Andy JoeWe claim the land for the highlord!The AdirondacksRegistered Userregular
My niece had her first birthday recently. Can't wait until she's a little older so I can ramble at her about how you used to have to buy physical video games.
My niece had her first birthday recently. Can't wait until she's a little older so I can ramble at her about how you used to have to buy physical video games.
And now you fucking can't for the PS5. It's like living in bizarro world.
My niece had her first birthday recently. Can't wait until she's a little older so I can ramble at her about how you used to have to buy physical video games.
Tell her Netflix used to let you watch movies by sending them to you through the mail.
No it was turn the vcr to channel 3 (because why the fuck does a vcr need channels) and turn the TV to channel 4 and you needed 2 different remotes to do it. And while you were fiddling with everything you were getting yelled at in French because channel 4 was the French channel.
I looked at a photo of me playing on my Atari as a kid and boy was that TV really small. It seemed so big at the time. (I was, of course 2 feet away from the screen)
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
my mom keeps pictures of the family as her wallpaper/phone screen because she's wholesome
one of the photos is me when I was maybe 18 and I'm thin and have hair and am handsome and rocking a scarf
I don't have any of that now! I can't even wear a scarf I look like a Gru cosplayer
I had an old turn-knob television that I'd accidentally broken the knob off by trying to turn it in with my foot when I was six, but didn't want to tell my parents for fear of losing a personal television, so instead I spent the next ten years trying to turn it on/control the sound on the remaining stub with a pair of tweezers (which turned into a incredibly frustrating game of Operation by year ten, when I'd basically worn any and all grip off the thing)
Lol my TV in my room when I was really little was also jank af. To turn it off you had to push in this little stick thing, but something was worn down on the actuator or something and you basically had to do a palm strike on it to turn the TV off. Pretty sure I did some kind of permanent scarring from smashing in the little piton.
I looked at a photo of me playing on my Atari as a kid and boy was that TV really small. It seemed so big at the time. (I was, of course 2 feet away from the screen)
I remember playing our Atari, Colecovision, and NES on one of those small 13" TVs with the two knobs for 13 VHF channels and a shitload more UHF channels. When my grandparents bought one of those big fuckin TVs they put the 13" one in our room and we felt so fucking fancy lol
I looked at a photo of me playing on my Atari as a kid and boy was that TV really small. It seemed so big at the time. (I was, of course 2 feet away from the screen)
I remember playing our Atari, Colecovision, and NES on one of those small 13" TVs with the two knobs for 13 VHF channels and a shitload more UHF channels. When my grandparents bought one of those big fuckin TVs they put the 13" one in our room and we felt so fucking fancy lol
I had a little 13 inch crt in my room as a kid too but we were lucky enough to have basic cable
I would watch the Pokemon anime and power rangers on it
And at night I would stay up and watch like travel shows on e! To see the bikini ladies...
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
My parents got me a 13" TV with my nes for Christmas when I was.. 8 I think? 9?
I had that TV for years and years. But I remember the neat thing about it was it had twelve channels but you had to tune them yourself. Every channel had its own tuning wheel and it came with these templates you could stick in so the channel numbers could be on each button you program.
Anyway, long story short, we moved when I was 12 to Vermont and I was able to tune my TV to a Canadian channel and watched Die Hard for the first time. In French.
My parents got me a 13" TV with my nes for Christmas when I was.. 8 I think? 9?
I had that TV for years and years. But I remember the neat thing about it was it had twelve channels but you had to tune them yourself. Every channel had its own tuning wheel and it came with these templates you could stick in so the channel numbers could be on each button you program.
Anyway, long story short, we moved when I was 12 to Vermont and I was able to tune my TV to a Canadian channel and watched Die Hard for the first time. In French.
How doea John mcclane say yippie kay yay in the French version
I had the old TV in my room when my parents got a new one, originally to play the Mega Drive
I then started waking up really early in the days when you could get the test card before proper TV started, and then watch the kids programming when they started broadcasting
The early mornings were all repeats from the 60s and 70s, which gave me a grounding in things like Ivor the Engine and The Herb Garden
Coupled with the family cassette tapes of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Hancock's Half Hour and Round the Horne, I've basically got 70 years of TV and radio nostalgia shoved into my brain
There's stuff in here that's twice my age, and I'll reference it like normal 30-somethings reference The Simpsons
i would wake up early in the morning as a seven year old child, pour myself a bowl of cereal, and watch the smooth, rippling muscles of the bodybuilders in the Bowflex infomercial while i waited for Mighty Max to come on
my parents loved this about me because i learned to get up quietly, and i loved being awake and alone, so it worked out for everyone
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I had the old TV in my room when my parents got a new one, originally to play the Mega Drive
I then started waking up really early in the days when you could get the test card before proper TV started, and then watch the kids programming when they started broadcasting
The early mornings were all repeats from the 60s and 70s, which gave me a grounding in things like Ivor the Engine and The Herb Garden
Coupled with the family cassette tapes of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Hancock's Half Hour and Round the Horne, I've basically got 70 years of TV and radio nostalgia shoved into my brain
There's stuff in here that's twice my age, and I'll reference it like normal 30-somethings reference The Simpsons
Remember the channel 4 BBC2 test card with the creepy clown doll. Why was that ever allowed to be a thing.
I had the old TV in my room when my parents got a new one, originally to play the Mega Drive
I then started waking up really early in the days when you could get the test card before proper TV started, and then watch the kids programming when they started broadcasting
The early mornings were all repeats from the 60s and 70s, which gave me a grounding in things like Ivor the Engine and The Herb Garden
Coupled with the family cassette tapes of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Hancock's Half Hour and Round the Horne, I've basically got 70 years of TV and radio nostalgia shoved into my brain
There's stuff in here that's twice my age, and I'll reference it like normal 30-somethings reference The Simpsons
Remember the channel 4 test card with the creepy clown doll. Why was that ever allowed to be a thing.
i would wake up early in the morning as a seven year old child, pour myself a bowl of cereal, and watch the smooth, rippling muscles of the bodybuilders in the Bowflex infomercial while i waited for Mighty Max to come on
my parents loved this about me because i learned to get up quietly, and i loved being awake and alone, so it worked out for everyone
My favorite times in my whole life, probably. I still look to replicate them as an adult (although it's sadly more "directly after bedtime", "whiskey", and "videogames I can't play around my kids while I catch up on YouTube videos I can't play around my kids")
I've told this story on here a few times before, but one of my early memories is the PBS "give us donations" lady showing up after Sesame Street one day saying "Hey, kids!, Go get your parents up right now and tell them we want money" and me thinking "why is the PBS lady trying to get me murdered on a quiet Saturday morning"
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
i would wake up early in the morning as a seven year old child, pour myself a bowl of cereal, and watch the smooth, rippling muscles of the bodybuilders in the Bowflex infomercial while i waited for Mighty Max to come on
my parents loved this about me because i learned to get up quietly, and i loved being awake and alone, so it worked out for everyone
My favorite times in my whole life, probably. I still look to replicate them as an adult (although it's sadly more "directly after bedtime", "whiskey", and "videogames I can't play around my kids while I catch up on YouTube videos I can't play around my kids")
I've told this story on here a few times before, but one of my early memories is the PBS "give us donations" lady showing up after Sesame Street one day saying "Hey, kids!, Go get your parents up right now and tell them we want money" and me thinking "why is the PBS lady trying to get me murdered on a quiet Saturday morning"
I usually get up around 4:00AM to work out and shower and stuff before work, and sometimes on my days off I'll still wake up at 4 just to play videogames like how I used to stay up late to play them. It's quiet, nobody else is awake, it's dark outside. Just perfect 👌🏻
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
ever since I started taking care of my niece, I wake up when it's still dark specifically to get that time
it's so quiet and it's not night-time, it's technically morning because I slept, so I don't have to be scared of night time monsters.
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And now you fucking can't for the PS5. It's like living in bizarro world.
Tell her Netflix used to let you watch movies by sending them to you through the mail.
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No it was turn the vcr to channel 3 (because why the fuck does a vcr need channels) and turn the TV to channel 4 and you needed 2 different remotes to do it. And while you were fiddling with everything you were getting yelled at in French because channel 4 was the French channel.
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one of the photos is me when I was maybe 18 and I'm thin and have hair and am handsome and rocking a scarf
I don't have any of that now! I can't even wear a scarf I look like a Gru cosplayer
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I remember playing our Atari, Colecovision, and NES on one of those small 13" TVs with the two knobs for 13 VHF channels and a shitload more UHF channels. When my grandparents bought one of those big fuckin TVs they put the 13" one in our room and we felt so fucking fancy lol
I had a little 13 inch crt in my room as a kid too but we were lucky enough to have basic cable
I would watch the Pokemon anime and power rangers on it
And at night I would stay up and watch like travel shows on e! To see the bikini ladies...
I had that TV for years and years. But I remember the neat thing about it was it had twelve channels but you had to tune them yourself. Every channel had its own tuning wheel and it came with these templates you could stick in so the channel numbers could be on each button you program.
Anyway, long story short, we moved when I was 12 to Vermont and I was able to tune my TV to a Canadian channel and watched Die Hard for the first time. In French.
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How doea John mcclane say yippie kay yay in the French version
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You’re a bad person.
I then started waking up really early in the days when you could get the test card before proper TV started, and then watch the kids programming when they started broadcasting
The early mornings were all repeats from the 60s and 70s, which gave me a grounding in things like Ivor the Engine and The Herb Garden
Coupled with the family cassette tapes of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Hancock's Half Hour and Round the Horne, I've basically got 70 years of TV and radio nostalgia shoved into my brain
There's stuff in here that's twice my age, and I'll reference it like normal 30-somethings reference The Simpsons
my parents loved this about me because i learned to get up quietly, and i loved being awake and alone, so it worked out for everyone
Remember the channel 4 BBC2 test card with the creepy clown doll. Why was that ever allowed to be a thing.
What clown?
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My favorite times in my whole life, probably. I still look to replicate them as an adult (although it's sadly more "directly after bedtime", "whiskey", and "videogames I can't play around my kids while I catch up on YouTube videos I can't play around my kids")
I've told this story on here a few times before, but one of my early memories is the PBS "give us donations" lady showing up after Sesame Street one day saying "Hey, kids!, Go get your parents up right now and tell them we want money" and me thinking "why is the PBS lady trying to get me murdered on a quiet Saturday morning"
The BBC clown can't hurt you, Jedoc.
At least not while you're awake.
I wonder if anybody left their TV on too long so screen burn left a ghostly clown superimposed over every show they watched
That’s a videocassette player. It didn’t record
I usually get up around 4:00AM to work out and shower and stuff before work, and sometimes on my days off I'll still wake up at 4 just to play videogames like how I used to stay up late to play them. It's quiet, nobody else is awake, it's dark outside. Just perfect 👌🏻
it's so quiet and it's not night-time, it's technically morning because I slept, so I don't have to be scared of night time monsters.