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I meant "Catch Me If You Can"! Sorry, I always confuse those two!

The Aviator? The Fly (though he doesn't really soar when he transforms, he just gives it to Geena Davis real good one night before he deteriorates to shit)?

American Pie? I guess that's more love WITH snacks though.

Yeah! One of my favorites! You post one, you're on a roll haha!

Love this idea. A nosey fella discovers that blood is thicker than water in a city dying of thirst.

My dad was always fond of, "Nuttier than a shithouse rat." Kinda related, when trying to pull one over on him, he'd reply, "You think I just fell off the turnip truck?"

Yeah, we definitely chatted in the good ol' days. I recognized your username a couple weeks ago when you gave me advice on how to hook my headphones up to my tv. Works great and cost like $5 for everything. Thanks!

@OLDSKULL Haha no I wasn't being sarcastic. I'm the last person to criticize how anyone spends their time during this shutdown. The other day my wife was having a video conference for her job and I overheard her boss ask her how I've been doing since I got laid off and I laughed because as my wife started talking about how productive I've been, I was staring at a character I painstakingly created in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 to look as identical to myself as possible. I'm not joking when I say it took a good hour of deciding whether or not I should wear baggy or regular cuffed jeans and other stuff like that (I went with the regular cuff, btw). It made me happy seeing that blocky version of myself doing impossible trick combinations. If starting your day listening to your cd collection makes you happy then I encourage it!

That sounds like a fun, productive time! I've been trying to do the same with books I've intended to read over the years. Just working my way down the line since I have the time now. Yeah, I love all sorts of music and my choices don't really make sense either. I, too, love rummaging through bargain bins and snatching out random picks for whatever reason.

@OLDSKULL I have a bunch of tapes and cds but I like to collect vinyl. My collection is largely comprised of soul, R&B, and French pop (mostly Aznavour), but I initially started collecting punk and hardcore records. You might appreciate this...my wife's uncle was leaving his mom's apartment in Outremont one day and he overheard someone saying that Marjo threw away her record player, so he went down to the trash area, grabbed it and gave it to me! I'm not positive it belonged to THE Marjo but he said he's seen her before because she lives in the same building. Regardless, I tell people I have Marjo's record player though it's probably like how George Costanza claimed to have Jon Voight's car. Here's some pictures. It's an Electrohome Apollo 862. The am/fm tuner is shot and there's a horrible short in the speakers that takes some fidgeting in order to get balanced sound, but I love it!

@OLDSKULL je viens de Rochester, NY (dans l'ouest de l'état de NY) mais j'habite à Montréal depuis quatre ans avec ma femme qui vient d'ici.

Salut et bienvenue!

Well, dude's clearly a badass!

Please do! Damn, that's rough. Carpenters, specifically framers, are no joke. Some cabinetmakers scoff at carpenters because we usually work within a 1/16" tolerance * (though some times we work to 1/32" or in rare cases 1/64") and framers often work within 1/4", but I have so much respect for those guys. It's a dangerous job walking top plates and working on a ladder. I have done carpentry work like deck building and what not outside, but typically I'm nice and safe in a shop with my only concern being sharp blades, spinning machinery and breathing in saw dust. *I'm sure there's a machinist out there laughing at my 1/16" tolerance haha

Nice! I'm a cabinetmaker and I have a hard time letting go of stuff I've made. Old jigs, fixtures, crummy furniture and joints I made as a student; I keep it all even though I'll probably never use the stuff again. Do you have any of his old tools?

I like farming, grinding, whatever you wanna call it in an rpg when there's good music playing, and that feeling of completely obliterating a moderately difficult enemy you previously lost to when you come back with like 521309121398498 xp is so satisfying. This song and place will always be a favorite...Those poor howlers

Thank you! Yeah, but I've only ever used Kodak color films (Ektar 100, Gold 200, Ultramax 400). My favorite has been Ektar 100. It's a low ISO at only 100 so you need a good amount of light, but I love the mood of the finished product. I initially determined which films I would used based on images I liked that people had posted on flickr, but I haven't been there in a long time and last time I visited, the site was unrecognizable (sounds familiar haha).

I brought a roll to Walgreens a few years ago and experienced the same thing as your dad so I decided to never go to one of those places again. None of those stores that once had in-house photo labs have them anymore so they send everything out. Where I live there's plenty of options for getting film developed but it's usually people's private labs or specialty retailers. I go to a guy who has a studio and a film lab. It's definitely more pricey than it once was but I trust him and I have several options for what I want the final result to be (ex. you can pay a little extra to push/pull the exposure). With tax, I pay about $15 per roll and in return I get scans emailed to me and my negatives if I go to pick them up. I guess I'd suggest he look online for some local labs, check out their portfolios to see if he likes their results then consider the price. I know there are some online services where you mail the rolls in and choose what product you want back but I've never tried any of those services.

Nice camera! I don't remember where but I saw some of your photos in another thread and I liked what I saw! I started shooting film around 7 years ago when I was a beer delivery driver. I was driving all around New York state and when I wasn't pressed for time I would take some shots. I watched some videos to understand exposure reciprocity, bought myself a cheap Pentax K1000 (a common beginner SLR) and started shooting with Kodak Ektar 100. I've been pretty happy with my photos but for me it's less about being artsy and mastering the craft and more about being in a moment and capturing it. I don't consider myself anything more than an amateur photographer and I'm sure any skilled photographer would confirm that haha. I'll post some pics of the cameras I like using and some of the photos I took on Ektar 100 with my Pentax K1000 and Lomogography Konstruktor. I don't have any scans of photos I've taken with my Polaroid Automatic 100 land camera, but it's an awesome camera to use and I would absolutely recommend picking one up (with a AAA battery modification) but getting your hands on pack film is difficult nowadays since the last manufacturer, Fujifilm, discontinued production a few years ago. I think there are some companies who've decided to start producing their own version of pack film, so I guess it is still possible. Anyway, here ya go... Taken with the Pentax K1000. Some pretty flowers at a greenhouse. Taken with the Pentax K1000. My mother-in-law probably telling my wife I'm annoying her in French before I could speak it. Taken with the Lomo Konstruktor. Salmon fishermen at Lower Falls in Rochester, NY. This location is only a short drive from Kodak tower and many of the Kodak factories at Eastman Business Park.

Thanks everyone! I already got some sage advice from a couple users on an issue I would have otherwise wasted time and money on trying to figure out myself, so I'm glad I asked here first! I checked out the thread and there's a couple I could attempt. I saw someone already did Mia Hamm Soccer 64. Poor fella. I received 2 copies from a "friend" as a wedding gift with "His" and "Hers" written on them. Yeah, I remember you too! Glad to be back!

I 100% get what you mean now. Thanks, Tanooki!

First off, thanks for this thorough explanation! I'm pretty clueless when it comes to this stuff so I appreciate you taking time to lay it out for me. While I follow the logic of what you've described I get lost with how many cables are required. Any chance you could list them? Thanks for your input (*buh dum tsss*)! I've got some questions though. I get what you mean by plugging all systems into the switcher inputs then receiving the audio from the switcher output as it plugs into the tv but I'm confused. Wouldn't I need standard RCA cables that also have a female aux on one end to sort of piggyback on the output as it goes into the tv? Or are you suggesting receiving audio from an unused cable, red in my case, since I only have a mono audio tv with a white audio input? Do you have a photo of what you've used? Or maybe links to the materials needed?

Problem: I want to hook headphones up to my CRT tv. I wanted to make this thread because of LostLevel83's thread, "Games You Can Play Quietly" (here). I too play a lot of games in silence so as to not disturb those around me but I miss the sounds! I could use a flatscreen with an AUX port but my systems look terrible on anything but a CRT so I hope there's some CRT folks or anyone out there who can help me out with this. I have a tiny Sharp CRT with what I'm assuming is a mono audio input (only white/yellow, so only one audio input means no stereo, right?) and an RF input in. I've done some research on how to hook up normal 3.5 mm headphones to a CRT with the inputs I've described but I'm always left wondering if everything will work after I've made the investment. The set-up I've seen usually includes: -1 RCA/Composite/AV (whatever you wanna call it) Switcher/Selector Box -1 3.5mm female to 2RCA Y-splitter -1 3.5mm headphone amplifier or some sort of device to regulate volume (I'll attach a photo I found of someone who suggested this method) Here's where I have doubts about this set-up: If I plug a few systems and the Y-splitter into the RCA splitter box then plug that into the tv, will I also be able to listen to audio simultaneously? Those switcher boxes have buttons on them that require you to select one port at a time so if I decide I want to play N64 via port 1 and I push the button to select port 1, will all other ports be rendered useless unless selected? I'm assuming that's how it would work but I've seen this set-up suggested from several different sources on Youtube and through random google searches so I'm not sure how people are getting around it unless they're hooking up all their systems via RF input and using the RCA input solely for headphones, but that makes the splitter box a waste of money. Also, is an amplifier even necessary? This whole set-up can be had for around $50 so it's not a crazy expense but the headphone amplifiers I've seen are about $35 of that total, so if it's not necessary I'd rather not get it. So I guess my question is: Is there a good, cost-effective way to keep using my crummy CRT to play games and plug headphones into it?

Love this movie but haven't seen it in forever! If afterward you find yourself wondering what the fug you just watched, there's a great live episode of the "How Did This Get Made?" podcast where they break everything down and poke some holes. HDTGM? Double Dragon Live

Hello! My name is Frankie. Around 2010-2011, I was on NA a lot as KidOrrorin. It's a shame what happened over there. With a little bit of searching around I found that a bunch of the people who made that site so great had created this site, so I decided to join! To anyone who contributed to the NA database and forums, I wanna say thank you for taking the time to make that site such a valuable resource for this community. I disappeared for a while but I would go back every now and then because I trusted the input of a lot of people over there. To those of you who created this site, thanks so much to you as well. I really appreciate that you use your time and resources to create a space where this community can gather. A little about me...I'm from Rochester, New York, I lived in Los Angeles for two years, and I've lived in Montréal, Québec for the past four years. I'm a cabinetmaker by trade and I love wood working. I like film, television, and radio (big Rover's Morning Glory fan). I like all sorts of music and I also collect records (same name on discogs). If I had to pick a favorite system it would probably be N64, mainly because I grew up playing that the most, but my NES collection is my largest with just under 250 carts. I look forward to spending time here so thanks for having me!