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[LunchBoxPC]

Here we see a sight upgrade to my little car lol. If anyone is unaware, it is a smart car with a turbo now installed lol

[Real_PhillBert]

New Echo PAS-2620 came in yesterday. The trimmer and edger attachments should be in today.

 

[adamaquarius]

Some used Chord Chorus RCA cables.

 

I need to sort out my cable management next.

 

Khruangbin sound extra groovy today.

[Eschew]

I have died everyday, waiting for you

Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved waited you for a thousand years two months...

 

 

*excitement intensifies*

[Jae Tee]

Upgrading my home theater 

[Kilrah]

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[RollinLower]

2 hours ago, Eschew said:

I have died everyday, waiting for you

Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved waited you for a thousand years two months...

 

*excitement intensifies*

ah yes, the best switches!

[FmPhenom]

21 hours ago, Hakemon said:

I got a still sealed copy of a cassette tape of Fleetwood Mac.  (I like analog media.)

NIce!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

LOVE FLEETWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kilrah]

The very first Minidisc deck from 1992:

 

 

Which now looks like this:

 

 

Because of this:

 

[Real_PhillBert]

Got my trimmer head and edger attachments in yesterday:

 

[Beef Boss]

On 6/10/2020 at 12:44 AM, LunchBoxPC said:

Here we see a sight upgrade to my little car lol. If anyone is unaware, it is a smart car with a turbo now installed lol

Is that custom fab or are there kits now?

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1 minute ago, Beef Boss said:

Is that custom fab or are there kits now?

kits

https://smartmadness.com/2012-smart-fortwo 451/start-shopping-cid78/performance-upgrades-cid172/smart-fortwo-turbo-upgrade-kit-451-model-stage-2-pid949

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[PlayStation 2]

Went to some thrift stores yesterday and found two interesting tapes.

You guys probably care more about the Star Wars tape. It seems to be a proper first printing on VHS from 1982, complete with some worn-out stamp from Magnetic Video.

The second tape, and the reason I got this photo in the first place, is the SpongeBob tape. The second to last SpongeBob VHS released, although this one was printed in April 2006.

[Velcade]

1 minute ago, handymanshandle said:

Went to some thrift stores yesterday and found two interesting tapes.

 

You guys probably care more about the Star Wars tape. It seems to be a proper first printing on VHS from 1982, complete with some worn-out stamp from Magnetic Video.

The second tape, and the reason I got this photo in the first place, is the SpongeBob tape. The second to last SpongeBob VHS released, although this one was printed in April 2006.

You seem to be the VHS king of the forum...  How do you preserve your tapes?  Do they have a use life?

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Velcade said:

You seem to be the VHS king of the forum...  How do you preserve your tapes?  Do they have a use life?

Frankly, the best way to preserve them is keep them in a room that won't be particularly damp and at room temperature. 

They have some use life, but it depends on a number of factors: how it's been preserved, the tape quality itself, the VHS player they're played in and the overall times they've been played. I have a tape from 1984 that played perfectly fine (although the tape itself snapped off one of the reels, so that needs to be repaired; that's just age speaking), while I have very poor condition new old stock tapes from 1999 that really play like shit.

[PlayStation 2]

I actually own a Canadian print of this tape already, but why not get the French Canadian print of the SpongeBob Christmas tape?

[Andreas Lilja]

43 minutes ago, handymanshandle said:

I actually own a Canadian print of this tape already, but why not get the French Canadian print of the SpongeBob Christmas tape?

According to Wiki it's a French French dub.

 

 

[PlayStation 2]

On 6/11/2020 at 5:00 PM, Andreas Lilja said:

According to Wiki it's a French French dub.

 

 

Yeah, for what it's worth I think the SpongeBob French dub is the same across France and Quebec. This tape in particular comes from Quebec, however; I don't have any means to play any PAL tapes. I'd love to do that, though, eventually.

[D13H4RD]

And with that, the final piece of the build puzzle is finally complete...

 

Which adds to the tech-stuff I got this year (and that's just a few of them)

 

Spoiler

Everyone else: Nooooo, you can't just buy an RTX 20-series GPU when RTX 30 is coming in just a few months' time!!!

 

Me: Hehe, Turing go skrrrrrrrrr...

 

[PlayStation 2]

7 hours ago, Benji said:

Is it just the seller that is from Québec or is the tape from Québec? Because if the VHS is actually from France, forget PAL and NTSC, they use SECAM, don't they?

The tape itself is from Quebec. 

Also yeah, forgot that France uses SECAM. Never really crosses my mind all that often.

[X-System]

Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI used, it's for to replace my Gigabyte B150M-HD3 DDR3.

 

[GamerDude]

Went on a cable buying spree, Amazon Basics USB3.0 cables are of great quality, better than the stock USB3.0 cables that came with my external 2.5" HDD's and HDD dock (USB3.0 Type-A Male to USB3.0 Type-B Male, not in pic). While I was at it, bought myself a VESA certified Displayport cable, I won't be using its full capability as I'm using it on my 3840x1080 32:9 monitor, but should I upgrade in the future, I know my DP cable isn't holding me back.

 

I'd also gotten a HDMI 2.1 cable, again, won't be using it to its full capability as I'd using it on my 4K 60Hz TV, but should I upgrade in the future, this cable won't hold me back....

 

Oh yeah, also got out and bought these masks a short while back, opened to try one of each brand and found them to be satisfactory....the 4 ply mask (box at back) is a little harder to achieve a snug fit over the nose bridge though.

[D13H4RD]

Has been with me for a while but yeah, she's done.