the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

i kinda wish people would CW things announcing that someone has passed away? x.x.x

thank you all for the offers of support, too. they're appreciated even if we really... can't respond right now

we also feel bad about feeling bad about this because there is much more significant stuff that is going on that by rights should be the thing that has us upset to this degree and yet it's this trivial thing that really has us upset
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probably not going to be able to reply to things about this for a while but they are appreciated

i don't know why this is hitting us so hard but it is definitely hitting us hard

harder than when we didn't get the job we were looking forward to, and that left us nonfunctional for days

i just

what do we even do about this

there's no phone number or anything and no info on this anywhere

we just. need to contact the company somehow i think

because it's a thing that their faqs can't answer

and we don't know what to do
and we need to do something
and there's nothing we can do
and it's just

we just can't

our parents were going to preorder us an analogue pocket as a graduation gift

we went through the preorder process and got to the bit where you pick a shipping option and then it just broke, shipping options wouldn't load

tried several more times in other browsers, even microsoft edge, and it didn't work

then we tried again in the original browser and it worked, but by then they had sold out of the main device and we were only going to be able to order the accessories

we've been looking forward to this for months

we did everything right, had the address and credit card ready to go, made sure the money was in the account and everything, disabled all types of ad block in case that got in the way

and because of a technical glitch on *their* end, we now can't get the thing we've been looking forward to getting for ages

this was the thing we had to look forward to instead of a valve index because we wanted one of those too but can't get one

now we can't get any of the things we were really wanting to get

and it just. i don't know, we feel terrible

and they barely have any contact information on their site, all they list is instagram (don't have one and will never get one), facebook (don't have one and will never get one), and twitter (don't have one and will never get one) and if you dig through their terms and conditions you can find a support email (sent an email that I hope we managed to word well...) and a physical mailing address but still no phone number

we've never really looked into it before but now we're kinda curious, what good games were there on the game gear?
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RCA's bankruptcy is really kinda tragic

the company that pioneered television and later color television too, the namesake of the common RCA plugs used for AV... and they went bankrupt because they refused to accept that the CED wasn't going to work

development of the CED technology took decades longer than anticipated and by the time it came out, laserdiscs were already available with much higher quality, not to mention video tapes

they really should have cut their losses on that one
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Why did CRTs always seem to use magnetic deflection, anyway? One would think electric deflection would be a bit easier, but perhaps not.
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also video out over USB would be nice since it's already doing all the work a capture device would need to do anyway
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you know what would be a nice feature for a tv to have

like eight hdmi inputs, five component/composite combo inputs, and two or three s-video inputs, and maybe even an antenna input, all switchable with the remote

why do tvs always seem to have just the one or two hdmi inputs and if you're lucky also a composite video input

what if I *want* to have an SNES, a wii, a PS2, a PS3, a wii U, an xbox 360, a nintendo switch, an atari 2600, and a PC all plugged into the TV with room for more
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when times are given as PST during daylight savings time, you can never be quite sure whether they actually mean PST or if they mean PDT
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real estate, but what about imitation estate?
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Best element named after Ytterby, Sweden

all audio formats save for one old one cease to exist, but you get to pick which one it is. you are given the following options, which do you pick?

i wonder how many vacuum tubes that aren't CRTs or magnetrons are still in use
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ferrets: they are cute
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*takes a bite out of vacuum*
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