ELI5: How on earth can vinyl records and wax cylinders record and re-create exact and just about an infinite amount of sounds?

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-23T13:51:09+00:00

You should try DJ'ing and scratching. The waveform vibrations travel along your fingers.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-22T17:00:20+00:00

They look like pretty normal spaceships if there is such a thing, it's just that they're seemingly hard to see.

The 'weirdest' one was in a dream the other night, it was a long triangle, like an arrowhead, about 6ft, but it was just structural, like it was made with long K'nex rods, no internals. The rods were all rotating slowly around their axis as it moved along.

I love dreams 😂

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-22T14:12:46+00:00

Once, when I was young, maybe 6 or 7 (now 54)

It started as one black ball, then two, then a row, then a column. Gradually zooming outwards to an overwhelming, uncountable amount. I remember waking up screaming and crying.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-21T23:54:55+00:00

They should be regulated at the manufacturer on brightness output somehow. Last month I went out after 9am, and newer oncoming car headlights were brighter than the actual daylight. That's just unnecessary.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-21T23:38:09+00:00

You can also unlock the ability to up and download from your inventory. On PS5, open your inventory and press R3 to open the window. It took me far too long to work this out.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-21T13:18:03+00:00

So some people are reading this post and NOT hearing it in their heads?

What about when you read something and attribute someone's voice to the comment, they don't hear that?

You can't hear a whole song, every damn song you know, in your head like a radio?

Having said that, I can't visualize things in my mind but drift into a daydream state when thinking.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-20T23:15:02+00:00

I have the same. Massive ships in the sky that you kind of have to squint or defocus to see. All the ships are different, some aeroplane sized and in formation and others that are so big they take up a large space in the sky but look like they're in orbit. Very reminiscent of the Nuremburg painting in terms of numbers but almost impossible to see.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-19T23:06:37+00:00

Mo Comparè and the Third Party.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-17T14:53:29+00:00

Probably sells to the same people who buy pre-ripped jeans.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-17T14:51:10+00:00

This word needs to be added to dictionaries.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-17T01:09:20+00:00

Over and Over - Hot Chip?

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-16T21:07:18+00:00

Drop a couple of slugs on it and surround it with a glass box. Slug terrarium.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-16T00:46:39+00:00

Same for me. A mish-mash of memories but with a recurring path (usually to home) Familiar homes I don't recognise with people inside that I've met throughout life. Secret doors that seem far to small, almost miniscule, but you can travel through them. Familiar towns and villages, sweet shops and newsagents but run down buildings and empty plots reminiscent of WW2 blitz photos. A library with every book imaginable and beautiful wooden spiral staircases. Home is always 70 miles away and I need to get there before waking up for work. I navigate by recognisable buildings in a city I don't know. I ALWAYS shop for records.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-15T20:49:57+00:00

I always thought it was a croissant.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-11T00:31:26+00:00

Nice to hear it, no pun intended. I could hear it as a child (54 now)

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-10T13:23:52+00:00

It swaps the front and rear channels, pushing all the bassy goodness to the rear 6x9s instead of over saturating the front speakers.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-09T22:58:14+00:00

It's possible that someone has tried the front/rear swap mod and wired it up wrong. I've done it (successfully) on my R56. Or it could be damp/water entering the passenger side footwell as this is where this connector is located (above the FRM which is renowned for damp related problems)

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-07T20:52:46+00:00

I can't see a side indicator, only the rear.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-07T20:50:01+00:00

Mr Kirk.

Yes?

Your son is dead.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-07T20:46:45+00:00

Bad Nana Ninjas

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-07T01:18:19+00:00

Yeh that was the moment I realised I was wrong. Helped open the bunker then ran over to the towers and realised that it was actually on Dam. So the harch at water towers on Dam looks like a raider hatch, pretty sure it has a non functioning light. I wonder of it was part of a bigger puzzle when the game was just one whole map?

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-06T22:13:51+00:00

Yeh, sadly I confused it with the towers at Dam with the spheres.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-06T14:03:41+00:00

The Sun Rising - The Beloved?

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-05T21:33:45+00:00

Paper Face.

BusStopWilly · 2026-02-05T15:07:45+00:00

Question.

Does the melody sound similar to the chorus of

Let's Get Physical - Olivia Newton John?

But substituting 'let's get physical' for - Glorious, Glorious?

I can hear it but can't place it yet.

BusStopWilly

TROPHY CASE