reminder that cassettes are an extant format, and that's a good thing.

every once in a while, i'll come back to tapes. it's a fascinating format, and still being made after 60 years, because it works. not only does it work, it has an audio profile that nothing else can match, and it makes piracy so stupidly simple that anyone can do it with the push of a button.

want to tape a song? set your player to a station, listen, push the button when it starts playing. it's difficult, but this is how people did it back in the day. want to make your own music? ggez, plug in a mic and record while you play whatever. then you can sell the tape at a 100+% markup because it's recorded. people still record straight to tape, and people still sell cassettes for their indie/niche work because that nice and unique audio profile "smooths over" some of the imperfections and lends a warmth that digital audio can't even with filters.

tapes are cheap, too. you can get 5x tapes for about $10 on amazon, you can find old packs at the thrift store, and even walmart sells shit quality tapes. players are likewise inexpensive: $20, maybe $30, and you've got yourself a nice portable player. $50 gets you a really nice new production "shoebox"/desk type, and on ebay you can get all of these for a Steal sometimes. thrift stores can have extremely nice players sold for parts for really cheap, and most of the time they just need a belt or two. i've fixed a couple of tape decks/walkmans with no tutorials or anything, just poking around and fixing the belts.

so yeah, do yourself a favor and pick up a tape player of some kind. ask your boomeroid acquaintances for tapes, they might part with them for cheap. go hunting for tapes at your flea markets. record your own tapes. discover the wonderful format that is the philips type audio cassette. just don't get a micro one like i posted earlier because those are for dictation not music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3zPwkrNK-Q
good overview of the history of tape development by philips, competing formats and why they failed, and some other interesting bits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape
it's wikipedia. history and nuances of magnetic particulate, like ferric oxide vs chromium dioxide vs magnetite

alright i swear to god normal meme posting will resume, im just being a lazy bastard and not scheduling anything

mercilessly thieved from another chat

memes are being scheduled again, since i was lucky enough to pull grinder duty tonight. I'll try to get at least a couple weeks lined up. there's going to be more weeb content, a couple posts i expect to catch shit over, and more fun.

I GOT MY FIRST SCAMMER

MASSIVE W FOR LAD ZONE

WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT BROS