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redshirt: Aug 11, 2007

MrUnderbridge posted:

For the true 80s porn experience, try the following method:

Rent porn. (Either the back room of the local video shop or local porn store)

Rent vcr from local video store. Yes, this was a thing.

Hook rental vcr to your own vcr.

Record your selections for future enjoyment.

Providing, of course, you didn't get something by a dastardly company that used copy protection and your copy ended up all squiggly.

Hello? Actual theaters that showed porn.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 18:47

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# ? May 28, 2024 09:02

Catastrophe: Oct 5, 2007; Committed to burn twice as long and half as bright

Not sure if this belongs here but it's a literal Dickbutt

# ? Sep 10, 2023 18:58

MrUnderbridge: Jun 25, 2011

redshirt posted:

Hello? Actual theaters that showed porn.

Sorry, that's 60's to 70's.

The 80's went all high tech and you could whack in the privacy of your own abode without worrying about ending up like Pee Wee.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 19:05

Vakal: May 11, 2008

MrUnderbridge posted:

Providing, of course, you didn't get something by a dastardly company that used copy protection and your copy ended up all squiggly.

You mean pulling that little black plastic tab on the corner of the cassette?

A piece of electrician tape will fix that right up.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 19:07

MrUnderbridge: Jun 25, 2011

Sorry, that's the overwrite protection.

The copy protection was a signal encoded that vcrs recognized and would mess up the video quality.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 19:08

MrQwerty: Apr 15, 2003; LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (づ￣ �￣)づ♥(�∀�●)

ARM, if u will

# ? Sep 10, 2023 19:09

redshirt: Aug 11, 2007

MrUnderbridge posted:

Sorry, that's 60's to 70's.

The 80's went all high tech and you could whack in the privacy of your own abode without worrying about ending up like Pee Wee.

The State Theater in Portland ME was still a terribly lovely porn theater in the 80's.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 19:09

Pigsfeet on Rye: Oct 22, 2008; I'm meat on the hoof

McGavin posted:

Sweet, more Lord of the Rings sequels. Gollum the Movie where he raises a bird for 2 hours. Let's make it happen.

Tom Bombadil: Hobo with a Crossbow

# ? Sep 10, 2023 19:10

other people: Jun 27, 2004; Associate Christ

MrUnderbridge posted:

Sorry, that's the overwrite protection.

The copy protection was a signal encoded that vcrs recognized and would mess up the video quality.

macrovision :argh:

it would make the contrast? slowly get darker and then back again over and over. it sucked.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 19:14

Mauser: Dec 16, 2003; How did I even get here, son?!

rydiafan posted:

I had a whole shelf of tapes with four episodes of MST3K on each, complete with commercials and Penn Gillette talking about new seasons of Stand Up Stand Up.

drat. I watched the hell out of those tapes whenever I stayed at my father's place for a bit

# ? Sep 10, 2023 19:31

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Catastrophe posted:

Not sure if this belongs here but it's a literal Dickbutt

Massage Legend Dick Butt

# ? Sep 10, 2023 20:13

MrQwerty: Apr 15, 2003; LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (づ￣ �￣)づ♥(�∀�●)

Catastrophe posted:

Not sure if this belongs here but it's a literal Dickbutt

Blessed image imo

# ? Sep 10, 2023 20:22

deep dish peat moss: Jul 27, 2006

McGavin posted:

Massage Legend Dick Butt

Dick A. Butt*

# ? Sep 10, 2023 20:22

Hasturtium: May 19, 2020; And that year, for his birthday, he got six pink ping pong balls in a little pink backpack.

Dick Burglar posted:

Wasn't HD-DVD significantly technologically inferior than BluRay?

HD-DVD had several strikes against it:
- Capacity per layer was ~15GB versus 25GB on Blu-ray. To reliably get an acceptable-looking 1080p transfer, bitrate requirements pretty much always necessitated a dual-layer disc for HD-DVD; the format would have been a better fit half a decade earlier for 720p video.
- This was exacerbated by the formats most associated with each format. Where h.264/AVC was dominant on Blu-ray, VC-1/Windows Media Video was the dominant format on HD-DVD, and on average it was inferior due to technical issues I mostly forgot about a full decade ago (mostly flexibility of macroblock sizes and handling IIRC).
- These formats were each handled by consortiums of companies, with Microsoft, Universal, and Toshiba lobbying for HD-DVD, and Sony and others for Blu.

At the end of the day the better format won, especially since to my knowledge Microsoft jealously guarded VC-1 versus Sony�s general �eh, whatever� attitude toward x264�s existence. To my knowledge there isn�t a single open source VC-1 encoder and it took years to figure out how to properly decode interlaced VC-1.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:09

Catastrophe: Oct 5, 2007; Committed to burn twice as long and half as bright

Things I spot due to living in a city.

You can't pay me enough to dial that number.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:18

maybeadracula: Sep 9, 2022; by sebmojo

Catastrophe posted:

Things I spot due to living in a city.

You can't pay me enough to dial that number.

Some goon definitely will

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:19

Cacafuego: Jul 22, 2007

Catastrophe posted:

In NYC, one must be prepared to accept the reality of the yuck-puddle oozing out of the wall in the subway. Do not hurt it and it will not hurt you.

Captain Hygiene posted:

Enterprise, beam up the away team immediately!

redshirt posted:

Too late.

Yuck puddle ooze monsters hunger for female security chiefs in yellow shirts, you don�t have anything to worry about

why is that knowledge in my head :v:

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:22

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

https://i.imgur.com/6GoRft3.mp4

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:23

deep dish peat moss: Jul 27, 2006

McGavin posted:

https://i.imgur.com/6GoRft3.mp4

These ant death spirals kill entire ant colonies because they will march forward doing their job forever until they die, never realizing that they're getting anywhere at all.

Phew, I sure am glad Humanity isn't like that!

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:27

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

McGavin posted:

Sylvester Stallone is such a professional.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:36

My Spirit Otter: Jun 15, 2006; CANADA DOESN'T GET PENS LIKE THIS

SKILCRAFT KREW Reppin' Quality Blind Made American Products. Bitch.

McGavin posted:

https://i.imgur.com/6GoRft3.mp4

ant mecca lookin sick

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:37

redshirt: Aug 11, 2007

My Spirit Otter posted:

ant mecca lookin sick

They worship a leaf, apparently.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:39

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Catastrophe posted:

Things I spot due to living in a city.

You can't pay me enough to dial that number.

Was initially very curious about what could have been so bad that they decided to censor it on the sign :v:

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:42

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

https://i.imgur.com/OBjw5D3.mp4

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:45

BaldDwarfOnPCP: Jun 26, 2019; by Pragmatica

Catastrophe posted:

Things I spot due to living in a city.

You can't pay me enough to dial that number.

Keep Portland uh... whatever that is

Slightly menacing I guess

I want to call it

# ? Sep 10, 2023 21:54

AceClown: Sep 11, 2005

McGavin posted:

https://i.imgur.com/OBjw5D3.mp4

catatonic

# ? Sep 10, 2023 22:08

wesleywillis: Dec 30, 2016; SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

deep dish peat moss posted:

Dick A. Butt*

If you insist.

Happy to oblige!

# ? Sep 10, 2023 22:09

Killer robot: Sep 6, 2010; I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it!; Pillbug

redshirt posted:

The State Theater in Portland ME was still a terribly lovely porn theater in the 80's.

Yeah, but in the 70s you could see porn at late-night showings in regular small town theaters that showed regular movies the rest of the day. It was a weird era where they tried going mainstream and porn titles and stars became household names. Then the big backlash happened and anything rated X got banished to old shiitty theaters mostly in bigger towns with enough market to support "just porn" as a business model. Home video was seriously transformative.

# ? Sep 10, 2023 22:39

Dick Burglar: Mar 6, 2006

Catastrophe posted:

Things I spot due to living in a city.

You can't pay me enough to dial that number.

If I had to guess, underneath the red tape is "recorded," which is weird. Also "Panties" is a cover-up sticker too.

I wonder if the sign has been "vandalized" by a prankster, or if the original poster changed it themselves.

# ? Sep 11, 2023 00:56

My Spirit Otter: Jun 15, 2006; CANADA DOESN'T GET PENS LIKE THIS

SKILCRAFT KREW Reppin' Quality Blind Made American Products. Bitch.

redshirt posted:

They worship a leaf, apparently.

thats just the temple

# ? Sep 11, 2023 01:20

Blue Moonlight: Apr 28, 2005; Bitter and Sarcastic

Dick Burglar posted:

If I had to guess, underneath the red tape is "recorded," which is weird. Also "Panties" is a cover-up sticker too.

I wonder if the sign has been "vandalized" by a prankster, or if the original poster changed it themselves.

A lot of times those signs are preprinted to look �handmade,� and it wouldn�t surprise me if they just include a set of stickers to play mad libs with the product to get bites.

# ? Sep 11, 2023 01:21

Jabberlock: Nov 29, 2014

deep dish peat moss posted:

Dick A. Butt*

# ? Sep 11, 2023 01:32

redshirt: Aug 11, 2007

Killer robot posted:

Yeah, but in the 70s you could see porn at late-night showings in regular small town theaters that showed regular movies the rest of the day. It was a weird era where they tried going mainstream and porn titles and stars became household names. Then the big backlash happened and anything rated X got banished to old shiitty theaters mostly in bigger towns with enough market to support "just porn" as a business model. Home video was seriously transformative.

I'm saying you could watch porn in the 80's in the beautiful State Theater.

It's now an upscale musical stage.

# ? Sep 11, 2023 01:36

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

BiggerBoat posted:

Oh neat something even better to find than legos with your barefeet when you wake up on noon on new years day

# ? Sep 11, 2023 03:08

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

redshirt posted:

They worship a leaf, apparently.

Plant god?

# ? Sep 11, 2023 03:17

Elviscat: Jan 1, 2008; Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

MrUnderbridge posted:

Sorry, that's 60's to 70's.

The 80's went all high tech and you could whack in the privacy of your own abode without worrying about ending up like Pee Wee.

As of 2023, there are still porn theaters in at least NY, NY, and Bremerton, WA.

I believe they mostly serve as hookup spots?

# ? Sep 11, 2023 03:47

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

RIP Paul Reubens too

# ? Sep 11, 2023 03:52

MrUnderbridge: Jun 25, 2011

Elviscat posted:

As of 2023, there are still porn theaters in at least NY, NY, and Bremerton, WA.

I believe they mostly serve as hookup spots?

For the average porn consumer, at home wanking was the way to go. Yes, the theaters still exist, but for hookups, not in a buy some popcorn, actually watch the movie kind of way.

# ? Sep 11, 2023 04:13