#old school audio

[robryebeach]

#Retro gaming gameboy with game. OLD TECH GAMEBOY.

[malewifenjoyer]

concept art from the ouran manga fanbook (translated by me)

[vintage-tigre]

[thatstargazingaquarius]

Pssst. Hey. I need new a new podcast 👉👈 I’ve listened to Magnus, NightVale, WitherBurn, Old Gods of Appalachia, Cry Havoc! and Malevolent. I’ll put the suggestions into a poll sometime tomorrow :3

[fabio-27125]

After a long period of screaming NOTHING, I’m back!!!

Yay😂….

and I brought something “new” with me:

the

PHILIPS NC2234 Full Auto Stop

Cassette Recorder

It’s a classic mono tape recorder for usual Compact Cassettes from the late 70s to the early 80s.

But though it’s all in all quite basic, it contains one or another little feature, that didn’t used to be so basic back in the day (or let’s say, that wasn’t included in every device you would call a “classic tape recorder from 1980”).

For the classic features, it has a built in microphone, one big internal speaker (because it’s mono), the typical big buttons for play, pause, record etc.. , a counter, a handle to carry it around, the ability to run it on batteries (6 C-cells) or by cable, and the Auto Stop function.

Special features (in my opinion) would be the “Tone Regulation” (turning button right above the identical volume regulator) and the numerous different connection sockets all around it. Not because there are some at all, but more because of their kind and number!

Typical for an European device of that time would possibly be one or two five poled “Din-Sockets” for headphones or a microphone etc… .But this one doesn’t have a single one of those! In fact is has (beside the plug in for the electricity cable) two regular 3.5 mm Headphone sockets (like in- and output), a little slimmer remote socket (I don’t know how this is actually called) and on the other side it has a single two poled “Din-Socket” for an external speaker.

Sadly the 3.5mm sockets don’t really work, like the output (“phones”) doesn’t work at all and the input (“mic”) works so far, that I was able to record from a plugged in radio, but the quality was so terrible that you couldn’t understand a single word (but the recording mechanism itself works pretty good, because the recordings I’ve made with the built in microphone were actually pretty good and in fact way better than with other devices that I’ve used before this one). The “remote”-socket was the only thing I wasn’t able to test, because I have absolutely no idea what exactly type of plug this is for. But the two poled “Din-Socket” on the other side works perfectly! I’ve connected my Sony headphones via some adapters (Din to Cinch and Cinch to 3.5mm) with it and it works great. Like it sounds way better than from the internal speaker (obviously: cause modern Headphones vs 45yo mono speaker 😂).

Oh and beside all of that technical stuff, I just love it’s absolutely sleek and timeless design, that I think was typical for all early Philips tape decks and recorders (like since the late 60s).

So in conclusion, it’s a (nearly) fully working cassette recorder that is actually still usable for listening to music or voice recording via the built in microphone, but more useless for external recordings!

I gave it a second life by putting it on it’s own little table in my kitchen, where it could just stand around and look beautiful most of the time, but also entertain me with music once in a while.

[mamawasatesttube]

GODDDD BLESS A TIM DRAKE PLAYLIST WITHOUT TAYLOR SWIFT. thank u for ur service

lasdljfaksjdlfds happy to provide 🫡

[fabio-271205]

And another few analogs of the Walkman 😊

Color: Canon A1/ Kodak Gold (ISO200)

B/W: Canon AE1/ Kentmere Pan ISO 400 (that‘s something by Ilford)

[e-adlirez]

So I once made a presentation about Thea Stilton for school

Before you ask when I did this, this was in 2023, during my last year of high school :3

So yes, this was very recent, I was very much active on Tumblr at the time, and I was very much aware of what I was doing. We were told to ramble about anything we wanted in any way we wanted (essay, TEDTalk, comic, etc.), and me being me, I knew I had to make a TEDTalk about my eleven-year-long hyperfixation, and I had just the topic for it. I spent a week making multiple drafts before cranking out the final one in time for the deadline of the script and the presentation, and I figured that since I'm still very proud of how the essay turned out, I oughta put it here :3

So this is the script of my talk, Dreams In the Cloud Castle, and spoilers for the aforementioned book, the Cloud Castle. Hope you enjoy :3

I’d like to start this talk by asking a question. Who here knows Thea Stilton, show of hands? (Response based on hands raised.) Alright, so just so everyone knows what I’m talking about, we have this mouse man named Geronimo Stilton, who has a sister named Thea Stilton, who has these students that are the actual protagonists of the Thea Stilton franchise. These students do investigation stuff in the normal world (think the Earth but mouse people), and sometimes they go to some nifty mythology realms to do investigation stuff. Got that? Good, because we’ll be talking about one of those mythological adventures, specifically the book, The Cloud Castle.

There’s a weird scene in the book’s climax where, because of circumstances, Violet, one of the main characters, saves her friend in an act of heroic sacrifice. The cost? Her dreams. The adversary she saves her friend from is this Crystal Eagle, who steals the dreams of those who look him in the eye. Such a fate is permanent, and unfortunately, such a fate has befallen Violet, who now can’t dream anymore.

But what does that mean?

Violet lost her dreams. What does that mean? This is one of those questions where you don’t realize that you don’t know the answer, until you think about it and look into it a little more than what was probably intended. Kinda like how Marvel Cinematic Universe plots start to make less and less sense the more you think about them. In this little talk, I’ll try to extrapolate an answer, and why you should care about it. I am taking up about eight minutes of your time, after all. Hopefully the argument I have for you today is a convincing one. These are dreams, what they mean, and why they’re important to us.

To understand the loss of something, one must understand what was lost. In this case, dreams. In this book’s setting, the Land of Clouds, dreams play a surprisingly important role: the fairies of this world use it to make clouds. How do we do that? Well, when a fairy sleeps, and more specifically dreams, they produce this silver thread that accumulates on their nightstand. When the fairy wakes up, they can use it to weave clouds. They make clouds from silver thread, that is made from their dreams, and clouds are what their entire world is made of. It seems like dreams are very important to this world or something.

Now, even though this bit about dreams was about the harmless visions you see at night, isn’t this similar to how we use our goals and aspirations in real life? We dream, that is to say we aspire to a certain goal, and with that goal, we create. We create something that inevitably becomes a part of the world we live in: construction, technology, music, art– all of these, I’d argue, are important to our society, and all of these things come from here. Isn’t that a powerful thing to have?

Now that we’ve talked about dreams, let’s talk about that hypothetical: the idea of losing your dreams, and the ability to dream. What does that mean? Well, think back to what I said earlier. The fairies’ nightly visions and their ability to have them allow them to create. Our goals and our ability to reach for them allow us to create. The fairies’ purpose is to turn their dreams into clouds. Our purpose in life is dependent on what we want to do with our lives, which is directed by our dreams, our goals. Without our dreams, without our goals, without our aspirations… Who are we if not lost?

Actually, let’s explore this thought experiment a little further. Think about this: Why do we do things? Besides the essentials for survival, why do we do things at all? Because someone else told you to do it? Well, why did they tell you to do that? Because someone else told them? Eventually, this will all circle back to a first person who had some sort of motivation, some sort of dream. The Merriam-Webster definition of a dream is “a strongly desired goal or purpose”. Desiring something can already call it a dream. Maybe you want to run for office, or run a successful business, or make art, or make technological advancements for the good of humanity. All of these things are dreams. If we were robbed of our dreams and the ability to have them, what then? If you didn’t have any dreams, what would you create? Would you desire to create at all? You may think “this isn’t worth pondering about at all. I have my dreams, and I don’t have to deal with crystal eagles.” And yeah, you’re right. We don’t have magical birds that appear out of nowhere and steal our dreams; but what do we have? Burnout? Depression? Intrusive thoughts? If these things conquered us so thoroughly, if we stared into the eyes of the eagle for too long, to the degree that we lost sight of our dreams… I ask again, who are we?

When I read the segment that ensued after Violet lost her dreams for the first time, I wondered to myself what was going on in her head. It was a question that I had for the longest time, and I would scan that third act of the book again and again, to get even the tiniest glimpse into what it was like to be dreamless. I would always end up frustrated, because it seemed like Violet was doing nothing besides going along with everyone else in silence. At most, she’d make some pointless comment that contributed nothing to the conversation, let alone the plot. I originally thought that this was an act of negligence on the part of the author, or perhaps the censorship of the English publishers; but then I realized something: Violet was doing nothing. When she walked through the Hall of Mirrors that she previously said she was scared of, all she could say was that her reflections looked pale. When the girls were presented with a pick-the-door riddle, Violet didn’t give a single word of insight. When the girls finally discovered the reason why the fairies can’t make clouds, Violet didn’t react at all. Violet was doing nothing. Throughout the entire third act of the story, Violet was doing nothing. She wasn’t even making a productive conversation. And how could she make anything in that state of mind, where it is impossible to dream, impossible to create, impossible to… do anything?

After this epiphany, I thought about a scenario where she returned to her home below the clouds dreamless. She’s a naturally creative person– would she be able to make art while she was dreamless? Would she be able to write, make music, play music at all? Since dreams in this case denote ambition or motivation, and Violet’s condition is the antithesis of that, would she be able to do anything at all? If we were put in a similar situation that could happen in real life, would we be able to do anything at all? If we were fortunate enough to lose the dream but not the ability to dream, how would we process the situation? How would we deal with it? How would we get through it? Would there come a moment where we can reach for something again? Or would we be stuck like that forever, wandering aimlessly for the rest of our lives?

Thank Queen Nephele’s plot-convenient healing crystal that Violet got better.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[rauncir]

DW Steelheaven AU: Houses

HOUSES ARE ALIVE

Houses are intelligent organic life forms, artificially bred to accommodate a large number of Gallifreyans at the same time. It is a hybrid creature, including both purely "meat" elements and woody ones.

The House is a telepathically active superorganism, due to which it is in mental (full or partial) contact with its inhabitants. The House senses the feelings of the inhabitants and their needs, and can take care of cousins ​​at its own discretion.

In situations of extreme necessity, the House can enter into close contact not only with the Housekeeper, but even with weakly sensitive cousins, up to a short-term seizure of consciousness.

The population of the House can vary from 15 to 30 or more cousins. The number of inhabitants intertwined in one House is planned in advance.

LOOMS (BREEDING-ENGINES)

The Loom is a cocoon-like structure in the basement of the House that is responsible for the weaving of Gallifreyans. It is the key and most important room for the House. In addition, the Loom stores the genome data defined for the inhabitants of the House.

Weaving is the process of forming a Gallifreyan from a nutrient fluid containing essential elements, organic and inorganic compounds, under the influence of Lindos (a hormone responsible for regeneration and restructuring of the body) and given genetic settings.

Gallifreyans emerge from the Lums almost fully mature, but will be considered children for a long time to come.

Like any thing that can be customized, the House has a Gallifreyan weaving pattern set during cultivation, including both appearance parameters and character pattern settings. This leads to the fact that cousins, being members of the same family, are all so similar to each other. But in a broken and distorted version, the House can copy not only the pattern, but also the personality of the one already woven. Thus, the younger generation will copy the old one both in small things and in more serious things. It is possible and necessary to resist this, but a weak character can really turn out to be a copy of the one in whose image and likeness it was created.

ROLES IN THE HOUSE

Housekeeper is the head of the House. She is in constant full contact with the consciousness of the House and is responsible for its mental state. The psyche of the Housekeeper is connected to the psyche of the House, changes in the consciousness of one will certainly affect the consciousness of the other. The Housekeeper is practically incapable of contradicting the will of the House, otherwise it negatively affects her consciousness. At the same time, being on good terms with the Housekeeper, the House will follow her instructions. The Housekeeper is always a woman.

Kithriarch is the second most important Gallifreyan in the House. Monitors the physiological well-being of the cousins ​​and the House itself. It is also the Kitriarch who meets the newly intertwined cousins.

DRUDGES

Drudges are wood golems about 2.5 m tall that act as servants for the inhabitants of the House. They are responsible for everyday things like cooking and cleaning.

Drudges are under the direct control of the House. Any order given to the Drudges first passes through the House and is carried out depending on its decision. If the House does not want to carry out the order, then the Drudge will not move.

[idrawgaystffs]

hey :)

My first try with the MIG;

& second try!

not too shabby

[starleska]

ohoho, there's a new analog horror contender on the scene, and its name is GÜBY & Friends!! 👀 i don't want to spoil too much, but Film Theory did a great video on this series!!! if you enjoy this sort of thing, do go and subscribe to the GÜBY & Friends channel...very curious to see where this goes 🙈

[clumsypuppy]

save me old flipnote studio MVs.......

[freepassbound]

I could use a #8 today

When she asked, over a month ago (😅😅😅😬), we agreed on Page 56 of my current reading. As I can't remember now what that was (though it was an earlier Ngaio Marsh book), I offer page 56 (plus a bit of setup on p55 and the conclusion of the chapter on p57) of Final Curtain.

[semigod]

Yall wanna see a dead body?