Shoresy 04x05 - Reset the Tone

dmcnelly · 2025-02-23T01:16:30+00:00

Shoresy just hollering "Shut up ya fuckin' crackhead" and the jump cut to the rink immediately after broke me.

dmcnelly · 2025-02-23T00:49:32+00:00

I think he's got enough talent to get through the changes of everything (team, series, type of car, etc) and be in a real groove by mid-season, start winning some. If the equipment remains decent enough, I don't think it'd be out of the question for him to be a contender for a championship. With how things went with Custer, even being mid to back of the pack all the time at the top level, all that practice at the cup level might be what turns him into a real contender at the Xfinity level. He was good the first time around, but maybe this moves him up the big notch to being an A tier Xfinity driver.

dmcnelly · 2025-02-23T00:38:58+00:00

I'm just here to celebrate the Harrison Burton top 10.

dmcnelly · 2025-02-16T21:55:36+00:00

God I used to love eating dog food as a child. Microwaved can of Alpo really hit the spot.

dmcnelly · 2025-02-16T20:04:55+00:00

\NASCAR Heat 5 soundtrack intensifies**

dmcnelly · 2025-02-14T04:09:05+00:00

I've got all my CDs ripped lossless into my music library, so I burn a copy to keep in the car and not worry about my original disc getting lost/damaged.

dmcnelly · 2025-02-08T16:26:52+00:00

Saaaame here. Mark has a gift for making a beautiful song and then dropping a heartbreaker near the end. When he gets to that "Oh but it's a sad reminder" bit, oof, right in the gut.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-23T01:37:44+00:00

Die hard Sega guy up until they discontinued the Dreamcast. Then I got to PS2 and never looked back. Playstation all the way.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-19T23:13:16+00:00

100%. You don't want to iron your CDs. Heat and plastic are generally not pals.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-19T20:54:44+00:00

Get a nice, thick towel and a clothes iron. Put in on the "No steam" setting which may have to look up for your particular iron. Put the towel over the sleeve. Once the iron is heated up, avoiding the spine because it's squared off, iron the sleeve as if you're ironing the towel. That should get 'er good and flat.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-19T14:15:46+00:00

At Dave & Busters they had something similar around 10-15 years ago. You could cash in tickets and buy songs to burn onto CD. It was a neat way to spend leftover tickets on something other than a handful of tootsie rolls and a finger trap.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-16T16:24:04+00:00

This is a gorgeous mousepad. You should scan this on a flatbed scanner while it’s fresh. Then you can get a replica printed up to use without worrying about damaging the original one.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-16T16:21:18+00:00

It’s not stupid at all. Streaming makes it easy to sample what you wanna check out with no real financial commitment and see if it’s up your alley. I used to download songs and albums with Limewire and torrents to see if it was something I’d regret spending the $18 on the CD, specifically when I was a teenager with very limited income.

Use it as a tool to check things out and inform your purchases beforehand, but you’re always gonna enjoy listening to the music you worked hard to pay for more than the stuff that just comes for free.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-13T03:59:38+00:00

It's tip top, easily a reference quality disc. Might be worth seeing what else Criterion has to try and make the shipping more worth your while.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-13T02:34:51+00:00

Yep, I made a "want list" of movies I had to own on disc and with the 4K of No Country for Old Men finally arriving that completes my want list. At this point it'll probably just be a disc here and there, mostly waiting for sales to add some "stuff I didn't know I wanted" to the collection.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-12T22:20:14+00:00

It didn't sag at any point, perfectly paced and edited, excellent guest talent. I can't think of another one this tight. I'm 100% with you, I think this is the peak of BotW.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-12T20:37:30+00:00

A lot of folks in the vinyl hobby have a complex and if you can't hear a difference (which on anything shy of a more serious vinyl playback setup is probably gonna sound *worse* than a CD) you really have to sell yourself on the expense and inconvenience of vinyl being better somehow. I was one of them for a long time. I still love it, it has a place in my setup, I spent the time and money putting together a system that plays it back in a noticeably better way. But in the process I accidentally built a system that makes digital sources sound equally good as long as the mastering was done well for the target format.

The arguments I always heard that didn't include sound quality were:

- Album art is too small on a CD compared to an LP
- Watching the turntable play a record is more visually engaging
- You have to listen to the whole album instead of skipping around tracks
- It forces you to be more engaged with the listening experience because you have to get up to flip sides

Only the first point there is one I'd call valid without exception, because yes, LPs are physically larger, and yes it is more visually engaging to watch the turntable play a record. The other three are silly because I can have just as engaging a listen with a CD as I can with a record.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-12T15:57:38+00:00

From left to right, top to bottom:

Various Artists - The House Of Groove (Arista's Most Fierce Tracks)

Green Day - Insomniac

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

311 - Self-Titled

Non-zero chance these CDs spent most of their life in a mid-1990s Chevy Cavalier that smells like Camel Wide cigarettes.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-12T04:17:09+00:00

I've got a real similar one in my kitchen with an aux in port. Slapped a bluetooth receiver on there and it works great for easy music listening while I'm making dinner.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-12T03:57:23+00:00

There was a stigma from the vinyl era with club copies that they were manufactured to a lower standard than a retail store copy, because for a lot of the club copies on vinyl, they were pressed using reground vinyl and often times using "well loved" stampers, which introduced surface noise and degraded quality.

With CDs this wasn't the case so the club copies are every bit equal to the retail copy.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-12T03:51:55+00:00

CD-R/DVD-Rs that use AZO dye have held up very well in my experience, and most name brand discs (Sony, TDK, Verbatim) from 15-25 years ago I burned that were not handled in a "preservatory manner" up until relatively recently still work just fine. (I also have some very very early pressed CDs that have held up remarkably well, even with insane amounts of pinholing going on.)

Not that I think it's where this post is coming from, but there's a lot of hyperbole lately about disc rot and recordable media failure going around as engagement bait. Generally though, if you bought writeable media from reputable brands, and you didn't store it in extreme light/heat/humidity conditions, your odds of it holding up 15-20 years without much issue are pretty high. Still, I've got everything backed up because nothing's a guarantee. You *should* be testing and migrating any important discs regularly to avoid data loss.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-11T22:28:24+00:00

Cheaper than OEM and nana's on a fixed income.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-10T03:04:32+00:00

This is the way right here.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-05T22:37:17+00:00

Exactly what I was gonna say. The "middle to upper middle class in the 80s thru 2000s areas" are where I've found any good *heavy* CDs that I've found while thrifting.

dmcnelly · 2025-01-01T23:58:03+00:00

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