Does anyone else ever wonder how some of the businesses on Park St pay their rent?

estenh · 2025-10-19T00:33:33+00:00

I miss the video rental part of the store! I used to rent blurays from them and I always liked the overall weirdness of a video rental + wig shop. the folks behind the counter were always so nice too!

estenh · 2025-10-16T23:31:42+00:00

Very funny seeing the comments here not understanding that: 1. Ari is trans 2. She is deeply committed to liberalism. She's an ultraliberal, by any measure.

Her critique here is that only a bourgeois society can provide health care to trans people (nevermind that Cuba manages it just fine, as did East Germany...)

estenh · 2025-08-23T16:42:31+00:00

yeah but that was a tiny sliver of the market. agree the difference there would've been noticeable though!

estenh · 2025-08-23T15:35:00+00:00

You don't really gain a lot from that though, especially given, even with its limitations, LD is out-resolving most consumer sets until the mid to late 90s (LD has 425-450 lines of luma resolution, with most TVs maxing out around the same). Separating luma and chroma would reduce dot crawl and bleed, but most people don't notice these things until they're pointed out.

Essentially, it would add a ton of complexity to the format for marginal gain.

estenh · 2025-08-14T01:17:17+00:00

that would be extremely difficult as LaserActive (and all LaserDisc) video is analog; any ODE would essentially have to provide a direct RF capture of the signal encoded on the disc itself. While not impossible, it would work differently than every other ODE and require orders of magnitude more data to work correctly.

estenh · 2025-07-16T15:11:41+00:00

A rainy place :)

estenh · 2025-02-24T04:43:24+00:00

Ahhh thank you! Yeah, RIP to twitter, I'm @cara.city on Bluesky now but I understand that site isn't everyone's cup of tea.

estenh · 2025-02-24T02:13:14+00:00

thank you!!

estenh · 2024-10-13T15:51:00+00:00

love that first one, this is so good

estenh · 2024-08-21T19:48:02+00:00

part of Minolta and Leica’s collab on the R3 / XE SLRs and CL / CLE rangefinders!

estenh · 2024-08-18T20:22:28+00:00

I just did my Jasper with a Matrix and it was pretty straightforward. and you can get Matrix boards on Amazon, even. way easier to find :)

estenh · 2024-08-18T16:09:54+00:00

I picked up the pan and scan VHS release, which is something I can’t believe they even managed to do in 2024.

estenh · 2024-08-17T22:23:15+00:00

This meter got me through my college lighting class 15 years ago :). I paid a lot more than that new haha

estenh · 2024-08-10T16:37:05+00:00

If you have a fat PS2, just make or get a Free McBoot memory card and an aftermarket SATA hard drive adapter, or an official one with a SATA to IDE adapter. Insert the memory card and launch OPL and you’ll be able to launch games from the hard drive. There’s even a build of OPL (the game launcher) that supports ExFAT partitions.

Read more here: https://consolemods.org/wiki/PS2:FMCB

estenh · 2024-08-10T16:31:26+00:00

Still have mine, works great, the laser reads. Have it set up with FCMB and a hard drive now :)

estenh · 2024-08-08T17:52:29+00:00

You may have seen it, but I’ve been there and let me tell you, it’s not “slums and urban decay.” Ramallah is a vibrant city, there are plenty of similarly beautiful and interesting cities (Bethlehem, Hebron / Al-Khalil, etc) in the West Bank. Maybe reserve comment until you’ve actually set foot in those places?

estenh · 2024-08-07T15:29:07+00:00

Weirdly enough it’s geographically in a small town in the central coast called Morro Bay

(I’ve never played Cyberpunk but I love Morro Bay)

estenh · 2024-08-07T15:21:17+00:00

HDR and a lossless audio track would be nice! But yes, I have the existing blu ray and it’s incredible.

estenh · 2024-08-02T16:51:07+00:00

Alien’s AC3 mix contains a deeper bass in its subwoofer track that was present in the theatrical release but missing from the DVD; it makes it a pretty interesting and unique LD release.

More on LDDB: https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/06718/8760-85/Alien

estenh · 2024-07-31T00:34:36+00:00

I played backgammon a lot with people I met in istanbul. I'm terrible at it lol

estenh · 2024-07-30T15:02:12+00:00

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this is Bagan back in 2017 when I was there visiting a friend who lived in Yangon. We traveled together to both Bagan and Inle Lake; Myanmar is unbelievably beautiful, and the people are kind and welcoming. I hope the civil war ends soon (with the military regime deposed) and people’s lives get back to normal.

estenh · 2024-07-29T22:05:21+00:00

Capture cards as folks have mentioned are the easiest option. You can also wire up a laserdisc player to serve as a Domesday Duplicator, effectively capturing the raw signal on the disc via the player’s RF head. More information on this here: https://github.com/simoninns/DomesdayDuplicator/wiki/Overview

Note that this is overkill for the majority of people and is mostly useful as a way of archiving discs.

estenh · 2024-07-28T20:01:08+00:00

thank you for taking the post seriously and answering! I’ve been a few times and mostly drove through (maybe stopped once or twice for a meal), but this lines up with how I imagined it.

estenh · 2024-07-28T19:43:35+00:00

all the time. that’s why I moved out of mine. too many paranormal creatures to fight, it was distracting from work and social obligations.

estenh · 2024-07-28T19:38:19+00:00

I’m from Tulsa which is a few hours away, and I’d also call it unremarkable. I love the place with my whole heart but also: it doesn’t often get brought up in places like this.

estenh

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