• Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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    116 months ago

    Aw dude I still have one of these in my basement. Best place to get high in, just kick back and either play Tony Hawk or re-watch the Lord of the Rings movies on DVD.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]OP
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      66 months ago

      re-watch the Lord of the Rings movies

      I did that a few days ago.

      on DVD

      Sadly - it wasn’t that old-school. I prefer the theatrical versions but the net loves the extended versions so seeded torrents were hard to find.

      • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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        My mom is a massive Tolkien nerd so we have like… the initial theatrical releases and the extended box set. As well as the original paperbacks (The Hobbit, the trilogoy and the Silmarillion) she bought back in the 80s, as well as hardcover re-releases of all books, a book of Tolkien inspired art, and Middle Earth atlas, a… There is so much fucking LoTR merch in this fucking house!

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]OP
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      46 months ago

      My back actually did go out on Saturday. And today my lowerback is at ~25%. Aging. What can you do? There’s little pain now and I finally don’t have to do the old man shuffle but I have to stoop and move at about half of my regular walking speed. It’s a shame our ancestors weren’t designed to walk on two legs. The lowerback is a serious design flaw.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]OP
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      66 months ago

      Ad hominem!

      -–

      A few hours ago at another site - somebody actually replied to me with that - minus the exclam and the formatting. Replies with the word never fail to make me laugh.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      56 months ago

      My dad had a bunch of Christmas movies he recorded on VHS from TV broadcasts, so he didn’t have to buy the tapes, but it meant we had commercial breaks. It got to the point the old commercials became part of the experience of watching them.

  • Hexboare [they/them]
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    126 months ago

    These are still called entertainment centres, entertainment units etc, like this (you can see some minimalism but the classic design exists)

    It’s because the poster’s class aren’t buying furniture because college kids aren’t buying McMansions to fill with shit

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]OP
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    166 months ago

    I’m old so the photo gives me nostalgia about tech that’s (basically) obsolete in people’s homes now: VCR, stereo, turntable, cd player, fat back tv…

    I seriously wonder how many people have a fat back tv.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      146 months ago

      I seriously wonder how many people have a fat back tv.

      The only ones i know also have an NES and say it doesn’t work well with anything newer.

      • Yukiko [she/her]
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        146 months ago

        It’s a real pain in the ass to get it hooked up to TVs with only HDMI connections. I wish I still had a CRT

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        Indeed, retro consoles from back in the day look best on tube tvs. But some people like the crisp pixels also so they don’t mind playing on an LCD.

    • VHS [he/him]
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      16 months ago

      I have all the items you listed, but it was probably obvious from my username

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]OP
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        16 months ago

        I see now. And I guess I shouldn’t admit this but I use a white theme and the usernames are very hard to read so I tend to forget all about them.

    • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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      There’s two VCRs there unless my eyes are just totally fucked. Time to dub some tapes.

      Also, I think everyone of a certain age had that AIWA stereo. I know I did.

      NVM I think that’s a dvd or Blu-ray player

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]OP
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    26 months ago

    Oops. I forgot to share this.

    Cabinet of curiosities

    Cabinets of curiosities (German: Kunstkammer and Kunstkabinett), also known as wonder-rooms (German: Wunderkammer), were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Although more rudimentary collections had preceded them, the classic cabinets of curiosities emerged in the sixteenth century. The term cabinet originally described a room rather than a piece of furniture.

    Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings), and antiquities. In addition to the most famous and best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science in Europe formed collections that were precursors to museums.

    Also

    Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities

    Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (or simply Cabinet of Curiosities) is a horror anthology television miniseries created by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix. It features eight modern horror stories in the traditions of the Gothic and Grand Guignol genres.

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    346 months ago

    My mom had an entertainment center/china cabinet that was her pride and joy. Incidentally, “entertainment center/china cabinet” in now what I call Hexbear

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    156 months ago

    “Smart” TVs are complete shit and I hate them and I wish it was possible to buy not-smart TVs again.