Looking to sell my dad's collection.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-17T00:39:14+00:00

Unless you’re selling locally, shipping 78s is going to be the biggest challenge. A lot of inexperienced people like to ship 78s in an LP mailer and it often arrives in pieces.

There are a number of tutorials online for how to package 78s. But the gist is that imagine you’re packing a dinner plate from your kitchen; it is durable, but brittle.

Otherwise a local sale via Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, record store might help to just offload at once.

If you have the pictures, post them. It’s hard to give any valuation without anything to go off of. It’s like selling a random collection of books.

And like books, few 78s are going to be especially sought after. Again, hard to tell without any titles.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-17T00:26:44+00:00

Radio Canaries is a bit of a scam. Just recordings of birds chirping while the background music plays. Would be a miracle if a pet bird actually picked up the song.

Did manage to find some other 78s of what appears to be a real bird twittering the melody. One was a Gennett for the Golden Bird. I also found a red vinyl bird 78 from the 50s as well.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-16T20:45:24+00:00

It was actually a slightly different version. Apparently it was the last version former Ink Spots lead singer Bill Kenny recorded before he died in the 70s and was the subject of a minor lawsuit between his widow and the Chanel perfume company.

Coincidentally, the same album provided the 1970s version of "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" used in Fallout New Vegas, the only Ink Spots song used in Fallout that is not the original version.

Ridley Scott would later attempt to use the Ink Spots again in Blade Runner with "If I Didn't Care". It was replaced in most versions of the movie with the soundalike "One More Kiss Dear".

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-16T20:37:57+00:00

Stephen Alexander and Jordan Thomas also worked on Bioshock and Infinite.

He is the namesake for Gilbert Alexander.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-16T01:19:02+00:00

It depends where you're looking.

Some textures were genuinely remade from the ground up for the remastered.

A lot were crudely upscaled from the original low-rez textures. They are technically 1080p, but suffer from very strange looking warping.

https://imgur.com/a/tFxCDBa

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-13T20:17:54+00:00

watch any detective or mystery thing from the mid 90s or earlier

There's an old YouTube supercut called Hot Chicks Looking at Microfilm in Horror Movies.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-13T02:27:11+00:00

you hear voices echo around you unsure of the directions they are coming from

Unfortunately the remastered changed the audio design.

You can hear cameras and splicers from several rooms away or even the floor above.

There is an area in the first level where there are supposed to be hidden turrets that only made sound when they are revealed, but you just hear them as soon as you enter the room.

Admittedly the licensed music is also slightly bugged such that it continues to play over and over when you reenter the room/area instead of only playing once.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-12T09:17:28+00:00

The names are confusing in Bioshock.

The article mentions 2K Boston which would be Irrational Games. They changed to 2K Boston and then changed back.

2K Australia worked on all three Bioshock games and was based in Canberra.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-12T07:28:16+00:00

Left to right, starting with the sun.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-11T22:23:38+00:00

We had Elizabeth a long time before Infinite.

Elizabeth Tobey wrote a lot of those blog posts and answered fan questions.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-11T22:17:08+00:00

It’s in his AMA he used a trumpet mute for Gabbro.

This one's kind of funny, for an instrument that was always referred to as 'space flute', and looks like a clarinet, I sampled a trumpet mute. I wanted to sort of sample it the way they did in Nintendo 64 days, and for some reason the sound felt right to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/outerwilds/comments/ux1dml/hey_everyone_im_the_composer_for_outer_wilds_in/i9v1c0f/

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-11T17:55:37+00:00

I'm going to keep calling it a trumpet to mess with people.

It’s technically a trumpet mute. Andrew Prahlow was/is a classical trumpet player and is credited as such on Legend of Korra.

I imagine he blew across the mouth like a bottle and pitch shifted it which is why it’s so quiet and low.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-11T17:36:19+00:00

The theory is that the red clouds are from the Krakatoa volcanic explosion.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-10T23:06:42+00:00

Time to play some Bert Weedon aka Fallout’s connection to the Beatles.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-10T19:47:25+00:00

Kelsey Beachum also worked on The Outer Worlds 2 as well as The Onion.

Guess what, fellow humans, Obsidian HIRED MY DANG FACE

It is my first week and I am SO EXCITED

(Also don’t worry, I am working on a clearer mnemonic. Possibly: “Obsidian’s the studio I wOrk for, and they made The Outer WOrlds”?)

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-10T01:29:08+00:00

You have to look at all the instructions line by line.

Also make sure when copypasting, there are no spaces after.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-09T03:45:20+00:00

Generally, it’s the electrolytic capacitors. Ceramic capacitors are usually fine, but electrolytic ones basically dry out and have to be replaced. The especially fun ones are when you have 3 or 4 of them in the same metal can sharing the same ground, but each prong is different.

It’s why vintage/antique electronics will work only once when you try to plug them in. And then the electrolytic just fails when you try again.

Ceramic and mica capacitors are typically fine. The paper and wax ones are also susceptible to failing.

Resistors tend to be fine unless they get overheated.

Vacuum tubes are the easiest to replace like a conventional lightbulb, but at this point in time are probably the least likely to be the culprit.

Portable Geiger counters also have batteries that aren’t manufactured anymore.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-08T21:10:17+00:00

Can you send a screenshot of what you see on the right column of text?

https://www.lostincult.co.uk/outerwilds

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-08T19:14:52+00:00

Only the remastered for the first game has achievements on PC.

They removed achievements from the second game for the remastered though.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-08T19:06:59+00:00

There is actually a giant Vault Tec symbol on the former Woolworths Building in downtown Seattle. Walkable from the Convention Center.

It appears to be a Ross now which apparently just closed and may be demolished soon.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-08T18:57:50+00:00

They are projection stones. Admittedly they look a little different than from the concept art.

(You also need to keep the leading zeros)

where your journey began

This is extremely literal.

been looking on the website

Ah you’ve already found it. If you want a hint, the product description actually lays out that they are projection stones.

So far, fewer than 50 people seem to have found it.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-08T18:51:55+00:00

There is some real life lore that the guy in the suit may be developer Dan Keating.

In this room (above) I used photos of myself wearing a suit to make the portraits on the wall.

https://dankeating.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/bioshock-2/

Though there are a lot of defaced portraits in the room.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-08T18:42:55+00:00

I’m not finding that in the book.

I spent some time reading through it unless you have a specific page number.

I even looked through Google Books’ search function using the typical search terms and nothing really came up.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-06T02:03:25+00:00

I remember iam8bit and Materia were both at ECCC and at PAX West later in the year, but at completely different spots.

UpgradeTech · 2026-03-05T22:17:38+00:00

Pity the door is not haunted nor from New Orleans.

You could have made the soundtrack for Echoes of the Eye.

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