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6 minutes ago, Tabonga said:

Nope -you are getting a bit closer than the previous guesses though,

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

10 hours ago, Tabonga said:

A hint:

"Man with brains soars above everyone else."

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)?

33 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Manchild finds love and snacks

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

1 minute ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Chinatown?

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?"

1 hour ago, Tanooki said:

Ahh I remember you.  I think we used to chat some back in the day.

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! 

3 hours ago, OLDSKULL said:

Personally, I have no place for vinyls so I don't know if I will ever pass that bridge. I got a shitload of cds. I'm in the process of downsizing my collection. I bought some wood boxes at Rona and imposed myself this maximum space. I took advantage of the confinement to put time in listening a maximum of cds per day and sort them all. I start my mornings like that

My music taste is eclectic not a lot of boundaries and lot of contradictions, but there's less and less heavy band that I get to appreciate to the point of digging into them. For a long time I had the habit (and opporunities) to buy cds 0.10$ to 1$ each and sometimes 2$ by bunch and I was having kicks going through all the music that I did not know or even like ahah so many songs, so many prayers, so many people looking for something out there and unheard. Of course, I never managed to be on top of my back catalog, but getting there in the last 2 years and it feels good ! Many goodbyes.

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!

7 minutes ago, Jeevan said:

he has all his original stuff he used, an old wood toolbox etc. next time im over there ill post some pics

Please do!

1 minute ago, Jeevan said:

Little back story, he quit when i was in kindergarten or right before kuz he fell off a 2 story ladder/house and crushed some vertebrae.  He is very lucky to be walking, but anytime i need help, i know who to goto.  He was laid up for a year or better with a back brace and a surgical incision from his gut to his mid back.  He is actually a couple inches shorter than he should be   so im quite taller than him.

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  

3 hours ago, acromite53 said:

Those shots look nice! Is there a particular type of film you like using for what you do? 

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). 

14 minutes ago, Lincoln said:

My dad has a nice 80s camera he dug out recently and has shot a couple rolls.

How are you guys getting the film developed? He took a roll to walmart and they shipped it off and he got a cd back with the images but he wasnt happy with that process.

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!

On 4/17/2020 at 5:49 PM, Jeevan said:

Feel free to join in on the beat them all threads   We are working on the entire N64 catalog and are nearing the halfway point!  Enjoy the site!

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.

3 hours ago, captmorgandrinker said:

I remember you!   Welcome (back)!

Yeah, I remember you too! Glad to be back!

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

13 hours ago, MachineCode said:

1. If you have multiple systems going to a switching unit that all output to the same tv, make sure they are all hooked up correctly to that as you normally would. IE: Console's RCA outs to Switcher's RCA Ins. If no switcher, then you are going to move on to step 2 and treat the console output as you would the switcher output.

2. From the output of the switcher, send the video to the TV, and the audio into 2 RCA-F to RCA-F Y Cables. One for left (White) and one for right (Red). Technically you only need to split one (White/Left) since your TV only takes a mono input, but having 1 per channel will allow you to have stereo to the TV in the event you get a different TV. The plugs from the switcher output goes into the ends of the Y cables that only have 1 plug.

3. Take a male to male (standard type) RCA cable and connect it to the dual outputs of left channel's Y cable. Plug one into the TV and plug the other into the left input of your headphone amp.

4. Take a male to male (standard type) RCA cable and connect it to the dual outputs of right channel's Y cable. Plug one into the right input of your headphone amp. If you had a stereo input tv, the remaining output would go to its right channel. You don't so just use 1 of the right channels Y outputs and don't plug anything into the other.

5. Headphones to headphone amp.

Now you have simultaneous TV and headphone output. Since it's on the output of the splitter, it works for all of your consoles at once. Want to play just in headphones? Turn the volume off on the TV and you are good to go. Other way around? Unplug the headphones or mute/turn off the headphone amp if it has that option. The only issue you run into is if for some reason you want to do both at the same time, then you have to make a choice in the game options to output mono so that the tv gets a summed signal of both channels, but gives you mono in the headphones, or leave it stereo, but the TV only gets the left channel.

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?

12 hours ago, Tanooki said:

You run all your devices to a switcher box, then on the one output jack you get a Y cable (rca style) to phones jack on the other end, then a Female/Female bypass, and jack the phones into the other hole.  Problem solved, clean as  you can hope to get audio just for yourself.  I've done quite a lot of this off and on over the years between consoles, handhelds, or the PC.

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.

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