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.
I wake up between 4:30 and 5:30 AM most days. It's always been a valuable period when nobody I know would even think to contact me about anything, so I can just drink coffee and play video games.
There was a summer when I was newly married and a friend of ours sent her five-year old to stay with us on the farm while she went to do an internship with the Smithsonian. I got pretty used to the kid zombie-walking into the office and falling back asleep on my lap while I played Dragon Age with the volume turned all the way down. Occasionally she'd wake up and we'd have to watch inscrutable children's YouTube instead of murdering Darkspawn, but for the most part she was a pretty chill hang, like a cat.
I remember waking up at like 530 and watching reboot, then beast wars, then the first like 15 minutes of pokemon before my mom yelled to get ready for school. I didn't know how any of the episodes ended for the longest time.
I can remember early morning Transformers Beast Wars and Dragonball Z. And then DBZ moved to the afternoon but we got home too late to watch live but our TV had a built in recorder with a timer. Worked a treat.
I recently started digitizing old family VHS tapes.
This is a lot harder than it should be! I had to buy a $700 refurbished VCR because that's how rare actual functioning machines are, and there are no straightforward composite - digital signal converters that come without bloatware that compromises your computer's memory core isolation.
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I recently started digitizing old family VHS tapes.
This is a lot harder than it should be! I had to buy a $700 refurbished VCR because that's how rare actual functioning machines are, and there are no straightforward composite - digital signal converters that come without bloatware that compromises your computer's memory core isolation.
I have been scanning photos and it is damn time consuming.
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered 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"
For a while in the 80's, a local station would play either Starblazers, or Robotech, depending on which year it was, at like 6am. I started setting my own alarm clock so I could get up to watch those shows.
Edit: Now that I think about it, it might have been 5:30am.
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TonkkaSome one in the club tonightHas stolen my ideas.Registered Userregular
Oh shit yes I remember getting up at like 5am to catch Starblazers.
Mid 50s here and I've been a paraplegic since I was 17. Frankly I'm amazed I lasted this long. Spinal Cord Injury almost felt like a death sentence in the 80s. But enough morbidity.
First record album I bought was DEVO's New Traditionalists. First cassette was probably Weird Al's In 3D. First CD is a tough one - I used cassettes up through the end of college. It may have been a promo CD from Cycle Sluts From Hell that had "I Wish You Were a Beer" on it. My dad got one of the very first CD players put out by Philips and bought at least one CD a week for years.
My first console was the Atari 2600 - mowed a lot of lawns to pay for it. Sold it and mowed even more lawns to buy my first computer which was a TRS-80 Color Computer. I used to browse the Radio Shack catalogues incessantly. I logged on to BBSes with local numbers at 11pm to both not incur long distance charges or risk having a family member pick up the house phone and ruin an ASCII porn download.
I have a comp sci degree and C++ was the hot shit back then. I develop web sites using languages that didn't exist in college.
Didn't buy another console until a friend brought over a PS1 and FFVII and I was HOOKED.
I've had to explain who Adam Ant is to work mates - my first "I feel OLD" moment.
I stayed up until 4am to record Heavy Metal off of cable - I think it was off of the Movie Channel. On that same VCR tape I had Robocop, Twice Upon a Time (look that shit up - it's amazing) and Rock & Rule (also amazing) and it brought me great joy introducing college mates to those movies. SLP play for the win. Craptacular sound, but this was before 5.1 home theater setups were a thing so it didn't matter.
Mid 50s here and I've been a paraplegic since I was 17. Frankly I'm amazed I lasted this long. Spinal Cord Injury almost felt like a death sentence in the 80s. But enough morbidity.
First record album I bought was DEVO's New Traditionalists. First cassette was probably Weird Al's In 3D. First CD is a tough one - I used cassettes up through the end of college. It may have been a promo CD from Cycle Sluts From Hell that had "I Wish You Were a Beer" on it. My dad got one of the very first CD players put out by Philips and bought at least one CD a week for years.
My first console was the Atari 2600 - mowed a lot of lawns to pay for it. Sold it and mowed even more lawns to buy my first computer which was a TRS-80 Color Computer. I used to browse the Radio Shack catalogues incessantly. I logged on to BBSes with local numbers at 11pm to both not incur long distance charges or risk having a family member pick up the house phone and ruin an ASCII porn download.
I have a comp sci degree and C++ was the hot shit back then. I develop web sites using languages that didn't exist in college.
Didn't buy another console until a friend brought over a PS1 and FFVII and I was HOOKED.
I've had to explain who Adam Ant is to work mates - my first "I feel OLD" moment.
I stayed up until 4am to record Heavy Metal off of cable - I think it was off of the Movie Channel. On that same VCR tape I had Robocop, Twice Upon a Time (look that shit up - it's amazing) and Rock & Rule (also amazing) and it brought me great joy introducing college mates to those movies. SLP play for the win. Craptacular sound, but this was before 5.1 home theater setups were a thing so it didn't matter.
I own Heavy Metal, Twice Upon a Time, and Rock & Rule on DVD because I love all three of those movies.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Fun trivia: the office supplies nightmare scene in Twice Upon a Time was stop-animated by Henry Selick, director of a Nightmare Before Christmas & Coraline.
I put it together when I pulled up a YouTube video of Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions to show my partner before watching Nightmare. "Hey check out this old short film by the director."
Then as I was watching it I put it together. Black and white... menacing stop-motion scissors...
Weird how I watched Twice Upon a Time a lot as a kid, and Slow Bob a lot as a teenager, and never put it together until like two years ago.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
there are many things I side with northern England on over southern England, but let's be real Blur was always better than Oasis in that particular culture war
Both suck Prodigy were the best
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
there are many things I side with northern England on over southern England, but let's be real Blur was always better than Oasis in that particular culture war
Both suck Prodigy were the best
It’s not common I agree with Solar and technically I only agree with half of this statement but it’s still a milestone day.
there are many things I side with northern England on over southern England, but let's be real Blur was always better than Oasis in that particular culture war
Both suck Prodigy were the best
My goal my Junior year was to be able to run a mile during the length of Smack My Bitch Up. While listening to the song, of course. Now I can't hear the song without tasting blood.
I'm young enough that I've never actually seen an 8-track in operation, they were long since replaced by cassette tapes, CDs, and/or proprietary formats like minidisc by the time I was born and there's never been a retro moment for them like with cassettes or vinyl records
I've seen vintage cars that have the 8-track players in the dash but they're usually busted or long since unused
You ever been in the car with a friend who insisted on driving with his knees while picking out one of thousands of CDs from a half dozen giant cd organizers to change the track every few minutes
You ever been in the car with a friend who insisted on driving with his knees while picking out one of thousands of CDs from a half dozen giant cd organizers to change the track every few minutes
I was that friend, and it was a well-practiced maneuver that worked just fine every time, thank you very much
You ever been in the car with a friend who insisted on driving with his knees while picking out one of thousands of CDs from a half dozen giant cd organizers to change the track every few minutes
I always knew I was in good company when the driver had to fish through a massive CD binder of all burned CDs to decide what to listen to.
I made a mix CD to ask a girl to prom!
I am in the business of saving lives.
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You ever been in the car with a friend who insisted on driving with his knees while picking out one of thousands of CDs from a half dozen giant cd organizers to change the track every few minutes
I was that friend, and it was a well-practiced maneuver that worked just fine every time, thank you very much
You ever been in the car with a friend who insisted on driving with his knees while picking out one of thousands of CDs from a half dozen giant cd organizers to change the track every few minutes
I was that friend, and it was a well-practiced maneuver that worked just fine every time, thank you very much
I could totally fly that thing with just my knees while fishing for a good bombing run CD
I could totally fly that thing with just my knees while fishing for a good bombing run CD
I know I've got Ride of the Valkyries in here somewhere, but I don't have any Wagner so it must be on one of the movie score compilations...gimme a sec
Ride of the Valkyries was definitely on the Taco Tuesday Mix CD my brother made, specifically for driving from school to Taco John's and back again during lunch break on Tuesdays. Can't really remember what else was on there, but it was an eclectic mix.
hold on wait I remember now, I didn't know what it was called and just did a napster search for "looney tunes songs" and burned everything I could find, gimme a sec to find the L section
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I’m old enough to remember getting the “USER WU_TANG_SG HAS BEEN BANNED BY METALLICA” when I opened Napster one day.
hold on wait I remember now, I didn't know what it was called and just did a napster search for "looney tunes songs" and burned everything I could find, gimme a sec to find the L section
(a thing that made me feel old was going to a Joe Jackson show a couple of years ago, looking around at the audience, thinking "sheesh, everyone here sure is getting on a bit" and then joining some dots in my mind)
(edit: another thing that made me feel old was sending a link to this classic Joel On Software posting to some of the interns at work, and realising that the article was older than they are)
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my favorite SCP is the Eye Pods
just li'l eyes that are allowed to scoot unattended throughout their storage facility because people like them and they calm down the angrier SCPs.
What... what clown?
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I wake up between 4:30 and 5:30 AM most days. It's always been a valuable period when nobody I know would even think to contact me about anything, so I can just drink coffee and play video games.
There was a summer when I was newly married and a friend of ours sent her five-year old to stay with us on the farm while she went to do an internship with the Smithsonian. I got pretty used to the kid zombie-walking into the office and falling back asleep on my lap while I played Dragon Age with the volume turned all the way down. Occasionally she'd wake up and we'd have to watch inscrutable children's YouTube instead of murdering Darkspawn, but for the most part she was a pretty chill hang, like a cat.
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004484595
and Reboot, where I acquired half of my thing for crazy clown girls, and oh man watching Zoids on Toonami while doing my homework after school
PSN:Furlion
This is a lot harder than it should be! I had to buy a $700 refurbished VCR because that's how rare actual functioning machines are, and there are no straightforward composite - digital signal converters that come without bloatware that compromises your computer's memory core isolation.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I have been scanning photos and it is damn time consuming.
PSN:Furlion
For a while in the 80's, a local station would play either Starblazers, or Robotech, depending on which year it was, at like 6am. I started setting my own alarm clock so I could get up to watch those shows.
Edit: Now that I think about it, it might have been 5:30am.
First record album I bought was DEVO's New Traditionalists. First cassette was probably Weird Al's In 3D. First CD is a tough one - I used cassettes up through the end of college. It may have been a promo CD from Cycle Sluts From Hell that had "I Wish You Were a Beer" on it. My dad got one of the very first CD players put out by Philips and bought at least one CD a week for years.
My first console was the Atari 2600 - mowed a lot of lawns to pay for it. Sold it and mowed even more lawns to buy my first computer which was a TRS-80 Color Computer. I used to browse the Radio Shack catalogues incessantly. I logged on to BBSes with local numbers at 11pm to both not incur long distance charges or risk having a family member pick up the house phone and ruin an ASCII porn download.
I have a comp sci degree and C++ was the hot shit back then. I develop web sites using languages that didn't exist in college.
Didn't buy another console until a friend brought over a PS1 and FFVII and I was HOOKED.
I've had to explain who Adam Ant is to work mates - my first "I feel OLD" moment.
I stayed up until 4am to record Heavy Metal off of cable - I think it was off of the Movie Channel. On that same VCR tape I had Robocop, Twice Upon a Time (look that shit up - it's amazing) and Rock & Rule (also amazing) and it brought me great joy introducing college mates to those movies. SLP play for the win. Craptacular sound, but this was before 5.1 home theater setups were a thing so it didn't matter.
Oo\ Ironsizide
Speaking of anime on TV... Remember TOM, the host of Toonami? He's almost 25 years old.
I own Heavy Metal, Twice Upon a Time, and Rock & Rule on DVD because I love all three of those movies.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I put it together when I pulled up a YouTube video of Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions to show my partner before watching Nightmare. "Hey check out this old short film by the director."
Then as I was watching it I put it together. Black and white... menacing stop-motion scissors...
Weird how I watched Twice Upon a Time a lot as a kid, and Slow Bob a lot as a teenager, and never put it together until like two years ago.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Both suck Prodigy were the best
It’s not common I agree with Solar and technically I only agree with half of this statement but it’s still a milestone day.
my first album was an 8 track cassette of ABBA. I didn't have an 8 track player but in my defense i was very very stupid
My goal my Junior year was to be able to run a mile during the length of Smack My Bitch Up. While listening to the song, of course. Now I can't hear the song without tasting blood.
What bit do you agree with, I want to change my mind on that one
I did the same thing when I was an idiot child! I think mine was The Moody Blues.
I just learned, like a month ago, that 8 Tracks were called that because you could record up to eight separate tracks for the song
I've seen vintage cars that have the 8-track players in the dash but they're usually busted or long since unused
And just like that, ironsizide ordered Twice Upon a Time on DVD.
(I have the other two in DVD.)
Oo\ Ironsizide
I was that friend, and it was a well-practiced maneuver that worked just fine every time, thank you very much
I always knew I was in good company when the driver had to fish through a massive CD binder of all burned CDs to decide what to listen to.
I made a mix CD to ask a girl to prom!
I could totally fly that thing with just my knees while fishing for a good bombing run CD
I know I've got Ride of the Valkyries in here somewhere, but I don't have any Wagner so it must be on one of the movie score compilations...gimme a sec
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it’s very, very 90s
edit: except that was in the 00s, so... hmmm.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
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(a thing that made me feel old was going to a Joe Jackson show a couple of years ago, looking around at the audience, thinking "sheesh, everyone here sure is getting on a bit" and then joining some dots in my mind)
(edit: another thing that made me feel old was sending a link to this classic Joel On Software posting to some of the interns at work, and realising that the article was older than they are)
i'm old enough to remember (albeit vaguely) trading literal music scores for songs you liked.
My Dad had an 8 Track and a reel to reel when I was a kid
we subsisted on alley trash tvs and we liked it gol durn it
i remember one color tv we had only showed the color yellow otherwise everything was black and white