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With Silver wings that streak across The Sky

I SUMMON THE SKY-FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anon eats 6–8 eggs daily (scrambled, on toast), and their friends say this isn't normal. Anon has 12 chickens so there are always plenty of eggs available at virtually no cost.

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I’m glad my mom died

i forgot i asked for book recommendations for a moment and was like jesus christ im not qualified for this

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"Thank you for this and idk how much of this was tongue in cheek but, my first time and I think subsequent time launching TF2 in an attempt to play I thought I was supposed to host my own server, so I tried, went down a rabbit hole about it, failed, and gave up." I did try to be funny with it, but, given the current state of the game, I did assume you were legitimately asking for advice, I do hope you have more fun this time! Server Browsers are second nature to me at this point after having to learn them for modded Halo PC games in like. 2005, but, in my constant campainging that 'Returning to Community servers is what will really save this game' I've found that most people do not actually know how to use server browsers, so, I'm doing my best to correct that.

How does one get started playing TF2?

alright, step one, you're gonna go To the Team Fortress 2 Steam Page and Download it. And install it. I used to consider this as 'Taking a long time' since 21 gigabites 10 years ago was like, a whole lot. But nowadays, in the era of Western Game Dev, it's nothing. Step 2. You will be greeted with the main menu screen.

You have no items. So what you're gonna do, is go up to the top right corner and hit 'Find a game' That will open this menu.

Now, you may be tempted to hit the 'Training' Button. I mean. You can. the TF2 Training is notoriously lacking, but, it will teach you the absolute basics if you've like...never played a First person Shooter in your life. There's only three tabs on this menu that matter. "Casual" "Mann vs Machine" and "Community Servers" Forget about MvM right now, that'll be something for you to explore later, when you have the feel of the game down. First what you're going to do is hit 'Casual' That will open up this screen.

This will give you the list of gamemodes you could queue for. If we weren't currently under attack, I'd say 'Queue for anything! it'll be fine!' But, given that...well...

This. You're going to want to stick to the most popular modes. Uncheck everything except "Payload" and "Attack/Defense" and hit 'Start Search' With luck, you'll be placed into a game of Dustbowl or Badwater with mostly real live actual people in it. If not, you'll be votekicked before too long by a group of spinbots blasting Music that ranges from 'Alright' to 'Utterly Offensive' From here, you have two options. 1. Re-queue, trying to find a casual match that isn't under fucking siege OR! 2. Go back and hit this button instead

This will open the old fashioned server browser. Now, for this next section, Imagine my voice is coming out of an old timey radio, or perhaps, a crunchy 2001 walmart brand computer mic. BACK IN THE DAY, THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY TO FIND A SERVER! YOU'D HIT 'FIND A GAME' AND IT'D OPEN UP THIS QUAINT LITTLE BOX!

AND INSIDE, IS ALL THE SERVERS YOU COULD WANT FOR! What you're going to do next is go up to the second row of tabs on the list, mouse over to 'Players' and click it. That'll change the sort mode to putting games with more players on the top. Garunteed you'll see the Shounic 100 Player server on tippy top, but, ignore that for now, that's for advanced TF2 players. I'd reccomend you next go down to the search bars, and at the map bar, type in "cp_dustbowl" or "pl_badwater" or perhaps even "ctf_2fort" Then, look through the list and find a server with at least 10 people in it, that preferably is not instant-respawn. Then, pick a class that looks fun to try out, and enjoy! I warn you, though, the Server-Browser crowd is typically a good many IQ points higher than your Casual crowd, so, you might be jumping into the deep end here, but, hopefully you'll have enough good players on your team to even it out. Once you get your sealegs you can search around for 'your' server. Perhaps you like the Try-Hard, Objective Focused gameplay of the Uncletopia servesr. Maybe you like the instant-respawn, 32 player chaos of the Skial domain. Me? I play mostly on "The Furry Pound #4" and "Tiny Kitty's Girlpound"

Now go, and have.... The Most Fun you can have online.....

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On Jennie's 2003 toyota corolla

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How does one get started playing TF2?

alright, step one, you're gonna go To the Team Fortress 2 Steam Page and Download it. And install it. I used to consider this as 'Taking a long time' since 21 gigabites 10 years ago was like, a whole lot. But nowadays, in the era of Western Game Dev, it's nothing. Step 2. You will be greeted with the main menu screen.

You have no items. So what you're gonna do, is go up to the top right corner and hit 'Find a game' That will open this menu.

Now, you may be tempted to hit the 'Training' Button. I mean. You can. the TF2 Training is notoriously lacking, but, it will teach you the absolute basics if you've like...never played a First person Shooter in your life. There's only three tabs on this menu that matter. "Casual" "Mann vs Machine" and "Community Servers" Forget about MvM right now, that'll be something for you to explore later, when you have the feel of the game down. First what you're going to do is hit 'Casual' That will open up this screen.

This will give you the list of gamemodes you could queue for. If we weren't currently under attack, I'd say 'Queue for anything! it'll be fine!' But, given that...well...

This. You're going to want to stick to the most popular modes. Uncheck everything except "Payload" and "Attack/Defense" and hit 'Start Search' With luck, you'll be placed into a game of Dustbowl or Badwater with mostly real live actual people in it. If not, you'll be votekicked before too long by a group of spinbots blasting Music that ranges from 'Alright' to 'Utterly Offensive' From here, you have two options. 1. Re-queue, trying to find a casual match that isn't under fucking siege OR! 2. Go back and hit this button instead

This will open the old fashioned server browser. Now, for this next section, Imagine my voice is coming out of an old timey radio, or perhaps, a crunchy 2001 walmart brand computer mic. BACK IN THE DAY, THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY TO FIND A SERVER! YOU'D HIT 'FIND A GAME' AND IT'D OPEN UP THIS QUAINT LITTLE BOX!

AND INSIDE, IS ALL THE SERVERS YOU COULD WANT FOR! What you're going to do next is go up to the second row of tabs on the list, mouse over to 'Players' and click it. That'll change the sort mode to putting games with more players on the top. Garunteed you'll see the Shounic 100 Player server on tippy top, but, ignore that for now, that's for advanced TF2 players. I'd reccomend you next go down to the search bars, and at the map bar, type in "cp_dustbowl" or "pl_badwater" or perhaps even "ctf_2fort" Then, look through the list and find a server with at least 10 people in it, that preferably is not instant-respawn. Then, pick a class that looks fun to try out, and enjoy! I warn you, though, the Server-Browser crowd is typically a good many IQ points higher than your Casual crowd, so, you might be jumping into the deep end here, but, hopefully you'll have enough good players on your team to even it out. Once you get your sealegs you can search around for 'your' server. Perhaps you like the Try-Hard, Objective Focused gameplay of the Uncletopia servesr. Maybe you like the instant-respawn, 32 player chaos of the Skial domain. Me? I play mostly on "The Furry Pound #4" and "Tiny Kitty's Girlpound"

Now go, and have.... The Most Fun you can have online.....

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when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voice “i dont think anybody is condemned to hell….” paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added on “…not even gay people” 

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FUN FACT: I own porn I can't watch.

So this is a copy of Adultery for Fun & Profit, a 1971 X-rated film. It won the Grand Prize at the Amsterdam Adult Film Festival, for the year 1970-1971!

BUT it's on Cartrivision.

Cartrivision was an early home videotape format announced in 1970, released in June 1972, and dead by July 1973.

It has some "fun" features, like not selling VCRs for it: you had to buy it build into a new console TV. Which were huge, because it was the 70s.

There's also issue of Red Tapes (of which this is one!)

See, early on the movie industry hated the idea of home movies. They made all their money on movie tickets, right? People watching movies at home, that's gonna seriously cut into their market. This is why they later sued Sony for the introduction of Beta, arguing that it could be used to pirate movies by recording them off TV. (They lost)

So when Cartridge Television started selling Cartrivision in 1972, none of the movie studios really wanted to start selling their films on home tapes, that idea sounded scary. What if someone had a copy of all their favorite films and could watch them forever at home, and never went to the theaters ever again? The movie studios would go out of business!

So along with releasing a bunch of older B&W movies (the only ones they could license), sporting events, and shows from PBS, Cartridge Television came up with a compromise that worked for the movie studios:

Red Tapes.

So, Cartrivision tapes came in two formats: Black Tapes and Red Tapes. Black tapes you'd buy at the store like any other product, but for Red Tapes (which were relatively recent movies), you instead would go to the store and place an order from a catalog. The store would have it delivered by mail, then you'd come back in and get the tape. You'd take it home, watch it, and then return it back to the store. So... Video rental (like Blockbuster!), except they didn't have any stock on hand, and only got the tapes on-demand by mail? Seems annoying.

BUT OH NO: it's far more annoying than that. See... Red Tapes aren't mechanically like Black Tapes.

You can't rewind them.

You can play them and pause or stop them just like any other tape, but the rewind feature on your Cartrivison TV doesn't work.

So once you start watching a film, you can only go forward from that point. You want to rewatch it? Too bad. Go back to the store and pay for it again.

Here's that tape again. Note that it's red: You can only watch this porn film once. Then you have to return it to the store... the stores that haven't been doing this since JULY OF 1973.

But there's another thing you can see on this picture (barely, because this is a blurry picture, thanks Past!Foone): The visible screws in the corners

So here's the thing: The tape labels for Cartrivision hide the screws. A regular tape will look like this:

BUT when Cartrivision failed in July 1973, a bunch of stores sold off their unsold inventory, including watch-once Red Tapes. And people still had some of the players. But what's the point of having a tape you can't rewind? You've basically destroyed the tape now, since it's stuck at the end and can't be rewound!

So people bought some of those Red Tapes (cheaply, I hope) and then took them home and opened them up with a screwdriver, damaging the labels. They figured out how the no-rewinding mechanism worked, and removed it. So basically every Red Tape you will find for sale on ebay has visible screws, because someone modded it in the past.

Anyway, the format has been dead so long that it's doubly-impossible to watch now. The players were only built into big heavy 1970s TVs, which were long ago thrown out. The tapes have gotten old and brittle. If you somehow DID have a player, and it somehow still worked after half a century, the tape will probably shatter as soon as you try to play it.

And the whole format only lasted 13 months, so there wasn't that much inventory sold in the first place, so there wasn't a huge number of these in existence anyway.

But a final fun fact: Someone HAS managed to get video off one of these tapes. And it was so hard that they made an award-winning documentary about it.

See, this was basically the first home video format for recording TV. The quality was terrible but it was better than nothing, and it turns out some fan with a Cartrivision recorded a copy of Game 5 of the 1973 NBA Finals game. ABC and both teams (LA Lakers & NY Knicks) had video copies of that game... and ALL THREE OF THEM LOST IT. But the fan copy survived, in a format no one could play, on a tape that would shatter if you tried to play it.

So DuArt Media Services got to work trying to rescue the tape. They had to dry it out, bake it, freeze it, soak it in alcohol, and rebuild a broken Cartrivision unit, then do a lot of manual fixups on the digital files they'd captured off the tape, but they finally managed to capture the recording of the game.

This was used for the MSG Network, who were doing a special on the 1973 championship, and had no footage of that pivotal game. With DuArt's work, they had something to show.

DuArt then made a documentary about this, called "Lost and Found: The ’73 Knicks Championship Tape". It won an Emmy.

The punchline? That documentary seems to be lost. I have been looking for years, and have not found a copy, other than a short excerpt on Vimeo.

So yeah. Cartrivision. I'm slightly obsessed with it, even though I've never actually been able to watch a single second of Cartrivison footage. Tapes occasionally show up on ebay, the odd technical manual or spare part, but players are rare, always broken, and probably would just shred the tapes even if they did somehow work. The tapes are just too old. '

Cartrivision is just... dead and gone. Not yet forgotten, but it took media restoration experts a long time and a lot of work to even get a few minutes of footage off one tape. My chances of ever being able to play my Adultery for Fun & Profit tape are basically negative zero.

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