Random thoughts thread

[KR-S]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Well now that is one very obscure reference there dude.
If I wasn't a regular Cracked reader I would have had no clue what you were talking about.

Actually I myself didn't know the origin of that quote! I heard it from back when I was gaming online with a group of friends.

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by Andrew025

So... You're saying you like it?

I honestly don't know what is happening in that gif. Just tickled my fancy in a way it hasn't been -

Oh I can't do this lol

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by KR-S 86

Actually I myself didn't know the origin of that quote! I heard it from back when I was gaming online with a group of friends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks

[KR-S]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks

Yep, looked it up as soon as I realized I didn't know the origin.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

I honestly don't know what is happening in that gif. Just tickled my fancy in a way it hasn't been -

Oh I can't do this lol

Yeah, if you haven't seen what it's from then you'd probably have no idea what's going on in the gif.

Warning: ridiculous dbz incoming

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by Andrew025

Yeah, if you haven't seen what it's from then you'd probably have no idea what's going on in the gif.

Warning: ridiculous dbz incoming

i.... i honestly don't know how to react to those videos.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Geez Sar, I just realized. Isn't it about 3 in the morning there? I am impressed.

I'm an insomniac who spend a saturday night and a sunday morning drinking port wine alone in front of the computer typing nonsense.
Very impressive.

And when I wake up I find like 8 pages of clever and fun stuff I really want to comment on

Originally Posted by jawn

- only to discover that all the puns have been made and everybody has moved on.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

i.... i honestly don't know how to react to those videos.

They're ridiculously stupid but that's why it's funny.

[babydriver]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

The video disc thing was really weird. It was not digital, but rather an analog TV signal (standard definition) recorded onto a 12 inch optical disc. It did pave the way for DVDs eventually. Now Blu-ray discs are headed for oblivion because of on-line streaming.

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by AznKirby

I do them all from time to time. So what am I?

Schizophrenic... like me.. and me... and me too...

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by babydriver

The video disc thing was really weird. It was not digital, but rather an analog TV signal (standard definition) recorded onto a 12 inch optical disc. It did pave the way for DVDs eventually. Now Blu-ray discs are headed for oblivion because of on-line streaming.

The RCA VideoDisc was weirder than that. You're correct that it was an analog TV signal, but it was recorded onto a grooved vinyl disc in a similar fashion to vinyl records. They were kept inside their jackets permanently so as to guard them from any dirt, dust, or contamination at all.

The optical format, large-sized discs you're thinking of are called LaserDiscs, and I liked them a lot, to be honest. The picture resolution and contrast wasn't quite what DVD and Bluray offers, but fast motion scenes were blur-free... MUCH better than regular DVDs, and most Blurays. The sound quality was quite good, too.

I say this and defend the format because I have a collection of about 200 of them... sigh.... and an aging player that makes weird chirping noises when first turned on.

I love Blurays, and am saddened to see streaming taking over more and more of the marketplace. Yes, streaming is convenient, and the quality and resolution has gotten much better, but it's still nowhere close to Bluray in picture quality. Same thing is happening to video that happened to audio w/ the advent of mp3s.. convenience is winning out over quality reproduction. Yes, I know there's high resolution digital audio formats available for downloading (24bit/192khz), but that's relegated to a fairly fringe market. The "common man" rarely hears anything approaching fidelity any more. Of course, so much of today's consumer music is made by computers using samples, synths, and hugely manipulated vocals that there really ISN'T any original acoustic standard to hold the final product accountable towards. For that stuff, it really doesn't matter, I guess.

Just some thoughts...

Barry

[Andrew025]

Honestly, doesn't matter much with mp3s since most crap nowadays has no dynamic range and sound like crap anyway.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by Andrew025

Yeah, if you haven't seen what it's from then you'd probably have no idea what's going on in the gif.

Warning: ridiculous dbz incoming

Originally Posted by Andrew025

They're ridiculously stupid but that's why it's funny.

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

i.... i honestly don't know how to react to those videos.

They make me feel old.
Obviously very well made parodies on something.
Something I haven't seen. In a genre I know nothing about.
And I used to be on top on everything that was cool.
I'll go play with my Millenium Falcon scale model and get to terms with being old.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

They make me feel old.
Obviously very well made parodies on something.
Something I haven't seen. In a genre I know nothing about.
And I used to be on top on everything that was cool.
I'll go play with my Millenium Falcon scale model and get to terms with being old.

Parody of Dragon Ball Z.

It's definitely a different kind of humor though.