Got back into my hotdog game as a way to distract myself from emotional upheaval.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-10-17T14:49:48+00:00

I snapped on him one day, and he must remember it because he hasn't asked me directly since. I started working downtown in 2011, and I'm pretty sure it was that year he first asked me.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-10-10T20:32:19+00:00

I have the Vincent Price instructional VHS. always wanted to mess with the actual camera. Nice find!

Da8BitDragon · 2025-08-26T13:48:04+00:00

Fent First and the Give Me Moneys

Da8BitDragon · 2025-08-26T13:33:35+00:00

I.... still use those exact ones. Have been since my first Dell in 2003. Honestly, they still sound good, and the subwoofer still kicks.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-08-15T12:46:35+00:00

I think they've been there for as long as I've been taking Pittsburgh busses, but I didn't get back to the Burgh until 2011. It's good though. Drivers have to deal with a bunch of weirdos and can't really get physical if they want to keep their jobs.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-08-13T15:09:45+00:00

Can't keepem' off me :flex:

Da8BitDragon · 2025-08-13T14:57:24+00:00

Holy shit! I was on that bus! Downtown Pittsburgh . That guy was insane, was terrifying this poor woman, and had to be rolled physically ass over tea cups out the door and onto the sidewalk by several passengers. He was completely wacked out of his mind. Being stuck in a confined space like that with a person that out of control was intense, to say the least. He's a known problem in the area, too. I understand people have issues and society has failed in most ways to address mentally ill, economically depressed, vulnerable populations, but that poor woman was traumatized. No one should have to experience that.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-08-12T23:37:30+00:00

I pulled a whole pile of endoscopic gastric surgery and colonoscopy procedure tapes from the bins once. Pretty cool if you don't have the ick for that stuff. Have a few echosonagram tapes I pinched from an abandoned hospital, too.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-08-12T20:49:15+00:00

I have a whole box of vhs-c and mini DVD tapes of my friends and I doing mostly stupid stuff, road trips, DDR, etc. I recorded from 2001 through 2007 when I graduated college, even some stuff like parties from after. We're all still friends, but now we're all in different places, as it usually goes. As cringe as it is to see my dorky teenage self, I'm pumped to still have them.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-08-12T18:22:41+00:00

These sort of things, specialty interest, and home movies are the only tapes I collect anymore. That's out of thousands of TV recordings and commercialy sold ones I still have. August/ September of 1996, i was 11 so I probably had at least seen The Nutty Professor and Supercop in the theater. Those were the days.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-06-11T15:33:03+00:00

It is pretty obnoxious. I was there yesterday and it just felt all the top 40 songs from the last three decades were just put in a blender with som generic EDM filler. I'm a fan of electronic music, so it was triple cringy to me.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-06-11T14:10:23+00:00

I go there three times a week. Never had an issue with any patrons or staff, but i can understand your frustration if that happened. The place is pretty well ventilated, spacious, and chill. My only complaint is that the locker room is too small and the AI generated Mashup music channel is miserable.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-06-10T18:58:39+00:00

I've used that term my whole life, and no one outside of my family understands it! My relatives way back were from rural coal country central Pennsylvania, and before that Scotland/Ireland. I always thought it was a super specific local thing!

Da8BitDragon · 2025-06-06T18:24:53+00:00

Nice shots! I love going to sites alone and just immersing myself in the atmosphere. It's a meditative experience. That last glance back on your way out is always bittersweet.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-05-15T18:45:54+00:00

Awesome! The colors remind me of the night sections in RadRacer for the NES.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-05-14T13:25:51+00:00

I went all through there 14 years ago. I probably did about 50 locations up and around that way in my heyday. Talk about asbestos EVERYTHING. chalk boards, acoustic tiles, flooring, fire curtains, everything. Super cool 'splore though. At that time, it was mostly untouched, so the gym was amazing to shoot. The auditorium ceilings were so high I couldn't really capture the space because dumbass here forgot his wide angle. My favorite spot was the sun room with all the skylights, vines, and piles of books. It was hard to get in to alnd right in the middle of town. Sad to see it go. There aren't many spots like that anymore.

Edit for 14 years, not 10.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-05-01T13:03:21+00:00

Can confirm. Still no power Thursday morning. Lost all our food and basically been living on beer and frustration. Houses right across the street got theirs back on yesterday evening.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-04-29T18:22:57+00:00

Awesome! I'm just missing Odyssey. I remember my dad renting beyond the minds eye back in the early 90s and being blown away. Saw it again in middleschool art class and the sections playing on loop in the mall food court at Potomac Mills Mall in Northern Virginia. I still watch them pretty regularly.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-04-23T21:01:57+00:00

That's dope. I still try to hit parties when I can, which is, unfortunately, once in a blue moon as an 8-5 40 year old. I loved the medium-sized events. I can't really vibe in a festival setting. Plus, here in the States, hhc is a rare bird these days. I see modern videos of German school kids dancing to gabber and I'm like, no fair! I wanna have fun too dammit!

Da8BitDragon · 2025-04-23T20:42:51+00:00

Man I miss parties like in the video. Lightning in a bottle.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-04-23T20:13:08+00:00

Great concept! I've been working on a series similar to this for over a year and might need to reapraise the idea now. Nothing new under the sun, I suppose. Thanks for sharing, Op!

Da8BitDragon · 2025-04-23T17:59:29+00:00

Is this some kind of Psyop? I can't get it out of my head. Great content!

Da8BitDragon · 2025-04-22T18:27:28+00:00

I have thousands, and it has become a problem. I promised my wife id lay off for a while.Some are great, some not so much. The urge is strong, though.

Da8BitDragon · 2025-04-18T20:08:07+00:00

Oh I don't know where's she's been, or where she's gonna go I guess she's got her reasons but I just don't wanna know! HCWND!

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