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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Plastic case shifting as it cools

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The real MVP of the post

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This just triggered a memory of the smell of the TV cooling down Like a metallic smell with crackle of electric in the air. And touching the screen as it cooled down and you could feel little tingles of charge leaping at your fingertips. Thinking back now, fat screens were really weird.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps the smell of ozone? CRTs also produced a tremendous amount of static too. I remember playing with the static on my monitor when I was younger. CRTs were pretty cool. Very weird, too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

If you thought the static on the OUTSIDE was fun... Never disconnect a cathode tube assembly from the power board without discharging EVERYTHING first. It's lethal. https://youtu.be/a6FMpvs71pc

(Apologies. Idk how to do piped links)

(Edit: tracker removed. Thank you!)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Here's the link without site tracking: https://youtu.be/a6FMpvs71pc

I don't know how to do piped links either. Isn't there a bot for that? I see it sometimes, but not every time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

There's extensions to automatically redirect. Just post the youtube link, piped users can figure out how to get it to pipe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I don't know if it's the same with piped but in libretube app settings you can set it to open YouTube links by default

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah, I've long heard of their terrifying capacitors and other stuff. I'd never service one x3

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey wait.... Yeah what the hell? They did do that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

That is one latent memory that I simply don't remember.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Basically the CRT I still use on my computer. Pops at least once a week and wakes me up.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm both impressed and frightened that you are using a CRT. Incredible.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Gotta get the translucent water effect on Sonic.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

much better response times, colors and accurate legacy games.

whats not to love about them.

ok maybe the sheer size and weight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

resolution? burn in? energy effiency?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

oleds are way worse with burnin. crts have pretty good resolution too, the last one i had was 1080p, it did high refresh rate at lower resolutions, it was pretty great.

cant argue with energy efficiency tho, even the heat output of those things are brutal, but its such cool tech.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This unlocked a memory I had totally forgotten about, I got given an old crt monitor by a friend's dad in high school who worked on professional animation work and that thing was massive and heavy, but had amazing color and could do some insane max resolution like 2600*1900 on like a 24" screen in like 2008. Had a lot of good times with that monitor, but do not miss lugging it up and down staircases for Lan parties.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

snobpersonproblems but my high-end Sony OLEDs I own do not burn. My old one did, but it would go away after a power down or around 5 seconds of on-screen movement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

#Snobpersonproblems

You need to escape the octothorpe with a backslash, otherwise it is interpreted as markdown for a header, and looks like you're shouting.

\#Snobpersonproblems

Renders as:

#Snobpersonproblems

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

ok maybe the sheer size and weight.

that's what makes them fun :>

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Only true gamers use cheap CRTs from 2006

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why do you use one? Just curious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Just thought it would be fun, it was only $3 at goodwill so there wasn't much reason not to.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Haha! What the heck caused that? It did happen often enough that I relate to this meme.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Expansion and contraction from temperature changes. Or maybe ghosts, no one can say for sure

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It's absolutely the most logical and mundane of the two explanations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Is that what Ghosts in the Shell was all about?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That was just the magic fizzling out after a long day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The mini people inside must get tired of working all day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hv discharge from the tube/caps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I don't think we're talking about the same sound

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Cathode Ray Tube love. Let’s have a little static when we touch it! ⚡️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Either high pitched whine or the HBO theme.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Not sure what this is referring to, mine make lots of noises but I wouldn't describe any as a crack

[–] therealjcdenton 5 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Entering REM :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not to mention the scart Cable, big cable going from tv to PS2. I had to move the tv.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Huh. A non-useless "nobody:". It's like spotting a coelacanth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It’s still completely better with that cut off tbh