Fishin' in the stream of consciousness (all-purpose, no topic chat thread)

Magnets are still slightly dangerous to modern technology, not CDs but harddrives, but only if you have fairly strong one RIGHT up against the parts that are most vulnerable. Gone are the days where you can brick a laptop with a magnet by accident. My Mutie has magnetic feets and I can slide it around all over my tower case without issue, even four of the little tiny ones are too weak to break it.

But! it is still possible to ruin your shit with magnets. It's just a lot harder to do by accident. Pretty much all "bricked my shit with magnets" cases I've heard of lately were targeted acts of malice.

 

Mine was a 30GB Video, and I have a happy memory to go with it! See, my dad had received a $500 Best Buy gift card as a holiday bonus thing, and my parents agreed that they’d use half of it to buy me an iPod, which I had wanted for aaaages, as my Christmas gift. I was really thrilled because I’d actually said I’d be fine with a Mini (famous last words, I have ended up with SO MUCH FUCKING MUSIC) and I couldn’t believe they’d gone the extra mile there. ;u;

CLARIFYING EDIT: I didn't know about this until Christmas morning, by the way. My parents had carefully maintained the secret by telling me the gift card was for half its actual value when we went on our little Best Buy spree. (I'm pretty sure that little shopping trip is where I first acquired Flood by TMBG, actually!)

 

My egg donor used to put music on cassettes and I remember having this one cassette I listened to a lot. Partially because I didn't have anything else.
When I got a portable disk player she started burning metal music for me (because I'm not allowed originals, I'll break them and to be fair at that time a lot of stuff fell to my ADHDness). Used it well into mp3 era. My last two mp3 players broke on me (first one due to being used as intended, it was also a flashdrive and my big cd player at the time had an usb hub... and after that no more mp3 use from that one. The second one just up and doesn't charge anymore.... Wonder if I should get a new one, I've got a phone with decent battery and space if I stick to my favourite tracks, and I like having something I can navigate...)

 

STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD I went to see them in concert dammit :p

 

I used to smuggle portable cassette players into my bedroom and re-listen to the first four Harry Potter books and the 1981 BBC LotR radio drama when I was supposed to be asleep.

 

I had a Sony Walkman (I believe it's still in good working order) which I mostly used to listen to Watership Down or any books on tape I'd borrowed from the library. Then I got a CD player, which was half and half music and audio books on CD. (Last used in 2010, when I went to visit my now-husband for the first time.) I had 3 different iPod shuffles after that.... And now I pretty much exclusively use my phone, lol. Quite a lot has changed since I was a kid who ran around with a Walkman clipped to my waistband.

 

unrelated to cd chat; I find it kind of blackly hilarious that the acronym for social anxiety disorder is 'SAD'

 

Seasonal Affective Disorder, too.

 

ahh how did I forget that, that one's even better than social anxiety disorder. thank u terribly-appropriate acronyms

 

Went to an 80's themed Halloween party last year. Brought a boombox and tapes. Wore a white suit coat and pants with a t-shirt.

 

I just was inifinity war. And it has left me with ALL THE FEELS.

 

I have an account on reddit now under the name comichorror. A coworker told me she spends time on reddit, so even though I’ve heard reddit isn’t a great site I’m on there now because I trust her judgement. It can’t be as bad as I’ve heard it is, right?

 

Really, really depends on the subreddit. Ime, reddit is like... one of those mega-neighborhoods with the two hundred different subdivisions. Your small part of the community who likes to talk about, say, magic cards or animal photos, can be great and looks completely different to the community who likes to talk about right-wing politics. It just happens to be that the right-wing politics community in the neighborhood metaphor throws the loudest, drunkest barbecues and plasters the larger neighborhood name all over it, so if you don't live there you think it's all drunk right wing assholes.

 

Yeah, there are some enjoyable subreddits with perfectly fine commmunities, and some that are perfect swills of bad feeling and hate and meanness. It's a microcosm of the internet at large.

 

Agreed to all of that. I don’t use Reddit often but some of the subreddits are really nice—the SU subreddit is probably the chillest part of the fandom, for instance.

 

I might be going overboard with the music thing. Did you guys know The Sonics are on bandcamp and still selling vinyls??

 

I remembered a thing.
In German MMO culture, at least 10 years ago when I was active, there was this word, "Napf". Now, "Napf" is also the word for a pet feeding dish. But in this particular etymology, it's a derivative of "noob", and loosely translates to "stupid beyond help and hope".

 

R/wewantplates is the best part of reddit. I’m crying from laughing too hard.