hasn't made modifications?  Some Dude: of course he did, he added a fridge. Grassy Knowles posted:Not trying to silence y’all in any way cause this is super interesting, but we would absolutely adore this topic in https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4025108 as well if anyone felt inclined Thanks for the pointer!
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:My fave exchange on the matter was when someone on usenet pointed out that Gilmour's plane was completely unsuitable for transatlantic flight, much less straight to Florida. HAHA!! I remember a "fan" years ago made up some fake journal entries for him (possibly other members too), all of them started with "woke up this morning ate a HUGE breakfast...." One of my "internet friends" that I mentioned a few posts ago trolled the poo poo out of PF&CO really bad way back then and got like super ultra mega permabanned from their forums. I wonder if they would remember if his user name just happened to get brought up again? E: I guess they got rid of the site. Its now being maintained as an archive by Keith from NPF. wesleywillis has a new favorite as of 15:55 on Mar 11, 2023 |
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Where can I go to get pictures of remote controls with just huge amounts of buttons? Like way too many buttons but they all have a function and are beautiful in their own way
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Where can I go to get pictures of remote controls with just huge amounts of buttons? Like way too many buttons but they all have a function and are beautiful in their own way Google Image search "receiver remote controls" feel free to add brand names like onkyo, pioneer, kenwood or "all in one" or "harmony" remote controls if you want TV remotes e: I'm a fan of this one  
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I found this on the net, bunch of small DOS programs that are useful for the home shop. I had an interest in the plug.zip program since you can use a combo of three plug gages to check a hole that's larger than any of your existing gages and this program calculates what kind of sizes you need. But it's museum code and it's not complete, references headers like conio.h, dos.h and something called graph.h which is totally unknown as well as a custom library mwk.lib that's not included. https://www.myvirtualnetwork.com/mklotz/#shop I really enjoy old museum stuff like this and I had a lot of fun trying to get plug.c to compile in a modern linux environment. Which it did, a bit klutzy but the math came out identical to the exe version I ran in dosbox.
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That reminds I should really donate to the Dosbox project as that's the just about best thing people keep doing for this computerized world. E: yes they do and you should probably donate too. By popular demand has a new favorite as of 10:51 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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By popular demand posted:That reminds I should really donate to the Dosbox project as that's the just about best thing people keep doing for this computerized world. I would hope that DOSBox gets some support from GOG, because most of the old games are just DOSBox wrappers. But the webpage also has a paypal donate button in the footer.
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People should be aware of just how much obsolete non-gaming software is run on Dosbox or other emulators, both to appreciate the volunteer work that makes it possible and to be weary of companies that overly depend on obsolete software. I'm sure there's some safety and stability concerns for some companies.
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