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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I recently had a housemate who used to lug a busted Frogger arcade cabinet from house to house whenever he moved and he always talked about restoring it some day but it always just ended up sitting in the corner of his room gathering dust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk1RkMGvBIk
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All the vector display arcade cabinets are already starting to become akin to antiques. CRTs are dead technology, and a vector display inherently can't be reproduced with a pixel-based display. At least with raster CRTs you can emulate them reasonably well with filters, but the vector emulation isn't close.
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Scratch Monkey posted:Vintage is 20 years ago. You know, the 70s! 
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Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Someone in 2080 will absolutely view a game from 1980 as an antique. Vintage gaming equipment is already super collectable, like these old handheld games: Cable Guy posted:Pfft... "Gameboy".... Pfft... "Advance"
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https://i.imgur.com/j9PJAyN.mp4 So confused.
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Takes No Damage posted:Sure, when the product is supposed to ferment in the can. A place I worked at once had a lot of workers from various countries in Europe and they decided to have a day where people would bring in foods from their countries. This included surstromming. The guy who brought it took it out into a big empty space in the car park to open it safely. I think ideally you’re supposed to open it submerged in a bucket of water, at least ten metres from anything you don’t want to have to burn.
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This is literally how I think of the past 
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Freudian slippers posted:This is literally how I think of the past That's very common in us who were born in the late 1000s
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Nordick posted:That's very common in us who were born in the late 1000s I just took psychic damage from reading it described that way
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Born in the late 20th century
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"previous millennium lead-baby" was right there.
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Phthisis posted:All the vector display arcade cabinets are already starting to become akin to antiques. The boss where I work had an Asteroids cabinet that kept frying and getting Very Expensive to fix, so he asked me to do something about it. I ended up taking out the fried guts of the machine, and refurbishing all the buttons, and then hooking them up to a Rasberry Pi running an emulator software with an input script tied to the buttons. Some of those emulators have a lot of graphic options you can fudge about with to make a flatpanel display look like an old CRT. So much so that when an old guy came in, saw it, and wanted to buy it, he wouldn't believe me when I told him it was fake. I had to pull it out and open the back and show him. He still wanted to buy it as it was.
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Thank god he broke his fall with his face.
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limp_cheese posted:Thank god he broke his fall with his face. And vice versa
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everydayfalls posted:https://i.imgur.com/mKLdGPY.mp4 New vasectomy clinic has some unique cost saving methods.
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everydayfalls posted:https://i.imgur.com/mKLdGPY.mp4 It looks like he's chosen enough distance, and then, well,
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davidspackage posted:It looks like he's chosen enough distance, and then, well, Look at his hand placement, he's worried about it and at the last minute decides nah I trust her. Like the dumb look he gives after moving the hand is amazing.
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Ogma posted:New vasectomy clinic has some unique cost saving methods. As if gender reveal parties weren't groan inducing enough, they evolved into gender removals.
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pixaal posted:Look at his hand placement, he's worried about it and at the last minute decides nah I trust her. Like the dumb look he gives after moving the hand is amazing. It's as if Leeloo Dallas Multipass was waiting for the right moment to destroy his balls
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Piñata Schad is the best kind of schad. A close second is Parkour Schad, a personal favourite because there's no skateboard or bicycle involved that might explain that what you were trying to do was a sick stunt. You just jumped off a building. 
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Nenonen posted:As if gender reveal parties weren't groan inducing enough, they evolved into groin reducing.
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pixaal posted:Look at his hand placement, he's worried about it and at the last minute decides nah I trust her. Like the dumb look he gives after moving the hand is amazing. The moment she took a small step or two forward I knew the schad was switching from something like her missing the target and busting a hole in the fence to the guy getting his nards mashed.
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Mister Speaker posted:Piñata Schad is the best kind of schad. gently caress, i thought the wall was gonna come down on him, glad he just threw himself out instead
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Why do these dudes keep standing in the path of a stick being swung at a pinata? You'd think they know better.
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jeebus bob posted:I just took psychic damage from reading it described that way life just keeps getting harder for those of us born in the 1900s.
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Unperson_47 posted:Why do these dudes keep standing in the path of a stick being swung at a pinata? You'd think they know better. They have not yet been swung at by the cudgel of reality, and learned that they too, are but mush, in the eyes of the universe.
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Unperson_47 posted:Why do these dudes keep standing in the path of a stick being swung at a pinata? You'd think they know better. He was kinda in the safe, but she moved a bit right before swinging her nard stick.
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Everyone loves sovereign citizens getting destroyed for trying to use fake laws in court documents right? What if the sovereign citizen is a lawyer and fake lawyers so hard they have to stop being a lawyer? Video version (if you want to listen to someone explain it) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9y3slJaEA8 Court Document: https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2024/2024bcsc91/2024bcsc91.html News Article with quotes from the person in question: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-lawyer-pseudolegal-lawsuit-licence-resigned-1.7098461
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everydayfalls posted:https://i.imgur.com/mKLdGPY.mp4 [Gonzo voice] Some people get all the luck
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Unperson_47 posted:Why do these dudes keep standing in the path of a stick being swung at a pinata? Likes
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That piñata video is extra trippy because the poor guy looks a LOT like Ben (the soldier) from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, right down to how he's dressed and his expression and mannerism. Just an absolute golden retriever of a man getting hurt by someone inconsiderate, just like Ben.
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CainFortea posted:The boss where I work had an Asteroids cabinet that kept frying and getting Very Expensive to fix, so he asked me to do something about it. I don't believe that anyone who has played an original Asteroids cabinet wouldn't immediately identify a non-CRT cabinet as being fake. It's a notoriously visually-striking game, because in some sense it "overdrives" the shots, causing them to be exceptionally bright points of light. Anecdotally, it feels brighter than even my HDR TV. None of the vector display emulators support HDR output, and beyond that, none of the MAME post-processing filters handle phosphor-overdrive aspect of Asteroids at all. The dynamic range is always super off. I'd highly recommend going out to play one of the remaining Asteroids machines still out there, because they're very cool to see in person. It does not come across well in video at all. Though, maybe now that phones record/play in HDR it'll be possible to get a decent video of it. I personally find that all the vector display filters are pretty noticeably fake if you're used to using a real one, but at the same time if you're wrapped up in actually playing the game it's pretty easy to forget. Asteroids is a very big exception, though, where it just never feels right when emulated. Also, I'm much less of a fan of Asteroids Deluxe, but that's one of the games that rely on the display reflecting off a clear glass panel to make it seem like the game is floating on top of a background. I suspect even with an original cabinet it might be difficult to get a non-CRT to work right.
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Dunno if it was an original cabinet or not, but the Asteroids I played had the brightest shots I've ever seen in any game.
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Phthisis posted:I'd highly recommend going out to play one of the remaining Asteroids machines still out there, because they're very cool to see in person. I got the chance to play one at Ground Kontrol in Portland, OR and it’s just gorgeous. It feels way more modern than it is.
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