• @hperrin
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    7410 months ago

    Oh come on. Play Both Sides is a masterpiece. Peak Head Cleaner.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      3710 months ago

      Yeah, that one is pretty good, but it’s no Demagnetizer.

  • Stamets
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    4310 months ago

    I sent this to my buddy.

    He didn’t get it.

    I feel old.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      1710 months ago

      You’re not old. You didn’t see TNG on its first run from Farpoint to All Good Things.

      Me? I remember when there were only two Star Treks and one was a cartoon sequel to the other.

      • Stamets
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        1310 months ago

        You’re not old

        Tell that to my back

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          710 months ago

          I’ll see your back and raise you arthritis in my fingertips.

          • Stamets
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            610 months ago

            Arthritis in my toes!

            • Flying SquidOPM
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              710 months ago

              Oh we’re playing it that way, huh? Kidney stones!

              • IninewCrow
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                310 months ago

                Oh boy … comparing age pains!!! My favorite game!

                Arthritic pain so severe I can’t raise one or both arms… and it comes and goes depending on the weather.

              • Stamets
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                310 months ago

                Okay you win. I actually drink way too much water.

      • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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        710 months ago

        I’m 31. I grew up listening to cassettes. It wasn’t until '03 that I got my first CD player.

        It took longer than I’d like to admit to get the joke.

      • Rhaedas
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        510 months ago

        I remember when there was just one. I wrongly dismissed the cartoon as not real Star Trek for a very long time, I never realized how good they really were.

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          210 months ago

          I’m old, but I was young enough to enjoy them as a kid in the 1980s. 2 or 3 years before TNG premiered (I was 10 in 1987), Nickelodeon started showing TAS reruns.

  • @[email protected]
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    10 months ago

    Big time rip-off. Entire album was only like a minute long.

    On the plus side, after listening to this garbage, all my other music seemed to sound better than ever. Guess something so bad renewed my appreciation for the good stuff.

  • IninewCrow
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    1710 months ago

    Didn’t they also come out with a music video on VHS … I remember seeing it, it was unwatchable.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      Yes and don’t forget they also released little sniffing bottles to bind the whole experience together.

  • @[email protected]
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    1110 months ago

    Not gonna lie, i know what a cassete tape is, listened to them in highschool. I orginally thought this was gonna be a tin foil hat joke. Its a “head cleaner” (memory eraser from men on black) But i didnt know that cassetes players needed cleaned. Thanks for posting, i have learned somthing today!

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      910 months ago

      No problem. I’ll give you a slightly deeper dive- if you were very into cassette tapes, you cleaned the tape heads manually with a long q-tip with cleaning fluid on it and used a demagnetizing wand. The tapes cleaning were the cheap version of that and did run the risk of scratching the tape heads if any grit got on the cleaning tape.

  • @Aremel
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    1010 months ago

    I wasn’t aware cassette reading heads needed cleaning. How does this work?

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      1910 months ago

      It’s got a fuzzy strip instead of a tape. You put some cleaning fluid on the fuzzy strip, put it in the machine and press play. Good ones would also demagnetize the play head at the same time.