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Jirachi100 said:
I'm blaming this one on Game Freak, not Nintendo.
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Yeah, technically speaking that's correct so yeah I agree. But honestly to put up a half-finished game and then work on those dumb passes instead and doing that half-finished game to charge full price... yeah no
 
after 3 weeks of not playing ac, im finally back on the grind and completed a good portion of my town yesterday
 
It's hard cutting your own hair when you need to keep turning the clippers off to pull lumps of fuzz out of the cats mouth.
 
Teeth are bones outside your body I’ve been stressing about this for weeks and I don’t know why it’s not even that shocking
 
WHAT COLORS DO MANTIS SHRIMP SEE THAT I CANT? TELL ME YOUR SECRETS YOU BOTTOM FEEDING BABY
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skip to end if u you are too lazy to read. I'm just nerding out a bit here lol :P


So while I was taking my dog for a walk this morning I saw that someone was throwing out an old CRT television. Now if you don't know me, let me just say that I'm really interested in technology from the 60s-80s... so ofc when I saw this tv I was like I GOTTA HAVE THAT. I didn't even know if it worked but it had a $5 sticker on it, so I figured that they prob tried to sell it in a yard sale and no one wanted it so they were just throwing it out.

I went back to my house and got a furniture dolly and brought it all the way over there. I brought my dog too cause taking stuff like that while I'm alone makes me feel kinda awkward, but boy having the dog was quite a wild ride cause the sound of the dolly scared him (it wasn't a traditional dolly, it's just the kind that rolls. Has no handles or anything on it. Looks like this). This would've been easier if I had a regular dolly or maybe a wagon. Or better yet, MY CAR ( my dad had my car blocked in the driveway).
Wheeling it back my my house was a mess cause it's like 82 degrees outside and the dog is goin wild cause he's never seen a dolly before. I prob looked like a hillbilly hunched over wheeling an old CRT back to my house lol. But I finally got it back to my house and I put it on the front porch (in case it has bugs in it, I don't want to bring it inside just yet).

Got a closer look at it, and I found out that it was manufactured in March 1984. When I sent a pic to my dad he said it looked like it had a late-70s design. The tv has no coaxial input, and only uses spade terminals (what the Angry Video Game Nerd refers to as "the devil's pitchforks"). It has a small knob that is turned all the way to the left when off. When turns to the right it "clicks" the tv on and then controls the volume. It also has a channel knob that, oddly enough, has channels A-E on it. I haven't been able to find any info on that. It also has channels 2-13, which I know is the VHF bandwidth (which sucks cause most local TV stations nowadays are in UHF, not VHF). It does turn on and shows the classic fuzzy screen. I'm honestly surprised that the CRT isn't broken, especially on a tv this old.

Anyways, I'm gonna see if I can open it up and clean it out (I don't want any potential buggies gettin in our house). I may also look into if there's some kind of adapter that goes from the spade terminals to a coaxial input, because I don't have a single device in my house that uses spade terminals. But it is a neat old tv, classic wood paneling, straight out of the 1980s.

This is what it looks like. The tiny knob controls the power and volume and the bigger knob changes channels. Notice the $5 sticker on it. I just can't get over that lol. Also the wood paneling really adds that early 80s vibe to the whole thing very nicely. It will match my wood-paneled VHS tape drawers perfectly.
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Here's my 7lb. cat for size. The screen is prob like 16-18 inches, not really substantial but honestly if it were any heavier it would've been extra fun to get home. It must weigh at least 35 lbs.
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tl;dr I'm obsessed with CRT televisions pls send help
 
So i just remembered genome editing is a thing and basically it makes it so you can pick and choose what you want with DNA. So like does that mean in the future or something people are just gonna be able to choose what qualities their baby has like some Build-a-Bear workshop? The thought of that is kinda creepy to have someone pick and choose your qualities to be the way they want you to be
 
xSuperMario64x said:
skip to end if u you are too lazy to read. I'm just nerding out a bit here lol :p


So while I was taking my dog for a walk this morning I saw that someone was throwing out an old CRT television. Now if you don't know me, let me just say that I'm really interested in technology from the 60s-80s... so ofc when I saw this tv I was like I GOTTA HAVE THAT. I didn't even know if it worked but it had a $5 sticker on it, so I figured that they prob tried to sell it in a yard sale and no one wanted it so they were just throwing it out.

I went back to my house and got a furniture dolly and brought it all the way over there. I brought my dog too cause taking stuff like that while I'm alone makes me feel kinda awkward, but boy having the dog was quite a wild ride cause the sound of the dolly scared him (it wasn't a traditional dolly, it's just the kind that rolls. Has no handles or anything on it. Looks like this). This would've been easier if I had a regular dolly or maybe a wagon. Or better yet, MY CAR ( my dad had my car blocked in the driveway).
Wheeling it back my my house was a mess cause it's like 82 degrees outside and the dog is goin wild cause he's never seen a dolly before. I prob looked like a hillbilly hunched over wheeling an old CRT back to my house lol. But I finally got it back to my house and I put it on the front porch (in case it has bugs in it, I don't want to bring it inside just yet).

Got a closer look at it, and I found out that it was manufactured in March 1984. When I sent a pic to my dad he said it looked like it had a late-70s design. The tv has no coaxial input, and only uses spade terminals (what the Angry Video Game Nerd refers to as "the devil's pitchforks"). It has a small knob that is turned all the way to the left when off. When turns to the right it "clicks" the tv on and then controls the volume. It also has a channel knob that, oddly enough, has channels A-E on it. I haven't been able to find any info on that. It also has channels 2-13, which I know is the VHF bandwidth (which sucks cause most local TV stations nowadays are in UHF, not VHF). It does turn on and shows the classic fuzzy screen. I'm honestly surprised that the CRT isn't broken, especially on a tv this old.

Anyways, I'm gonna see if I can open it up and clean it out (I don't want any potential buggies gettin in our house). I may also look into if there's some kind of adapter that goes from the spade terminals to a coaxial input, because I don't have a single device in my house that uses spade terminals. But it is a neat old tv, classic wood paneling, straight out of the 1980s.

This is what it looks like. The tiny knob controls the power and volume and the bigger knob changes channels. Notice the $5 sticker on it. I just can't get over that lol. Also the wood paneling really adds that early 80s vibe to the whole thing very nicely. It will match my wood-paneled VHS tape drawers perfectly.
20200608-144303.jpgp


Here's my 7lb. cat for size. The screen is prob like 16-18 inches, not really substantial but honestly if it were any heavier it would've been extra fun to get home. It must weigh at least 35 lbs.
20200608-144933.jpg



tl;dr I'm obsessed with CRT televisions pls send help
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That's the only kind of tv that will work with the NES light gun for duck hunt. Plus classic game aspect ratio. If you need excuses.
 
ProbablyNotJosuke said:
So i just remembered genome editing is a thing and basically it makes it so you can pick and choose what you want with DNA. So like does that mean in the future or something people are just gonna be able to choose what qualities their baby has like some Build-a-Bear workshop? The thought of that is kinda creepy to have someone pick and choose your qualities to be the way they want you to be
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I thought that said gnome editing and I was so confused
I got gnomed
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Reginald Fairfield said:
That's the only kind of tv that will work with the NES light gun for duck hunt. Plus classic game aspect ratio. If you need excuses.
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I actually have a CRT already but it's from like 2005 or so, so it has a coaxial input and the component inputs as well. That's what I generally use to play my NES.

But it would be super rad to play a 1985 console on a 1984 tv, I just hate those spade terminals lol.
 
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