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Hal Insandenza posted:What are all those drive slots? CD-ROM, 3.5” floppy, and…? 
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fridge corn posted:Somehow that is even more lol check the video out, it's a wonderful timecapsule
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Oct 11, 2023 09:36
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Mine had a slot loading CD drive, a floppy disc drive AND a zip drive  I still have my zip disks with old compressed MP2 files on them. No actual way of using them, but hey!
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Oct 11, 2023 09:40
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Call me when they sell hot pink covers for the new PS5 to match the one I got on my phatty (not my pic, but i got the same setup)
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Oct 11, 2023 09:43
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the "super-floppy" market.
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Oct 11, 2023 10:01
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holy lol
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Oct 11, 2023 10:02
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My brother had a minidisc player and it was pretty sweet to use. Sounded really good too. I had the mp3 cd player though and could fit way more on my burnable discs (thanks blue and purple Vaio) than the minidisc with still pretty great quality.
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Oct 11, 2023 10:05
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This is going to sound like mythology, but there was once a single disc that contained both the install for the original Quake and the pilot for South Park and it shut down whole companies for a long, long time.
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Oct 11, 2023 10:08
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Modern Video Games posted:My brother had a minidisc player and it was pretty sweet to use. Sounded really good too. I had a late model minidisc player in 2001 and it owned, but yeah, I think I sold it to a friend for a song the following year because CD-Rs came in so hot and they made mixtapes way easier. The friend was super grateful and used it for actual audio recording which is cool, but I should've been a bit more knowledgeable about how good that tech was and not let go of it. For a while though I was throwing 2 or 3 CDs worth of music onto a disc by using the compressed mode and the form factor owned. I think it sells for the very same price today that I got it for new 2 decades ago. Looked like this
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Oct 11, 2023 10:14
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I had a late model minidisc player in 2001 and it owned, but yeah, I think I sold it to a friend for a song the following year because CD-Rs came in so hot and they made mixtapes way easier. The friend was super grateful and used it for actual audio recording which is cool, but I should've been a bit more knowledgeable about how good that tech was and not let go of it. For a while though I was throwing 2 or 3 CDs worth of music onto a disc by using the compressed mode and the form factor owned. I think it sells for the very same price today that I got it for new 2 decades ago. My brother's was exactly the same, but dark blue. It really did sound ace. This was my CD player. Kind of wild how many Sony products I have owned over the years. Never really thought about it.
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Oct 11, 2023 10:25
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God I miss the chunky feeling of loading a cassette or a disk. Modern technology is missing the chunk
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Oct 11, 2023 10:42
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:lmao fat gurl with the lump aint goin nowhere goon, she is the superior piss
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Oct 11, 2023 11:09
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hatty posted:If the new PS5 design eliminates coil whine I may look into trading mine in and swapping tbh Is that still a thing? Thought it had more to do with lovely home power connections or people mistaking the drm dsic spin up back when it was really loud, before the firmwares fixed it. Still havent heard poo poo but maybe i got lucky. Its a silent beast.
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Oct 11, 2023 11:12
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njsykora posted:I like discs because they're usually cheaper than digital. I don't have any huge attachment to modern physical but I also don't want Sony to have complete control over the marketplace. Remember when digital was supposed to be cheaper lol. Insane how backwards it all is. Never buy digital only unless its under 10 quid (20 bucks)
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Oct 11, 2023 11:18
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Played the 5hr trial for Cyberpunk and had a blast with the Nomad story. It wasn't what I expected but had a real good time with it. Amazon has the disc for £14 just now, so I got it. I picked the Nomad story, do the others make the game completely different, or is there just a different introduction to the game?
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Oct 11, 2023 11:19
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Not really. You have some different contextual answers and will recognize certain characters depending on your background, but it's not exactly Dragon Age Origins.
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Oct 11, 2023 11:20
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It’s just different introductions and some extra dialogue options. The corpo and street kid intros are pretty short, I hear the nomad one is longer. Of the other two, street kid has definitely given me the better dialogue options.
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Oct 11, 2023 11:20
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:what the gently caress People say its fake in the leak circles, but given all the smoke of tf2 severs and whatnot.... the 3 fire has gotta be there
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Oct 11, 2023 11:20
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I had a late model minidisc player in 2001 and it owned, but yeah, I think I sold it to a friend for a song the following year because CD-Rs came in so hot and they made mixtapes way easier. The friend was super grateful and used it for actual audio recording which is cool, but I should've been a bit more knowledgeable about how good that tech was and not let go of it. For a while though I was throwing 2 or 3 CDs worth of music onto a disc by using the compressed mode and the form factor owned. I think it sells for the very same price today that I got it for new 2 decades ago. Yes! I almost guessed minidisc but I’d never seen one in a PC. I had both that model you did and a first or second generation minidisc recorder I bought way back in 1994. I still have all my minidiscs (but no player) including an actual retail version of Pink Floyd’s Collection of Dance Songs, as well as one I recorded the soundtrack to PS1 Grand Theft Auto right from the old black CD the game was on. And one filled with movie quotes pulled off of LaserDiscs that we plugged the LD player audio straight into the MiniDisc recorder and spent a night getting high and queueing up various discs to try and make a coherent “script” splicing together stuff from maybe a dozen movies. Wish I had a way to play that back now.
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Oct 11, 2023 11:23
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Modern Video Games posted:Oh man I found a picture of it! Sick!!
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Oct 11, 2023 11:24
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Escobarbarian posted:It’s just different introductions and some extra dialogue options. The corpo and street kid intros are pretty short, I hear the nomad one is longer. Of the other two, street kid has definitely given me the better dialogue options. I’ve done Nomad and Street Kid but I don’t think I could ever bring myself to be a stinking Corporat
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Oct 11, 2023 11:27
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BigHandsVince posted:Played the 5hr trial for Cyberpunk and had a blast with the Nomad story. Just the start but you get life path options during some convos throughout the game. Nomad as a few other things too tho, like a different outcome to an early quest and the ability to tune jackies bike so it becomes a better variant later on. Each life path also has its own act 2 quest. Originally there were going to be way more lifepaths like the pnp. That would have been sick.
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Oct 11, 2023 11:28
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Modern Video Games posted:My brother's was exactly the same, but dark blue. It really did sound ace. How “car ready” was that thing other than having the tape adapter. I don’t think I ever had one that wouldn’t skip unless you were driving on a freshly paved road.
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Oct 11, 2023 11:29
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MP3 cd players were relatively skip-proof because they weren’t constantly reading off the disc to playback
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Oct 11, 2023 11:31
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I had a Creative Muvo, it was an awesome mp3 player that was basically a usb stick with a battery attached to it and a headphone jack. Thing totally kicked rear end.
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Oct 11, 2023 11:46
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Hal Insandenza posted:How “car ready” was that thing other than having the tape adapter. I don’t think I ever had one that wouldn’t skip unless you were driving on a freshly paved road. It was actually amazing. Never skipped. Not the mp3 because it was just data, but also had a 15 second buffer for actual CDs so you could shake it and it would play fine. Really surprising considering how incredibly still you had to keep early personal CD players. It was a walkman after all, and not a sitman. Caesar Saladin posted:I had a Creative Muvo, it was an awesome mp3 player that was basically a usb stick with a battery attached to it and a headphone jack. Thing totally kicked rear end. I had this  I actually collected MP3 players for a long while. I had the very first one, the Creative Nomad DAP with USB 1.0 transfer. 6GB laptop hard drive inside. Then I got a Zen Jukebox Xtra (I modded it last year and put an SSD in there and replaced the battery and OS), an iPod, a Zune HD, a Zen Stone, a Zen Xfi, a Cowon X9, and Cowon Plenue.Currently use the X9. I love sound and sound devices. PC speakers are a big thing for me as well, I have tried so many kinds over the years trying to get something that sounds good. I had a pair in the US that I had to leave behind that if I could get them now here in the UK I would in a heartbeat. They were the richest sounding pair I have ever owned: Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 I am not an audiophile who goes after gold cables or anything, I just really love sound devices and sound listening. My mp3 collection is about 60k all tagged with artwork (sometimes my own that I have personally made) and I dig organising media
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Oct 11, 2023 12:07
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Caesar Saladin posted:I had a Creative Muvo, it was an awesome mp3 player that was basically a usb stick with a battery attached to it and a headphone jack. Thing totally kicked rear end. I had that one back in 2003. It lasted for another 5 years until I had issues with the headphone jack. It was nice since it could use rechargeable AAA batteries. 128mb was the bad part but for running and at 128 bitrate mp3's there was enough room.
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Oct 11, 2023 12:13
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Had something similar to that, maybe it was a later model, that was more like a straight up USB stick with a headphone port. You could fit three whole albums on it! Then like two years later I bought a modern phone that outstripped it completely.
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Oct 11, 2023 12:16
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Modern Video Games posted:It was actually amazing. Never skipped. Not the mp3 because it was just data, but also had a 15 second buffer for actual CDs so you could shake it and it would play fine. Really surprising considering how incredibly still you had to keep early personal CD players. It was a walkman after all, and not a sitman. I still remember the moment I first encountered the 15 second skip protection buffer technology, I was so blown away by it I basically screamed now this is pod racing
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Oct 11, 2023 12:23
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Johnny Postnemonic posted:Is that still a thing? Thought it had more to do with lovely home power connections or people mistaking the drm dsic spin up back when it was really loud, before the firmwares fixed it. Still havent heard poo poo but maybe i got lucky. Its a silent beast. mine has coil whine from the power supply but only when playing PS5 games, and it also has the noisy model fan  still quieter than a PS3 or PS4 tho
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Oct 11, 2023 12:23
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Caesar Saladin posted:I had a Creative Muvo, it was an awesome mp3 player that was basically a usb stick with a battery attached to it and a headphone jack. Thing totally kicked rear end. Yeah! Had this too, loving owned. Kinda miss it, still got it somewhere but these days its just easier to copy over the mp3 folder onto your phones sd card 
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Oct 11, 2023 12:28
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I still remember the moment I first encountered the 15 second skip protection buffer technology, I was so blown away by it I basically screamed now this is pod racing Frankly I am surprised you had/have anything more advanced than a magnetic reel-to-reel tape player
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Oct 11, 2023 12:29
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:mine has coil whine from the power supply but only when playing PS5 games, and it also has the noisy model fan drat! I barely remember the fan stuff, was it different fan models and shapes and you had to take it apart to check?
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Oct 11, 2023 12:30
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Johnny Postnemonic posted:drat! I don't think other than listening to it there is a way to tell outside of opening it. Maybe someone figured out a way by serial number?
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Oct 11, 2023 12:33
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Johnny Postnemonic posted:Yeah! Had this too, loving owned. Kinda miss it, still got it somewhere but these days its just easier to copy over the mp3 folder onto your phones sd card It really did own. It could barely fit any albums on it but tbh a 12 year old doesn't need many albums. I had the version before it too without the screen, and the upgrade was amazing to me.
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Oct 11, 2023 12:36
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The secret to beating coil whine is having tinnitus
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Oct 11, 2023 12:41
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Oct 11, 2023 13:14
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I play all my games with noise canceling headphones… I wonder if my system is noisy and I just never hear.
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Oct 11, 2023 13:21
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If a PS5 Pro ever gets announced I'll get the Playstation logo tattoo'd somewhere. Also mini-disc ruled - love that little tech.
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Oct 11, 2023 13:49
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One thing I will say about Scarlet Nexus is that the haptics and triggers are pretty neat. Using R2 for your telekinesis powers gives you a meaty pull on the adaptive trigger, but as you're running around and throwable objects come in and out of view and you can feel the controller clicking and clacking as it prepares for you to start throwing poo poo. Idk if it was intentional but it really gives the sense of being able to feel the world and objects around you as like an extrasensory projection of having telekinetic powers. Really cool. Shame about the rest of the game tho!!
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