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My mom had an entertainment center/china cabinet that was her pride and joy. Incidentally, “entertainment center/china cabinet” in now what I call Hexbear
90's kids know the feel of the playstation or n64 on top of the VCR with disney movies and star wars special edition vhs tapes.
I feel like because of the abandonment of socialism, Poland had been set back like ten years and this was like my childhood in the late 2000s.
Except I had a modded PS1 B)
Now things have definitely caught back to the "western standard".
My dad had a bunch of Christmas movies he recorded on VHS from TV broadcasts, so he didn't have to buy the tapes, but it meant we had commercial breaks. It got to the point the old commercials became part of the experience of watching them.
These are still called entertainment centres, entertainment units etc, like this (you can see some minimalism but the classic design exists)
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It's because the poster's class aren't buying furniture because college kids aren't buying McMansions to fill with shit
Look at the erosion in quality of consumer goods. How could that possibly hold a 300 lbs 32 inch television?
I'm old so the photo gives me nostalgia about tech that's (basically) obsolete in people's homes now: VCR, stereo, turntable, cd player, fat back tv...
I seriously wonder how many people have a fat back tv.
I seriously wonder how many people have a fat back tv.
The only ones i know also have an NES and say it doesn't work well with anything newer.
It's a real pain in the ass to get it hooked up to TVs with only HDMI connections. I wish I still had a CRT
Indeed, retro consoles from back in the day look best on tube tvs. But some people like the crisp pixels also so they don't mind playing on an LCD.
I do! One that can display 1080i too B)
Colombo looks fucking AMAZING on it.
They are rare, but they are really worth it, I'm also lucky enough for my to have a singular HDMI port. Allows me to run a Pi as a media center.
There’s two VCRs there unless my eyes are just totally fucked. Time to dub some tapes.
Also, I think everyone of a certain age had that AIWA stereo. I know I did.
NVM I think that’s a dvd or Blu-ray player
I have all the items you listed, but it was probably obvious from my username
I see now. And I guess I shouldn't admit this but I use a white theme and the usernames are very hard to read so I tend to forget all about them.
You can’t buy a dumb TV at Walmart anymore but you can certainly buy one on Amazon
My back went out just thinking about lifting that TV to move it around.
My back actually did go out on Saturday. And today my lowerback is at ~25%. Aging. What can you do? There's little pain now and I finally don't have to do the old man shuffle but I have to stoop and move at about half of my regular walking speed. It's a shame our ancestors weren't designed to walk on two legs. The lowerback is a serious design flaw.
You can wait until you're feeling better and then start stretching and strengthening the muscles, while eating appropriately to lower the total stress on your spine, sharply decreasing the likelihood of further issues?
Just spitballin
I'm basically retired at this point so recovery is easy. My longest journey is usually to the kitchen. The situation is really a reminder to me how lucky I am and how fucked so many Americans are. They have to work (often on their feet) when they are injured or sick.
Aw dude I still have one of these in my basement. Best place to get high in, just kick back and either play Tony Hawk or re-watch the Lord of the Rings movies on DVD.
re-watch the Lord of the Rings movies
I did that a few days ago.
on DVD
Sadly - it wasn't that old-school. I prefer the theatrical versions but the net loves the extended versions so seeded torrents were hard to find.
My mom is a massive Tolkien nerd so we have like... the initial theatrical releases and the extended box set. As well as the original paperbacks (The Hobbit, the trilogoy and the Silmarillion) she bought back in the 80s, as well as hardcover re-releases of all books, a book of Tolkien inspired art, and Middle Earth atlas, a.... There is so much fucking LoTR merch in this fucking house!
There is so much fucking LoTR merch in this fucking house!
Careful or it will become your preciousness.
10 years ago, after moving around a shitload and hoisting one of those TVs around many times, I became a projector guy. started with some cheapy on a white wall and over time, burnt bulbs, wall surface/painting, and improved technology I now have a whole different mentality to it and endeavor to hide my entertainment setup in plain site, with trickery and whatnot. all of this is in service to my favorite move when I have people over.
they enter my cozy living room and we sit for tea and conversation or whatever, and they assume, "oh you're one of those enlightened monk-like people who doesn't even own a TV he probably just reads poetry and meditates on mortality."
and then I touch a small button and everything changes as they come to understand, we are in fact, inside the world's most incredible and Star Trek ass TV set up so let's get high and watch Dune about it.
Ad hominem!
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A few hours ago at another site - somebody actually replied to me with that - minus the exclam and the formatting. Replies with the word never fail to make me laugh.
Oops. I forgot to share this.
Cabinets of curiosities (German: Kunstkammer and Kunstkabinett), also known as wonder-rooms (German: Wunderkammer), were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Although more rudimentary collections had preceded them, the classic cabinets of curiosities emerged in the sixteenth century. The term cabinet originally described a room rather than a piece of furniture.
Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings), and antiquities. In addition to the most famous and best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science in Europe formed collections that were precursors to museums.
Also
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (or simply Cabinet of Curiosities) is a horror anthology television miniseries created by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix. It features eight modern horror stories in the traditions of the Gothic and Grand Guignol genres.
