Discussion Forums => Shitpost Central => Topic started by: rachel on May 03, 2021, 04:51:02 am
Title: Nostalgia Junkyard
Post by: rachel on May 03, 2021, 04:51:02 am
At 7 minutes in this mix a song called THE CUBE started playing and I suddenly felt like I was playing DDR. Then I looked up the song and yep, it's one of the songs I played in DDR when I was like 12 years old XD
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Post by: rachel on May 09, 2021, 11:19:08 pm
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Post by: Mozai on May 11, 2021, 09:41:41 pm
I keep making attempts to find the "33⅓+8" effect that turned EBM into NewBeat in the late-80s Belgium scene. I know the "33⅓" is to slow it down to 100/135 speed (0.740740...) but I still haven't found what the "+8" means. Gotta be pitchshifting, but what are the units? tones? semitones? some other ratio? (people will hear the original track and ask why it was sped up)
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Post by: Fishmé on March 21, 2025, 12:58:23 pm
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Post by: Mozai on March 21, 2025, 02:33:31 pm
I get mad when I think about it; it's textbook case of vulture capitalism.
The company was bought out by VCs that took out a massive loan just so they could make the purchase, then sold off what they purchased to pay off that loan, mortally wounding the company they acquired... and pay themselves commissions for a job well done, naturally. It was theft with extra steps, and the wreckage was "someone else's problem."
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Post by: rachel on April 02, 2025, 01:54:52 am
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Post by: Fishmé on April 15, 2025, 01:42:17 pm
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Post by: Fishmé on April 15, 2025, 01:44:23 pm
Damn this shit is fuckin ancient. 😆JFC! 4mb of memory for $2,800!!! This is in 1995 too, so that's like $4000 now! Lmao. I guess if it's 30 years ago, seeing something like this is some cool shit. Lol
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Post by: Fishmé on April 15, 2025, 01:45:02 pm
"Cyber Space seems more like the twilight zone." Lmfao. 🤣 Wonder what those folks would say now. Lol. (I had to lookup what TF, "The Twilight Zone," was bc I thought this was just a hip word for the time & didn't know the meaning. Anyway... neat show! Lol)
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Post by: rachel on April 18, 2025, 01:00:56 pm
Also, does PC stand for personal computer? I never questioned what PC meant. Huh
Yes Personal Computer, as in a computer that is owned by an individual at their home. As opposed to a mainframe computer running in a large office building or school. Back in the 60s - 90s most computers that people used were actually just monitors hooked up to a large computer running in the basement (I'm simplifying here, but that's the gist)
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Post by: Fishmé on April 19, 2025, 12:07:28 am
Also, does PC stand for personal computer? I never questioned what PC meant. Huh
Yes Personal Computer, as in a computer that is owned by an individual at their home. As opposed to a mainframe computer running in a large office building or school. Back in the 60s - 90s most computers that people used were actually just monitors hooked up to a large computer running in the basement (I'm simplifying here, but that's the gist)
Woah?! Funky...
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Post by: Fishmé on April 19, 2025, 12:08:34 am
Also, does PC stand for personal computer? I never questioned what PC meant. Huh
Yes Personal Computer, as in a computer that is owned by an individual at their home. As opposed to a mainframe computer running in a large office building or school. Back in the 60s - 90s most computers that people used were actually just monitors hooked up to a large computer running in the basement (I'm simplifying here, but that's the gist)
Woah?! Funky...
Can you still do that? Is it to the scale of a team working on monitors for like super computers now? (I clearly do not know shit)
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Post by: rachel on April 20, 2025, 04:29:05 pm
Yes Personal Computer, as in a computer that is owned by an individual at their home. As opposed to a mainframe computer running in a large office building or school. Back in the 60s - 90s most computers that people used were actually just monitors hooked up to a large computer running in the basement (I'm simplifying here, but that's the gist)
Woah?! Funky...
Can you still do that? Is it to the scale of a team working on monitors for like super computers now? (I clearly do not know shit)
Yes, this still happens in many corporate and educational settings. Like when you log into a computer at your school using your student account and you can have the same files / programs on your desktop no matter what computer you log into. Essentially there is a big server running somewhere in the building and you are using your computer to log into your account on the server.
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Post by: Fishmé on April 28, 2025, 02:54:55 pm
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Post by: Fishmé on April 30, 2025, 11:34:28 am
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Post by: Fishmé on May 05, 2025, 11:33:16 pm