the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

okay what the hell is this, i can't help but wonder if anyone actually bought these

this wasn't a marketing gimmick for the mini-records--well, no, it was, but this ad is actually marketing the earrings themselves as a way of carrying your mini records (called "hip pockets", basically they were hits from a couple years ago on tiny records marketed at kids in the 60s)
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why do you never see amateur jectile weapons
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you can't tell us electronics isn't *some* kind of magic when you can open up a spectrum analyzer and see this assemblage of arcane sigils

source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microstrip_Distributed_Element_Filter_Technology.jpg and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microstrip_Low_Pass_Bowtie_Stub_Filter.jpg
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random hearth fact, because we just remembered a random childhood memory:

when we were real young, we heard at some point that our cousins had gotten a playstation set up in the basement, and we'd envisioned some kind of playground equipment or something

i don't remember what our reaction to finding out what it actually was was, though i know we did end up playing spyro and having a lot of fun with it
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like, do you ever just think about how zone refining works and think "hold on, wait a minute, that shouldn't work like that"

you probably don't because i suspect the majority of you have never heard of zone refining due to not being in the field of electrical engineering or materials engineering but if you did know what it was i promise you you would think about that occasionally
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Zone refining is some real magic nonsense
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we have a bad problem: we discovered that you can just buy Canel's gum online

(we bought one pack of the fruit flavors and one pack of the regular flavors and that will probably satisfy our craving)
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is there any significance to the fact that 16:9 is 4:3 squared, or is that just coincidence?
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after finding an hd remaster on sale on steam, we're now starting our probably fifth attempt to get into grandia--the game looks amazing, but various things prevented us from getting into it before despite attempts
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to be fair it's more that he was an odd choice of composer for mario tennis
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reminder that the music for elden ring (and the whole dark souls series) was done by the same person who did the music for *mario fucking tennis*
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the steam deck uses button prompt memes as examples for its explanation of button remapping
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